Question on Blood Sacrifice (and Mictlan)

[PvK]

Particularly for Mictlan a high dominion could be useful, since it reduces your need to use blood slaves to keep your dominion around.

Otherwise, it depends on what your dominion scales are like, and what your neighbors' scales are like, and what magic etc. you want to use that is affected by dominion. There are many many examples of effects of this - keeping harmful scale effects away, keeping the heat where your men like it (important for Mictlan, which prefers +1 heat), keeping miasmatic dominion away, determining where various global spells take effect (e.g. Gift of Health, Wrath of God, etc.), etc etc etc. Heaps o' meaningful side-effects of dominion strength.

PvK

[onomastikon]

Originally posted by Truper:
ceremony put together an *awesome* guide to dominion and how it spreads. You can find it here: http://www.maladjustite.com/dominion.pdf

You can think of Mictlan temples as being like any other, except that it takes blood sacrifices to activate them. Since temples can spread dominion to nearby provinces, "spread dominion over the world" does make sense. In your test, your god was spreading dominion, which is the only "free" domionion spread Mictlan can get.

First of all, thanks.
Secondly, I cant get that link to work, keep getting the message "could not find acrobat" (although of course I have the reader installed). Does anyone have that .pdf somewhere else?
Thirdly, didnt Tacticus say that blood sacrifices raise dominion in *that province* (I will call this "raise" dominion, or when it happens, "rise"), but does not spread it to neighboring dominions ("spread")? So what you are saying is that it does both raise and spread?
And it seems that even the Mictlan home pantheon god "spreads" dominion (although he will not cause it to "rise")?
PvK: the dominion in my home province never increased.
OK well in any case, thank you all -- I am still confused, but maybe understanding more. Must finish my Pythium game first....

[PvK]

The file is there. Try right-clicking and downloading it to your computer. Then load Acrobat, and then load the file into Acrobat manually.

It explains dominion in great detail, with the exception of Mictlani details.

As we've alluded to, most forms of dominion increase have a chance of "spreading", affecting not the province of the source, but an adjacent province. According to the article, which seems consistent with my impressions from playing, the chance of spread goes up, the closer to the maximum the source province is. Note that you can't exceed your max dominion strength, and that max strength goes up by one for every five temples you have. The level in a province also has a strong effect on how hard it is for opposing sources to reduce that dominion.

PvK