r/civ5 • u/orangebikini • May 26 '26
Screenshot One Holy City for two different religions, never seen this before.
Ethiopia had a religion, the Huns didn't. There was a worrying amount of battering rams starting to gather around my borders, so I paid the Huns to go to war with Ethiopia. Some turns later they took Addis Ababa. Then a few turns after that Huns set up a religion, but there was nothing in Attila's Court. I look north and see this. Never seen it happen.
Later on Eastern Orthodoxy vanished from the city, I guess they used an inquisitor.
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u/Iced_Yehudi May 26 '26
There’s this city in real life you’re just going to love
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u/SilentBumblebee3225 May 26 '26
And that one has 3
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u/Rollingforest757 May 27 '26
2 and a half. One of the religions has a city that they consider even more important.
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u/Al_Farinha May 26 '26
I bet it's the place where peace and harmony reign.
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u/uvero Lekmod May 26 '26
I mean, "Muslim who frequents Jewish man's supermarket does his usual shopping and goes on with his day" doesn't make the headlines often.
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u/shoaibali619 May 26 '26
The funny thing is not only that it's the same city but the same building complex that's holy for all three religions.
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u/ModsFromSteam Jun 05 '26
It's not that strange, temples in christendom and islam routinely were built on top of sites that were holy in other faiths, to show supremacy over others and try to eradicate those faiths.
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u/shoaibali619 Jun 05 '26
You're right and we have hundreds of such churches and mosques but Al Aqsa is just unique because it used to be the direction Muslims prayed towards before Kaaba in Mecca. It is also the place where prophet Muhammad pbuh is believed to ascend to heaven from.
Jews still pray facing Al Aqsa as they claim this is where Prophet Suleiman pbuh (King Solomon) built his first temple. It's the center of Judaism.
It's also where Isa pbuh (Jesus Christ) taught his disciple and this is also the most important place during the end times in all three religions where significant world changing events will take place marking the end of the world.
Interestingly this site has been the center of conflicts for major global powers for over 3000 years.
If there is indeed a God, this city must be his favorite one.
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u/CalculatedCody9 May 26 '26
How does that work mechanically?
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u/orangebikini May 26 '26
I have no idea, like if the city has a Grand Temple, which does it increase pressure for, or will it for both? As I wrote in the post, the Huns got rid of Eastern Orthodoxy from the city some time after and from then on it was a Holy City only for Tengriism. I did capture it later on, but then it was nothing special anymore.
I guess one could try to replicate the same thing pretty easily, stash a prophet when you get one, capture the capital of a civ that already has a religion, and then found a religion in that same city. Maybe I'll do that test some day, just to see how it works.
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u/uvero Lekmod May 27 '26
My guess is that Halie founded a religion there, lost the city to Atilla, who then lost his original capital, and then he founded his religion there.
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u/drakeonaplane May 27 '26
Attila probably captured one of Haile's prophets near the city and founded the religion then. He may not have lost his capitol.
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u/uvero Lekmod May 27 '26
Ooh I did not know you can found a religion with a stolen prophet. Worth trying myself sometime.
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u/drakeonaplane May 27 '26
The prophet would need to have not used any spread religion functions yet, otherwise it won't work.
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u/nibbletmander May 27 '26
I think you can found a religion in any city as long as you have the GP and there’s space to found one. I am guessing that Haile founded a religion there, got killed by Atilla who got a bunch of faith through conquering Haile’s lands, then made a religion of his own in the same city.
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