[Kadelake]

Originally Posted by Sombre

Agarthans truly are an enigmatic race. They spend their time in apparently cold caverns and rarely see the sun, yet they are cold blooded and prone to fatigue because of this. It doesn't help that one of their strengths, the fact they are amphibious, sees them running into the common cold 3 dominion of underwater races, all of which will school them in the water anyway.

Agarthans are one eyed with very poor precision and are clumsy in battle, with terrible attack and defense. They are however very strong. So with typical agarthan logic, they bring glaives to battle, which give malus to attack and defence and do high damage. So if they hit something (which they don't) it's double dead. But surely they'll hit /something/ you cry? Well it certainly 'helps' that they are size 3 or 4 and so suffer from being swarmed and being unable to swarm back. But surely their armour is excellent? In their ancient wisdom agarthans have elected to wear relatively high enc armour with unimpressive protection, knowing as they do that they are so effectively shielded by their tower shields that they need not worry about missile weapons. I jest of course, what agarthan would be seen with anything bigger than a buckler? It's sheer madness.

I don't think there's any question as to why they end up extinct. Along with draconians, they are the dodos of the dom3 world.

I think this is very thematic for the pale ones. They simply have no idea how to fight above ground. Long glaives might be good in an underground tunnel but not as great on an open field. Have you read the description of the Kin-Breaker, the prince who lead the disastrous attempt to conquer the surface world in EA? (MA hero, shift+u and add the unit onyx oracle)
"Kin-Breaker lead his armies as he had done underground, with strategies unfit for a sunlit world. Outshot, outflanked and outwitted, his royal army was annihilated."
Poor Kin-Breaker