The Progress of Version 0.3 (08 July 2022: Court Mage Research and Destruction Mages) (Patreon)

Greetings Conquerors!

Sadly I was out for most of the week so I didn't have a lot of time to work on the mod. However I do still have some good stuff to report from the time that I did have to work on it!

COURT MAGE RESEARCH

The court mage is the newest government member who deals primarily with researching things that can make your army more powerful. In this particular case, we will use them to research the destruction mage unit that we can recruit into our armies. By default, all mages are non-recruitable until you research them... UNLESS you are the archmage of the college of Winterhold, then you can immediately recruit all mages at Level 2.

To research something, you simply need to talk to your court mage and tell them what to research. A menu will pop up asking what category to research. These are the categories that I am planning on incorporating:

I really liked a lot of the ideas you all pitched about Dwarven machines being recruitable so I added Dwemer Technology as one of the things you can research. It'll involve delving into dwarven ruins for schematics that will help you build up an army of dwarven machines!

But for now let's focus on the mages:

I haven't decided what I want to do with the Conjuration mage yet so I left that alone for now.

When we click on "Destruction" we will be provided with a mission to fetch an ancient text from a dungeon and return it to our court mage.

So now we head there and the text will be in the container at the end of the dungeon:

When this is done for a mage at Level 0, the mage will now be able to be recruited from your General:

DESTRUCTION MAGES

As you can tell by the above picture, destruction mages come in three flavors: Fire, Frost, and Shock. As the destruction mage levels, each of these archetypes receive a higher ranked spell to cast. Here is the level progression for destruction mages:

Level 1: Uses Flames, Frostbite, or Shock

Level 2: Adds Firebolt, Ice Spike, or Lightning Bolt, spells +20% more powerful

Level 3: Adds Fireball, Ice Storm, or Chain Lightning, spells +20% more powerful

Level 4: Adds Flame Cloak, Frost Cloak, or Lightning Cloak, spells +20% more powerful

Level 5: Replaces Flames, Frostbite, or Shock with Incinerate, Icy Spear, or Thunderbolt, spells +20% more powerful