Temples
5 levels, each replacing the one before it: you upgrade in place rather than building alongside.
Shrine → Temple → Large Temple → Awesome Temple → Pantheion
Levels at a glance
| Level | Cost | Build time | Minimum settlement | Upgrades to | Level | Cost | Build time | Minimum settlement | Upgrades to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Shrine | 1,000 | 2 | town | Temple |  | Temple | 2,000 | 4 | large town | Large Temple |
 | Large Temple | 6,000 | 6 | city | Awesome Temple |  | Awesome Temple | 9,000 | 9 | large city | Pantheion |
 | Pantheion | 12,000 | 12 | huge city | — |
Costs in denarii, build time in turns.
Shrine
Religion also makes a people feel happy and content to know that the Gods are honoured.
Strategy
The effects of this temple depend on your government and what faction built it. If you have direct rule or homeland here your own people's pantheon is honoured and you gain culture conversion to your culture. If the temple was built by another faction it spreads their culture, upgrade it or destroy it and rebuild to ensure it doesn't spread another culture anymore. The happiness bonus is increased as well if the majority culture in the region matches your own.
| Cost | 1,000 denarii | Build time | 2 turns | Minimum settlement | town | Upgrades to | Temple |
Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.
- Only one temple building allowed
- Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
What it does
- +1 public order (happiness)
- taxable income -5 to -1, depending on how many settlements your empire holds
Show 43 effects that apply only in some circumstances
- State pantheon worship (homeland or direct rule): gives culture conversion to your own culture, only when Direct Rule or Homeland is built here
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Italic, and you play a Roman faction, or Sardinians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Germanic and you play a Germanic (other than Germanics and Venedae) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Celtic and you play a Celtiberian, Brittonic or Gallic (other than Gauls and Veneti) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Thracian, and you play a Dacian faction, or Asti, Dentheletae, Cabyle, Maedi, Odrysian Kingdom or Bessi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bithynian and you play Bithynia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paeonian and you play Paeonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Triballian and you play Triballi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Scythian and you play a Scythian (other than Scythians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iberian and you play an Iberian (other than Sardinians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Illyrian and you play Ardiaei, Labeatae or Illyrian Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Venetic and you play Histri or Veneti
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Liburnian and you play Liburni
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dardanian and you play Dardania
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Delmato-Pannonian and you play Iapodes, Delmatae or Daesitiates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Baltic and you play Venedae
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Libyan and you play a Libyan faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Phoenician and you play a Phoenician faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Carian and you play Chrysaorian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Lycian and you play Lycian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Pisidian and you play Selge
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paphlagonian and you play Paphlagonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cilician and you play Cilician Pirates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cappadocian and you play Cappadocia or Pontus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Assyrian and you play Osrhoene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Mesopotamian and you play Characene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Judaean and you play Hasmonean Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Egyptian and you play an Egyptian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ethiopian and you play an Ethiopian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arab and you play an Arab faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Caucasian and you play Heniochi, Mossynoeci, Colchians, Iberians or Albanians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Armenian and you play Armenia, Armenia Minor, Sophene or Commagene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iranian and you play Atropatene, Parni, Osrhoene or Persis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Indian and you play Maurya Empire
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dorian and you play Acarnanian League, Achaean League, Acragas, Argos, Byzantium, Chersonesus, Gortyn, Heraclea Pontica, Issa, Knossos, Kydonia, Lyttos, Messene, Rhodes, Sparta, Syracuse or Taras
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ionian and you play Athens, Chios, Cius, Cyzicus, Emporion, Histria, Massalia, Miletus, Olbia, Pontic Pentapolis, Priene, Sinope or Trapezus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arcadian and you play Megalopolis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Aeolian and you play Boeotians or Thessalian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Northwest Greek and you play Aetolian League or Elis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Epirote and you play Epirus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Greco-Bactrian and you play Bactria
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Macedonian, and you play an Eastern Hellenistic (other than Bactria and Hasmonean Kingdom) faction, or Antigonid Kingdom, Pergamon or Lysiad Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bosporan and you play Bosporans
Religious belief: spreads 42 beliefs, by how much depending on what the region already believes.
