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Tomes of Magic are your key to technological progress in Age of Wonders 4: After researching three technologies from your first Tome of Magic, you can unlock another one and so forth. This way you slowly progress to higher tiers of magic, unlocking ever more powerful world map and combat spells, units, buildings, siege projects, and race transformations. Each Tome of Magic belongs to one of the six Affinities in the game, which represent what your empire stands for. These are: Chaos, Order, Materium, Astral, Nature, and Shadow. Unlocking the second tier of Tomes of Magic from a specific Affinity requires you to progress through two Tier I Tomes of the same type. That means that focusing on one Affinity is going to get you to stronger magic faster, but some strategies (or role-playing goals) can be better executed when spreading your research far and wide instead of deep. The choice is yours. Here are all Age of Wonders 4 Tomes of Magic you can unlock in the game. A basic package of technologies and spells is

This article first appeared on Video Games on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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