This is a result of improper installation,  specifically not disabling CoreAbilities.xml in game folder (or you have some other copy of CoreAbilities somewhere in your mod folder)

Ah, Thanks Hark0nen and Primal, turns out there was another CoreAbilities lingering in the mods folder.

I thought I was being meticulous installing Xtra Deconstruct, making sure to double check all the deactivation and components, but I guess I didn't do a good job of flushing out older mods first. 

Primal, thank you for this amazing work you've done! I just found it recently, and have started a few games after going through the extensive (and extremely helpful) installation guide. I've played for a few days now and have a few questions; if someone could help me out, that'd be wonderful

- First, sorcerers confuse me a little, as some of their skills/relateds don't have good descriptions:

• Building a Sorcerer's Tower just says it unlocks more XP spells for them, but doesn't specify what spells.
• I assume Magical Experimentation (any others also?), but even then Experimentation doesn't say the range of XP that they can get. I don't know if it's a better investment at all compared to just continuing Year of Meditation, so I stick with the latter.
• Also, is it possible to add a small sfx for Year of Meditation being cast, in addition to when it ends? It's a little disconcerting having the spellbook close with no obvious effect.
• Find Beasts doesn't seem to work as advertised; is there some hidden condition like Kingdom only? Mineral Sight and Incite Crops work (while playing as Skeleton King), but Beasts doesn't spawn anything either on the target tile or elsewhere as the other two do.

- Some of the new techs seem to have extraordinarily low research costs compared to others; while playing in epic speed, the Heroes tech in Magic takes ~1/3 to 1/5 the time as others of the same tier. Is this intentional?

- King StormCloud seems incredibly overpowered compared to other sovereigns (and factions). It seems like his bound sword is better than any weapon and/or shield set up until legendary items, not to mention having Tough and Bash with the only drawback being slightly decreased dodge. In the game I played with him, by season 80 (on an epic speed game), he had 12 movement and was strong enough to take out Delin and the entire Burninglands single handedly (normal difficulty world). Even the Scythe of the Void only raised his attack by 9 at that point, while simultaneously lowering initiative, defense, XP...

- Lastly (until I remember what other things I saw), what does XOTIC stand for in an item's description? Just curious..

I guess I'd just like to say I'm enjoying the game immensely, saddened though I am that I can either have clay, or or have rivermod active, not both 

Thanks for the response!

I recapped in Darovana's thread with a couple other questions related to the Sorcery path; I appreciate the pointing that out.

As to some of the other things:

Heroes Tech

I keep forgetting the 5% addition; with that in mind, it totally makes sense for it to be much cheaper than other techs. I was just worried that the game speed mode setting wasn't applying to them.

StormCloud

Essentially, he has two very strong buffs going for him, with no real drawbacks.

1. Windbreaker: It already starts as one of the strongest starting weapon of any of the sovereigns - Steals From the Sand is about the only equivalent, when he goes Shaman with the Envenomed Spear. However, the main strength is in how quickly it grows, and the lack of requiring to find any strong weapons. By the time you get stronger gear either from fighting higher level monsters or research, StormCloud is high enough level already (assuming he's going out and about championing as a warrior). Even by level 8, his sword is +20 Atk, +2 Def, +1 Init; comparable to . Even as a twohand sword, I'm pretty sure it's hard to beat that.
• Compared to Fury Lavawalker, which is obviously his firey counterpart, StormCloud's strengths and class features match up much nicer. Lavawalker's strengths are suited for a front-line mage, which takes much longer to build up to than StormCloud, and generally won't be as effective, no? Plus, Faith Fire can't walk over impassable terrain.
2. Faith Air levitation: I think this is the stronger of the two benefits, that when combined with an already strong (and mobile) champion, makes it ridiculous. The only thing that slows him down is forests, and he can nearly always just end his turn out of danger of reprisal from monsters he can't fight by going onto a mountain or cliff. It means he can loot wildlands like the Desert by just going over the mountain, and on others be immune to counterattacks from guardians who can't enter those tiles. It's like the stealth trait of the Tarth, but (in my opinion), even stronger or comparable.

It does match with their storm-giant style - strong, fast, hearty - but literally their only downside is slight weakness vs Earth types (or other lightning resist types).

I'm sure you have more experience than I do- I've only ~150 hours into FE:LH and maybe 20ish into this mod while you've been working on it for much, much longer(!), but I can't see any downsides to the Faith Air at all. Perhaps making mountain and other normal impassable terrain be 0.5x or 0.3x movement might balance it somewhat?

Rivermod

I moved the folders, and things seem to be generating properly (as far as I can tell by removing the fog of war and looking around, at least). I've started a new game and will let you know how things pan out. Thanks for the fix!

Sword Quest and similar

For the spells and items that generate a quest or treasure, do they work in a similar way to the sorcerer spells with some radius, or do they spawn randomly in the world? I don't want to use them if it might end up in another's territory, basically, and it doesn't say for the most of them.

Again, thanks!

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https://www.draw.io/ is pretty good; haven't used it too much though. Are you looking for something to get the same style color-wise and whatnot, or just the structure?

1. Fireworship/LivingStone

Straight from the XML: "Living Stone build special improvements on Fire Shards (they raze all others that they conquer)."

I guess it's just another case of bad wording then, or gameplay update without changing lore. But yeah, I installed everything all at once, so I forget which are Heavenfall's CoS stuff and which are yours sometime, heh. Dammit though, I want cohesive descriptions of stuff! 

If I wrote that in the description, you would have never seen the Alien coming out of the stomach when your Champion died!   It's an easter egg/reference to Alien... I even created a small alien! Sort of Vatula's Dragonslayer I guess.

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