I guess it is good idea to wait for patch "k" by Kael then update.
Possibly. However, based purely on his changelog I suspect this this version will still be compatible with patch k. I should probably wait to see if someone finds some bugs first though.
Satan "D*mn it's cold down here"
I'm not quite sure what you mean, so I choose to take it as a request to explain the changes to the Illians.
Temples of the Hand don't terraform once, they terraform every turn. However, they use TempTerrain, so if the city is conquered the terrain will eventually go back to normal. (As normal FfH does not have temp features, jungles will stay forests though.)
Priests of Winter can build Temples of the Hand just like normal priests can their temples.
Temples of the Hand can be removed by the Inquisition or Enlighten spells. (I think I forgot to block the Illians from removing them from their own cities. Oops.)
(Enlighten City is the Luonnatar version of Inquisition. It can remove even state religions from rival cities.I used to have Enlighten units as a seperate spell, but I rolled tht into Evangelize Units.
The Evangelist promotion allows Evangelize Units, which has a chance to convert nearby units to the caster's religion. It also allows an xml-only Evangelize spell for spreading the caster's religion to a city. It works like the temple founding spells, but does not kill the caster and has a chance of being Miscast.)
The Priests of Winter created by The White Hand ritual start with Strong, Inquisitor, Potency, Immune Cold, and Extension I.
Warning: I just noticed that I did not edit this code when I split Potency into seperate Arcane and Zeal promotions. Completing this ritual without first changing iPot = gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROMOTION_POTENCY') to iPot = gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROMOTION_ZEAL') is not recommended.
Once The White Hand has been completed, you may build more Priests of Winter so long as Auric is Alive. (I meant to allow it with Auric Ascended around instead, but forgot.) These priests have had their strength reduced.
Ice Nodes may only be built by Auric, Priests of Winter, or High Priests of Winter.
The White Hand, The Deepening, The Draw, and Ascension all require having a living Auric/Auric Ascended.
Auric is gained through the Letum Frigus event. If you play as the Illians, you had better hope the feature exisst on your map.
The mortal Auric's death will cost you your traits.
Auric lost a point of strength, but gained the Immune Cold, Winterborn, Arcane, Channeling I, and Channeling II promotions.
(In this version, spell spheres are available to any unitcombat with the right mana and channeling promotion, and all units can get caster xp, although only UNITCOMBAT_ADEPT units get free spell spheres based on the maan you own.)
The Draw gives Auric Strong, Channeling III, and
Crazed. As he is overwhelmed by the Sphere of Ice, he becomes highly irrational. If you aren't careful, he'll run off and get himself killed.
Ascension turns the mortal Auric into Auric Ascended. The mortal Auric can get promotions, but Auric ascended cannot. He also looses the promotions granted by The Draw, as well as all spell spheres but Ice once his Ascention is complete.
Auric Ascended is a lot stronger. His has combat strength of 60 + 15 ice affinity. He has 7 (actually 8, thanks to the flying promotion) moves, and acts like an ICBM. That is to say, he can move directly from any tile on the map to any other (excluding too close to neutral civ's units and territory, but there shouldn't be such a thing as a neutral civ at this point), including during attacks. His terraforms the land around him purely by being there (and technically by being selected, as it is in a pyPrereq for a spell). He heals fully after every combat. He is still vulnerable to The Godslayer, and also one other weapon that you could probably guess from the scenarios.
As mentioned before, after researching theology Great Prophets may become High Priests of Winter.
Also as mentioned before, Stir from Slumber is available to anyone, does not require killing a civ first, but only serves to make the dragon resurrection spells castable. The Illians still need to get an Ice III unit to Drifa's bones in order to revive her.
High Priests of Winter don't move Blizzards, they make them.
At Divine Essence the Illians can build Aquilans. These great eagles (the first of which built will be called Fiacra) can create Blizzards too. They are a national unit.
The Illians got a new immortal UU: The Heir of Taranis. Serving as Auric's archangels comes with a blessing and a curse. They are immortal and heal fully after each battle, but can never learn (i.e, like Auric Ascended they have no unitcombat and so cannot purchase promotions). They start with Immune Cold, Immune Magic, Immune Disease, and Heavy. Priests of Winter may upgrade to Heirs of Taranis.
The Illians have Frost Giants as a Berserker UU. They are not Crazed like most Berserkers, and are stronger. These elementals may only be built directly, not upgraded from lesser units. They, like Wilboman, cannot enter warmer terrain.
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I also added some builderish stuff to the Grigori too, to represent their softer side. I may also steal the "grigori farms can discover resources" idea, though I'm not sure about the spawning defenders.
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provided by Governors Manors and the Pillar of Chains do not stack, I figured players would want another reason for Flauros to build his favorite wonder.
