How to make Yazidism its own sect rather than heresy?

[Caeserion]

I want to make the Yazidi religion its own religion rather than being a simple heresy. I'm not looking to add flavour events or anything, I just want to separate it so that independent Yazidi powers stop getting converted to Sunni islam (even when surrounded by Shia's). I know HIP and CK2+ made Yazidi a part of Mazdan but I'm not sure if it retains heresy status. I'm looking to separate it like how Sunni/Shia/Ibadi are split, able to interwar and convert but not 'lapse' into one another.

So how would I got about doing this?

 

[Whizzer]

In 00_religions.txt, remove the 'parent = some_religion' line under Yazidi.

 

[Aerotinge]

I've got some primative thoughts in past.
And there's some resources.
However, Yazidis could be pointless in CK2 due to a Yazidis is born to be, so you can't convert to Yazidis by preachers(if any); nor via a marrige(Endogamy, child of infidel can't be Yazidis, even one of his/her parents is an Yazidis)

My suggest is comment out Yazidi in CK2(some /history and /common files), since you can hardly play it in CK2.
Or do what Whizzer said, like

set_parent_religion = { religion = yazidi parent = 0 } # it's still in muslim group

BTW, there's some custom religion mod recently, it could be a good simulation for establishment of Yazidi (around 12C.)

 

[Wixelt]

How would Yazidi provinces/characters spawn [pre-1204 start] if it wasn’t a heresy?

 

[Silversweeeper]

How would Yazidi provinces/characters spawn [pre-1204 start] if it wasn’t a heresy?

Without further modding, it wouldn't, but it would be trivial to adapt e.g. the events for low MA Dharmic provinces flipping to another Dharmic religion to make Yazidi spawn in a similar manner (and perhaps also the opposite, to make sure that there's a penalty for having low MA while Yazidi).