[AreaOfEffect]

You have been an amazing opponent vfb. I swear I was doomed to die a slow and painful death a couple of times during this game. I think I lost my composure once. I don't think I've ever had a one-on-one battle go on for as long as this one has. Such conflicts are always satisfying.

It sort of sucks that you had to lose your powerful death caster to such an unfortunate mistake. If it makes you feel better, I lost a unique mage of my own to a tragic back-to-back horror attack. He got attacked, cast returning, got attacked AGAIN (in the same ritual phase), and didn't have gems for his script.

Now for your reward. A unique quirk of the armor of virtue is that it doesn't cast ritual of returning out of combat. Strangely, as soon as you enter combat an AoE 1 cloud is set over the wearer. Any unit within the cloud gets the returning effect. Thusly, a size 2 unit could place returning on 2 other size 2 units within one combat. It might even be possible to enchant more units if you can somehow get them under the cloud. I removed the armor of virtue from my berserked thug because he wasn't getting the effect. Apparently it isn't good enough to start under the cloud at the start of the first round. Maybe it's triggered at the end of the round? Anyhow, I assume the AoE cloud was chosen over the caster buff effect in order to avoid matrix communions from exploiting the effect, though it's current configuration seems to lend returning too easily. Maybe it was to make the item better rather then worse?

Thank you very much. GG.