Blood Magic

apoger · #1 November 4th, 2003, 10:13 PM

The point would be not to create unrest/pop loss at your capital via hunting with the fountain, which it does well.

I'm not sure how much I like the Blood Fountain in Dom II. Need more tests.

Saber Cherry · #2 November 4th, 2003, 10:20 PM

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Originally posted by apoger:
The point would be not to create unrest/pop loss at your capital via hunting with the fountain, which it does well.

I'm not sure how much I like the Blood Fountain in Dom II. Need more tests.

Maybe there should be a slightly more expensive God, the blood spray bottle. With its smaller volume it would have a cap of maybe level 8 blood magic, but be portable, with 1 strategic move. Or maybe a blood port-o-potty or something, or even an enchanted walking Sanguine Dowsing Rod, or a talking bloodhound, "Evil Lassie". I wouldn't want a FOB hunting in my home province until the home province was less than a third of my gold income - say, turn 10.

Speaking of bloodhounds, that would be a neat blood summon or even National unit - you could put them under a commander to increase his blood hunting ability. They'd be expensive and bad in combat, though.

Oooh!!! I got another one!! The Giant Leech, for land, and the Giant Lamprey for water. Both would have life-drain attacks and be good blood hunters. "Knock-knock... hey, it's me, Lord Leechy Lewis. I'd like to talk to your daughter, please... no, nothing serious. No, I'll pass on the coffee, I'm in a hurry, but thanks..."

[ November 04, 2003, 20:28: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

HJ · #3 November 4th, 2003, 10:45 PM

IIRC, there is a demon prince who has an effect of automatically gathering blood slaves. I think that the description from the devs was something along the lines of "fathers give their daughters to him willingly, but the god's dominion suffers".

edit: I really hate my typos...

editedit:found it; quote from Johan K

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One of the Demon Lords is Belphegor the Lord of Hell. He spreads gold around him and fathers sell their children and their souls to the demon. They are then used as soldiers and blood slaves in Belphegor's growing army. This practice is quite bad for your pretender's dominion however.

[ November 04, 2003, 20:54: Message edited by: HJ ]

Psitticine · #4 November 4th, 2003, 10:50 PM

Just on a side note, the new nation of Mictlan has a starting site that gives it 5 blood slaves a season. They have to perform blood sacrifice to spread their dominion, so it balances out somewhat in the end, but it does give them more early-game flexibility.

I haven't used blood magic enough to know if it is balanced or not, so I'm keeping my mouth shut on the rest of the issue.

-Storm- · #5 November 4th, 2003, 11:12 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
You get a lot of your gold income from the home province... and unrest reduces gold income. Blood hunting increases unrest and kills population. Thus, blood hunting in your home province cripples your gold economy.

Yes but I never wanted to use my pretender for bloodhunt at all. I am using him to research/cast rituals, and I am using mages for bloodhunt.

Saber Cherry · #6 November 4th, 2003, 11:20 PM

Oh. I see. Well then, you're fine! Though you might go with an archmage/sage instead, as they get more research points, can have more constructions and summons, and you can always empower them in blood later... just start the archmage with enough blood to forge all the +blood magic items.

Sammual · #7 November 4th, 2003, 11:22 PM

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Originally posted by -Storm-:

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
You get a lot of your gold income from the home province... and unrest reduces gold income. Blood hunting increases unrest and kills population. Thus, blood hunting in your home province cripples your gold economy.

Yes but I never wanted to use my pretender for bloodhunt at all. I am using him to research/cast rituals, and I am using mages for bloodhunt.

The reason to take the FOB is that it gets bonues when Blood Hunting.

Sammual