[Aleph]

On the Goetic Masters - Boots of Youth should arrest their aging, but I see the point; you're tacking another 10 blood onto a bloodhunter, which is getting you a bit closer to Ulm's Vampire Count. Not that I don't like boots of youth for mages, I just don't like them as a prereq to your main blood hunters - which is a point for using the diabolist, and therefore also possibly for LA Abyssia whose cheap blood hunters are better in the long run (although the diabolists have a bit more offensive punch... I'm a flipflopper, what can I say?).

For LA Ulm - I was also thinking of Contact Naiad, Faerie Court, Streams from Hades, Hidden in Snow, Troll Court, Kings of Earth, and the elemental devil mixes. On reflection, though, if I'm waiting for the Lamia Queen to begin searching for water sites it's not a reliable choice for my pretender (while I can still reliably search for holy, earth, death, blood, astral, and nature to at least level 1 with my mages). Perhaps Master Lich with Death 5 Blood 4 Earth 3 Nature 3 Dominion 6 with the above scales; he can't kick off the clam economy, but he can still call in Father Illearth and start a Blood Stone economy (possibly blood empowering some troll kings or earth kings).

I love Turmoil 3/Luck 3, but I'm pretty happy still to have the fortune tellers in this setup. You're getting a lot of random events, and some of them still turn out bad.