Okay, had an interesting experience today during a crusade. My king, before the crusade, had a piety of zero. I launch the crusade, and it gets going with little trouble. However, unfortunately, the Holy Father picked a rather unfortunate time to die, and my target was cleared of excommunication before I got there. Thus, the crusade was disbanded. But when I checked my king's stats two turns later, much to my surprise, he's now a holy roller with a piety of 9! Now at first, I was a bit baffled by this. Then I remembered the ol' command 'wrap-around' bug where your commander can have 10 stars, but since it only goes to 9, they actually have zero. He was technically at negative one piety, but since that can't be shown, it ended up at 9 instead. Turns out, my king ended up so evil, he actually became ultra pious. Am I the only one thinking this is just a bit odd?

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Talk about finding Jesus!

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Maybe he really was holy, he just had a really, really, really big problem with the current Pope

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Doesn't the description for having 9 piety have something to do with whipping the masses into a frenzy??? And don't evil kings whip people into submission for enjoyment???
I'm guessing that your king found another channel to vent his evil, cruel fetish with whipping people and gain a positive boost to his stats.

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