Crusader Kings 3's By God Alone expansion offers plenty of holy hijinks, even if your polyamorous Pope doesn't get divorced three times in one day
My very soul has been cleft into pieces on this day. January 3rd, 902 AD. First, my Christian faith fractured in twain. I stand in Rome, head of the Roman Rite and now the leader of the Catholic world. My neighbours to the east have chosen to walk a different path, transforming their Greek Rite into a new Orthodoxy followed by the Byzantine Empire. It’s a brave new world in Crusader Kings 3 ’s By…
On January 3rd, 902 AD, a significant schism occurred within the Christian world. The Pope found himself in a state of deep turmoil as his faith was torn asunder. Once the head of the Roman Rite and leader of the Catholic Church, he now found himself the leader of a fractured faith, split between the Roman Rite and the emerging Orthodoxy of the Byzantine Empire. This was not the only hardship the Pope faced that day.
In the same moment of the schism, all three of the Pope's marriages came to an end. The papers of divorce were served immediately, each to a different wife. It was a devastating blow, compounded by the fact that one of the Pope's betrothed broke off their engagement not long before the schism.
Despite the Pope's position as a celibate servant of God, the events of that day placed him on Wikipedia's list of sexually active popes, all thanks to a humorous bug in the game. The expansion, Crusader Kings 3's By God Alone, offered a plethora of holy hijinks. However, it also presented the Pope with a challenging reality - the end of his marriages and the division of his faith.
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