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Library of Secrets

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No. Technology research_points cost_per_round Requires Effects Enables
1 Liber Necronomica Military Tier 1
Liber Necronomica
A text of powerful binding and one of the Nine Books of Nagash. It contains countless rituals to ensnare wrathful spirits, summon ghoulish creatures and imbue such fell things with dread power.
Incantations of Ushoran
2 The Book of Arkhan Military Tier 1
The Book of Arkhan
Also known as the Tome of Bone, this dread volume, authored by Arkhan the Black, is filled with his secrets for instilling vigour and other deathly abilities into zombified and skeletal vessels.
Bond of Bones
3 Bond of Bones Military Tier 2
Bond of Bones
Speaking this Dark Magic mantra will bring forth yet more skeletal remains.
The Book of Arkhan
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Spearmen units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Distribute Grave Gift Risen Champions
4 Cannibalistic Rituals Military Tier 2
Cannibalistic Rituals
Bestial chants around fell markings, eating their own, ghoulish kind.
Incantations of Ushoran
    Weapon strength: +10% for Crypt Ghouls and Crypt Horrors units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Speed: +5% for Crypt Ghoul and Crypt Horror units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Strigoi Legacy
5 Defiler of the Ancient Barrows Military Tier 2
Defiler of the Ancient Barrows
Guided by Arkhan's text, the Necromancer enters the barrows he plunders, invoking ancient curses as he goes.
Distribute Grave Gift
    Weapon strength: +10% for Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Spearmen (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Spearmen (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
6 Distribute Grave Gift Military Tier 2
Distribute Grave Gift
The armour many soldiers are buried with is brought back to the surface - a gift from the grave.
Bond of Bones
    Armour: +10 for Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Spearmen units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Defiler of the Ancient Barrows
7 Incantations of Ushoran Military Tier 2
Incantations of Ushoran
Ushoran was the first Ghoul King; his spirit can be invoked with the right words, and his children summoned.
Liber Necronomica
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Crypt Ghouls and Crypt Horrors units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Crypt Ghouls and Crypt Horrors units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Cannibalistic Rituals Soulbinder Infuse the Tireless Hordes
8 Soulbinder Military Tier 2
Soulbinder
Using a litany from a language not spoken for generations, the speaker can bind malevolent spirits to his cause.
Incantations of Ushoran
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Cairn Wraiths and Hexwraiths units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Cairn Wraiths and Hexwraiths units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Nightmarish Reaping
9 Delusions of Grandeur Military Tier 11
Delusions of Grandeur
As its dark empire rots, the Midnight Aristocracy clings to pride and the fineries of nobility ever more strongly.
Vampiric Revivification
    Recruitment cost: -5% for Black Coach, Corpse Cart, Mortis Engine, and Blood Knight units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Unit experience: +2 for Black Coach, Corpse Cart, Mortis Engine, and Blood Knight unit recruits (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -5% for Black Coach, Corpse Cart, Mortis Engine, and Blood Knight units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
10 Fuelled by Fear Military Tier 11
Fuelled by Fear
A Terrorgheist feeds by terrifying its prey into paralysis, this invocation invigorates the monster further.
Fresh Prey Supply
    Charge bonus: +20% for Terrorgheist units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee attack: +5 for Terrorgheist units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Weapon strength: +5% for Terrorgheists units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
11 Incantations of Nagash Military Tier 11
Incantations of Nagash
The darkest chapters within these pages are the incantations of Nagash, rituals that only the most powerful Vampires dare attempt.
Decipher Nehekhara Manuscripts
    Income from Vampire Crypts and Vampire Keeps: +30% (faction_to_region_own_unseen)
12 Puppet Master Military Tier 11
Puppet Master
Pulling all the strings, his puppets are willing tools, ready to be used at their master's command.
Blasphemous Disciples
    Hero action cost: -33% (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
    Hero recruitment cost: -33% (faction_to_province_own_unseen)
    Leadership: +10 for [[img:icon_general]][[/img]]Lords and embedded [[img:icon_hero]][[/img]]Heroes (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
13 Infuse the Tireless Hordes Military Tier 3
Infuse the Tireless Hordes
This incantation quickens the pace of the hordes over great distances. Forever marching, never tiring.
Incantations of Ushoran
    Campaign movement range: +10% (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
Unliving Siege Engines
14 Master of the Putrid Horde Military Tier 3
Master of the Putrid Horde
Contained within, the secrets of holding together - quite literally - a rotting horde of Zombies.
