I'm all for breeding ourselves an army, perhaps another "
champion" for this branch as well.
But I still think we need some
flying minions.
1) they can scout/attack at longer range than our current followers.
2) provided they don't glow they will be almost impossible to track at night. (any halfway decent tracker will be able to follow the attacks of our current followers right back to the fortress if they havn't done so already.)
the asylum is an old medieval building does it happen to have gargole statues as old medieval buildings often do? if so we could annimate them.
or how about instead of mutating someone we sacrifice them and use the power to summon something using the skeletons of the sacrificed to give the creatures structure?
two sacrificed victims per flying humanoid monster.
one forms the human base, the other is broken apart to add the extra features arms/legs and skin create the wings, added spine for a tail, finger/toe bones added to the current hands/feet to make longer Claws. extra rib bones turned into body spines and horns. the second skull perhaps placed into the chest cavity to act as a storehouse for magic (to aid flight) or as the anchor for the summoning.
then summoning a spirit into the new form should take less energy as none would be needed giving it form. hopefully one that wouldn't make it glow bright enough to be visible at night. mabe just an ASH spirit for some flaming eyes and fire powers leaving the body dark ash and charred bones.
Suggesting name, ÄRSHBONES
Done right then ether all the energy from the sacrifices would go right back to the creature's creation requiring no extra power from us, or in a best case scenario we get a small amount back depending upon how efficient the creation process is. (we should be able to improve our skill at creating them as we go along.)
Also some horses to create those centaur creatures (vote on naming them
Sintaurs.), those were badass and I'd hate to see that awesome pic go to waste.
However I still don't our think our army is strong enough to attack Akataki, perhaps we should consider taking over the
mines at Barrspring. that would give us both a source of Iron ore. and some haunted mines to draw attention away from the fortress.
The captives should perhaps be
separated into male/female groups sacrifice or mutate the men and force impregnate the women. could just make that the standard Operating procedure from here on out, sort of a P-R-B combo (pillage, rape, burn.)
is it just me or does the bay12 forums bring out EVIL ideas? the slaves, any not serving as fake monster hunters should be ether mutated or sacrificed to create ghouls or the above flying minion
TLDR version: breed an army, make flying skeletons, attack ether Akataki or the mines at Barrspring for iron.
names ÄRSHBONES, and SINTAURS suggested for the Skeletons, horse/centaur respectively.