1. Spell Name:                                                          Nightmare/Summon Nightmare
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical?                                        Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire                       10, 20 in order to empower the spell.
4. Mana required to cast                                             Perhaps you can add more mana to increase the chance of succession of this spell. I don't know how easy it is to get mana either so...I dunno, light to heavy, depending on how strong you want it to be.
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled?              Either Chaos or Death or Chaos and Death
6. Spell Effect                                                            This spell can be used to cause an enemy unit to have horrible horrible nightmares. It is undetectable (or perhaps it is through another spell or item) and will cause that unit to go berserk the start of a battle after a random amount of battles.
7. What Spell Book would it be part of?                        Either Ruin or Summoning. If Ruin, then call it Nightmare, if Summon, then call it Summon Nightmare. 

      8. Notes:                                                                   Casting this spell doesn't mean the unit will immediately go berserk in the first battle it enters, but randomly between 2 and 10 battles. When a unit goes berserk, it will become hostile towards everyone and attack those closest to him, most likely his former allies. 

How can a unit resist this spell? In order to ensure that extremely powerful units won't go berserk 24/7 because of a player owning this spell, it should attempt to resist this spell. How should it attempt to resist the spell? Perhaps the unit does a resist roll between 1-10+INT and it has to be higher then the amount of mana invested in the Nightmare spell-10 at the start of each battle. If the unit rolls higher then that amount, it won't go berserk that battle. If the unit doesn't roll high enough, he'll go berserk at the start of the battle. If a unit has resisted the spell for 10 battles, he will become immune to the Nightmare spell.

• Airy Step 
• Strategic
• 15 
• 3
• Requires an air shard
• Target friendly unit can walk on water for the next X number turns. Where X is equal to the caster's (INT score x 2). 
• Book of Air
• Requires an open enchantment slot

Here are some more.

1. Spell Name:  Divining
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire: 10
4. Mana required to cast: 10+ 2 essence
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? No
6. Spell Effect:  You employ this spell to unearth an iron deposit that was previously too deep for you to spot.
7. What Spell Book would it be part of? Earth
8. Notes:  For use in an iron poor nation, or a nation that is simply iron intensive.

1. Spell Name: Tempered Steel forge
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire:  10
4. Mana required to cast: 10 + 2 essence
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? Fire and Earth
6. Spell Effect: Imbues one of your forges with the ability (due to super hot fires) to convert iron to steel. The rate is the caster INT/3, and for every 2 units of iron and 1 unit of material, you get one unit of steel.  Tempered steel is approximately twice as strong as regular iron however, and every item forged out of steel will reflect that.
7. What Spell Book would it be part of? Fire
8. Notes:  Tempered steel items should be worth considerably more than items not comprised of tempered steel, perhaps as much as three times the cost.  Generally you will only be equipping champions and extremely elite units with it.

1. Spell Name:  Cause of the Light
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Stratigic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire: 15
4. Mana required to cast: 15 + 5 essence
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? None
6. Spell Effect:  Gives a temple the power of life miracles enabling them to attract a series of devoted followers who support a holy order (increasing prestige given by the temple significantly).  This enables the player to begin recruiting Paladin NPC's (only available to kingdoms).  These NPC's are extremely expensive, but highly skilled champions, with minor magic using ability.  It also occasionally spawns neutral Palidin NPC's, who will go adventure and bring their wealth back to the temple from which they spawned.  These NPC's tend to target monstors, bandits and kingdoms for their wealth.  Every time a Paladin is generated or hired by the player the temple loses some of its prestige generation.  Every time an offering is made at the temple by an NPC returning with loot, the temple gains prestige generation.  The Temple also gains a steady trickle of increasing prestige generation up to a cap (lets say four), in order to prevent that aspect of it from bottoming out due to dead Paladins.
7. What Spell Book would it be part of? Life
8. Notes:  Giving a temple to a city will make that city a quite important place due to prestige generation and the ability to recruit powerful champions.  Specific quests could also be attached to this building as well as a certain amount of interaction between the player and the order.  Since they are a magical component of your nation, this should have a game changing impact to offset the essence you are giving up.

Book of Magma: will only appear in Research if a person has Fire Book, Fire Shard, and 10 or more Magical techs (lv 10 in Magic tree). Can appear outside of research, cannot be used unless Sovereign has Fire Book. Can be traded.

