[PvK]

I've seen some Mandragoras from Jotunheim, IIRC. The AI has had better gem income than I have in the few games I played. Of course, there are a lot of other ways it could be using those gems.

BTW, I saw Mictlan evaporate from zero dominions too after I and the other AI's had reduced them to a few provinces for a while.

I sort of thought their standing armies would remain as independent defense forces, at least, but when I marched in, I met no resistance at all. Seems to me it'd be more interesting if the old armies and defense forces had to be overcome.

Also, the other neighboring AI's didn't hurry to gobble up the undefended provinces. Seems like the AI might be wanting a priority tactic to attack any really weak adjacent provinces, especially if an pretender evaporates and this has the effect of leaving completely up-for-grabs provinces.

PvK