My pretender died for no reason!

[Graeme Dice]

ShadowBlade said:
No, I had like 10 provinces or so. Victory conditions were standard, so I assume I had to wipe everyone out to win. It seems to be a bug, and I hope it doesn't happen to me again.

Did you lose the game and receive a message about how you were wiped out, or did your pretender just die in a battle? If you lost the game while still controlling 10 provinces then you probably were dominion killed. If you don't have any provinces with your dominion (White candles) then nobody believes in you and you lose automatically. Not a bug, but just something to watch out for.

If your pretender died during the battle, then there are a half dozen spells that could have killed him without you noticing it right away. You can always call him back with priests if that's what happened.