[Endoperez]

You have nice scales, but I'm not sure if those are the optimum magics for Black Forest. The Sanguine Heritage is quite a good spell, so you would want both Death and Blood on your pretender. Nature 2 or 3 would be enough to get higher with boosters, especially if your pretender had Astral and could forge Moonvine Bracelet. However, Astral isn't that important, and could be risky for a combatant pretender unless she was immortal. Speaking of immortal SCs with Blood and Death, Vampire Queen is pretty close to optimum. With two new paths getting high enough dominion to use her and Vampire Counts from Sanguine Heritage would be harder (Dominion 4 with B and D 3, and two others at levels 3 and 2), so you would probably have to take few more negative scales.

Also, you took positive production. Use it. Rangers are very good, much better than villains in most cases. I don't think advancing through Wolfherders is fast enough, but the wolves can be quite good support units and arrow fodder, and they are fast.