How do I get MY OWN religion involved in the Iberian struggle?

[CAELISTIX]

Excuse me the game clearly says that the religions involved in the iberian struggle have to be present at the origin OR were born during the struggle

What I understood from this is that I converted to classic catholicism and then just created my own christian confession. But somehow I am not really a participant but a contender because of my religion. Why didn't it work? I used a original struggle religion and created my own during the struggle just as the game said.

Or does this only apply to heresy? Because I can see that some jewish faiths have become involved in the struggle but my own religion still is not.

 

[Silens]

Being born in the struggle region means that, at the time of its creation, the new faith/culture starts with at lest 80% of its territory there. I tested it myself in both cases and made it work. Though I have to say that I never managed to properly test the 80% threshold. I know that 75% is too few, at 100% it works.

For religions/faiths the problem usually comes down to having territory outside of the struggle region. Each direct vassal who converts with you has a chance to insta-convert their capital county to the new faith. If some of those counties lie outside of the struggle region, and you fall below the alleged threshold of 80%, you end up with an uninvolved faith.

 

[CAELISTIX]

Ahh understandable. Not that it makes a lot of sense but at least I understand what the problem was.

I ended up converting back to catholicism again made the "end iberian struggle" decision"and immediately converted back to my own faith through my wife after.

 

[Silens]

Glad it worked out in the end.

For future reference, I think I should mention that it doesn't matter what culture or faith you're coming from when creating a new involved faith/culture. You can do anything, it just has to hold all its new territory in the struggle region upon creation. Your original faith/culture or target culture for hybrids can by anything uninvolved, i.e. reformed Buddhism or a Russo-Indian hybrid or anything else.

The important part is that when creating it, it has to have 100% (or 80%, maybe) of its territory in Iberia when you do it. That is the only condition for it to become involved.