Old Germanic Heresy popping up everywhere long after reforming

[Schnick]

I've reformed the Germanic faith, converted all of my Old Germanic provinces to the Reformed version and now all of a sudden 3/4 of my provinces have converted back to Old Germanic. My moral authority hasn't dropped below 70 so this shouldn't be happening. This never happened before the recent patch for CK2. Is this a glitch or is this simply a new mechanic to make me suicidal?

[Banecroft]

Tedium is Paradox's version of a challenge. Hopefully it is just a bug, but it would not surprise me if it were not.

[The Cure]

Could have a large Old Germanic cult following in your realm. They're just now making themselves known. It's a feature with the M&M patch.

[Banecroft]

Originally posted by The Cure:

Could have a large Old Germanic cult following in your realm. They're just now making themselves known. It's a feature with the M&M patch.

I am still on 2.6.3, didn't even consider that. Good info. Thanks!

[Manthexxx]

Yeah i've noticed a lot of germanic pagans in my Catholic realm as well. I just demand conversion or take their titles.

So one thing that i'm still missing in this game is the ability to righteously imprison people because they are heretics, that really should be an option. Or even outright burn them at the stake, I wanna play an inquisitor! Those were fun guys. Possibly a future option to rule as a spanish inquisitor , new type of government more intimate with the pope?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Government ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order

Maybe if righteous imprisonment of heretics makes the game too easy, just the ability to wage war on your own heretic vassals with a heretic CB?

[GOATBONE]

I feel like you should be able to imprison people who are in factions against you, since that would be treasonous. Though I suppose that would make the game too easy.

[Azazel]

i convertet to catholizism as old german-i cant get rid of the loolards-definetivly caused by this patch,had this never before.another point is:they refuse to convert even you have a plus 100 relation....

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

The latest patch kicked up the secret religious societies a notch or 10. I have slavic pagans, norse pagans, west african pagans, and sunni muslims popping up all over where they should not be.

As a catholic, I joined the secret norse pagan. I never reformed so it is the unreformed I would say that in less than a year the leader came out of the closet and brought everyone else with him. I hadn't even gotten close to the second tier. Once you come out, you can't go back to your old religion even using the religion of your capital. You can join other secret societies once exposed.

It's kind of odd that my whole realm is almost all catholic and hardly any of my vassals are catholic because they were all in secret societies and had mass conversions.

[knut_frydenlund2]

Encountered this problem now. Suddenly 2/3 of the provinces were just old germanic. The worst thing is that there is no message or mention at all. I only notice once it starts affecting me due to low loyalty, revolts and so on. I think it is probably related to the religious cults being tuned up to 11 since I also have an issue with every single heir ever starting out as secretly old germanic forcing me to take an unfair 500 prestige hit. (if I could somehow, with my spymaster or whatever, find out that they were practicing that reactionary blasphemy I would have tried to have them disinherited or killed a long time ago)

An interesting thing is that it also converts non-germanic provinces. If it is an event then it actually could be quite cool. A religious schism-war, driven by fanatical "old believer", could be quite interesting in my current game But it is weird that it i so sudden and without even a message to let me know it has happened. If it was a smaller amount of provinces that converted + a boost to conversion for old germanic and greater unrest for those provinces, then it could be an interesting mid-game challenge: "the revenge of the old gods".

But for the moment it seems like a bug.