After playing the beta of SK, which I am loving, I had to come back and play LH again.
I love this game! And with Brad talking about Terraforming in SK, I starting having ideas about playing with the land back in this version of the engine.
So, coming very soon, I am going to release a mod that opens up terraforming spells for each elemental sphere. Players will gain benefits by terraforming their land towards a certain style, whether Arctic (Water), Forest (Life), Desert (Death), or Plains(Air). Players will get defensive spells that only work in that Elemental's terrain. But other elements can counter-terraform those features to make things interesting (Fire mages can set forests on fire!)
Not sure how the AI will play with it, so I am for now balancing with single player use only in mind. But i'm having a lot of fun with it, it'll be here soon.