[Torin]

There´s a topic about the knights being too good.

Mainly I think the biggest boon that Oceania has is a cheap mage that can forge clam of pearls and Income of water gems.

If you give your knights a useful bless you probably wont have a decent astral mage to use the gems from the clams.
And if you take an awake combat god maybe wont be cheap to give him astral magic.

I would probably go by the bless strategy and forget about astral.
Just expand and fight your underwater fights with your knights and later empower some guy to astral or use astral indies (try to get hammers asap).

Another choice could be a high water and minor astral but im not at home to see the pretenders now.