I also like the idea of toying around with maleficium in early game without necesarrily falling if renouncing it before getting caught..
Maybe it can be made through a voluntary action to renounce maleficium without being compelled to do it by another player (for a price, and with restrictions on how deep you are engaged on the evil tech tree. Or with a ritual which length depends on the number of technologies to renounce. During the ritual, the prophecy of Va can still be made, and make me fall).
And a question: after being forced to renounce maleficium, should a civ be allowed to run for the protector victory ? (not sure of what are the implications)
Maybe it can be made through a voluntary action to renounce maleficium without being compelled to do it by another player (for a price, and with restrictions on how deep you are engaged on the evil tech tree. Or with a ritual which length depends on the number of technologies to renounce. During the ritual, the prophecy of Va can still be made, and make me fall).
And a question: after being forced to renounce maleficium, should a civ be allowed to run for the protector victory ? (not sure of what are the implications)