How do you get an extra 4 summons as Pariden?

Fire Elemental, Earth Elemental, Water Elemental, Shadow Warg. Once you start power leveling your Sov, you can get some nice bonuses to the spawn rating of your summons. Each Mage you level adds +3 levels to the milestone. Once you get that number to 20, you really start to dominate. The trick is to level very efficiently and get all the magic books for each hero you find. The familiar adds a nice doubling and early on that extra shadow warg can be very useful.

Yes, Pariden can research the tomes, but with Pariden or a customized sovereign you still can't buy Life or Death books.  You can only buy Air,  Fire, Water, and Earth.  I remember Brad writing something months' back about cutting deals with Proserpine to buy a book or two, but I've never seen this available, and I don't know that it is.

No Air Elemental at this time.  I hope it, and other summons, get thrown into the mix, but it may be a case of player mods.

Nice.  Thanks for pointing that out.

So what did you add to it?

May be they should not be battle creatures at all, but instead strategic map creatures? Would it be nice if they could stay in the city instead of hero and give it all hero bonuses to city (if hero has them).

Not a good idea Dundoon but my current sovereign a pure mage has 57hp at 18th level that would be 1/6 of her hp's for some thing of little value.

Nakisisa

Keeping in mind that my version has higher overall numbers:

Familiar:

100Hp

50 Air Dodge

+3 Spell Mastery per level, starts at 55 Spell Mastery instead of 65

+2 Moves

12 Cutting attack

12 Defense

Cost: 120 Mana, -5Hp

It's such an interesting game concept. I have plans to encourage mages to bring along their familiars on quests for special choices to solve problems.