[Flun]

Here's a suggestion for a skill pertaining to the bishop piece, the bishop hasn't got much a niche compared to the other pieces, pawns have break, knights have their forks, rook has rookstar, and queen has its whole lot, bishop is the only one without something unique for itself, so I'm suggesting a ruler passive skill which gives the bishop a new function, casting.

a 2 skill point skill, one of the "no skill point slot taken" skills. Kingside Casting is a toggleable skill which allows the ruler to cast spells through the bishop as if it was a talys, which gives the bishop worth in being a tool suitable for rulers who have no spell reach outside of throne radius to cast from a distance, and being able to send in bishops to cast spells to make them more of a threat, because bishops as they stand are mostly useful for poking and kiting due to their long range and middling damage.

this gives bishops a use for spellcasting rulers, and a reason to be prioritised over rooks and knights while also offering a unique way to extend the reach of a mages spells.

(I think the harm in this would be quite minimal, as to even use it you'd have to play ruler, which hasnt got any notable offensive spells on its own, and its much more practical to just run a talys if thats all you want ruler for.)

[Poruku]

That honestly seems really strong, but personally I'd prefer to give bishop some other sort of unique ability, something curate related like a small heal or maybe a stronger glowing effect.

[Raigen.Convict]

Every time Bishop attacks a target it also STRENGTHENS the Glowing it applies while reseting its duration, maximum of level 50. +5 per attack. Id be cool with that niche. Reason why I find it balanced is because 1, automatons cannot be maintained perma unless a Ruler sacrifices their turns for the pieces by spam enchanting. 2, Bishop is nullified by ironically hitting 1 range of it until it moves to attack again, reducing threat level. 3, Bishops damage is low comparatively.

[Poruku]

Ramping up the glowing would be kind of pointless because as it stands it can't really hit evade users so it couldn't apply the glowing anyway. It should be able to apply it outside of its attack for it to be any good

[Raigen.Convict]

Ramping up the glowing would be kind of pointless because as it stands it can't really hit evade users so it couldn't apply the glowing anyway. It should be able to apply it outside of its attack for it to be any good

Fair enough. I figured the balance would be the rng of landing the first hit so evades dont feel useless.