[quote who="ozzlok" reply="7" id="2765148"]There is also a dragon that you cna get by completing a quest called "erogg's egg???" or something like that. It is a lvl 4 or 5 quest but after completing it a dragon joins your army. [/quote] Yeah, that is my absolute favorite quest. You get a fully grown red dragon that does great damage and looks really cool.
1.b. I'm pretty sure the new resources only spawn in your area of influence. This is really annoying as the main reason for researching this branch is enabling further expansion, so if you are not very lucky on your initial stating position expanding your kingdom becomes a case of Catch-22. I really hope this will be fixed in later update.
I have had this issue as well but you can actually still click the attribute icon, the pointer target is just moved to the upper left corner of the cursor icon. So just aim a little down and to the left and you can assign the desired attribute. Or that works for me at least.