NPC mods and kit questions

So I know people are generally allergic to paired NPCs, but I was researching knightly orders maybe a year and a half ago, and discovered that paladins of Milil often traveled with bards (to make ballads about their exploits--now we know where Anomen really belonged), and it was too amusing a prospect to pass up.

So kit questions:

1) When it comes to the bard, this is a place where I would consider skald. The warrior-poet and powerful buffer makes sense when your social circle is paladins. But the Viking flavor of the skald just makes no sense. They're Cormyrian, which is pretty much the equivalent of France. Nothing northern about them.

I'm leaning towards custom kit, and right now I've given her one which basically gives her an extra spell per level and restricts her from the school of necromancy. (Also +2 on saves vs. spell and half the pickpocket score.) The flavor of it is taken from the 2e Minstrel bard kit, which is a bit music+magic and probably makes sense for a Mililan bard. Would that be more or less attractive than a skald? Would it be completely unbalanced to give her that extra spell per level AND some minor improvements to the song?

2) I've been toying with the idea of adding an optional Priest of Milil kit for a PC. If I did this, I'd give the choice of the Temple of Lathander and the Five Flagons as stronghold, since he is the god of bards, after all. Is this something people would be interested in?