Faction issues
Playing Rome in Imperium 1.12 at 580 AUC. I have observed that when I begin to play, and load a saved game, almost all my character pool and most of my office holders have switched to Religious. However the Senate composition is not affected, nor (of course) the faction leaders.
Carrying along the game, characters begin slowly to switch to other factions, mainly Civic an Merchantilist (which are prone to be the more powerful due to lack of buildings and unused trade routes).
The Religious faction shouldn't be so attractive, for having no lack of funds I use to 'click' the omen button as soon as it appears.