What is your favorite Pythium pretender?

[Vynd]

I didn't say that Pythium can't get SCs. I said they were so-so at it. Meaning that there are other nations that are better, and some that are worse as well. The best magical school for summoning SCs are Blood and Death. Base Pythium is very weak in these areas. They'd need a couple of path boosting items and a random death pick on an Arch Theurg just to be able to summon a Bane Lord. They have a better shot at getting some Air Queens, but there are other nations who are better equipped to summon those, as well.

Of course all of these problems go away if you put the appropriate magic on your Pretender, but that's true for any nation you care to mention.