Iron Islands Kingdom is Empire tier tittle, or Kingdom tier?

I just figured it is an Empire tier tittle by hovering the mouse pointer at the monthly prestige score, it says there I'm holding an Empire.

This is very interesting, it means that by using the Iron Island CB of invasion for some R'hllor region, one can easily have a nice go at attaining a Favored/Chosen by R'hllor heir (just train him and then duel when you play as him to get the Formidable Fighter trait which also helps).

The only reason this guy is not going to be the Favored/Chosen is because I already made him a Zealous Drowned God follower, and zealous characters can't convert (which means I'm going to settle for building the temple on the 1 slot in Lonely Light island and then reform the Drowned God religion).

PS: This mod is AWESOME.

Yes, I tried to get to Chosen by starting in Myr (because republics are very good at making money fast) and conquering the Iron Islands via Expansion Ambition (you need Ruthless, or Greedy, or Ambition, and you can get Ruthless pretty easily if you character is not a complete 0 diplomacy autist by inviting people with 0 Intrigue into the court, then kidnapping them and give the order to dispose of them).

My line of thinking was that because the Iron Islands are an Imperial tier Feudal tittle, if I conquered them as doge of Myr (which is king tier tittle), I would convert the Myr tittle into feudal, but the opposite happened, it was the Iron Island emperor tier tittle that shifted into a Merchant Republic. And being an empire tier Merchant Republic is the same as being an unwashed count as far as getting the Chosen trait goes (you can still get the Favored trait thou).

The fastest I ever got to chosen was with my second character in one Iron Island playthru, I like to start in Lonely Light (the little shitty county on an isolated island in the far West of the map), so my 1st char built up the county (basically raid around until you get level 5 slave camp), then my 2nd character got elected kang of the Iron Islands, and he was a formidable fighter who was also zealous (which prevents conversion to another religion via the intrigue decision menu), so I was planning on having him conquer some place with the R'hllor religion so I could change the capital into it with my 3rd character (non-zealous) so he would be able to convert, but as I was raiding around with that zealous 2nd character, I got the red priest conversion event, so from then on it was pretty fast getting the favored and chosen traits.

One thing I noticed is that if you get killed as chosen and get resurrected before you're old, you no longer get the negative effects of aging (for men: -20 fighting at 50, -55 fighting at 66 (I think), and loss of all attraction bonuses at 65). I tried it with the console, but it didn't work, the event for resurrection must add some kind of flag to the char that prevents him suffering the effects from aging (but if you resurrect after getting old, you're stuck with being affected by negative old age effects you already have on the character).