I think I am doing good and I have a feeling that ulm is doing good as well. I think abysia's guy on the hof is misleading to how he is doing. Then you have caelum and ermor with nobody on the hof...bad start?
This in not going very well for me, I had a slow start and lost 1 province 2 turns ago.
About the other players I think Ulm and Mictlan must be doing good, because they have a lot of leaders in the hof, and the god of Mictlan has a lot of kills. I'm wondering what is the pretender of Mictlan, a Lord of the night?
i have a special province as neighbor with a golem leader with gargoyles . i wonder if i ever conquer the province ^^
but expect this my starting position is not bad i think