Age 55 — Veil of Shadows

Changes in brief

Avian
- - 30% attack time (was -25%)
- +20% Sabotage damage (was 40%)
- Elite: 6/3, 700gc, 5.25NW
Dwarf
- - 20% Building Efficiency (was +15%)
- Elite: 6/2, 650gc, 5NW
Elf
- Elite: 5/3, 650gc, 4.75NW
Faery
- - 3 generals (was -2)
- Lost Offensive Specialist Strength -2
- - 5% population (was -10%)
- Elite: 3/6, 800gc, 6NW
Halfling
- Elite: 4/5, 550gc, 5NW
Human
- +5% Population (was +10%)
- - 30% Sabotage damage (was +50%)
- - 40% Spell Damage (Instant Spells) (was +50%)
- Elite: 4/4, 600gc, 4NW
Orc
- Elite: 7/1, 850gc, 5.75NW
Undead
- Elite: 7/2, 1000gc, 6NW

Specialists now defend and attack at 4 points respectively.
The explore formula is revised. It is now significantly cheaper to explore at smaller sizes compared to both previous ages.
The reduced gains protection afforded to smaller kingdom when attacked by larger kingdoms will be removed when the smaller kingdom reaches 50 points on the meter.
Towards a similar end, when both kingdom reach max hostility the option to declare will appear regardless of the kingdoms networth.
Winning a war will not grant any honor taken from your opponents honor pool. Monarchs will instead be able to set a kingdom reward for winning wars, this reward will be honor or land and will be a combination based on both kingdoms relevant resources.
Intra kingdom hits will remove some honor from the attacked province.
Attacks in war will not take extra acres from the exploration pool.
Entering Fortified stance will result in -50% magic and thief operation gains. This kicks in immediately for the fortified kingdom and slides in over 24 hours for the rest.
Sabotage damage mods will increase the thievery damage cap, watchtowers will decrease it.

Bonuses: +20% Building Efficiency; Free Building Construction; Can use credits to raze buildings; +30% Spell Damage (Instant Spells)
Spell Book: Quick Feet, Fanaticism, Fools Gold, Clearsight
Penalties: +50% Food Consumption; Can't use Accelerated Construction
Elite Unit: 6/2, 650gc, 5NW

Bonuses: +1 Mana Recovery / Tick in war; +50 % WPA; +1 Defence Specialist Strength
Spell Book: Pitfalls, Mages Fury, Amnesia, Nightmare
Elite Unit: 5/3, 650gc, 4.75NW

Bonuses: +30 % Spell Damage (Instant Spells); +20 % Sabotage Damage; +30 % WPA and TPA
Spell Book: Access to All Racial Spells
Penalties: -5 % Population; -3 Generals
Elite Unit: 3/6, 800gc, 6NW

Bonuses: +5 % Population; +30 % Sabotage Damage; +40 % Spell Damage (Instant Spells); +1 Offense Specialist Strength
Spell Book: Tree of Gold, Fountain of Knowledge, War Spoils
Elite Unit: 4/4, 600gc, 4NW

Bonuses: +20 % Gains; Earns Elite Credits
Spell Book: Bloodlust, Fanaticism, Aggression, Reflect Magic
Penalties: -75 % Combat Instant Spell Damage and Duration; -75 % Sabotage Damage
Elite Unit: 7/1, 850gc, 5.75NW

Bonuses: -50% Offensive losses on attacks you make; Converts some Specialists into Elites on successful land attacks; Spreads and is Immune to The Plague; No Food Required
Spell Book: Greater Protection, Town Watch, Animate Dead, Chastity
Penalties: -25% science effectiveness
Elite Unit: 7/2, 1000gc, 6NW

Bonuses: +30 % Income; -50 % Money Losses from Plunders; Immunity to Income Penalties

Bonuses: +30 % Science Effectiveness; -66 % Losses on Learn Attacks; Immune to the Plague

Spell Book: Meteor Showers
Bonuses: All Guilds and Towers are twice as effective; +50 % Spell Duration (For Duration Spells Only); +1 mana per tick in War

Bonuses: -50% Own Casualties
Special Access: Animate Dead spell always active (reawakens all troops lost on defense/offense as soldiers)

Bonuses: +50% more bonuses from honor; -50% draft cost; -50% train time; -50% Land Losses on Ambush Attacks

Normal: No effects
Aggressive
- +10% Combat Gains
- -10% Attack Time
- +30% Military Wages
- +10% Military losses
Fortified
- -50% gains hitting in and effectiveness on magic/thievery ops in (slides in over 24 hours)
- -25% Military training time and cost
- +25% draft speed
- -25% Construction time and cost
- 4-day maximum duration
- -50% gains hitting out and effectiveness on magic/thievery ops out
- +100% Explore costs
- No Paradise spell available
- Science limited to Active

Ceasefire
- Prohibits attacks, spells, and thievery operations
- Annuls the Hostile Meter
- End Of War Ceasefire lasts 12-96 Utopian days
- +500% birth rate
- -30% troop training costs
- -50% draft cost
- Combined with War relations
- War and Ceasefire relations can be cancelled separately
- All land currently out returns home immediately at war end
- Instant population growth of 20% of max population if below 50%
Normal: No effects
Unfriendly: Unlocks Unfriendly/Hostile/War spells and thievery operations against the other kingdom
Hostile
- +10% Combat Gains
- Increases Conquest networth range
- Offensive spells cost 2% mana
- Offensive ops cost 2% stealth
- Enables monarch bonuses:
  - +10% defensive military strength
  - +10% defense magic
  - +10% defense thievery
War Immediate Effects
- Annuls the Hostile Meter with everyone
- -10% Attack Time
- Enhanced Massacre destroys buildings
- +10% Combat Gains
- Offensive spells cost 2% mana
- Offensive ops cost 2% stealth
- Enables monarch bonuses:
  - +10% defensive military strength
  - +10% defense magic
  - +10% defense thievery
War Penalties
- +100% Exploration Costs
- No Paradise spell available
- Science limited to Active
War After 12 Hours: -20% Attack Time
War After 24 Hours: -25% Military Losses; -25% Military Training Time; no distance penalties for attacks; -75% gains and effectiveness for operations to and from other kingdoms