That's an idiotic character.
Dual-wielding Swords Of The Cross wastes 5 Refresh. Plus they're redundant for an Evoker.
Temple Dogs have Claws, which no good optimizer would take alongside a Sword and Evocation.
Temple Dogs have The Bark, which generally sucks.
Mythic Strength and Evocation are not a good combination at all. That's basically taking the same rough set of capabilities twice using different skills and paying twice.
And Size powers aren't the best way to boost your durability. Lenny's freakin' fragile.
Lenny's a 62+ Refresh character, but I think I could easily thrash him with a 20 Refresh character. A 20 Refresh character who doesn't deviate from canon templates, in fact.
The above is mostly a joke, but it has a point. Intelligent Refresh spending generally gives you a coherent character. The rules of this game make it mechanically optimal to not make Lenny.
If you head over to the Play By Post board to look at Enduring The Apocalypse, you'll see the kind of characters I play with. Some are optimized, others are not. The most optimized of them, Elena Blackcloak, is narratively an Emissary Of Power and a Scion. She doesn't have Marked By Power, though.
I've also got a White Court Vampire, a giant scion, a template-less shapeshifter, and a nightmare-god scion. Former characters include a few spellcasters and a space marine.
I appreciate the explanation, by the way.
PS: If a power is optimal for everyone, the power is broken and should be discarded or edited. Don't blame the lack of templates for that, blame badly-written powers. (In fact, I think that problem is worse when templates are used. If everyone needs to have Blood Drinker for whatever reason and that power is only available to Red Court Infected, characters are going to look pretty similar to one another.)