[johnarryn]

Certainly an interesting strategy on Oceania's part... as far as I know, they don't have national access to death, however, so they will pretty much have to take it on their pretender. Further, Burden of Time does have that nasty side effect of making everyone want to kill you.

I don't really think being able to cast BoT relatively unaffected if your pretender has fairly strong death magic in any way minimizes some of the other weaknesses Oceania has.