Greek Christianity) is going through the first iconoclast controversy, which was a huge deal in the Greek speaking world but utterly irrelevant to the Latins.įor ordinary people, the mutual excommunication was kind of a technicality. In the Charlemagne start, for example, "Orthodoxy" (i.e. There were significant cultural and doctrinal differences between Latin and Greek Christianity. The 'prevent schism' option would also be fairly specialised, as you'd need to be playing or vassalising the Pope and/or be the Byzatine Emperor on that specific date to have any chance of stopping the schism (and then the schism could always just happen later or via an antipope).ĭeep Hurting eredeti hozzászólása:The origin of the schism is a bit older than the schism itself. I understand you might want an alternate history option of preventing the Schism happening in the first place, but that would either make little difference (if the pope's declaration is never made the churches are united in name only) or it would make an uberchurch (if the partiarchs accept pope's declaration) which would be an enormous change, worthy of a DLC in itself. I imagine that when Paradox made the Old Gods DLC with earlier start dates they either didn't realise they were now predating the Schism, or just didn't have the time/resources/inclination to try and change the orthodox/catholic stuff (while they were concentrating on making paganism stuff).įrom what you've said it would seem that the orthodox and catholic churches did have seperate and independant patriarchs earlier than the great schism,its just the pope hadn't yet declared the other patriarchs should be beneath him? So with the churches being effectively independant (and the Holy War cassus beli not being usable for orthodox vs catholic), what actual ingame differences would you want or expect for playing before the Schism? Or are you just expecting a 'schism' popup in 1054 with no options (like the hashashin ones)? The standard game (no DLC) has its earliest start as 1066, so after the Great Schism.