Noticed something strange...

[Yani]

So I was messing around with the observe command in the 1066 start date when I noticed two characters with secret traits I've never seen before.

Apparently there is a trait that expresses a secret religion, which is really interesting because no other characters in the game have this. I would guess that it's some sort of scrapped alpha for secret religions, but what makes this even more bizarre is that these characters were added in Jade Dragon, long after secret religions were introduced...

 

[Silversweeeper]

That looks like a leftover from the first version of the Secret Religion system that we had before the first post-MNM patch. I suggest you bug report it.

 

[majdavlk]

are there any mechanics tied to it?

 

[HandicapdHippo]

I would guess that it's some sort of scrapped alpha for secret religions, but what makes this even more bizarre is that these characters were added in Jade Dragon, long after secret religions were introduced...

Thats how it was when secret religions where introduced, it was bodged in with traits for the first few patches before they properly made stored in a hardcoded property like the characters actual religion.

If I had to guess its likely a history scripted added these internally as part of the initial work for Jade Dragon while the other devs where still redoing the secret religion system for one of the post Monks and Mystics patches and they fell through the cracks.