Out of curiosity, I was looking through some various Christian heresies, and I found some interesting ones, here are some highlights that I think should be added to the game. I do not have enough space to add all of them to the original forum post, so I will instead document each them one by one.
#Add More Christian Faiths & Heresies
frosty geyser
Add More Christian Faiths & Heresies
Tondrakianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tondrakians
Tondrakians were a sect of Armenian Christians related to Paulicianism that rejected Armenian feudalism and church hierarchy, and they supported property rights for peasants as well as equal rights between men and women. This heresy could be an heretical branch of Apostolic Christianity, similar to how Catharism is a heresy of Catholicism or Iconoclasm is a heresy of Orthodoxy. It could be largely similar to Apostolic Christianity, except with the following changes:
Communion is replaced with Vows of Poverty, but Communal Identity and Aniconism stay.
View on Gender is changed to Equal.
Religious Attitude is either Pluralist or Fundamentalist (either Pluralist due to similar peasant movements in other religions like Mazdak Zoroastrianism, or Fundamentalism due to ties with Paulicianism).
Spiritual Head of Faith is replaced with No Head of Faith.
Clerical Function is changed to Alms and Pacification (it was a peasant movement, so popular opinion seems more accurate than control).
Locations of Holy Sites are Vapsurakan (approximately where Mount Tondrak is, the namesake of the faith. Vapsurakan also was a site of Tondrakian of peasant revolts), Suenik (site of Tondrakian peasant revolts), Turuberan (center of 11th century resurgence) Ani (center of 11th century resurgence), Jerusalem (They're still Christian at the end of the day).
dull halo
hah, don't you worry, there's more than one of us who would love the chance to put Tondrakians in
please feel free to list as many as you want though, more ideas is always good!
frosty geyser
please feel free to list as many as you want though, more ideas is always good!
will do. was about to do Montanism next. could probably mod some very rough-around-the-edges versions of each of these faiths too as proof of concept. I'd love to work with you guys to get some of this stuff added into the game. Do you happen to be hiring by any chance? 🤣
frosty geyser
I swear I'll add more faiths here eventually, just been busy 😅