Show the 42 beliefs
- Aeolian +2
- Arab +2
- Arcadian +2
- Armenian +2
- Assyrian +2
- Baltic +2
- Bithynian +2
- Bosporan +2
- Cappadocian +2
- Carian +2
- Caucasian +2
- Celtic +2
- Cilician +2
- Dardanian +2
- Delmato-Pannonian +2
- Dorian +2
- Egyptian +2
- Epirote +2
- Ethiopian +2
- Germanic +2
- Greco-Bactrian +2
- Iberian +2
- Illyrian +2
- Indian +2
- Ionian +2
- Iranian +2
- Italic +2
- Judaean +2
- Liburnian +2
- Libyan +2
- Lycian +2
- Macedonian +2
- Mesopotamian +2
- Northwest Greek +2
- Paeonian +2
- Paphlagonian +2
- Phoenician +2
- Pisidian +2
- Scythian +2
- Thracian +2
- Triballian +2
- Venetic +2
Temple
Religion also makes a people feel happy and content to know that the Gods are honoured.
Strategy
The effects of this temple depend on your government and what faction built it. If you have direct rule or homeland here your own people's pantheon is honoured and you gain culture conversion to your culture. If the temple was built by another faction it spreads their culture, upgrade it or destroy it and rebuild to ensure it doesn't spread another culture anymore. The happiness bonus is increased as well if the majority culture in the region matches your own.
| Cost | 2,000 denarii | Build time | 4 turns | Minimum settlement | large town | Upgrades to | Large Temple |
Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.
- Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
What it does
- +3 public order (happiness)
- taxable income -6 to -2, depending on how many settlements your empire holds
Show 43 effects that apply only in some circumstances
- State pantheon worship (homeland or direct rule): gives culture conversion to your own culture, only when Direct Rule or Homeland is built here
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Italic, and you play a Roman faction, or Sardinians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Germanic and you play a Germanic (other than Germanics and Venedae) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Celtic and you play a Celtiberian, Brittonic or Gallic (other than Gauls and Veneti) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Thracian, and you play a Dacian faction, or Asti, Dentheletae, Cabyle, Maedi, Odrysian Kingdom or Bessi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bithynian and you play Bithynia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paeonian and you play Paeonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Triballian and you play Triballi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Scythian and you play a Scythian (other than Scythians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iberian and you play an Iberian (other than Sardinians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Illyrian and you play Ardiaei, Labeatae or Illyrian Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Venetic and you play Histri or Veneti
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Liburnian and you play Liburni
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dardanian and you play Dardania
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Delmato-Pannonian and you play Iapodes, Delmatae or Daesitiates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Baltic and you play Venedae
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Libyan and you play a Libyan faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Phoenician and you play a Phoenician faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Carian and you play Chrysaorian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Lycian and you play Lycian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Pisidian and you play Selge
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paphlagonian and you play Paphlagonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cilician and you play Cilician Pirates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cappadocian and you play Cappadocia or Pontus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Assyrian and you play Osrhoene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Mesopotamian and you play Characene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Judaean and you play Hasmonean Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Egyptian and you play an Egyptian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ethiopian and you play an Ethiopian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arab and you play an Arab faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Caucasian and you play Heniochi, Mossynoeci, Colchians, Iberians or Albanians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Armenian and you play Armenia, Armenia Minor, Sophene or Commagene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iranian and you play Atropatene, Parni, Osrhoene or Persis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Indian and you play Maurya Empire
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dorian and you play Acarnanian League, Achaean League, Acragas, Argos, Byzantium, Chersonesus, Gortyn, Heraclea Pontica, Issa, Knossos, Kydonia, Lyttos, Messene, Rhodes, Sparta, Syracuse or Taras
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ionian and you play Athens, Chios, Cius, Cyzicus, Emporion, Histria, Massalia, Miletus, Olbia, Pontic Pentapolis, Priene, Sinope or Trapezus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arcadian and you play Megalopolis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Aeolian and you play Boeotians or Thessalian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Northwest Greek and you play Aetolian League or Elis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Epirote and you play Epirus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Greco-Bactrian and you play Bactria
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Macedonian, and you play an Eastern Hellenistic (other than Bactria and Hasmonean Kingdom) faction, or Antigonid Kingdom, Pergamon or Lysiad Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bosporan and you play Bosporans
Religious belief: spreads 42 beliefs, by how much depending on what the region already believes.
