Water Blessing Borked?

[Huzurdaddi]

Yupper my pretender has water 9 from construction ( it's like turn 6 or something like that).

The plus to defence works dandy. But the quickness does not seem to be taking hold.

I have tried it with a number of pretenders and a number of troops. For all of them they get the + to defence but not the quickness ( which is a shame, it's a hard blessing to get but probably the best one ).