Buildings

Buildings in PoD represent your influence over the mortal populace of a specific county. You are playing a supernatural ruler and, as such, must take care that you can pull as much resources from the sleeping masses as you can in order to win over your competition.

Vampire Buildings

Cainites

Quick and Dirty

Some Vampires still cling to the open rule over the masses of olde times. These buildings chains represent this, all having a big drawback, but being cheap in a pinch. They cost gold and are available in all holdings. Favorite of the Tzimisce/Sadistic AI.

Open Rule : Gives Dread, Dread by Tyranny at higher levels. -monthly popular opinion as mortals start plotting against your tyrannical rule.

Blood Tax : Gives monthly tax. -development as you crush any prosperity from your counties.

Forced Conscription : Gives bonus to men at arms. -monthly control as people (mortals or otherwise) start to avoid your conscription attempts.

Night Terror : Alternative to open rule for particular savage gangrel/road of the beast. Control malus, development malus, men at arms malus. +knights.

Main Chains

The following chains are “mainstream” chains, intended for a subtle and more long term thinking ruler. Almost all of them are gated and enabled by x control in the county, meaning that any new conqueror will take time to settle in before reaping the benefits.

Influencing the Nobles : Gives flat popular opinion, and tax multiplier. Starts with a garrison size malus as the county is badly organized until you put your people in place.

Influencing the Merchants : Gives monthly tax. Starts with a malus on popular opinion until you take care of any dissenters with the later buildings.

Night Watch : Gives bonus to men at arms. Starts with a malus on monthly tax as bribing officials isn’t exactly cheap until you have mastered it.

Running the Underworld : Mix of bonus to men at arms and monthly tax. Gives a popular opinion malus.

Rabble and Thugs : Small numbers of basic levies. Gives a monthly prestige malus. Gated by development (more developed province = more thugs to go around).

Influencing the Lawgivers : Needs Innovation : Hoardings. Gives monthly control flat and multiplier.

Haven Defenses : Needs Innovation : Castle Baileys. Gives garrison, fort level, levy replenishment rate.

Remote Haven : Needs Innovation : Windmills. Gives prestige, stress loss and scheme defense.

Mercenary Companies : Needs Innovation : Machicolations. Gives Heavy Infantry bonuses.

Influencing the Barracks : Needs Innovation : Royal Armory. Gives MaA bonuses.

Influencing the Burghers : Needs Innovation : Crane and high development. Gives tax.

Prince of a City Buildings

The following chain is the replacement of the “Population” mechanic of PoD CK2. It is tied to development, a value that Vampires shouldn’t be able to increase, but are certainly able to decrease (they are parasites) most notably by the “quick and dirty” chains (representing Tzimisce strangulation of growth in Transylvania, or other cainites wanting power at the expense of sustainability). It is only available in ducal capital counties. It costs prestige. A Vampire with a Metropolis can punch far above his weight, even if that is his only holding.

Ruling a City/Capital/Metropolis Various bonus ranging from +knights to +prestige, depending on the level. Also the main source of levies.

Unique religious buildings

The following chains are the “unique” chains requiring a specific religion to be build.

Road of Set : Temple of Set. +Courtier opinion. +Seduce scheme power. Costs piety.

Raktasadhus : Control the Devasthana : +Monthly piety. +Martial per piety. Costs prestige.

Naktanchara : Mentors of the Brahmavihara : +Monthly piety. -Stress gain multi. Costs prestige.

Code of Tremere : Chantry : Monthly intrigue lifestyle xp multiplier. +Same Faith opinion. Costs prestige.

Ashirra : Influence the Tribes : Bonus to light cav. +Martial per piety. Costs piety.

Tal'mahe'ra : Portal to the Underworld : +Controlled province advantage. +Enemy Hard casualty modifier. Costs prestige.

Zarathustra : Pairidaeza : +Piety level impact. +Stewardship per piety. Costs gold.

Road of Sin : Unending Party : +Seduce scheme power. -Stress gain multi. Costs prestige.

