Beliefs

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RIS replaces the base game's handful of religions with 51 local beliefs, one per people, near enough. In each region a belief is either the majority or a minority held alongside a larger one.

51 of the 51 are on the map at the campaign start, across 1,305 regions.

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 51 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.

Anatolian group · 12 beliefs · 105 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Cappadocian	16	4	—
Phrygian	12	5	—
Cilician	10	1	1
Paphlagonian	4	7	1
Lydian	4	4	—
Mysian	3	5	—
Pisidian	8	—	1
Carian	5	2	1
Lycian	6	1	1
Lycaonian	3	—	—
Pamphylian	1	2	—
Isaurian	2	—	—

Hellenic group · 12 beliefs · 434 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Macedonian	35	102	10
Dorian	78	27	17
Ionian	66	18	16
Indo-Greek	—	28	—
Aeolian	16	5	2
Greco-Bactrian	2	16	1
Northwest Greek	10	—	2
Epirote	7	2	1
Bosporan	5	3	1
Arcadian	5	1	1
Cypriot Greek	4	1	—
Pamphylian Greek	2	1	—

Illyrian group · 5 beliefs · 55 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Illyrian	16	5	3
Delmato-Pannonian	11	7	3
Venetic	5	1	2
Dardanian	4	1	1
Liburnian	5	—	1

Thracian group · 4 beliefs · 85 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Thracian	53	19	11
Bithynian	2	3	1
Paeonian	4	—	1
Triballian	2	2	1

Arab group · 1 belief · 83 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Arab	70	13	10

Armenian group · 1 belief · 19 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Armenian	11	8	4

Assyrian group · 1 belief · 43 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Assyrian	20	23	1

Baltic group · 1 belief · 14 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Baltic	12	2	—

Caucasian group · 1 belief · 35 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Caucasian	27	8	5

Celtic group · 1 belief · 354 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Celtic	300	54	63

Egyptian group · 1 belief · 29 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Egyptian	20	9	1

Ethiopian group · 1 belief · 36 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Ethiopian	35	1	3

Germanic group · 1 belief · 83 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Germanic	56	27	16

Iberian group · 1 belief · 109 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Iberian	45	64	10

Indian group · 1 belief · 34 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Indian	32	2	2

Iranian group · 1 belief · 71 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Iranian	57	14	5

Italic group · 1 belief · 59 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Italic	37	22	14

Judaean group · 1 belief · 10 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Judaean	3	7	1

Libyan group · 1 belief · 72 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Libyan	44	28	7

Mesopotamian group · 1 belief · 17 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Mesopotamian	12	5	1

Phoenician group · 1 belief · 88 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Phoenician	56	32	5

Scythian group · 1 belief · 88 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Scythian	60	28	11

Beliefs no faction defaults to

11 of the 51 are the state belief of no faction: Baltic, Mysian, Lydian, Pamphylian, Phrygian, Lycaonian, Isaurian, Cappadocian, Indo-Greek, Cypriot Greek, Pamphylian Greek. 11 of those are still on the map, held by provinces rather than by a state.