Could you not create a unique building linked to his trait and AV religion, that allows a spell which basically kills the living unit and gains x amount of gold? This could just be a flat rate as opposed to being linked to unit level. I'm not too good at making spells and such so I don't know if this is possible or not.
An AV-only mark would be pretty cool as well though
This is less true for the regular altars, since their benefits are linked to experience.
I could, but at that point it'd basically just be a micro-intensive version of trading hammers for gold (since you have to build the unit), which is more easily done through simply building wealth in the city directly.
. Agreed, it's a micro intensive alternative to a mechanic that's already in game.
I'll admit, I never really think about lore when making these guys. I pretty much just tailor the leaderhead portrait and descriptions to flavor the trait, and for the traits I just use whatever I think would be a neat thing for the civ in question to be able to do. My theory being that the lore will work itself out somehow. 
Although I've been explaining the more complex traits in the 'pedia if not in the tooltip display, so at least the new abilities aren't entirely opaque and bizarre.
D'tesh, Illians (not getting another leader, just the two they have), summonable civs, Amurites (Something special there, you'll see. ). Yeah, it's getting up there in size, isn't it?
) Sadly i will not be home this weekend, so i cant test 
Ok, thank you isthmus for that fix (Duke Johann and Sorah and Ecks is still pink squares
Now next issue: I gave myself a few rangers with some useful promotions and started exploring the new world. And after a few turns the buttons for "Cure disease", "Heal" and "Dispell magic" was gone!? The promotions was still there "Heal 2", "Heal 3" and "Metamagic 2" but buttons to use them was gone. I didn't notice untill i explored a lair and got plagued.
Hehe, now Duke Johann, Sorah and Ecks is working but Rymath is pink. In last version Rymath worked fine
I look forward to giving them a go, especially the archos and the arcane acadamy oneWith most civs that approach works. It breaks down for some of them though.
Surely there are many reasons why a subordinate may be in charge of a civ, rather than its "major" ruler. We've definitely got precedent for subordinates being Emergent Leaders, as with the Bannor's Angaad (who I just take to be a military official, not the actual ruler of the Bannor), or the Hippus Captains. For the D'Tesh, I was thinking along the lines of a conjured entity sent to look over wordly affairs whilst D'Tesh himself wiled away the hours doing unspeakable things in his horrific necromantic laboratories. Lore-ing has never been a particular talent of mine, so I'd appreciate any help you could offer in reconciling my mod with the actual game.All of the templates have a modmod and modmod name tag, so just fill those out while using the template and everything else is done for you. Made sure it was simple.
I dunno... I suspect the lore's a bit more flexible than you make it out to be.
Now I definitely wouldn't make any of my leaders Major-- there are good reasons why the head honcho is the head honcho for a given civ, and I don't want to run rough-shod over all the lore which you guys have spent a long time building up. And I'm all ears if you have ideas for how I might flavor Emergent leaders for the civs you cited without running into conflicts.
I'll see what I can do.
