Growth and Death by the Numbers

[Endoperez]

Growth also protects your old mages from early death, saving you a lot every late winter. Growth also keeps your provinces from getting plagues, while Order keeps all events in check and enables the "tax collection went well" events.

[Edratman]

I've become a growth, order and luck fan myself. Usually I only take growth 1, primarily because point distribution issues.

I found that I have much more success and a lot less troubles with positive scales than negative scales. Of course this is from a SP perspective, so I'm not competing against a double bless opponent.