[Baalz]

Oh yeah, Utgard has a lot of versatility that's often overlooked because of the obvious stuff. They've got extremely powerful communion potential with triple path 90 gold Seithkona supported by blood magic (reinvigoration). Norna are amazing and by mid game you should have several set up to teleport wherever you want. They won't be thugging obviously, but dropping in to lead a 4 man (er woman) Seithkona communion is a hell of a lot of whoopass for under 600 gold. If you keep popping reinvigoration those 90 gold communion slaves go a long way 4X shadow blast, or raise skellys, or disintegrate, or charm (use gems) or wither bones (gems) or ... well lots of nasty stuff every round till you run out of script. Don't overlook fun things you can do buffing your troops with that communion master, even your PD takes some work to bring down when you stack battle fortune on top of mass regeneration & mass protection while the Jotun Hirdmen become positively beastly.