it takes a long, long time to win a defensive war against a crusade
but
for 3000 prestige, it's worth it
how am I going to amass the massive amounts of faith necessary to reform the Norse faith?
*remembers all those catholic randoes that got sacrificed during the aforementioned crusade*
*looks at the piety meter for the first time in many moons*
huh
that'd do it
tfw you die with 7272 points of the 7250 required to reform the faith
yeah
it's kinda my bad
*reloads*
I like the idea of an Ancient Sage King uttering, with his dying breaths, the new tenets of a religion that will shape the lives of millions for centuries to come
zomg
if you combine being tribal with the Pursuit of Power religious tenet, creating titles becomes 100% free
tribals OP
let's commune with the mystic divine spirits
*does*
*gets ill*
*gets pneumonia*
*gets radically mistreated by the court physician*
*dies*
...reload
another crusade
I now have 35 prisoners
...suddenly, I realize the power of human sacrifice, and that replacing it with esoteric wisdom might not have been the most prudent of choices
tfw your character dies a month before being able to create an empire title, thus losing three quarters of said empire due to inheritance shenanigans