Bitttymacod
All I can say is that I wish that instead of installing Marauders as the "third party", that the devs had installed the original "third party" that is in the Lore, which is to say the followers of Elias Tryton. (That would have been basically pro-civ, anti-religion.)
And how do the Marauders get teleportation? The Lore is that teleportation is by the generosity of Jena (the Kami say Ma-Duk). While it is clear that no belief is required on the part of those being teleported, still, there need to be disciples at the altars. Akila Ash-Storm is no god.
*sigh*
Elias Tryton was also supposed to have created the rainbow portals (if I remember right) so that would actually make sense for them to have teleports.
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Eldest, Order of the White Lotus