Questions for those more knowledgable than me(so almost anyone)..

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by von_Schmidt:

Howevr, they showed up in my own provinces though - or am I confusing something here?

Yes, when they show up in your provinces it is a (un)natural result of having high dominion. If they show up in another nation's province then it's a result of thier bad random event.

[Gandalf Parker]

I just had a bunch of fanatics appear in one of my games. Im playing Marignon and they just appeared, and took, a province right next to Ermors capital. Suddenly I own a province right next to Ermor and have 4 priest commanders with blessed troops. I didnt see the original message, just the combat. So I figure like other events the original message went to the original owner of the province.

I also had a province suddenly given to me when I was playing as Pangaea in a game. Im hoping that there is some rare event which does this for every nation equally.