For those of you being held hostage in this forum, another request! (I warn you- you might think this to be nitpicking.)
Is it possible for Reformed and Protestant nations to have a missionary sprite that isn't a Franciscan friar? (There were precious few Franciscan Anglican priests sent out from England, or Franciscan Lutheran pastors sent out from Denmark!) Is the sprite something that could change, or is it preset for the nation in question? (I've never converted a nation from Catholicism to Orthodoxy--or vice versa--, for example, but I do recall that my Catholic Kongo had the Franciscan sprite for its missionaries.)
If it can change depending on the religion of the nation getting the missionaries, then to create a Protestant/Reformed sprite shouldn't be too hard (and there's no need for two sprites--Lutheran/Anglican/Reformed/Presbyterian priests and pastors all wore black cassocks, gowns, and preaching bands in the periods that EU encompasses). It might be possible to amend the Orthodox missionary sprite by removing the hat, and adding two little bands of white falling down the front of the (black) cassock from the neck (to represent the preaching, or "Geneva" bands). I don't recall whether the Orthodox sprite is carrying an Orthodox cross or not. If so, it would also need amendment to either no cross at all (protestants and calvinists weren't big on carrying crosses around), or to the Latin cross that the Franciscan (Catholic) sprite waves about.
Thanks.
Is it possible for Reformed and Protestant nations to have a missionary sprite that isn't a Franciscan friar? (There were precious few Franciscan Anglican priests sent out from England, or Franciscan Lutheran pastors sent out from Denmark!) Is the sprite something that could change, or is it preset for the nation in question? (I've never converted a nation from Catholicism to Orthodoxy--or vice versa--, for example, but I do recall that my Catholic Kongo had the Franciscan sprite for its missionaries.)
If it can change depending on the religion of the nation getting the missionaries, then to create a Protestant/Reformed sprite shouldn't be too hard (and there's no need for two sprites--Lutheran/Anglican/Reformed/Presbyterian priests and pastors all wore black cassocks, gowns, and preaching bands in the periods that EU encompasses). It might be possible to amend the Orthodox missionary sprite by removing the hat, and adding two little bands of white falling down the front of the (black) cassock from the neck (to represent the preaching, or "Geneva" bands). I don't recall whether the Orthodox sprite is carrying an Orthodox cross or not. If so, it would also need amendment to either no cross at all (protestants and calvinists weren't big on carrying crosses around), or to the Latin cross that the Franciscan (Catholic) sprite waves about.
Thanks.