Raise Newly Dead
    Speed: +10% for Zombies units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Recruitment cost: -25% for Zombies units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -20% for Zombies units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
15 Nightmarish Reaping Military Tier 3
Nightmarish Reaping
Behold the reapers - summoned from their cairns to enact the doom of all mortals!
Soulbinder
    Weapon strength: +15% for Cairn Wraiths and Hexwraiths units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Spirit Shackles
16 Raise Newly Dead Military Tier 3
Raise Newly Dead
A single-word boon, spoken during the ritual, will harden the skin of corpses as they jerk back to life.
Risen Champions
    Armour: +10 for Zombies units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee attack: +3 for Zombie units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee defence: +3 for Zombie units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Master of the Putrid Horde
17 Risen Champions Military Tier 3
Risen Champions
Summoning long-lost warriors to join your shambling dead boosts the yearning hordes' capable champions.
Bond of Bones
    Unit experience: +2 for Skeletal and Zombies unit recruits (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
Raise Newly Dead Risen Standard Bearers
18 Strigoi Legacy Military Tier 3
Strigoi Legacy
The book implants racial memories of Mourkain, Ushoran and Kadon to haunt the creatures' waking dreams.
Cannibalistic Rituals
    Unit experience: +2 for Crypt Ghouls and Crypt Horrors unit recruits (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
19 Dread Animator Military Tier 4
Dread Animator
The dread animator can wake the most stubborn of ancient warriors from their deathly slumber.
Unearth Cursed Wightblades
    Armour: +5 for Grave Guard and Black Knights units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Grave Guard and Black Knights units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Grave Guard and Black Knights units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
20 Enshrine Ancient Lords Military Tier 4
Enshrine Ancient Lords
To enshrine an ancient lord of the horde is to show the mortals just how fragile their own petty lives are.
Unliving Siege Engines
    Attrition: -20% casualties suffered from non-Vampire Count territory attrition (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Raise dead cost: -5% (all characters)
21 Risen Standard Bearers Military Tier 4
Risen Standard Bearers
To raise the ragged banners above the legions can be taxing, for they may have been enchanted by other sorcerers.
Risen Champions
    Leadership: +5 for Skeletal units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Unearth Cursed Wightblades
22 Spirit Shackles Military Tier 4
Spirit Shackles
Shackling Wraiths via arcane means keeps their spirits tethered longer to the mortal plane.
Nightmarish Reaping
    Unit experience: +2 for Cairn Wraiths and Hexwraiths unit recruits (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
23 Unearth Cursed Wightblades Military Tier 4
Unearth Cursed Wightblades
A small cantrip can locate ancient blades upon an ancient battlefield long thought lost to time.
Risen Standard Bearers
    Weapon strength: +10% for Grave Guard and Black Knights units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Dread Animator
24 Unliving Siege Engines Military Tier 4
Unliving Siege Engines
The enemy should fear the war engines of the dead, as screaming skulls fly over the ramparts!
Infuse the Tireless Hordes
    Leadership: +10 when laying siege (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Leadership: +10 when under siege (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Enemy siege holdout time: -1 (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
Enshrine Ancient Lords
25 De Noirot’s Blasphemous Bestiary Military Tier 6
De Noirot’s Blasphemous Bestiary
For centuries, this tome of beasts has been required reading for Necromancers who wish ultimate control, training and mastery of the dread creatures that lurk by the graveside.
Corruptor of the Forests
26 The Lahmian Book of Blood Military Tier 6
The Lahmian Book of Blood
Said to be transcribed from scrolls of Neferata herself, this grave codex instructs recently-sired Vampires in the art of infiltrating, influencing and spreading the Vampiric curse across the world.
Serve in Life or in Death
27 Corruptor of the Forests Military Tier 7
Corruptor of the Forests
The darker and more haunted the forests become, the better the habitat for fell creatures.
De Noirot’s Blasphemous Bestiary
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Fell Bats and Dire Wolves units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Fell Bats and Dire Wolves units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Master of the Swarm Leader of the Pack
28 Master of the Swarm Military Tier 7
Master of the Swarm
To become Master of Swarms is to dominate each creature within the flock, so they sway to his control.
Corruptor of the Forests
    Armour-piercing damage: +1 for Fell Bats (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Armour: +20 for Fell Bats units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee defence: +5 for Fell Bat units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
29 Serve in Life or in Death Military Tier 7
Serve in Life or in Death
Fear is a great motivator. The living within the captured settlement must appease their new lord.
The Lahmian Book of Blood
    Income from Repression buildings: +15% (faction_to_region_own_unseen)
    Growth: +10 (all provinces)
Baleful Rituals Blood is Power
30 Baleful Rituals Military Tier 8
Baleful Rituals
The Vampires' baleful rituals are enacted to ensure the spread of Undeath.