Road of Night and Blood Gnosticism : Church of the Fallen : +Dread gain mult. +Intrigue per piety. Costs piety.

Road of Metamorphosis : Laboratory : -Men at arms maintenance per dread. +Defender advantage. Costs gold.

Road of Lilith : Garden of Lilith: +Close relative opinion. +Sway scheme power. Costs prestige.

Road of Laibon : Gathering of the Legacies : +Monthly diplomacy lifestyle xp. +Courtier and guest opinion. Costs prestige.

Road of Kings : Throne Room : +Monthly prestige. +Vassal tax contribution. Costs gold.

Road of Humanity : Influence the People : +Monthly lifestyle xp gain. +Befriend scheme power. Costs prestige.

Road of Heaven : Influence the Clergy : +Piety level impact. +Monthly piety mult. Costs prestige.

Road of Bones : Crypt : +Learning from piety. -Enemy hostile scheme success chance. Costs prestige.

Road of Blood : Assassins’ Cell : +Owned hostile scheme success. +Prowess per piety level. Costs prestige.

Road of Beast : Night Terror : A replacement “quick and dirty” building (see above)

Kuei-Jin Buildings

Dragon Nest : Alternate Duchy Building for Kuei-Jin. Requires a Wall Rating of 3 or lower to build. Stage 2 needs a Wall Rating of 2 or Lower, and Stage 3 needs a Wall Rating of 1. Starts with increased Garrison Size, Levies, Development Growth, Popular Opinion, Monthly Renown and Prestige Growth, greater stress lows, lower Men-at-Arms Maintenance, greater movement speed, diplomatic range, chi arts experience, duchy fort levels and reinforcement rates. Upgrading it increases all of these benefits. Costs gold and prestige to build and upgrade.

Low War : +Intrigue per stress level. +Prowess per stress level. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Family Scarlet Screen : Increases Fort Level, Levies, Garrison, Knights, and Knight Effectiveness. Costs gold and prestige to build and upgrade.

Usagigumi Scarlet Screen : Increases levies, supply limit, and grants Men-at-Arms buffs. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Inugumi Scarlet Screen : Increases taxes, defender advantage, levies, and Men-at-Arm buffs. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Ryugumi Scarlet Screen : Increases supply limit, levies, levy reinforcement rate, levy size, control growth, and Men-at-Arm buffs. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Spies Scarlet Screen : Increases control growth, monthly prestige, stress loss, hostile and personal scheme success chance. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Merchant Scarlet Screen : Significantly increases taxes. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Artisans Scarlet Screen : Increases taxes and development growth. Costs gold to build and upgrade.

Peasants Scarlet Screen : Increases fort level, defender advantage, levies, and garrison. Costs gold and prestige to build and upgrade.

Inquisitor Buildings

Fortress Buildings

Fortress buildings represent primary strongholds for the Inquisition. These can be constructed and upgraded in the duchy capital, and their upgrades depend on Dynasty Prestige (the power of your order), Development, and Innovations. However, each of them are more potent in certain areas, allowing you to specialize your order.

Armory of the Inquisition : Starts making Men-at-Arms easier to maintain, and increasing Men-at-Arm abilities, can be upgraded to cover more Men-at-Arms, better upgrades, and +1 Martial per Devotion. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Castle of the Inquisition : Starts increasing fort level, hostile scheme success, and garrison size, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, lower enemy hostile success scheme, and +1 Intrigue per Level of Devotion. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Office of the Inquisition : Starts increasing levy size, holding taxes, and development growth, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, lower army maintenance, and +1 Stewardship per Level of Devotion. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Palace of the Inquisition : Starts increasing stress loss, knight effectivness, and person scheme success, can be upgraded to upgrade those, increase knights, grant more monthly prestige, and +1 Diplomacy per level of devotion. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Order Buildings

The various orders have unique buildings unique to them. The Shih instead have two unique buildings. Independent Hunters do not gain these unique buildings.

