To add another point to this - SnowCrystal also said he was making a bloodline for one of the descendent of Alfred the Great and neither confirmed nor denied that was Aethelstan irrc.
Aethelstan died in 939 and not letting us play as him seems gratuitously cruel - so it will probably be closer to 936 than 939.
Qarmatians confirmed?!
I'd like if take what they did with pagan religions and apply to the more standard religions. Make a Build-your-own-Heresy system, the possibility to gain influence in the church and try to reform it from the inside, or to split from it and create your own schismatic religion. Maybe make satanism an organized religion? It would be fun.
For more exact detail on Sicily in the new start.
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Let’s just say Alfray I’ve known about this start since February.
Kemetic religion