[Pocus]

He is only death 1. Try to play it and you will see that he dont performs that well. each spell cast fatigue him, and he wont be able to raise many deads anyway (or you have to give him gems and or skull staff, which rise the cost drastically).

There is another magic user assassin, the star spawn (Rlyeh).

I find Ctis weak because it was easy to ward against poison in dominions I, and because except the swamp guards, which is only capitol based, their infantry are seriously behind the others.