I have a question about religious authority - if one was to actively seek to undermine it (I'm playing as a Catholic King of Ireland), how would you go about it?
Here's the situation: I was very focused on unifying the island and, when I peeked my head up and looked around at the rest of the map, I realised that all of southern Italy (from Latium southwards) was Islamic. Needless to say the HRE quickly stepped in to doomstack the muslim invaders back across the sea and claimed Rome for themselves - as a result Latium is under Imperial occupation and the Pope has no real wordly power. I generally stay away from playing as Irish characters because, rightly or wrongly, I always get the feeling that once you have the Kingdom of Ireland things tend to slow right down, and there's nowhere you can readily expand to that feels organic or natural. Instead of expanding my own power, so, I want to dedicate my kingdom to setting up an Anti-Papacy and undermining the true Papacy as much as possible. Aside from setting up an Anti-Pope, how can a player actively seek to reduce a religion's moral authority?
What I'd like to try and achieve is the total destruction of the Catholic faith as it gives way to heresies and the Irish Anti-Papacy. (Then, maybe, swear fealty to the Emperor of the East and become Orthodox. This game might actually get very interesting :L hahaha)
Here's the situation: I was very focused on unifying the island and, when I peeked my head up and looked around at the rest of the map, I realised that all of southern Italy (from Latium southwards) was Islamic. Needless to say the HRE quickly stepped in to doomstack the muslim invaders back across the sea and claimed Rome for themselves - as a result Latium is under Imperial occupation and the Pope has no real wordly power. I generally stay away from playing as Irish characters because, rightly or wrongly, I always get the feeling that once you have the Kingdom of Ireland things tend to slow right down, and there's nowhere you can readily expand to that feels organic or natural. Instead of expanding my own power, so, I want to dedicate my kingdom to setting up an Anti-Papacy and undermining the true Papacy as much as possible. Aside from setting up an Anti-Pope, how can a player actively seek to reduce a religion's moral authority?
What I'd like to try and achieve is the total destruction of the Catholic faith as it gives way to heresies and the Irish Anti-Papacy. (Then, maybe, swear fealty to the Emperor of the East and become Orthodox. This game might actually get very interesting :L hahaha)
