Posts from Magic schools in Heroes 5.

- There will be only 43 spells. This does not include the various effects of spells obtained when leveling up a hero.
- Each school will have 10 spells (with the exception of Summoning, which has 13).
- Hero's special abilities will be cast from the spellbook for free.
- Cities are not tied to any particular school, but according to reports, the probability of spells from certain schools appearing is higher than others.

Links to navigate to each element separately:
Destructive Magic
Summoning Magic
Dark Magic
Light Magic

Spell Name	Mana Points	Spell Effect and Features.
Magic Arrow	4	The magic arrow deals damage to enemy creatures with magical energy. The number of arrows depends on the hero's level.
Stone Spikes	5	Deals damage to all creatures in the target area, using the Earth element.
Lightning	5	Strikes the enemy unit with lightning.
Ice Arrow	7	This spell strikes the enemy unit with a falling ice block from above.
Fireball	6	Deals damage to all creatures in the target area.
Ring of Cold	7	The spell deals cold damage to all creatures surrounding its area of effect.
Chain lightning	8	Strikes several adjacent units of creatures with lightning, starting with the selected one. Lightning jumps to the nearest unit, and each subsequent target receives half the damage from the previous one. This spell affects up to 4 targets.
Meteor Shower	8	The spell deals significant damage to all creatures in the target area using the Earth element.
Armageddon	12	Do I need to comment? Deals damage to all creatures and war machines on the battlefield.
Earth Shock	9	Deals damage to the enemy unit using the Earth element.

Updated 06/29/06

Spell Name	Mana Points	Spell Effect and Features.
Divine Power	4	This spell increases the minimum damage of a friendly unit.
Haste	4	Increases the "initiative" of friendly creatures, causing them to act faster.
Stone Skin	6	Increases the defense of selected friendly creatures.
Dispel	5	Removes positive spells from enemy creatures and negative spells from friendly creatures. However, a weak mage will not be able to dispel the spells of a strong one.
Wrath	6	This spell increases the attack of friendly creatures.
Protection	6	Allows the selected friendly unit to take less damage from ranged attacks.
Antimagic	7	Removes positive and negative magical effects from the target unit and grants the latter immunity to future magical effects. Only for friendly creatures.
Teleport	8	Teleports a friendly creature to another part of the battlefield. Only an Expert of Light Magic can teleport creatures behind city walls.
Resurrection	10	This spell revives creatures in the selected friendly unit.
Holy Word	11	Deals damage to all creatures of Inferno and Necropolis.

Spell Name	Mana Points	Spell Effect and Features.
Magic Fist	5	Creates a magic fist that deals physical damage to enemy creatures. This spell ignores magic protection and magic resistance.
Fire Trap	8	Places several magic explosive traps on the battlefield. The enemy will not be able to see them. The number of traps depends on the Summoning skill level.
Summon Hornet	5	The spell summons a swarm of insects that damage selected enemy creatures. The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanical creatures. If the wizard has the Summoning skill, the swarm will force the enemy unit to become distracted and lose part of its turn.
Raise Dead	6	Resurrects creatures in the target friendly unit. Undead creatures return to "life," all other creatures are resurrected only for the duration of the battle.
Earthquake	7	The earthquake damages the city walls during a siege.
Create Phantom	6	Duplicates the selected friendly unit. The duplicate has the same abilities as the original, but disappears if it takes any damage (in 50% of cases, incorporeality allows the duplicate not to take damage).
Summon Elementals	9	The spell summons fire, earth, water, or air elementals (depending on the location of the battle) that fight on the hero's side.
Wall of Fire	8	The spell creates a wall of flame in the selected area of the battlefield. The fire deals damage to all creatures in this area for several turns.
Summon Phoenix	20	The spell summons a phoenix for the duration of the battle, which fights on the hero's side. The strength of the phoenix depends on the Sorcery skill and the hero's level.
Heavenly Shield	9	Covers the target unit with a shield of magical energy, which softens the blow.

Updated 06/29/06

Spell Name	Mana Points	Spell Effect and Features.
Weakness	4	The spell reduces the maximum damage of a unit.
Slow	4	By reducing the "Initiative" of an enemy unit, it makes it act less frequently.
Destructive Ray	5	The spell destroys the armor of the target enemy unit, reducing its defense. The spell can be cast on the same unit multiple times, but the defense of the latter cannot be less than zero.
Plague	6	The spell inflicts plague on an enemy unit. Creatures take damage each time they perform any action. The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanical creatures.
Weakness	5	The spell weakens enemy creatures, reducing their "Attack".
Confusion	7	The spell makes a unit of creatures forget what they are doing on the battlefield. Some of the creatures will forget to shoot or retaliate. The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanical creatures.
Battle Frenzy	8	Causes a unit of creatures to experience battle frenzy. Such a unit considers all other creatures and all war machines to be its personal enemies and attacks the nearest enemy with double the fury. The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanical creatures.
Blind	9	Blinds the selected enemy so that it cannot move, attack, or use any skills. Blindness disappears as soon as the creature is attacked. The duration is determined by "Magic". The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanical creatures.
Dominate	12	Temporarily allows the hero to control an enemy unit. The spell does not affect undead, elementals, and mechanics. The unit under the influence of this spell cannot counterattack. Dominate disappears as soon as the creature is attacked.
Unholy Word	9	Affects all creatures that do not belong to the Inferno and Necropolis factions.

Updated 06/29/06

Spell Name	Mana Points	Spell Effect and Features.
Summon Ship	3	This spell summons a naval vessel. It works when two conditions are met: the hero must be standing on the shore, and an unoccupied ship must be within the spell's range.
Summon Creatures	0	This spell summons creatures from the nearest town.
Astral Gate	12	This spell teleports the hero and their army to another area of the map.
Portal to Town	16	This spell teleports the hero to the nearest friendly town (all movement points will be lost).

Updated 06/29/06

New spells that will appear in the second add-on for Heroes 5: Tribes of the East.

	Regeneration
	Level: second School: Light
Each turn, creatures restore a certain amount of health. Does not affect undead.
	Divine Vengeance
	Level: fourth School: Light
Deals magic damage to the selected unit. The amount of damage depends on the number of enemies that the selected creature has killed since the beginning of the battle.
	Sorrow
	Level: first School: Dark
Lowers morale and reduces the luck of the selected enemy unit.
	Vampirism
	Level: fifth School: Dark
The selected friendly unit gains all the properties of undead and the ability to absorb the life force of its victims, like vampires.
	Deep Freeze
	Level: fifth School: Destructive
Freezes the victims, immediately dealing ice damage and then draining life each turn for a certain period of time.
	Arcane Crystal
	Level: second School: Summoning
Creates a crystal on the selected area of the battlefield, which blocks the path until it is destroyed or the battle ends. When destroyed, it deals damage to all units nearby.
	Blade Barrier
	Level: fourth School: Summoning
Temporarily creates a wall three cells long on the selected area of the battlefield. The wall has an additional 75% protection against ranged and magic attacks. Attacking it in melee combat deals damage equal to the number of lost hit points.
	Summon Hive
	Level: fourth School: Summoning
Materializes a wasp nest on the selected location on the battlefield. Wasp swarms from this nest will attack enemy creatures until the end of the battle or until the nest is destroyed. The nest will not attack undead, elementals, or mechanics.