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Old July 8th, 2010, 08:05 PM
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Default Re: Wish question

First test of the "Abomination of Desolation" wish resulted in a non-commander version of the horror. Casting "Gift of Reason" on it gives it a name other than "Hruvur" (which is the name you get when you get a commander from the "Doom Horror" wish...

The Abomination stayed for 60 turns before I cast Gift of Reason on it... and it's name ended up being from the summoning nation's basic name bank, "Lykomedes", but after using GoR, he disappeared in 8 turns.

The flavor text of the summoning is also different. Instead of saying "Suddenly a horror appeared in the lab", it says "Suddenly an Abomination of Desolation appeared in the lab".

I theorize that non-commander versions of horrors stay indefintely (or until resummoned) or perhaps that their shelf-life is exceedingly long compared to commander versions, but I'm betting on the latter.

Also, subsequent casts of the "Abomination of Desolation" wish resulted in non-commander horrors.

The non-commander version of the AoD doesn't come with a fleet of lesser horrors which is probably a good thing since the ones that come with the commander attack indiscriminantly (they'll even attack Hruvur himself, but I've never seen them win against him--they just kill themselves).

Just completed 10 trials... Always resulted in the requested "Abomination of Desolation"... The horror never attacked. It was always a standard unit rather than a commander and, for the two trials during which it was attempted, it stayed 60 and 100 turns respectively before I gave up and did something else.

I would say that wishing for the Abomination of Desolation is a much better wish than Doom Horror....

"Slave to Unreason" and "Eater of Gods" seem to produce the same effect as "Doom Horror".

Another thing I noticed (and this one is Important):

You can be attacked by two horrors in the same turn. When you cast the spell to summon the horror, if it horror marks you, the horror mark effect occurs after the battle with the first horror and you get a log that looks like this:

The eater of gods also occasionally will submit.. On a wish for the "Eater of Gods" I did manage to get a commander version of Umor who stayed for 6 turns. This was on the 3rd such wish, the first 2 resulting in attacks.

The passage of Scabiel, The Maker of Ruins, through a province has a horrendous affect on unrest if there is a castle in the province. Unrest rises by a random large amount each turn. In a province with no castle, however, nothing happens....
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