summon-spells
Summon Spells
Many of the most useful units and commanders in the game aren't bought with gold; they are summoned with gems or blood slaves. These have a variety of different roles; units range from cheap patrol chaff (Pack of Wolves summoning Wolf) to elite shock troops (Demon Knights), and commanders range from humble scouts (Black Servant) to high-end mages (Queen of Elemental Air) and powerful supercombatant chassis (Wraith Lord).
Like with some other kinds of spells, stuff acquired earlier in research tends to be inefficient or sub-optimal compared to later stuff. For example, Ogres are generally only worth summoning if a low-research nation needs to convert earth gems into an army urgently. On the other hand, later stuff might be too niche, difficult, or impractical to use, such as the Giant Monsters or the Seasonal Spirits. Some other summons are a crucial part of a nation's strategy, such as Ozelotls.
Most commander summons create only one commander; most unit summons create several (sometimes scaling with the caster's paths).
This pages details ritual summons which create permanent units; a separate page details combat summons.
Fire
Fire
| Summon Fire Drake | Conjuration 4 |  2 • 6 | Fire Drake |
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| Fire Drakes emit a "beam" of fire, which covers multiple squares and can deeply penetrates enemy ranks (or hit allies). Unfortunately, Drakes are somewhat unreliable; they're slow, Undisciplined, and are vulnerable to Charm Animal. They're also Cold-Blooded, even though they breath Fire. Drakes can be summoned in greater numbers by a Dragon Master, making them substantially cheaper and more turn-efficient. |
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| Summon Flame Jelly | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 6 | Flame Jelly x10+ |
| Underwater Only.The rare underwater Fire mage can efficiently summon these interesting creatures. Flame jellies have a Fire Shield that works Underwater for defense, and perhaps the highest magic resistance of any unit in the game. Their attacks are an interesting AOE1 fire/poison attack. While ineffective against targets with fire resistance, massed flame jellies can be effective against an enemy using Mass Protection underwater. | |||
| Summon Summer Lions | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 20 | Summer Lion x5 +1/2 |
| Like other seasonal spirits, these are Ethereal Mindless Magic Beings Animals with Spirit Sight, high magic resistance, and modest seasonal variation in HP. Summon lions have a heat aura and have remarkably high HP for their size (55 HP in Summer; 33 in Winter). | |||
| Summon Fire Snakes | Conjuration 6 | 2 • 7 | Fire Snake x5 +1/2 |
| An offense focused unit, with an AOE1 13 AP damage Fire Flare attack (not scaling with strength) and fangs inflicting 15 poison damage. These are often used as a fire gem dump, because they can very quickly destroy targets lacking fire resistance. They do better in Heat Scales, thanks to their Fire Power and heat aura. Like other snakes, they have very low defense skill (varying from 4 to 10 depending on temperature) and so their otherwise dangerous venomous fangs attack will often be prevented by repel. The repel issue can be greatly mitigated by fighting in hot provinces, enlarging them with Army of Giants, and using a high morale leader (or Growing Fury). They are undisciplined, but less vulnerable to Charm Animal than most other units with the Animal tag due to their high magic resistance. | |||
| Summon Flame Spirit | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 30 | Flame Spirit |
| An 3 mage with a retinue of 1d6 Will o' the Wisps. Commonly summoned by nations with limited access to break more deeply into fire magic. Vulnerable to cold damage and has no boots slot, which limits map movement. |
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| King of Elemental Fire | Conjuration 8 | 5 • 50 | One of: Pyriphlogos - King of Flames • Rhuax - King of Magma |
| Summons one of the Elemental Royalty, high-end Mages that might be able to serve as heavy thugs or supercombatants. Rhuax is the better of the two for thugging, given his Earth Magic level and his higher toughness. You don't get to choose which King you get, though, and you can't get duplicates. Both have 5. If one "dies", that simply frees them up for re-summoning, by anyone. |
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Air
Air
| Call of the Winds | Conjuration 3 |  2 • 10 | Great Hawk • Black Hawk x41 |
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| An early remote magic phase attack spell that can be used to snipe weakly-defended provinces (and unprotected mages in them) with a range of 5 provinces. The Black Hawks have only one good attack (their first one), and the Great Hawk rarely fights, so can lose to 6 PD. Surviving birds are valuable as patrollers or distraction chaff. Can be cast on a friendly province to just summon the birds. |
