Mystics

Unlike your fabled land of Earth, the citizens of Utopia truly believe in and have witnessed the powers of magic. From the deadly plagues to the amazingly fertile land, so much has happened on this planet that cannot be explained away by science or nature. As ruler of your lands, you have access to some of the most amazing magical spells ever known. Below, I will try to explain to the best of my ability the powers of these spells and how to make magic your friend.

Spells require Runes, Wizards, and Guilds to be cast. Towers produce runes every hour, which are consumed with each spell. Wizards are naturally trained by your Guilds. Like all of the other individuals across your lands, they come from your peasantry and reduce your number of available workers. Be careful not to hold too many Wizards or you may be sacrificing your peasantry, thieves, or military. At any time, you can release Wizards back into the Peasantry or simply shut down additional training. Your Wizards maintain a Mana Rating which determines when they can be cast spells. This rating rises automatically each day and drops each time you cast a spell. Your Wizards will not cast spells without at least a 10% Mana Rating.

Determining Success

To cast a spell, you must have both wizards and mystic runes. For spells cast upon yourself, success is based on your Guild percentage, your Building Effectiveness and your magic effectiveness - the more guilds you have, the better you will do. For spells cast upon others, the success is based on your relative wizard population, measured as Wizards Per Acre (WPA), modified by the racial bonuses or penalties. The higher your WPA compared to an enemy, the better your success. However, there is always a great deal of luck in every spell. Furthermore, the duration of all spells is greatly impacted by your Guild percentage.

Duration of Spells

The duration of successful spells is affected by:

The nominal duration of that particular spell, which differs for each spell.
The percentage of guilds the casting province has, with no additional effect for amounts over 20%.
The relative net worth of the two provinces.
The current relations between the two provinces' kingdoms.

Additionally, there is an element of randomness.

One quarter of the nominal duration of a spell is always contributed to the final cast time. A scaling factor made up of the % guilds, relative net worth and current relations then governs the contribution of another quarter of the nominal duration. Finally, the remaining half of the nominal duration is contributed to the final cast time, scaled by both the scaling factor and a random number.

For example, given a spell with a nominal duration of 24 days:

with a scaling factor of 100% (meaning both provinces have the same net worth, are in war, and the caster has 20% or more guilds), the final cast time will be in the range of 12-24 days.
in a situation with a scaling factor of 0% (e.g., the cast has no guilds), the final cast time will be 6 days (25% of 24 days).
in a situation with a scaling factor of 50%, the final cast time will be 6 days (25% of 24 days) + 3 days (25% of 24 days multipled by scaling factor of 50%) + 0-6 days (random number out of 50% of 24 days multiplied by scaling factor of 50%), which equals 9 - 15 days in total.

Restriction & Limits

Certain spells are designated Unfriendly, Hostile or War Only spells -- Because of the destructive nature of these spells , they can be cast only against provinces which have at least a certain level of relations with your kingdom. In addition, you will find that many of these spells are more effective during heightened relations conditions.

Spells are divided into two categories, as listed below:

There are 3 outcomes of casting a spell. It can be successful, its can fail, or it can fail and some wizards may die

Successful message: Your wizards gather their runes and begin casting. The spell consumes X Runes and ... is successful!
Fail message: Your wizards gather their runes and begin casting. The spell consumes X Runes and ... fizzles. Alas, we were not able to fulfill your expectations. Please forgive us.
Dying wizards message: "Leader name", something has gone terribly wrong with our spell. X of our wizards were killed in an explosion!

Please note that Duration is in real time, spell messages are in Utopia Time

The Spell Book: the self spells

Listed here is a short reference guide to each of the spells available that can be cast on yourself. Any restrictions on use will be listed under the name.

Minor Protection

Casting a sphere of protection over your province, this spell helps protect your province from invasion from others. This spell lasts for a few weeks.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases defensive military efficiency by 5%.
 Duration: max 24 hours
 Cast Message: Our realm is now under a sphere of protection for X days. 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our troops fight with enormously impressive strength (Estimated: X more Days).

Greater Protection

A more powerful version of the Minor Protection spell, this spell functions similarly but lasts potentially a great deal longer.

