[Wahnsinniger]

Animal Leadership is a good idea, especially if it forces players to buy the seldom used "Trainer" commanders (i.e. for salamanders and such). However, this seems like a very round-about way to try to fix elephant rushes, and I'm not sure why it even fixes it. (I personally think my Trample suggestion is better)

The Bless based on Dominion is a great idea, since a bunch of global enchantments and other stuff is already directly based on dominion strength. It probably should be a little simplier system though, just based on inside dominion/outside dominion. Priest level really shouldn't affect it, since that already determines if you can use Blessing vs Diving Blessing, and with some nations having weak priests, it could virtually destroy any Bless strategies they have.