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Magic is a great force of incredible power. To use magic you must hire wizards and runists. The runists used to transform mana into runes, but now they can make them directly without using mana. Your wizards can then use those runes to cast spells. The number of runes needed to cast a spell varies from spell to spell and will increase as each spell is cast. Fortunately, this effect diminishs with time.

For example, if you wanted to cast Destroy Runes on some poor shmuck, it will cost you 1,400 runes; but if you wanted to cast that same spell on another person, it will cost you a great deal more. The number of runes it takes to cast a spell consecutively decreases with time, until it reaches the base rune cost, in this case, 1,400 runes. If you still want to decrease the rune cost of a spell, you can research magic with your scholars. Refer to the research page for more help.

Spell Icon	Name of Spell	Effect	Building Required	Base Rune Cost
	Banish Curse	Disposes of foul cursed summoned units from the summoning path, improves summoning and increases morale.	Summoning Spire	250
	Barren Grounds	Reduces food production in target empire.	Co-op Farm	125
	Abundance	Your Woodsman and Weavers get an immediate boost.	Windmill	250
	Create Food	Creates lots of food for your people.	Magic Irrigation System	200
	Destroy Runes	Destroys some runes each turn.	Runery	1,400
	Fertile Lands	Improves the fertility of your lands improving farmer output.	Co-op Farm	175
	Grand Armour	Improves the overall defense of your army, at the expense of your offense.	Armourer's Guild	350
	Eternal Flame	Improves the overall offense of your army, at the expense of your defense.	Fire Focus	200
	Magic Focus	Improves output of Shamen and Runists; allows Magic Focuses to be built.	Elementalist Tower	250
	Miner's Might	Improves the output of your miners and quarrymen.	Grand Mine	250
	Builder's Boon	Increases production of your builders and engineers. Very useful.	Sawmill	750
	Spawn Gold	Produces piles gold out of thin air.	Earth Focus	250
	Steal peasants	Each turn will steal some enemy's peasants and deposit them into your lands.	Air Focus	400
	Fireball Crusher	Rapidly depletes enemy food, cloth, and wood.	Fire Focus	800
	Gloom	Lowers enemy morale greatly, thus hindering production.	Water Focus	1000
	Siphon Mana	Drains the mana from enemy lands and gives them to you.	Life Focus	350
	Joyous Celebration	Raises your peasant's morale greatly, improving all production.	Grand Spire of Magic	300
	Raise Dead	Turns your expired peasants into zombies, under your command. With the necromancy spire, you also raise skeletons.	Death Channel	2,500
	Summon Ghast	Summons ghasts to fight under your command.	Necromancy Guild	1000
	Summon Vampire	Summons vampires to fight under your command.	Necromancy Spire	1,500
	Summon Dragon	Summons Dragons to your aid. Dragons have great offensive power.	Magic Library	1,250
	Summon Pheonix	Summons the awesome Pheonix to defend your lands.	Fire Focus	1,250
	True Seeing Eye	Reveals details about your enemy and their military strength.	Mage Tower	250