I had no idea Varags were CR 0. How nice.
I'll be sure to use them as shock troops. With Awl Pikes, probably.
Words of Creation isn't being allowed, so the sources allowed are a bit stricter than I thought. Alphorns neither.
Probably just assume the 'most 3.5 material' bit isn't there and just use the sources listed... currently i'm thinking a NE Venerable Grey Elf Wizard as my main character, with Improved Familiar (Hippogriff) and Widen spell (1360' range fireballs? Hell yes - that's outside longbow range). Vaguely considering Wizard 5/Urpriest 1/MT 1 rather than just straight wizard. Practiced Caster offsets the CL loss and 4th level spells aren't THAT important for what I want to do. I lose Animate Dead but, mneh.
For my cohort, no idea.
One problem with this is that it makes me pretty MAD, as I need cha for leadership, int for wizard casting, and wis for urpriest casting. And con for HP.
But y'know, no UA means no buyoff, so probably no necropolitan.
The only other idea that appeals to me is pixie warlock, but i'm not sure if i'm happy (ab)using the spells as damage rules to do my eldritch blast to a unit of 300 men simultaneously. It would be essentially unstoppable, though. Natural greater invisibility is kind of lol.
As for epic feats - yeah, you don't get them from martial monk. On a technicality. You can still snag weapon supremacy and whatnot though.