Magic weapons replace the bearer’s normal weapon with a different magical weapon and may provide other benefits, such as stat increases or special abilities. Most items give the bearer one or more benefits. a non-mage trying to use a spell scroll item). If the commander cannot use the activated power and tries to do so, there is a message to that effect (e.g. Some items have an activated power that can be used, but in this instance the unit using the item must be a commander. It is not possible to transfer any magic items when you have been ambushed. Magic items are rare and highly seductive items, it is not possible to willingly discard them. Items are lost only if there are no units capable of picking them up after the bearer dies. If there are no commanders left or their item slots are full, surviving units pick the item up if they have the slots. If the bearer of an item dies in combat, surviving commanders pick up the items.It is possible to give magic items to allies if they are standing in the same square.If the target unit does not have the appropriate item slot or the target’s applicable item slots are full, the item will stay with the current owner and the transfer fails. This opens the Army Screen, where clicking on the target unit transfers the item to that unit. Items can be transferred from unit to unit by clicking on the item slot where the item is located. Items can be used by any unit with the correct item slots, not just commanders. Usually normal sized humanoid troops have all item slots, larger units usually only have weapon and misc slots, and stranger monsters usually only have miscellaneous slots. The item types correspond to the item slots of units and a unit must have the correct type of item slot to be able to use a magical item. There are many kinds of treasures to be found for the intrepid explorer and among them are magical items ranging from useful trinkets to artifacts of great power. The land of Elysium is home to powerful wizards, beguiling witches, dangerous monsters and mysterious locations. Certain very rare mages or powerful spellcasting monsters have mastered multiple disciplines of magic and can wreak havoc on the unprepared because there is never a certainty of what they will throw at their enemies. Some rare spellcasters may know two, but they are usually limited to the lower levels of knowledge. Most mages only know the magic of one discipline.

Different disciplines may share spells, but spells of the same name cast by mages of different disciplines may differ in their efficacy. Many disciplines bear similarities to each other, yet they have a different focus. Each magic discipline comes with its own strengths and weaknesses. Pyromancy, that excels at burning enemies and Dark Magic that can summon shadow beings and put terror in the foes.

There are almost 100 different disciplines of magic, e.g. Magic plays a major role in the conquest of the land and using available magical resources correctly can make the difference between glorious victory and ignominious defeat.

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