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Originally Posted by Burnsaber

If you want to replace Monstra, perhaps you could use the dracolich sprite and make a tartarian dragon? Although it would likely have some of the same problems as the monstra (lack of slots mostly), they could be solved by allowing the dragon to shapechange into a bog mummy or something.

The lack of slots is definitely a problem. Also, the limited magic (I can't imagine a Dragon doing much better than a Monstrum in terms of magic paths).

Also, about EA Agartha. Why do they use bronze? They are an underground nation with a good connection to the element earth. The fact that they haven't discovered iron is stupid. It would be a trivial job to recolor their armor grey and it would improve the horrible infantry (and perhaps make it useful when combined with some stat changes).

Good point. We do have an iron-clad normal-sized agarthan even (from MA!), so making some changes should be easy. Although historically bronze is actually better than iron for a number of purposes - the real problem is that tine supplies were too limited, and iron was thus cheaper.

You know, not only should they have found iron, but they should have abundant access to elements that are pretty rare before modern extraction techniques. Aluminum and Titanium are the ones that come to mind, not to mention better access to Tin. In the EA, at least, Agartha should have access to armor and weapons superior to anything ever produced by the later Ulms, at least in terms of metallurgy.

I suppose part of the issue here is how exactly we view Agartha. The thematic material from which Agartha (actually Agartta in most instances) is derived posits a hollow earth, so there is no molten core or anything like that. The game treatment seems to add them to a very much solid earth where they are burrowers rather than occupiers of a hollow interior. At which point I suppose we can claim Agartha's theme is whatever we make it.