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Tinto Flavour #14 - 17th of April 2025 - The Papal States

Hello, and welcome to another session of our Tinto Flavour. This week we are continuing with the Christian Easter feel by taking a look at the Papal States.

Since its creation by the hand of Saint Peter himself, the Catholic Church has been guiding all of humanity to salvation through the ages, thanks to the leadership of the bishop of Rome, the Pope.

Starting with the Donation of Pepin, the blessed Papal States were created to both govern and help the faithful. However, the last decades have been a constant struggle as the death of Pope Bonifatius VIII Gaetani Aquila forced the relocation of the court to the exclave of Avignon, as the Papacy fell under the influence of King Philippe IV the Fair Capet, and its holdings in Italy were dominated by quarreling noble families.

What will the vicar of Christ do? Will he fully become a puppet of the Kingdom of France and allow the temporal rule over the spiritual? Or will he break free and rise to the position at the top of Creation that God himself intended for its Church?

Let’s look at the country directly:
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As usual, consider all art as WIP.

And here are the lands they have, taking into account that their capital is in Avignon, not in Rome.
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They start with a special government reform, unique to the Papacy:
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And they also have some special privileges, representing their division between their French and Italian holdings:
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And also a unique policy:
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They also have a work of art:
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And here are some of their unique advances:
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One particular characteristic of the Papacy is that their succession is not like the rest of the countries. As such, they have a special succession law:
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That makes it so that when a Pope dies, the country enters into a Papal Conclave Regency, and eventually it will be resolved with an event firing, where the player will be able to choose between some of the cardinals available.
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Here are some more events available to the Papacy:
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Giving access to this special building:
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And events for some special individuals:
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Galileo.png

Borgia.png

I’m sure this last one will have no repercussions whatsoever…

There’s also some events about some famous "refurbishings":
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Saint Peter Monument.png


… and much more, but that is all we will show for today. Next week we will go to the military branch of Christianity by taking a look at the Military Orders of the Teutonic & Livonian Orders and Knights Hospitallers. See you there.
 
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I hope you can go all in on Borgia and make the Pope an hereditary seat or something crazy, but maybe that's just me
If that happens would there be some way to form Roman Empire maybe? or even a way to change the religion of Papal states?

I mean I know that's far fetched and "not supposed to be" but we know few of us lunatics will try Alcheringa Papal States with exploits at some point :) why not leave a very tiny space to go crazy with PS?
 
Читаю ці всі щоденники і вже хочу "пожмякать"(в хорошому сенсі) цю гру дуже сильно))))
I'm reading all these diaries and I already want to "squeeze" (in a good way) this game very much)))))
 
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We have reached the information that the mysterious Swedish international organization "Paradox Tinto" has prepared a super secret "Project Caesar". The leak appeared on Thursday, April 17 and revealed plans for drastic changes in the Papacy. At that time, no one took this information seriously. Now everyone fears further leaks. Intelligence services are watching it.
Some sources claim this is the beginning of a conspiracy called EU5. Brussels is also watching closely.
 
Galileo Galilei wasn't imprisoned because his ideas could reach the public,many clergymen including initially the Pope supported his research,he ended up being imprisoned because he insulted the Pope in his books portraying him as an idiot
The Pope got offended and used heresy as an excuse,his ideas were never hated or considered problematic by the majority of the holy see
Yeah, sad that this myth is so prevalent. Even more, his "oh-so gruesome punishment", was living in an Italian villa where he could literally continue his reasearch. Cardinal St. Robert Bellarmine told him that the content of his publications was not outright problematic in an of itself.

And finally, Galileo stood largely in opposition to the current Scientific (!) consensus, with findings he could not adequately prove.

I forgot some details from when i researched more about this, but i definetly know that i hoped there'd be less anti-Catholic pop-science in a Pdx game.