Red Order Library : Starts giving more renown, lifestyle experience, and cultural fascination progress, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +1 Learning, better Men-at-Arms counter, and less friendly casualties. Can be built and upgraded with piety.

Oculi Deli Safehouse : Starts giving more renown, lowers hostile enemy scheme success chance, and raises control growth, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +1 Intrigue, and buff skirmishers. Can be built and upgraded with gold and piety.

Knights of Acre Training Grounds : Starts giving more renown, monthly prestige per knight, and better knight effectiveness, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +3 prowess, piety per knight, and more enemy fatal casualties. Can be built and upgraded with prestige and piety.

Knights of St. James Hospice : Starts giving more renown, lowers Men-at-Arms maintenance, and buffs spearmen and heavy infantry, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +1 martial, and 1 more Men-at-Arms Regiment. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Sisters of St. John Charity : Starts giving more renown, same faith opinion, and levy reinforcement rate, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +1 stewardship and development growth. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

House von Murnau Mansion : Starts giving more renown, monthly prestige, and dynasty opinion, can be upgraded to further upgrade those, give +1 diplomacy, level of fame impact, and more knights. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Hermitage : Starts giving a small boost to control growth, disease resistance, health, injury resistance, and qiao experience gain, as well as negating skill penalties, and upgrading it increases these benefits. Can be built and upgraded with piety.

Genealogie : Starts increasing popular opinion, fertility years, and chances of losing negative and gaining positive traits in children. Upgrading it increases these buffs. Can be built and upgraded with piety.

Generic Hunter Buildings

Control the Farmlands : Starts increasing levies and taxes. Is upgraded to also increase money in war and increase supply. Can be built and upgraded with piety.

Control the Outskirts : Starts increasing levies, prestige, diplomacy experience, light cavalry, and archers. Is upgraded to also increase fort level and knight effectivness. Can be built and upgraded with prestige.

Control Religious Education : Starts increasing development growth, piety, clergy opinion, popular opinion, and learning lifestyle experience. Is upgraded to also increase popular county opinion, piety gain, and domain taxes. Can be built and upgraded with gold.

Control the Townsfolk : Starts increasing taxes and stewardship experience gain. Is upgraded to also lower building construction times and costs, holding taxes, and development growth. Can be built and upgraded with gold and piety.

Control the Underworld : Starts increasing garrison, hostile scheme success chance, skirmisher toughness, and lowers popular opinion. Is upgraded to also increase natural dread, slow dread decay, and gain more taxes and levies from terrified vassals. Can be built and upgraded with gold and piety.

Control the Garrison : Starts increasing levies, martial experience gain, buffs spearmen and heavy infantry, and lowers army gold maintenance. Is upgraded to also increase control growth, lower tyranny, and grant advantage. Can be built and upgraded with prestige.

Contact Fellow Orders : Starts increasing same faith bonus, levy reinforcement rate, and lowers enemy hostile scheme success chance. Is upgraded to also increase prowess, lower friendly casualties, increase enemy casualties, and increase advantage. Can be built and upgraded with prestige.

Inquisition Cell : Starts increasing taxes, fort level, levies, garrison, and monthly renown. Is upgraded to further increase these bonuses. Can be built and upgraded with prestige.

Mummy Buildings

Duchy Buildings

In place of Princedoms and Fortress buildings, mummies create wellsprings that tap into the Web of Faith, a lattice of divine energy that straddles and envelops the cradles of civilization across the near east. These buildings can be built in the duchy capitals of the North Africa, East Africa, Middle East, and Persia Regions, and offer scaling bonuses with level.

Web of Faith : Starts by lowering holding building cost and construction time, increases development growth in county, increases levy size and taxes in duchy, and grants the holder additional monthly piety, prestige, domain taxes, Men-at-Arms Maintenance cost reduction, lifestyle experience, holy order hire cost reduction, true faith opinion, and levy reinforcement rate. Upgrading it further increases these benefits. Can be built and upgraded with gold and prestige.

