Dominion generates value proportionally to candles. It grows smoothly with an increase in candles. This growth accelerates at high candles (9 and 10). This implies that high dominion builds should start at 8 candles rather than 6 and achieve 10 with temples.

Dominion generates at 6 50 gold of value from Freespawn per province per turn and 140 gold at 10. This is conditional on building infrastructure in every province (3000 gold) with long payback periods. 6 provides value comparable to a standard underwater province. 10 provides value comparable to a large land province.

This implies that middle-ground builds are inefficient. Low dominion builds take 1-2 and avoid dominion spread on land. High dominion builds play with 8 - 10 and convert all provinces. 4 - 6 builds will just popkill income but will not generate enough freespawn.

In long games, Mage Transformation provides overall monetary value comparable to unit freespawn as you will get 100-200 no-upkeep mages by late-game. It's powerful in low-dominion builds, as Mage Transformation doesn't require dominion spread outside research provinces, protecting income from popkill.

LA R'lyeh's capital starts with 400 gold of income. It's highly advised protecting your capital from your own dominion as a single province will never freespawn units per turn worth 400 gold.

Power curve. LA R'lyeh is the most powerful turns 20-30, when it accumulates ~400 units of freespawn for the first war. It's the weakest around turns 60-70, when most of the population is killed in the starting provinces. It rebounds around turns 90-100 when researchers become free, overperforming MA R'lyeh in research/upkeep.

High-dominion builds are the weakest much earlier, around turn 40-50 as the population dies much quicker. High mage upkeep strangles the economy. High dominion builds don't have enough gold to wait 30 turns until their researchers become free. Also, high dominion builds benefit less from mage transformations as they don't have enough gold to recruit researchers in the first place.

Direct gold value equivalent generated per province per turn. Value/turn scales with candles.

Image	Freespawn Category	Prominent Examples	2 income / turn	4 income / turn	6 income / turn	8 income / turn	10 income / turn
	Insane Troops	Mad One Triton Dreamer	8g¹	12g¹	19g¹	34g¹	55g¹
	Void Beings	Elder Thing Formless Spawn	3g¹	6g¹	10g¹	15g¹	25g¹
	Commanders	Cultist 117 Prophet	5g¹	10g¹	17g¹	27g¹	40g¹
	Troop transformations	Void Dreamer	6g¹	9g¹	14g¹	25g¹	40g¹
	Mage transformations	Void Herald	18g²	18g²	18g²	18g²	18g²

¹Value from freespawn: value generated under almost 'ideal' circumstances. All infrastructure, stable dominion, freespawn just sits there and transforms. Values for 6 and 10 were rigorously tested. 2, 4, 8 were modeled instead.
²Mage transformations: average value from 100 turns. It scales with mage recruitment, not candles. Little value early-mid game but yield 80g+ per turn late game. High dominion helps quickly achieve 25 insanity, necessary to start the transformation.

Candles increase both quantity and quality of Void Being spawn. starts spawning only at 9. or never spawns.

: Sacred, Poison Resistance (15), Blind Fighter (1), Void Sanity (20), Magic Being, Amphibious, Spirit Sight

