Oh, the priesthood. An utterly confusing faction in My Majesty that will make you want to pull out your hair when their seemingly well-meaning requests backfire hard.
Your kingdom’s abbots, monks, and priests are pretty much exactly what you’d expect from medieval priesthood: overzealous and prudish. You get some of the strangest requests from the priesthood and nobility, and you may find they both agree on a number of issues you come across.
As with any other faction, choosing the right answer when dealing with the priesthood is like walking on eggshells. Your priests are a bit more straightforward than some of your other subjects, though — you can generally tell when they will love or hate your decisions.
Unfortunately a lot of what your priests want is not really what the rest of the kingdom wants.
If you want some answer stats for the other factions in My Majesty, I’ve written similar guides (that are also in progress) for the five other factions as well:
- Nobility faction questions and answers
- Commoners faction questions and answers
- Thinkers faction question and answers
- Army faction question and answers
- Outlaw faction question and answers
How to use this guide
There are so many requests you get in the game that it’s hard to log them all — what you see here is by no means the full amount of questions and answers you’re going to have to deal with from your priesthood. But more are going to be added!
Most of the questions/requests here only have the information for one answer. This will also change as I update this guide regularly.
The game is full of typographical errors by default. Most typos and grammatical issues you run into during My Majesty are still here in this guide to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for.
Lastly, important words in each request are also highlighted to make it easier to find the information you want.
| Question | Answer 1 | Answer 2 |
|---|---|---|
| The monk scribes are requesting permission to make beneficial changes to the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Prohibit the knights templar from praying within the monastery’s walls? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| The abbot is demanding the bridge which you forgot to bless be demolished. | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Build a new church prison for the heretics? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Forbid the knight’s squires from grazing the horses on the lands of abbeys? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Forbid the printing of books, circumventing the monasteries? | Yes Priesthood: -3 | No Priesthood: |
| Prohibit Copernicus from testing a star counting machine? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -1 |
| Forbid the testing of self-propelled carriages? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -3 |
| Some of the knights of the crusade dress much too showily, it is unbecoming to a solder of Christ. Dress all the knights of the crusade knights in garb of sackcloth? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Institute the forced recruitment of aristocrats for the building of churches? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Forbid the drawing of naked virgins on the knights’ coat of arms? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| The monks are requesting a new refectory be constructed. | Yes. Expences: 100.000 Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: -1 |
| Forbid ladies-in-waiting from baring their arms above the palm? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Increase the security of monasteries? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Command the commoners to bow more deeply to the holy fathers? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| A monk is requesting permission to hold a sermon for the pilgrims about the evils of luxuries. – or – A wandering monk is requesting permission to hold a sermon about the evils of luxuries. | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| The cardinals are requesting musketeers be enlisted to gather the wheat harvest. | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Prohibit the ladies at the balls from baring their legs above the heel? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Command women to cover their faces with dark scarves? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Increase the collection money from the peasants for the production of new stained glass windows in the cathedral? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Command the troubadours to give two concerts at the Abbey for the price of one? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Forbid the ladies-in-waiting to sunbathe next to monasteries? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Institute the forced recruitment of commoners for the construction of monastery refectories? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Command the thinkers to bow more deeply to the holy fathers? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Allow knights to be enlisted for plowing of the monastery’s fields? | Yes, it will harden my army. Priesthood: +1 | Flog the person who thought of it. Priesthood: |
| Prohibit the nobility from building their houses higher than church buildings? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Prohibit wandering circus elephants from strolling in monastery vegetable gardens? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Permit the bishops to think about plump maidens before going to bed? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| The holy fathers are requesting a new wine cellar be built at the expense of the nobility. | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Contribute benevolent corrections to Vesalius’ book, On the Fabric of the Human Body? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Permit the pastors to receive triple the amount with confessions from bandits? | But the pastor won’t get spoiled? Priesthood: | Let them take five times the price. Priesthood: +1 |
| The bandit in custody admitted during confession where the loot is hidden. Release this repentant servant of God? | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Oblige viscounts to buy pardons for the entire family at once? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| Forbid artillerymen from stunning fish with gunpowder in the lakes of the monastery | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| In the surrounding woods, a giant wild boar turned up! Let the knights fight with this forest devil, and we will support them from the monastery with intense prayer. | Yes Priesthood: +1 | No Priesthood: |
| Punish the citizens for profanity with fines payable to the church? | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
| The monk scribes are demanding the printing presses of one of the Marquises be destroyed. | Yes Priesthood: | No Priesthood: -2 |
This guide will only grow as I keep playing. Check back later for more questions and answers to make your rule as benevolent (and as easy) as possible.
