Two questions

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by Gurthang

Hi there, I am a newbye and would like to ask a couple questions:

Secondly, I am playing two games, one as MA Marignon and one as LA Abysia. Yes, fire magic interests me. However, in both games I would like to gain an access to Air magic, without having a pretender gifted with any Air skill. Is there any way to accomplish it?

Hi Gurthang. I regard myself as a newbie too, I've only been playing (SP) for about a year now!

The guys here know much more than I do, but if you are a newb and just not yet familiar with what happens, here is how I see the ways you can get an Air mage:

• Start with a God with Air knowledge. Obviously a bit late in your case!
• Recruit your nation's mages who have Air. Similarly a bit late!
• Recruit your nation's mages who have a "?" skill. You have to click on the "?" to see what percentage likelihood for each possible path it might be given. You may (well) not have any who can produce Air, but it's worth looking.
• Research (conjuration) levels that let you recruit an Air unit, like the replies say. These tend to be quite far down the line.
• From time to time random "Heroes" will join your cause (based on you doing well?). They may bring Air with them.
• Some of the provinces you conquer will allow mage recruitment. Maybe one of these will have a skill you don't have. (Conquering the enemy won't help, you don't get his mages even in his home citadel.)
• You can empower anyone to level #1 Air, and take it from there. However, level #0->#1 costs 50 gems (whereas #1->#2 is only 30) so it's expensive. The problem here is that, because you don't start with any Air mages, you probably haven't found any Air sites, so you probably don't have many Air gems in the first place! You could squander Astrals to acquire them (or conversion rate @4-1 from any other gem). If you conquer enemy provinces from Air-ish nations, they may have done the Air searching for you, in which case you get any Air income, without having to search yourself.