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There are many special abilities that are in the game. Special abilities are often inherent to creatures, though some can be added via spells or buffs. Some of them affect the unit's attributes, while others have other esoteric effects.^ Name ^ Description | Hidden? |
| Female | Female creatures are immune to being seduced by female seducers, and get a +4 bonus vs dream seduction. | N |
| Cold Blooded | Creatures with the Cold Blooded ability receives additional 2 additional encumbrance for each level of cold scale. Cold resistance reduces this penalty by 10% per level. In addition coldblooded creatures are not affected by MA C'tis swamp disease attribute. | N |
| Drake | Units with the Drake ability are summoned in greater numbers by commanders with the Dragon Master ability. | N |
| Plant | This creature is a plant. Their deaths do not add to the province's bodycount, and they cannot be raised as undead from abilities like the 'Reanimators' bless. Some spells or items can only be used by plant beings. | Y |
| Lesser Horror | This creature is a lesser horror, and is summoned by the Send Lesser Horrors skill. It is affected by the Cataclysm, and spells like Astral Corruption, which my cause them to be replaced by greater horrors. All Horrors have Spirit Sight. | Y |
| Greater Horror | This creature is a greater horror, and is summoned by the Send Horrors skill. It is affected by the Cataclysm, and spells like Astral Corruption, which may cause them to be replaced by Doom Horrors. All Horrors have Spirit Sight. | Y |
| Doom Horror | This creature is a Doom Horror, and is summoned during the Cataclysm. All Doom Horrors are unique beings, and have Spirit Sight. | Y |
| Sacred (Holy) | This creature is sacred and can be affected by the bless spell, and any bless effects the player controlling it may have. | N |
| Holycost | This is how many candles a creature costs to recruit. Most sacred creatures cost one candle, but some giants cost two. | N |
| Animal | This creature is an animal. It is affected by the Animal Awe ability, and gets a bonus to morale when lead by a commander with the Beast Master ability. Some spells only affect animals, while others cannot target animals at all. | N |
| Unique | This creature is unique. There can only ever be one of these creatures, and if it dies and is resummoned, it will retain it's experience, curses, afflictions etc. If it is wished for it will be stolen from another player instead of being created new. If it is summoned while already in the game, the spell summoning it will fail and the gems will be wasted. | Y |
| Undead | This creature is undead. Undead creatures can be affected by certain undead only spells and is immune to others. Undead are immune to sleep, and do not dream. Undead generally (but not always) no not need to breathe, are immune to cold and poison damage, have spirit sight and have either 30 or 50 morale. | N |
| Bug | This creature is a bug. It is one of the options when the swarm spell is cast. | Y |
| Demon | This creature is a demon. It can be affected by certain demon only spells. This creature must be lead by a commander with undead leadership. If there are no commanders with undead leadership, this unit will instantly route. Demons are immune to sleep, and do not dream. Demons all have Spirit Sight. Most (but not all) demons are summoned by blood rituals. | N |