Title:
non religious lords penalty
Summary:
Basically i believe the game should punish lords without a religion like a lord of an evil faith for the local peasants.
For the commoners(perhaps who are not pagans them selves) a lord without any religion(pagan) should be seen like a lord of an evil faith.
Commoners would gossip about such lord worshiping daimons or allowing daimon worhsip in his region or beeing a daimon him self or what not.
Its weird and almost unthinkable to be pagan in the medieval world as a commoner let alone a noblemen and it will definatly lead to strange ideas among commoners.
Details:
the effect would be the same as a lord following a religion that is declared evil by his or her faith.
A special message could be given in region reports like gossip spreads about the local pagan Lord's odd belief and the people become scared and angry.
Benefits:
Pagan lords are punished and more likely will seek a church to join, dukes and kings are more reluctant in appointing pagans to positions as it will hurt the realm considerably.
Making religion more important in the game.
Possible Exploits:
If a church would suddenly seize to exist, its followers all get region penalties hurting a large area at once.
Players might also have there characters join a religion just for the in game benefits and don't care at all about the churches roleplay value if it has any at all.