Show the 42 beliefs
- Aeolian +4
- Arab +4
- Arcadian +4
- Armenian +4
- Assyrian +4
- Baltic +4
- Bithynian +4
- Bosporan +4
- Cappadocian +4
- Carian +4
- Caucasian +4
- Celtic +4
- Cilician +4
- Dardanian +4
- Delmato-Pannonian +4
- Dorian +4
- Egyptian +4
- Epirote +4
- Ethiopian +4
- Germanic +4
- Greco-Bactrian +4
- Iberian +4
- Illyrian +4
- Indian +4
- Ionian +4
- Iranian +4
- Italic +4
- Judaean +4
- Liburnian +4
- Libyan +4
- Lycian +4
- Macedonian +4
- Mesopotamian +4
- Northwest Greek +4
- Paeonian +4
- Paphlagonian +4
- Phoenician +4
- Pisidian +4
- Scythian +4
- Thracian +4
- Triballian +4
- Venetic +4
Large Temple
Religion also makes a people feel happy and content to know that the Gods are honoured.
Strategy
The effects of this temple depend on your government and what faction built it. If you have direct rule or homeland here your own people's pantheon is honoured and you gain culture conversion to your culture. If the temple was built by another faction it spreads their culture, upgrade it or destroy it and rebuild to ensure it doesn't spread another culture anymore. The happiness bonus is increased as well if the majority culture in the region matches your own.
| Cost | 6,000 denarii | Build time | 6 turns | Minimum settlement | city | Upgrades to | Awesome Temple |
Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.
- Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
What it does
- +5 public order (happiness)
- can stage games
- taxable income -7 to -3, depending on how many settlements your empire holds
Show 43 effects that apply only in some circumstances
- State pantheon worship (homeland or direct rule): gives culture conversion to your own culture, only when Direct Rule or Homeland is built here
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Italic, and you play a Roman faction, or Sardinians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Germanic and you play a Germanic (other than Germanics and Venedae) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Celtic and you play a Celtiberian, Brittonic or Gallic (other than Gauls and Veneti) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Thracian, and you play a Dacian faction, or Asti, Dentheletae, Cabyle, Maedi, Odrysian Kingdom or Bessi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bithynian and you play Bithynia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paeonian and you play Paeonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Triballian and you play Triballi
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Scythian and you play a Scythian (other than Scythians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iberian and you play an Iberian (other than Sardinians) faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Illyrian and you play Ardiaei, Labeatae or Illyrian Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Venetic and you play Histri or Veneti
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Liburnian and you play Liburni
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dardanian and you play Dardania
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Delmato-Pannonian and you play Iapodes, Delmatae or Daesitiates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Baltic and you play Venedae
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Libyan and you play a Libyan faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Phoenician and you play a Phoenician faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Carian and you play Chrysaorian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Lycian and you play Lycian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Pisidian and you play Selge
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paphlagonian and you play Paphlagonia
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cilician and you play Cilician Pirates
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cappadocian and you play Cappadocia or Pontus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Assyrian and you play Osrhoene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Mesopotamian and you play Characene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Judaean and you play Hasmonean Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Egyptian and you play an Egyptian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ethiopian and you play an Ethiopian faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arab and you play an Arab faction
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Caucasian and you play Heniochi, Mossynoeci, Colchians, Iberians or Albanians
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Armenian and you play Armenia, Armenia Minor, Sophene or Commagene
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iranian and you play Atropatene, Parni, Osrhoene or Persis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Indian and you play Maurya Empire
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dorian and you play Acarnanian League, Achaean League, Acragas, Argos, Byzantium, Chersonesus, Gortyn, Heraclea Pontica, Issa, Knossos, Kydonia, Lyttos, Messene, Rhodes, Sparta, Syracuse or Taras
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ionian and you play Athens, Chios, Cius, Cyzicus, Emporion, Histria, Massalia, Miletus, Olbia, Pontic Pentapolis, Priene, Sinope or Trapezus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arcadian and you play Megalopolis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Aeolian and you play Boeotians or Thessalian League
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Northwest Greek and you play Aetolian League or Elis
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Epirote and you play Epirus
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Greco-Bactrian and you play Bactria
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Macedonian, and you play an Eastern Hellenistic (other than Bactria and Hasmonean Kingdom) faction, or Antigonid Kingdom, Pergamon or Lysiad Kingdom
- +1 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bosporan and you play Bosporans
Religious belief: spreads 42 beliefs, by how much depending on what the region already believes.
