[Loren]

Add me to the crowd that thinks you died from a lack of dominion. You lose your last candle and that's that, you're dead, all your armies vanish. It doesn't matter if you controlled all but one province on the map when that happened. (In theory it wouldn't matter if you controlled every province but I can't think of any means by which this could happen. To control every province would mean your enemies had only stealth units left. Stealth preachers could kill you but I don't think there is any stealth pretender and if he has no province and no pretender he will have died.)

The game is actually about spreading your dominion (that's why it's named "Dominions"), your armies are merely a means to this end.