Note that this is completely overpowered if you are playing Procipinee (and, also, destiny's gift is getting severely nerfed in 1.1)

[If you are having fun with this mod, that is great of course, but I thought you should know.]

No offense, but with 2 mana regen, in order to make up for 6 init worth of mana (1500mana)... you'd have to have it on for 625 turns... I don't think I've ever played a game that long. It's a pretty big buff unless you have nearly infinite mana. With that much mana you might as well toss around volcanos.

But Procipinee does not pay maintenance costs (though, granted, only herself or a designated champion receives this benefit).

So it takes a while for it to cost the same as the original spell cast six times, it is impossible to predict how long such a spell will be maintained in an average game, so I set the maintenance at a reasonable value, but not as cheap as some of the other buffs that are just 1 mana a turn.

Whether it's draining mana every turn, or just every time you cast it, makes no real difference.  However, as a buff it is much easier to see where your mana is going.

There's also the fact that there is no provision for casting the same spell repeatedly.  It's open spell book, cast spell, spell is cast, repeat until mouse hand is sore.

The main reason why I find the original Celerity to be overpowered is because of the permanence of the effect.  And mana is not that hard to come by.  One AI opponent in my second-to-last game managed to get themselves 336 million of it.  Admittedly, that's got to be a bug, but you can see there that there is the potential for the spell to be abused to the point where the game ceases to be fun.

Anyway, I freely admit that I may be way off in my assessment of how powerful it is, I haven't got that far in my test game to find out, and as with any mod it's the testing that really tells whether it is overpowered or not.  I'm pretty sure that it could be, stacked up with the bonus from Tactician (for example) but I'm not sure if I will notice because I tend to maximise my unit initiative as a matter of course.  It will also be interesting to see if the AI manages to make use of it.

Well if you set it too high then you're back to the situation where you'd rather cast haste and waste a turn in tactical combat than bleed mana through the nose.  Haste is only 5 mana a pop, you know, even if it does grant a smaller bonus.

In the early game Haste is a boon, and it is dead cheap.  Later on though, as you have more units in an army, it's not so useful because your units are mounted, with bonus moves at the start, they're impulsive, they're in larger groups, and as a result many engagements barely last a couple of rounds because your units make more of an impact in their first move than they did in five rounds in the early game.  So in that situation I might Slow the enemy down, but there's no way I would waste a move pushing my Init any higher.