#newspell "woe is me"

[HoneyBadger]

Good to know. Still no way to create new magical paths though, sigh. What about the bit where it says holy gems? any way to reinstate them? If I were doing holy gems, I'd make it so you needed a temple and a priest entered into the temple (like you do to summon monsters in some sites, or to use the Agarthan's oracle device), then you'd earn 1 holy gem (in the form of a 'martyr' as opposed to 'bloodslave', martyrs would be blueish human shapes with a faint golden outline) per turn per temple + priest. Unholy magic/gems would be fun too, perhaps unholy gems would come in the form of flayed demonskins instead of flayed humanskins (or maybe just half-human half demon babies), and be black human shapes with glowing golden eyes and a faint red outline, and require the desecrated temple of another god (which would make independent temples, as well as the temples of other nations, useful-creating a desecrated temple would require an unholy priest spending 400 gold (or more, or less for some nations, or whatever) on a province which at one time contained a temple.