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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

SO,Ermor COULD afford building skulls.
I would surely build some if I picked Drain+3, but I'd never pick Drain with Ashen Empire anyway, so as far as I'm concerned, the debate is closed.

I'm with you on Magic +3. But even if it's Magic+3, there are still good reasons to have the Skull. The cost of a Skull plus a spectator is 22 gems. It gives you 16 research points at Magic +3. The cost of a Dusk Elder alone is 20 gems and give you only 9 research points. The Skull is also transferrable and you can put them on less expensive mages such as sages or spectral mages if you got to Conjuration 6 already. So, it's not a bad idea to forge some Skulls if you can spare the gems.