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WIP game rule to make certain early cultures use a more primitive government than tribal

ATP-Kraken and others added 6 commits January 17, 2026 18:10
Appears to be nonfunctional without Khans
Cultures with specific tech history don't get Formalized Rituals
- Updated game to 1.18.2 Vanilla Standard, absent the Eastern map additions

Localization:
- Relabeled "Kulturbund" as "Heritage Continuum"

Tweaks:
- Mystical Birthright Tenet is available to all Steppe Religions
- Sacred Destruction increases lifetime subjugation limit by one

Bugs:
- Fixed a bug where landless adventurers with a specific mission got the generic event
- Fixed a bug with permanent tributaries not transferring correctly in some wars
- Fixed an issue with religion conversion selection.
- Fixed a bug with Adoricism Tenet's show conditions
- Hedonism, Ritual Celebrations Tenets includes Festival Piety parameter
- Sun Worship is made available Hindu Faiths with the "Saurism" doctrine

Co-Authored-By: ATP-Kraken <[email protected]>
2026-MM-DD v0.1.8.3
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- Updated game to 1.18.2 Vanilla Standard, absent the Eastern map additions

Activities:
- Added dynamic backgrounds for "Animal Sacrifice" activities

Traditions:
- "Tamil Thai" tradition unlocks Runestones, mimicking the Tamil's culture features in CK2 WtWSMS

Culture:
- Languages:
   - Added Avestan language as part of the Iranic branch of Indo-European

Religion:
- Various Pagan Faiths unlock "Raise Runestones" Decision:
   - Norse Paganism, Scythian Paganism
- Tenets:
   - "Gnosticism" Tenet and "Gnosis" Christian Doctrine unlock "Reincarnation" Tenet if selected during faith creation
   - "Megalithic Constructions" Tenet unlocks Runestone Raising decision
- Liturgical Languages:
   - Added Liturgical Languages for some Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist Faiths
   - This influences the languages priests are required to know
   - Different Christian Rites unlock different liturgical languages
      - Latin, Greek, Abyssinian, Coptic, and Aramaic, depending on the Rite chosen
   - Hindu and Jain faiths have Sanskirt as a Liturgical Language
   - Chinese, Magadhi Prakrit for Buddhists, depending on Buddhist Canon
   - Avestan for Zoroastrians
- Doctrines:
   - "Right to Rule" doctrines moved to Ritual Doctrines category
   - Added "Inscribed Monuments" Doctrine allowing for "Raise Runestone" decision
- Christian Doctrines:
   - Added type hints to explain what Christian Doctrine selections play into which other doctrines
   - Added "Ge'ez Rite" to model Ethiopia's unique liturgical situation
   - Local Rite adds 5 opinion to county opinion
   - No Rite adds 5% piety per month
- Buddhist Canons:
   - Added "No Canon" Doctrine for Maitreya Buddhism
- Right to Rule Doctrines:
   - Rajadharma is available to the Dharmic Religion, Faiths with Eastern Syncretism, and Faiths with Eastern Pagan Doctrine, or a faith that already has the doctrine
   - Khvarenah is available to the Mazdan Religion, Faiths with Zoroastrian Syncretism, "Ancient Iranian Pantheon" Doctrine, or a faith that already has the doctrine
- Various Faith modifications:
   - Celtic Paganism:
      - Uses "Cranial Trophies" Tenet if "All Under Heaven" DLC is available, otherwise uses "Human Sacrifice" Tenet
      - Has "Inscribed Monuments" Doctrine
   - Added appropriate Buddhist canons to new Buddhist faiths
   - Added Ge'ez Rite to Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Antinomianism Doctrine to Antinomianism
   - Hellenic Mystery Religions use "Spiritual, Revokable" Clerical Doctrine
   - Cybellianism uses "Equal" doctrine
   - Vaishnavism replaces "Monasticism" with "Preservation" Tenet
   - Adivasi faiths have "Inscribed Monuments" doctrine
   - Illyrian Paganism uses "Mandatory Pilgrimage" doctrine, in line with the descriptions emphasis on holy places
   - Mingism has "Supersessionism" Dualist Doctrine

Traits:
- Erudite, Imposing, Perceptive, Absentminded, Tall, Agile, Wrymouth, Harelip, Deaf, Ambidextrous, Left-handed, Melodious Voice, Powerful Voice, Calm Voice are all physical traits
- Tall, Harelip, Wrymouth, Deaf, Ambidextrous, Left-Handed are congenital traits
- Tall, Harelip, Wrymouth, and Enarei have portrait effects

