Pledging

Pledging is a added to the mod in. Here, the player swears allegiance to a faction of his or her choice and gets certain benefits for this. You can only be pledged to one faction at a time.

Pledge Service
To be able to pledge, make sure, that you are not already pledged to another faction. Otherwise cancel that pledge first (see below). Then, you'll need to get at least +100.0 alignment to the faction of your choice. You can either do mini-quests for them, or kill their enemies in their area of influence. Then open the Middle-earth menu (normally pressing "L"), select the factions button, and scroll over to the desired faction.

On the first page of the respective faction, you'll find a red seal in the lower left corner. This seal is greyed out, if you don't have the necessary alignment, otherwise, you are able to push it.

After pushing the seal, you may get an error message, that it is not possible to maintain good relations with the faction's mortal enemies. In this case, both alignments get reduced, until one of them reaches zero (this can be turned off via the configuration file). This may also reduce your alignment to the desired faction below the needed +100.0, meaning that you need to work towards increasing it again.

After everything worked well, you'll get a final confirmation page. If you hit the red seal, you sign the treaty and are sworn to that faction until you break the pledge again (see below). Doing this for the first time, will earn you the achievement "Here Do I Swear". The first page of the respective faction displays "pledged". The seal now allows you to cancel the treaty.

Breaking the Pledge
Breaking the pledge can happen in two ways: Either you lose too much alignment to the pledged faction, or you break the treaty willingly. If your alignment to your pledged faction sinks below the threshold of +100.0, the faction will cancel the treaty by themselves. This can happen by performing evil deeds (in the eyes of your faction) or by gaining positive alignment to their mortal enemies with the alignment-drain option "on".

The second possiblity is, that you want to break the pledge willingly despite of having enough alignment. Open the Middle-earth menu (normally pressing "L"), select the factions button, and scroll over to the desired faction. Now push the red seal. The picture changes to a broken one. After a final confirmation page, the treaty will be broken.