If you had read, you would have noticed that when playing as Orcs, you cannot choose the Path of Tears or the Path of Blood until the 3rd mission. You can only do so in the third mission. This is the only known workaround for this bug so far.
Two bugs.
1. In the last campaign for the Necropolis faction. Before the battle with Uriel, I visited a building that summons a Hellhound in battle. The Hellhound appeared and devoured the angel's archers, after which Uriel and his team started attacking the Hellhound, without causing it any damage, even though it dies from six units of damage. My archers simply shot down all the enemies, and I passed the battle without any losses.
2. Now I'm playing the last map for the Orcs, and spells from scrolls that the corresponding heroes had at the end of the previous mission have appeared in the spellbook, even though the heroes don't have the scrolls themselves in this mission.
Using such a spell does not consume mana, and it can be cast again in the next battle.
For example, "Kamaz" had scrolls with Dominate, Mass Heal, and Restoration - they are very helpful to him in the new mission