 Available to: Humans
 Effect: Increases defensive military efficiency by 5%.
 Duration:max 36 hours
 Cast Message: Our realm is now under a sphere of protection for X days. 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our troops fight with enormously impressive strength (Estimated: X more Days).

Fog

Casting a sphere of protection over your province, this spell helps protect your province from invasion from others. This spell can last for a couple of days.

 Available to: Dwarves
 Effect: Increases enemy attack times by 3 hours.
 Duration: max 22 hours
 Cast Message: Our lands are protected by dense fog (Estimated: X more Days).
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our lands are filled with fog, slowing opposing armies for X days!

Magic Shield

While the natural aura of your Wizards will help protect from enemy spells, a little additional protection can never hurt. Casting this spell offers you a shield of magical protection for your province for about half a month.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases your defensive magic efficiency by 20%.
 Duration: max 24 hours
 Cast Message: For X days, the magical auras within our province will shine brightly! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: A shield protects us from the black magic of our enemies (Estimated: X more Days).

Mystic Aura

A defense spell, creating a Mystic Aura around your lands will repel the next evil spell cast upon you from abroad. Unforunately, the effect focuses only on the first spell cast upon you.

 Available to: Elves
 Effect: Repels the next offensive spell cast upon you.
 Duration: N/A
 Cast Message: A Mystic Aura has been placed around our province, protecting us from the next evil spell from abroad. 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our land is protected by a Mystic Aura.

Fertile Lands

By magically fertilizing your lands, you can ensure excellent food production for the duration of the spell. Whether a lack of farms, deadly storms, or just wanting to stockpile extra food, this spell offers a definite increase to your food sources.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases food production by 25%.
 Duration: max 30 hours
 Cast Message: We have made our lands extraordinarily fertile for the next 12 days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our crops grow impressively in our fertile lands (Estimated: X more Days).

Nature's Blessing

Nature's Blessing will protect your lands from any droughts and storms the world may see fit to place on you. This spell also has a chance of curing the Plague if your lands are affected by it.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Protects your land against Storms and Drought. Has a 20% chance of curing Plague (per cast).
 Duration: max 36 hours
 Cast Message: Our lands have been blessed by nature for X days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our land is blessed by nature (Estimated: X more Days).

Love & Peace

Love & Peace creates an aura of calm and happiness across your peasantry for several days. This leads to increased natural birth rates which will quickly replenish your population. This is especially useful when your peasantry has suffered greatly.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases birth rates by 75%.
 Duration: max 22 hours
 Cast Message: Our peasantry is influenced by a magical calm. We expect birth rates to be higher for X days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our people feel at peace (Estimated: X more Days).

Tree of Gold

If you're ever in need of extra cash, casting a Tree of Gold may be a potential solution. While it won't give you a great deal of gold, every little bit can help.

 Available to: Dark Elves
 Effect: Magically creates a small amount of gold (from 40 to 80% of your daily income).
 Duration: Instant cast
 Cast Message: X gold coins have fallen from the trees! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: n/a

Quick Feet

By giving your men magical speed, they can go to battle and return more quickly than usual, leaving your land without defense for a shorter period. This spell affects only your next battle.

 Available to: Gnomes, Elves on Genesis
 Effect: Decreases your attack times by 10% (applied after the attack modifiers) for your next attack.
 Duration: Removed after 1 attack.
 Cast Message: Our armies have been blessed with excellent speed for their next battle.
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our armies are blessed with incredible speed during our next battle.

Builders' Boon

The Builders' Boon spell makes your workers build faster and harder than otherwise. All buildings constructed while the spell is active will be completed more quickly than normal.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Decreases your construction times by 10% for building set to build while active.
 Duration: max 24 hours
 Cast Message: Our builders have been blessed with unnatural speed for X days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our builders work with haste

Inspire Army

Inspire Army helps make your military train harder on their own, thus reducing the daily wages you pay your military for several days. This is especially useful in times of limited cash. This spell also increases the intensity of training, allowing your troops to be ready more quickly.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Decreases your military wages by 15%. Decreases your military training time by 20%.
 Duration: max 24 hours
 Cast Message: Our army has been inspired to work harder training on their own. We expect maintenance costs to be reduced for X days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our army is inspired to train harder

