telestic animate support group

[Chris_Byler]

Can they perform blood sacrifices if summoned by a nation that normally can? Might be a cheap alternative to Anathemants for Abysia doing a dominion push. They're also not capitol only, which could be handy for Mictlan (either hire a moon priest and teleport him there for almost as many pearls plus gold, or hire any L2 priest and have him spend several turns walking).

Also, unlike some nations' priests, TA won't drop dead of old age and require periodic replacement. Do they have any gold upkeep cost? Some nations have no L2 priest at all, or only an expensive and sometimes old priest-mage. Who wants to waste a Yaksha's or Nagaraja's time hanging around and preaching when they can just TA and move on?

If your nation can't reanimate or sacrifice, the TA might eventually be stuck without anything useful to do. But if it's 0-upkeep, who cares? Let it sit and SoC the province defense. You just have to summon it in a situation where getting the dominion up to friendly is worth at least 5 pearls to you even if you have no use for the TA afterwards.