Maybe you could consider a research post SPI for Dusk? Even with mods, nature is a bit deprived (albeit that may reflect the OG vision that opposing affinities rarely got the opposing resource). And seems like it would be thematically very good, moonlight is still "enlightening" after all.

What you mean Tier 2 units should be a Tier 2? If you mean in T2 tomes, that's not hapening.

So, from what I gathering, in your opinion:
Both units work too similarly
Last Light is too expensive
Fairy Cairn is very weak
You want a combat spell

I'll look into it.

Starting with Tome of Dusk gives you access to that tome's Tier 2 unit to build. The fairy cairn is awful and weirdly not just free with the tome. Last Light is bonkers expensive, that could cost half mana, a third the world cast. The tier 2 units should be at tier 2, but nor do I think they should have two ranged units that operate similarly of the same tier.

The tome needs at least a combat spell, maybe a cheap fairy dust flight - gives phasing and attacks have a 30% chance to moonfire for 20 mana, 10 casting points for example.

@MasterOfGrey :)

Really glad to see this mod continues in one form or another, and isn't too hard to find either!

Aight, I'll look into it.

I suggest giving igneous blade to incubus as their basic skill, and remove them from list of igneous blade enchantment in order to reduce upkeep of incubus.

incubus is not racial. so they can't get transform buff. small stat buff would be good.

Shadowflame now unlocks and gets souls as it should. I'll fix he Igneous Blade text later.

Added to buglist

tome of darkfire demons : igneous blade has different description on research and actual spell.

Nope. 1) I don't know if I'd even like that design and 2) It would crash on combat end when you end combat in that other form as a hero (and I can't force you out of it right before combat ends)

Can the transformations of different units in the Moon tomes be added to heroes?

@Lord Vectra - Tome of shadow flames does not allow for the collection of souls, even though soul harvest is listed

hot stuff, will test today in MP - Griffon

Quick Update:
Shrieker no longer has -8 Spirit Resistance. He now has -4 Spirit Resistance since both Banshee and Corrupt Soul has made a precedence for innate -8 weaknesses (they normally would have -8 spirit resistance but was changed to have -4 despite their unit types instead)

Forgot to add this to the notes:

Sablemoon Priestess also gains another basic attack. One is treated as magic (the "regular") and the other is treated as support. Support is situational but if she has anything that buffs support abilities, then the "adjacent friendly units" will receive buffs. The magic works as usual. Her basic attack variants is basically the Lesser Moonbeam treatment.

-[Sablemoon]-
Sablemoon Priestess
>At Champion Rank, her Sable Serpent Form gains "Graze-Inducer"
>Graze-Inducer: Adjacent enemies have a 30% chance to fumble

Blessing of Lunacy
>Now inflicts Moonfire with 60% chance

-[Moongrove]-
Moongrove Defender
>Lunar Wolf now has 48 Movement Speed
>Fae Bulwark is 1 AP and goes into defense mode as intended
>Correctly says Restore Temporary Hit Points instead of Gain +10 Health

Light in the Dark
>No longer crashes upon use
>Recovers 10 Temporary HP -> 20 Temporary Hit Points
>The 5 lightning and frost damage is no longer conditional

Moon Priestess/Lunar Fairy
>Lesser Moonbeam is tagged as support instead of support and magic (bypasses the issue of enemies recieving buffs and allies recieving debuffs)
>Renamed Lesser Moonbeam to "Lesser Moonbeam - Support"
>At Champion Rank, gain "Lesser Moonbeam - Magic"
>Lesser Moonbeam - Magic is the same as "Lesser Moonbeam - Support" but is treated as magic instead of support (allows for debuffs to be added via enhantments). It shares the same cooldown with it's support variant.

-[Desires]-
Demonologist
>Now inflicts ghostfire on his attacks
>No longer Magic Origin even if summoned
>Summons an additional Gremlin as champion rank

Temptress
>60% Ghostfire on melee
>30% Ghostfire on ranged

=[Dusk]-
Moonseeker
>Dusk Spider is now rightfully tagged as an animal
>Now has a Champion rank of +1 range

BIG ONE!

