Hello all, and welcome to another Dev Diary. Like the previous one, we’re still focusing on Cannor, but more specifically, we’ll look at the religion that is going to take over much of the continent during the Age of Witch Kings and Artificers.

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The God Fragment By Biegeltoren

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During the 1560-1570 - whenever the Crimson Deluge is happening - the Ravelian Society will make its first appearance, asking to set up a chapter in one of your provinces, favouring primarily high-development ones.

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If you accept, eventually you may be asked if you want to upgrade the chapter into a lodge. Unlike chapters, there can be only one lodge per region.

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Key to the Ravelian religion is the God Fragment, hidden somewhere in the Noruin region of Aelantir. If you are a colonizer with land there and you possess the El Dorado DLC, you may have the chance to search for it through a questline.

If you do have the God Fragment, the Ravelian Society will be very curious to study it…

If you accept their request, they will take the God Fragment away to study it. If you decline, they will steal it anyway. If neither you nor the other colonizers find it, the Ravelian Society will discover the God Fragment on their own. (Can’t be a true DnD session without some railroading I suppose)

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Soon afterwards you will see the Ravelian religion being founded, along with the Ravelian State - Anbennar's equivalent of the Papacy!

Ravelian can spawn anywhere there is a Ravelian Society presence, claiming land and forming the Ravelian State. Unlike in vanilla, this Papacy's location is dynamic so it'll be very interesting how this influences the politics of the region.

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The Ravelian State won’t be lonely. After the religion is founded, Ravelianism will spread to any and all provinces that had a Society presence.

Our Cardinal equivalent is the "Veridical", who are tasked with deciphering and monitoring the God Fragment.

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The Ravelian State has access to pretty good ideas…

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...As well as new, custom-tailored Golden Bulls.

Unlike vanilla, each Bulls comes with bonuses but a tradeoff as well.

We have also done our own equivalent of the Council of Trent (with versions for owners of the Emperor DLC and not): the Ravelian Debates.

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Unlike vanilla Catholicism you want to INCREASE Reform Desire, which in Anbennar is called Unraveling Knowledge. Together with the rest of the Ravelian faith you can uncover the truth of the world and strengthen the faith as a whole, even if sometimes the quest for the truth can be detrimental to your country and its resources.

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The Ravelian Church is divided into Zealots and Erudites, which in reality isn’t as clear as you’d expect. One side isn’t all anti-heretics like with vanilla’s Harsh vs Conciliatory.

The Zealots want to spread the faith far and wide, and while they can be zealous and intolerant, care greatly for the common masses.

The Erudites on the other hand are focused more on unraveling the secrets of the world, but in their search for the truth may become elitist and care only for themselves.

To close off, let’s look at some flavour events for those who have either Ravelian state religion or Ravelian societies in their country:

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Those scholars like making their presence felt.

There are also events tied to each specific Ravelian Debate, that will only fire while said debate is ongoing. Here are three events about the first debate (Heaven, Hell & Salvation):

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While the first options are more costly for your country, they will help increase Unraveling Knowledge for all faithful, thus speeding up the start of the next debate. So, do you take one for the team, or not?

And this is it for now. Thank you all for your time. And, nope, Cannor overview isn't yet over.