Inquisitors

[Slug For A Butt]

Do Inquisitors just appear, or do they need to travel to where you first see them?
Im just wondering because they seem to appear out of nowhere and kill my less pious citykeepers.
For instance... my last campaign as the English I was infested with them even before I had spread to the mainland. Now, if I had kept a fleet between Britain and the mainland would I have been able to keep them away? Or do they just appear in your lands?

[TevashSzat]

They randomly appear for the papl states, but i remember reading somewhere that there could only be 1 inquisitor in a province at a time

[Darkarbiter]

Isnt it related to papal standing?

[yezhanquan85]

Well, playing as the papal states, I noticed that they spawn randomly. But, if your lands have a pretty high rate of heresy, they will almost certainly appear seemingly out of nowhere. Of course, as the pope's personal army, your guys will not be targets for a bonfire. Also, with them, you can burn imans and Orthodox priests too, which I guess is a little... overboard.

[SadCat]

They randomly appear and I have had 4 inquisitor in a province at a time. Now they do walk in and out of the province so it may be true only one can "pop" in. I have had them kill a Cardinal too. They hit on him about 4 times before he died. He had been daring to denounce a turn coat priest of 6 dots. Had failed twice before they came for him. I lost what should of been the next pope to them as he had all the dots and I had 11 total Cardinals at the time. SadCat :wall:

[napoleon526]

In one game as France I had 4 Inquisitors spread over 2 provinces. This was odd because there was almost no heresy and I had outstanding relations with the Pope. The key to getting them to leave seems to be a combination of maintaining good relations with the PS and depriving them of targets. If they're in a province, inquisitors will go after anybody. If you remove your generals, merchants, and priests from a province with an inquisitor, they'll eventually get bored and move on, hopefully to another faction.

[zstajerski]

Strange, I think in all my games I only got about 3-5 units burned for heresy, maybe it has somethink to do that I always when palying Christian I allie myself with the papal states? dunno :no:

[DirtyACE]

The secret (or maybe not) to these guys is that they're attracted to places with moderate to high heressy. I have never had inquisitors on my lands because I make sure to build churches and have plenty of priests around to keep my population religiously proper. I'm currently playing with Spain so I'm right next door to France where I can see the Inquisitors going wild, however, they never ever cross over to my lands.

[gardibolt]

But if you conquer France's lands, the Inquisitors will see you as fair game---they don't see you as being separate from those heretical Frenchmen. So before you invade France (should you wish to do so), send in some cardinals to kill the heretics and encourage the Inquisitors to move on to other areas first.

[Lorenzo_H]

I'm really annoyed at the Inquisitors right now. I am really short of Generals, and I needed to send another General to the new world. I chose a young General (only 17) who had loads of really good traits. I sent him down to Cordoba to go onto the next fleet preparing to Go to America, but the turn before I could have loaded him a flipin inquisitor decided to burn him and now Im even more desperatly short of Generals.

Darn it!

[Foz]

A lot of people have expressed very negative views toward inquisitors, and several times I've seen people asking if there's any way to remove them from the game. There in fact might be.

The descr_campaign_db.xml file has a couple interesting options in the <religion> section. Try fooling with these:

max_inquisitors_per_region
max_inquisitors
inquisitor_creation_modifier

I'm betting if you set the first two to 0, it becomes impossible for the game to spawn any inquisitors. The third one likely modifies the base chance to spawn inquisitors, so it couldn't hurt to set it to zero either. Coincidentally you can also try just lowering max_inquisitors and inquisitor_creation_modifier if you want less inquisitors instead of none.