Image	Unit Name	Special Attributes	6 Rate: units / 10 turns	10 Rate: units / 10 turns
	Madmen and Dreamers	Darkvision (50%) Insane (25%) Amphibious	47 units	138 units
	Lesser Otherness x d6 Spawn Roll (1 to 5)	Regeneration (10%) Fire Resistance (15) Cold Resistance (15) Shock Resistance (15) Slash Resistant Blunt Resistant Pierce Resistant Trample Need Not Eat Mindless	1.9 units	2.8 units
	Vile Thing x d4 Spawn Roll (6)		0.2 units	0.9 units
	Thing of Many Eyes x d3 Spawn Roll (7)	Sacred Fire Resistance (15) Darkvision (100%) Eyes (10) Void Sanity (20) Unsurroundable (5) Immobile Magic Being Amphibious Need Not Eat Spirit Sight	-	-
	Thing From The Void x d3 Spawn Roll (8)	Regeneration (25%) Cold Resistance (15) Shock Resistance (15) Need Not Eat	0.3 units	1 unit
	Elder Thing x d5 Spawn Roll (9)	Paralyze on Death (10) Need Not Eat	0.6 units	1.1 units
	Formless Spawn x d4 Spawn Roll (10)	Regeneration (10%) Fire Resistance (5) Slash Resistant Blunt Resistant Pierce Resistant Need Not Eat Mindless	0.3 units	0.7 units
	Otherness x d4 Spawn Roll (11)	Regeneration (10%) Fire Resistance (15) Cold Resistance (15) Shock Resistance (15) Slash Resistant Blunt Resistant Pierce Resistant Trample Need Not Eat Mindless	0.15 units	0.5 units
	Thing From Beyond x d3 Spawn Roll (12)	Immobile Ethereal Need Not Eat	0	0.3 units
	Dweller-In-The-Deep x d2 Spawn Roll (13)	Sacred Cold Resistance (15) Poison Resistance (15) Shock Resistance (15) Blind Fighter (1) Void Sanity (20) Poison Barbs (10) Magic Being Ethereal Aquatic Need Not Eat Spirit Sight	0	0.2 units
	Greater Otherness x d4 Spawn Roll (14)	Regeneration (10%) Fire Resistance (15) Cold Resistance (15) Shock Resistance (15) Slash Resistant Blunt Resistant Pierce Resistant Trample Need Not Eat Mindless	0	0.15 units

Arena map was used for testing. Spawn rates are in line with Loggy's notes but more Lesser Othernesses spawned than expected. Troop numbers were tested at zero sloth. At higher sloth, extra dreamer troops might spawn.

Prophet generation is the biggest source of value from commander freespawn. Free researchers are the second biggest. Temples double commander spawn rates.

Image	Unit Name	Special Attributes	6 Rate: units / 10 turns	10 Rate: units / 10 turns	Comments
	Commanders	1 Sacred Darkvision (50%) Insane (25%) Amphibious	1.6 units	3.1 units	Chaff shuttles like Cultist
	1 mages	117 Sacred Insane (25%)	0.4 units	0.8 units	Randoms with 24% chance.
	Prophets	321 Slave Amphibious Land Shape (Slave Mage)	0.25 units	0.9 units	Unlimited prophets. Offer 31 holly communion crosspath or boosts Bishop Fish to 4

Commander spawn numbers are not mutually exclusive. Tested with temples in all provinces.

After 30 turns, insane-25 freespawn units will transform, improving their stats. If units don't have 25 insanity, they need to sit in high-dominion provinces to gain enough insanity.

Image	New unit name	Special Attributes	6 Rate: units / 10 turns	10 Rate: units / 10 turns	Comments
	Void Dreamer (troop)	Stealthy (40) Insane (75%) Void Sanity (1) Magic Being Ethereal Amphibious Need Not Eat Floating Spirit Sight	30 units	87 units	Insane-25 madman and dreamers transform into Void Dreamers at 3.3% rate (after 30 turns). Does 1+ DRN false-damage. Not spiritform. Can take protection buffs.
	Standard Void Herald (mage)	119 Stealthy (40) Glamour Manipulator (1) Insane (25%) Void Sanity (1) Magic Being Ethereal Amphibious Need Not Eat Floating Spirit Sight	0.13 units	0.3 units	Improves 1 freespawn mages. Can use Dreamstone booster and receives extra 2
	Void Herald with extra 1 (mage)	2111 Stealthy (40) Glamour Manipulator (1) Insane (25%) Void Sanity (1) Magic Being Ethereal Amphibious Need Not Eat Floating Spirit Sight	0.14 units	0.4 units	55% chance to add1. Receives extra 4

Tested with temples in all provinces.

LA R'lyeh benefits the most from Slave mage transformations. Think about it as 12 gem Twiceborn ritual that you pay off with gold instead of gems over 30 turns. It gives very little value early-mid game, as you recruit only 10 researchers in Y1 who become free of upkeep by the end of Y3. But when you recruit 100+ researchers by turn 60, they become free by turn 90, providing immense late game value.

