Guide: EA Agartha: The Ancient Lord SC.

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You don't need Oracles to build the items, Poopsi, you can use either your apprentice earth-readers, for forging earth items (which are the majority of what you'll use), or your regular earth-readers and their random paths, for forging other items (death items are easier, since you can also summon low level death mages).

Oracles are great on the battlefield, with the spells they can cast, and that's where they should be--but I think it's reckless to risk them in melee. Let the Ancient Lords do the actual fighting, and even let stone-hurlers and independent archers handle the softening up of the enemy, while you use your Oracles to do heavy damage spells at the back of the battlefield, surrounded by bodyguards.