Anonymity

War is at the heart of the world of Utopia, but the fear of retaliation makes many leaders cringe. This spell casts an aura of mystery around your army. After a successful cast, your forces will remain anonymous during your next attack -- while your kingdom will be revealed, your enemy will not know your province's name.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Hides your province name during your next attack at the cost of no honor gains. Increases your attach times by 15% for your next attack.
 Duration: removed after attack
 Cast Message: Our next attack will be cloaked under the shades of anonymity. 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our armies are surrounded by a cloud of anonymity for our next battle.

Invisibility

Thieves rely on stealth to master their craft, but a little bit of invisibility never hurts. Through the duration of this spell, your thieves have a 10% bonus to any offensive thievery operations.

 Available to: Dark Elves
 Effect: Increases your offensive thievery efficiency by 10%.
 Duration: max 22 hours
 Cast Message: Our thieves have been made partially invisible for X Days!
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Clear Sight

By granting your police the ability to see through the obvious and into the depths, you give them the ability to catch thieves who may wander into the lands. The spell, lasting potentially for weeks, gives you a base chance to catch opposing thieves, regardless of the strength of the guilds involved.

 Available to: Elves
 Effect: Automatically catches 25% of the thieves' operations conducted against your province.
 Duration: max 22 days
 Cast Message: Our police have been blessed with Clear Sight for X days!
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our police have Clear Sight

War Spoils

Ordinarily, any land captured in attacks require time to take control of and become available for your own use. War Spoils gives you the opportunity to get this land from combat immediately. The spell lasts just a few Utopian Days, but is more than enough to use on a couple of attacks. This allows you to begin the process of expanding much more quickly than otherwise.

 Available to: Gnomes
 Effect: Makes the land gained from Traditional March immediately available.
 Duration: max 6 hours
 Cast Message: Our army has been blessed with immediate War Spoils for 3 days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: War Spoils give us quick returns on our attacks

Fanaticism

Fanaticism focuses your army on combat and war, increasing their offensive efficiency for several days. Unfortunately, a side effect of this desire for blood is that they will not be as capable of capturing land and resources, and your armies remaining at home -- bored and frustrated for not being at war -- will fight less effectively on defense.

 Available to: Orcs
 Effect: Increases your offensive military effienciency by 5%. Decreases your defensive military effienciency by 3%.
 Duration: max 12 hours
 Cast Message: Our army will fight with fanaticism for 7 days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our army fights with fanatical fervor

Fountain of Knowledge

Science is a fundamental building block for any and all of the other parts of your province. While a Fountain of Knowledge spell is active, your students work harder and will learn more than they would otherwise.

 Available to: Elves
 Effect: Increases your science research by 10% while the spell is active.
 Duration: max 24 hours
 Cast Message: Our students are blessed with excellent concentration for X Days!
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Town Watch

Town Watch will create a peasant watch upon your town for several days. While the Town Watch is active, all of your peasants will help defend your province in combat. Unfortunately, this also means your peasants will be killed during war - and since they are not well-armed, they will suffer heavy losses.

 Available to: Gnomes
 Effect: Every 4 of your peasants will defend your land with the strength of 1 soldier.
 Duration: max 18 hours
 Cast Message: Our peasants will help defend our lands for X days!
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Aggression

This spell refocuses your soldiers from versatile fighting units into an offensive machine. Giving them a lust for attacking, Soldiers will gain 1 offensive point in all combat for the duration of the spell. During this period, though, they will lose 1 defensive point as well.

 Available to: Humans, Orcs
 Effect: Turns all your soldiers into 2/0 troops before modifiers.
 Duration: max 24 days.
 Cast Message: Our soldiers will fight more aggressively for X days! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: Our soldiers fight with unique aggression.

Animate Dead

The power to raise the dead gives you the power to protect your people. By casting this spell, you can protect your people from the death and destruction of defending your lands. During your next defensive battle, half of your dead army will be restored into basic soldiers to help repopulate your army.