UPDATE(8/5/25)
-[Overall]-
All Enchantments have been changed for Single-Shots
Shapeshifters
>Shapeshifting now shows a visual timer (3 turns) so its easier to keep track of
AI will never end the shapeshift prematurely on their own

-[Darkfire Demons]-
Igneous Blades
>30% chance => 60% chance
>No longer mutually exclusive with Lambs of the Slaughter

Lambs of the Slaughter
>Now also works on Non-Racial Fiends and Undead (Skald patch basically)
>No longer mutually exclusive with Igneous Blades

Igneous Forge
>+5 Draft => +1 Draft per pop

Hellish Reanimaion (NEW)
>Spend souls to raise Inferno Pups

-[Shadowflame]-
Shadowflame Conduits
>Tooltip changed to be "Non-Racial Fiends" and "Non-Racial Undead"

Shadowflame Sanctuary
>+5 Souls income => +3

Shrieker
>+10 HP
>Gains Piercing and Breaching on all his attacks
>Gains Dragon Tag
>Gains Large Target
>Spell cost 100 World Casting Points => 140

Hellish Reanimation II (NEW)
>Spend souls to raise Nightmares

Yup. Reported and fixed. Just havent updated yet. Hopefully, I can update it today

The Light in the Dark Spell is bugged and causes the game to Crash to Desktop

This will be updated soon. Nothing in the beta changes my patches in any way, so once I'm done with the patch, I'll just release it.

Hey mate! Thanks for the encouragement in the Discord. I realise you might not be very active here right now, but I'll report things anyway just in case. I was trying out the combo of Moonlight Priestess and Lightning Focus and turns out her Lesser Moonbeam is now giving my own units electrified. At least those from another army.

Hi! Loving the Moonglow tome right now! Thanks a lot for this! When targeting a province to build a Pillar of Radiance, the new production bonus doesn't come up as the "change", it is only subtly displayed in the new income tab. It would be great if it could make its way there, as the information would be a bit misguiding otherwise.

@Lord Vectra I can only assume you are taking a break from Modding right now? Take you time because sometimes a much needed break is something you need before getting back to it

So I tested all the bits in this mod (trying to track down annoying crashes). With my full mod set active, Light in the Dark caused a CTD. With only this mod active, Light in the Dark caused a CTD. Everything else works great! I validated local files and un-subbed/re-subbed before testing.

Thanks for keeping all these tome mods going, much appreciated!

Had a CTD on the steam deck when casting the moonglow combat spell. Version mismatch when loading the save on the pc. tried unsubbing re subbing on both and same results.

I can try uploading the update again, but after that, I can't help if it works on my end;

I've tried using the "light in the dark" spell 4-5 times today, including twice after unsubscribing/resubscribing to the mod, and it immediately crashes the game as soon as I click to deply the spell. Any other possibilities to fix this issue beyond un/re-subbing?

Works fine on my end. Try unsubbing and resubbing

last light causing crash

yes

I am also wondering if you are going to add Champion passives to all those Battlemage units (like the ones which were added to the vanilla Battlemages) which are part of some of your tome mods

Not that I know of

I was wondering if there are any mods that add more wind based tomes as in the base game there is only one so it isn't really an arch type plus its in matereum so I'm almost never using it anyway.

It works on my end, so I just uploaded the update again. Unsub and resbub if it still crashes.

Seconded, soulburn causes crash at the moment

Ill check later. Try unsubbing and resubbing.

Soulburn combat spell is crashing the game when used

Thanks for the update!!

No, it doesn't require old version - this is a standalone.

I assume this requires the old mod? hence "patch" ?

Thanks for the update, i was curious would you consider updating the age of tomes mod? lot of great tomes in there that sadly havnt been touched since like early 2024

Also, Dark Infusion has been changed for Single Shot attacks. The rest will be changed next update.

UPDATE(4/2/25)
Moon Rite and Soulburn no longer crashes the game

Temptress
>Enrapture's CD decreased to 2
>Melee attack damage increased
>Ranged damage increased

Dark Infusion
>Text description changed

Sable Priestess
>Her basic attack's heal no longer inherits the harmful effects of her attack

@Anyasha
No problem!

soulburn from the darkfire demon tome seems to cause CTD upon being cast, i have tried to cast it a variety of times and everytime it crashes so it doesnt seem to be contextual

Hey this is awesome - thanks for keeping alive! Just downloading the game again with Giant Kings and will give this a try <3

thank you very much and indeed the ranged attack and teleport are quite powerful of the Incubus it's jusr the melee attack I am unsure about but yeah out of all 4 units he is the most balanced one

about the Shrieker: yeah I've mentioned that the Shrieker is quite underwhelming compared to other T3 units and -8 spirit resistance can be devestating

@Wintersong

For Temptress, I'll bump 7/3/3 => 8/4/4 on her regular attack which would make her 16x3. Her ranged, I'll bump from 2/2/2 => 3/3/3 and reduce it to 1 turn cooldown. I'll reduce Enrapture to a 2 turn cooldown.

Incubus is actually pretty strong for a T2 unit. I don't know what his issue is.

I know someone said something about the Shrieker, but I'm still deciding on how I want to buff him.

As for it being hard to start with them, I'll give each one a second look and see what I can see.