Transformation turns any insane-25 commander (e.g., cultists, indi mages, or summons) into a Herald after 30 turns (3.3% chance/turn).
Removes upkeep. For mages, ensures at least 1 but removes 1 from every other path (except astral). 55% chance to add extra 1. E.g., 2 slave mages transform into 3. Also, can downgrade, e.g. 211 to 111.

Removes both positive and negative tags, like homesickness. Massively increases magic leadership.

It's recommended to concentrate all researchers in select few provinces, preached to high dominion to speed-up how quickly newly recruited researchers achieve 25 insanity. Domes and Ether Gate are highly beneficial.

Insane: 1% of Insanity = 1% change to miss a turn (do useless or heretical actions).

Heretical action preach R'lyeh's dominion in enemy's territory. If LA R'lyeh's dominion becomes dominant, insane enemy commanders will flip the province to LA R'lyeh's ownership.

Void Spectre has 30% chance to spread insanity in an enemy province. Expect ~10 insanity on enemy commanders per Spectre per turn. Effective against big enemy armies, whose mages will stay behind being insane. Also, can turn a god useless (an Immobile or Demilich).

There is no way to remove insanity from a unit. Even wish or death. Void Sanity only reduces the rate you gain it during rolls. Mindless units are immune to insanity.

LA R'lyeh's units with Void Sanity don't gain insanity. E.g., Void Herald with 25 Insanity will always have only 25 because of Void Sanity.

Insanity gained from items or The Void is independent of R'lyeh's dominion and is reduced by Void Sanity.

Because insanity transforms animals into Void Heralds, 2 Transformation ritual is particularly safe you LA R'lyeh. You can start when you craft your first Moonewine bracelet.

Do rituals on land, as it provides thugs and magic path diversity, especially 1.

Targeted outcome: roll Hydra212, put Flying Shield and Amulet of the Doppleganger and go seduce some commanders. On fail, they will be very surprised by an Ethereal, Liquid Body, Astral Shield, Regen, Quickness, Fear .

Freespawn numbers directly dependent on candle #. Chaff stops spawning without population. The rate decreases <2000 pop. Temples increase commander freespawn rate. Void critter both quality and quantity scales with candles. The quality caps at the roll of 14 (greater otherness) at 10 candles.

Void critter component:

• Scale component: 2 * candles + magic scale
• If a random number 0-499 inclusive is less than (scale component * 5):
• Roll 2d(candles/3 + 4, rounded down). These are closed die rolls. You get the void encounter that corresponds to this result:
  1. If 1-5: 6x lesser otherness
  2. If 6: 4x vile thing
  3. If 7: 3x thing of many eyes
  4. If 8: 3x thing from the void
  5. If 9: 5x elder thing
  6. If 10: 4x formless spawn
  7. If 11: 4x otherness
  8. If 12: 3x thing from the beyond
  9. If 13: 2x dweller in the deep
  10. If 14: 4x: greater otherness
  11. If 15: 5x thing that should not be
  12. If 16: 1x vastness
  13. If 17+: 2x greater otherness

Cultist commander component:

• Without a temple, take (province pop/10) or (# candles), whichever is smaller.
• With a temple, but no pop: use 2*candles.
• With a temple and some pop: 3*candles
• If a random number 0-74 is less than the value above, you're getting cultist commanders.

Madman component:

• Take (province pop/20) or (10*candles), whichever is smaller.
• If a random number 0-99 is less than the above value, you get 2d8 exploding madmen.

Dreamer component:

• Take (province pop/20) or (sloth + 5*candles), whichever is smaller.
• If random number 0-99 is less than this value, you get 2d8 exploding dreamers.

Spreads insanity to all non-void beings and madmen will emerge to help in the war. Over time the madmen and dreamers will partly cross over into the world of dreams and become insubstantial beings known as void dreamers. Both effects will also happen in lands owned by disciple players and the disciple players will be slightly protected from madness just like humans in R'lyeh. This protection is far from adequate however and being a disciple to a R'lyeh god will not be easy.