DOH! I just tried the theme once, and when I realized there were no earth mage to recruit, I just thought "How am I supposed to cast Legions of Steel? It's nigh to impossible with Iron Faith, it's even worse with Black Forest!"
BTW, the 160 gold mage comes with stealth (+30). Wow! The regular spies are put to shame.
So finally we have a theme requiring misfortune. Any recruitable heroes? Any Black Forest-only ones? Heh, we might never know.
