Hi there, a new update has arrived along with a new magic item, new demons, events, fixes and smaller inserts. However, I wanted to say a few words about things that are less obvious or easy to miss.


Game Rules
Previously, Magical Artifacts had two settings:

• Guaranteed for the player - the player received a magic item, the others spawned randomly in Europe and Asia Minor.
  
• Random Distribution -the description was a bit misleading, because in fact all magical artifacts drew in Europe and Asia Minor.

Currently we have this:

• Guaranteed for the player - the player receives a magic item, the others spawn randomly in player's diplomacy range.
  
• Player's Area - all magical artifacts spawn randomly in the player's diplomatic range.
  
• Random Distribution - all magical artifacts will spawn randomly, all over the world (this is the default setting).

Note that with the default setting, collecting all artifacts may be more difficult than before (due to diplomatic range).
The game rules also have other changes - now all masochistic players can switch the activity of witch hunters to "high".
There is also one brand new rule related to the new end-game crisis.


Return of the Archmage
Witchcraft contains many opponents for the player, but in the late-game, especially after defeating Bael, the player does not encounter any challenge on his way. So I decided to prepare one more "ultimate" opponent that would provide a suitable challenge even for a powerful and magic-armed sorcerer. "Return of the Archmage" is another ending crisis after Bael, which works on similar principles (admittedly, the player does not lose magic items, but other surprises await him...). Unlike Bael, the Archmage has no weaknesses, he was designed to have a chance to conquer the whole world.
Bael appears when a player has a magic item, is a mage and an emperor. The Archmage will appear when the player has at least two magic items and is a legendary mage, which probably means that Bael will appear first. There is a chance that they will appear at the same time, but it is very unlikely ;)


Other Things

• Conducting magical research requires only 25 Secret Knowledge. Mage trait also received other changes.
  
• Opponents are in general a bit more powerful.
  
• Healing spell requires physical contact, increases opinion, but the target learns your witch secret.
  
• Previously, Magic Domination spell bypassed the rule of physical contact if you were a Legendary Mage or a Master of Psionics. Now this applies exclusively to Master of Psionics.
  
• Ring of Life may also interest rulers who are not witches/mages.
  
• We have a new magical artifact - Hell’s Scepter - coveted by both mages and demons.
  
• You'll have to discover the rest on your own ;>

That's all from me, merry Christmas/Grand Rite ;)