I have a question about secrets.
I'm using your mod along with my own mod which mostly consists of some extra secret interactions I wrote that create other types of mages using interactions from The Spellbook (thread). I've noticed a couple things.
Firstly, a heads up: the formatting in the histfiles for people getting touched by fiends is a bit off, so it will say "The inferno fiend X touchedthe elf..." with no space between "touched" and "the".
Secondly, I know it's been said before, but all of my fiends die out in worldgen. I wouldn't mind this, but they all seem to get killed without actually passing on their secrets. I'm trying to create an environment where there are about 5 secrets and all of them are fairly prevalent, so I've generated a lot of worlds while researching this... I've noticed that in every encounter with fiends, one of the following seems to happen:
1) Fiend is killed outright
2) Fiend kills the enemy outright
3) Fiend manages to pass on a secret to its enemy, but then proceeds to kill it.
It seems to be incredibly rare that a fiend fights someone, passes on a secret to them, and that person survives to carry that secret on. In fact, of the 4 worlds I've recently generated, it's happened a total of once.
Is there any way of ensuring that the fiends create a reasonable amount of mages? If 10 lich fiends are dying for every 1 lich that is actually created, I don't think they're doing their job. It'd be great if I could figure out some way of getting the fiends to transfer their secrets, then leave, or to get them to survive longer. Maybe if I made them not immune to fear, then gave them an ability with a USAGE_HINT of FLEEING that makes them invulnerable so that they can escape from combat (and so they never actually die)? Thoughts on whether that would work?
Also, you obviously have some experience with creating secrets and getting them to show up in world gen. Do you have any advice on how I can increase the number of necromancer, infernomancers, and other mages in my world? Currently I'm simply using slabs and your fiends (though the fiends don't do much), but I'm considering other methods such as a vampire-style "curse" from the gods or maybe rare plants that, when eaten, transfer the secret. Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks in advance.