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| Summon Wyverns | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 3 | Wyvern x2 |
| Wyverns are flying, cold-blooded animals with good poison resistance and shock resistance. In contrast with other Drakes, Wyverns are Disciplined and have good combat stats, but they don't get a Breath weapon, having two melee attacks instead. The second melee attack deals an impressive 50 Fatiguing Poison Damage if it deals actual damage and the target fails a magic resistance check. Their modest strength means this attack can have trouble piercing protection, though buffs like Strength of Giants, Enlarge/Army of Giants, and Weapons of Sharpness can solve that problem. Drakes can be summoned in greater numbers by a Dragon Master, making them substantially cheaper and more turn-efficient. |
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| Summon Gryphons | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 9 | Gryphon x5 +1/2 |
| Gryphons are undisciplined Flying animals with high magic resistance. This spell requires the same research level and path cost as Summon Wyverns with a similar per-unit cost. While they have a little more HP and damage output, mage turn efficiency and the lack of cold-blooded are the main reasons to prefer Gryphons. | |||
| Summon Spring Hawks | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 20 | Spring Hawk x5 +1/2 |
| Like other seasonal spirits, these are Ethereal Mindless Magic Beings Animals with Spirit Sight, high magic resistance, and modest seasonal variation in HP. Spring hawks have high combat skills (especially in Darkness) and are notable for their shock damage attack. While they are ethereal, the combination of no protection, low hit points, and low damage output limits their effectiveness when used unbuffed. One possible role for Spring Hawks is to counter enemy thugs with shock vulnerability (e.g., countering a thug who you expect to have negative shock vulnerability after casting Ironskin). | |||
| Contact Draconians | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 30 | Draconian Chief • Draconian x15 |
| Draconians are large flying cold-blooded humanoids with a poisonous bite. The Draconian Chief can summon more Draconians each turn via the Summon Allies order, making this spell one of the ways to invest gems to create a freespawn economy. This spell is also one of the more mage-turn efficient ways to generate siege strength. | |||
| Summon Great Eagles | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 8 | Great Eagle x5+1/2 |
| As size 6 birds, Great Eagles are extremely mobile flyers with decent combat ability and remarkably high morale and magic resistance. Great eagles are frequently summoned for their impressive +10 bonuses to both siege and patrol strength. | |||
| Queen of Elemental Air | Conjuration 8 | 5 • 50 | One of: Aella - Queen of Storms • Thuella - Queen of Thunder • Nephele - Queen of Clouds |
| Summons one of the three Air Queens; they're probably the best of the Elemental Royalty, due to their extreme mobility, and due to the demand for high-end Air battlefield spells like Mass Flight and Fog Warriors. All three are mostly identical, but Thuella has the best combat power in exchange for lacking allies to summon; not that summoning allies is a great use of time for such powerful Mages. All three have 5 |
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Water
Water
| Call Kraken | Conjuration 3 |  3 • 1 | Kraken |
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| Underwater Only. A huge beast with four armor piercing attacks for just one water gem. A Kraken could be a strong combatant with enough buffs, but they suffer from a poor comparison with Summon Water Elemental as well as poor magic resistance. | |||
| Summon Ice Drake | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 7 | Ice Drake x1 |
| Ice Drakes emit a "beam" of armor negating cold damage that lingers for a bit, capable of penetrating deep into enemy lines and freezing opponents with insufficient Cold Resistance. Ice Drakes are undisciplined, can inflict friendly fire, and have poor melee skills, so are best used in combination with undead or other cold-resistant allies. Drakes can be summoned in greater numbers by a Dragon Master, making them substantially cheaper and more turn-efficient. |
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| Summon Sea Serpent | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 4 | Sea Serpent x1 |
| Underwater Only. These enormous aquatic Drakes are notable for having enormous hp, fear, and inflicting death poison if their fangs deal damage. As an undisciplined unit with high combat speed and modest protection, they are likely to die quickly unless supported by other undisciplined troops (like province defense). Beware nature mages: An 8 MR Animal is a prime Charm Animal target. Drakes can be summoned in greater numbers by a Dragon Master, making them substantially cheaper and more turn-efficient. |
