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Lets Play Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic We are the Final Boss and we fear no dwarf

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EuchreJack:
Full Life Magic!  Full Life Magic!

(Honestly, it's the only way that playing as Shadow Demons is not a colossal advantage.)

Demonic Spoon:
Actually I don't think this map has much of a shadow world from the reviews but I'm not sure, not having ever played it myself, so the choices so far seem to be life magic and water magic. Since the idea of a evil race using life magic is just so amusing I'm going to go with that, my summons are not going to be happy are they?

EDIT: Okay this is seriously weird, the screenshots keep varying in size and I have no idea why. In any case on to the first update!

Update 1: The KlackonsShadow Demons shall reign supreme!
The great All-Devourer, ruler of the hivemind of the Shadow Demons, holds mastery over life and is skilled in the arts of war magic.

Spoiler: Setup (click to show/hide)



Let the games begin!

Spoiler: The Descent (click to show/hide)
From clouds of pure life the All-Devourer descends back to the mundane world, to lead its endless hordes to their inevitable victory.

Spoiler: The Choice (click to show/hide)
It seems that the hive is now confronted with a choice. They face three teleporters, each of which will transport them to locales unknown. Which should they choose?

Fun Facts about AoW time!

The Wizard's Domain

The purple border around the All-Devourer represents his domain. A wizard can only cast spell within his domain, and global spells will only have effect within his domain. A wizard tower greatly increases the size of a wizard's domain and certain special units and structures also radiate a small pocket of the domain of their owner around them, the most important of these units being heroes.

Teneb:
I say go with the middle one.


What units you got in that stack with the hero?

Demonic Spoon:
Middle one it is. I got 3 other heroes and 3 shadow lords in the stack. Huh, that probably means there are lots of independents.

Update coming as soon as the pictures are done uploading.

Fun Fact time!

Shadow Lords are the most powerful Shadow Demon unit! Mostly they're just big tough bruisers, but they do have the ability to teleport between the shadow world and the normal world.

EDIT: Photobucket's stupid bulk uploader just gave me a error for half of the images it uploaded when it was saving them, stupid photobucket.

EDIT2: Finally

Update 2: In which the hive gains a settlement and defeats vile foes!
Trusting their fortunes in the hands of the Luck, the All-Devourer and his entourage entered the centre teleporter. After the disorientating flash upwards into nothingness and then a even more disorientating downwards materialization, they arrived in a icy cavern filled with treasures, and more importantly, a settlement of Shadow Demons.

Spoiler: Arrival (click to show/hide)
Immediately, before they could react or defend themselves, one of the Shadow Lords was sent to negotiate with the rogue settlement.

Spoiler: Negotiation (click to show/hide)
Cowering before his great might they immediately acquiesced to accept the All-Devourer as their absolute ruler. And so the hive grows. The new additions to the hive were then sent out to collect the treasures surrounding the Hive's new city.

Spoiler: Construction Resources (click to show/hide)
Construction resources were found, allowing the rapid construction of additional structures within our city.

Spoiler: Treasure (click to show/hide)
Soon all the treasure was collected, much gold and mana crystals were added to the Hive's coffers and research had been advanced by catalysts.

Spoiler: Battle! (click to show/hide)
However, while the glorious army of the swarm was on it's way to capture a nearby watchtower, they were ambushed by a couple of foul yetis who had been hiding in the snow and ice for just such a opportunity.

Spoiler: More Battle! (click to show/hide)





Battle ensued, with the outnumbered yetis suddenly seeming uncertain about their chances of victory, or even survival.

Before they could have a chance to run however, the All-Devourer called down the fury of the stars on them, wounding them and leaving the confused and dazzled. The illustrious hero Xabu then sent forth a deadly ray of death to bring them nearer to the state of death, whereafter the shadowlords started closing in to engage in hand to hand combat.

The yetis, seeing that fleeing would be useless, decided to move forward and attempt to take on the shadowlords. One shadowlord easily defeated a already weakened yeti, while the great Hero of the Hive Xulax finished off the remaining yeti with his fiery breath.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The force then continued on to capture the watchtower and secure the Hives hold on this area, while also providing that ever critical element of reconnaissance s that the Hive can learn more of its surroundings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Continuing their scouting the army then discovered another great treasure, a magic vault! The ancients used to store their most valuable and powerful spells in these vaults, to protect them from unworthy hands. Who knows what treasures could be hidden inside?!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It was decided to find out, but the group was then faced by the guardians of the vault, a pair of Shadow Spirits. While these spirits were indeed powerful and a foe to be feared, they had one very important weakness. A weakness to the holy, in other words, a weakness to the FURY OF THE STARS! And so another foe fell before the relentless might of the neverending swarm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inside was discovered a spell that can call forth mighty blizzards, while not quite what we had hoped, it will certainly be very useful.

WTF Moment time!

When looking through my spellbook I noticed that I have the earth awareness spell, a powerful earth magic spell that reveals all cities on the map not protected from such detection by some means.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

freeformschooler:
Wow. I must say, Shadow Demons seem like what would happen if you modded a video game to play as the final boss. Crazy stuff!

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