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 your character dies a month before being able to create an empire title, thus losing three quarters of said empire due to inheritance shenanigans
tfw you die with 7272 points of the 7250 required to reform the faith
yeah
it's kinda my bad
*reloads*
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
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