Currently, the Spiritual Church is facing great uncertainty. The future could be both terrible and incredible in case Maximillian succeeded in his projects.
But in both futures, high-level people in the Church would suffer and could range from getting great opportunities to losing everything they had built so far.
The Church would hardly be destroyed in a continental war, but many experts could die in such a confrontation.
The currently powerful factions could lose their power and become decadent groups or even be exterminated.
All members of the Church could be affected in these uncertain times, and as such, the members of the main factions were already beginning to think of what was best for themselves.
With the appearance of Maximillian, the dispute for the position of Church leader no longer made sense, so the positions of a few months ago of these factions had changed.