Faith (Civ6)

Faith is one of the main statistics in Civilization VI. It represents an empire's power in matters of the immaterial and the spiritual world. Faith is used as a currency to fuel a civilization's religious pursuits, similar to how is used as a currency for political functions and civilization upkeep. However, now that we have a whole victory type dedicated to Religion, Faith becomes as important as , if not even more important.
== Mechanics ==
 Faith accumulates into a pool and is spent mostly on empire level, just like , but unlike it there is nothing that spends Faith automatically. The only exception is the founding of a Pantheon, which the game will prompt you to do automatically when you gather more than 25 Faith. After that the player must decide how to spend accumulated Faith in the best way possible.
== Uses ==
* 1 Faith is equivalent to 0.5 or 2 .
* All costs below apply on Standard speed.
=== Religion ===
 Faith is primarily used in Religion and its activities. First, it can be used to found a Pantheon, which requires 25 Faith. After you found a Religion, or after any of your cities with a Holy Site has been converted to a Religion, Faith can be used to purchase religious units there, including:
* Missionaries for 150 Faith
* Apostles for 400 Faith
* Inquisitors for 75 Faith
* Gurus for 240 Faith
As with purchases, the Faith price of successive units will rise (except for Warrior Monks, whose price is always 200 Faith). This is more important here, since there is no way to produce religious units - as the game progresses, you will have to necessarily spend more and more Faith for new ones.
=== Other unit purchases ===
Certain military units can only be purchased with Faith, including:
* Warrior Monks for 200 Faith. Note that they can only be purchased in a city following the religion with the Warrior Monks Belief.
* Nihang for 200 Faith. Note that they can only be purchased if you are the Suzerain of Lahore.
In vanilla Civilization VI, Faith can be used to buy land military units if your civilization has adopted Theocracy as its government. In Rise and Fall, Faith can be used to buy land military units if your civilization has built the Grand Master's Chapel in its Government Plaza, making it equal to in this respect.
The Monumentality Golden Age Dedication allows buying civilian units with Faith, including the very important Settler to expand your empire!
Finally, Faith can be used to purchase Naturalists and Rock Bands, which are important for a Cultural Victory.
=== Building purchases ===
If the Religion your cities follow has certain Beliefs, you will also be able to purchase Tier 3 religious buildings, such as the Cathedral or the Mosque. But, under special circumstances, other buildings and units may also be purchased with Faith - look for the special descriptions of game items! Again, as with , purchasing multiple buildings with Faith won't raise their price.
Divine Architect, a title for Moksha, allows the city he's established in to purchase entire districts with Faith.
=== Patronage ===
 Faith can be used at all times to purchase via Patronage, which makes it useful even to civilizations who didn't found a religion and are not interested in theological combat. Those will simply save up their Faith until the right moment, then spend it to patronize a .
=== Recalling Heroes ===
In the Heroes & Legends game mode, dead Heroes may be recalled (or resurrected) using Faith. The amount of Faith needed scales with the passing of eras.
== Sources ==
 Faith primarily comes from Holy Site districts and their respective buildings, the (+2 Faith) and the (+4 Faith). The Holy Site is one of the first s in the game, unlocking early in the Ancient Era, and thus is also one of the first sources of Faith for your nascent empire. Additionally, Holy Sites' adjacency bonuses are relatively easy to activate and thus boost your early production; also each Specialist Citizen grants +2 Faith. 
Religious city-states may grant up to +4 Faith in every Holy Site district (+2 Faith for each Shrine and Temple instead of base district in Rise and Fall), depending on the number of s assigned to that particular city-state, plus an additional +2 Faith in the . 
With the Ethiopia Pack and the new Diplomatic Quarter, religious city-states may now grant up to +6 Faith in every Holy Site district (+1 Faith for each Shrine, +2 Faith for each Temple and +3 Faith for each Worship building), depending on the number of s assigned to that particular city-state, plus an additional +1 Faith in the .
