[Cainehill]

Another thing in favor of having some carrion cuties - carrion lords aren't very cost effective for shuttling the roadkill from province to province.

Now, arguably mound kings or revenants are more cost efficient than carrion ladies, especially as they come from another pot of money, so to speak - death gems vice nature. However, the carrion lady can be used to round up 20-40 auto-spawned carrions, take them to a province, build a temple and then sit there reanimating while guarding the temple.

Sure, if you could afford it you'd want to build a fortress to protect your temples - but CW wants a lot of temples, generally a lot more temples than it can afford to build fortresses on top of.

Also - the carrion lady should survive a seeking arrow with close to a 90% chance of survival; with good carrion critters set as bodyguards, has a good chance of surviving most assassins, but is rather a bit vulnerable to fires from afar.