 Available to: Dwarves, Undead
 Effect: Raises 50% of your dead troops into basic soldiers during your next defensive battle.
 Duration: Expires when attacked.
 Cast Message: Our dead will be awakened the next time our lands are attacked! 
 Mystic Advisor Message: We will be able to raise our dead during our next battle.

Reflect Magic

Reflect magic places a magical barrier around your lands for several days. During this period, successfuls spell cast upon your province may randomly be reflected upon the caster, doing unto them as they would have done to you.

 Available to: Undead
 Effect: Has a 25% chance of reflecting offensive spells cast upon your province.
 Duration: max 18 hours.
 Cast Message: Some of the spells cast upon our lands will be reflected back upon their creators for X days!
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Shadowlight

Shadowlight places a face upon a shadow, revealing the province associated with the next thievery operation against your lands. It does not, however, prevent them from being successful.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Reveals the name of the next province performing a thievery operation upon your province.
 Duration: Expires on enemy thievery attempt
 Cast Message: Our lands are blessed with Shadowlight. The next time thieves enter our lands their identities will be revealed.
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Patriotism

Giving your population life and an innate desire to defend your lands, this spell increases the rate that you can draft peasants for several weeks, and offers partial protection against the Propaganda thievery operation. Excellent in emergencies and other strategic situations, this spell is difficult to cast and will more quickly weaken your economy.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases military draft speed by 30%.
 Duration: max 20 hours
 Cast Message: Our people are excited about the military and will signup more quickly for x days!
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Paradise

Arguably one of the most powerful -- and difficult -- spells known, Paradise simply creates several acres of new land for your people to populate. Similar in concept to exploring, this Spells gives you instant access to new lands to build upon and grow your province.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Creates a small amount of land per cast. 
 Duration: instant cast
 Cast Message: Our mages created X acres more land for us to use.
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A

Note: Paradise is not available during War

The Spell Book: Offensive Spells

Listed here is a short reference guide to each of the spells available that can be cast uon your enemies. Aany restrictions on use will be listed under the name.

Crystal Ball

Knowing more about your friends and opponents is vital to your success as a leader. This spell gives you insight into the workings of any province of your choice.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Gives you an overview of the Throne page of the enemy province.
 Duration: Instant cast
 Cast Message: Our crystal ball shows ... <target province information>
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A

Crystal Eye

Cast on a kingdom instead of an individual province, this option gives a Bird's Eye view of all that has happened across the kingdom of the current and previous months.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Allows you access to the Papers from the Kingdom of the target province
 Duration: Instant Cast
 Cast Message: <shows Paper of target provinces Kingdom>
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A

Storms

The power of mother nature is amongst the powerful in existence. Sending storms over another province will cause destruction and death across the lands for days. The Storm Spell will cancel any Droughts affecting the target province.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Drops base birthrate 1.5%
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:
 Throne Room Notification: Storms are ravaging our lands!

Droughts

Opposite the storms, droughts can do significant damage as well. Without the rains necessary for fertile land, food production will be lower than usual, possibly resulting starvation throughout the lands. In addition, the harsh conditions slow interest in the military and interferes with the soldier draft. Horses across the province may die as well due to lack of water and food. Droughts negate any Storms currently ravishing the target's land.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Decreases food production by 25%, military draft rate by 15% and horses production by 50%. Some horses may also die as a result??? <- check this
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Vermin

Sending vermin scurrying into the food supplies of an opponent forces the destruction of a great deal of their reserves. For several weeks, vermin will eat away food at a pace far exceeding standard decay rates.

 Available to: Gnomes
 Effect: Food decays at a rate of 6%, up from a base of 1%
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Expose Thieves

Thieves rely on stealth and surprise to be effective at their jobs. Casting this spell will expose an enemy's guild, leaving them less effective until they can recover.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Decreases available stealth of target province <-- need numbers
 Duration: Instant cast
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Greed

People are, by their very nature, greedy individuals. Soldiers have been trained to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. However, this spell reverts the natural greed back into soldiers for several days, causing your opponent to have to pay more in wages and to draft new troops.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Increases military wages by 25%.
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message: 
 Throne Room Notification: Enemies have convinced our soldiers to demand more money for upkeep.

