Horror Mark on Pretender

[abidalzim]

My pretender horror marked.... He dies every time when they attack - 1-3 turns after ressurection... One question - if horrors so f#%^&ng strong, that they easely kill pretender in it own dominion with bodyguards, who worth an army and pretend to be a god, why they doesn't rule this miserable world?
Horror mark is a eternal doom of this world even death can't erase it from bones and flesh and history - Beware...
But seriously, maybe add some feature for pretenders to erase somehow horror mark. What's kind of pretender if he hides in oblivion from horrors all the time while simple mortals do all work.

[Devin]

Supposedly, patch 4.20 made horror marks slowly fade while someone is dead.
Not sure how slowly though.

Hmm...maybe I should have brought up horror marks in the "How do I kill..." topic. :P

[terve886]

You could do what I did, buff your Pretender with the "Wish" Ritual till it has over 1000 HP, add health regen item, equip with items that increase magic resistance, and get banished to one of the prison dreams by enemy mage. lol.


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[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Originally posted by abidalzim:

One question - if horrors so f#%^&ng strong, that they easely kill pretender in it own dominion with bodyguards, who worth an army and pretend to be a god, why they doesn't rule this miserable world?

because they're mysterious and horrible, who knows what they really want, or if they're even conscious?

Originally posted by abidalzim:

Horror mark is a eternal doom of this world even death can't erase it from bones and flesh and history - Beware...

you said it. there is a tip in-game that warns about the permanence of horror marks and curses.

[DTDrain]

If you actually want help we need to know more about your pretender: chassis, magic paths, spells you have access to, etc.
If you just came to vent then carry on.

[Cerevox]

There is no saving him. If he is so badly marked that he is getting attacks every 1-3 turns, then you would have to leave him dead for the rest of the game to even make a dent in how many marks he has.

Keep in mind, most Horror's have weapons or attacks that mark the unit struck in addition to whatever else they do, so every attack is just adding more marks.

Basically, your pretender is perma-dead. This is one of the reasons you typically try and keep your pretender away from anything that can curse or mark them. Horror mark won't kill anyone right away, but over the long term it is an absolute death sentence.

[Traksimuss]

Latest patch added "Horror marks fade over time", so there is hope :)

[DasaKamov]

Devin and Traksimuss are correct. From the Dominions 4 version 4.20 patch notes:

Originally posted by Illwinter Studios:

*Horror chances altered

*Being dead will make horror marks fade away over time

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...though the definition of "time" is quite fungible...

[Devin]

Well yeah, we have no way to measure a horror mark, aside from estimating based on the effects.

[sum1won]

To answer your quesiton on why horrors don't rule the world: Because they don't exist in the world, and can't really see it/nothing interests them. They can be sent to the world temporarily by a blood/astral mage, and a horror mark can make the marked unit interesting to them, but that's it.