1. Pillar of Fire
2. Tactical
   
3. Arcane Knoledge: 18
4. Mana Required: 10
5. Fire Shard
   
6. Deals [Intelligence] fire damage to central tile, deals (Intelligence/2) fire damage at a 1 tile radius.
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Can only be cast once per battle

1. Firestorm
2. Tactical/(and Strategic see below)
3. Arcane Knowledge: 16
4. Mana 8
5. Fire Shard
6. Deals Intelligence/3 to all enemies in battle
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Can be cast on Strategic(World) Map with a radius of 1 and base range of 4

1. Summon Magma Beast
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 18
4. Mana Required 8
5. Fire Shard
6. Summons Magma Beast (medium power level, combat speed 3)
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Note: Magma Beast explodes upon death, dealing (Max HP)x2 Fire damage to a 1 tile radius. Uses Enchantment slot.

1. Eruption
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana Required: 15
5. Fire Shard, Earth Shard
6. Causes targeted Volcano to erupt, causing random destruction/terraforming in a 4 tile radius, all plantlife features are destroyed, small chance to create fertile land upon damaged areas.
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Note: Must be cast on a Volcano

1. Brush Fire
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 12
4. Mana Required: 6
5. Fire Shard
6. Starts a Fire in a forest or grassland tile
7. Spellbook: Fire
8. Note: Fire has a 30% chance to spread to adjacent forest, 5% chance to spread to adjacent grassland, 10% chance to burn itself out, 5% chance to destroy forest, 2% chance to destroy special features (per turn), Fire deals 2 fire damage to any units inside or passing through the fire (per turn)

Thought up a few more. I'll say now, I have no idea which book they'd be in.

Spell Name: Entropy

These are brilliant. Please consider them

A few more

1. Spell Name: Timed Retreat
   
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana required to cast: 20
5. none
6. All remaining units return to the tiles they were at when the tactical battle started.
7. Spell Book: Combat
8. A big spell that bails you out of a bad situation

1. Spell Name: Regenesis
   
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: 15
4. Mana required to cast: 10
5. none
6. All damage one of your target units is dealt for X turns, the caster is regenerated in HP.
7. Spell Book: Life
8. Note: hey AI --> Caster low on health + one of your units is taking a beating = use this spell

1. Spell Name: Mind Blank
   
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana required to cast: 15
5. none
6. Targeted unit can not cast spells or use special abilities for X turns.
7. Spell Book: Ruin
8. Note: Targeted unit can perform other actions for the remainder of this spell.

1. Spell Name  Secret Word
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical?   Strategic 
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire   (late game)
4. Mana required to cast  70
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled?  none or if multiple shards are available 1 of each
6. Spell Effect  Summons a powerful demon that can grand you a wish he can give you power money women or man.. ( kidding about the women and man part )
7. What Spell Book would it be part of?  Mastery
8. Notes : when the demon appears you can choose what you want in return for freeing him a powerful item , a rare resource ,1 to your max stats , unique spell which you can cast or something like that

1. Spell Name  Feeblemind
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical?  tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire mid game
4. Mana required to cast  10
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled?  none
6. Spell Effect  cast at a group of enemy's and blow they brains for 2 turns
7. What Spell Book would it be part of?  combat
8. Notes  can only affect humanoids and there is 30% chance that the spell will fail

1. Spell Name  Sunfire
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical?  strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire  mid game
   
4. Mana required to cast  15
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled?  fire
6. Spell Effect  cast a sunfire on one enemy city the sun will burn the food production
7. What Spell Book would it be part of? fire
8. Notes   it simple reduces food production 

1. Spell Name Oracle
2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire early mid game
4. Mana required to cast 8
5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? air
6. Spell Effect reveals the fog on any location you want
7. What Spell Book would it be part of?air
8. Notes it reveals a location for 4x4 anywhere

on a side note, can you make the spell book look a bit more aged? It looks too perfect for a spellbook..