Serve in Life or in Death
    Vampiric corruption: +2 (factionwide)
Hexensnacht Sacrifices Spread Vampire Covens
31 Blood is Power Military Tier 8
Blood is Power
As the industry of Undeath grows, so do the dwellings of its Dark Lords. It is blood that drives this dread economy.
Serve in Life or in Death
    Income from cities: +15% (faction_to_region_own_unseen)
    Growth: +15 (all provinces)
Turning Knightly Orders
32 Hexensnacht Sacrifices Military Tier 8
Hexensnacht Sacrifices
Witching Night is the best time for ritual sacrifice, for evil gods are awaiting such gifts at year's turn.
Baleful Rituals
    Hero recruit rank: +2 for Wight Kings (all provinces)
    Hero recruit rank: +2 for Banshees (all provinces)
33 Invoke Animalistic Hunger Military Tier 8
Invoke Animalistic Hunger
When Vargheists emerge from their tomb-like cocoons, they have a great hunger - this cantrip ensures it never slakes.
Leader of the Pack
    Melee defence: +5 for Vargheist units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Speed: +10% for Vargheists units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
34 Leader of the Pack Military Tier 8
Leader of the Pack
Contained in this passage of De Noirot's tome are methods of usurping the alpha beast of the pack.
Corruptor of the Forests
    Weapon strength: +5% for Dire Wolves units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Speed: +10% for Dire Wolves units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Invoke Animalistic Hunger Beastmaster
35 Turning Knightly Orders Military Tier 9
Turning Knightly Orders
Defeated mortal Knights who fought valiantly are, on occasion, granted the Blood Kiss.
Blood is Power Spread Vampire Covens
    Charge bonus: +15% for Blood Knight units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee attack: +5 for Blood Knight units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Melee defence: +5 for Blood Knight units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
36 Beastmaster Military Tier 9
Beastmaster
There are words of power to control Vampires that have been lost to the bestial side hidden within them.
Leader of the Pack
    Recruitment cost: -10% for Varghulf and Vargheists units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Upkeep: -10% for Varghulf and Vargheists units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Blood Hunts Fresh Prey Supply
37 Blood Hunts Military Tier 9
Blood Hunts
Beasts that are already blooded, that know the thrill of hunting living things, will always be the superior breed.
Beastmaster
    Unit experience: +2 for all units recruited from the Forest building chain (faction_to_character_own_unseen)
38 Infiltrate Noble Houses Military Tier 9
Infiltrate Noble Houses
Some Vampires are masters of disguise, using their charm and magic to infiltrate powerful organisations and noble houses.
Spread Vampire Covens
    Diplomatic relations: +10 with all factions (factionwide)
39 Spread Vampire Covens Military Tier 9
Spread Vampire Covens
The tenets of Lahmia encourage Vampires to inveigle themselves into the mortal populace.
Baleful Rituals
    Vampiric corruption in adjacent provinces: +1 (all provinces)
Turning Knightly Orders Infiltrate Noble Houses Blasphemous Disciples
40 Blasphemous Disciples Military Tier 10
Blasphemous Disciples
As a Vampire grows in dark majesty, others of evil intent will flock to this master, for they also crave power.
Spread Vampire Covens
    Hero recruit rank: +2 for Vampires (all provinces)
    Hero recruit rank: +2 for Necromancers (all provinces)
Vampiric Revivification Decipher Nehekhara Manuscripts Puppet Master
41 Decipher Nehekhara Manuscripts Military Tier 10
Decipher Nehekhara Manuscripts
The Book of Blood contains indexes and lexiconical keys for deciphering ancient manuscripts said to hold true power.
Blasphemous Disciples
    Income from Forbidden Libraries and Necromancer's Towers: +30% (faction_to_region_own_unseen)
Incantations of Nagash
42 Fresh Prey Supply Military Tier 10
Fresh Prey Supply
A fresh supply of meat or at least knowledge of where to find it, usually some poor Sylvanian hamlet, keeps these beasts pliant.
Beastmaster
    Armour: +10 for Varghulf units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Weapon strength: +5% for Varghulf units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Fuelled by Fear
43 Vampiric Revivification Military Tier 10
Vampiric Revivification
Returning to the sanctuary of his Black Coach, the Vampire will begin the Lahmian art of rebirth.
Blasphemous Disciples
    Charge bonus: +10% for Black Coach, Corpse Cart, and Mortis Engine units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
    Armour: +15 for Black Coach, Corpse Cart, and Mortis Engine units (faction_to_force_own_unseen)
Delusions of Grandeur
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