Mages not able to cast spell ?

[Akka]

Okay, I discovered FfH yesterday and tried it with the green elves (sorry, can't remember the nordic name). So far, it's really awesome (and I went to bed at four in the morning because of it and I'm a zombi right now, damned), but I've encountered a problem and I just don't understand what I did wrong.

So, as I said I play the elves, with their nifty ability to build on top of forest, so I went to get the priest of the leaves and put forest everywhere.
At first it worked great. But suddendly, one turn, they just weren't able to cast any spell. Not that it wouldn't work, simply that the icons were not displayed at all, and the only ability left was the "found the temple of leaves". Even new priests created have the same lack of spells.

Sooo... Did I miss something (like a constellation preventing spellcasting) or is it some kind of bug ?

 

[Chip56]

There is a worldspell that stops all other players from casting spells for some turns.

 

[Akka]

Aaaaah so that's it, thank you, I was wondering if I was becoming mad ^^
Well, I'm back to it now.

You ruined my holidays, Kael !

 

[Emptiness]

If you have the scores display turned on (there is a toggle button for it above the minimap) then you will see the number of remaining turns of Arcane Lacuna above the scores themselves.

 

[Luckmann]

I have fallen for this so many times it's not even funny anymore. I've been so close to reporting it as a bug again and again and again.

I still D'oh and slap myself on the forehead every single time.

 

[Deon]

I've never fallen for it, but I knew the answer when I saw the thread name . Many new players fall for it.

 

[Akka]

Well, in my defense, I still considered the fact that it was possibly an in-game normal mechanism preventing spellcasting !
I've so often considered "bugs" things that were perfectly explainable otherwise, I tend to be very wary of saying "here is a bug !" now

By the way, as we're talking about seemingly weird things...
I have captured the big dragon (thanks Yvain ^^), and he's gotten the "plagued" promotion. I cast "cure disease", but it didn't remove. So :
- Does this spell only remove plagued/diseased/withered from the unit casting it and not the other in the same square ?
- Is it "resistable" and doesn't remove the bad promotions 100 % of the time ?
- Is there some kind of event that makes it impossible/harder to remove bad promotions ?
- Is it a real, true, honest bug ?

 

[Deon]

It's not a bug, dragons have 100% magic resistance so you cannot cast spells on them. You need Pool of Tears or Aqua Succelus to heal it.

 

[Akka]

Well, I have Aqua Succelus, but it doesn't remove it, wether I move the dragon inside the city or I let it spent some turns in it. Does it needs to be promoted inside ?

 

[Deon]

Ah wait, it removes only "diseased". So your only choice is Pool of Tears now.