Thanks! As far as starting off slow goes, anyone can suck. It takes someone really special to suck w Emperor powers.

I expected a lot more push back on my religous take and to get overthrown after about a month, but that was probably helped by few religous characters in Empire overall.

I plan to make a follower some day If I can think of an IC reason I like alcohol. Of course I am still trying to think of an IC reason I hate magic as well so.....