The others have been answered but I'll expand on this:
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SillyRobot said:
4) Is Blood Magic a worthwhile path to follow? It seems to have a very high opportunity cost in terms of investment and upkeep.
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If your nation has naitonal recruitable blood mages you should definatly get into blood magic. Keep in mind that blood slaves are usually easier to generate than gems - so the prices of the blood spells/items reflect that inflation.
It's actually open to debate if you should start a blood economy when aren't playing a nation with national blood mages.
My position that if you play long game (at least 80-100 turns) on a 15 province per player or more map it is always worth it to start blood hunting if you find indy blood mages to kick start your blood economy.
There are lots of topics on the subject though.