Thank you KO.
I was going to try remain in dom canon while sticking with (eurocentric) historical narratives as much as possible, so there should be no danger of shadow hierodules magically cropping up in C'tis culture; it just wouldn't make any sense
how do you feel about the nation "Marignon" becoming "Marignon" and "le Midi" (le Midi would be a Frenchy kind of nation). Is Mari supposed to be a signifier for the Holy Roman Empire that provided a sort of religious national unifier for areas stretching across Spain and France? Going into the Early Modern time period this unification weakened as kings and queens began proclaiming their authority separate from the church (after centuries of fighting it anyway) and modern nation states began to form. Some King and Queen in Castille and Aragon (I think) married with the church's blessing, beginning modern day spain, where church authority remained strong for the next century or two. Modern day France began forming when Frankish kings started claiming the southern and eastern bits of what is France today.
at least that's my rough understanding of how it started to happen. I'd like this narrative to be present, but to do that I do need a separate France and Spain.