With 14 HP no one would ever want to commit him to melee (maybe a recruited thug, but not your pretender!).
With 120 path cost, no one would ever use him as a caster.
Taking a pretender whose only benefit would ever be hanging out in the back of the army, providing a Morale boost for the archers - is never going to happen.
It just seems to me, that as the type of hero you are describing, and being that he lacks the ability to provide a good bless or any magical diversity - he HAS to be an amazing combatant, in some way. So he's going to need at least 30 HP base, and Awe would be an excellent choice as well. Recuperation could help, as well as a small regen, so he can really wade in, and as long as he survives, he will ultimately be fine.
You can easily engineer him in a way that lowly troops are no match for him, but that it isn't too easy to make him a solo army destroyer.
Re: Pretender concept: Messianic Figurehead
Threaded Mode