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1) Seel, Goddess of War and Writing

Edict: Seek the Seel Rune, Prove yourself in battle
Anathema: Despoil or disrespect the dead, burn books
Divine Font: Heal or Harm
Favoured weapon: Guisarme
Domain: Freedom, Repose, Vigil, Destruction, Might

Divine Skill: Athletics
Divine Attribute: Strength, Intelligence
Spells: Sure Strike (1) Weapon Storm (4), Contingency (7)

History:
Seel emerged during the largest war the world had ever seen, gently guiding the souls of the departed from the battlefield. Soon after, eleven heroes were given something called a Sei Rune - these eleven heroes were then able to stave off the armies of the South.

Worshippers:
Due to her relative recency and the mystery surrounding the Seel Rune, Seel is primarily worshipped by orders of specialists rather than the general population. These orders pursue diverse and contradictory approaches, yet all are blessed by the goddess - perhaps she yearns for the conflict itself.

The Valkyries of the south believe in emulating heroism and giving repose to the dead. These Paladins patrol the land, serving as a protective shield for the weak.

The Librarians of Streben believe that fragments of the Seel Rune must be contained in some ancient text or other, and thus gather and catalogue tomes in vast libraries. They count many wizards among their ranks.

Finally, the monks of the curve believe that the Seel Rune must be carved into flesh tempered by combat, and pursue increasingly exotic acts of fleshwarping in their gleaming white temples.

Legends also claim that the great Khan obtained a Seel Rune of sorts before embarking on his conquest ahead of an army of undead - this is disturbing if true, given Seels edicts of respecting the dead.

Meta: Bits of Sigrun, bits of Athena, with a unique rune-artifact-thing inspired by the Elden Ring.

The Repeating heavy crossbow seems to be largely outdone by Crossbow Crack Shot, you need to spend a feat on Crossbow Crack Shot in order to boost your damage...
Are you better off going Repeating Heavy and taking another 1st level feat (Many of which seem very fun), or investing in Crack Shot with a simple crossbow?
Is the playstyle viable overall?

In a campaign I am currently GMing, one of the main characters is a cavalier. As there will be quite a bit of dungeon-crawling coming up, his mounted abilities will be limited in their use for a while.

I am planning to compensate for this by having a later side-plot to the main quest feature mounted combat far more heavily, in order to let the cavalier really make the most of his abilities.
Thus, I was wondering - what monsters lend themselves best to encounters against mounted characters?
How do I run mounted-combat heavy encounters while giving the rest of the group their time to shine as well?

The characters will be about lv.6 at the time of this encounter.

Hi guys!
I've been playing Pathfinder for a while now, but I got my start through my Dad buying me the beginners box.

So now I'd like to pose a challenge to all the optimization afficionados - using only the material in the beginners box, what is the most optimized build you can make?

Is it possible to create something truly broken using such a small ruleset?