Religions — Questions & Answers

An organized Religion is a durable Character-based faith with its own identity, governance, Canon Law, Holy Scripture, sacred symbol, follower affiliation, hierarchy and history. It is separate from government, Houses and Institutions.

Agnostic is the permanent built-in spiritually unaffiliated state. Every new Character begins Agnostic unless an authoritative transition establishes another affiliation.

No. Agnostic has no founder, hierarchy, clergy, Canon Law, Religious Institutions or organized-Religion Blessing. It never becomes Extinct.

Yes. Joining an organized Religion is optional. Remaining Agnostic means forgoing organized-Religion affiliation and its Altar Blessings.

Religion V1 provides affiliation, public doctrine, configurable religious authority, ceremonies, consecrated religious Buildings and a selectable three-effect Blessing package. Finalized rules may still require runtime adoption before every workflow is playable.

Yes. An Active organized Religion may directly own consecrated Chapels, Churches, Great Churches and Cathedrals. That property ownership grants no territory, citizenship, taxation or Justice jurisdiction.

No. Religion is the faith and affiliation domain. A Religious Institution is a separate player organization permanently linked to one Religion. A religious Building is a physical world object; none of these three concepts should be collapsed together.

Yes. Religious Institutions are optional organizations. A Religion may be Active, gain followers and own consecrated religious Buildings without one.

Yes. Institution identity and membership do not require a physical religious Building. Its members must still follow the linked Religion.

An eligible Character creates a founding Petition that records the proposed Religion's identity, governance, Scripture, Canon Law, hierarchy and sacred-symbol submission. The Petition is not yet an Active Religion.

Activation requires 100 unique eligible Character signatories. Duplicate Characters and ineligible signatures do not satisfy the threshold.

Yes. The founding sacred symbol must be Approved as well as having 100 eligible signatories before activation can commit.

The Petition becomes an Active organized Religion, the founder receives the constitutional top authority, and the founder becomes affiliated with the Religion. Activation is an authoritative one-time transition.

No. One hundred signatories is a founding-only threshold. An Active Religion remains Active at 99, 50, 10 or one current living follower.

The founder establishes public identity, governance, Holy Scripture, Canon Law, sacred presentation and two to ten ordered ranks with custom names, descriptions and permission selections.

Governance establishes whether top constitutional authority is presented through a Supreme Leader or Council of Elders model. It does not turn thematic titles into permissions or merge Religion authority with an Institution.

Canon Law is the Religion's founding rules package. It includes declarations such as the joining mode and apostasy classification as well as the configured hierarchy and permissions.

Holy Scripture is the Religion's canonical long-form doctrine and belief text. Editing it requires the appropriate Religion authority; its wording does not create unlisted gameplay powers.

No. There is no standalone voluntary Religion-to-Religion conversion. The ordinary path is Leave Religion A, become Agnostic, then use Religion B's Join process.

Only a currently Agnostic Character may enter the ordinary Join workflow. A current organized-Religion follower must leave first.

One unresolved Join Request at most. A Character cannot apply to several organized Religions at the same time.

No. A request remains pending until completed, rejected, withdrawn by the applicant, or closed by an authoritative eligibility or lifecycle change.

Yes, at any time before completion. Applicant withdrawal creates no penalty or cooldown, so an Agnostic Character may immediately make another valid request.

The Character cannot apply to that same Religion again for one real-world week. The pair-specific cooldown does not block an application to a different Religion.

An Agnostic Character submits a Join Request. A currently authorized Religion follower may accept it remotely, completing affiliation without a physical ceremony.

The same Join Request is submitted, but remote approval cannot complete it. An authorized joining ceremony must be completed in a valid Building consecrated to that Religion.

Yes. At effective Marriage, the Joining Spouse moves to the Marriage Head's governing organized Religion under the Family/Religion transaction. This special consequence is not a general voluntary conversion command.

Yes. Canon Law cannot mechanically prevent voluntary Leave, even when the Character is the top authority, a rank holder or a local religious-Building manager.

The Character becomes Agnostic, loses Religion-derived rank, office, Building and Communication authority, and immediately loses any active Blessing granted by that Religion. Governance reconciles any vacancy.

No. There is no minimum Agnostic waiting period before requesting a different organized Religion.

Normal voluntary departure creates a 30-real-world-day cooldown before rejoining that same Religion. Excommunication and Heresy impose stronger status-based restrictions.

A Religion's Canon Law classifies voluntary departure as Peaceful Departure, Excommunication or Heresy. Every classification still permits the Character to leave freely and become Agnostic.

It is ordinary free Leave with no additional apostasy status. The Character becomes Agnostic and the normal 30-real-world-day same-Religion rejoin cooldown applies.

