Incidentally, in my most recent game the Aztec Emperor (forgot to turn it off, they showed up in 1096 or something) was generated as... a son of an existing character. His current heir is a Welsh Count who is also his brother. He is also, apparently, the High Priest of Lucifer's own, and it would seem that he has sacrificed his two children for something (it's the "disappeared without a trace" death reason).
You know, if a family member dies to a cult or something that you aren't aware of, relatives should have a chance to get a MTTH event where they can wonder what happened to their nephew/cousin/great-aunt/whatever, which would start an event chain where you uncover the cult (or die trying). I think that would be pretty neat.
It is incredibly hard to say how often the AI uses demon magic. Cultists are rare and usually low ranking, and the powers' effects are essentially invisible beyond the 'vanished without a trace' death from being sacrificed.
In my current Scandinavia game I've seen the Hel cult kill maybe 5 people from my family/court in events and with powers over the past 170 years, where by comparison my characters have killed the better part of a hundred with various cult abilities, but that doesn't mean they haven't been using them in courts and on people I haven't been paying attention to.
So far I've never been targeted by the AI personally, but that may just be because I'm frequently not an eligible target and an enemy at the same time.
Well thanks anyway. Any information is useful information. It's nice to see that the AI does use it, but
Also, my daughter is a Spawn of Satan and I have Agnatic Primogeniture. I don't want to sound sexist, but why the girls are always Demon Childs in my game and not the boys? And why it always happens to me during agnatic succession law?
Ironically, the one time I've played a character with a Satan Child seriously (as opposed to when I was just goofing around), it was as Basileus. I had Agnatic-Cognatic Elective, which
should have been good enough except that everyone hated my daughter for being so obviously evil. So I actually had to switch to Primo just to get her in (and she... "helped" by murdering my other children). Fortunately a faction fired to switch back to Elective soon after she took power, which saved me the trouble of doing it myself and prevented certain vassals from civil warring me (other vassals did, but their factions were small and were easily crushed, allowing me to consolidate power)
This pretty much addresses all the current problems with M&M
Also, gnostics appeared in an early dev diary but were cut.
I'm sort of surprised the tide has turned this much. I was expecting to be a minority. Huh. I feel very neutral about that.