About This File
What this mod does:
This mod is intended to serve as a religious addition to Dark World, adding in new religious options first for Succubus/Incubus characters, and possibly later for others (at least those that aren't covered by another mod, such as NoxBestia's). It is meant to serve as a more quasi-historical potential alternative to mods such as Christianity, which alters all of Catholicism right away, and includes a long struggle to replace the entrenched male-dominated Roman Catholic church.
The current version is just an initial test mod, but one that I wanted to go ahead and share in case anyone wanted to play with it (and will add newer versions as I put in new things and refine old ones).
-Adds Lilith-centric alternate versions of existing religions that can be discovered by Incubus/Succubus rulers in the Dark World mod:
Catholic Heresy - Lilithanist
- Feminist Religion
- Allows selection of any gender succession type, including Enatic-Cognatic and Full Enatic
- Can create a Lilithian Papacy if Rome is controlled
- Allows crusades
Islamic Heresy - Khadimist
- Feminist Religion
- Uses Iqta (Turkish/Open) succession, with Enatic-Cognatic (Female Preference) as the default gender law
- May create Khadimist Caliphate
- Allows Jihad
- Uses Decadence mechanic, but with altered values (sins are generally good, virtues generally bad)
- Khadimist Decadence revolts feature female leaders
Orthodox Christian Heresy - Reversionist
- Feminist Religion
- Allows selection of any gender succession type, including Enatic-Cognatic and Full Enatic
- May create the Reversionist Hierarchy (Lilith Patriarchy)
- Reversionist Hierarchy uses Autocephaly, has Female preference succession
- Allows crusades
Pagan Reformation Nature Option - Lilithist
- Requires choosing Egalitarian or Matriarchal Doctrine (or Bon special Doctrine)
- Feminist Religion
- Allows consorts for both male and female rulers (even for pagans that normally don't, such as Hellenic)
- Allows looting/raiding
- No opinion penalty for raised levies
- Can convert other religions
- Allows raiding
- Unlocks a decision to declare Lilith the high goddess of your faith
How to access these religions:
-Catholic and Orthodox versions can no longer appear as normal for a heresy at random. Instead, the religion must be "unlocked" via an event decision taken by a character in the game. If any of these heresies randomly occur before being unlocked, they will be randomly converted into one of the base heresies of the parent religion along with any characters in the province.
To unlock the event that leads to discovering the Lilithanist religion, a character must be all of the following:
-A succubus or incubus
-Either have Character Focus Theology, or have Prestige of 1000, orPiety 1000
-Of the appropriate core religion (Catholic or heresy, Orthodox or heresy, Sunni, etc)
If these are met, an event will fire with an average time to happen of 1 year, offering the chance to seek ancient legends about Lilith. If pursued, this will begin an event chain that leads to the option of creating and converting to the appropriate Lilithan heresy for their religious group.
Pagans may simply choose the religion nature of Lilithist when reforming normally. It requires having the Child of Lilith campaign start in Dark World Fantasy, but is otherwise not restricted. The AI is unlikely to choose this option, but is allowed to do so.
Other Additions:
Any child that gets the "Demon Child" event chain should now also get the incubus/succubus trait.
Angelic Powers:
- Angels now receive supernatural abilities based on their piety score.
- These include the ability to heal themselves or others, to smite wicked or sinful people (including demons), to atone for their own sins, and request blessings from the heavens.
- Many of these powers do not work, or are less effective, the more sinful/wicked traits the Angel has.
What you need to play this Mod:
This mod requires the Dark World Fantasy core module.
Dark World Extras is also recommended, but should not be required.
It also requires the latest version of CK2, along with the Holy Fury expansion (and probably others) to take advantage of all features.
Compatibility: This mod should be compatible with any other Dark World sub-mods, including Dark World Extras, DW Mercenary Commander mod, and worked in the past with Dollarsmy's mod (though I haven't tested that recently). It also works fine with House Irae, as well as any mods that add more reformation choices for Pagans. I suggest playing without any other mods that alter the core religions, but that is merely for the sake of historical appropriateness, and it should work fine with any that do.
Future additions planned:
-Prevent the random spawning of Lilithanist/Reversionist heresy prior to the event chain creating it by setting a global flag and overriding certain default events/functions.
-Expand the event chain (Presently it costs nothing, and simply leads to an event 90 days later) to include a more difficult/more interesting hunt for the knowledge, possibly similar to the pursuit of the Necronomicon event chain.
-Add similar variant heresy versions for Judaism, Dharmic, and possibly Pagan versions.
-Add a religion head mechanic for Catholic, as well as associated events for the capture and conversion of holy sites.
-Add quasi-historical flavor events related to the rise of a feminist antithesis in Catholic (and other) lands.
-Add fantasy/magical themed events, such as the occasional influence of Lilith or other powerful beings.
