While each individual Skald unit does not provide as much healing to a single unit compared to most other supports, both of their buffs are applied in an aoe and are highly stackable, with one buff providing a regen stack, morale boost and the highly important (for non-fast melee) Hastened effect, and the other applying two stacks of strengthened and fortune to the affected friendly units.

The Skald, a T3 support unit from the T2 Tome of Revelry, is considered by many to be a particularly potent and important support, especially for melee builds that do not have a lot of fast movers or teleporting units such as cavalry or Phase Beasts.Apart from the aforementioned summon, Warding's spells include one that cleanses a unit of debuffs and makes it invulnerable for a turn once per battle, an enchantment that makes support units boost the resistance of friendlies, a transformation that grants a race bonus resistance to the three elemental damage types and a cool electric visual effect, and a spell that grants a unit a protective field that has a chance to stun attackers. The T1 Tome of Warding is a fairly popular early pick for its ability to keep units alive, especially against non-physical damage, as well as a dependable shield summon that is both decently tough and punchy for its tier.Accidental Innuendo: Like with the High Men being renamed to Archons in the previous games possibly to avoid sounding like a term for a certain female body part, some fans jokingly speculate that the reason why the Devious Watchers Society Trait was renamed to Shadow Walkers (until being changed back to the former again in the Wyvern patch) is also because of awkward raunchy jokes, implying that the race with the trait in question is a bunch of peeping Toms.

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