Interesting to follow this thread ... thanks for the time on it people. Good luck with the mod Kaidonni - I think you should do it.

@ All

Are Jihads moddable, or strictly attached to the Muslims? I didn't see an answer to that ... and are they attached to the REL_MUSLIM, or MUSLIM_CULTURE ... or even to the FN_ ?

What I'm wondering is - could you, for example, have a faction with one type of religion and but another type of culture to work around this and still get a Barbarian horde, as Kaidonnis wants?

@ Caravel

Currently a pious general is the best choice of governor for a pious province.

Do you mean a province with high Zeal?

@ YLS

always thought it was funny to have a pious heretic for some reason,

Most famous heretics were pious - they weren't atheists. For example, Jan Hus and John Wycliffe came across as much more pious than the cynical church hierarchy whose practices they were opposing.

The word comes from the Greek, meaning "able to choose" - in other words, a free thinker. Heretics mainly rejected church doctrines and chose their own interpretations - as in the case of Hus, who refused to recant, even at the stake when offered freedom for doing so, unless he could be shown to be wrong according to the scriptures.

Just thought that might set your misgivings to rest.