[Septimius Severus]

Hmm, I am starting to dislike the team name Haleheim as well. It is too close to Helheim and is probably derived from the same word. Lands of Earth and Fire, ehh maybe. Can anyone else think of a good name that symbolizes strength, power, and steel but doesn't necessarily spell out the paths involved?

Children of Crom? Companions of Crom?

Ulm is the flagship of the team, so I am not inclined to replace it with anything, especially Abysia since that is one of the only 4 MA nations with native blood. Sticking Ashdod in the back might be the only way to calm fears with them in the game.

MA Mictlan is too strong of an Astral power I think to be on the blood team. Their astral would help (since astral is the greatest contributory path for blood (horrors and so forth))but I beleive some or at least one of the blood nations already have a smattering of astral and that is really all I want them to have. Also MA Mictlan has no native blood and only a teeny, tiny, itsby bitsy random chance of a blood caster.

MA R'lyeh is the flagship of the mental magic/astral magic theme of the Usurpers. Powerful astral, and can summon void beings. I can stick em in a single underwater lake type province (similar to what we have in this game) without changing any map graphics (and thus making me do more work). The Caveat is their capital will take a resource hit in that it will not gather resources from neighboring land provinces. This however may not be an issue because they've versions of useful amphibious troops like lobo guards that are not resource intensive at all. Taking a +1 or +2 productivity scale will help to overcome some of this, and their may be a map edit that will allow me to boost the resources in the cap.

I am testing MA R'lyeh right now to discover more.