-Add Vampire, Werewolf-centric religions (likely Pagan), possibly others.
-Adapt more mechanics such as the hajj, Ramadan, and Furusiyya tournaments for Lilislam.
What's New in Version 2.0.4
Released
- 0.1: Initial Build, including Lilithan Catholic Heresy
- 0.2: Added Islamic Lilithan religion, and decadence functionality.
- 0.2a: Minor bugfix with Lilislamic holy sites.
- 0.2b: Fixes to Lilislamic religion and events.
- 0.3: Added Reversionist, aka Orthodox Lilithanism religion and associated events.
- 0.3a: Fixed a few bugs, and added Caliphate for Khadimist.
- 0.5: Overhauled to use and integrate with the Lilith secret society in Toska's mod. Updated the events, added more graphics to pretty things up. Also included a number of non-religion events related to the Dark World (though primarily optional ones).
- 0.6: Removes secret society dependence and slavery aspects. Should fix issues with trying to form Orthodox or Islamic variants.
- 0.7: Bugfixes and some minor event chains tied to WoL.
- 0.8: Bugfixes, Lilithanist religious head (re)added.
- 0.8a: Bugfixes, Orcish Invasion option added.
- 0.8b: Bugfixes for the Orcish Invasion events.
- 0.9: Added strict religious inheritance for Lilithian Catholic and Lilithian Orthodox so the Pope/Matriarch will always be female. Fixed bug with Khadmists being unable to create the Lilithian Caliphate. Removed invasion events to control the scope (will look at new/seperate mods for those)
- 0.9a: Initial Compatibility Check for Holy Fury. Added Concubines to Lilithanist religons of both genders. Removed some of the non-religious events as these will be moving to a different mod.
- 1.0: Added Lilithanism as an option for Religious nature when reforming a Pagan Religion, which requires use of either Enatic Clans or Egalitarian, and cannot be chosen with Polygamy or Agnatic Clans. Bugfixes: The Cathedral Dream should no longer repeat for Reversionist and Khadimist after those religions have been unlocked.
- 1.0.1: Added a hotfix to allow Bon reformation to use their equality-based reform along with Lilithanism.
- Removed the 1.01 hotfix, as this apparently causes a crash bug. Will look at ways to correct or work around this for Bon characters.
- Added a corrected version of the 1.0.1 hotfix, which allows the Bon specific reformation along with Lilithanism.
- 1.1: Added events for Lilithanist coronations, courtesy of @tarin
- Adjusted the affects of the Lilithian pagan reform to cover similar topics as the other potential Nature reform options.
- Version reuploaded on 4 Dec 2018 has its dependency adjusted to use Dark World Fantasy. Any downloads from before that can simply download the new .mod file for compatibility.
- 1.1.1: Updated for full compatibility with Dark World Fantasy's new half-demon traits. Also added a new option in the Cathedral Dream event that will permanently stop the event from recurring for a specific character.
- 1.1.2: Lilith Catholic/Orthodox/Islamist heresies should not spawn randomly before the event chains unlock them. If a province converts to any these before that particular heresy has been unlocked by events, it will randomly switch to another heresy of that religion group, and any Lilithist characters of that faith in the province will switch as well.
- 1.1.2a: Fixed a localisation error in the new option for the Cathedral Dream event.
- 1.2: Added a number of events and decisions to represent Angelic powers. No longer will Angels be the forgotten and feeble counterparts to the Demons, as they can now fight back with potent abilities of their own.
- 1.2.1: Revised costs on some of the Angelic powers. Fixed a few bugs, including one where pregnancy trait and associated events weren't firing for the immaculate conception decision. Added two new powers for Angels as well, one to atone for (and remove) sinful traits, and one to gain divine blessings in the form of beneficial genetic traits.
- 1.2.2: Fixed an issue where angels couldn't self-heal, and the self heal decisions will now reflect the lowered piety costs. Angels will also no longer be able to use divine conception if their practical age is over 50.
- 1.2.3: Various minor bugfixes.
- 2.0: Updated to be compatible with Dark World Fantasy 2.0, along with various other minor bugfixes.
- 2.0.1: Fixed Angelic Healing using the target's piety as a prerequisite rather than your own. Also, Divine Conception will cost more piety now if you aren't a virgin.
- 2.0.2: Made improvements to Angelic troop inspiration, both in terms of duration and impact.
- 2.0.3: Corrected some localization errors (courtesy of Triskelia)
- 2.0.4: Fixed an issue where the Khadimist religion head title couldn't be created when using the most recent versions of DWF. Angels will now be able to correctly heal possession and sex-crazed traits via major heal.
Old/broken versions (do not use):
Dark World Beyond Heresy 0_9a.7z Dark World Beyond Heresy 0_9b.7z
