Status of Women and Gender Laws
With Conclave DLC, we are going through an overhaul of the existing and new law system to make sure the system fits Lux Invicta's universe and gets integrated with pre existing features.
I will present here the approach for
status of women and
gender laws we have implemented for the next version.
The overall logic is that in Lux Invicta, some cultures and civilizations are not affected so strong by the dominant patriarchal system of male dominance. Mostly, a realm's religion and its SELIN characteristics determine how much it gives importance to women. This is enabled at game start, so the world starts with a wide diversity of situations - even within one given religious group, to some extent.
In addition, rulers can still influence this topic. A few very permissive religions at game start may be reformed up to fully enatic succession, although it will not be too easy to do so.
1. Status of Women (for Conclave owners)
The effects are similar to Vanilla, but the following parameters determine the "natural level" of a religion.
Doctrinal Status: the idea is that patriarchal dominance remains the dominant logic. The more mainstream a religion is, the least room it gives to women.
-1 for
mainstream religions
+1 for
heretical religions
Civilization: various civilizations are more or less conservative. In general, civilizations corresponding to a nomadic or tribal society tend to give more freedom to women.
-1 for
Christian,
Islamic and
Persian civilizations.
+1 for
Barbarian,
Celtic,
Gnostic,
Graeco-Roman,
Norse,
Saharan,
Shamanic and
Steppe civilizations.
Soul: religious souls with a revolutionary vision tend to blur gender boundaries.
+1 for
populist and
messianic souls
Religious group: some cultures, regardless of the parameters above, are naturally more tolerant.
+2 for the
Amazigh religious group
+1 for the
Arabo-Sabean and
Turkic religious groups
The natural strength of the status of women is equal to the sum of these modifiers. Some examples of each level from 0 to 3 in the Graeco-Roman group (no religion has 4 in this group:
- Hellenism:
0
- Alexandros-Ammon:
1
- Solar-Christian (
heretical doctrine):
2
- Dionysianism:
3
Only a handful of religions reach 4 points: Amanaii, Haruri, Ahrimanic, Euskalist, Ahriman Tanrili and Marianist.
Euskalist and
Haruri religions get at level 4 automatically whatever the modifiers, due to the strong feminist dimension of these religions' doctrines.
- Euskalist is a blend of matriarchal system ruled by witches and the cult of Virgin Mary,
- the real-life founder of Haruriyah, in early Islam, defended the position that capable women could take the position of the imamate. The real life female comamnder
Ghazala al-Haruriyah appears several times in Shaytana's canon timeline, thus validating the feminist swirl of this religion.
Compared to his/her religion's numerical value, the ruler can move the law one position up or down if the ruler meets some conditions. You need to be an ambitious woman to reach one level of status of women higher than your religion's numerical value. So ambitious women of one of the 15 religions with 3 points can actually pass the
status of women 4 law.
2. Gender Succession Laws
Gender laws regarding succession may go up to full enatic (only women can inherit), but they are based on your Status of Women law if you have Conclave. If you don't have Conclave, it uses the numerical value given to your religion by the logic explained above - you loose some flexibility but otherwise follow the same trend.
Based on this value, these are the conditions to meet to pass gender laws:
-
Agnatic: allowed to all except religions with a value of status of women of
4
-
Cognatic-agnatic: status of women
2 or higher
-
True cognatic: status of women
3 or higher, authority 500
-
Enatic-cognatic: status of women
4, authority 1,000
-
Enatic: status of women
4, authority 2,000
