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OUTDATED - I GRANT PERMISSION FOR OTHER MODDERS TO UPDATE/ADAPT THIS MOD TO NEW PATCHES

Welcome to Elemental Tomes! This is a small submod that aims to act as a compliment to the vanilla game and fill in some of the holes left in the vanilla game, namely the lack of a Tier 1 Water Tome, and a High Tier Fire Tome. While this mod overhauls the Tier 4 Chaos Tomes and redistributes their skills, no skills have been lost.

Details:
This mod adds an updated version of the Tome of Tides as a Tier 1 Water Tome, complete with a unique Ascension Perk. The tome is now a pure Nature Affinity tome to match the Tome of the Stormborne's affinity. The tome has been re-themed and now features some updated art.

The Tier 4 Chaos Tomes have also been overhauled and restructured. The Tome of the Demon Gate features new art and now has the Demonic Focus and Infernal Legion (a re-theme of the Golden Horde skill which felt otherwise out of place).

The Tome of Chaos Channeling is dead, and has been remade into the Tome of the Inferno, now featuring Abyssal Flames, Fan the Inferno, Scion of Flame, Sacrificial Flame (a re-theme of Sacrifical Slaughter) and a brand new skill: the Ashen Vestal. It also adds Pillar of Fire to the Tome of Pyromancy.

The mod also includes some minor tweaks including: stat tweaks to the Tide Elementals so they are consistent with the Tome of Tides, setting Nimue to use the Tome of Tides as her Tier 1 Tome, and tweaked visuals for the Scion of Flames and Frostling transformations. Both the Pyromancer and Ashen Vestal will now use the Scion of Flame visuals, so this transformation is foreshadowed (like how the Witch Witch foreshadows the Frostling Transformation).

This mod has built-in support for Unit Lore & Miscellany if placed BELOW it in your load order.

Credits:
Credits to EricDB for the Tome of Tides, ScienceFictionGuy some of the art used for the updated Tome of Tides, and all the wonderful people who helped me on the Age of Wonders IV Discord.

FAQ
1. Why is the Tome of Tides a pure nature tome?

In vanilla Age of Wonders IV, pretty much every water bonuses effect is associated with the Nature Affinity. Thus, the Tome of Tides has been changed, and slightly re-themed to be focused on harnessing the magical and natural powers of the tides themselves.
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21 Apr, 2024 @ 11:20pm
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Monger 8 Apr @ 6:06am 
Hello, for anyone looking for updates to this mod, I've updated it and am maintaining it here:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3373012061
primeambitions 7 Apr @ 8:29pm 
will this mod see an update?
GriotB 10 Jan @ 5:20pm 
Hello. Great work and I much appreciate the time spent on these tomes. The Tidecaller animation for tidalcall is gitchy.
Monger 30 Nov, 2024 @ 10:53am 
@Zwerchau So you can build SPIs in coastal regions. There is no problem with that, but in bringing this up, I went to do a test and make sure that was still case, but found that the SPI was entirely unavailable.

I have now re-enabled it, and you can build it in the water.

I have also already uploaded the updated tomes, which you can find here:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3373012061
JustKevin 30 Nov, 2024 @ 5:44am 
@Monger One thing I noticed, while you're updating the mod, is that the Tidal Locus province improvement in the Tome of Tides might need a little love, because I don't think you can build special province improvements in water provinces.

Meaning that, unlike normal ones like Levy camp, you can't stick the Tidal locus in a spot where it's fully surrounded by water. The locus itself has to be built on land, so realistically your *best* case scenario is probably just +11 food/+11 prod and no other bonuses. Which feels a little underwhelming compared to other SPIs from tier-1 tomes.
Monger 26 Nov, 2024 @ 5:10pm 
@skaz88 Was this the only mod you had activated when you saw that problem? I've seen this problem as well, but have been unsure which of my *cough*40+*cough* mods is causing it.

The good news is I am working on updating the mod. The bad news, I can't find anywhere where the mod touches anything related to the Copper Golem. I'm a novice at modding, so I could be missing something, but I'll have to look at it again later.
Monger 25 Nov, 2024 @ 3:26pm 
@Arca_Bibliophile No prob! That will be a good spot to do so. It's been a while since I've done anything with modding, and the crew there was very helpful before, and I may need a few pointers on how to update a few things and upload them here.
Arca_Bibliophile  [author] 25 Nov, 2024 @ 1:01pm 
@Monger You are more than welcome. If you would like to chat about it, I would prefer to discuss this in the mod's thread in the AoW IV Discord
Monger 25 Nov, 2024 @ 7:43am 
Hello, I am interested in taking a stab at updating these tomes. I've sent a friend request to directly chat with you about that and logistics of it.

Thank you!
skaz88 10 Nov, 2024 @ 2:08pm 
So this is going to sound strange, but at the moment this mod is causing a visual error with the Copper Golem's portrait, even when I took out everything except the Tome of Tides.