The Character leaves freely and becomes Agnostic, but is marked Excommunicated relative to that Religion and cannot rejoin it until Excommunication is lifted. Waiting 30 days is not enough.

The Character leaves freely, becomes Agnostic and is marked Heretic relative to that Religion. They cannot rejoin it until pardoned, and followers of that Religion receive a clear Heretic marker.

No. Neither status automatically authorizes attack, imprisonment, fines, exile, seizure, Justice punishment, Warfare or religious violence. Ordinary Justice and Warfare rules remain authoritative.

An authorized ceremony removes the Religion-relative Heretic status and its rejoin bar. It restores eligibility to seek entry; it does not automatically make the Character a follower.

An authorized ceremony removes the Religion-relative Excommunicated status and its rejoin bar. It restores Join eligibility without creating affiliation.

Yes. A Heretic or Excommunicated target may be Agnostic or follow another Religion. Ceremony-specific eligibility applies rather than a universal follower-only target rule.

You must be Agnostic and complete the normal Join flow. If you follow another Religion, leave it first. The Religion's Immediate Acceptance or Religious Ceremony Required mode still applies.

Between two and ten ordered configured ranks: one required top rank, one required bottom Followers rank and up to eight intermediate ranks.

Yes. Priest, Bishop, Cardinal, Prophet, Cleric, Temple Keeper and similar names may be used as custom Religion-rank titles.

No. A title is presentation. Authority comes from the Character's authoritative Religion rank ID, its order and its configured permissions.

The configured top rank automatically receives the complete canonical Religion permission catalogue. Lower ranks may receive permitted subsets.

Followers is the required bottom configured rank and defaults to no permissions. Following the Religion alone does not automatically grant Building Access or management.

The finalized target catalogue contains 26 permissions. The current founding implementation persists 21, so the five newest permissions remain an explicit Website and Platform adoption gap.

It permits access or use of Religion-restricted religious Buildings according to their access rules. It grants no ownership, Inventory management, Local Manager appointment, ceremony authority or Blessing configuration.

It grants Religion-wide management authority across all consecrated religious Buildings owned by that Religion, including local names, Inventory, doors/access and Local Manager appointments.

It selects or reconfigures the Religion-wide Blessing package subject to its cooldown. It does not by itself authorize setting an individual Altar price.

A current follower whose authoritative Religion rank grants Pardon Heretics may perform the ceremony in a valid matching consecrated Building.

A current follower whose authoritative Religion rank grants Lift Excommunications may perform that restorative ceremony in a valid matching consecrated Building.

It permanently references exactly one Active organized Religion. Its founder and every active member must currently follow that exact Religion.

The Institution immediately ends active membership and rank tenure, removes authority, reconciles leadership and Communication, and preserves the historical facts.

Yes. Eligibility removal is not a permanent Institution ban. After legitimately rejoining the linked Religion, the Character may use the Institution's normal application or invitation process; membership is not restored automatically.

No. They are independent hierarchies with independent memberships, permissions and histories. The same Character may hold different authority in each.

No. Even a Religious Institution title such as High Priest grants no Religion ceremony power unless the Character's separate Religion rank grants the required permission.

No. The identical player-facing idea is evaluated in its owning domain. Institution membership cannot satisfy Religion Building Access, and Religion rank cannot satisfy Institution Building Access.

Exactly four: Chapel, Church, Great Church and Cathedral.

Yes. Each is a distinct permanent Building definition with its own crafted Blueprint.

No. Buildings do not upgrade into other types. Changing type requires the normal demolition and new-construction lifecycle.

No. They may appear as custom names, historical language or future ideas, but they are not additional V1 religious Building definitions.

Only inside the established boundary of an existing Town, even while privately owned and unconsecrated. Normal land, authority, collision and placement rules also apply.

No special Religion or territorial approval is added. Any Character who can legally place the appropriate Blueprint under normal Building rules may construct it inside a Town.

No. Once validly consecrated, all four sizes support every official Religion ceremony. Size affects Blessing strength and duration only.

No. They retain Blueprint-derived HP, may take valid damage, collapse at zero HP and follow the normal destruction and Loot Chest lifecycle.

No. Consecration exempts scheduled weekly maintenance only. Direct, attack or other actual damage requires the normal original-construction-material repair cost.

No. It begins Unconsecrated under its normal private/current owner, with normal taxes and maintenance and no official Religion venue, access, management or Blessing function.

Its current authorized owner deliberately consecrates the unconsecrated Building to exactly one Active organized Religion. Agnostic, Petition and Extinct targets are invalid.

No. The current owner may donate and consecrate the valid Building unilaterally. The receiving Religion's acceptance is not required.

The Religion directly owns it. The former owner loses possession and inherent owner authority; it is not a lease or temporary manager appointment.

