It has been argued that hierocratic + ancestor veneration is better than temporal + ancestor veneration, because you can't become venerated yourself with temporal. While the latter is true, if you are alive, there's a workaround: shortly before your death, grant the religious title to your heir, and there's about 46% chance that you'll become venerated after your death, if your prestige is 20 000. (More details here).
However, it's not that important to get venerated yourself. It's just as beneficial to have a venerated ancestor of your dynasty, and even outside of it, if you get that bloodline into your dynasty through matrilineal marriages.
If you have been expanding and granting land and titles to your dynasty members, in a few generations there is going to be someone who is prestigious enough to get venerated.
It's quite ridiculous who is getting chosen as a candidate, because even kinslayers, lustful, craven (and I think even cannibals) become blessed.
Anyway, with my fifth ruler since the reformation, this is how many venerated ancestors I already have.
Two of them have no living descendants, because they didn't had any children at the moment of their death. One of them is from a converted kingdom outside my realm. One of them is from a dynasty that is related to mine. The rest are of my dynasty. One of the venerated ancestors even already had a venerated ancestor bloodline on him before he became venerated himself. So all his descendants are double-blessed.
Anyway, whenever you make someone a venerated ancestor, you get "Very Grateful" (+30?) opinion modifier with all members of that character's dynasty. As you can imagine, that is very useful, if that dynasty is yours and your dynasty is holding most or all of the titles. Quite often, I got even 2 or 3 venerated ancestors per ruler (all my rulers have lived beyond 60 years, some even beyond 70). That means +60 or even +90 opinion from your vassals, which has been extremely useful not only to me, but to my heirs as well.
Currently, I have a potential heir, who already has 3 blessed bloodlines on him in addition to the historic, forged and warrior lodge bloodlines. His PC was 54 already when he was a baby.
However, it's not that important to get venerated yourself. It's just as beneficial to have a venerated ancestor of your dynasty, and even outside of it, if you get that bloodline into your dynasty through matrilineal marriages.
If you have been expanding and granting land and titles to your dynasty members, in a few generations there is going to be someone who is prestigious enough to get venerated.
It's quite ridiculous who is getting chosen as a candidate, because even kinslayers, lustful, craven (and I think even cannibals) become blessed.
Anyway, with my fifth ruler since the reformation, this is how many venerated ancestors I already have.
Two of them have no living descendants, because they didn't had any children at the moment of their death. One of them is from a converted kingdom outside my realm. One of them is from a dynasty that is related to mine. The rest are of my dynasty. One of the venerated ancestors even already had a venerated ancestor bloodline on him before he became venerated himself. So all his descendants are double-blessed.
Anyway, whenever you make someone a venerated ancestor, you get "Very Grateful" (+30?) opinion modifier with all members of that character's dynasty. As you can imagine, that is very useful, if that dynasty is yours and your dynasty is holding most or all of the titles. Quite often, I got even 2 or 3 venerated ancestors per ruler (all my rulers have lived beyond 60 years, some even beyond 70). That means +60 or even +90 opinion from your vassals, which has been extremely useful not only to me, but to my heirs as well.
Currently, I have a potential heir, who already has 3 blessed bloodlines on him in addition to the historic, forged and warrior lodge bloodlines. His PC was 54 already when he was a baby.
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