Show the 42 beliefs
- Aeolian +6
- Arab +6
- Arcadian +6
- Armenian +6
- Assyrian +6
- Baltic +6
- Bithynian +6
- Bosporan +6
- Cappadocian +6
- Carian +6
- Caucasian +6
- Celtic +6
- Cilician +6
- Dardanian +6
- Delmato-Pannonian +6
- Dorian +6
- Egyptian +6
- Epirote +6
- Ethiopian +6
- Germanic +6
- Greco-Bactrian +6
- Iberian +6
- Illyrian +6
- Indian +6
- Ionian +6
- Iranian +6
- Italic +6
- Judaean +6
- Liburnian +6
- Libyan +6
- Lycian +6
- Macedonian +6
- Mesopotamian +6
- Northwest Greek +6
- Paeonian +6
- Paphlagonian +6
- Phoenician +6
- Pisidian +6
- Scythian +6
- Thracian +6
- Triballian +6
- Venetic +6
Awesome Temple
Religion also makes a people feel happy and content to know that the Gods are honoured.
Strategy
The effects of this temple depend on your government and what faction built it. If you have direct rule or homeland here your own people's pantheon is honoured and you gain culture conversion to your culture. If the temple was built by another faction it spreads their culture, upgrade it or destroy it and rebuild to ensure it doesn't spread another culture anymore. The happiness bonus is increased as well if the majority culture in the region matches your own.
| Cost | 9,000 denarii | Build time | 9 turns | Minimum settlement | large city | Upgrades to | Pantheion |
Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.
- Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
What it does
- +6 public order (happiness)
- can stage games
- taxable income -8 to -4, depending on how many settlements your empire holds
Show 43 effects that apply only in some circumstances
- State pantheon worship (homeland or direct rule): gives culture conversion to your own culture, only when Direct Rule or Homeland is built here
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Italic, and you play a Roman faction, or Sardinians
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Germanic and you play a Germanic (other than Germanics and Venedae) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Celtic and you play a Celtiberian, Brittonic or Gallic (other than Gauls and Veneti) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Thracian, and you play a Dacian faction, or Asti, Dentheletae, Cabyle, Maedi, Odrysian Kingdom or Bessi
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bithynian and you play Bithynia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paeonian and you play Paeonia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Triballian and you play Triballi
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Scythian and you play a Scythian (other than Scythians) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iberian and you play an Iberian (other than Sardinians) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Illyrian and you play Ardiaei, Labeatae or Illyrian Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Venetic and you play Histri or Veneti
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Liburnian and you play Liburni
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dardanian and you play Dardania
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Delmato-Pannonian and you play Iapodes, Delmatae or Daesitiates
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Baltic and you play Venedae
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Libyan and you play a Libyan faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Phoenician and you play a Phoenician faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Carian and you play Chrysaorian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Lycian and you play Lycian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Pisidian and you play Selge
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paphlagonian and you play Paphlagonia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cilician and you play Cilician Pirates
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cappadocian and you play Cappadocia or Pontus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Assyrian and you play Osrhoene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Mesopotamian and you play Characene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Judaean and you play Hasmonean Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Egyptian and you play an Egyptian faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ethiopian and you play an Ethiopian faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arab and you play an Arab faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Caucasian and you play Heniochi, Mossynoeci, Colchians, Iberians or Albanians
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Armenian and you play Armenia, Armenia Minor, Sophene or Commagene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iranian and you play Atropatene, Parni, Osrhoene or Persis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Indian and you play Maurya Empire
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dorian and you play Acarnanian League, Achaean League, Acragas, Argos, Byzantium, Chersonesus, Gortyn, Heraclea Pontica, Issa, Knossos, Kydonia, Lyttos, Messene, Rhodes, Sparta, Syracuse or Taras
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ionian and you play Athens, Chios, Cius, Cyzicus, Emporion, Histria, Massalia, Miletus, Olbia, Pontic Pentapolis, Priene, Sinope or Trapezus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arcadian and you play Megalopolis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Aeolian and you play Boeotians or Thessalian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Northwest Greek and you play Aetolian League or Elis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Epirote and you play Epirus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Greco-Bactrian and you play Bactria
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Macedonian, and you play an Eastern Hellenistic (other than Bactria and Hasmonean Kingdom) faction, or Antigonid Kingdom, Pergamon or Lysiad Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bosporan and you play Bosporans
Religious belief: spreads 42 beliefs, by how much depending on what the region already believes.
