Any way to turn off the Witch nonsense?

[Meka66]

Regardless, there never was such thing as "witch covens" widespread throughout royal dynasties. There is no such things as "witches" in reality. Why not give those of us who want to have a somewhat realistic game an option to turn it off?

No, there are and were witches in reality. The game doesn’t include supernatural powers for them.

As for a more realistic game, I do hope in the future we get a refinement of folk magic practice. The disease resistance buff for witch coven, as well as the option from Northern Lords to help a courtier out with their curse, implies that we’re working with more benevolent folk magic, while the terms witch and witchcraft are more often reserved for malevolent magic.

In any case, the witch stuff in game is no more supernatural than any of the other religious stuff; that is, its all explainable by belief.

Complex subject, yeah. Witch content is following some pretty anachronistic ideas right now. I would like to eventually do something to make it a bit more about the idea of non-clerical magic and stuff like that, but it's no small task.

But yeah one consistent thing is we don't have actual magic in the way that CK2 did.

 

[Meka66]

Y’all could fix that.

Lmao, no. The decision was made early on that supernatural content and characters regrowing limbs because they worship Satan so hard was not something we wanted to do, and it's a decision I agree with. This isn't the type of content we want to focus our time on.

 

[Meka66]

I have written it once, but of course it was ignored.
Buddhist faiths like Theravada should noy have these events. Like wtf, why would Buddhist peassantry with Ahimsa tenet request to burn the witch? I'm pretty sure other Eastern faiths with "Righteous" (or "Witchcraft shunned" and stricter, I am not sure what triggers it) are ridden with this nonsense.

It's not strictly accurate for Western Europe either for the record. Witch trials are much more an EUIV period thing.

 

[Meka66]

Does this mean that T&T won't have new witch content then? I figured that with the addition of Grand Marriages, Grand Tours, etc that there would be a rework of the Grand Rite where you and the rest of the witches travel to some location within the realm.


Either way, I'm glad the original poster got their issue solved.

Grand Rite was ported to the new system. I'm not sure if we made any new bespoke events for it beyond that though, but I'm not 100% sure.