#Tome of the Death Knight

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snow oracle
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This adds a new tier 3 hybrid shadow/order tome focused around damaging morale, vassals, and acquiring souls from dissidents from your rule.It is designed to pair well with tomes such as beacon, doomherald, necromancy, and subjugation.

You can get it here:
https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/62281/Any
Or here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977496759

It adds the Wraith, a modified version of the corrupted soul which deals spirit damage and is made undead.

Thanks to @alpine shale for providing the art!

death_knight_overview.jpg Wraith_overview.jpg
Steam Workshop::Tome of the Death Knight
vital mural
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Really cool and flavorful tome!

long sun
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Looks awesome! Like the Tome of the Great Mire, this could be rounded out with nice a siege project. Something targeting enemy moral. That or perhaps an enemy army spell that hurts them and demoralizes them. Alterantively to that a friendly army spell that grants hastened and morale boosts to friendly units.

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Cover art is looking great! Not sure how good the wraith will look in game, cant wait to see though

snow oracle
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Mustang actually made art for me for a siege project

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I just wasn't sure if I wanted a defensive structure or a siege

long sun
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oh thats a good point, we dont see a lot of defensive stuctures in these modded tomes

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@alpine shale do you have a pateron or something? you've been making some awesome work for the modders

alpine shale
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@long sun I have Ko-fi, the link is in my profile, though I help modders for free.

long sun
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I can't see it when I look at your profile, if you dont mind DMing me your Kofi, id like to help support you since you're provide art to to the modders. Also @snow oracle im sure you'll be working on this tome with balancing and all that, but would you open to taking a commission for a tome mod?

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id love to take the time to learn and make it myself, but I work a good 50 to 60 hours a week and I like spending what spare time i do have playing, just dont have the time in the immediate future to learn the skills to make my own

alpine shale
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Oh , should be visible now i belive.

long sun
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no sir

alpine shale
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🙂 it's because you have streamer mode ON , eh.

snow oracle
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I'm still learning modding and stuff but if you want to DM me we can talk about it

long sun
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oh shoot, i guess i should figure that out then

stuck bough
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I really love the flavor and design. It seems very fitting.

soft locust
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i feel that quote from old vampire is not best fit for death knight tome theme:so i suggest some possible alternatives if you want to consider them:

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"The dead do not squabble as this land’s rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace…"

snow oracle
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It's a quote from a d&d villain. explaining how he used to be a holy, just leader before his transformation into a dark, evil one.

soft locust
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Well from my perspective its not really best fit for tome theme since Strahd is vampire after all not death Knight nor his quote fitting into theme of building undead order

mental raven
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I would change the Souls upkeep of DK Armor. Maybe have it cost souls to cast but not upkeep

snow oracle
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Yeah, I'm going to make that change, I'm on vacation for about a week but that'll get swapped once I'm back

snow oracle
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Small update to some particle effects, making them appear where they were supposed to be, and added one to the death knight armor reflect.

snow oracle
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Update: The wraith has had a mostly complete overhaul. It is now called a wraith knight, and has been given armor to make it more visually distinct. It's now a shield unit mounted on a bone wyvern. It's been given a blight breath attack that damages morale in a cone. It's been bumped up to tier IV and is now a shield unit. It should now be sort of like the eagle knight's opposite, damaging morale instead of improving your allies'. The soul cost on Serve the Greater Will has been removed to help compensate for the increased summon cost on the new wraith knight. Additionally, death knight armor now no longer affects fighters or skirmishers.

mental raven
snow oracle
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it felt more appropriate to have on units actually meant to tank hits, fighters and skirmishers I don't think fit the bill. It also means no longer paying costs on those units that really probably shouldn't be getting hit in the first place.

also because corrupt souls already have hopeless, so it's getting awkwardly reapplied to them if I apply it to fighters, and I can't find a more elegant way to change that without modifying base .rpk

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so, it's also in preparation for the dlc, which, apparently, is adding corrupt souls to the necromancer tome

uneven meadow
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the new Wraith Knight is really cool! don't forget to update the summon spell/skill tooltip

snow oracle
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Yeah who would forget to do that

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D-definitely not me

snow oracle
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Major update:
Due to the rebalancing of the soul economy in the early game, Death Knight was probably producing way too many souls.
Sacrifice Dissidents soul gain was reduced to +5
Oppressor's Bastion's Soul gain was reduced to +5
Confessor's Quarters now grants Structure production for low stability, and food for high stability instead.

The Wraith Knight's demoralize breath demoralize chance was raised back up to 90%.

This update also introduces the Tome of Ivory towers. A tome focused on stability, souls, and strengthening hero and mythic units. This tome is partially inspired by the Camarilla and Ventrue from Vampire: the Masquerade. It features a vampiric, undead mythic unit who specializes in leading mortal armies (totally of their own volition, of course.)

Please leave any feedback!

mental raven