Straight to the soul blender.

Sounds like a server problem. There have been a few of those.

IMO the way to avoid this (as well as making it less cliched) is rather than having the likes of Chinaland, Vikingland and Egyptland, to instead blend disparate civilisations together into something that isn’t just copy of a single real culture.

It’s an interesting idea. I’m not a huge fan of chaotic random penalties though so I don’t think it’s for me.

Giving it a skimread now

Various summoned or controlled creatures, such as constructs, undead or elementals (see myrmidons), depending on the wizard’s preference or specialty.

That puts big fancy things like resurrection well out of reach then. Probably some basic martial abilities, with a bit of healing and buffing.

And the super weight scale? Do characters start at iron weight and end at super/hyper weight, or is it different scaling?

What kind of world tech level and range of super weight are you looking at for this?