Heh, you guys bashing Keelyn! Keelyn is possibly my favorite Leader to play as, I sometimes feel as if I'm exploiting because the AI isn't smart enough to declare war on me while I merrily destory every city they try to plant down with Loki, even better if they place it where I would have placed mine, let them settle the land for me

It's probably a good thing the AI had no clue how to use their own units or players would have no choice but to stay at war with the Balseraphs for the entire game or until they wipe them out. When I play Keelyn I essentially force any target civ to stay indefinately in their settler growth state until I've claimed all the bits of land I want, sometimes at they build my cities for me if they plonked down a city where I woudl have built it. Loki downright owns and is completely over powered. Shame he can't gain xp but I guess if he could he would be something out of your worst nightmare, and you won't see an earlier Great Bard than with the Balseraph's, which is one of the half dozen reasons why FoL is such a great fit for the Phoule's. Although, I'll usally go for RoK, start on the Altar and then try to aquire FoL without actually adopting it so I can build some tier 1 FoL disciple units in my altar city as upgrade bait to Harlequins (usually non-elven ones are used to spread FoL; while the elven born ones are reserved for Harlequin upgrades), then switch to the Order
after I get my druids out. Mainly for the military production benefits and hopefully the Law Mana from the Holy City so I can get my city improvement casters going full tilt, I usually only convert so I can spread it fast with the free acolytes, then mass produce Confessors to build out my temples before finally switching to FoL to start supporting HUGE cities. Meanwhile my insane druids start pwning civs left and right while I backfill their now conquered cities with
their defenders while I go on a building spree. Of course my druids have already won the game by now and I'm just toying with doing nifty tricks, I try to keep my druids together though in case Domination backfires, so I can get my druid back with another domination, I truely fear the day I get 2 backfires in a row and suddenly I myself am besieged by my own machinations, this does slow down conquests quite a bit more than I like, but on the upside I never have to build any defensive units to hold the cities!
Note*** this is not a tactic to try against magic resistant civs!!!!!
I love and hate going FoL, I hate the fact you can't build lumbermills in Ancient Forests, because I'm a production freak and like to push production more than anything else. But I love it's early food benefits. IMO, production is military might, science and commerce are only there to support production and teching to the units you plan on using for military conquests. The only problem I see with OO is it will turn you evil unless you're good to begin with then the shift is only to neutral, this shift to evil is a bad thing unless you actually want to be evil, but being evil doesn't seem to have much if any upside. Of course you could just found OO and spread it without actually adopting it but then you can't grab Hemah who an awesome caster. In short if you want to play elves with OO and particularly Hemah, Arendel should be your Leader of choice, of course Arendel is by far the best choice of their leaders anyways imo...spiritual and creative are dream traits when combined for strong starts: no anarchy, half price temples and carnivals, without a need to waste precious hammers AND 1gpt on obelisks, at least until you want to start applying some serious cultural pressure on your neighbors ;p