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| Contact Sea Trolls | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 15 | Sea Troll x5 +1/2 lv |
Sea trolls are excellent late-game blockers, with built-in regeneration (doubled underwater!), high hit points, and good magic resistance. Lacking the weapon and armor of the land Troll, they also lack its extreme fire vulnerability. Each sea troll has the upkeep of a 50  unit. This spell is much less economical than Sea King's Court. |
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| Summon Winter Wolves | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 8 | Winter Wolfx5 +1/2 lv |
| Like other seasonal spirits, these are Ethereal Mindless Magic Beings Animals with Spirit Sight, high magic resistance, and modest seasonal variation in HP. Winter wolves are notable for their high combat speed, AOE1 cold damage attack (similar to a Frost Brand) and large cold aura. Winter wolves have modest HP and no protection (relaying on Ethereal for defense), but can very rapidly kill or freeze targets that are vulnerable to cold, either natively (Imp, Devil, Fire Elemental) or due to Marble Warriors | |||
| Summon Bishop Fish | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 15 | Bishop Fish |
Underwater Only. The Bishop Fish is the primary non-national  3 summon. With a Shambler Skin Armor or Amulet of the Fish, can be used on land for Divine Blessing and claiming Thrones. Bishop fish lack a boot slot and have low map movement, so you need a Flying Carpet to boost their mobility. |
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| Sea King's Court | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 55 | Sea King x1 • Sea Troll x15 • Troll Guard x5 |
| The Sea King is a powerful underwater troll with 3, good resistances, 15-25% Regeneration, and the ability to generate a free water gem each month. While worth casting just for the Sea King, the army of sea trolls are solid troops who unfortunately have the upkeep of a 50+ unit. Often part of climbing Water: a 2 Mage forges a Water Bracelet and casts this spell to summon the 3 Sea King. |
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| Summon Asp Turtle | Conjuration 7 | 3 • 13 | Asp Turtlex1 |
| Underwater only. An enormous aquatic trampler with very high natural protection and fear. While 13 magic resistance is far above that of the Kraken or Sea serpent, Asp Turtles suffer from being deeper in the research tree than both Charm Animal and Enslave Mind. | |||
| Queen of Elemental Water | Conjuration 8 | 5 • 50 | Thalassa - Queen of the Sea • Bathusma - Queen of the Deeps • Limne - Queen of the Lake |
| Underwater only. The water Elemental Royalty, all of these have 5, incredible underwater regeneration, recuperation, and built-in Liquid body, giving them the potential to be mighty underwater supercombatants (ideally with fluffers). Only the Queen of the Lake is naturally amphibious. |
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| Vile Water | Enchantment 4 | 2 • 2 | Gelatinous Cube x1 |
| Gelatinous Cubes are resistant to physical damage as well as most types of elemental damage. They can trample and swallow units smaller than them. Using them effectively requires care; they have incredibly low combat speed and no protection. But they can be capable anti-thug units or even line combatants with the right buffs. | |||
Earth
Earth
| Summon Cave Grubs | Conjuration 1 |  1 • 6 | Cave Grub x5 +1/2 lv |
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| Cave only. An early game way to get 60 siege strength worth of siege chaff given a 1 in cave province lab, cave grubs have an impressive 52 hit points, and a high damage bite attack that can corrode armor. Their slow combat speed is a feature: Their poor combat skills and low protection mean they tend to die in melee, and their poor MR makes them a target for Charm Animal. |
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| Summon Ogres | Conjuration 2 | 1 • 10 | Ogre x5 +1/2 lv |
| Ogres are one of the game's most accessible summons. While their cold resistance is somewhat notable, their main use case is as a quickly massed source of 30 damage attacks in early game warfare. | |||
| Summon Cave Drake | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 4 | Cave Drake |
| Cave drakes are earth Drakes. A cave drake is a cold-blooded animal notable for its resistance to physical damage, with 22 protection and 58 hit points. Cave drakes have high strength but poor combat skills, so they combine well with immobilizing spells like Web and Earth Meld. Drakes can be summoned in greater numbers by a Dragon Master, making them substantially cheaper and more turn-efficient. | |||
| Summon Fall Bears | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 12 | Fall Bear x5 +1/2 lv |
| Like other seasonal spirits, these are Ethereal Mindless Magic Beings Animals with Spirit Sight, high magic resistance, and modest seasonal variation in HP. Notable for their built-in Regeneration and high HP, Fall Bears can be very effective blockers against targets without magic weapons, especially with protection buffs and/or Fog Warriors. | |||
