[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Scott Hebert:
As an example, let's say you're playing a nation that has access to the Lady of Fortune. If you want a 6+ Dominion and 4W/4N/4E (say) on your pretender, it is actually cheaper to take the Lady of Fortune as opposed to the Frost Father. (The Lady has 164 points left at 6 Dominion, while the Frost Father has 128.) This is with the Lady of Fortune's higher base cost _and_ much higher path cost. I don't think this was intended by the designers.

This Last point is quite irrelevant, since your example isn't meaningful at all: it's built on the LoF's strengths and compares them to the lack of the same strengths on another pretender. You could as well have said, "I want a fire-9 blessing, how does a Crone compare to a Moloch?".

To be fair, you should now design a realistic Frost Father with 1-3 levels in 6-8 paths, a moderate dominion (4-5), and design a LoF using the same magic and dominion strength. Then compute a mean to get a meaningful assessment of their respective values.