What's your favorite nation and why?

[TheMenacer]

No matter how many times I try to get into playing other races, I just keep coming back over and over again to LA Agartha. Mages that can be given a death bless, are able to teleport with a few boosters, and scripted to cast earthquake are the best ever, and that feeling you get when you find a magic site that lowers the cost of conjuration or enchantment is just awesome. Also Tomb Oracles are so ridiculously amazing. If the nation had some way of getting enough blood magic to mass produce bloodstones, they would be perfect.

[MaxWilson]

LA Agartha can get bloodstones with some work. 3 provinces (5000+ population) with 6 scouts (because they're cheap) in each province, all blood-hunting, taxes at 0%. If you're lucky you'll get maybe 0-20 blood slaves per turn. Then you empower up to Blood-2 on a necromancer and cast Forge of the Ancients to let you make bloodstones; otherwise you have to empower up to Blood-3 or use a Ring of Sorcery or a unique.

If you like LA Agartha you will like Ashdod too. Less fire magic than Agartha but more Death and better at Earthquake (because they have more HP) and Bone Grinding (which is out of reach for Agartha + a bad idea w/ low HP). No Tomb Oracles or Umbrals but some other neat stuff.

-Max