[Chazar]

How does "Man" summon a suitable SC chassis fast enough with the national mages lacking both Blood & Death? (Let us suppose for the sake of the discussion that there are no suitable Independent Mages (except sages maybe) around and that our pretender does not have any skill in blood nor death either.)

Just stick with a Firbolg (but where do the lifedrain weapons come from then)? Or is summoning Lamia Queens a must-do, then forging death boosters and hoping for a death gem income via castings of dark knowledge to summon death-scs and forging lifedrain weapons? Would that be fast enough? Or rather trying to use scouts and blood-sages for hunting and forging a hellsword after empowering maybe?