Flavor Text... List of tricky ones?

[Taqwus]

I have neither seen nor heard of a recruitable independent that has a 'heal' command. In fact, the only recruitable healer I'm aware of is the Arcosephalean Priestess; there are other healers that can be summoned (Fairy Queens) or received (Ho-Hsien-Ku the Tien Chi national hero), but you can't simply pay gold/resources for them.

[HJ]

In my understanding, this is misleading:
All the descriptions for banefire/decay effects point to "flesh rotting and shriveling, wounds festering" etc., which would suggest that the unit would need to be alive for it to take place. However, if you happen to hit a bane with a bane blade, he will also start to decay, so will the skeletons, and IIRC I once had a golem hit by a banefire bow who also started to decay, while he cetrainly has no flesh since he's made out of clay (and the skeletons have only bones and are already decaying constantly). To me it's very counterintuitive that undead and lifeless (maybe ethereals as well?) are affected by decay/banefire. My understanding from reading the descriptions is that it's not an acid that would eat away just any matter, it's a thing that affects the flesh/lifeforce, but it doesn;t work as such.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by HJ:
My understanding from reading the descriptions is that it's not an acid that would eat away just any matter, it's a thing that affects the flesh/lifeforce, but it doesn;t work as such.

It causes things to decay. Bone certainly does that, as does rotting or dried flesh, even metal will rust, which covers the golems.

[HJ]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by HJ:
My understanding from reading the descriptions is that it's not an acid that would eat away just any matter, it's a thing that affects the flesh/lifeforce, but it doesn;t work as such.

It causes things to decay. Bone certainly does that, as does rotting or dried flesh, even metal will rust, which covers the golems.

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That's what acid would do, IMHO, and we already have acid spells in the game. All the descriptions specifically mention flesh and lifeforce, which skeletons and golems lack. For the decay to be in tune with its descriptions, IMO it shouldn't work on lifeless things, which have no lifeforce or flesh, or undead, which are already decaying all the time but never decay completely. A fire from the Underworld that destroys the living shouldn't affect the servants of the Underworld - in my understanding, it's not an all-consuming force like acid, but a *life*-consuming force, which are two different things.