Late Era versions of existing nations

[Juzza]

Sounds awsome!!



Can you blood hunt under water??

Sombre said:
Makes me want to continue work on my blood themed LA Oceania.

[DrPraetorious]

No, you can't.

So the underwater blood nation is forced to raid the surface - rising from the sea, descending on the hapless villagers in the night and carrying off their daughters, to be ceremonially married to the awakening God in a blasphemous undersea temple before having their hearts eaten. How cool is that?

My only question is - why doesn't LA R'lyeh do this already? The fact that they'd be the worst blood nation *ever* (is underwater, dominion kills population) wouldn't hinder this from being totally awesome.

The simplest solution is to give those loser cult leaders they recruit in their coastal castles significant blood magic (along with an increase in price, naturally.)

[HoneyBadger]

Firstly, blood hunting should work underwater-there's no good reason why it shouldn't.

Infact, it should work better since a shark can track blood like crazy in the water. Surely, this has to apply somehow?

[Sombre]

I still have to test some of this stuff.

Does anyone know if blood slaves can be taken/used underwater? Do they simply drown? If they do, I can make them amphibious - they aren't really specifically human - I mean you can harvest them from any poptype, so I don't see why they couldn't represent atlantians, mermen, tritons etc.

Of course I'd add underwater blood spells - sharky ones, summons, aoe damage etc etc.

[DrPraetorious]

I've got underwater temples sacrificing away in my LA Mictlan game. So you can definitely bring blood slaves underwater, and you should be able to use them in ritual magic if the ritual is allowable underwater.

I'm not sure if you can bring bloodslaves with you into underwater *battles*. Since units led by someone with a manual of waterbreathing or whatever don't drown when combat starts, I assume that the blood slaves live, but there might be a waterbreathing check at the start of combat.

One assumes either that atlanteans, tritons, mermen etc. are useless as blood slaves, or that their women lose their virginity before hitting puberty. I assume the later.

[Velusion]

Interesting... so why (technically) can't you blood hunt underwater? Is that command just not available?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Oceania and blood?

Interesting idea. I was thinking more along the lines of fire magic myself. Oceania, the burning seas. Tie em in with Abyssia somehow, and you get fire and blood, I guess. Idea was thermal vents too hot for R'lyeh, or something like the Island of Pompei.