Occult Affiliation : Starts by lowering holding building cost and construction time, increases fort level and garrison size in county, increases levy size and taxes in duchy, and grants the holder additional monthly piety, Men-at-Arms maintenance reduction, monthly lifestyle experience, different true faith opinion, independent ruler opinion, hostile scheme resistance, learning scheme power, and learning skill penalty negation. Can be built and upgrated with gold and piety.

Dragon Nest : Accessible to the Wu T'ian, is the same as the Kuei-Jin Building.

Regular Buildings

Mortal Army : Starts by increasing levies, and giving some Men-at-Arms bonus. Upgrading this building further increases levies and offers more Men-at-Arm bonuses. Can be built and upgraded with gold and prestige.

Sets of Worshippers : Starts by increasing holding taxes, and control growth, popular opinion, and piety. Upgrading it further increases these bonuses. Can be built and upgraded with prestige and piety.

Comprador Residence : Starts by increasing knights, knight effectiveness, and monthly prestige and piety per knight. Upgrading it further increases these bonuses. Can be built and upgraded with gold and prestige.

Tomb : Starts by increasing fort level, defender advantage, garrison, and grants some Men-at-Arms buffs. Upgrading it further increases these bonuses and grants more buffs. Can be built and upgraded with gold and prestige.

Legacy : Starts by increasing holding taxes, and monthly renown and prestige. Upgrading it further increases these bonuses. Can be built and upgraded with prestige and piety.

Werewolf Buildings

Caerns

Caerns are wellsprings of power that lead into the Umbra. These are the potent duchy buildings the Fera have access too, and each represent different specializations. Caerns are holy places, so you would do well to attain as many as you can! All of them can be built and upgraded with prestige.

Caern of Rage : Starts with increasing levies, monthly renown, advantage, army damage, and martial lifestyle experience. Upgrading it increases these bonuses.

Caern of Leadership : Starts with increasing levies, monthly renown, vassal tax and levy contribution, and monthly lifestyle experience. Upgrading it increases these bonuses.

Caern of Will : Starts with increasing levies, monthly renown, domain taxes, and monthly stewardship experience. Upgrading it increases these bonuses.

Caern of Enigmas : Starts with increasing levies, monthly renown, lowering enemy hostile scheme success chance, scheme secrecy, and monthly intrigue experience. Upgrading it increases these bonuses.

Caern of Wisdom : Starts with increasing levies, monthly piety and renown, stress loss, and learning lifestyle experience. Upgrading it increases these bonuses.

Regular Werewolf Buildings

Kinfolk Meeting Grounds : Starts by increasing popular opinion. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Kinfolk Healers : Starts by increasing injury and disease resistance. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Kinfolk Militia : Starts by increasing fort level, levies, and garrison. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Kinfolk Markets : Starts by increasing taxes. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Kinfolk Bonfire : Starts by increasing piety. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Werewolf Hunting Party : Requires Werewolf Trait. Starts by increasing knight effectiveness and lower development (this is good for most Werewolves). Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Werewolf Scouting Party : Requires Werewolf Trait. Starts by increasing knights. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Werewolf Training Grounds : Requires Werewolf Trait. Increases size and number of Men-at-Arm Regiments. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Werewolf Keeper : Requires Werewolf Trait. Increases Men-at-Arms maintenance reduction. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Werewolf Raiding Party : Requires Werewolf Trait. Increases army loot capacity and raid speed. Upgrading it increases this bonus further.

Wonders

The following chains are the “Special buildings” chains. Basically, the Great Works of CK3 adapted for PoD.

Alamut : In Alamut, Persia. Requires clan Assamite. Gives +Hostile scheme success chance. + Monthly prestige. +Garrison. +Fort Level. -Different faith opinion.

Rome : In Rome, Italy. Gives +Men at arms cap. +Monthly dynasty prestige mult. +Diplomacy per prestige level. -Monthly country control.

Ceoris : In Campulung, Transylvania. Requires clan Tremere or Demon. +Garrison. +Fort Level.+Monthly intrigue lifestyle xp. +Learning per prestige. -Monthly income.

