[Gandalf Parker]

I dont think that pretenders are really offered with the thought of being useful. They tend more toward being applicable to the concept of the nation. The abilities and magics tend to come ready-made by whatever historical mythos Kristoffer is working off of. Then the cost of the pretender is figured from those abilities.

If I were to build useful pretenders for nations such as Man and Pangaea I would leave off nature magic and fill it in with some magics that are missing in the nation. Unfortunately, the RPG pretenders for those nations tend to provide things like extra food which is vastly uneeded by a nations whose mages carry alot of nature magic anyway.

I think Kristoffer would like to provide more unique things to each nation like gods and heroes. Feel free to recommend some that fill in gaps (such as, nation xxxx has no pretender offering xxxx which would seem to fit their theme) but just making them up off the top of our heads doesnt seem to work very well. You need to do some deep googling for things that fit the nation and then try to justify why it should also have certain abilities. Those tend to have a better chance of getting added. (the other ideas you can talk to the modders about)