Crusader Kings III – How to Revive Zunism (Easy & No Exploits)

This guide will show the player how to revive the Zunist religion in Crusader Kings 3.

Guide to Revive Zunism

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Introduction

Zunism!

So, you want to revive it?

Well, there’s two main ways to do it.

The first way is to collect enough piety to convert. This is usually assisted by grabbing everything possible to reduce the cost of conversion to as little as possible – sometimes this is done with exploits, due to the cost of converting to unreformed, different religious family and dead religions stacking upon one another to create a ridiculously high cost.

This is one way this can be done, but I’m here to tell you the easier way.

The second way is to get a character with a secret faith in Zunism. ‘But how,’ I (don’t) hear you cry, ‘am I supposed to know which characters have a secret faith? After all, it’s a secret faith.’ I say not to worry, because I will be telling you the only character (that I know of, though there might be more) who has a secret faith in Zunism secret.

The Actual Character

Now, the character in question is found in the 867 A.D. (as if A.D. needs to be specified) start date. A vassal in the very North-East of the Saffarid Grand Amirate. The character in question is Vālī Salih kurê al-Hujr of Zamindawar.

Now, what you’ll notice about this character is that they are of the Zunbil dynasty – the dynasty that founded Zunism.

Note: This character also is apparently not important enough to have set traits or lifestyle education, so those will differ between playthroughs.

Now, what you’ll need to do is begin as this character, and click the “Reveal True Faith” decision after collecting 250 piety.

This will give you a decision to convert, or to wait for another time.

I think it goes without saying that you should convert if you pressed the decision.

And there you have it! Conversion to Zunism!

Of course, if you don’t want to play in Persia, you have two options:

1. Get a character with a secret faith to educate your heir, which means they might get them to follow the secret faith.
2. Just make a Zunist character in the character creator.

Now, go forth and enjoy your Zunist playthrough!