| Contact Trolls | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 15 | Troll x5 +1/2 lv |
| Trolls are an expensive but powerful troop summon, with high magic resistance, high durability, a very high damage great club, and built-in Regeneration. Especially with buffs, they can be quite strong in combat against opponents that are unable to exploit their high fire vulnerability. Note that unlike most summons, trolls have high gold upkeep. | |||
| Contact Hill Giant | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 3 | Hill Giant |
| Hill giants are enormous size 6 units with a remarkable 106 hp, a 42 damage great club, and the ability to swallow humans whole (50% chance each round). Both attacks are capable of killing units protected by Mossbody or Mistform, especially if you manage to cast Weapons of Sharpness on your fast and undisciplined giants. Their high HP will attract attract both friendly buffs and enemy evocations, which can be desirable at times, but beware Enslave Mind casters, who are almost guaranteed to exploit their 9 magic resistance. | |||
| Troll King's Court | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 55 | Troll King • Troll x10 • War Troll x5 • Troll Moose Knight x2 |
| The Troll King is a useful summon, often used as a thug chassis or a caster for big earth spells like Army of Gold and Weapons of Sharpness. He comes with an army of trolls, which is a great bonus but makes this spell more expensive than many other mage summons. Troll Kings are important for path-boosting earth magic, since an 2 mage with Earth Boots can cast this spell and then give the Troll king his boots to create a 4 mage. Note that unlike most summons, trolls have high gold upkeep. |
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| King of Elemental Earth | Conjuration 8 | 5 • 50 | One of: Barathrus - King of Deeper Earth • Oreigenes - King of Mountains |
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| Clockwork Soldiers | Construction 3 | 2 • 5 | Clockwork Soldier x5 +1/2 lv |
| Clockwork soldiers are a mechanical version of human infantry, with high resistances to all elements and high protection. They fatigue out very quickly (-15 reinvigoration), and thus will actively fight for at most 7 rounds of battle. All constructs are mindless and have spirit sight, though clockwork troops only have a few turns of activity after the casting time of Darkness would complete. | |||
| Clockwork Horrors | Construction 5 | 2 • 9 | Clockwork Horror x10 +1/lv |
| Improves on the similar Clockwork soldier by having two attacks and higher combat speed (thus wasting less of their limited combat value moving). | |||
| Crusher Construction | Construction 5 | 3 • 15 | Crusher |
| The Crusher is a tough blocker, with high hp, protection, and pierce/slash resistances. Consider fluffing your Crusher with defensive spells like Mossbody and Body Ethereal. Its very low combat stats mean that it will primarily crush targets that have been immobilized by spells like Earth Grip or Web. | |||
| Mechanical Men | Construction 7 | 2 • 15 | Mechanical Man x10+ 1/lv |
| Mechanical men are similar to the clockwork soldier in having very high resistances to elemental magic, without the reinvigoration penalty. Their direct combat ability is modest, with just 8 hit points and human level combat stats, but they have some of the best resistances of any troop in the game. | |||
| Siege Golem | Construction 9 | 3 • 20 | Siege Golem |
| Similar to a Crusher but with a large siege bonus, better resistances, and duel Shatterfist attacks (basically a built-in Smasher). Siege golems compete with both Crumble and Gate Cleaver as ways to transform into siege strength. They are quite durable, with high hp, protection, and elemental resistances, but comes as a unit (not a commander), and their modest magic resistance makes them a target for spells like Disintegrate. |
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| Enliven Statues | Enchantment 6 | 3 • 20 | Living Statue x10 +1/lv |
| A mage turn efficient way to summon. Living statues are substantially better combatants than mechanical men, but lack the elemental resistances and do not heal between battles. All constructs have spirit sight, and Living Statues in particular have high attack/defense stats, which means they have very high relative stats in Darkness. | |||
Astral
Astral
| Juggernaut Construction | Construction 9 |  5 • 25 | Juggernaut |
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| Juggernauts are very durable size 6 Sacred construct, notable for being a unit (not a commander!) that spreads Dominion like a temple. With Divine Name, they become 3 for claiming Thrones. They are one of the slowest units in the game, and thus their trample ability is of limited use. |
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| Telestic Animation | Thaumaturgy 5 | 3 • 5 | Telestic Animate |
