Void Seer Mordikaar

Just for gets and shiggles, let's say Mordikaar comes back as a Void Spirit. He finds his old armor and fills it up with sandy ghost horribleness. Let's also say that his connection to Caenn is tenuous, so his power to affect the world isn't as complete (yet), so he is downgraded from a full Warlock to a Lesser Warlock. Figure that he isn't as strong as the Void Spirits he collected, and due to his Lantern, not as mobile (so leaving out Void Walk), and he can only manifest 4 Fury across the veil at a time.

Essence Blast is rather iconic and characterful for him, but rather expensive for such available power. Manifest Void seems rather poignant and flavorful as well as Host of Shadows. He'll probably be limited to two, due to being able to cast animi, so options will be limited.

I am not as familiar with other spell lists, so what are some undead-type spells that could provide an interesting addition to the Skorne line up that he may have picked up during his void-based sojurn?

Battle Wizard itself wouldn't work since a Fury casting isn't bound to action the way that it is for other wizards. I've been trying to find the ability that allows a spell to be cast without Fury/Focus after a kill, but I can't seem to find it since I've looked in all the wrong places.

I worry about a boostable gun because if I do that, then I'd have to remove the Void Spirit rule of Annihilator and/or get rid of the melee weapons all together. That is the same concern that Skornedlover presented. Of course, it could allow for Void Walk to be returned.

As for spell list, I almost want a buff spell and a debuff spell of some kind. So, maybe Ghost Walk/Host of Shadows and Scything Touch? Or a spell that causes Blind or some Movement penalty?  Or would two buffs work better?  Keep in mind any animi that he may have access to, as we don't want to get redundant.

Incredibly fun, and quite possibly broken. If Morghoul was a Void Spirit, it would fit, but Mordikaar is more of an energy-based character.

So, here is the challenge of a Void Spirit Lesser Warlock:
1) Weapon List: Ethereal models can make great use of weapons, and ranged weapons are possibly even worse for them, especially if they can Boost. There are some other aspects here that I will go in to later, but to put it simply, we can either have a decent melee weapon or a decent ranged weapon. The Lantern was more an identity concept and any weapon attached to it was just to have a reason for it on the model.

2) Spell List: It needs to be strong enough to be desirable, but not enough to be over-powered. In addition, to that, it needs to at least partially benefit the Battlegroup in one way or another, while keeping his lowered Fury count in consideration. For example, Host of Shadows and Manifest Void would be great, but lack any range due to the significant drop of effective range. Ghost Walk works as an option.

3) Rule List: Void Spirits are plenty powerful on their own, to incorporate the Fury and Battlegroup rules, we're going to have to drop at least something. What we drop should be balanced out with what we include. It should also consider what he was capable of before. My initial write up dropped Void Walk, but allowed him to keep Poltergeist as both he and Void Spirits both have it. I initially kept Annihilator since this was inherent Void ability, but it may be one we want to trade out as well due to his Fury mechanic.

Mordikaar1 isn't a forward character in and of himself, but (currently) a close range caster type due to his CTRL range spells and having Life Drinker weapons. This makes for a difficult situation in making him a Lesser. I mostly came to this because he's in the Void, and having a known Warlock downgrade would make for a fascinating study. The challenge then becomes downgrading him enough so he's not broken, while keeping him interesting. Would him losing the Lantern and gaining Void Walk provide for that?

We would also want him to have spells which contribute to that close front skill set, is what I listed worth it, or do you have some ideas as to what may better suit this set? Manifest Void is an interesting spell, but is partly addressed through the Despoiler's animus, which is part of the considerations we need when writing this up.

As to the point costs, just part of it is in keeping with the other lesser Warlocks. Junior Warcasters are almost comparable, but they can't Transfer Damage, either, which can be important for a low Damage solo.

The other aspect is keeping the point cost in mind (And so, the rules and spells) is that we're looking at dragging the Despoiler around who is currently 19 points (though maybe 17 if he clears CID without any price changes), meaning we have to be aware of the desirability to take him in both Exalted and Imperial Warhost at that combined price.