Show the 42 beliefs
- Aeolian +8
- Arab +8
- Arcadian +8
- Armenian +8
- Assyrian +8
- Baltic +8
- Bithynian +8
- Bosporan +8
- Cappadocian +8
- Carian +8
- Caucasian +8
- Celtic +8
- Cilician +8
- Dardanian +8
- Delmato-Pannonian +8
- Dorian +8
- Egyptian +8
- Epirote +8
- Ethiopian +8
- Germanic +8
- Greco-Bactrian +8
- Iberian +8
- Illyrian +8
- Indian +8
- Ionian +8
- Iranian +8
- Italic +8
- Judaean +8
- Liburnian +8
- Libyan +8
- Lycian +8
- Macedonian +8
- Mesopotamian +8
- Northwest Greek +8
- Paeonian +8
- Paphlagonian +8
- Phoenician +8
- Pisidian +8
- Scythian +8
- Thracian +8
- Triballian +8
- Venetic +8
Pantheion
Religion also makes a people feel happy and content to know that the Gods are honoured.
Strategy
The effects of this temple depend on your government and what faction built it. If you have direct rule or homeland here your own people's pantheon is honoured and you gain culture conversion to your culture. If the temple was built by another faction it spreads their culture, upgrade it or destroy it and rebuild to ensure it doesn't spread another culture anymore. The happiness bonus is increased as well if the majority culture in the region matches your own.
| Cost | 12,000 denarii | Build time | 12 turns | Minimum settlement | huge city |
Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.
- Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
What it does
- +8 public order (happiness)
- can stage games
- taxable income -10 to -5, depending on how many settlements your empire holds
Show 43 effects that apply only in some circumstances
- State pantheon worship (homeland or direct rule): gives culture conversion to your own culture, only when Direct Rule or Homeland is built here
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Italic, and you play a Roman faction, or Sardinians
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Germanic and you play a Germanic (other than Germanics and Venedae) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Celtic and you play a Celtiberian, Brittonic or Gallic (other than Gauls and Veneti) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Thracian, and you play a Dacian faction, or Asti, Dentheletae, Cabyle, Maedi, Odrysian Kingdom or Bessi
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bithynian and you play Bithynia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paeonian and you play Paeonia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Triballian and you play Triballi
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Scythian and you play a Scythian (other than Scythians) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iberian and you play an Iberian (other than Sardinians) faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Illyrian and you play Ardiaei, Labeatae or Illyrian Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Venetic and you play Histri or Veneti
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Liburnian and you play Liburni
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dardanian and you play Dardania
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Delmato-Pannonian and you play Iapodes, Delmatae or Daesitiates
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Baltic and you play Venedae
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Libyan and you play a Libyan faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Phoenician and you play a Phoenician faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Carian and you play Chrysaorian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Lycian and you play Lycian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Pisidian and you play Selge
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Paphlagonian and you play Paphlagonia
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cilician and you play Cilician Pirates
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Cappadocian and you play Cappadocia or Pontus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Assyrian and you play Osrhoene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Mesopotamian and you play Characene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Judaean and you play Hasmonean Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Egyptian and you play an Egyptian faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ethiopian and you play an Ethiopian faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arab and you play an Arab faction
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Caucasian and you play Heniochi, Mossynoeci, Colchians, Iberians or Albanians
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Armenian and you play Armenia, Armenia Minor, Sophene or Commagene
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Iranian and you play Atropatene, Parni, Osrhoene or Persis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Indian and you play Maurya Empire
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Dorian and you play Acarnanian League, Achaean League, Acragas, Argos, Byzantium, Chersonesus, Gortyn, Heraclea Pontica, Issa, Knossos, Kydonia, Lyttos, Messene, Rhodes, Sparta, Syracuse or Taras
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Ionian and you play Athens, Chios, Cius, Cyzicus, Emporion, Histria, Massalia, Miletus, Olbia, Pontic Pentapolis, Priene, Sinope or Trapezus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Arcadian and you play Megalopolis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Aeolian and you play Boeotians or Thessalian League
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Northwest Greek and you play Aetolian League or Elis
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Epirote and you play Epirus
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Greco-Bactrian and you play Bactria
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Macedonian, and you play an Eastern Hellenistic (other than Bactria and Hasmonean Kingdom) faction, or Antigonid Kingdom, Pergamon or Lysiad Kingdom
- +2 public order (happiness), only when the region's majority religion is Bosporan and you play Bosporans
Religious belief: spreads 42 beliefs, by how much depending on what the region already believes.