| Cheap 2 immobile priest statue. One of the very few units with Innate spellcaster, though you'd need to empower in a magic path in order to use innate caster for much. |
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Nature
Nature
| Summon Animals | Conjuration 1 |  2 • 10 | 40 animals |
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| Summons 40 animal chaff of varying types and quality, heavily dependant on the terrain. Generally more gem and mage turn efficient than other spells that summon animals, especially if cast in a swamp or underwater. See Animal Summons. |
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| Pack of Wolves | Conjuration 2 | 1 • 2 | Wolf x10 +1/lv |
| Wolves are a very cheap animal summon. As fast undisciplined units that are substantially weaker than many PD troops, their combat effectiveness is typically limited to serving as a distraction. A popular use case is as early game patrol chaff for blood hunting. | |||
| Summon Horned Serpents | Conjuration 2 | 1 • 4 | Horned Serpent x5 +1/2 lv |
| Horned serpents are easily massed undisciplined cold-blooded animals with a poisonous bite. While 29HP, 11 protection, and 14 attack skill may seem impressive, these trade poorly with many basic units, including basic province defense. The primary issue is their 7 defense, which means that their attacks will be very often be prevented by repel. One might think that their 13 morale would make that a non-issue, but checks to attack despite a successful repel are penalized by how much the defender won the repel check by, which will usually be a lot. As a result, Army of Giants will significantly improve their damage output against troops with length 0 or 1 weapons, if you can manage to target them with it despite their lack of discipline. Their low cost, high attack skill, high MR, and 15AN poison mean they can still have a useful role as a tool against some elite targets lacking high poison resistance, or, heavily buffed, as chaff in in late game battles. Note that these can be summoned more efficiently by casting Animal Horde in a swamp province. |
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| Summon Killer Mantis | Conjuration 2 | 2 • 4 | Killer Mantis x5 +1/2 lv |
| Killer mantis have the rare combination of being both a magic being and an animal. They are notable for having two decent attacks and unbreakable morale. | |||
| Awaken Vine Men | Conjuration 3 | 1 • 1 | Vine Man x3 |
| Mindless, poison resistant chaff. With two very weak attacks, unbreakable morale, some physical resistances, and awful combat stats, vine men are typically used as blockers or as bodyguard "batteries" for a mage casting soul vortex. Spell scales with the Ivy Lord ability, which is most easily obtained by forging an Ivy Crown or summoning an Ivy Lord. |
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| Awaken Algae Men | Conjuration 3 | 1 • 1 | Algae Man x3 |
| An amphibious variant of the vine man, with higher protection but lower HP. | |||
| Call of the Wild | Conjuration 3 | 4 • 12 | Werewolf x1 • Wolf x30 |
| Technically a remote attack, this spell can be cast in friendly territory as a remote summon. Gives less wolves outside forests. Less efficient as a summoning spell than Pack of Wolves, but the Werewolf can summon 3 wolves per turn. It takes ten months for the werewolf to produce an equal amount of wolves per nature gem, assuming the spell was used in a forest. | |||
| Summon Leogryphs | Conjuration 4 | 2 • 12 | Leogryph x10 +1/lv |
| Leogryphs are fast, undisciplined animals with high attack skill and two attacks. Unlike many animals, they have decent magic resistance. | |||
| Awaken Vine Ogres | Conjuration 4 | 3 • 3 | Vine Ogre x2 |
| Vine Ogres are inexpensive mindless magic being plants with an impressive 55 hit points. Because of their low cost, they can be cost-effectively used in many ways, including as siege chaff, evocation bait, blockers, or soul vortex batteries for powerful death mages. Spell scales with the Ivy Lord ability, which is most easily obtained by forging an Ivy Crown or summoning a Vine Lord. | |||
| Spirits of the Wood | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 8 | Woodland Spirit x10 +1/lv |
| Woodland spirits are fragile homesick ethereal spirits with high awe and 20% regeneration, but unfortunately no protection. Their attack permanently steals strength (magic resistance negates). They are moderately effective blockers against foes lacking magic weapons or having low morale; with powerful buffs (such as Fog Warriors), they might be able to block foes lacking magic weapons for a very long time. | |||
| Contact Forest Trolls | Conjuration 5 | 3 • 10 | Forest Troll x5 +1/2 lv |
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| Awaken Sleeper | Conjuration 5 | 4 • 10 | Sleeper x1 |
