Swordmages favor deities of magic or skill.
Your defensive powers can protect your allies and yourself. Your melee skills are most important, but you also have attacks that can hit multiple creatures or injure creatures at range. The combat skills they possess are enhanced by the magic they wield. Swordmages apply the arcane arts to melee combat. Note: After I finished this guide, I saw that it could work as a hybrid Swordmage| Cleric, although you have to cherry-pick powers from two classes who aren’t.
Swordmages were powerful arcane spellcasters who blended martial combat with magic, often but not always elemental in nature.