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CK2 Dev Diary #29: Illumination

By the grace of God, I am finally back and able to pen another development diary, though my hands are still unsteady from the shocking things I saw while in hiding. I think it best to simply recount my harrowing experiences of the last few weeks. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there is much to be learned from my travails.

For many months, I had felt that something strange was going on at the office. In hindsight, the signs were all there; colleagues naming their daughters “Sophia”, hushed talk of “secret knowledge” and Dan “podcat” Lind suddenly breaking off his presentation of the next Hearts of Iron IV expansion in order to explain how the Creator is just an “evil emanation of the original Monad”. But it wasn’t until Björn “Metal King” Iversen took me aside to listen to the subliminal messages in various Judas Priest tracks that I finally realized the truth: the company had been infiltrated by Sethian Gnostics! I recognized some of the messages from the Second Treatise of the Great Seth and the Gospel of Judas...

I suddenly did not want to help Björn record any more death sounds. Who knows how many souls he has helped “liberate” from this earthly prison in his infernal studio? He eyed me with suspicion when I assured him that I had already achieved Gnosis. Beating a hasty retreat, I was forced to skulk in various unused meeting rooms for a full week until I could finally make my escape. While in hiding, I witnessed many disturbing sights; people wearing inverted pentagrams and muttering to themselves, a secret follower of Mahomet performing an odd prayer ritual, various outlandish and no doubt fraternal handshakes, and worst of all; a vile heathen festival in the lunchroom involving spiderwebs, skulls and a bloody brew spewing smoke.

The rot runs deep. There are worse things afoot than mere Gnostic heretics... I fear there are several other corrupt sects burrowing like ticks within our ranks. How could this happen? What malign stars have aligned in the skies above our afflicted nation? Dark heresiarchs are at work in the Realm, pulling strings from the shadows and inducting naïve game developers into their subversive cabals. Who can feel safe in these dark times?

I have written the Holy See with a plea for aid. My sole hope lies in the Holy Father, Pope Francis, though I wonder if he is made of stern enough stuff to unleash the Hounds of God, for I fear only the Dominicans can save us now, as they did in the times of Cardinal Torquemada, bless his soul...

May God send us a light, for the darkness surrounds us!

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Exciting and mysterious DD! Can't wait to have more of this mysterious DLC unveiled!
 
...happy Halloween?
 
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Awesome, but we still need monastic orders!
That's what's missing from CKII.
 
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Attention to Heresies DLC!!!!

plz take my money
 
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What we need is a custom heresy mechanic!
 
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-Cadet branches
-Autocratic government
-Dynamic melting pots
-Base value system
-Gunpowder units
-Something to portray Renaissance
-Name weighting
-Anything to portray naval battles
-More dynamic historical events

Nice list. What is a base value system?
I have a list of things I think could be added to the game here.
 
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Here's hoping we see some expansion for the African branches of Christianity. They're more or less just Orthodox clones at the moment. Even the non-Norse pagans have at least a few flavor events and gameplay mechanics to set them apart.
 
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Finally a Swede sees what's going on in their country.
 
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There are heretics everywhere, trust no one, especially not those who proclaim their innocence in the eyes of God. Is it not known all men are full of sin? Only liars would hide away their faults, and all heretics are liars.
 
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I'm over the moon to hear heresies will be getting some attention. As it stands, there's little way to play a heretic without it being a giant bullseye and free CB to others, despite the fact that most feudal lords would be apathetic to the latest prattle of the damned clergy and whatever that upjumped megalomaniac is preaching to the rest of the foreigners in Rome.

Anything that adds more granularity to what religions are in a province and nuance to how courtiers of differing religons feel about each other in a realm's court would be fantastic.

If the devs announce that a Simon de Montfort start will be playable, and there'll be event chains and factionalism pitting localised sympathy for Cathars against localised support for the foreign Inquisition/Franciscans/Dominicans this is going to be a hell of a ride.
 
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Well, that covered the political news - now can we have something about the CK game, please?

:D:D:D
 
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Secret heretical societies infiltrating and manipulating your kingdom? Illuminati DLC confirmed.

Be sure to include a high priestess called Hildegard Cliddon who cooks spirits and eats babies and etc.
 
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