1. Spell Name: Enrich The Land
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: High
4. Mana required to cast: High
5. Yes
6. Target Area Converts to a mined resource of the players choice.  Initial Yield is Low, multiple castings increase Yeild with each subsequent casting increasing yield less and less.
7. Spell Book: Earth/Land
8. Note: Only effects Mines, i.e. "Material" resources 

1. Spell Name: Imbue By Blood
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: High
4. Mana required to cast: High
5. Yes
6. Target Hero.  Target Hero is removed from game.  Caster gains magic item.  
7. Spell Book:
8. Note:  The weaker the Hero, the weaker the item received.  Special circumstances may allow this spell to be cast on ENEMY/NEUTRAL players if balance issues can be addressed, such as an easy defense.

1. Spell Name: Sunder Terra
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: High
4. Mana required to cast: High
5. Yes
6. Uncrossable gap is created in the land, 3 squares in length.
7. Spell Book: 
8. Note: Caster selects target and direction

1. Spell Name: Transfer Fatigue
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: Moderate
4. Mana required to cast: Moderate
5. No.
6. Target Friendly:  1/3 of remaining movment points of caster (for that turn) are given to target.  Caster loses all remaining movement for the turn.
7. Spell Book:
8. Note: 

Edit: Sorry, I skimmed the OP the first time and didn't see the 8 needed items. My bad. Here ya go

1. Spell Name : Time Travel

2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic

3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire : As Much as Possible

4. Mana required to cast : All of it!!!

5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? : One of Each maybe? Whatever you think is best if you decide to use it.

6. Spell Effect : Travel backwards 100 or more turns into a game's Past with End Game Sovereign Skills and Abilities Intact. Enables the player a "chance" to Win a losing Game or replay the game once Won for "fun", also a Very Rare alternate for the "Spell of Mastery". For more details please see below.

7. What Spell Book would it be part of? Ultra Rare Book/Scroll/Item found on Map or Earned from Ultra Rare Quest. 

8. Notes : Please read below, Thank You.

This spell might be complicated to pull off or maybe even plain out impossible, but I think it's a cool idea none the less, so here goes..

Time Travel:

This is a End Game Spell, Very High Level, Very Ultra Rare, but it has a very interesting feature behind it. Before I get into what the spell does, I need to side-track to compare this to something else.

System Restore Points...and/or Auto Saves. Think about when you create a "Restore Point" for Windows or when the game Elemental makes a "Auto Save". For this spell to work the game will have to make "hidden auto saves" and store them in memory, say every 25 to 50 turns or so. Now for the Time Travel spell description...

When you cast the spell "Time Travel" it brings up a pop-up menu that asks "To Which point in History would you like to Travel?". Then it will show you a list of the hidden "Auto Saves" that it made but it won't list them by turn number. Instead it will list them by whatever the most recent event at the time the save was made that happened in game was. The player then chooses which point in the game's past to travel too even as far back as Turn 1. The Spell MUST NOT go back to anytime that would be considered "Recent". In fact, I don't think this spell should even be Allowed in Any Game that was less then 500 turns old. This way the spell has Serious Ramifications when used and isn't just the same as re-loading the game and only loosing 25 turns or so. The Spell MUST go back a 100 turns or more. This spell will only be useful in Large, Epic Games, that take days or even weeks to complete. The Spell will then reload the game at that "save point" or "auto save" but it will the load your Sovereign with his Stats, Skills, Learned Spells, and Personal Items that the Sovereign had when he/she cast the spell "Time Travel". Perhaps also make it possible for the Sovereign to take one or two units with him (maybe even a dragon if he has one).

Why Is This Spell Useful for Game Mechanics ? :

Imagine that it's near the end game and you realize you're going to loose after spending 10 or 20 hours on the same Huge Map (or even Medium Map). Maybe you left a powerful enemy alone for too long and now they are about to win the game with the "Spell of Mastery" or they are about to roll over your last city with their "Stack-o-Doom". Either way, it's painfully obvious that you're Not going to win. Rather then restart the game or re-load the game lets give the player another option. By casting "Time Travel" you can travel back to a much earlier part of the game with a Powerful Sovereign (and maybe a unit or two). You can alter History its-self by going straight after the enemy that you now know will get super powerful if you let him.

The spell "Time Travel" has Serious in-game ramifications how-ever. It doesn't let the player go back only by 10 or 20 or 30 turns. It goes back Hundreds of Turns meaning the player now has a LOT of work to do Over Again. Still, it's better then losing or having to start over and it gives the player the advantages of having a Powerful Sovereign to do everything over again with plus the knowledge of where resources are located on the map as long as the player can remember (FOW will be back).