Show the 42 beliefs
- Aeolian +10
- Arab +10
- Arcadian +10
- Armenian +10
- Assyrian +10
- Baltic +10
- Bithynian +10
- Bosporan +10
- Cappadocian +10
- Carian +10
- Caucasian +10
- Celtic +10
- Cilician +10
- Dardanian +10
- Delmato-Pannonian +10
- Dorian +10
- Egyptian +10
- Epirote +10
- Ethiopian +10
- Germanic +10
- Greco-Bactrian +10
- Iberian +10
- Illyrian +10
- Indian +10
- Ionian +10
- Iranian +10
- Italic +10
- Judaean +10
- Liburnian +10
- Libyan +10
- Lycian +10
- Macedonian +10
- Mesopotamian +10
- Northwest Greek +10
- Paeonian +10
- Paphlagonian +10
- Phoenician +10
- Pisidian +10
- Scythian +10
- Thracian +10
- Triballian +10
- Venetic +10
Traits and retinue
Traits
| Trait | Building | Points | Chance | Trait | Building | Points | Chance | Trait | Building | Points | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casual Adulterer | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1% | Covetous | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 2% | Devout | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1% |
| Gourmet of Life | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1–3% | Likes a Flutter | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1% | Lover of Beauty | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1–3% |
| Mildly Extravagant | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 1–3% | Optimate Sympathiser | Temple or above | +1 | 40% | Optimate Sympathiser | Pantheion | +1 | 40% |
| Reverent | Temple or above | +1 | 100% | Reverent | Awesome Temple or above | +1 | 2% | Traditionalist | Pantheion | +1 | 40% |
Retinue
All the retinue members (246)
| Member | Building | Chance | Member | Building | Chance | Member | Building | Chance | Member | Building | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apocalyptic Preacher | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Astrologer | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Astronomy Scholar | Large Temple or above | 1% | Astronomy Scholar | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Barber of the Gods | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Beautician | Awesome Temple or above | 4% | Brehon | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Carpet Weaver | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Carthaginian Flautist | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Carthaginian High Priest | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Carthaginian High Priestess | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Carthaginian Priestess | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Cauldron | Awesome Temple or above | 1–2% | Celtic Master Smith | Awesome Temple or above | 1–2% | Druid | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Druid | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% |
| Elder Senator | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Epic Composer | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Fanatic | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Fisherman | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Foreign Affairs Scholar | Awesome Temple | 1% | Foreign Affairs Scholar | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Foreign Affairs Scholar | Awesome Temple | 1% | Foreign Affairs Scholar | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Freeman Clerk | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Geometer | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Harkhebi | Awesome Temple or above | 20% | Iberian Master Smith | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Lore Keeper | Large Temple or above | 2% | Lur Players | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Lyre Player | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Lyre Player | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Lyre Player | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Magus | Large Temple or above | 2% | Manetho | Awesome Temple or above | 20% | Navigator | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Old Seadog | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Pet Falcon | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Pet Persian Cat | Large Temple or above | 2% | Pet White Cat | Awesome Temple or above | 9% |
| Phoenician Flautist | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Phoenician Flautist | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Pontifex | Awesome Temple or above | 4% | Priest of Adonis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Agin | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Airyaman | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Airyaman | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Priest of Ameretat | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% |
| Priest of Amon | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Anahita | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Andrasta | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Api | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Apollo | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Apollo | Awesome Temple or above | 10% | Priest of Ara Geghetsik | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Aralez | Large Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Ares | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ares | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Argimpasa | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Argistis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Armazd | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Arpoxais | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Arshtat | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Asha Vahishta | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% |
| Priest of Asklepios | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Atar | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Atlas | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Aveta | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Baal | Awesome Temple or above | 3% | Priest of Bacchus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Bandua | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Belisama | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% |
| Priest of Benelus | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Benelus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Brigindo | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Candamius | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Cariocecus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ceres | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Cernunnos | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Cybele | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Deimos & Phobos | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Dercetius | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Derzelas | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Dionysus | Large Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Ditagoia | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Donar | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Eacus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Endovelicus | Large Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Epona | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Eshmun | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Esus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Fravashi | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% |
| Priest of Gausus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Gemini | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Goetosyrus | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Gurzil | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Haoma | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Priest of Haurvatat | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Priest of Haurvatat | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Priest of Hayk | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Hebeleysis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Helios | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Hephaestus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Herakles | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Hermes | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Hero | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Janus | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Jupiter | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Khursun | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Kolaksay | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Kothar | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Maahes | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Mah | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Mars | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Mehr | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Melqart | Awesome Temple or above | 3% |
