Lore of Life

The Lore of Life is a lore of of magic introduced in Total War: Warhammer.

Lore Attribute[]

Life Bloom[]
Even the simplest of spells can bring forth the full bloom of renewal, reinvigorating and healing the broken and bleeding.
	Passive Ability Lore of Life
Type	Regeneration (Area)
Target	Self and Multiple Allies
Heal Per Second	+0.20%
Effect range
Duration	4 seconds
Affected units	Affects allies in range(all)
Enabled if	Casting
Triggers when casting spell Replenishes hit points of combatants

Spells[]

Awakening of the Wood[]
Trees live for thousands of years and have very long memories. When called to fight, centuries of pent-up wrath are unleashed.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	6 Winds
Type	Explosion
Target	Ground, All
Damage	19 (0%)
Duration	1 second
Radius	15 metres
Contact	Awakening of the Wood
Range	200 metres
Duration	2 seconds
Cooldown	31 seconds
Affects units if	Grounded
Large explosion area
Awakening of the Wood (12s) Speed: -45%

Awakening of the Wood does not have an overcast version.

Earth Blood[]
The Wizard draws wholesome energies from the soil, imbuing companions with the natural resilience of the earth.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	6 Winds
Type	Regeneration (Area)
Target	Ground, Self or Single Ally (Initial Spell Target) and Three/Four Allies
Heal Per Second	+0.80%
Range	200 metres
Effect range	35 metres
Duration	7 seconds
Cooldown	30 seconds
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 4)
Affects units if	Hit point replenishment cap not reached
Replenishes hit points of combatants

Earth Blood Upgraded[]
The Wizard draws wholesome energies from the soil, imbuing companions with the natural resilience of the earth.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	11 Winds
Type	Regeneration (Area)
Target	Ground, Self or Single Ally (Initial Spell Target) and Three/Four Allies
Heal Per Second	+0.80%
Range	200 metres
Effect range	35 metres
Duration	14 seconds
Cooldown	30 seconds
Miscast chance	50%
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 4)
Affects units if	Hit point replenishment cap not reached
Extended effect duration Replenishes hit points of combatants

Flesh to Stone[]
This spell temporarily transforms allies' mortal flesh into unbreakable rock, increasing tenfold their resistance to attack.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	8 Winds
Type	Augment
Target	Self or Single Ally
Physical Resistance	+60%
Range	200 metres
Duration	19 seconds
Cooldown	43 seconds
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)

Flesh to Stone Upgraded[]
This spell temporarily transforms allies' mortal flesh into unbreakable rock, increasing tenfold their resistance to attack.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	14 Winds
Type	Augment
Target	Self or Single Ally
Physical Resistance	+60%
Range	200 metres
Duration	38 seconds
Cooldown	43 seconds
Miscast chance	50%
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)
Extended effect duration

Shield of Thorns[]
Prickly gorse bursts from the ground around the caster's allies, protecting them from attack like a spiky, living shield.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	7 Winds
Type	Augment
Target	Self or Single Ally
Melee Damage Reflection	+14
Range	200 metres
Duration	30 seconds
Cooldown	44 seconds
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)
Reflects melee damage dealt to unit back at the attacker

Shield of Thorns Upgraded[]
Prickly gorse bursts from the ground around the caster's allies, protecting them from attack like a spiky, living shield.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	10 Winds
Type	Augment
Target	Self or Single Ally
Melee Damage Reflection	+28
Range	200 metres
Duration	30 seconds
Cooldown	44 seconds
Miscast chance	50%
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)
Greater effect on melee damage Increased melee damage reflection Reflects melee damage dealt to unit back at the attacker

Regrowth[]
By speaking Druthandor's name the Wizard is able to heal allies' injuries much faster than by natural means.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	13 Winds
Type	Regeneration
Target	Self or Single Ally
Heal Per Second	+0.80%
Vigour per second	-1%
Range	200 metres
Duration	26 seconds
Cooldown	48 seconds
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)
Affects units if	Hit point replenishment cap not reached
Replenishes hit points of combatants

Regrowth Upgraded[]
By speaking Druthandor's name the Wizard is able to heal allies' injuries much faster than by natural means.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	18 Winds
Type	Regeneration
Target	Self or Single Ally
Heal Per Second	+1.20%
Vigour per second	-1%
Range	200 metres
Duration	26 seconds
Cooldown	48 seconds
Miscast chance	50%
Affected units	Affects allies in range(max: 1)
Affects units if	Hit point replenishment cap not reached
Greater effect on replenishment Replenishes hit points of combatants

The Dwellers Below[]
This spell causes gnarled, fibrous hands to emerge from beneath the ground, dragging the foe to a claustrophobic, suffocating end.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	20 Winds
Type	Vortex
Target	Ground, All
Projectile Number of projectiles	30
Vortex Damage Per Second	4 (100%)
Duration	15 seconds
Radius	20 metres
Contact	Dwellers Below
Range	200 metres
Duration	15 seconds
Cooldown	45 seconds
Affects units if	Grounded Not on or below a platform
Causes severe damage to combatants Multiple, expanding areas of effect Strong vs multiple combatants Weak vs a single combatant
Dwellers Below (5s) Speed: -25%

