[st.patrik]

I thought about air, but I figured I could archer decoy with those Bandar, which mostly worked pretty well, but it would have been easier to just have air shield from bless. If I could get a water9 + fire9 blessing that would be pretty impressive, but difficult to do, especially considering most of the fun summons are astral, and the most powerful national mage in astral magic is the Guru at astral 2. Gettting a water9 + fire9 + astral4 blessing (for example) would be pretty hard, especially considering you want a strong dominion to recruit lots of sacred troops.
Although the one thing I definitely would change in my pretender design if I could go back would be the sloth scale: I took sloth 1, but could easily have gotten away with sloth 3, which would have given me 80 more design points to work with.