eh, why are people hysterical about Inquisiters?

[gardibolt]

The tricky part of winning this game is going to be avoiding my faction being wiped out by Inquisitors. Since they are certainly relentless and seem to be totally random (I've been keeping heresy under control, building priests and churches like mad and staying at perfect relations with the pope---who was one of my cardinals in the first place ) it is a disenchanting element to say the least. If my former crusader (now the king) gets killed in battle or by an assassin or dies of old age before I manage to finish the game, I probably will lose in exactly that manner, though. It would be nice to have the option to bribe the Inquisitors to go attack someone else....The Danes and Spanish are both excommunicated but the Inquisition doesn't seem to have any interest in them at all (just like the heretics and witches)--only my people. And this is on M/M, remember.

I've tried running away, but there are so many Inquisitors on the map that getting away from one puts you within striking range of another. I have managed to save a bunch of priests for the moment by shipping them to North Africa, though, and their piety is going through the roof. Too bad they can't turn Inquisitors the way heretics can turn priests. But a few more turns and they may be safe to bring back to France. That doesn't help with the family members, though.

I finally got a Theologians' Guild just before I stopped for the night, so I will try shipping all new family members there ASAP to see if I can't get a quick piety boost before they're reduced to ashes like usual.