Carthage : Buildable in Tunis, Tunisia. Requires clan Brujah or via prometheus faith. Gives +Monthly prestige. +Same faith opinion. +Cultural head fascination mult. +Monthly piety per happy powerful vassal. -Different faith opinion.

Founding Temple of Ombos : In Gizeh, Egypt. Requires clan Setite or Road of Set religion. Gives +Same faith religion. +Vassal tax contribution. +Monthly dynasty prestige mult. -Different culture opinion.

Erciyes : In Charsianon, Pontus. Requires clan Cappadocian or Malkavian. Gives +Fort level. +Monthly learning lifestyle xp. +Cultural head fascination mult. +Learning per stres level. +Enemy hostile scheme success chance.

Cathedral of Flesh : In Halych, Galicia. Requires clan Tzimisce, Baali or Demon. Gives +Controlled province advantage. +Enemy hard casualty modifier. +Dread baseline. -Domain limit. -Owned hostile scheme success chance.

Castel del Ombro : In Syracusa, Sicily. Requires clan Lasombra. Gives +Powerful vassal opinion. +Monthly prestige per dread gain mult. +Cowed vassal tax contribution. -Individual ruler opinion.

Sherwood Forest : In Nottingham, England. Requires Via Furores or Werewolves. Gives +Same faith opinion. +Levies. +Controlled province advantage. +Knight limit (later stages). -Domain limit.

Court of Love : In Berry, France. Requires Toreador. Gives +Knight limit +Levies +French opinion. monthly intrigue lifestyle xp gain mult, -max hostile scheme.

Shrine of Telyavel : In Kernave, Lithuania. Requires Road of Beast religion or Demon. Gives +Knight limit +Levies +Monthly piety. -Different faith opinion.

Giovanni Mausoleum : In Veneto, Italy. Requires Cappadocian. Gives +Knight limit +Levies +Monthly piety. -Hostile scheme resistance.

Pit of Malkav : In Jerusalem, Levant. Gives +Stat per stress level +stress gain.

Well of Sacrifice : In Mosul, Damascus, Chorazin, Kairouan. Requires Via Diabolis or Demon. Gives +knight limit, +Knight effectiveness, +Stress gain

London Mithraeum : In London, England. Requires Via Mithras. Gives +monthly piety, -Army maintenance, -Domain tax different faith

Aphrodisium of Ancona : In Ancona, Italy. Requires Road of Sin religion. Gives +same faith opinion, stress loss multiplier, -different faith opinion

Castle in the Lake : In Gowrie, Scotland. Requires Via Equitum faith. Gives +knight effectiveness multiplier, fort and garrison level, +men at arms maintenance

Fire Court : In Al-Bahriya , Egypt. Requires Road of Set religion. Gives +monthly learning lifestyle xp, +cultural head fascination, -men at arms limit

Black College : In Toledo, Spain. Requires Baali or Demon. Gives +monthly lifestyle xp, +men at arms cap/limit, +stress gain

Knossos Labyrinth : In Chandax, Greece. Requires Baali or Demon. Gives +Monthly prestige per dread, +monthly dread, +men at arms cap/limit, -general opinion

Sernog Monastery : In Giurgiu, Wallachia. Requires Tzimisce. Gives +cowed/intimidated vassal levy size. +dynasty opinion. +monthly county control

Iglesia de San Nicolás de las Servitas : In Madrid, Spain. Requires Lasombra or Demon. Gives +natural dread, +hostile scheme resistance, -domain limit

Castle of Avalon : In Devon, England. Requires Via Mithras. Gives +knight limit, +piety per knight, -different faith opinion

Kerak-in-Dan : In Tiberias, Jerusalem. Requires Via Cain. Gives +knight limit, +learning per piety level, -different faith opinion

Barcelona’s Library : In Barcelona, Spain. Gives +learning, -faith conversion cost, -county tax multiplier.

The Mercy of Ra : In Asyut, Egyot. Requires not Setite religion. Gives -stress gain, +true faith monthly lifestyle xp, -county tax multiplier.

