What culture inspired Abysia ?

[Spendios]

I cannot see any references to some kind of existing mythologies concerning Abysia. So was the nation totally created by Kristoffer O for the game ?

Also I would like to know how to modify/add descriptions to units since I have a little mod project.

Thanks

[Endoperez]

As far as modding goes:

You generate a mod file: a text file saved with the filetype .dm that starts with #modname "name of your mod".

Then you just select units, write their descriptions and end the selection, like this:
#selectmonster "Devourer of Souls"
#descr "This is a description."
#end

You can also use unit IDs to select the units; to know the IDs, consult Edi's dom3database (see link from his sig) or press shift+i when viewing the unit's description in Dom3.


For Abysia, read pg 97 of your manual. "Abysia does not have any clear inspirational sources" etc.

[Spendios]

Thank you for your quick answer !

[Swan]

i always saw abysia as warcraft's blood elves: user of blood and fire magic, proud race disappearing in favor of humans,evil against the enemies.
but maybe abysia is older than blood elves....

[Sombre]

This topic is silly. Abysia is just a ripoff of the demon splicing fire-people of Belarus.

[Argitoth]

So the developers just made up Abysia at the top of their head? No inspiration even from other games or books? Not a shred of reference?

[elbnar]

What does it matter? So they came up with a race purely on their own instead of basing something on existing history or mythology.

Of course, Abysia does follow the usual theme of decline due to the corruption of humans.

[Foodstamp]

They are based off this guy:

[Endoperez]

Argitoth said:
So the developers just made up Abysia at the top of their head? No inspiration even from other games or books? Not a shred of reference?

You know, you COULD have read the rest of the Abysian description on page 97 of the manual. The quote I mentioned earlier continues "Malign devil-worshipping empires of the fantasy genre combined with some ancient Middle Eastern concepts, perhaps."

Really, it isn't that hard to look things up from the manual!