A User’s Guide to ROME II GRAND CAMPAIGN POLITICS - Part 7: Secure Promotion

Securing promotion can only be done with members of your own ruling party and its effects are not entirely political. What it actually does is give the target a higher civil status in political office. In doing so, it gives an immediate boost to his Gravitas. Such promotions also bestow characters with various different Cursus Honorum traits, which in turn provide different civil or military buffs. This action can be carried out multiple times up to a maximum level - as long as the target character is the right age and rank required for each successive promotion.  At the first level, the cost is the support of a few patricians. With each promotion after, there is an ascending financial cost in addition to losing that support.