Beliefs
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RIS replaces the base game's handful of religions with 40 local beliefs, one per people, near enough. In each region a belief is either the majority or a minority held alongside a larger one.
0 of the 40 are on the map at the campaign start, across 287 regions. The other 40 (Italic and Germanic and Celtic and Thracian and Bithynian and Paeonian and Triballian and Scythian and Iberian and Illyrian and Venetic and Liburnian and Dardanian and Delmato-Pannonian and Libyan and Phoenician and Carian and Lycian and Pisidian and Paphlagonian and Cilician and Assyrian and Mesopotamian and Judaean and Egyptian and Ethiopian and Arab and Caucasian and Armenian and Iranian and Indian and Dorian and Ionian and Arcadian and Aeolian and Northwest Greek and Epirote and Greco-Bactrian and Macedonian and Bosporan) are held by no region: they are the umbrella beliefs the local ones sit under.
What a belief does, and what it does not
- Beliefs do not unlock buildings or units.
- No belief creates unrest against another. The base game's religious friction is switched
off across the board.
- What a belief's strength does decide is how much a settlement's own buildings add to it:
the same building adds a different amount where the belief is weak than where it is the majority, and each page shows that for its own belief.
- Culture and belief are separate axes. 10 of the 22 cultures have factions on more than one belief. The cultures are on their own pages.
The 40 beliefs, by group
Majority and Minority are provinces: the ones where this is the largest belief, and the ones where it is held alongside a larger one. Together they are every province that holds it. Factions is not a count of provinces: it is how many factions have this as their state belief, so a faction with forty provinces counts once.
Hellenic group · 9 beliefs · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aeolian | — | — | 2 |  Arcadian | — | — | 1 |  Bosporan | — | — | 1 |
 Dorian | — | — | 17 |  Epirote | — | — | 1 |  Greco-Bactrian | — | — | 1 |
 Ionian | — | — | 16 |  Macedonian | — | — | 10 |  Northwest Greek | — | — | 2 |
Anatolian group · 5 beliefs · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Carian | — | — | 1 |  Cilician | — | — | 1 |  Lycian | — | — | 1 |
 Paphlagonian | — | — | 1 |  Pisidian | — | — | 1 |
Illyrian group · 5 beliefs · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Dardanian | — | — | 1 |  Delmato-Pannonian | — | — | 3 |  Illyrian | — | — | 3 |
 Liburnian | — | — | 1 |  Venetic | — | — | 2 |
Thracian group · 4 beliefs · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bithynian | — | — | 1 |  Paeonian | — | — | 1 |  Thracian | — | — | 11 |
 Triballian | — | — | 1 |
Arab group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Arab | — | — | 10 |
Armenian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Armenian | — | — | 4 |
Assyrian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Assyrian | — | — | 1 |
Caucasian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Caucasian | — | — | 5 |
Celtic group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Celtic | — | — | 63 |
Egyptian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Egyptian | — | — | 1 |
Ethiopian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ethiopian | — | — | 3 |
Germanic group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Germanic | — | — | 16 |
Iberian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Iberian | — | — | 10 |
Indian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Indian | — | — | 2 |
Iranian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Iranian | — | — | 5 |
Italic group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Italic | — | — | 14 |
Judaean group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Judaean | — | — | 1 |
Libyan group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Libyan | — | — | 7 |
Mesopotamian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mesopotamian | — | — | 1 |
Phoenician group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Phoenician | — | — | 5 |
Scythian group · 1 belief · 0 regions
| Belief | Majority | Minority | Factions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Scythian | — | — | 11 |