| A superhuman commander with magic weapons, including 30 magic Javelins that keep them busy. Of course, many mages who can summon Sleepers are superhuman themselves, and have better prospects as thugs due to spells like Personal Regeneration. Still, the Sleepers see use as leaders of troops; each has 120 Leadership, 80 Magic Leadership, and 40 Undead Leadership. |
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| Forest Troll Tribe | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 37 | Troll Shaman x1 • Forest Troll x15 |
The Troll Shaman is the highlight of the Tribe, boasting  11 1100%   , and the ritual is rather cheap if you also need the Forest Trolls. If you only care about breaking into Death, know that there's only a one-in-three chance of getting a 2, which is required for summoning additional Death Mages. |
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| Contact Forest Giant | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 2 | Forest Giant x1 |
| A lesser Giant who can't pick foes up and swallow them whole, though it still does enough damage with each strike to punch through Mossbody and Mistform. Just comparing to the Hill Giant, the Hill Giant has over 60% more HP, 33% less Defense, and the same chance of getting flipped by dastardly slavers. | |||
| Contact Lamias | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 5 | Lamia x5 +1/2 lv |
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| Animal Horde | Conjuration 7 | 4 • 15 | 100 animals |
| Summons 100 animal chaff of varying types and quality, heavily dependant on the terrain. Significantly more gem and mage turn efficient than other spells that summon animals, especially if cast in a swamp or underwater. See Animal Summons. |
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| Awaken Ivy King | Conjuration 7 | 4 • 30 | Ivy King x1 |
| A Giant 3 mage with the HP of someone one Size category taller, not to mention the physical resistances to everything except for swords. He's also a high-level Ivy Lord, of course, and he counters other Nature nations' animal hordes with his Animal Awe. He does not have a head slot, however, for his Ivy Crown forbids the wearing of protective headwear. |
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| Faerie Court | Conjuration 8 | 5 • 40 | Faery Queen x1 • Sprite x15 |
| The draw of this ritual is the Faery Queen, a flying 33 mage who doubles as a Disease Healer. She doesn't offer deeper Nature access, except through Blood-assisted booster chains in nations like Sauromatia or Early/Late Mictlan (the latter of which has a national alternative), but only a few would turn down her Air magic. At the very least, she's a Miraculous Cure All Elixir that also does other things. The Sprites are dodge-tanks (SIZE 1 AND 20 DEFENSE) whose only attacks dump 100 Fatigue on their targets, though they're vulnerable to Evocations (and Tramplers) and lacking in Morale. |
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| Awaken Tarrasque | Conjuration 9 | 6 • 25 | Tarrasque x1 |
| A super tough regenerating dragon with a big poison cloud. Comes too late in research to be useful, as you would prefer a fully slotted super-combatant chassis at Conj 9 |
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| Wooden Construction | Construction 5 | 3 • 3 | Lumber Construct x1 |
| Poorer Golem. If you get one during a random event, it's tradition to thug it out for good luck. | |||
| Awaken Treelord | Enchantment 7 | 5 • 35 | One of: Treelord • Treelord • Dying Treelord |
All Treelords are immobile, high-nature, Innate Spellcasters, around as tough as the most durable Idols (if their weakness to Fire is ignored). They all have retinues and three innate attacks, too, and they're all high-level Ivy Lords. However, all three have notable differences. One has 14 and boars, and raises Growth Scales locally. Another has 4 1 and Dire Wolves. The third has 5 and uses Swarm at the start of each battle for free, but is extremely old. Summoning in a densely-populated province will get the most out of the first two. |
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| Call the Worm That Walks | Thaumaturgy 8 | 5 • 30 | Worm Mage |
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Death
Death
| Black Servant | Conjuration 1 | 2 • 5 | Black Servant |
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| An unusually stealthy scout. Useful if you need an amphibious scout or need a scout with spirit sight. Can be used as a stealthy light raider when equipped with an Amulet of the Dead. | |||
| Summon Shades | Conjuration 2 | 2 • 8 | Shade x5 +1/2 lv |
| Shades are a weak ethereal summon, notable for their Steal Strength attack, which permanently consumes 2 points of the target's strength after a magic resistance check. | |||
| Revive Wights | Conjuration 3 | 2 • 20 | Wight x5 |
| May use underwater. Wights are elite undead troops, with good stats, heavy armor, cold aura, and a magic Bane Blade. While expensive at 4 each, they are a mage turn efficient way to turn gems into combat power. In the late game, Legion of Wights is much more economical. |
