虔诚的罗伯特二世被绝罚
绝罚（英文：Excommunication）是宗教领袖的一种责难行为。教会正式切断了与这个角色的所有联系，引发重大的外交yazidi问题。它适用于大部分基督教分支，还适用于伊斯兰教逊尼派异端雅兹迪派。若 
神圣之怒生效，改革原始宗教信仰的领导权类型为教士统治或地方统治也有此机制。
请求绝罚
任何统治者可以请求绝罚同一宗教教派的另一位统治者，如果：
- 请求者能够支付虔诚花费。
- 目标没有控制宗教领袖。这意味着拜占庭皇帝永远不会被绝罚。
- 目标控制的枢机没有请求者多（对于天主教，有
亚伯拉罕之裔 DLC）。 - 目标最近没有被撤销绝罚。
- 宗教权威至少40%。
一些事件链也会导致绝罚。
花费
The cost to request an excommunication is based on the rank of their highest-rank relative. In addition to their target, relevant relatives include parents, grandparents, siblings, and children.
| Highest rank relative | Cost | Cost with Papal Investiture |
|---|---|---|
| (Courtier) | 25 | 12.5 |
| Baron | 50 | 25 |
| Count | 75 | 37.5 |
| Duke | 100 | 50 |
| King | 125 | 62.5 |
| Emperor |
Effects
Being excommunicated will:
- harm opinion: -5 diplomacy and an additional -15 opinion from characters of the same religion. For rulers, this makes it considerably more difficult to manage a realm, and makes faction rebellion more likely.
- give every ruler in the same ecclesiastical branch an Excommunicated Ruler CB which they can use to force the ruler to abdicate.
- Liege may imprison excommunicated vassals without incurring tyranny, making this a potent tool to deal with a troublesome vassal. Excommunicated characters who are imprisoned can also be executed without penalty.
Excommunication will end:
- upon using the (very expensive) "Make Declaration of Repentance" decision and agreeing to the Pope's demands
- upon using the "Lift Excommunication" interaction for another character
- if the character agrees, by event, to participate in a Pope's ongoing Crusade.
- when establishing an antipope, which ends excommunication as realm no longer obeys the Pope.
- when an antipapacy ends, for characters following the antipope
- upon religious conversion
Strategies
Avoiding excommunication yourself
- Keep your religious head's opinion of you positive, especially if you know another ruler would like to see you excommunicated
- Bribe your religious head. If Catholic, bribe a newly elected Pope, before gifts become too expensive.
- Send your Chancellor to Improve Diplomatic Relations (less effective in Constantinople, where you have a 50% chance of pleasing the Basileus instead)
- If possible, vassalize your religious head. You'll be protected from hostile actions (including excommunication); if you choose to, you may (ab)use the powers of your religious head to cement your dynasty's grip on power.
Damaging opponents
- Excommunicate vassals for free imprisonment and/or execution
- Excommunicate rivals to soften up their realms before attacking.
- Depose excommunicated rulers to make their child heir inherit. This makes the realm vulnerable to weak claims.
- Reinstate deposed rulers - newly abdicated rulers gain a strong claim on their old realm. If you grant them a landed title, you can push their claim and thus expand.
- Excommunicate your heir for free imprisonment, and subsequently order them to take the vows to get rotten heirs out of the way of your strong genius younger son.
Exclusive to Christians
- Send your Court Chaplain to Improve Religious Relations with your religious head.
- Go on a pilgrimage
Exclusive to Catholics
- Join a crusade. Beware: if you pledged to join a crusade during the preparation phase, but did not send troops, you will eventually be excommunicated (via event); you'll first be given a warning event which causes you to lose piety.
- Switch to Papal Investiture. With Holy Fury, emperors who have vassalize the pope should have Free Investiture before their (and their successors') coronation by the Pope, so that the Pope can ask for a law change rather than independence (which is another valid and popular request)
- Give the Pope a landed title
- Control cardinals
- If you intend to take the Papal States, consider setting up an antipope, as you are highly likely to be excommunicated and and unlikely to have the excommunication lifted.
Exclusive to Muslims
- Charity decision
- Go on hajj
- Join a jihad