I started in 46, in the middle-east of the map. A black candle spotted north in 63.
I have a Caelian Seraph with a fever fetish (therefore diseased ) to start with. And he leads undead who will die as soon as he leads them on a battlefield for lack of undead leadership. Well, I recruited a death mage.
Damn restart. I uploaded the pretender from another computer, and only now do I realise that it must have been a somewhat experimental design. I mean my bless's ok but Misfortune 2 with apparently low Order... It will be hard. What with the event that caused my capital to have 90 unrest. I'm probably not going to try to conquer my first indy province before turn four or five.