u/thepkizzle

Pretty much the title. My bloodline has a lot of +catholic perks and I'm wondering what would happen if while the world is in turmoil I just switch back to Catholic once I retore Rome.

edit: My goal is for religion to just have no real value. I want to be able to be Catholic as a young ruler so I can have kids with the Catholic bloodlines, but then switch over and play with various warrior lodge bloodlines at will without anyone hating me, or beng able to call crusades, etc.

e2: I did it. Nothing seems to have happened of any note. Life is good?

e3: Yeah being Rome is awesome, and being a Catholic heretic is also awesome. This has to be the most stable political arrangement in the entire game. It's amazing. No factions, tons of troops, no drama. I'm so popular with the entire realm, whether they're Orthodox or Catholic, or any sort of Christian that it's just silly. Inheritance is so easy now.

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This game has gotten away from me. I originally started with the intent to restore Rome, but I deviated from that plan and while it turned out good, sort of, I am now paying for the success by not really understanding where to start here.

High level bullet points:

• I am Empress of the HRE and Tengri. Everyone in the Catholic world hates me. I control Rome, but not Orvieto. None of this really matters considering I have >225k troops and handily sacked Rome against the entire Catholic world.
• My daughter matrilineally married one of the heirs of the Byzantine Empire. They (my grandchildren) have claims on the Empire, but I cannot make them my heirs because of Princely Elective, but my daughter is my heir.
• I am planning to press this claim when I die and my heir inherits the HRE, then I am planning (hoping) that once pressed I can make the new empress of Byzantium the heir of the HRE.
• I completed the Blood of Alexander quest earlier in the game and have not used it, yet. I could invade parts of of Byzantium but that seems useless considering the longer term plan. Meanwhile I could take the kingdom of France, move into Bulgaria, focus my plans to unify England, Scotland, Wales, & Ireland, or move towards Seljuk lands to get closer to Tengri holy sites. The long term plan is convert to Orthodox, restore Rome, then go back to Tengri and reform it to finish the game. Or maybe Germanic if I manage to get this warrior lodge bloodline which seems very unlikely.

Should I just do nothing and wait to die? It feels like a waste not using the Alexander CB to gain something. I've never restored Rome before so I'm just not sure what to do.

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Kind of confused. I am Empress of the HRE, as well as King of Leon. I hold both dutchies, and all counties in the kingdom. I am Catholic but secretly Tengri.

I'm finishing a Jihad up and the Pope calls for a new Crusade of Arabia, and I suddenly get this option to create a crusader state in Leon? It says online it lets me create a new bloodline, or leave the HRE, etc... is there any benefit to this if I don't want to leave the HRE? Are there any consequences? I was just planning on having a normal crusade with myself as the beneficiary and have never seen this before.