No Independents - Modded Solution

[MaxWilson]

I haven't posted them. They're really still just a sketch of a nation, one unit type and two commanders, probably not balanced against vanilla. They're taken from the Malazan books by Steven Erikson, though, and Kristoffer has said he is "quite fond" of the books and that the Imass are, in fact, alluded to in the Unfrozen spell description. 300,000-year-old Neanderthal zombies with a genocidal grudge against a magically powerful race of tyrants (who really weren't all that bad) that they've already mostly wiped out. The most interesting game features are that they have high natural Protection and can turn to dust at will (= flying, maybe stealth) as well as having high hit points but never healing. (They get cut to pieces in the books but just keep on going, missing limbs and all, until you damage them sufficiently to break their connection to the Ritual of Tellann. Then the other Imass bury them under a rock or something and forget about them while the damaged ones think dead thoughts about futility. Or you can dissolve them in the ocean, which really and truly kills them.)

Probably most interesting to those who are already fans of the Malazan books. If there is sufficient interest I will polish them up and release them, but for now it's just a bit of flavor for my SP games.

-Max