Fire of the Faith theme Qs

[Alneyan]

Is Heat-1 the heat preference of Fires of the Faith? If so, that will indeed make this theme very cheap; otherwise, taking one level of Heat or two is already an appealing option for Marignon (well, more so than going the Cold way at any rate).

I gather you are right: all it does is make your Dominion spread faster (and the corollary, it slows down enemy Dominions). I am not sure how helpful it is, since Immortal Pretenders live or die according to the Dominion level before the battles, not after. In King of the Hill, Cainehill didn't lose his Glyph in a battle where Dominion fell to 0, though his foe did think the Pretender was dead. That was with 2.15, so it was not linked to an older version being used.