Zap!
Lightning is a miracle even more destructive than Fire.
When poured, it will zap everything around the god's hand: friendly or enemy Creatures, plants & trees, friendly or enemy villagers, friendly or enemy platoons and buildings (without discrimination), and will usually set them on fire.
When thrown, it will bounce around, zapping everything in its range (even when it is bouncing over a potential target), producing with large pulses of electricity on each impact.
After a short period of time, the thrown form will run out of energy, and explode on final impact, creating a highly-damaging electrical shower.
Dropping the lightning miracle will have the same end-result as throwing it; slightly more powerful & concentrated, albeit less likely to bounce around on flatter surfaces.
If the player creates a shield with the Shield miracle, and throw the Lightning miracle on top of shield, it may create a Lightning bolt from skies, but only for effect - it does not causes damage.
The lightning will also cause a lightning bolt to spawn from out of the sky, when impacting certain structures, such as windmills.
It costs 90,000 tribute to unlock, and 5,000 Mana to cast.
Notes[]
This is the best miracle for attack, due to the long range and intense power of the miracle.
With practice, the several bounces of the Lightning miracle can be thrown, and used to attack distant settlements and towns, as well as platoons and catapults that lie far outside your borders. It's extremely effective against infantry platoons, and can burn catapults to cinders.
It is especially good against large armies, as every zap of electricity will chain-react to a neighboring soldier. Thus, if it is used well, it can wipe out large portions of sizeable armies.
However, for defense against invaders near your Influence, the player may as well use the Fire miracle, as it can kill everything in its large radius when dropped, like an explosive firebomb.
| Miracles | |
|---|---|
| Black and White | |
| Offensive Miracles | Fireball / Lightning Bolt / Mega-Blast |
| Defensive Miracles | Physical Shield / Spiritual Shield |
| Creature Miracles | Aggressive Creature / Enlarge Creature / Freeze Creature / Holy Flies / Invisibility / Loving Creature / Shrink Creature / Strengthen Creature / Weaken Creature |
| Settlement Miracles | Miracle Food / Miracle Forest / Miracle Water / Miracle Wood / Storm Miracle |
| Other Miracles | Flock of Birds / Heal / Pack of Beasts / Teleport |
| Black and White 2 | |
| Miracles | Fire / Heal / Lightning / Meteor / Water / Shield |
| Creature Miracles | Fire / Heal / Lightning / Water |
| Epic Miracles | Earthquake Miracle / Hurricane Miracle / Siren Miracle / Volcano Miracle |
| Black and White 2 Battle of the Gods | |
| Miracles | Fire / Heal / Lightning / Meteor / Water / Shield / Lava / Life / Death / Verdant |