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[quote]Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

Why do people want priestly power on their mages at all? Why do people want powerful priests at all really? Being sacred is good. Being a priest and a mage is not, since you pay more for abilities you can't use at the same time and less power on the battlefield.

Think back to when you were playing Serpent Cult Pythium in the Twilight of Magic PBEM. All those priestly mages you had researching were able to stop researching and recall your Wyrm in just one turn pretty much every time.

There's no way you would have recruited 20 or so priests who didn't have spell casting, forging, and research ability.

IMM, that's one very good reason to love priest mages : you have the priests when you need them.

Also, when you run into an undead province, banishment is often more effective than mage spells, at least early to mid game. Again - those mages having priest abilities comes in handy.