Alright, I'll admit perhaps I was trying to do too much with a single pretender. I've further revised his stats, and replaced the monster fish lure with one that looks less like a feather duster.
Water 1, Earth 1
Amphibious, Fear +1, FireRes 50, ColdRes 50, PoisonRes 100, Darkvision 100
2 hands, head, body, feet, 2 misc
Dominion: 1
New Path Cost: 50
Weapons: swallow, claw
Magic paths, dominion, leadership, and fear have been scaled back. Perhaps my next project will be to tweak with the Basalt King sprite and make the Basalt Emperor pretender, who is less physically and more magically powerful, though I may or may not get around to that with all the other stuff I want to get done on various projects, so if someone else wants to run with that idea, be my guest.