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Banished: Inferno Start for Demonologist

Player gets 12 turns to prepare. After 12th turn, main commander becomes diseased and will lose unless he travels to Inferno plane. A variety of advantages are given as balance.

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• before anything else, 3 new undefended villages are spawned in the snowy area of the Inferno,
  
• 3 new undefended villages are spawned in the ash area of the Inferno,
  
• 3 new undefended villages are spawned in the infernal waste area of the Inferno,
  
• 5 new weakly defended Cities of Sinners are spawned on mountain tiles all over the plane,
  
• then, starting citadel is switched for a hut with no recruitment capabilities,
  
• starting terrain is upgraded to a Town, a Market Village and a Village,
  
• but they're occupied by Levies,
  
• a local Baron is in possession of 2 random magic items but you're unlikely to conquer that location with your starting army,
  
• on turn 12, your commander is forcefully and most graciously granted a disease,
  
• player is then expected to use the new "Bargain with the Devil" ritual to be cured but, in exchange, will be transported (together with his army, though) to the Inferno plane,
  
• in order to not lose to an Elysium Moment, an invincible unit will be spawned on his citadel in Elysium,
  
• all of the Demonologist summoning rituals are set to be castable in Inferno this was intended but I can't get it working so it'll just stay like this until I maybe figure it out (no ETA),
  
• 2 turns after being transported, the main commander will be forcefully engaged in a battle that will grant him a powerful magic item that grants regeneration, among others,
  
• the magic item will be forcefully removed after 36 in-game turns and is not obtainable in any other way,
  
• after the previous encounter, every 3 turns (10 times total) the commander will be joined by 3d8 Sinners (make sure to add them to army!),

After the previous event, nothing else of note happens. The player is free to conquer and continue the game as usual.

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Don't.

Only one Mad Cultist encounter (the one carrying the magic item with regeneration) is spawned among all the players. This is due to how the game handles variables. I might find a better way of doing this and update the mod but it's more likely that this is just how it's gonna stay. Sorry.

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The initial idea was for the Demonlogist class to start in inferno, gain a decent foothold there (or conquer the whole plane) and then move onto Elysium with a solid foundation and source of sacrifices. This is, to me, an interesting twist in terms of roleplay (the game has RPG elements after all).

The game's modding system, unfortunately, absolutely does not allow fun... with absolutely no sliver of a work-around in sight. And I don't like the "startplane" command in this case for two big reasons:

• for one, the whole Inferno faction will rush to your citadel and you'll most likely die on turn 2,
  
• for the other, even if you survive, the whole idea and feel of playing on a different plane is lost if you can travel back to Elysium at any time with no cost.

So the best accommodation I could come up with is this mod.

I was also thinking of porting a whole scenario from HoMM 3 or something similar. It would've definitely been very interesting and I was excited to do it. But I quickly gave up on the idea when I familiarized myself with modding in this game more. It's unfortunate but maybe they dedicate more resources to CoE 6's modding system.