Features and Content:

• New Character Assignment: Divine Offering. Uses a new UI to allow the player to specify the offering (resources and amounts). Deities value resources based on their domains. Diminishing returns are applied for offerings above a certain amount. There is still some balance work pending with this assignment, as it is currently a bit too easy to gain Favor for some deities.
• New Character Assignment: Lead Worship. Requires a valid location and follower.
• When calculating the desire for an office, the number of character attributes (class, traits and culture) with an impact has been expanded
• When Training Workers the combined skill levels contributing to diminishing returns no longer include initial skill levels
• Additional ways to unlock Worker Skill Training option have been added:
  • Engineering - Scholar Trainer (Level 3+ or from sufficiently advanced culture), Worker Construction 3+
  • Entertainment - Worker Domestic 3+
  • Prospecting - Worker Mining 3+
  • Smithing - Worker Artisanship 3+
  • Construction - Worker Labor 3+
• Worker Training progress is now affected by the attitude of the workers (based on culture) towards the trainer, if any such exists. Examples: If Orcs hate Dwarves, a Dwarven trainer will require 250% of the normal time to train an Orcish Worker; if High Elves worship Celestials, a Celestial trainer will require 80% of the normal time to train a High Elven worker.
• New Unit Weapon: Massive Cleaver
• Added Piercing/Slashing traits to relevant Unit Weapons
• Added new Unit Recruitment Mods: Elemental Infusion (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Oricalchum). Some of these affect weapons and some affect armor.
• Increased the damage of Necrotite Weapons from +1 Dark to +2 Dark.
• Added a Deities panel to the "Quest, Faction, Victory Conditions" window. Worship and offerings can be started from this window. Deity details (including a faction-relevant summary) can also be inspected from here.
• Divine Favor implemented. Various activities contribute to gain and loss of Favor/Wroth. Factions can request a Boon if Favor is 10+. The chance of success is based on the Favor level. The possible boons granted are shown in the Deities panel. This is also where the player can request a boon.
• Added two random events which increase or decrease relations between realms with diplomatic contacts due to various random, unforeseen occurences. This makes the relations slightly less static and predictable.
• Shrines and (non-City) Temples can now be dedicated to a specific deity/religion.
• Fortresses can now be renamed.
• Cities now track if they were founded by refugee events. If additional refugee events occur while this city is a valid migration target, the option to found a new settlement will not be given unless the city has become very large. This cuts down on city-spam from refugees.
• Map Filters are now saved/loaded when saving/loading a game
• Added message text when multi-casting fails for one or more units
• Unavailable Tower Expansions are now listed when building a new expansion, making it easier to see what is potentially available and/or why something is unavailable
• Tower Expansion: Mystical Furnace is unlocked by Forging research in addition the existing ways to unlock it.
• New Spell: Celestial Cynosure - Celestial battle spell dealing damage to all (non-Celestial) enemy units based on the number (and strength) of Celestial units on the caster side of the battle. Reserve units contribute only 25%.
• New Spell: Ball Lightning - Air Battle spell dealing high Lightning damage to 4 individuals in target unit. Units wearing metal armor suffer additional hits and damage.
• New Spell: Wind Warrior - Air unit buff which increases Movement, Melee Skill, Melee Shock and granting Ranged Attack Avoidance.
• Logic has been implemented to handle the extent to which a Deity/Religion accepts and/or rejects followers with certain alignment/traits. This adds some variety and flavor, as some deities will be picky, some will be fine with having followers of all kinds and some will have a more balanced profile.
• Several grids in the user interface can now be sorted by clicking a header. This will cycle through ascending, descending and no sorting.

• Fixed a bug relating to cycling selection of multiple entities in the same hex
• Fixed text bugs in the research project window
• Fixed a number of memory leaks
• Fixed a crash bug related to the creation of new settlements
• Fixed a bug allowing factions to raze sites which should not be valid targets for this
• Fixed an issue where unit numerical strength (from 0% to 100%) was in some cases mistakenly based on the default maximum for the unit type, and not the actual maximum of the particular unit. This caused a number of incorrect calculations for units resulting from the split of another unit into two (or more) smaller units.
• Fixed a crash bug related to Planar Invasions
• Fixed a bug allowing City attributes to reach very high values (or very low negative values). The range is now correctly constrained in all cases.
• Fixed a bug where unit recruitment was not correctly cancelled when conquering a city from some types of faction
• Fixed a bug where site visibility was not always correctly updated, making sites "invisible" to the player until the game was reloaded
• Fixed a bug where some ressurection spells interacted with routed units in unintended ways
• Fixed a number of bugs with the camp window - where buttons would go inactive or not update state as expected