Fool's Gold

The art of turning lead into gold has always been a confusing mystery. Is it possible? No one knows. However, turning gold into lead can be done! This spell will convert a portion of your opponent's gold into worthless lead.

 Available to: Dark Elves
 Effect: Destroys some gold.
 Duration: Instant Cast
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A
 Throne Room Notification: X gold coins have been turned into worthless lead.

Pitfalls

Placing magical pitfalls throughout an enemy's lands will cause them to suffer higher losses in any and all combat for several days. This is an effective way to frustrate attackers and strengthen your own position in the midst of war.

 Available to: Humans, Elves
 Effect: Increases defensive military losses by 25%.
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Fireball

If you want to directly go after an enemy, launching a fireball at their peasantry is an effective weapon. The fireball, if successful, will splash directly into the heart of your opponent's lands, exploding on impact, and killing instantly.

 Available to: All with minimum relationship of Unfriendly 
 Effect: Kills a small and random portion of peasants. Averages 3% of peasants
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Lightning Strike

The power of a direct Lightning Strike is arguably the most deadly force on the planet. Your Lightning Strikes will go directly at opponents rune stores and destroy everything in sight. This strike is the most effective way to cripple an opponent's ability to cast spells.

 Available to: All with a minimum relationship of Unfriendly
 Effect: Destroys a small and random portion of runes.
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Explosions

Provinces work together by assisting each other in times of need. By casting Explosions, you can interrupt the flow of goods between provinces, creating explosions that destroy portions of shipments to and from a province at random.

 Available to: All
 Effect: Destroys 33% of the aid shipments received by the province
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Amnesia

Knowledge is vital to the longterm survival of a province. The unique powers of magic allow you to strip a province of some of its long-sought science. While most of its effects are temporarily, a small portion of science is lost forever. By casting Amnesia, you can cause an enemy province to lose a portion of their arts & sciences knowledge, opening a window to attack or further damage the enemy.

 Available to: Elves with a minimum relationship of Unfriendly
 Effect: Unlearns science books and destroys 15% of the unlearnt book.
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Nightmares

The effects fear can have on an individual are amazing. By causing nightmares within the soldiers of an opposing army, you may be able to cause them to quiver in fear. Troops having nightmares have to be rehabilitated and are unavailable for a period of time.

 Available to: Dark Elves with a minimum relationship of Unfriendly
 Effect: Returns around 1% of the military troops (specialists and elites) under training for 6 days. Soldiers simply quit the army.
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:

Mystic Vortex

The Mystic Vortex is one of the more powerful spells in the Utopian World. A successful cast will cause approximately half of the spells currently active over a province to vanish. However, this spell does not discriminate and will nullify both positive and negative spells affecting their lands.

 Available to: All with a minimum relationship of Unfriendly
 Effect: Nullifies spells on the enemy province (50% chance per spell).
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:
 Throne Room Notification: A magic vortex rendered many of our spells inactive!

Meteor Showers

This spell will rain Meteors across the lands of an opponent for several days, killing peasants, troops and more. Deadly and enduring, casting this spell is both difficult and costly. The damage done, however, can be just as great.

 Available to: All with minimum relationship of Unfriendly
 Effect: Kills peasants (4% average) and troops at home (2.5% average) day after day. <-- verify this
 Duration: 
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message:
 Throne Room Notification: Meteors rain across the lands and kill X peasants and X troops!

Tornadoes

One of the most dangerous and destructive offensive spells, casting this will rain a terror of tornadoes across an opponent's lands, laying waste to acres of buildings across the province.

 Available to: All with minimum relationship of Unfriendly.
 Effect: Destroys a small and random portion of buildings.
 Duration: Instant cast
 Cast Message: 
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A

Land Lust

Land is the defining strength of any province, and this spell is the Mage's way of simply stealing an opponent's land. This spell is a difficult alternative to attacking.

 Available to: All with minimum relationship of Unfriendly.
 Effect: Captures a small and random (up to 1%) of the enemy land.
 Duration: Instant cast
 Cast Message: Our Land Lust over Enemy Province (location) has given us X new acres of land!
 Mystic Advisor Message: N/A
 Throne Room Notification: X acres of land have disappeared from our control!