Key Features

New and Upgraded Monster Lairs: Upgraded monster lairs with new creature types, greater variety, and specialized loot drops

New Tutorials: New step-by-step tutorials covering terrain and movement, items and equipment, city building, and research and economy

UI Improvements: Enhanced item and spell UI in tactical battles, improved borderless window mode, and fixed text clipping issues

March 9th, 2026 Update Changelog

Campaign Issues Fixed

• Fixed Tutorial Completion Flow and Campaign UI Cleanup

• Tutorial 1

  • Removed bad hardcoded sovereign name

• Tutorial 2

  • Fixed Sentence Typos

  • Added Final Objective Popup

• Tutorial 3

  • Fixed Unit Training Popup so it fits cleanly

  • Fixed waypoint camera cue

• Prelude

  • Fixed issue where you cannot complete the campaign due AI player city

  • Fixed quest objectives not disappearing

• Fallen Enchantress

  • Fixed game lock when winning certain battles in Chapter 5

  • Fixed issue where quest tooltip blocks clicking button to progress

  • Ensured you must visit all 3 villages in Chapter 9 to continue

• Legendary Heroes:

  • Fixed looping dialog path in Slavers quest

  • Ensured game defeat screens and healing between battles at the Forge of the Overlord sequence

Mods

• Fixed multiple bugs when uploading things to the steam workshop - most notably tags updating

• Made sure that mod-dependent factions show up - ie when Sovereign Create Humans

AI Improvements

• Fixed a crash when all AI quest choices have zero chance weight

• Spellcasting

  • AI tactical spellcasting now properly validates spell targets

  • Made AI more likely to use summon spells

• AI Champions now gather escort units when leaving cities

• Units failing to join armies now return to the city instead of being stranded

• AI auto-resolve now performs better against monster and minor-faction defenders

• AI research gains now scale by difficulty

• AI sovereigns now found their kingdom faster instead of wandering aimlessly.

Gameplay

• Added New Necromancy Skill Tree and Abilities

• Dynasty adjustments:

  • Dynasty birth pacing adjusted to support larger families with softer fertility dropoff

• Ability changes:

  • Iron Guard now grants Pierce Defense per level instead of flat HP

  • Adjusted Abilities Costs:

    • Hopelessness - increased from 1 to 2

    • Horrific Wail - increased from 1 to 2

• Updated crafting recipes:

  • Aspect of Fire

    • Removed 4 Refined Crystals requirement

    • Added 1 Clouded Ruby requirement

  • Aspect of Lightning

    • Removed 4 Refined Crystals requirement

    • Added 1 Clouded Topaz requirement

• Content:

  • Added starter/lair content for Prowlers and Herglings, plus new Hergling monster unit data

  • Treasures, Locations and Lairs are now better sources of ingredients and give more loot

• Misc:

  • Capital cities now spawn 2 extra City Defender guardian units

  • Fixed Armor Prereq bugs regards to using

  • Fixed issue where Trinkets become invisible

  • Ensured the quest that takes you “Dungeon of Intrigue” gives you gold.

Text

• Adjusted certain Governor unit display names from Role-based to Proper Surnames

• Ruah backstory reformatted

• Siege Weapons are renamed to Military Tactics

Sound

• Ensured all campaign/tutorial units use the same sounds as main game counterparts

• Mounted units now play appropriate mount sound effects

March 6th, 2026 Update Changelog

Known Issues

Players may encounter a stuck turn within the Fallen Enchantress campaign when transitioning to Chapter 5

Campaigns

• Campaign cities no longer lose food and resources when leveling up

• Campaign army bases now drop loot rewards after being cleared

• Krax and Wraith army bases in the campaign now give item rewards (rings, amulets, belts) and rare crafting ingredients when defeated

Gameplay

• Made sure that champions are correctly awarded at the 25, 75 and 100 fame milestones

• Resolved gold from combat not working correctly

• Fixed Charm attributes to work as intended so that charmed units die at the end of combat

• Death blow actually respects the 20 HP threshold

• Guardian monsters will no longer leave their lairs

• Grip of Winter expires when city is conquered

• Tower of the Magi buffs units correctly as described

• AI is more likely to research companies so that they get larger armies

• Reduced food/gold multipliers on improvements

• Lowered Food per Grain bonuses

• Adjusted city hub gold output

• Increased Refined Economics tech cost

• Removed Catapults

• Fixed Propaganda spell not correctly appearing

• Dynasty system will produce more babies

• Armor Sentinel animation updated to no longer attack over and over

• Fixed quest reward units to properly adopt the player's faction when joining

• Elemental (non-physical) attacks now benefit from generic attack boost traits like Cruel/Weak

• Regeneration spell rebalanced

• Summoned Burning Wraith works correctly on the first summon

• Monster unit defense and combat speed rebalanced across all levels

• Horrific Wail particle effect no longer loops indefinitely

• All custom sovereigns now start with a race-appropriate weapon

• AI no longer tries to recruit or attack transport ships

• Special ability enchantments no longer consume radiance slots

Monster Lairs

• Added in more monster lair variation on maps

  • New Ghoul

  • New Feral Slave

  • New Bone Hound

  • Ember

  • Prowler

  • Hergling

• More loot drops from defeating monsters

• Given monster types will tend to drop specific types of loot, especially crafting ingredients

Graphics

• Added in the new intro video

• Characters with broken textures on the back of their head when bald has been resolved

• The trainable Sion no longer clips through his clothing

• Fixed Troll camera angles in the Prelude Campaign

• Fixed some male marriage candidates having a broken body skin texture

• Changed Bazaar construction tile to generic placeholder

• Removed effect attachments from Giant Golem weapon

• Adding in new units for the summon the undead spells

Modding

• Uploading and Accessing mods now correctly works

Optimization

• Improved Borderless window resolution to correctly go full screen borderless when selected

• Addressed multiple scenarios where the game would cause a crash

• Added Quick Load (F9) keyboard shortcut

Tutorials

• Added in new tutorials for terrain and movement, items and equipment, city build and research and economy

Text

• Made sure long Sovereign names no longer are cut off

• Made sure that text is properly wrapped

• Resolved issues with duplicate spell unlock text being confusing

• Fixed lots of missing strings throughout the game

• New Relias intro when playing as him

• Fixed missing objectives from quest popups

• Fixed some bad characters throughout some descriptions and quests

UI

• Resolved loading screens going black and disappearing to make the game appear as if it has been stuck

• Fixed issues with some quests response buttons not losing their hover state

• Fixed issues where the resolution would reset every time a player relaunched

• Made resource and research bars longer to account for large Gildar amounts and long research names

• Resolved issues with bouncing UI in tactical battles

• Adjusted mismatched resource cost in the train unit window

• Added a clear filter button to the load save window

• Fixed offset City HUDs on medium UI

• Updated selecting a spellcaster UI

• Updated Spell and Item lots in tactical battles

• Adjusted duplicate active effects and displaying - 1 turns when it is actually a permanent effect

• Updated old Sorcerer King Spell Icons to not have black boxes around them

• Fixed Bazaar not correctly displaying in tooltips when making money

• Quest choice dialogs now reappear if dismissed without making a selection

• Added option to hide the Ask Brad button