I'm aware this is likely the wrong place to be asking, but uh-- how would one go about commissioning mods from you?

@Neru you can add me on discord, my username is timber !

What about some Wind Magic tomes?

After all, Air magic has always been a part of the Age of Wonder series, and I feel the fact it only is covered by one tome pretty lacking.

Yeah. Air magic tomes would be wonderful. Please?

I can look into it!

My current release plans are thus:

Slaanesh chaos/dark tome: focusing on flanking, haste, crit buffs, and damaging your own units for some effects.

Nurgle, chaos/nature, want it to synergize with the blight tome mod.

Tier 2 generic chaos mod, possibly a tier 4 as well.

Tomes of the magewright: materium/astral focus tomes focused on combining elementals, some artifice/mad science, and mana burn, inspired by the izzet from M:tG. This mod is planned to be very large and my most extensive one yet, it'll be worked on in the background.

Tomes of the desert: Materium/Order tome or two focused on desert provinces, as a counter to my swamp tomes, with some egyptian sun god style thrown in.

Possibly a vampire tome? I think some other modders might be working on one.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure. :( You could maybe look at the folder structure in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age of Wonders 4\Language\FR and see if copying that to a mod works similarly?

Oh cool a suggestion box.

Lycantrope Tome
Vampire Tome
Pirate Tome
Spirit/Haunt Tome
Eldritch Theme Tome

Sounds very cool!
Maybe also some Fire Necromancy Tome - Tome of Cinder (inspired by Dark Souls)?

Oh man, lots of great ideas! I've got a few kicking around already, I know another user on the modding discord is working on a really cool lycanthropy tome. Ghost Pirates are already planned by me in a future update too!

Though I'd appreciate a vampire-focused tome, I'd rather look into concepts that coudl apply to all styles. My problem is that modding's not my strong suite.


*** Tome of Ivory Towers (order/dark, or order/materium):
- Inspired on VtM's 'Camarilla' faction, this focuses on structure and regulations, law and order. A tome that specifically bolsters cities and heroes (dragons with new expansion?) rather than unit-types. Stability increase, new city defence upgrades, etc...
- If needing to be added: physical/spirit damage, defence focused units or tower units and pacifying/demoralising/immobilising spells. No soul resource focus. This could mesh well with your Death Knight tome.


*** Tome of the Sabbat (chaos/dark, or chaos/astral):
- Inspired on VtM's 'Sabbath' faction, this focuses on suicide units (shovelheads), dog-eat-dog culture, dark rituals and traditions. As a 'shadow church', they are oddly structured for an anarchistically vibed faction, and revel in their myriad of vampiric powers with less restraint than the Camarilla.
- If needing to be added: physical damage and bleeding, damage/damage vs bleeding/speed buffs, demoralising/explosive spells and city destabilising (riots) effects. If possible, focus on suicide units? No soul resource. Would likely work well with your Blood God tome.


*** Tome of the Tyrannis (nature/chaos, or nature/dark):
A personally loved concept is that of the spider, and spider queen. Spider-theme aside (of which there is a tome already on the workshop), it is an odd contradiction of controlling/tyranising a chaotic mass of spiders. Combining this with fog/swamp-themed mysicism for infiltration, crowd control (web-weavers and poisonous spiders), city sabotage or defence (burrowing), raw damage (hunting spiders) and there's easily a versatile tome to be crafted by bringing out spider characteristics.


*** Tome of Immortality (astral/order or astral/dark):
Looking at celestial divinity (saints/gods) and at Lichdom/Vampires (and any other form, really), this tome would focus on spiritual and physical defence, ressurrection after battle and other means to persevere in and after combat.


*** Tome of the Kitsune (astral, astral+chaos or astral+nature)
Inspired by Asian mythology (not just the Japanese one), mixing its typical illusion/trickery/seduction with some of its power and brutality, could offer ways to crit builds (for animals?), world map slows and enemy city debuffs.


That said, perhaps I should look into commissioning as well. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to your Slaanesh and Desert Tomes :)

Lots of those ideas sound really cool! I do want to expand the death knight tike at some point, order/shadow is my favorite combination!

If you are interested in commissioning I'm just timber on discord.

Too many good ideas, too little time!

Would love a dark/order tome that focused on dominion over free cities from the shadows. I imagine a "tome of infiltration" that has spells to convert free city armies and such based on how far you are with the whispering stone. Given that Dark gets the ability to insert whispering stones into vassal free cities of other empires I think it could be a fun playstyle.

I think a Dark/Chaos tome based on the Vampire Coast from Warhammer would be a cool idea

A shadow/materium tome focused on undead pirates is in the works. It won't be exactly the pirate coast, but it should be similar.

Sweet, sounds cool. Can't wait to see it.