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Trader path
Earn more from trade and turn commercial connections into money. Choose this when your priority is a healthy treasury.
Focus bonus: +2 Stewardship; +1 Diplomacy.
Choose this focus in your class lifestyle window. The class earns 25 experience each month before other bonuses; each perk costs 1,000 experience. Perks remain useful when you switch focus within the same class.
Every perk explained
Appraiser
You become a better administrator of your lands. You earn more gold from your existing income.
Always active: Stewardship +2; Monthly Income +10%.
Long Distance Trade
Your character spends less time travelling. Journeys become safer for your character.
Always active: Travel Speed +10%; Travel Safety +10.
Requires: Appraiser.
Hard Bargainer
You become more effective at dealing with other characters. Your vassals contribute more tax.
Always active: Diplomacy +2; Vassal Taxes +5%. Commercial Windfall: Spend 5 Regency to gain twelve months of current income, with a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 500 gold. Available every three years.
Requires: Appraiser.
Sea And Road
Your character spends less time travelling.
Always active: Travel Speed +5%.
Requires: Long Distance Trade.
Profitable Contacts
You earn more gold from your existing income. You become more effective at dealing with other characters.
Always active: Monthly Income +10%; Diplomacy +1.
Requires: Hard Bargainer.
Trade Connections
Establish Trade Agreement Both rulers gain +15% income and +20 mutual opinion for 5 years. Income bonuses do not stack. Cost on acceptance: 3 Regency. Cooldown: 5 years per ruler. Both rulers must be independent and at peace with each other.
Trade Network
You earn more gold from your existing income. Your counties develop faster, supporting their long-term prosperity.
Always active: Monthly Income +15%; Development Growth +15%.
Requires: Trade Connections.
Foreign Markets
Your counties develop faster, supporting their long-term prosperity. Journeys become safer for your character.
Always active: Development Growth +15%; Travel Safety +10.
Requires: Trade Connections.
Merchant Prince
You can personally hold another domain before exceeding your limit. You earn more gold from your existing income.
Always active: Domain Limit: +1 Monthly Income: +15% Development Growth: +10% Diplomacy: +1 Stewardship: +2
Completing this path
The final perk awards the matching mastery trait. It marks your completed training; the bonuses come from the perks and are not awarded a second time by the badge.