Events:
- Event backgrounds and animations have been overhauled

History:
- Hunnic Slav vassals are now tributaries
- Mandala government implemented for the Pyu statelets
- Touched up history of Dafydd of Elmet, Saint Patrick
- Historic commanders touched up
- General character history improvements

GUI:
- Created a new "Structural" Doctrine group in the Faith views, putting certain doctrines that relate the nature of the faith to others as well as temporal power

GFX:
- Fixed up some COAs
- Lots of new decision graphics added and overhauled
- Overhauled religious clothing extensively
- Changed various other graphics

Localization:
- Title holder flavorization greatly overhauled
- Relabeled "Kulturbund" as "Heritage Continuum"
- Updated localizations for Christian Court Chaplains to be correct
- Added appropriate localizations for Stele depending on cultural language groups & heritages
- Various other minor localization improvements

Tweaks:
- Ensured priests traits are applied appropriately
- Mystical Birthright Tenet is available to all Steppe Religions
- "Sun Worship" Tenet is made available Hindu Faiths with the "Saurism" doctrine
- Sacred Destruction increases lifetime subjugation limit by one
- "Create Kingdom of Israel" decision adds "Divine Right" Right to Rule doctrine to the faith of the former

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed being able to adopt Mandala government before entering the Late Antiquity Era
- Fixed the Tuyuhun flipping to tribal day 1
- Fixed a failed cooldown removal for certain personal deity seelctions
- Fixed various tradition bugs relating to poetry lifestyle
- Fixed a bug where landless adventurers with a specific mission got the generic event
- Fixed a bug with permanent tributaries not transferring correctly in some wars
- Fixed an issue with religion conversion selection.
- Fixed a bug with Adoricism Tenet's show conditions
- Hedonism, Ritual Celebrations Tenets includes Festival Piety parameter
Religion:
- Added Nastika Religion:
   - Added Nastika as a separate Dharmic religion, representing an offshoot of Sramanic traditions like Jainism and Buddhism
      - This subsumes the Ajivika and Ajnana philosophical schools, giving them more precise tenet effects
      - General Features:
         - Virtues:  Temperate, Cynical, Content
         - Sins: Arrogant, Arbitrary, Vengeful
         - Male Dominated, Pluralist, Lay Clergy, Polytheist, Agnostic, Teachings of the Sramanas, Multireligious Interweaving
      - Faiths: Ajivika, Lokayata, Ajnana
- Tenets:
   - Monasticism, Aniconism are unavailable to Nastika faiths
   - Gave "Alexandrian Catechism" a new localization for Hellenism and made available to Hellenics with "Humanistic Philosophy" Doctrines
   - Theism Doctrine:
      - Added "Monist" as a Theism doctrine for certain faiths with an explicit Monist or Pantheist outlook
         - Treats other religious families and same family as astray and bans holy wars
      - Added "Agnostic" as a Theism doctrine for Nastika faiths
         - Treats other faiths as astray and forbids holy wars
      - Both these doctrines require a Pluralist Religious Attitude Doctrine
Faith Tweaks:
   - Stoicism replaces "Cosmopolitanism" Tenet with "Ritual Suicide" Tenet, "Literalism" Tenet replaced with "Harmonious Society" Tenet with "All Under Heaven" DLC, otherwise "Philosophical School" Tenet, uses "Monism" doctrine
   - Pythagoreanism replaces "Literalism" Tenet replaced with "Philosophical School" Tenet, uses "Monism" doctrine
   - Platonism replaces "Literalism" Tenet replaced with "Philosophical School" Tenet, replaces "Cosmopolitanism" with "Patron Gods", uses "Monism" doctrine
   - Shaivism replaces "Esotericism" Tenet with "Sacred Destruction" Tenet

Localization:
- Added special flavorization for "Harmonious Society" for Hellenic Philosophies
- Added special flavorization for "Sacred Lies" Tenet for Nastika faiths

Bug Fixes:
- No longer able to change your Theism Doctrine when creating a Rite so that it differs from your head of faith. No more Dyophysite Trinitarian Polytheist Rites, thank you very much.
@LT-Rascek LT-Rascek changed the base branch from master to 0.2.0-Candidate January 22, 2026 04:15
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