[Cainehill]

Personally, I wouldn't take death only with undead Ermor. Actually, I can't see a reason why you would do that, unless you're trying to handicap yourself. After all - look at the lich queen (unmodded) : Dominion 10, Death 10, Magic / Luck 3, all other scales at their worst, and the expensive castle, you still have 149 points left, enough for 3 and 2 in other paths; dropping death to D9 gives another 56 points.

A D9 Wyrm means cutting the castle; a human pretender puts even more limits on it, but ... Why? You'd be choosing to handicap yourself.

Even if you thought you could get by with only death magic, I always take at least fire and/or earth with a death theme, since those gems will supplement a horrible gold income.