I got humiliated last game when I thought a whole horde of temple holdings had been hammered down in my kingdom. Turned out they'd just stopped blessing them. I looked vaguely foolish to the guy I was talking with at the time.
That was the classic newbie mistake last time - I think we had like only one new player that didn't start drooling over all the vacant holding slots that everyone but him had not discovered
Yep, me too! I took over my realm late in RoE1, and when I read the P&H I thought I hit the jackpot... I had 2 holdings (law & manor) in my capital that could be ruled up!
Woo hoo!
I felt like the mouse that found a big wheel of stinky cheese!
Until it was pointed out to me that the province was only that high of a level due to being "blessed"...