| Priest of Mercury | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Mithra | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Mithras | Large Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Mithras | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Nantosuelta | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Nehalennia | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Nehalennia | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Neptune | Large Temple or above | 2% |
| Priest of Nike | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Niord | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ogmios | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Opheus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Pharoah | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Pontus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Poseidon | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Poseidon | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Priest of Prometheus | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priest of Proteus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ptah | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ra | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Rashnu | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Priest of Resheph | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Rezos | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Rosmerta | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Rudianus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Runesocesius | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Sabazios | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Sandan | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Sandaramet | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Saturn | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Scythes | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Set | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Simurgh | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Sobek | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Spenta Armaiti | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Sraosha | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Priest of Sucellus | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Priest of Sufax | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Tabiti | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Taranis | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% |
| Priest of Targitaus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Thot | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Tir | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Tishtrya | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% |
| Priest of Tork Angegh | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ull | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Vahagan | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Vanatur | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Verethragna | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Vohu Manah | Awesome Temple or above | 1–7% | Priest of Vulcan | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Vulcan | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Woden | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Zalmoxis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Zeus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Zeus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priest of Zibelthiurdos | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Zisa | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Ziu | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priest of Zoroastra | Large Temple or above | 2% |
| Priest of Zoroastra | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Amphirite | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Anath | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Aphrodite | Large Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Artemis | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priestess of Astghik | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Ataegina | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Atargatis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Athena | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Bellona | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priestess of Bendis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Brigantia | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Britannia | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Demeter | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Duillae | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Eirene | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Freyja | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Hathor | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Hebe | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Hecate | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Isis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Kotys | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Ma | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Minerva | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Nabia | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Nerthus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Ostara | Large Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Sekhmet | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Sunna | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Tanit | Awesome Temple or above | 3% | Priestess of Tsovinar | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Tyche | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Venus | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Priestess of Vesta | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priestess of Victoria | Awesome Temple or above | 2–7% | Priestess of Volla | Awesome Temple or above | 7% |
| Priestess of Wurt | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Prophet | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Prophet | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Prophet | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Prophet | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Pythia | Awesome Temple or above | 5% | Rune Engraver | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Runner | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Sacred Lover of Astarte | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Sacred Menhir Carver | Large Temple or above | 2% | Sacred Menhir Carver | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Sacred Menhir Carver | Pantheion or below | 2% |
| Sacrificer | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Sage from the East | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Seamaster | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Senior Envoy | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Shield-Maiden | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Shipwright | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Strategist | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Tactician | Awesome Temple or above | 1% |
| Trimarcia | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Trusted First Mate | Awesome Temple or above | 1% | Trusty Steed | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Vates | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Voice of Teutatis | Awesome Temple or above | 7% | Wagon of Nerthus | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Wagon of Sunna | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Weaponsmith | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Wilderness Prophet | Pantheion or below | 1% | Wise Man | Awesome Temple or above | 1–2% | Wise Man | Pantheion or below | 2% | Wise Woman | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |
| Zealot | Awesome Temple or above | 2% | Zurvanist Priest | Awesome Temple or above | 2% |