>>5565
excellent ideas
sounds like you are better at this than me (to be expected im a beginner)
i'll leave out eugenics since all ideologies influence this only varying on which attributes they want to encourage.
affinities options are pretty good, canines are holy, felines are holy, avians, eldritch/demons etc
blasphemers are punished by:
exile - they can be heretical elsewhere
suffering - the pain in non-equal measure will act as a deterrent
reformation - the offending individual will be given trials and challenge, they will either die to them in honourable contest or survive and grow to be better
sacrifice - the offender is killed, their influence removed and their name erased from all record, they will cease to exist to us (this one runs the risk of martyr cults of the forbidden knowledge cropping up, especially if you have an antagonist, perhaps this one gets you a couple of additional points to spend elsewhere).
i meant to create an entertaining history for your people/the world but that choice can be decided by the reader since they are just suggestions.
you are right the culture should just become which cultural traits you will encourage (what your religion represents)
as for the other traits. those are good suggestions, things like tradition or innovation, hedonism/excess/pleasure or virtue/stoicism/deferring gratification, perhaps an individualism or collectivism. thats one of the categories that can afford to have many options within symmetry since its the most important one, perhaps you can select multiple options via the points system.
thanks greatly for the ideas, im glad i didnt spend ages making an image since it has a lot more work that can be done on it.