europa-universalis-iv
I am playing as HRE and have Castille under a PU.
Our relationship is strained enough as it is due to -213 AE, which makes it hard to keep the PU alive, but now a new modifier appeared:
Backward Monarch: -12
Where does this modifier come from? How is it triggered and how can I avoid it?
Does it have to do with monarch age (my king is pretty old) or with technology somehow (although I am pretty much as teched out as possible)?
If I'm not wrong, you can get more available advisors through idea paths.
For example, the economic path opens one advisor slot :
So does the administrative one.
With the centralization bonus (from the economic path), I can choose from 4 different advisors :
And this for each type of advisor.
That should help you to get better advisors.
You have the option to "Enforce Peace"
Demand that a country make peace in a war - refusal will bring you in to the war on the side of the defender. You can't enforce peace on a defender and you need to have at least 100 relations with the nation you want to protect.
You can find it under Influence Actions. If they accept, the war is ended, if not, you join. Then there of course is a chance that Portugal will do the same.
You can also give subsidies to a colonial nation. You can find it under Economic actions
Best Answer
If you have a monarch with below average (less than 3-3-3) skills, then there are events that fire for your subjects (ie: those under a personal union with you). Depending on which choice they choose, you can get various negative effects (Ignorant Monarch, Backwards Monarch are two of them).
There's nothing you can do about it, unfortunately.