[Graeme Dice]

What you've outlined above doesn't make too much sense. The lord of the wild doesn't give you anything that you don't already have with your national mages. You will already have hundreds or thousands of maenads if you take turmoil three, so you really don't need a few more of them with your pretender. Nor do you need to worry about feeding them, since they will be surrounded by nature mages and aren't valuable enough to care whether they are diseased. Take growth because it synergizes with carrion woods, and gives you more gold income, not because you want to feed throwaway troops.

One half of your pans will have E2, which means that one half of them will have E3 in battle. Sloth makes sense, turmoil or a neutral order scale makes sense. Getting a lord of the wild who is completely redundant does not.