Throt, being the biggest bastard of them all, doubled down on this summoning. Skaven are already absolute bastards to go up against in Warhammer: Total War on account of their roster of meta units, powerful campaign mechanics, free spells, and their ability to summon forth a unit of rat bastards anywhere they please. Throt is one of those edge-cases because his summoning powers aren’t strictly magic, but do abide by the logic of the game’s magic system. They are so powerful and fun to play as that it’s genuinely hard for me to ever play any other class in the game. This includes some very powerful mid-game creatures, as well as class-exclusive units like the teleporting node serpents or the frightening Eldritch Horror. Whereas other classes need to create buildings and march units all across the map to merge them with their armies, sorcerers can just magic entire hordes of creatures together on the fly. The sorcerer class in this strategy game by Triumph Studios is hilarious to play thanks to the large roster of magical creatures you can summon. Instead I wanted to pick out just one custom characters, which led me back to Age of Wonders 3. If I were to include all of those, then it’d become a countdown of the best magic systems in games, rather than a countdown of cool characters.
What I struggled with the most in writing this list is that a lot of games with cool summoning magic will let you play as a customer avatar.
No doubt I missed something super obvious, so if you have suggestions of your own then I’d love to read about them in the comments below. Nevertheless, I set out to find 10 characters for whom summoning other creatures is a major part of their strength. Something as specific as summoners in video games was hard to pin down, especially because it’s often just a small thing powerful mages can do besides all their other magical tricks. I don’t exactly know what Stian had in mind himself when he challenged me to this list, but it was perhaps the toughest countdown I’ve had to do so far.
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