Truces

If you are not currently in a truce, your Barons will occasionally offer a truce with one of your rivals. If you sign a truce, you will be unable to raid that rival until the truce is broken. An image of a dove beside their power total in a region will remind you if you have a truce with a rival.

There are two ways a truce can be broken:

You break the truce They break the truce
 * Occasionally your Barons will offer you this option. If you break the truce, your duke will take a large piety penalty. Your baron will tell you whether you, or the rival duke, has more favor (piety) with the church -- if you have more favor, the piety penalty will be reduced
 * Reducing your dukes' piety can be a significant risk. If your duke is banished, you will lose access to all of your Barons' advice.
 * If you wait long enough, your rival may break the truce and attack you
 * They are most likely to do this if: they see you as a greater threat than their enemies or if they see you as an easy opportunity to take territory.