Ahh, in that case, you're going to want to pick up resources 5, or see if you can hire god bloods.  Thamuturgy is extremely expensive if you can't channel essence.<br/><br/>I'd reccomend you get an artificial source of artifical firedust as well.  The easy way is to learn the formula from the Mountain Folk, but if you can't do that, then you can have a thamuturge summon Metody to extract vitriol from, then refine that into vitriol dust, which can power hellwands and various equivelents of firedust based technologies.  It's a tiny bit more risky, but as a bonus, we get a good supply of vitriol we can use to make Chalcanth from any demons we capture or summon, which will help the party recover essence signifigantly faster.<br/><br/>Though if you really want to take the risk of carrying around lots of barrels of firedust...  (agarel, the infernal firedust, is signifigantly less reactive than firedust, since it only reacts to vitriol, rather than fire.)<br/><br/><br/>Now of course, you're going to want an astrologer and a weather changer, and possibly a priest to get in good with the gods we're going to be pissing off.