A few questions

[lch]

FAJ said:
1. What is the most effective way to stop a dominion-loss once you are already far into the game? My ally/friendly neighbor is playing ermor, and his passive dominion is on the verge of killing me. He agreed not to build temples on my boarder or preach, but I am still going to be dominion-snuffed. I have temples and priests preaching in almost all my provinces, but even my capital is losing the battle! (I am Utgard)

Build lots and lots of temples and preach. There is no other way. Maybe you picked a very low Dominion for your pretender.

FAJ said:
2. For some odd reason or sequence of occurences, my bloodslaves became garrisoned units instead of 'gems'. Can they still be expended in battle as normal slaves? If so, how can I make this happen again? it seems like a good way of keeping the slaves away from my abysian heat aura.

Maybe they fled the battlefield and got added to the units by that. Wonder if they are still useable for magic.

FAJ said:
3. What does the spell 'illwinter' do? its not in the manuel afaik and the spell description is vague. Its a national global for the jotuns, but what it does is unclear.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/6.htm

FAJ said:
4. All my warlocks got old age at the same time, all at once. Is this a bug, bad luck, or just what I get for taking death scale 1?

Old age purely depends on the unit. Klick on its Fatigue. As soon as it hits the value in the brackets, it is old age. I dunno if all units have the same birthday and thus all gain a year once it is the end of winter, but that might be.

FAJ said:
5. Whats a heliophagus, and is it worth it? Better SC than an Archdevil?

It's, like, in the manual? Page 167. Here's a screenshot, mine has differing magic skills because there seem to be four unique versions of them.

[Gandalf Parker]

Basically Dominion pushes Dominion.
You can push harder. Build more temples and priests, make a prophet and move it around, maybe move your god forward also but not too much.

You can demolition his dominion. Concentrate on taking out his temples and priests, some units have special abilities against enemy dominion, some equipment is especially powerful against enemy dominion, make extra effort to take out his prophet and god.

Bloodslaves in the queue are basically broken as far as I know. It can also happen with mercenaries under certain coniditions where they leave their troops behind. They will appear with the PD if the province is attacked but I dont remember if they fight or flee.

[quantum_mechani]

lch said:
Maybe they fled the battlefield and got added to the units by that.

They shouldn't be able to flee, being mindless. You could probably do odd things with the spell Returning, though.