Religion

Each City and character will follow their own Religion. When enough characters in a Family convert to the Nation's religion the Nation will receive additional benefits. Cities that follow a Religion will gain a yield bonus of 2 Culture. If the Opinion of its Religion of the Nation is Pleased or Friendly the city will gain Happiness. However if the Opinion of its Religion of the Nation is Upset, Angry, or Furious, the City will gain  Discontent. The city where a Religion is first founded will be its Holy City and gain a yield bonus of 2 Civics.

There are two types of religions in Old World: Pagan Religions and World Religions.
 * Pagan Religions are unique to each Nation and founded once the Nation completes its first Shrine improvement. Pagan Religions cannot spread, do not have Disciples and Theologies and can only be adopted as State Religion with the LAW DIVINE RULE.png Divine Rule law.
 * World Religions can be founded once certain requirements are met, or when a Family Seat is founded for a Clerics family. Pagan Religions can spread, have Disciples and Theologies and can always be adopted as State Religions. When a World Religion is founded, it founder will receive the option to gain 50 YIELD CIVICS.png Civics, make a donation and gain 40 Opinion with the Religion for 40 years, or gain 2 YIELD LEGITIMACY.png Legitimacy and lose 40 Opinion with the Religion for 40 years.

State Religion
A Nation may adopt a Religion as its State Religion at the cost of 400 Civics. Adopting a Religion as State Religion has the following effects:
 * All cities that follow the Religion gain 1 YIELD HAPPINESS.png Happiness each year
 * All cities that follow the Religion lose 1 YIELD CIVICS.png Civics each year
 * If the Nation Leader doesn't follow the State Religion they will gain the choice to convert or lose 40 Opinion with the Religion for 40 years
 * Disciples can establish Theologies

Theology
Theologies can only be created by Nations that have a World Religion as their State Religion and require the use of a Disciple. Theologies will grant a city yield bonus to all Nations that have the Religion as its State Religion and increases the chance for the Religion to spread by 5%. Each World Religion may have up to 3 Theologies.

Dissent
If the The Sacred and The Profane DLC is installed, Cities that follow a World Religion whose Opinion is Upset, Angry or Furious can cause Dissent, which has a 5% chance each year to spawn Rebels. Dissent can be removed either by using the Quell Dissent action or the Suppress Dissent project.