ShieldPrice of Loyalty Map LocationsShield

In The Price of Loyalty, some new map objects have been placed, along with some other new structures and features.

Air Altar Air Altar: You can hire Air Elementals for 500Gold.
Earth Altar Earth Altar: You can hire Earth Elementals for 500Gold.
Fire Altar Fire Altar: You can hire Fire Elementals for 500Gold.
Water Altar Water Altar: You can hire Water elementals for 500Gold.
Alchemists Tower Alchemists' Tower: For a price, the resident will remove any of your cursed artifacts.
Arena Arena: You can visit here only once per hero. For your time, you can choose from +1 Attack, +1 Defense, or +1 Spell Power.
Barrow Mound Barrow Mound: At last! You can finally recruit Ghosts! They go for 1000Gold.
Hut and Eye of the Magi Hut of the Magi and Eye of the Magi: You cannot use the Eyes directly; however, if you visit the Hut, the eyes will reveal some of the space around themselves for your viewing.
Jail Jail: Visit the jail to release the hero held inside, who will then pledge loyalty to your cause. It might be a good hero, then again, it might not be. Try it to find out!
Mermaid Mermaid: Visiting this mysterious creature by boat increases your army's morale by 1 for the next battle. Just like a Buoy.
Sirens Sirens: Visiting these creatures causes you to lose some creatures. However, you gain in experience the amount of HP lost. You can only visit once.
Reef Reef: These underwater obstructions prevent further travel by boat.
Stables Stables: Upgrades Cavalry to Champions. Also gives the visitor extra movement for the rest of the week.
Traveler's Barriers and Tents Traveller's Tents and Barriers: To pass a colored barrier, you must first find the Tent of the same color and get the password. Give the password to the Barrier to pass on by.

In the regular game of HoMM2, before POL, the Necromancer castle could not build the Tavern. That has been fixed! The Evil Shrine increases the Necromancy skill of all Necromancers of the same color by 10%.

Evil Shrine
4000Gold 10WoodCrystal
Requires: Nothing