CCRB RECORD No. 0069
Final Fantasy XIV Online (Heavensward)
Determination: Implied — Corruption 2, Denial 2, Deicide 2
One expansion is built around a Vatican-styled Holy See whose Archbishop runs an Inquisition, hides a founding lie, and ascends to godhood before you kill him.
Heavensward (2015) is set in Ishgard, a theocracy ruled by the Archbishop of the Ishgardian Orthodox Church from a seat literally named the Holy See — the Vatican's own formal name. The Church enforces an official history through an Inquisition and Temple Knights, tries dissenters as heretics, and requires celibacy of its clergy and the Archbishop's twelve-knight Heavens' Ward, whose commander holds the real Orthodox title of Archimandrite. The story reveals the Church's scripture was a fabrication covering an ancient betrayal, and ends with the Archbishop absorbing a millennium of his people's prayers to become a god-king, whom the player kills.