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Bhranthan

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Temple specific noble alignment
« Topic Start: July 07, 2013, 01:13:50 PM »
Title: Temple specific noble alignment

Details: Currently the building or enlarging of temples is required to cover/house a certain amount of nobles and or peasants. Practicing religion is(was) one of the most important aspects of the religious part of ones life.
If the temples are full one is not able to practice there religion, illustrated in the game by the above explained mechanic.
In the game it actually requires some place of worship for peasants to be in the vicinity for followers to exist.
Same goes for Nobles who have to visit temples or priests to join the faith and depending on the space available (temple space so to say), they can become a member.

What i believe is missing is that such a noble is aligned to the temple he joins, so to say that the spot he takes in the temple space is physically aligned to a specific temple.
This means that no longer everyone can come to one temple, become member there while actually vacating a space made available by a whole other temple.
In large religions like SA people will be able to identify them selves snot only as followers of SA and the holy prophet but also as member of a specific church/temple.
From there, allot of intresting options open up, like assigning priests as a sort of  gaurdian of a specific temple/church and technically open the possibility of schisms (declaring the temple that priests manages/guards to split of from the church, giving other temple guardians of other temples the option to join within the time the schism lasts (for example 3 or 4 days) and split of together.
It could also further focus loyalty/hierachy more on a duchal level, where for example the duke and or margrave with the head of the local temple/church form an interesting combination.

Theres plenty of other options that open up from here that do increase local/duchal identity and sense of individual responsibility.


Benefits: decreases diffused responsibility within religions, makes a single person responsible for a temple, opens up many options that where to complicated before. Creates a more physical and regional consciousness and promotes inter religion and inter realm identification and makes a BM religion less of a chat room and more of a religion.
Lays a foundation for other features to expand the religious feature hierarchical wise.

Possible Exploits: It adds a temple alignment to the already possibly complex hierarchy system of a religion, thus making religion to complex.
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