友誼

Friendship is a symmetric relationship between two characters. It has a significant opinion boost and several other effects.

Making friends

There are many random events that add friends, but the ones most under player control are:

• With Way of Life and focuses:
  • Carousing focus: high chance to befriend one guest at each party
  • Business focus: can establish a friendship with your trading partner (an infidel ruler) if opinion is high at the end of the event chain
  • Family focus: can establish a friendship with a sibling, between two minor children, or between two dynastic close relatives (once mutual opinion reaches 50+)
• With Horse Lords:
  • Hire HL dynamic mercenaries. Many of them are cheap to hire, and some are future khans or khagans!

Effects of friendship

• You may have an opportunity to convert to a friend's religion, or ask them to convert to yours.
• Friends can randomly offer to join each other's wars, even if not allied
• Friends on your council are more likely to be in their voting

Skill boosts

You occasionally get a chance to ask a friend to improve a skill, if:

• Neither of you is at war or leading troops
• Your skill level is between 5 and 9 (inclusive)
• Friend's skill level is 11+
• Friend is not a prisoner

There is a five-year cooldown for each attribute.

Attribute	Additional requirements	Rejection effect
Diplomacy	Neither character is a chancellor.	15%
Martial	Neither character is a marshal. Friend is male. Friend can have instead of 11 martial skill.	None
Stewardship	Both characters are rulers or council members. You are not abroad.	None
Intrigue	No special requirements	100%
Learning	Same religion Religion is not a heresy Friend is or has 100 piety	100%