Another issue this spell addresses is the fact that we all know players (and have been guilty of it ourselves) who like to Re-Load the Game every time something doesn't go their way. Perhaps they loose their favorite champion or loose one of their main cities or just realize they aren't going to win this game and decide to start over. With the option to Time Travel they might not simply re-load the game or start over. It gives the player a incentive not to "cheat" by re-loading and instead gives them the chance to go back and fix mistakes they made.

As a Reward for finding the spell or using the spell the player gets the advantage of being Very Powerful when all his enemies are much weaker, which is why I think the spell should be Very Rare to be "fun". It's almost as close as a "I Win" type spell as the "Spell of Mastery" is. Casting the Spell of Mastery is the Magical Tech Tree way of winning the game so the player is about to Win Anyway. This way the player can have even More Fun on that same map/same game by going back in time to really humiliate their enemies by stomping on them being leveled up. To add even more Fun imagine if the player is allowed to time travel and take that Dragon they just recruited with them. Sure, the player would face the "possibly" boring idea of having to play the exact same map with the exact same enemies again, but this time the player would be able to have fun owning them with End Game level spells and maybe a couple Powerful End Game units. As I said it's almost as much of a "I Win" spell as the "Spell of Mastery". In a way it's just an excuse to have fun on a map you were Already About To Win Anyway....or Lose Anyway.

Balance:

This spell needs to be Super Rare and not appear on anything but Medium Maps or Larger. Perhaps it should even be considered a "Epic" spell or come from one of those items you'd only see once every 400 games or so like "Frogboy's Diamond Golem Quest" idea. This spell is also for Single Player Games Only as it would be very unfair and un-fun for Multi-Player. Seeing as how this spell could save a player from losing the game just as casting the Spell of Mastery would before you were about to be conquered militarily, this should Definitely be Very Expensive to Cast using Most of or All the casters resources. Also when the player Travels back through time, if they take any units with them then in the Time the player travels too he/she must be able to have the incoming resources to pay what-ever upkeep those units have. This means that if the player travels back in time and takes a Dragon with them, and that Dragon eats 100 peasants a day, then in the time the player traveled too they need to have enough cities to be able to provide those 100 peasants a day or the Dragon would leave.

I can also think of another version of Time Travel that doesn't work anything like the above version. The Second Version would still be Super Rare and Expensive but instead it would only allow the player to go back in time by One Turn and ONLY Once, Period, and then the spell could never be cast again during that particular game. I think I'd rather see the above version implemented if either of them are considered though.

Book of Magma: will only appear in Research if a person has Fire Book, Fire Shard, and 10 or more Magical techs (lv 10 in Magic tree). Can appear outside of research, cannot be used unless Sovereign has Fire Book. Can be traded.

1. Pillar of Fire
2. Tactical
   
3. Arcane Knowledge: 18
4. Mana Required: 10
5. Fire Shard
   
6. Deals [Intelligence] fire damage to central tile, deals (Intelligence/2) fire damage at a 1 tile radius.
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Can only be cast once per battle

1. Firestorm
2. Tactical/(and Strategic see below)
3. Arcane Knowledge: 16
4. Mana 8
5. Fire Shard
6. Deals Intelligence/3 to all enemies in battle
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Can be cast on Strategic(World) Map with a radius of 1 and base range of 4

1. Summon Magma Beast
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 18
4. Mana Required 8
5. Fire Shard
6. Summons Magma Beast (medium power level, combat speed 3)
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Note: Magma Beast explodes upon death, dealing (Max HP)x2 Fire damage to a 1 tile radius. Uses Enchantment slot.

1. Eruption
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana Required: 15
5. Fire Shard, Earth Shard
6. Causes targeted Volcano to erupt, causing random destruction/terraforming in a 4 tile radius, all plantlife features are destroyed, small chance to create fertile land upon damaged areas.
7. Spellbook: Magma
8. Note: Must be cast on a Volcano

1. Brush Fire
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 12
4. Mana Required: 6
5. Fire Shard
6. Starts a Fire in a forest or grassland tile
7. Spellbook: Fire
8. Note: Fire has a 30% chance to spread to adjacent forest, 5% chance to spread to adjacent grassland, 10% chance to burn itself out, 5% chance to destroy forest, 2% chance to destroy special features (per turn), Fire deals 2 fire damage to any units inside or passing through the fire (per turn)