How does the magic crucible work?

[CombatWombat]

Am at 3-1 and the crucible says you can choose at the start of the figth, but I can't find anyway to choose anything. The crucible does absolutely nothing for me.

[CombatWombat]

So to answer my own question. The basic crucible seems to do nothing. But when you pick Hermi you get a starting building that you can upgrade that lets crucibles do something.

In the demo you could get crucibles on their own and they did nothing. I would assume they now always only come when you pick Hermi?

[stealthycat]

Watch your units and buildings near the crucible at the start of the fight. Baseline, the crucible will pick one buff and apply it to buildings and/or units at the start of fight - you will see a quick icon AND ZERO OTHER INDICATION (wouldn't it be great to see buffs when clicking on units/defenses)?

The crucible also gives food each turn.

When you use the mega cauldron, you can buff the crucibles to do different things: act as a poison turret, make buffs last longer (and then give all 3 buffs at once), or give more bread to itself or to all your buildings. Quite a bunch of different directions.

Pretty sure only Hermi gives this playstyle as of now.