[Psitticine]

I had the thought Last night that, really, given their auto-Dominion spreading, maybe Pretenders can be fairly classified as ALWAYS preaching and thus don't have a seperate command becaues of that?

If that's the case, you'd think Prophets couldn't preach either, since they also automatically spread Dominion.

Another thought I had is that maybe Pretenders are simply too alien, due to their high stature, to be effective preachers. Maybe the logic is that they can't communicate with the masses any more effectively than they do by simply existing and being, well, godlike.

You'd think a Pretender could raise a temple to his/her/itself though. That's one thing that, honestly, I can't make much sense out of, unless it is purely a play-balancing decision that I don't understand.

I think that, in the end, maybe the real reason is that a Pretender would have to have a very high Priest level (maybe one equal to its Dominion Strength?) for it to make sense, and that would give it access to Smite and other abilities that would potentially unbalance things. And, with the system being set up the way it is, that means the Pretender not only can't cast priest spells, but he/she/it can't do anything else priestly as well.

I'd like to see an exception for being able to build temples shoehorned in there, and I can't see how it'd be unbalancing, but I wouldn't know what to do about the logical flaw behind the fact the fonts of divine power can't harness that power themselves into priestly spells.

Hmm, the Parrot rambles this day . . .