Every item, material and Coin in the Building's Universal Building Inventory remains with the Building and transfers under Religion ownership. The owner must receive a clear irreversible warning.

Not while its owning Religion remains Active. Consecration is permanent during that Active lifecycle; Extinction and later municipal reconsecration are the explicit exception.

No. A valid consecrated religious Building owned by an Active Religion is automatically fully exempt. Normal tax applies before consecration and returns after deconsecration.

It consumes zero scheduled weekly maintenance materials, loses no HP for an exempt weekly obligation and accumulates no maintenance debt. Normal maintenance resumes prospectively after deconsecration.

No. The owner is the Religion. The current top authority manages on its behalf and loses inherent authority when that office changes.

No. It grants property ownership only—not Town or County ownership, citizenship control, taxation power, Justice jurisdiction, Warfare jurisdiction, Mayor office or Count office.

Manage Religious Buildings applies across every consecrated Building of the Religion. Local Manager is a delegated appointment for one specific Building.

Any current follower of the owning Religion may be appointed. Their rank does not need Manage Religious Buildings because the appointment itself grants local authority.

One at most. Religion-wide rank authority is separate and is not constrained by this Local Manager limit.

For their one Building they may edit its local/public name, manage its Universal Building Inventory and control its doors/access.

Immediately upon removal or replacement, loss of Religion affiliation, other ineligibility, death, or the Building losing that Religion's ownership/consecration. Cached client state cannot preserve authority.

No. Joining, marriage, divorce, Pardon and Lift authority comes only from the relevant configured Religion-rank permission.

No. The Religion remains owner. Local Manager is a revocable Building-specific authority, not a Religion rank, constitutional office or property title.

Yes. Authorized managers may edit a Building-local name such as Church of St. James. This does not rename the Religion, Blueprint, Town or physical Building type.

No. Every Building has one Universal Building Inventory containing items, materials and currency. There is no separate Building Treasury.

A successful fee enters that individual religious Building's Universal Building Inventory. Local Manager Inventory authority comes from the valid appointment.

Inside a valid consecrated religious Building belonging to the same Religion. Religion A cannot conduct its official ceremony inside Religion B's Building.

A current follower whose authoritative configured Religion rank grants the specific ceremony permission. A thematic title alone grants nothing.

No. Ceremony authority and Building management are independent. A permitted performer may act in a valid venue without being Local Manager.

A current follower with Conduct Joining Ceremonies may complete an eligible Agnostic applicant's ceremony in a matching consecrated Building when Canon Law requires it.

A current follower whose Religion rank grants Validate Marriage Contracts may perform the Religion-owned validation under the established Family and venue rules.

A current follower whose Religion rank grants Approve Religious Divorces may perform that authorized religious action under its canonical eligibility and venue rules.

In a valid Building consecrated to the Religion that owns the Heretic or Excommunicated status, by a follower holding the matching permission.

Yes when the ceremony logically requires it: joining targets an Agnostic applicant, while Pardon and Lift naturally target non-followers. Each ceremony applies its own eligibility.

No. Standard ceremony payment is player-managed roleplay/economy. The system defines no automatic ceremony price, collection, clergy wage or deposit. This is separate from mandatory Altar Blessing fees.

Yes. Chapel, Church, Great Church and Cathedral each include an Altar interaction. It is not a separate placeable Blueprint.

No. The eligible Character must explicitly interact with its active Altar and complete payment. Proximity, Town presence or affiliation alone grants nothing.

No. The standard Altar interaction requires no Priest, Local Manager, Leader or ceremony performer to be present.

Only a current follower whose authoritative Religion exactly matches the Building's consecrated Religion.

No. Agnostic is the unaffiliated baseline and has no organized-Religion Blessing equivalent.

No. Cross-Religion Blessing shopping is prohibited; the affiliation and consecration must match.

No. Each consecrated religious Building sets its own Copper-denominated fee. Valid Copper, Silver or Gold combinations use the canonical County exchange rate.

That Building's Local Manager, a follower with Religion-wide Manage Religious Buildings, or the current top authority. Manage Blessing alone does not grant price authority.

No. An eligible follower may purchase a new one whenever desired, subject to the fee and current authoritative validation.

No. A Character has one active organized-Religion Blessing. A successful new acquisition completely replaces the previous package, strength, duration and expiry.

It disappears immediately when current affiliation no longer matches the granting Religion. The new Religion never grants one automatically.

Exactly one Survival effect, one Combat effect and one Gathering/economic effect from developer-defined catalogues.

Five choices in each of three categories produce 5 × 5 × 5 = 125 canonical combinations.

No. Players select identities from approved lists. Developers own formulas, values, multipliers, durations, rounding and balance versions.