=== Resources ===
Certain luxury resources grant Faith bonuses. These include:
* : +1 Faith
* : +1 Faith
* : +1 Faith
* : +1 Faith
As with all Luxuries, they are available right from the start, and could turn into an important Faith source early in the game. Their significance wanes later.
=== Policy Cards ===
There are several policy cards which grant additional Faith boosts and income. These are:
* : +1 Faith in the .
* : 100% Holy Site adjacency bonus.
* : +100% Faith yield from Holy Site district buildings. ( Extra Faith from buildings in Holy Sites: +50% if city Population is 15 or higher, +50% if district has at least +4 adjacency bonus.)
* : +1 Faith from all s.
* : +2 additional Faith from all city-states you are Suzerain of.
Of these, God King is one of the very first Policy Cards unlocked (earned after developing the very first civic, Code of Laws). It may be used to start producing Faith as early as Turn 10–15, if you have no other sources available.
=== Pantheons ===
Many Pantheons grant Faith bonuses related mostly to terrain:
* : Holy Sites gain +1 bonus Faith for each adjacent tile.
* : Holy Sites gain +1 bonus Faith for each adjacent tile.
* : Holy Sites gain +1 bonus Faith for each adjacent tile.
* : +2 Faith from Quarries.
* : +2 Faith from Mines over Luxury and Bonus resources.
* : +1 Faith from tiles with Charming and Breathtaking Appeal (Breathtaking only in Gathering Storm).
* : +50 Faith for each Barbarian Outpost cleared.
* : Bonus Faith equal to 50% of the Combat Strength of each combat unit killed within 8 tiles of a Holy Site district.
* : Harvesting a resource grants Faith equal to the quantity of the resource's yield.
* (): +2 Faith from Geothermal Fissures and Volcanic Soil.
Pantheons are another very important early source of Faith, although their effects can be felt even in the late game, under the right circumstances.
=== Religious Beliefs ===
Some religious Beliefs grant respective Faith bonuses, including:
* Lay Ministry: Each Holy Site in cities following this religion receive an additional +1 Faith.
* Pilgrimage: +2 Faith for every city following this religion in other civilizations.
* Divine Inspiration: All wonders provide +4 Faith.
* Reliquaries: Triple Faith and yields from Relics.
=== Worship Buildings ===
Even more important than the Beliefs listed above are the Worship Beliefs, which unlock the special class Worship Building. These can be built as level 3 buildings in your Holy Site districts for large amounts of Faith, as well as other bonuses. However, these buildings usually become available later in the game, as you establish and develop your Religion and enhance your cities and Holy Sites. The various different Worship Building Faith bonuses are as follows:
* : +3 Faith
* : +3 Faith, +1 additional Faith for each era since constructed or last repaired
* : +3 Faith
* : +3 Faith
* : +3 Faith
* : +3 Faith
* : +3 Faith
* : +5 Faith
* : +3 Faith
=== Wonders ===
A substantial number of Wonders grant their civilizations Faith bonuses upon completion. These include:
* Angkor Wat: +2 Faith
* Casa de Contratación (): +15% Faith for cities not on your home continent
* Great Bath (): +1 Faith to each Floodplain tile in the city every time Flood damage is mitigated
* : +4 Faith
* Jebel Barkal: +4 Faith to every City Center within 6 tiles.
* Kotoku-in (): +20% Faith in this city.
* : +4 Faith
* Meenakshi Temple (): +3 Faith
* : +2 Faith
* : +1 Faith
* : +3 Faith
* : +2 Faith
* University of Sankore (): +1 Faith, +1 Faith from domestic s to this city.
 Faith can also be obtained through natural wonders:
* : +4 Faith
* : +2 Faith
* Delicate Arch (): +2 Faith to adjacent tiles
* Mato Tipila (): +1 Faith yield to all adjacent tiles
* : +1 Faith yield to all adjacent tiles
* Mount Roraima (): +1 Faith yield to all adjacent tiles
* Ubsunur Hollow (): +2 Faith
* : +2 Faith yield to all adjacent tiles
=== Unique bonuses ===
There are many unique pieces of infrastructure, and civ/leader abilities that grant special Faith bonuses:
* The unique tile improvement of , the , provides +2 Faith and, as of Gathering Storm, an additional point for every 2 adjacent districts.
