The Empires of God mod for Crusader Kings II

Scope of The Mod
In a lot of forum threads there are a lot of talks about the fact that being an Emperor is not simply be more that a King and that that more flavor should be added. In particular in the Christian world be an Emperor gave to you a sort of sacral aura, the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor was similar to the creation by the Pope of a Cardinal. It is for this that the Emperor had, in the middle ages these prerogatives:

1. A sacral aura of sort that gives to him the authority to guide all the Christendom
2. The fact that his should elect the Pope because The Emperor is indeed a Cardinal!
3. There should be only one Empire in the west, the successor state of the Western Roman Empire is only one!

Regarding the third point this do not implicate that this mod will remove ahistorical Empires because for the developer(s) point of view, they, indeed existed at least the ones in Western Europe: they are, indeed, the remnant of the Roman Prefectures but a Christian ruler will call himself simply King not Emperor for respect of the Holy Roman Emperor; in any case creating one of the so called Prefecturial Empires give access to one interesting possibilities: try to convince the Pope that you are the real Roman Emperor and get the Imperial crown for yourself, doing this will upset the false Emperor that will declare war on you.

In the Orthodox world similar situations with the Byzantine Emperor and the pretender Empires of Bulgaria and Serbia could be tough.

Outer the Christian world we have similar situations any Muslim Emperor tried to become a Caliph and only after this is Emperorship become factual, a Persian Zoroastrian Emperor was a semi God, in China and Japan they were practically the Head of the Church.

A Tier above Emperor
For this mod a concept of tier above Emperor is present some Empires are so bigger that could be logically divided in two or more Empires and for sure had Emperors as vassals.
This is for example the situation when the Roman Empire was divided in Prefectures, the Prefectures was not Emperors but commanded the same respect and, indeed, with the Tetrarchy they became effectively Emperors, but one of this Emperors held all the others as his vassals.
Successively the Roman Empire was divided in two parts: Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire but the Eastern Roman Emperor held Seniority on the other.
The Emperor of China considered himself a divine figure and so had no problem to vassalize Kaghan of Mongols, The “Emperor” of Korea and The Emperor of Japan, but in this case it would be more correct to talk of tributary States.
In more modern period the Kings (Emperors) of Spain and England / Britain vassallized tribal Empires without problems.

As (for now) Crusader King II does not permit to add tiers this is accomplished inverting in some sense the concept that is a Roman Emperor is an Emperor while and independent Emperor of Hispania is called High King Hispania (if Christian is only King) but if vassal of the Emperor is a Praetorian Prefect of normal King rank (that is you get a giant Kingdom of Spain in the map without Castile, Galicia and so on...).

Some example of these Empires: Roman Empire, Arabian Empire, North Sea Empire (Midgar?) and Indian Empire.


De Jure High Kingdoms in 876 AD (Europe only)


De Jure High Kingdoms in 876 AD (The East)


De Jure High Kingdoms in 1066

Translatio Imperium and Pretenders
The people of the Middle Ages had the conception that, in reality, the Western and Eastern Roman Empire had never ended but simply continued with some period of interregnum. Charles the Great was considered a Roman Emperor in all effects in par with Julius Caesar, Augustus, Trajan, Nero and so on.
In the East the Greek Empire of Byzantium held the same claim but in reality more time passed and it become more and more Hellenized until it lose totally it Roman heritage.
We, as powerful men of the future, known that, in reality, these two states were not the real thing but only
the rightful successor states of the Roman Empire and so in the mod are the ones entitled with the possibility to reform it.
As already said other Empires could exists and some are entitled with the possibility to be Pretenders to be Successor of The Roman Empire:

1. S.P.Q.R. special Empire that can be created by "The Commune of Rome" after the conquest of all the Italian Peninsula if you have played the mod called "The Commune of Rome" in it was called Western Roman Empire but I have reevaluated this as an exaggeration
2. (High) Kingdom of Germania, ex Holy Roman Empire after being defeated by S.P.Q.R.
3. (High) Kingdom of Italia, ex S.P.Q.R. after being defeated by (High) Kingdom of Germania (that will be H.R.E. again)
3. Tzardom of Bulgaria and Romània
4. Tzardom of Serbia and Romània
5. Tzardom of Russia
6. Empire of Trebizond
7. Latin Empire (or if you prefer "Empire of Romània")
8. Empire of Nicaea

the pretender will have a special casus belli against the rightful successor state and when used it could trigger a sort of "great war" that could involve other important rulers that could pick a side or another. In the end of the war a conference of Peace will be held by the victor to redrawn the new face of Europe.

More difficult to reform the Roman Empire

Reforming the Roman Empire is no more simply as collect disparate territories but you need before to held the titles of Western and Eastern Roman Emperor and to obtain these titles will be not easy.

To become the Western Roman Emperor you need :
1. To be the Rightful successor state of the Western Roman Empire (usually the Holy Roman Emperor)
2. No pretender to be successor should be present in the West
3. You should be (High) King of Italia
4. You should be (High) King of Francia
5. You should be (High) King of Hispania
6. If Catholic the Pope must be your vassal

To become the Eastern Roman Emperor you need:
1. To be the Rightful successor state of the Eastern Roman Empire (usually the Byzantine Empire)
2. No pretender to be successor should be present in the East
3. You should be (High) of Illiria
4. You should be (High) King of Hellas (usually called Byzantine Empire)
5. You should be the (High) King of Aegyptus
6. If Orthodox the Ecumenical Patriarch must be your vassal