A complete and up-to-date searchable list of all CK3 cultural tradition IDs.
Traditions define a culture's values, bonuses, and the buildings and units it can access. A culture has a limited number of tradition slots, gained as it advances through the eras.
Command builder
Tradition
Culture ID (optional)
Traditions have no dedicated command — this uses the effect command to run add_culture_tradition on a culture. Leave Culture ID blank to affect your own culture; swap in remove_culture_tradition the same way to remove one.
Description
Tradition ID
This culture knows how to effectively field skirmishers in any environment.
Though some would decry it as weakness, a realm founded on understanding and tolerance is a realm built on sturdy foundations.
This culture is distinctly agrarian, their lands producing ample crops for hungry armies. While not having to struggle for food means many peasants for the levy, it also means that each soldier is not as motivated as those from harsher regions.
The people of this culture have adapted to living in and around mountainous regions, and their knowledge and expertise in alpine climes is second to none.
The Amharic highlands are quite suitable for farming as long as one knows how to best approach the matter. For many generations this people have worked and lived in this environment, thriving while developing their own traditions and customs.
This culture has always been surrounded by raw materials, ore, and uncut gems. They have an affinity for finding sites for mining excavations.
This culture has studied military theory for a thousand years, and its generals and marshals have at their disposal a rich crop of military manuals and text books. This wealth of knowledge is only overshadowed by a great technical understanding of how to make strong armor and weapons.
It is a common idea in this culture that the purest expression of superiority is the ability to subdue your enemy without fighting them.
Restless throngs of younger sons define this culture. Bold and unscrupulous, these horsemen chase dreams of faraway adventure, of mercenary cruelties, and of glorious conquest.
The art of breeding, training, and hunting with raptors like falcons and hawks is one of most prestigious pastimes among this culture's elite.
In this culture battles are not fought for prestige, but for profit. Who cares about one's standing if you're unable to pay for the war?
A nexus of Greek, Indian, and Arabic scholarship, this culture prides itself on scientific advancement.
In this culture being of a different faith means that you're not eligible for succession.
This culture views brewing and drinking alcohol as playing an important role both in festivities and in daily life.
The bush is a rough and rugged place, but it offers a bounty of opportunity for those who know where to look and how to exploit it. Training our archers in these techniques will give them an advantage when engaging enemies in these areas.
Rooted in a legacy of honor and martial discipline, this tradition elevates the bond between lord and vassal through acts of homage and valor. Strength of character and deeds of integrity forge unshakable loyalty and respect.
Members of this culture believe that the best missionary is one carrying a sword. While support for holy wars are widespread, motives are scrutinized as to make sure the Divine powers would approve.
This culture is closely associated with the imperial traditions of the Eastern Roman Empire and its legacy in the form of a complex and intricate code of courtly conduct.
This culture is well-integrated into the commercial practices of the region, and its people are strongly associated with the caravan trade.
Offense is not a good defense. A good defense is having the most castles on the face of the known world.
Having spent centuries making themselves a home around the Caucasian gates, this culture has grown well at home with everything that mountain warfare entails.
This culture values the heroic deeds of long gone ancestors. The romantic retelling of the lives of knights such as Guillaume, or Roland, will inspire generations to come.
The people of this culture excel in diplomatic matters, and social etiquette is valued above all else.
Regardless of faith, people of this culture are motivated to support those less fortunate.
The way of the pen, the way of the brush, all important elements for this culture. Rather than depending only on military might or complex administration, the Chinese put emphasis on perfecting any forms of art.
This culture has embraced chivalry and chivalric codes of conduct as a social method of regulating behavior. Martial prowess, duty, honor and morality are prized, as is bad poetry and romantic literature.
Cities are the beating urban heart of this culture, and they wish for every one of their metropolises to become enviable gems known across the world.
We have always been drawn to the shoreline. The sting of sea air, the crying gulls, the scent of smoked fish... what warrior would ever opt to live far from the water and its freedoms?
The idea that individuals personally own land is alien to this culture; land belongs to all people, for the common good.
Rulers of this culture often keep a number of concubines in their household, regardless of their faith.
This culture makes extensive use of eunuchs at court, occupying positions ranging from domestic servants to bureaucratic administrators and even military commanders. Men with no desire are easy to trust.
Within the labyrinthine halls of the court, eunuchs hold sway, consorts vie for favor, and whispers of treachery echo through gilded chambers.
Food isn't just sustenance for this culture; it is both an art and a ritual, a focal point for family and community alike.
Barbarians gaze in envy upon this culture's resplendent luxuries, their society's sophistication. Fueled by a sense of primacy, this culture rejects any contradictions that lie outside their cosmopolitan sphere of influence.
Tuning the body, the breath, and the mind until the mud of the heart settles and inner virtue rises like clear water.
This proud culture is content to look to its own rich history and social life, and feels little need to stoop to mingling with its neighbors.
Members of this culture have often lived alongside people of other cultures. Through exposure, they have become adept at incorporating foreign languages, traditions and customs into their own lives.
Our people have been exiled and driven out time and time again. While tragic, these experiences have led us to become exceptionally skilled in rear-guard tactics which minimize casualties.
Ever-harried by encroaching invaders, mastery of the saddle and bow allows limited numbers to be used to devastating effect in hit-and-run raiding and ambushes.
This culture has a tradition of fortified desert retreats, where the pious can live in connection with the open sky and the sands. This lifestyle breeds able and pious desert warriors and attracts mystics.
This culture is no stranger to the harsh environment of the desert and has mastered the use of camels to aid them in travel, warfare, and everyday life.
Death before submission! The rulers from this culture find no defeat worse than vassalization, and will do anything to become their own masters.
Even palatial comforts cannot keep the people of this culture from the saddle. Wherever they find themselves, their herds are there too, and the horses are tended to with a careful eye.
Anyone can fish, but to do so with such skill that any catch is bountiful, regardless of tide or wind, is a rarer talent. No one knows the coast, land or sea, better than these fishermen.
People of this culture have lost the homeland they once held dear. Some among them travel the world searching for a place where they may begin anew.
Merely possessing strength is not enough. You have to demonstrate your strength before others, so that you know you could either face a worthy opponent, or fight alongside a valued ally.
Varangian soldiers have long served as imposing bodyguards for our monarchs, but they can just as easily serve as dedicated heavy infantry in our armies.
This culture is accustomed to living in dry climates, and know where to find water and how to work the lands.
While the norms of marriage are important to maintain for appearances and legal expediency, pleasure is a natural gift bestowed by the gods and vital to good health, whatever the ramifications on pedigree.
