Can inquisitors remove heresy from allied city states?

[reubenmd12]

They are friendly land, but not your own city...

[just.nuke.em]

No. Missonaries or Great Prophets.

[zxcvbob]

No. just your own cities. But they are the only way to truly remove an enemy religion from a captured holy city.

[reubenmd12]

Thanks.

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

No. just your own cities. But they are the only way to truly remove an enemy religion from a captured holy city.

Can't the enemy religion still come back in that city, though? Or if you remove it and it isn't present anywhere else, is it truly gone?

[kkeday]

Originally posted by reubenmd12:

Thanks.

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

No. just your own cities. But they are the only way to truly remove an enemy religion from a captured holy city.

Can't the enemy religion still come back in that city, though? Or if you remove it and it isn't present anywhere else, is it truly gone?

The founding religion does tend to creep back & will often require a second inquistor application. I ussually keep an inquisitor stationed near by just in case.
Note: There is a mod with Stannis Baratheon from Game of Thrones - when a city is captured by Stannis, it converts to Stannis' religion. if he founded one.

[Playerjjjj]

Originally posted by reubenmd12:

Thanks.

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

No. just your own cities. But they are the only way to truly remove an enemy religion from a captured holy city.

Can't the enemy religion still come back in that city, though? Or if you remove it and it isn't present anywhere else, is it truly gone?

I'm pretty sure inquisting a holy city removes that religion's pressure for good, unless it has an absolutely massive foothold in the surrounding area. It's possible to completely destroy a religion this way; its followers in other cities will remain, but they won't increase in number.

[zxcvbob]

Zapping a holy city with an inquisitor removes its holy status and its innate religious pressure. Zapping it with a great prophet does not, and the original religion will reassert itself unless you have massive religious pressure from surrounding cities.

If the civ you captured the city from is still alive, when they get a great prophet they will try to convert their original holy city and/or capital back, even before they convert the cities they still hold or the nearby city states. (I don't know why they do that, other than to be annoying)