Something strange happened...

[Edi]

Bug. Pretenders are not supposed to just disappear like that. The devs might be able to find something out from the turn file.

Edi

[Ubik]

Fine. Can some kind sould tell me how long it will take to "Call the God" to work? I checked the manual in units orders and Call God was no there.

If I am unable to call my pretender back I will be at a huge disadvantage...

[Ygorl]

Call God is described on P. 52 (as per the index of the manual)

[Ubik]

Yep!

Thanks!

But I think more than 40 levels have been called...

[Shovah32]

Could your god have vanished into space and time/been banished to inferno or anything like that?

[Gandalf Parker]

did you have boots on your god?
Did your dominion (the candles) drop to nothing?

[Ubik]

No boots and my dominion was strong across my territories and beyond (started with 5 dom, built 10 more temples, was at 7). It simply vanished without any kind of message.
I don't know if there is some kind of spell that can "banish" other pretender but I guess a message would appear, isn't it?
I would be delighted to provide any interested parties with the turn that happened, but it was maybe 20-30 turns ago and I don't have it saved. Anyways, who can tell me what files need to be saved to preserve a a particular turn?

Guess I am going to start all over. Playing a game without the pretender for me is a bit akin to playing chess without the King.

Thanks all for the nice help!

[Shovah32]

So playing dominions without a pretender makes you un-beatable?

[Jack_Trowell]

To call back your god if he died (the "call god" order should only be available if he did), you must accumulate at least 40 holy levels : for exemple, if you have 5 second-level priests with this order, you will accumulaire 5x2=10, so it will take 4 turns

Your god will then appear in your capitol (make sure that you still control this province, or your god might die again versus the heretics !)