What is it about blending the weak humans with supernatural or otherwise powerful beings to make much stronger being? It is in movies, anime and now games. It seems Badass + Badass << Weakling + Badass.
My latest game is the first one I got far enough into it to get married and have kids that actually came of age.. My first son? 2871 essence... Seriously????
BTW, the game is wayy too easy once you get dragons, especially if you have any cities with the +50% essence thing.. My dragons all have about 180 essence/mana.. and my group of 4 dragons does 200 true dmg by using 3 essence.. there's nothing that can stand in its way.
Oh, and if any QAs are reading this.. The housing and a couple other tech upgrade bonuses don't work. The Arcane research works.. I can't remember what other ones worked/didn't work. I'm a Kingdoms empire, btw. This is new to the latest patch as they worked before that.