Another idea that struck me while writing an AAR.

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I think there is a simple comprimise. What if the pretender got a basic patrol bonus? Like BigJMoney said, if your god said "drop your weapons and go home" you would be a lot more likely to do so than if some minion told you that.

On the other hand, it would disturb game balance a tad. A nation with great scales and a throw-away pretender (though it seems like that might not exist so much anymore, seeing as there are no themes or castles to spend money on anymore) could continually patrol their home province and crank the taxes up real high, whereas a nation with an SC or site-searching or researching pretender wouldn't be able to do the same. Admittedly, it could be balanced, but that would take some time.