I was playing with inquisitors last night, trying to discover how to properly use these guys to create dismay and unhappiness in my enemies. I found that if you try to burn a guy enough times and he survives it, they develop a V&V of devout (+2 piety) or born again (+4 or 6, I think). I had one enemy go from 1 piety to 6, after 2-3 inquisitions.
After discovering that inquisitors give V&V bonuses IF they don't burn a guy, I then took a 0 level inquisitor and sicced him on my king (piety 2). He gets two new V&V, devout and secret athiest. I decided to do the same with my heir, and he gets the same thing. (These british kings just aren't very interested in religion, are they?) I think, "Hmmmm, if piety were good for anything, this'd be a great!" I then use the inquisitor on a few of my higher piety generals. They all pass, and get a V&V after the 2nd inquisition I believe (sometimes the first).
Now, if I could only remember what Piety is good for?
With inquisitors, do they cause a zeal balloon? That is, they go in, the zeal goes up a little, then a lot, then drops out? If so, one could set up a crusade, and send in an inquisitor in the enemy provinces. Zeal balloons, you move the inquisitor before it drops, and send in a cardinal or some bishops to keep the zeal high in the province. Then, when the crusade rolls in, everyone runs off and joins.
I wasn't quite remembering exactly how the inquisitor process worked, and with no internet access, couldn't pull up the umpteen guides many people have been kind enough to put in here.
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