[kasnavada]

And going further than that, having national mages that are able to cast national spells would in my opinion also be fairly thematic. You either need to use your pretender, indy mages or empowerment to cast carrion summons.

I would propose a 2N1D mage with 100% chance of N or D and 10% chance of an additional N or D, with the ability to transform a unit into its carrion equivalent ? It would have to be a very expensive unit though. Maybe give it some side effect like unrest ?

Finally, I agree with Starshine_Monarch about the blood aspect : blood requires loads of mages to work properly, and using pans to blood hunt... well... Either a 1B satyr, 1N1B satyr mage would be great for this. And of course, specific blood summons would be great.

EA pangaea lacks diversity about mages, and is very dependant of the pretender magic paths or indy mages.