[the Vanishag]

Thanks, Lavaere. I really appreciate it. I'll be updating Maui soon - it's a little tricky, as he's such a storied and important character: I've even thought about giving him different traits in each era, reflecting different Maui stories.

I'll add the jawbone and fire magic, but I'm not sure what to do about the story that he fished up the island: it's really hard to reconcile with my having made him a hero and not a pretender (I decided he had too much personality to be a pretender).

Kupe and Toitehuatahi should be less important than Maui, but they fill the "great ancestor" role well and, as far as I've found, have less thoroughly developed stories and personalities, so I felt OK about smushing them together to make a Pretender "type" (thus "Kupe Toitehuatahi").

Please keep letting me know how I'm doing and what I'm missing: I've decided to add summonable bird-people, but not until MA, and the biggest thing holding me up on the Taniwha is that they take the forms of all kinds of aquatic creatures (sharks, eels, octopai), so I'm having a hard time settling on one form (I suppose I could give them two aquatic shapes plus a land shape).

For MA Alchera, I'm thinking about having a number of sacred Moko warriors, based on their whakapapa (geneology/ family history) - they'd have different on-bless specials to reflect their whakapapa. I'm also thinking, once I get Taniwha worked out, about having a "Ritual of Rebirth"-like water + divine spell that allows the caster to be reborn as a Taniwha after being killed, as the possibility of becoming a Tanwha after death is a really interesting part of the myth for me.

Given that it looks like blessed warriors will be a very important part of MA Alchera, I think I may also add a "High" Tohunga with Holy 3 and random magic picks that give him a chance of being able to cast any of the Tohunga-specific spells. For balance's sake, I figure he'd be capital-only.

Ok, I'm rambling, but that should give all of you an idea of where I'm thinking about taking this. Suggestions and feedback are very, very welcome. Oh, and I should post an updated sprite-sheet in a day or two.