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| Revive Bane | Conjuration 3 | 2 • 7 | Bane |
| May use underwater. Banes are essentially a commander version of the Wight, notable for have 120 undead leadership (and thus able to do formations) with a morale bonus. They wield the 2-handed Bane Blade. They are one of the better early game options for a summoned thug chassis. | |||
| Summon Shade Beasts | Conjuration 4 | 3 • 15 | Shade Beast x15 +2/lvl |
| May use underwater. Shade Beasts are ethereal hounds that are ineffective in daylight. In Darkness, they have 13 attack, 10 defense, and a 15 damage magic attack, making them decent midgame chaff for fighting enemy troops without any darkvision. | |||
| Spirit Mastery | Conjuration 5 | 1 • 4 | Dispossessed Spirit x15+ |
| May use underwater. These extremely cheap ethereal troops can be used like swarm bugs as as blockers against foes lacking both priests and magic weapons. They are one of the cheapest troop counters to elephants, as ethereal troops are resistant to tramplers, and their weak paralyzing attacks will quickly paralyze targets with log magic resistance. | |||
| Revive Bane Lord | Conjuration 5 | 4 • 12 | Bane Lord |
| May use underwater. The Bane Lord is an upgraded size 3 version of the Bane, with the same gear and special abilities, but significantly better stats and more hit points. Like the Bane, a common use case is as a summoned thug or counter-thug chassis. | |||
| Summon Ghosts | Conjuration 6 | 2 • 14 | Ghost x5 +1/2 lv |
| May use underwater. Ghosts are powerful ethereal spirits with a cold aura, fear, and an armor piercing life drain attack. Their 0 protection is a major weakness, but Ghosts can be deadly combatants when their protection is buffed, especially with offensive buffs like Quickness. Note that Ghosts can be summoned using a Wraith Lord turn as well as via gems. | |||
| Summon Spectre | Conjuration 6 | 3 • 22 | Spectral Mage |
May use underwater. Spectral Mages are 12100%  100% mages, with all the features of a Ghost chassis. They can be used as a thug, or as affordable summon for breaking into useful paths or crosspaths unavailable to a nation. Astral randoms can be used as a stealthy counter to an enemy making extensive use of Mind Hunt. |
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| Summon Mound Fiend | Conjuration 7 | 3 • 28 | Mound Fiend |
| May use underwater. Mound Fiends are 32 mages and reanimator priests, with all the features of a Ghost chassis. They are often used both in climbing Death magic and as a source of freespawn chaff. |
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| Harvester of Sorrows | Conjuration 7 | 3 • 28 | Harvester of Sorrows |
| May use underwater. A powerful undead spirit with a life drain attack. The lack of a body slot complicates using these as a thug, but its powerful fear aura means these can often rout light PD or low morale patrol chaff. Can be used as a Banevenom Charm to kill 10% of a province's population as an anonymous event every turn. Human opponents often find the use of reapers upsetting, which can lead to diplomatic consequences. | |||
| Call Wraith Lord | Conjuration 7 | 5 • 40 | Wraith Lord |
| May use underwater. Wraith Lords are immortal 3 mages. As ethereal commanders with excellent stats, a magic Bane Blade, a cold aura and fear, these can be easily used as a thug without any gear, often using Soul Vortex and Invulnerability. While Wraith Lords are weaker death mages than the other immortal death magic summon (Lich), they respawn immediately after being killed, making them often worth the higher cost. Wraith Lords can freespawn one Ghost a turn, and will curse whoever kills them. |
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| Legion of Wights | Conjuration 9 | 6 • 30 | Wight x20 +3/lv] |
| May use underwater. One of the mage's most efficient troop summoning spells, Legion of Wights is an efficient way to mass a small army of elite, easily buffed undead troops carrying magic weapons. | |||
| Tartarian Gate | Conjuration 9 | 7 • 10 | Summons a Tartarian |
| Summons a powerful undead Titan, who can be powerful casters and supercombatants, if you can manage their afflictions and insanity. See the Tartarian Gate page for a complete description of this endgame spell. | |||
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| Reanimation | Enchantment 1 | 1 • 3 | Longdeadx10 |
| May use underwater. Reanimates 10 permanent Longdead troops, which can be boosted to 12 by an Amulet of the Dead. For nations with special national Longdead types, many of the longdead created by this spell will be of those types. See Reanimation for details. | |||
| Revive King | Enchantment 2 | 2 • 3 | Mound King |
| May use underwater. Mound kings are a cheap and mobile undead leader, notable primarily for their 80 undead leadership. | |||
| Create Revenant | Enchantment 3 | 2 • 9 | Revenant |
| May use underwater. Turns Death gems into Researchers. Probably only needs some early game to spam death magic and dedicated death site searching. | |||
