Purpelia wrote:The Imperial Reach wrote:
I highly doubt Catholics would flee to pagan realms in order to avoid persecution. That'd like Jews fleeing to Nazi Germany to avoid persecution.
Why not? What is it that makes catholics so special compared to every other faith?
Also, I do not think you understand what I am talking about. The sort of people that convert monarchies top down aren't peasants fleeing prosecution. It's the former elite, the educated clergy or nobility (the two overlapped) who are now out of a job. That's the sort of people who would be welcomed into pagan reals by ambitious kings because they are learned and well versed in running things. It's how Christianity spread into a lot of pagan nations historically. Only now there are no strings attached as these people are NOT obvious servants of some foreign monarch. So they seem like the ideal catch.
And than they poison the mind of the leader.
"Poison"