Converting to ancient religions

[Jagdstahl]

Before I ask, yes I know there is a historical-purity circle jerk on these forums, but this is a game and the player should have the power to do as they may with the tools and content available. Most similar threads tend to have responses such as "go play EU: Rome", or "thats so unrealistic and stupid."

That said, the ancient reigions do exist in the game, so why noy be able to utilize them in some way? I was wondering if it is possible to convert to them without using cheats or the ruler designer.

 

[Zhetone]

No, there isn't a way to do that.

 

[Battle bunny]

CK2+ allows you to convert to certain ancient religions depending on your culture (e.g. Polish -> Slavic, German -> Germanic [which is distinct from Nordic in the mod], Berber -> Tamazight - the latter of which doesn't even exist in vanilla, as far as I know). This is done through one of the religious focuses, I believe. Many of the ancient pagan religions are fleshed out a bit (as well as a lot of heresies, thanks to the Heretic Pride mod incorporated into CK2+) and there are several new ones (e.g. Canaanite), plus even an option to convert all realms back to their ancient equivalents so that e.g. France and the HRE start Germanic, Scandinavia Nordic, Polish Slavic even in a 1066 start. If Catholicism is too mainstream and you want to experiment with less popular religions, try CK2+.

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[Surimi]

CK2+ definately has the best implementation of this, and works it into the existing game systems in an interesting way.

However, the ancient religions (basically hellenic and generic pagan) exist purely as historical placeholders in the base game. They are not meant to be played, have incomplete or potentially buggy mechanics and aren't supported. Hence, I don't even think the ruler designer allows them any more. You basically have to use console commands.

 

[Bernard95]

There's also the Ancient Religions mod, which was incorporated into CK2+. Could be useful if you just want those religions, though I have no idea if it's been kept to up to date.

 

[Rationalsanity]

Mods give you the chance to do this, and actually give the religions in question some content.

 

[Daniel Gebert]

Can somebody please link to the CK2+ mod, i use to have it but now i can't find it anywhere on steam or the internet, can anyone help me?

 

[Heinrich4]

Can somebody please link to the CK2+ mod, i use to have it but now i can't find it anywhere on steam or the internet, can anyone help me?

Register your game, and you will be able to see the User Modification-subforum.

 

[Castorem]

You know the community is hypocritical, if they at all costs fight the option of ancient pagan religions being resurrected with the argument of historical accuracy but wholly support the woooo MEDIEVAL ZOMBIES thing that's going around.

 

[Dragatus]

It might not be the same people.

 

[CannotresistDLC]

You know the community is hypocritical, if they at all costs fight the option of ancient pagan religions being resurrected with the argument of historical accuracy but wholly support the woooo MEDIEVAL ZOMBIES thing that's going around.

Or they could be clever enough to notice that the medieval zombies aren't real?

Not that I mind more religious diversity or flavor...

 

[Thure]

You know the community is hypocritical, if they at all costs fight the option of ancient pagan religions being resurrected with the argument of historical accuracy but wholly support the woooo MEDIEVAL ZOMBIES thing that's going around.

Read the DD better. There are no zombies. There are just rumours about dead bodies rising again. Nothing more. There are no zombies in the new expansion/patch/DLC.