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Hello Eu4 Fans! This is the Gods and Kings Development Team - I’m Nitr0gue , and we’re here to have a little chat about our mod.

Origins
Gods and Kings started out as a personal project between a few friends. We wanted to create a mod featuring a more expansive and better representation of various religions around the world. In fact, the working name for the mod was More Religions until just before release. This idea expanded towards an alternate timeline which can better serve the interests of showcasing different faiths. As we developed the setting, we moved toward focusing on things that are rarely usually discussed in these alternative history mods: a directed focus on the Early Modern period, rather than calling back to earlier times. A lot of us are history buffs, and our team has knowledge that covers most of the major areas.World Creation
As the name implies, we have worked on both the secular and spiritual side of the world, as can be seen here in the map. We have a completely redone world map, politically and demographically, with few regions left untouched. Nearly every region was set up to include some kind of interesting way of playing out, either as a “narrative,” or for potential gameplay.


Religions

Qizilbashi


Shinbutsu


Tengerleg Shashin


Maitreya


Fraticelli



Mission Trees and Content
We have a decent amount of content already in the mod. These range from mission trees to disasters and flavor events. We have large scale disasters such as the Hotoku War in Japan, a large scale rebellion against the dominant Emperor of Japan.





Mission Trees
The tags highlighted here already have completed mission trees - each with different events, rewards, and flavorful mechanics to go along with them. The tags shaded have a unique generic mission tree shared with regional tags.





1.1 - Monarchs and Messiahs
Yesterday, February 29th, we launched our 1.1 Patch. Here are a few of the updates in it! Mali - The Golden Empire With the discovery of the new world just beyond the horizon by Mohammad Qu in the 14th Century, Mali is geared to expand and conquer the new world, becoming a colonial powerhouse while integrating the Farma, local officials and rulers for the region.



Artwork
Gods and Kings is the product of developers who really want to add more to the experience, and we do that by contacting and working with amazing artists to help fully flesh out the mod. The mod features over 50 new religious icons, drawn by both the fantastic Nametag and Claivin.




