No, not just heretic, we should have lot's of different heretic sects which can war against and attack eachother. When you have a band of heretics that have become ruled by heretics for long enough, all the heretics should become the new sect, here's some ideas.
Each religious sect has certain rules. Each sect has it religious enemy, which is diplomaticly treated as another religion should they come into contact. Rules regarding bishops and marriage are placed down aswell. The Heretic trait passes on to children, though they may be "corrected" over time.
Dualist- believe that the material world is aligned with evil and the spirit with good, they seek to escape the material world and become spirit biengs.
Requirements- Religious tech Aestheticism.
Double piety effect for indulgant/temperate
20 piety lost for every child concieved.
Zealous dualists have a chance of starving themselves to death.
Married bishops- No
Women bishops- Yes
Religious enemies- Panthiest.
Adust provincial power as follows,
Peasants- 40%
Burghers- 15%
Clergy- 30%
Nobility- 15%
Panthiest- believe that God is not merely the creator of, but *is* the universe in it's entirety.
Requirements- Thought tech- Aristotlean logics.
Indulgant/temperate has no effect on piety.
20 piety gained for every child concieved.
Normal diplomatic and other relations with Pagans, ie titles required for wars.
Religious enemies- Dualists
Married bishops- Yes
Women bishops- Yes
Trinitarian heresies.
Arians- believe that Jesus was fully human and not divine, but was still the messiah and vested with divine power and authority.
Requirements- None
Religious enemies- Catholic, Orthadox, Monophysites, Pelagians, Pre-destinists,
Married bishops- No
Women bishops- No
Piety effects of proud/humble halved.
Monophysites- believe that Jesus was not really human but god in human form.
Requirements- None
Relgious enemies- Nestorians, Arians
Married bishops- No
Women bishops- No
Piety effects of proud/humble doubled.
Nestorians- believe that Jesus was in effect two people, one human and one divine but in perfect cooperation.
Requirements- None
Relgious enemies- Monophysites.
Married bishops- No
Women bishops- No
Heresies regarding free will and the nature of salvation.
Pelagians- do not believe in the doctrine of orgininal sin and also believe mankind is capable of reaching perfection by their own efforts, though Pelagians differ among themselves as to the exact method by which this could be achieved or to the exact role of God in this.
Requirements- None
All traits other than zealous/sceptical have triple effect on piety, Zealous/ sceptical has half effect on piety.
Effects of church donations on piety doubled.
Adjust province power as follows
Peasant power- 40%
Burgher power- 20%
Clergy power- 20%
Noble power- 20%
Married bishops- No
Women bishops- Yes
Pre-destininists- believe that God has already pre-destined some to heaven and some to hell and their is nothing humans can actually do about it.
All traits other than zealous/sceptical effect on piety halved, Zealous/sceptical have triple effect on piety.
Effects of church donations on piety halved.
Adjust province power as follows
Peasant power- 15%
Burgher power- 25%
Clergy powr- 20%
Noble power- 40%
Married bishops- Yes
Women bishops- No
Other heretic sects
Iconoclasts- Greek for "Icon smasher" these individual do not believe that Jesus Christ, the Father or the saints should be depicted as icons and generally do not tolerate any more than the most purely symbolic depictions.
Cost of Church buildings halved.
Cost of Church donations halved.
Adjust provincial power as follows.
Peasants- 30%
Burghers- 20%
Clergy- 20%
Nobles- 30%
Religious enemies- Panthiests, Orthadox, Catholic