No. It begins with no configured package, so its consecrated Altars cannot dispense one until authorized in-game configuration succeeds.

Every successful configuration, including the first, starts a Religion-global 30-real-world-day cooldown. Manager or leadership changes cannot bypass it.

No. Existing applied Blessings retain their old snapshot until expiry, replacement, affiliation loss or another terminal condition. Only new acquisitions use the new package.

Strength and duration follow Chapel < Church < Great Church < Cathedral. Exact numbers are developer-balanced; ceremony availability remains identical at every tier.

Vitality increases maximum Health; Endurance maximum Stamina; Recovery natural Health recovery; Resilience reduces environmental/survival penalties; Sustenance slows Hunger/Thirst growth if that survival consumer exists.

Might increases melee damage; Precision ranged effectiveness; Fortitude reduces incoming physical damage; Vigor reduces combat-action Stamina cost; Swiftness slightly increases attack/action speed.

Successful basic raw world-resource gathering such as mining, woodcutting, quarrying, clay extraction, farming harvest and wild foraging. Fishing is excluded.

Appropriate resource yield from animals under the canonical Livestock and Hunting systems.

First-stage Processing of raw resources, such as applicable smelting, stonecutting, sawing, milling and tanning. It excludes finished-product crafting.

Material efficiency for finished crafted products such as weapons, armor, tools, clothing and Blueprints. It does not improve speed, quality, durability or coin price.

Successful fishing catch, yield or quantity only. Fishing deliberately has its own Blessing rather than belonging to Harvest.

No. The 100-signatory threshold is only for founding. Any positive authoritative living/current follower count keeps an Active Religion alive.

Immediately and irreversibly when its authoritative current living-follower count reaches zero. There is no grace period, timer, Leader override or founder exception.

No. Agnostic is the permanent built-in unaffiliated state. Zero-follower Extinction applies only to player-founded organized Religions.

Each becomes ineligible to remain active and archives through the Institution-owned workflow, closing its own membership, leadership, Communication and diplomacy while preserving history.

They deconsecrate immediately. Religion ownership, ceremonies, Blessings, access, management, Local Manager appointments and exemptions end.

Its containing Settlement government inherits it, with the current Mayor exercising municipal management. Canon does not invent automatic Count ownership when a valid municipal owner exists.

It remains physically present but Unconsecrated and government-owned. Normal taxes and prospective maintenance return; old Religion ceremonies, Blessings and management stop.

Yes. Its authorized municipal owner may consecrate it to another Active organized Religion, transferring ownership and Inventory. The Building type and historical record do not change.

The Building cannot remain in wilderness and is destroyed immediately. Its Universal Building Inventory enters the normal collapse-style Loot Chest lifecycle; protection depends on whether a valid owner survives, and truly ownerless contents become public immediately.

Public systems may show its identity, status, governance, doctrine, sacred presentation, configured hierarchy and other information canon explicitly classifies as public. Private management data and authorization are not inferred.

The saved configured hierarchy, rank names, descriptions and declared permissions have public presentation. This does not prove ordinary-follower assignment or runtime authorization is already operational.

Yes. Public Religion presentation should show its current Survival, Combat and Gathering/economic choices, or state that no Blessing is configured. Exact values follow game presentation rules.

Authorized Religion management must eventually list owned consecrated Buildings, including type, local name, Town/location and current Local Manager. Public exposure beyond canonical public facts is not assumed.

Yes. Extinction is a permanent historical state rather than deletion. Its former affiliations, leadership, Buildings and other durable history are not erased.

Yes. Independent relationships and statuses may coexist—for example ALLY through Institution diplomacy and HERETIC relative to the viewer's Religion. Clients must support multiple markers; color alone cannot encode everything.

No. Commoners have no Religion affiliation in V1; Religion is a player-Character system. Churches do not simulate Commoner congregations, faith percentages or worship demand.

No. There is no proximity faith aura, automatic conversion, passive follower growth or territorial faith-control percentage. Growth comes from explicit player joining.

No. Blessings are grounded game-mechanical benefits. Religion V1 does not define miracles, visible divine intervention, spellcasting, resurrection, magical projectiles or supernatural beings.

No. Religion status creates no automatic Warfare, attack permission, Justice jurisdiction, criminal punishment or territorial control.

Possibly only through a later canonical amendment. They are not additional V1 types today and may currently appear only as custom names or thematic language.

No. Effect identities and tier ordering are canonical, while exact numerical values, durations, rounding and balance versions remain developer-controlled implementation data.

No. The Atlas explains finalized canon. Founding hierarchy and affiliation foundations are proven, but Join/Leave, apostasy, the 26-permission catalogue, religious Buildings, ceremonies, Altars and Blessings still include substantial implementation-pending work.