* The unique tile improvement of , the , provides +1 Faith to adjacent tiles and an additional +1 Faith if they contain a resource.
* The unique building of Arabia, the , grants bonus Faith equal to the adjacency bonus of its Campus district.
* The unique building of the Aztecs, the , grants +2 Faith.
* The unique building of Georgia, the , grants +3 Faith (+4 Faith in Gathering Storm). 
* The unique tile improvement of Egypt, the , grants +1 Faith; +2 Faith if adjacent to a Wonder.
* The unique tile improvement of India, the , grants +1 Faith if adjacent to a Holy Site and +1 Faith with .
* The unique tile improvement of Scythia, the , grants +1 Faith and +1 Faith for each adjacent .
* The unique tile improvement of Spain, the , grants +2 Faith; +2 Faith if built on a different continent than your .
* The unique tile improvement of Ethiopia, the , grants +1 Faith and +1 extra Faith for every adjacent Hills or Mountains tiles.
* Treasure Fleet, Spain's civ ability, grants +2 Faith to s, which is tripled if they travel between continents.
* Grand Barays, the Khmer's civ ability, grants them +1 Faith for each point of Population in cities with an . It also grants Farms +1 Faith from adjacent Holy Sites.
* Songs of the Jeli, Mali's civ ability, grants them +1 Faith for every Desert or Desert Hills tile adjacent to the City Center. 
* Aksumite Legacy, Ethiopia's civ ability, grants them +1 Faith for each copy of improved resources the city owns and s receive 0.5 Faith for each resource in the starting city. 
* Satyagraha, Gandhi's leader ability, grants him +5 Faith for each civilization he has met that has founded a religion and that is not at war.
* Righteousness of the Faith, Saladin's leader ability, grants him +10% bonus Faith output in cities with worship buildings.
* Lithuanian Union, Jadwiga's leader ability, grants her +2 Faith from each Relic and grants Holy Sites an additional 0.5 Faith adjacency bonus from other districts.
* Exalted Goddess of the Three Worlds, Gitarja's leader ability, grants her +2 Faith from s adjacent to or tiles.
* Glory of the World, Kingdom and Faith, Tamar's leader ability, grants her bonus Faith equal to 50% of the Combat Strength of defeated enemy units.
* Queen of Ndongo and Mtamba, Nzinga Mbande's leader ability, gives all cities on the same continent as her a 10% Faith bonus and all cities on other continents a 15% Faith penalty.
* Sword of Persia, Nader Shah's leader ability, grants his domestic s +2 Faith when sent from captured cities.
* Manual of Entrapment, Wu Zetian's leader ability, grants Faith equal to 100% of that produced by a city where one of her Spies successfully completes an offensive espionage mission.
* Metanoia, Theodora's leader ability, causes her Farms to grant a +1 Faith adjacency bonus to Holy Sites and Hippodromes.
* Varangian Guard, Varangian Harald Hardrada's leader ability, grants Faith equal to 50% of the Combat Strength of each unit he kills with a levied unit.
* The unique unit of Lahore, the Nihang, can earn the Trehsool Mukh , which grants Faith equal to 50% of the Combat Strength of each unit it kills.
=== Other sources ===
Some and three projects provide Faith bonuses:
* Activating Hildegard of Bingen grants a one-time bonus of 100 Faith.
* Activating Colaeus grants a one-time bonus of 100 Faith.
* Activating Ibn Fadlan causes s to city-states to provide +2 Faith.
* Holy Site Prayers converts 15% of a city's into Faith while underway.
* Lijia (Faith), a project available to Yongle, converts 50% of a city's into Faith.
* If the Secret Societies game mode is enabled:
** Dark Summoning, a project available to members of the Voidsingers, converts 30% of a city's into Faith while underway.
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== See also ==
* Faith in other games
Category:Civilization VI
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