Loreboy, I know that. BUT for me this is like the Byzantine Empire losing to the Arabs/Turks and being forced to abandon christianity.
First of all:
The Muslims would never even think of demanding this, since they know they won't do it.
Secondly:
And the rulers know exactly the following is going to happen, but if they actually accepted this, then:
There would be mass-revolts of the peasents, of the clery, of the nobels and of the military.
General Tullius from the byzantine Empire would probably think about becoming the new Basileus. The ruling dynasty would get discredited as fuck.
So the end result would never be that christianity would be abandoned by the Byzantines, instead there would be just civil war. Historians would then report that 5 years later, the civil war calmed down. The ruling family castrated or blinded and sent to a monastery and the Emperor dead.
I know why this happened, loreboy. But I just don't think that this is how an Empire and their society would act.
Because I am fair, I am also presenting a case, where the Byzantine Empire (them again) managed to actually push these peace terms on someone:
It was the pagan bulgars. And this was also the only condition of the peace treaty: The ruler and his family were going to be baptized and become orthodox christians.
Now you know what the bulgar king did?
No, he did not allow thalm… greek/romans on his land and harass his population. The Byzantines would have never thought they could get away with this outrageous demand.
No, he actually founded his own brand of orthodoxism sort of. His clergy wasn't going to speak greek, he worked hard to have them speak their own slavic language.
Why? To not be dependent on the Byzantines for anything and to not be influenced by them.
My dear user, it just doesn't make SENSE to me how the Thalmor can basically stop the fantasy equivalent of mixture of hellenic/roman pagans with heavy christian influence to stop worshipping their Jesus figure.