EA Pangea carrion dragon bless and scales.

[Finalgenesis]

carrion dragons may be deceptive in how scary it looks. However it's low prot, low def, bad slots, high hp. As is it cannot perform reliably as a SC. It has high fear so awe would do well, except its base dom is 1. It doesn't even fly! Basically, it can't be a rainbow, and neither is it an effective early SC.

What's worst is its innate path doesn't help with SC, D is more ritual and battle casting rather then buffing except for soul vortex (lvl 6 spell, too late to matter and waste for awake SC). N is good for resist and regen, except you are lifeless and can't regen. If you want regen, you need the national lvl 4 ench spell requiring a lvl 2 priest to cast regen/quickness on you...

I wouldn't worry about a bless, you don't have exceptional sacreds and your main mage isn't sacred. The white centaur while good is pretty expensive in vanilla, turmoil doesn't help and you can go with maenads instead. Unless you want to try funky Dryad mini thug novelty or some such I wouldn't go out of my way for bless.

Turmoil Luck could work if you plan to make good use of maenads. Not only do you get more maenads, you are also a minor blood nation, and turmoil's lost gold income is negated for those province you blood hunt and set tax to 0. Reliance on maenad (which works good against AI) gives you assured sloth 3 on top, that's a lot of points. Luck can give you gold too, though probably less amount and consistent then order, it'd also give you gems and remove indie invasion events as a concern (even with -1 misfortunate, they happen often...). You'd need to be effective in gold spending early on though.

Luck also gives you better chance at transformation for Pans to remove their insane upkeep as Baalz suggested, for fun only it'd make improved crossbreeding better too, basilisks are NASTY (similar to catoplebas!).

Under vanilla, there are those that swear by an awake Gorgon (E9 N4, A1-2 or D2 for example), the Gorgon looks deceptively weak but is in fact the premier chaff cleaner and makes an amazing awake SC for nitro expansion (it can fly too and can handle any early enemy expansion party with ease, cutting off chokepoints and leaving the secured center for later expansion is very viable), just try it, it'd also make your white centaurs premier elite troops. Saint shroud if you find indies becomes a great armor too for a selection of caster/thugs/SCs. Oh, remember to make her a rawhide shield on turn 1.