Traditions
+15% Trade Steering


1. Sorry! We’ve run out of them!
No one messes with the Jewish merchants of the Mediterranean sea without severe punishment. The first nation to experience their harbors completely running dry of several goods where the Papal States, during their debate about a crusade against the Sicilian. The Jewish networks in the trade cities are so powerful that a Sicilian embargo on them really can be felt.
+25% Embargo efficiency
+25% Trade power Abroad

2. Learn from the plague doctors
The region of Naples has experienced a lot of disasters. We are one of the areas in all of Europe were the Black Death held court for longest. These times are over, but the massive knowledge our plague doctors and surgeons has learnt from these experiences will benefit us greatly. The lifespan of Neapolitans are the longest in known world history. It is therefore not unheard of, that our people abdicates instead of working themselves to death at old age.  
+30% Average Monarch Lifespan
+50% Chance of New Heir
-10% Idea Cost

3. Finally our own
For centuries has the region of Naples been ruled by foreigners. Our exodus has come and we are finally free from the evil grasp of the Pharaoh. A spark of in group preference has ignited across the Italian peninsula, this has resulted in lots of our educated people deciding to stay in Napoli and aid the King, instead of travelling abroad for more money.
-20% Cost of Advisors with Ruler's Culture
+1 Free policies

4. Bring out the dead
Desperate times calls for desperate methods. If someone is dumb enough to lay siege to one of our cities, we will always have some disease rotten corpse in a nearby catacomb ready to fling over the walls. Our plague doctors knows exactly which one would harm the most. Our enemies will expect to lay siege to fertile farmlands with lots of food and supplies to help them - they are wrong.
+2 Attrition for enemies

5. Keep the church in line
The Pope is our neighbor, our capital is the largest Catholic metropolis in the world and we have let loose a powerful inqusition to uphold God's will. Usually the clergy would take up a lot of administrative positions and become influential through those powers, but moving them into the inqusition has opened the adminitration for other people. If the church covered all areas they would grow too strong. No doubt the church will be powerful in Napoli - but never enough to challenge the King.
-15% Clergy Influence modifier
+10% Clergy Loyality Equilibrium
+10% Nobility Loyality Equilibrium
+2 Tolerance of the True Faith

6. Grow  
The gate to Sicily is through the sea, to protect our borders we must have a larger navy than our enemies. Half of every port around us must be directly owned by the King to harbor our royal navy.
+20% Naval force limit modifier
-5% sailor maintenance

7. Eternal Legacy
Our family roots from Abraham and now we have come this far. A Jewish Kingdom that no one can break from the outside. We are a beacon of hope for every Jew across the world. The brave men of Sicily knows that the legacy they carry will be known for eternity – and what an honor.
+10% Morale of armies
+10% Morale of navies

Ambitions +1 Artillery fire

The massive and unconquered fortress in the heart of Napoli city was built  by the French Charles I of Anjou, who conquered Sicily from the Hohenstaufens in 1266. He transfered Sicilys capital from Palermo to Napoli and began the construction of the 'Castel Nuovo / New Castle' in 1279.

It didn't change a lot, as the almost finished castle was irrelevant in the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, that resulted in Sicily splitting into Aragonese Trinacria (Sicily) and Angevin Naples. Now Sicily was owned by Peter III of Aragon and Naples by Charles I. The Castle was finished in 1285, the same year Charles I of Anjou died.

Napoli has a large network of catacombs dating all the way back to 2th and 3th century. Some have collapsed, others sealed up and some forgotten. And then there are those that are secret. 

A devastating plauge harvested thousands of souls in 1339 and Napoli saw itself with a new problem, where to bury the dead? King Louis I of Anjou was panicking and ordered the dead to be sailed into the bay and thrown into the sea, which was the fate of most of the dead.

Dominican friars had other ideas, as they found this method to be against the Churchs' teachings of burial. They decided to expand the catacombs below their monastaries and churches and built underground cemetaries. Today in 1444, they are well known and the macabre burial rituals have sparked lots of debate in the Catholic church. It is estimated that over two million skeletons are stored below the city. Souls lost to the plague, the war against Jewish Sicily in 1351 and lots of others who are now forgotten. There is even rumors of mummification rooms, making those whose earthly lives were especially pious.