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Some nations can blood sacrifice, some have inquisitors.

The dominion chosen at the start of the game also has a big effect on dominion spreading power. Initial dominion values of 9 and 10 give the pretender Awe, which works great in early expansion when combined with protection and/or Fear. This is less feasible with pretenders that start with low dominion, like Dragons, because the cost of increasing dominion scales up with the number of increases (1 to 6 or 3 to 8 cost the same).

Temples stop spread of hostile dominion well, so temples near border can help hold back enemy dominion.


I've heard that Mictlan can spread dominion very fast by Blood Sacrificing with a couple of priests wielding Jade Knives (N/B item, increases the amount of slaves a priest can sacrifice to increase dominion). Other blood sacrificing nations could also do it, but Mictlan has lots of priests, jade knives and slaves any way, and probably rather high dominion (to allow the recruitment of more sacreds and to keep their dominion alive in the early game) so it's easy to pull off.