MA Atlantis...am I missing something?

[Meglobob]

Another fun build is a awake ancient kraken with E9 bless, dom 6, order-3, prod-1, heat-3, growth-1, misfortune-3, drain-2.

Your ancient kraken gets 17 protection, so attack a indie on the 1st turn and every turn after. You will expand rapidly early on, always important.

The E9 bless is useful early on with the mother guards, on your consorts, cast earth deep blood well and then forge of ancients.

You can concentrate your research on conjuration/construction which is always nice. Voice of Tiamat will probably give you plenty of earth/water gems and some fire. You can have a go at the water queens/earth kings and as many unique artifacts as you can grab.