Build your dynasty through trade and moneylending as you lead a merchant family through the medieval era in Silk & Silver, a Major Expansion for Crusader Kings III. Start as a humble trader, ingratiate yourself with the local authorities as you expand your business interests and maybe even seize power in a Republic, defeating your rivals as you turn your trading monopolies into political power.

Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver includes:

• Merchant government: In an entirely new playstyle, lead a merchant family at the head of a trading company, rising from obscurity to greatness and using your wealth to advance the fortunes of your family.

  • Establish trade routes: Seek out profitable routes, slowly expanding the reach of your trade empire as your family grows in renown and wealth

  • Compete: Push out other families, undermining their trading profits and locking them out of valuable markets.

  • Lobby for power: Use your money and intrigue to influence nobles and royalty, seeking patrons who can strengthen your trade empire.

  • Monopolies: Use your political influence to gain exclusive rights to routes or goods.

  • Improve your mansion: Direct your family from your grand house, improving its grounds and establishing a base for your mercantile efforts.

• Republics: A new government type that focuses on merchant families competing for power and wealth in a range of historical republican models.

  • Laws and Assemblies: Set the constitution of your Republic, asking the Assembly to pass laws that control the terms of leaders and uses of the state treasury.

  • Trade Leagues: Through the new Trade System, you can join other Republics in alliances with both commercial and military benefits. Long established leagues could become Confederations, a larger and stronger Republican form.

• Historical Italian Flavor: Take part in civic Carnivals to celebrate the greatness of your republic, and watch the historic struggle in northern Italy between the Guelphs and Ghibellines as political factions lead to open warfare.

• And more!