Stopping the spread of Christianity

[DankLordSauron]

I'm playing as the Norse pagans and have noticed, in the year 947, that quite a few of my low-level vassals are beginning to embrace catholicism/The Orthodox Church.

How do i prevent this from spreading and stay Pagan? Can i somehow convert my non-pagan provinces? Would it help if i reformed norse paganism?

[Turncloak]

You can have your seer (religious advisor) proselytize, if you hover over it, wherever you place your seer, it will increase the % of converting the county religion aswell as a % of the subjects of that county.

When I play though, majority of the times regional counties convert by themselves, instead of the ones i'm actually attempting to convert.

Also, reforming the Norse faith through owning counties with holy sites. If you do this it's much better for your religion in the long term. But you tend to get the few vassals who are dedicated to the Old Norse.

[Yorkie]

You can convert the provinces by putting you chaplin/seer in the province with the mission to convert.

You can stem the tide of religous spread by helping keep your religous authority high. This is done by winning raiding, holy wars etc...

Provences will convert over time to the rulers faith. If your vassal is christian, they will over time convert to catholicism, however if the vassl is pagan they will eventually convert norse.

[la_nague]

using the chaplain will be painful, most pagans have in their description that cinverting provinces is harder.

I have a guy standing in my capital for 60 years trying to convert its religion from jewish to tengri....

[Mark]

the old norse faith is incredibly hard to keep cause they have big penalties for converting. if u reform then i was getting 60% chance per year to convert and my vassal converted all there stuff themselves.

[markdb92]

from my experince ingame so far as long my conquered land was done by holy wars all the slots get removed that I warred against so I can install my pagan vassels. Thus I seems to be converting the catholics to pagan. If I do get vassels with non pagan faith I just tell them to embrace my faith which solves that. If they too young I just wait till I can as the little kids cant do much till 16. As I been converting I been geting less and less rebelions in the areas that have been unless some idiot annoys the peaseants to revolt.

[DankLordSauron]

Thanks for the replies! i'll definitely try reforming my faith.

[jerry.barrington]

Originally posted by markdb92:

If they too young I just wait till I can as the little kids cant do much till 16.

Try educating them. As part of your realm, you can arrange a guardian who is your own religion. Get somebody with the zealous trait, plus the diligent trait if you can find somebody with both as well as your religion.