Getting the max out of MA Agartha

[vfb]

But but but ... the Risen Oracle is cool! You can try something like this:

Risen Oracle (Body 1581, 95 hits)
Magic: Earth 4 Death 5
Dominion 9
Scales: Order 3 Sloth 3 Heat 2 Growth 1 Misfortune 2 Magic 1
Awake

Maybe Heat-3 Mis-1 instead, if you're not in a game with fire-resistant nations.

He's immortal, high HP, with awe and fear+5, and amphibious to boot. E4 Bless is nice for all the mages and ancient lord thugs, and D5 afflictions bonus is not a total waste.

Death-5 is also good since otherwise you're stuck with D1, and maybe D2 (~2% chance).

[Radio_Star]

I played around with MA Ag a bit trying to make a guide, and while I failed horribly, I found certain things. Golem crafters, as has been pointed out, definitely don't get enough love. As far as mages go, they've got some fairly unique and useful paths and are dirt cheap to recruit and maintain. They, almost more than your national summons, are what makes this nation tick. I was actually playing around with starting a high dom PoD since you've got good synergy with death given your national dark vision and between awe, which benefits your golems through dom, and fear on the PoD, you get decent initial firepower to grab turf. It's probably not ideal since a death blessing doesn't benefit you much, but I found it worthwhile to supplement your pitiful national troops with death goodies.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by vfb

But but but ... the Risen Oracle is cool! You can try something like this: ...

Oh the Risen Oracle is a neat character, don't get me wrong. But with that build, your magic capacity, before Empowerment and boosters, looks like: F1/W1/E4/D5

That's really, really, really awfully sad.

And again, especially since you're likely confining him to actions within your Dominion, you can't really expect much more from him than you'd get from an N4 on your sacreds.