The Tower of Flies : In Acre, Jerusalem. Requires Baali or Demon. Gives -army maintenance mult, -men at arms maintenance mult, -domain tax if different faith mult

Malta’s Library + : In Malta, Sicily. Gives +learning, +learning per stress level, +monthly learning lifestyle xp, +stress gain

Hamilcar’s Palaestra : In Lisboa, Portugal. Requires Brujah. +knight limit, +knight effect, +prestige per knight, -stress gain

Castle Hardestadt : In Oldenburg, Germany. Requires Ventrue either on Via Tyrannus or Camarilla religion. +knight limit, +levies, -independent ruler opinion

Bran Castle : In Fogaras, Transylvania. +natural dread, +prestige per dread, +piety per dread, +levies, -vassal limit

Vienna Chantry : In Vienna, Bavaria. Requires Tremere. +monthly lifestyle exp, +fort level, +diplo range, -dynasty opinion

Lion’s Green : In Northumberland, England. Requires Tremere. +monthly diplomacy lifestyle exp, +diplomacy per prestige, +diplo range, -domain limit

Spring of Yzebel : In Porto, Portugal. +stress gain, advantage, +learning per piety, +different faith opinion

Hunedoara Castle : In Hunyad, Hungary. +scheme secrecy, +hostile scheme resistance, +max hostile schemes, +stress gain

Vysehrad Castle : In Praha, Bohemia. +heavy infantry damage, +heavy infantry toughness, +men at arms cap, -cultural head fascination mult

Temple at Uppsala : In Uppsala, Sweden. Requires Via Einherjar. First level : -monthly piety, -knight limit, -knight effectiveness. Last level : +monthly piety, +knight limit, +knight effectiveness

Paris : In Ile de France, France. +dev growth, +dev growth factor, -control

Gavrinis : In Vannes, Brittany. +stress gain mult, +monthly income per stress, +war income

Toulouse University : In Toulouse, Aquitaine. +prestige, +culture head fascination, -income

Perugia Chantry : In Modena, Italy. Requires clan Tremere. -prestige, +stress loss multiplier, -stress gain multiplier

Abbey of the Sacred Crown : In Berkshire, England. -tax multiplier, +stress loss multiplier, +diplomatic range mult, +monthly diplomacy lifestyle xp mult

Maestra's Farmstead : In Kalabsha, Egypt. Requires Mummy. +tolerance advantage mult, +monthly piety mult, +monthly lifestyle gain mult, -different faith opinion

Main Temple of Isis : In Sallum, Egypt. Require Mummy or Kemintiri. +same faith opinion, +domain limit, +cultural head fascination, -province income

Convent of St-Cecilia : In Norfolk, England, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, domain limit, renown, monthly piety, and diplomacy per level of devotion. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting stewardship and lowered stress gain.

Everard's Players : In Brugge, France, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, renown, intrigue experience gain, and lowers tyranny and enemy hostile scheme success chance. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting additional taxes and personal scheme success chance.

The Nest : In Viscaya, Iberia, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, fort level, garrison, monthly renown, murder scheme power, and intrigue per level of fame. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting additional hostile schemes and intrigue per stress.

St. Scholastica : In Pisa, Italia, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, monthly renown, different culture opinion, cultural fascination progress, and learning lifestyle experience. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting learning per level of fame and faith hostility advantage.

Castle von Murnau : In Regensburg, Germania, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, fort level, garrison, holding taxes, monthly renown, and court grandeur bonus. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting development growth and stewardship per level of devotion.

Fortress of the Cross : In Nicosia, Cyprus, on the Mixed-Splat Bookmark. Requires Inquisition. + levies, fort level, garrison, monthly renown, knights, knight effectiveness, and powerful vassal opinion. Can be further upgraded, improving bonuses and granting monthly piety.

- Each bookmarked werewolf character, except Sister Worm, starts with a Caern wonder useable by all werewolves.

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