Hm, you have a point there. In fact, in my play attempts I ended up having to take bad scales to manage a decent dominion (which was not the point)
Besides, it fits ICly. This is no mere upstart lich befuddling the masses, this is the messiah. He ought to get some status due to that
I´m going to try him out with dominion 4, summon knights (aka, monster 21), 2 awe, and 8 reinvirgoration(actually, scratch that, I´m removing reinvirgoration and reducing encumbrance to 0. Which in theory should work the same and scratch armor penalties).