I dont know if anyone else has had the frustration of dying while script mining or lumberjacking, but it sucks. Or for your imbuer crafter to try and gain loyalty when you have no offensive skills at all. That would be teh suck as well. But, fear not, your good buddy Coragin has found a way to have you protected while mining, lumberjacking and allow you to gain in loyalty to use the queens forge, without altering your template!
Rudy Boura's and Lowland Boura's start with 500 hps and can be owned by anyone, no skill needed. So what you do here is get a couple of these bad boys, either buy them form a tamer or use your own tamer. Wait till they bond, then have them fight eachother raising their skills. If you got a tamer to run a healing script that works great. Once they are maxxed out in fighting you could always try to get their resists up too, but I would not worry about that myself.
Now Bouras also have pack instinct, which makes them deadly when they work together. Also with 500 hps they arent going to die to the avg frost troll, orc, ogre ect. And because they have bonded they will recall with you. Start your favortie mining script and say all follow me all guard me. Now when you are attacked, these things will kill it FAST.