Pythium: newbish Vestals question

[Wendigo]

Fahdiz, I do not think bless strategies work too well with Pythium, as these usually work best on nations with powerful sacred troops.

For something cheap & efective you might consider 4+Earth on the Pretender: it gives your mages & communicants reinvigoration when blessed, gives you a good shot at finding Firbolg forts (extra forts always good for someone that wants to pump out communicants in numbers), and Lastly it gives you a dwarven hammer forger to take advantage of your good gem income.