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Azhur said:
Next question: I had originally a 2-in-all-rainbow mage, whose magic paths I eventually empowered all the way to 11 (Spinal Tap, anyone?).

Yet, my prophet gains no blessing effects to speak of. Does it mean, that the only blessings I'll be getting during the course of the game, are the ones I chose initially, at the pretender creation screen (e.g F9/W9)?

Yeah, blessings are definitively set at pretender creation. You'll like it when your blessing pretender dies early, and then comes back with reduced magic