Blood Magic as Combat Magic?

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Originally Posted by Poopsi

What about astral corruption? There was this one game in which I used it (again, SP), and I found that even for a mostly blood-casting nation, it can be painful, for the one time you need to cast some other ritual spell...

The funny thing is that nations that can cast AC also tend to have some good way of avoiding or killing Horrors. For example, Neifleheim has Frozen Heart, all Abysia's have Returning, and Lanka has Lightning.