Look at her. She has all the virtues that exist — Patient, Diligent, Kind, Charitable, Temperate, Chaster and Humble, and is a Zealous Scholar. She also believes God talks to her, she sees signs and she speaks in tongues — a minor charism in Christian theology that doesn't even necessarily require a particularly holy or orthodox recipient but still something to make her stand out.
There is more to say about this, but let's look at the pictures first:
(And yes, I know she was still a heretic when I took the screenshot. She rejoined the core church after a conversation with her emperor, Tancred 'the Confessor' Karling.)
Okay, so. She is no vagabond, but a reigning countess of a respected family, nor an con woman known for her intrigue or greed but a temperate person. Nor does she rub it in your face — she's humble. She probably lives a more resplendently virtuous life than everybody else on the map, including a good deal of people who are already respected for being exceptionally virtuous, but they just don't have her full True Christian Knight collection. Right? And, finally, the visible Gossolalia sort of makes her look like she's being confirmed, ratified by heaven to some extent.
So, I would really like to see her situation readdressed.
For starters:
The devilish trident icon is inappropriate.
Putting her in the same broader category with the 'proper' possessed people is not necessarily the best choice (although it would always still be possible that she's deluding herself, even despite the virtuous life and other things that speak in her favour). But the trident is more of a problem.
Obviously, I'm not saying the game itself should make theological judgements for the religions represented on the map, but the in-game clerics with their AI-controlled behaviour could rethink their -30 opinion malus about her.
Historically, some highly spectacular and much respected saints did get along with the Church administration during their lifetimes, for example St. Catherine of Siena or St. Hildegard of Bingen. This could, for example, require the Pope to have high honour and low greed (AI variables), maybe involve some cardinals and the liege speaking on her behalf (or against her, as the case may be).
She could obviously live and die in relative obscurity, but she could also become a counterpart of those True Christian Knights who lend Moral Authority to Catholicism, and perhaps piety to liege, and if she says Lower Crown Authority, then it is Lower Crown Authority (just an example of the sway such a person's word could have).
There is more to say about this, but let's look at the pictures first:
(And yes, I know she was still a heretic when I took the screenshot. She rejoined the core church after a conversation with her emperor, Tancred 'the Confessor' Karling.)
Okay, so. She is no vagabond, but a reigning countess of a respected family, nor an con woman known for her intrigue or greed but a temperate person. Nor does she rub it in your face — she's humble. She probably lives a more resplendently virtuous life than everybody else on the map, including a good deal of people who are already respected for being exceptionally virtuous, but they just don't have her full True Christian Knight collection. Right? And, finally, the visible Gossolalia sort of makes her look like she's being confirmed, ratified by heaven to some extent.
So, I would really like to see her situation readdressed.
For starters:
The devilish trident icon is inappropriate.
Putting her in the same broader category with the 'proper' possessed people is not necessarily the best choice (although it would always still be possible that she's deluding herself, even despite the virtuous life and other things that speak in her favour). But the trident is more of a problem.
Obviously, I'm not saying the game itself should make theological judgements for the religions represented on the map, but the in-game clerics with their AI-controlled behaviour could rethink their -30 opinion malus about her.
Historically, some highly spectacular and much respected saints did get along with the Church administration during their lifetimes, for example St. Catherine of Siena or St. Hildegard of Bingen. This could, for example, require the Pope to have high honour and low greed (AI variables), maybe involve some cardinals and the liege speaking on her behalf (or against her, as the case may be).
She could obviously live and die in relative obscurity, but she could also become a counterpart of those True Christian Knights who lend Moral Authority to Catholicism, and perhaps piety to liege, and if she says Lower Crown Authority, then it is Lower Crown Authority (just an example of the sway such a person's word could have).
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