Like most primitive religions, the faith in the Main God, which has been passed down for thousands of years, had some extralegal aspects somewhere within it.
As soon as someone raised a suspicion and picked a fight, even without any particular evidence, a perfectly innocent person could be brought to a religious trial. Since there were no limits to the severity of the punishment, there were truly countless cases where a single wrongly spoken joke could end up ringing the bell of someone’s life.
Unable to bear it any longer, the 5th Holy Emperor reorganized the holy laws, specifying crimes based on the scriptures and the appropriate punishments for them.
But in the end, weren’t those legal provisions ultimately a matter of excerpting and applying them as one saw fit?
“—This person held private worship with the people of his territory. Setting up a sanctuary for the Main God without the permission of the Orthodox Church at his own discretion— isn’t that truly nothing short of the act of a heretic?”
Due to the false accusation of a neighboring lord, an incident occurred where one territory was completely smashed to pieces. This was because offering bribes to high-ranking priests was far cheaper in cost than consuming food and soldiers to provoke a territorial war.
And then, the following year, the lord who had accused his neighbor was himself brought to a religious trial by one of the vassals he commanded. It was precisely for the opposite reason of…