With conclave, you could also manipulate laws so that religious revokation isn't a thing.
Yeah, but that involves manipulating the council while being a heathen. From my experience, this is particularly annoying not because it's difficult to pull off but because you have to constantly do it as the king will be constantly trying to change it back.
You'd need to do it every ten years or so I think, maybe 15/20 if you can completely negate revocation laws. That's a lot of bribing of the most powerful people in the land for favours, but might be manageable.
You'd think that, but when I tried to be a nice Lombardian loyal lord it got super annoying.
There are so many annoying parts:
- Sometimes even if you bribe people, if they already accepted a favour from someone else they'll happily take your money then do nothing with it.
- If anything happens to the king, the new dude will happily start changing laws and councilors.
- If they don't like you, they probably won't accept your bribe.
- I'm not too sure on the mechanics, but I'm fairly certain the time to change laws is dramatically shortened if the king gets cock-blocked in the council.
- Most importantly, you need to be on the council.
It's not impossible, but it's annoying. It's really hard as a heathen though. After about a hundred and fifty years of it I got tired of having to constantly defend myself from my own king and just seized the entirety of southern Italy, called it South Lombardy, and told the king to eff off.