| Behemoth | Enchantment 4 | 3 • 7 | Behemoth |
| May use underwater. An undead elephant. Decent MR and morale mean these do not share some of the weaknesses of other elephant units; low defense and protection mean that these perform substantially better with defensive buffs. | |||
| Pale Riders | Enchantment 5 | 3 • 10 | Longdead Horseman x20+ 2/lv |
| May use underwater. A cheap and extremely mage turn efficient way to summon dangerous chaff, notable primarily for their high combat speed, light lance charge, and decent combat speed. With their low HP and average magic resistance, these are highly vulnerable to banishment spells. | |||
| Carrion Reanimation | Enchantment 7 | 3 • 10 | Soulless x100 +2/lv |
| May use underwater. Transforms up to 100 corpses in the target province into Soulless. Most nations will get Soulless Warrior or Soulless, but many nations have special national versions; see Reanimation for details. | |||
| Ritual of Rebirth | Enchantment 7 | 4 • 15 | Revives a hero as a Mummy |
| May use underwater. Ritual of rebirth resurrects one of your slain commanders who had a heroic trait via the Hall of Fame. Revived heroes can often be badly afflicted, but this can be an inexpensive way to summon a powerful mage. The mummy chassis has a decent HP pool, but poor combat stats, and is extremely vulnerable to fire magic as well as the Shatter spell. Notably, resurrecting a dead Prophet with this spell is one way to get additional 3 priests to claim thrones. You don't get to pick which of your dead heroes is raised from the dead. |
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| Lichcraft | Enchantment 8 | 5 • 30 | Lich |
| May use underwater. Liches are immortal 4 mages, useful both as raiders and as casters for major Death magic like Life After Death, Darkness, and Rigor Mortis. A Lich is cheaper and a more powerful mage than the Wraith Lord, but lack its melee combat abilities, and take 3 months to respawn if killed. Since a Lich can summon both types of immortal death mages with just a Skull Staff, they are often a major goal when boosting death magic and one of the most important ways players spend in the late game. Liches are highly vulnerable to fire. |
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Blood
Despite the high numbers, Blood slaves are fairly easy to collect and considered cheaper to spend then gems.
A main downside for A lot of Blood summon troops, is that you have to summon them one of time until you get to the late game horde versions.
In addition, Unique Demon commanders return to the summoning pool when killed.
Blood
| Bind Shadow Imp | Blood 1 | 1 • 4 | Shadow Imp |
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| Cheap scouts that take mage turns instead of fort turns. | |||
| Bind Spine Devil | Blood 2 | 2 • 3 | Spine Devil |
| Solid two poison attack chaff with high Prot and Poison barbs. | |||
| Bind Fiend | Blood 2 | 2 • 5 | Fiend of Darkness |
| Sneaky Flyers with Darkness Power and two solid poison attacks. | |||
| Bind Serpent Fiend | Blood 4 | 1 • 2 | Serpent Fiend |
| descrip | |||
| Horde from Hell | Blood 5 | 4 • 44 | Devil (commander) • Devil • Imp x25 |
| descrip | |||
| Bind Succubus | Blood 5 | 4 • 66 | Succubus |
| descrip | |||
| Ritual of Five Gates | Blood 6 | 5 • 39 | Fiend of Darkness • Devil • Frost Fiend • Storm Demon • Demon Knight |
| descrip | |||
| Plague of Locusts | Blood 7 | 5 • 88 | Demonic Locust (commander) • Demonic Locust x8 |
| descrip | |||
| Bind Heliophagus | Blood 8 | 5 • 111 | One of: Mastema - Heliophagus • Amaimon - Heliophagus • Gorilon - Heliophagus • Mabakiel - Heliophagus |
| Summons one of four unique commanders. descrip | |||
| Forces of Darkness | Blood 9 | 6 • 50 | Fiend of Darkness x14 +1/lvl |
| Summons one of four unique commanders. descrip | |||
| Bind Demon Lord | Blood 9 | 8 • 150 | One of: Pazuzu - Lord of the Plague Wind • Belphegor - Lord of Hell • Belial - Lord of Corruption • Buer - Goat Sun • Geryon - Monster of Fraud • Ashmedai - Prince of Lust |
| Summons one of six unique commanders. descrip | |||
| Notable Spells | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rituals | Personal Enchantments | Divine Name/Gift of Reason • Transformation • Twiceborn • Cure Disease |
| Strategic | Domes • Globals • Magic Phase Movement • Remote Attacks | |
| Summons | Cross Breeding • Elemental Royalty • Hidden Underneath/in Snow/in Sand • Infernal Breeding • Reanimation • Release Lord of Civilization • Ritual of Rebirth • Tartarian Gate | |
| Other | Wish | |
| Combat Magic | Battlefield Enchantments | |
| Buffs | Hell Power • Life after Death • Mossbody • Pain Transfer • Phoenix Pyre • Returning • Soul Vortex • Strength of Giants • Time Stop | |
| Debuffs | Armor of Achilles • Earth Grip • False Fetters | |
| Direct Damage | Divine Magic • Magic Duel • Soul Slay | |
| Summons | Reanimation | |
| Other | Communions • Enslave Mind | |
summon-spells.txt · Last modified: 2023/10/16 19:21 by power_mac