[Inigo Montoya]

If you no longer exert your dominion into a single province you are dead. Even if you own provinces, but exert no dominion, it's over.

The strength of your dominion affects how easily the dominion can spread or be lowered. So if your neighbor has provinces (with temples) with dominion 8 and you have provinces (with temples) with dominion 1, it is much more likely that your dominion will be snuffed out and converted to your enemy's. Dominion spreads to other provinces by God, prophet, or temples. But the resistance to that spread is related to the strength of the existing dominion.

There is an excellent pdf file on dominion, but I don't remember where I got it...

[ July 16, 2004, 18:09: Message edited by: Inigo Montoya ]