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And lets be realistic, who would make an "in game" NAP with Ryleh, they are aliens and mad.... or with Ermor...
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Interesting point. In a game like dominions though, are they really that strange ?
For example : a fort enables you to recruit your national units. Does that means that :
- they are representant of every race in the population ? and building a fort brings more or them in the countries your god lives in ?
- they created by some kind of magic or influenced by your god ?
- the mere presence of a god can change your appearance ? That would mean that starting to believe in another god could mean that one day you would be a winged humanoid and the next day, you would be a satyr ?
- something else ?
I have no idea which one is right. Probably the last one ! I assumed the first one unconsciously, but it might be anything. In any case, your neighbour could be undead. Or a lizard. Or anything.
Madness and death sound bad because in our culture(s?) they are considered a bad thing. In a lot of ancient culture, madmen were oracles, priest, or people touched by the gods, and reverred as such. In others, sacrifices where something glorious. Therefore Ryleh and Ermor would just be another oddity, no more strange that China is from a "European" point of view.