[Chris_Byler]

Abysia has H3 priests anywhere, too (in at least some ages).

But most nations that have an H3 priest at all (aside from prophets) also have an H2 anywhere; Mictlan is one of the very few exceptions with H3 in the capitol but only H1 outside it. That's one of the niches that Priest of the Law would fit, in addition to being a non-old leader, blesser and patroller. Allowing PotLs for blessing, sermon of courage etc. would free up the capitol priest-mages to use their magic paths more.

Baalz: I think that instead of changing the couatl, it would be more interesting to add a new unit and allow the player to choose which one to use (or in what combination to use both). That's why I suggested the quetzal (which I envisioned at something like A1 N1 (ANS)1.5, but anything reasonable would be better than nothing). Couatl does have uses in its current form (including moonvine bracelet, which would be hard to get with your version).

I'd like to see the current couatl, the sky priest and the quetzal all available at once, and see what that leads to, rather than preemptively deciding that it would be "too good". Nothing that's proposed for MA Mictlan comes near the powers of Theurgs, Seraphim or Disir, two of which are already running around in the middle age (on nations with superior military, too).

Don't forget that also by losing blood they also lose sabbath capability. In MA Mictlan only the moon priests and couatls can commune, so they don't have the ability to reach communion-boosted levels of fire and water (unless you have a pretender that can forge matrices) and can only boost nature and astral with considerable cost and difficulty - their only reliably communion *slaves* are capitol-only (again, without help from a suitable pretender or site mages like the Iron Order).