Seduction is an ability that allows a commander to attempt to convert enemy commanders to their cause. Seduction takes a turn and can only be attempted if the seducer is hiding in an enemy province. Seduction cannot be attempted when besieged or besieging a fort unless the seducer has the scale walls, flying, or teleport abilities.

If there are no enemy commanders present, the seduction attempt does nothing, returning the message "[Seducer name] did not find any enemy commander".

If there are enemy commanders, the seducer checks whether there is an adjacent friendly province to escape to after the seduction. If there is not, the seduction attempt is aborted, returning the message "With nowhere to run with the victim afterwards, [Seducer name] aborted the seduction attempt". An exception is made for flying seducers, who can always escape to their capital and do not need an adjacent friendly province to attempt a seduction.

The seducer then picks one at random to attempt to seduce. The seducer and the defender then roll a dueling DRN check, with the seducer adding their seduction value (9 for most seducers) to their roll and the defender adding their morale to theirs. Depending on the outcome, one of the following occurs:

• If the seducer's seduction roll beats the defender's morale roll, the defender is converted and escapes with the seducer to a random adjacent friendly province. This gives the message "[Seducer] successfully seduced [defender]. He/she has been sneaked away to [province name]".
• If the rolls tie, nothing happens.
• If the seducer's seduction roll is beaten by the defender's morale roll, the seducer attempts to assassinate the defender instead.

Beauty is a stat that modifies the difficulty of the seduction roll. For example, the Pendant of Beauty provides +2 Beauty; this would increase the difficulty of the typical seducer's seduction check from 9 to 11.

Commanders tagged females cannot seduce other females, and non-females cannot seduce other non-females. Attempting to seduce a commander of the same sex will result in an automatic failure and assassination battle.

Similarly, mindless commanders cannot be seduced, and attempting to seduce them will automatically produce an assassination battle.

Failing to seduce in this manner will return the message "[Seducer name] failed to seduce [seducee name] and a battle ensued. In fact, [seducee] wasn't even remotely interested in the offer."

Dream Seduction functions similarly to ordinary seduction, but involves two checks: one against the target's magic resistance and another against the target's morale.

The magic resistance check difficulty is always 14; if this check fails, nothing happens. The difficulty of this check is affected by items that boost magic penetration, like the Spell Focus or Rune Smasher.¹⁾

The difficulty of the morale check works the same way as regular seduction, but dream seducers typically have higher seduction values (15 compared to 9 for most seducers). The morale check is affected by Beauty, as with ordinary seduction.²⁾

The item Soul Scales can improve the probability of dream seduction success. how exactly?

Unlike ordinary seduction, dream seduction can target the same sex, but does so with a penalty.³⁾ exact penalty unknown?

Lure of the Deep is similar to dream seduction, involving first a magic resistance check against 14, followed by a morale check against the lure ability. It can only be used on coastal provinces. Only Sirens in their land form have this ability.

A loss is entirely safe, a win makes the target drown themselves, and a win against someone who can breathe water results in the siren attempting to assassinate the target instead.

The Lure of the Deep Global Enchantment is like the Siren's Lure ability, but on a global scale. Every enemy unit (including non-commanders) has a 20% chance at base to be Lured each turn, plus 20% for every point of the caster's Dominion present; any enemy Dominion at all shields against the effect. The Magic Resistance check is 7, instead of a 16.

Corruptor is essentially a more powerful Seduction ability. They do not benefit from Beauty or the Dream Enhancer trait, but they ignore the target's sex and typically have a much higher skill level.