So this isn't really a wish necessarily, but I just recently bought the original Warlords app for my iPhone and am having fun playing around on it...I didn't remember much of it b/c I never owned the original game, a friend introduced me to it right around the time Warlords II was about to come out.
I just searched a ruin and defeated the devil guarding it, but to my surprise, I was greeted with a strength decrease from 6 to 4 due to sitting on a throne in the ruin
Didn't know if we would want to introduce something along these lines in Warbarons (i.e., hero doesn't die but is instead cursed in some form).