The Dwellers Below Upgraded[]
This spell causes gnarled, fibrous hands to emerge from beneath the ground, dragging the foe to a claustrophobic, suffocating end.
	Spell Lore of Life
Cost	24 Winds
Type	Vortex
Target	Ground, All
Projectile Number of projectiles	50
Vortex Damage Per Second	6 (100%)
Duration	15 seconds
Radius	20 metres
Contact	Dwellers Below
Range	200 metres
Duration	15 seconds
Cooldown	45 seconds
Miscast chance	50%
Affects units if	Grounded Not on or below a platform
Greater effect on speed Spawns additional areas of effect Causes severe damage to combatants Multiple, expanding areas of effect Strong vs multiple combatants Weak vs a single combatant
Dwellers Below (5s) Speed: -50%

Units with the Lore of Life[]

Bretonnia[]

Unit
Fay Enchantress	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Prophetess (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Damsel (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Daemons of Chaos[]

Unit
The Blue Scribes	🗙	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Grand Cathay[]

Unit
Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon	✔	🗙	✔	🗙	✔	✔	🗙

High Elves[]

Unit
Alarielle the Radiant	✔	🗙	✔	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙
Teclis	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙
Archmage (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Loremaster of Hoeth	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙	🗙
Mage (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Lizardmen[]

Unit
Slann Mage-Priest (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Skink Oracle	✔	🗙	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙	🗙

The Empire[]

Unit
Jade Wizard	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Tzeentch[]

Unit
Kairos Fateweaver	✔	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙	✔	🗙
The Changeling (Formless Horror: Fay Enchantress)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
The Changeling (Formless Horror: Alarielle the Radiant)	✔	🗙	✔	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙
The Changeling (Formless Horror: Teclis)	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙
The Changeling (Formless Horror: Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon)	✔	🗙	✔	🗙	✔	✔	🗙
The Changeling (Formless Horror: Ariel)	✔	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙	🗙	✔
The Changeling (Formless Horror: The Blue Scribes)	🗙	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
The Blue Scribes	🗙	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Warriors of Chaos[]

Unit
The Blue Scribes	🗙	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Wood Elves[]

Unit
Ariel	✔	🗙	🗙	✔	🗙	🗙	✔
Spellweaver (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Ancient Treeman	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Malevolent Ancient Treeman (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Spellsinger (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Branchwraith	🗙	✔	✔	✔	🗙	🗙	🗙
Malevolent Branchwraith (Life)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Bound spells[]

Unit abilities[]

Grand Cathay:

Dragon-Blooded Shugengan Lord (Yang) (Earth Blood)

Strategy[]

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The Lore of Life is the most defensive and support oriented lore of magic. The passive is good for mapwide healing whenever a spell is cast. Generally useful if you have a more defensive build or if your units are generally more quality over quantity, but you can't really go wrong with mapwide healing. Notably, it heal units regardless of if their Leadership is broken or not, which can help bring a unit back from routing.

Awakening of the Wood is a weak explosion spell, but cheap and useful for triggering the passive. It has a large radius and reduces the enemy's speed by a good amount, which can be useful for slowing down retreating units. Best used on clumps of enemies.
Earth Blood is a solid healing spell, best used to keep elite or valuable units alive. Notably it does not resurrect models, so if a unit has taken damage and has lost many models there is only so much healing that can be done as each entity has a maximum health. Note: The AI tends to use this as soon as a nearby unit within the spellcaster's range is wounded. Utilize this to waste their Winds of Magic if possible to reduce the damage taken from other spells, go as far as targetting low-value units with your shock cavalry, chariots, skirmishers,...to make sure the enemies get the least out of this.
Shield of Thorns is a good way of boosting the damage output of units that will likely be hit often in combat, without normally dealing much damage back (such as Peasant Mob, Spearmen, or Peasant Long Spearmen). Particularly effective against elite units, as the reflected damage bypasses all armour and most resistances.
Flesh to Stone is a strong boost to a single unit's defences against nonmagical attacks. It is somewhat niche, and often overshadowed by the healing spells of the Lore, but not taking damage in the first place is arguably better than healing damage already taken. The spell is particularly useful against units with high armour-piercing damage.
Regrowth is a powerful healing spell that also refreshes the vigour of a unit, putting them at full energy. As it does not resurrect models and only targets a single unit, it is especially useful on elite cavalry, low-entity units, characters or single-entity monsters.
Finally, The Dwellers Below is a stationary Vortex spell that camouflages itself as a Direct Damage spell. It deals little damage, but it applies the Contact Effect "Dwellers Below", which deals respectable damage per second and slows the enemy down. Very good at clearing out blobs of infantry, but unlike most other Vortex spells, it also deals non-negligible damage to monstrous infantry.