Success will mean the heretic is burned at the stake, removed from the map after being found guilty of spreading heretical teaching. Failure could result in your priest losing piety due to questioning their own beliefs or even turning into a heretic themselves.
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Priests will attempt to denounce the heretics in a trial that depends on the priests piety. Instead of spreading the faith of the major religions in the area, they spread Heresy which can effect public order. Heretic Main article: Heretic (Medieval II: Total War)Ī heretic can appear randomly in a region, and can sometimes be a players priest converted into a heretic. Failure could result in your merchant being forced out of business, while success will force the opposing merchant out of business and your merchant taking their resources. Their Finance skill also effects their success at acquisition of another merchants assets.
Resources further away from your territory often garner more money. Merchants can travel across the map, being placed on a resource and generating certain amounts of money depending on their Finance skill and the resource in question. Merchant Main article: Merchant (Medieval II: Total War) If a spy infiltrates a city, they can spread discord and have a effect on public order, as well as have a chance to open the gates in the event of a siege. Similar to assassins, they become better with each success and failure results in them being discovered and possibly killed. Spy's are the hidden eyes and ears of a faction meant to gather intelligence on another factions troop numbers and cities. Spy Main article: Spy (Medieval II: Total War) Success means the assassin will be better in future missions, failure can result in the assassin living to try again or dying.
They can carry out assassinations and sabotage missions. Assassins are the only other way to deal with heretics and witches besides priests. While one must request a Crusade from the Pope, a Imam with sufficient piety is capable of calling for a Jihad.Īssassin Main article: Assassin (Medieval II: Total War)Īssassins are recruitable by all factions in the game and serve the purpose they did in previous games. Operates similarly to the Priests of the Christian factions, except they have no central church to call upon their religious war. Imam (Islamic) Main article: Imam (Medieval II: Total War) Priests in the service of a Catholic nation can be promoted to Cardinals in the Catholic church, making them immune to heresy, and giving their faction additional votes when the pope dies and the Papal elections occur. In addition, Priests will also denounce heretics and witches with their chances of success dependent on their Piety rating or level.
They spread the faith of their faction in its regions along with whatever religious buildings have been built, and also provide a mobile way to spread their faith in other regions or territories. Priests are trained in a settlement or castle with religious buildings, and serve the following functions. Priests (Catholic and Orthodox.) Main article: Priest (Medieval II: Total War)