Hmmm ? Mysterious death ?

[Taqwus]

Even Mind Hunt gives a message, if memory serves; "Foo was mentally attacked by an enemy mage". Seeking arrows also result in Messages ("Suddenly an arrow appeared out of the sky and struck Foo straight in the heart" etc).
So does Manifestation and Earth Attack, both of which result in actual battles.
Practically every remote-attack spell results in an informative message. What was the exact message?
(Alternative to spell: death due to disease).

[tkobo]

I cant give the exact message becuase the game ended when i ended my turn.

I thought my pretender would just respawn .

All it said though was, that my pretended had died.

It didnt give any reason at all.

Can your pretender die from low dominion ?
If so, does it give a message when it happens ?

Okay, it seems i can see the exact message by staring the game again and redoing Last turn.

It says "Tim the Slayer Lord God of Ermor has been permanently vanquished.At the end his dominion did not touch a single province and his lifeforce died with his dominion"

It give no explanantion on how i died .

[ November 24, 2003, 22:26: Message edited by: tkobo ]

[Saber Cherry]

I'll also guess disease. Did you ever make a Fever Fetish, for example? Diseased units lose 1 HP per turn, and eventually die, and then drop their items, which are picked up by other commanders...

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by tkobo:
It says "Tim the Slayer Lord God of Ermor has been permanently vanquished.At the end his dominion did not touch a single province and his lifeforce died with his dominion"

It give no explanantion on how i died .

Oh, I see now=) Yes, if nobody believes in you, you vanish. You need to read the newby guide=)

If your god is killed, you can bring him back. But if your dominion is dead everywhere, the god goes "poof".

[tkobo]

I dont understand the whole "Dominion " thing.

So my god died because my dominion in the province he was in got too low right ?

So why didnt he just respawn in another province in which the dominion was good ?

Also, a message explaining the cause of his death wouldve been nice.

Im not complaining here, i like the game alot,but a message telling me why my prtender died would have saved me alot of confusion on this

[Taqwus]

That is very, very strange. Unless you had very few temples and the remaining AI had an extremely strong dominion and temples in all his provinces, you should have had at least /some/ dominion somewhere. Death by dominion only happens when you have no dominion left anywhere... and your temples, prophet and pretender all provide some.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by tkobo:
I dont understand the whole "Dominion " thing.

Your dominion is your religious power, or if you prefer, the sum of the faiths of your believers. This is represented by candles on the map, white candles for you and red candles for your competitors. Want to know more about your dominion strength in a given province? Just look at the lower left corner of the info pane, you'll read something like "Dominion: 7". The strength of your dominion in a given province can range from 1 to 10. A province that read "Dominion: 0" is a province where noone believes in you. A negative value means some of the people here believe in another deity. If there isn't at least one province on the map where you have a positive dominion (IOW, a province with a white candle), your god fades away and you've lost the game.

So my god died because my dominion in the province he was in got too low right ?

Right.

So why didnt he just respawn in another province in which the dominion was good ?

If there was such a province, your god wouldn't have died.

Also, a message explaining the cause of his death wouldve been nice.

Once you understand the concept of dominion, the message is actually quite clear.