Change the name of the Baltic paganism.

[Dovarine]

In the nicest way possible: Vidilism is not a word that exists. It is not a word used to refer to ancient Baltic paganism by pretty much, from what I can tell, anyone until it was invented, from what I can tell, for the game, and there is no real reason to do this.

I'm Lithuanian and I'd daresay I'm familiar with Lithuanian history from this era and I feel confident in arguing that it being called "Vidilism" breaks immersion. It would be better to simply switch the religion name to "Baltic" without further modification.

There's also some grammar errors in flavour text, like "Kūdikis Lemti" - I'm not even sure what Paradox was trying to say here. It's clearly Lithuanian but not very good Lithuanian. If the intention was to write "child of destiny", that would be "lemties kūdikis", not "kūdikis lemti".

 

[DukeLeto42]

They seem to be making a move away from geographic region or people-group naming - Ásatrú is a compound of the pantheon's name (Áss / Æsir) and the Old Norse word for "faith" (trú). Is there a term for the Lithuanian pantheon (one used by the faithful, not their enemies)?

 

[Dovarine]

They seem to be making a move away from geographic region or people-group naming - Ásatrú is a compound of the pantheon's name (Áss / Æsir) and the Old Norse word for "faith" (trú). Is there a term for the Lithuanian pantheon (one used by the faithful, not their enemies)?

Not really, tbh. Ancient Lithuania was a society where literacy was restricted to scribes capable of writing in Latin and Old Ruthenian - they left behind no written record of how they called themselves.

If "Baltic" is unsuitable, Romuva was historically inaccurate but basically much better than this in that it is at least a term that is used today by Lithuanian neopagans. But historical Baltic paganism had no autochtonous term for itself that survived to this day, and tbh there is a solid chance one never existed.

(Romuva also parallels Ásatrú in that Ásatrú is a particular modern religious belief and not the original belief system, so if Ásatrú is ok, so is Romuva.)