Lovecrafticing Pangaea/Saurom. a bit...

[Poopsi]

I started by creating a dark deity of the grove. It was made for Pangaea, but I think it is also themathic for other nations, particularily Sauromantia. For that I just copy-pasted the following and changed the nation number to 4 (for that matter, you have to do that to put it up in Middle and late pangaea too):

#newmonster 2994
#name "Dark Deity of the Grove"
#spr1 "./mytheology/BlackGoat.tga"
#spr2 "./mytheology/BlackGoat2.tga"
#descr "The Dark Deity of the Grove is a cthonian fertility deity that has been worshipped by secretive druidic blood cults

since times past reckoning. Until now it kept it's presence to the groves deep in the forest where the faithful made their

offerings, but it now sees a chance to turn all the world into a luxuriant dark eden. The deity mannifests as a dark

ectoplasmic emanation, very resistant to normal weapons, albeit vulnerable to fire and sunlight, which can banish it.

However, this entity cannot be truly be destroyed: if defeated, it's shape will reform in it's grove once again"
#ap 13
#mapmove 2
#hp 20
#prot 10
#size 6
#str 8
#enc 1
#att 10
#def 10
#prec 14
#mr 14
#mor 30
#gcost 150
#rcost 1
#female
#onebattlespell "Summon Earthpower"
#weapon "Life Drain" 63
#weapon "Life Drain" 63
#weapon "Plague Breath"
#fireres -50
#demon
#neednoteat
#ethereal
#immortal
#pooramphibian
#researchbonus -10
#makemonster2 330
#startdom 3
#pathcost 50
#magicskill 3 2
#magicskill 6 2
#magicskill 7 2

#poorleader
#okmagicleader
#okundeadleader
#nametype 140


#restrictedgod 11


#startage 5000
#maxage 20000
#older 200
#itemslots 28672

#end

The idea is that as a pretender it can be a fairly decent spellcaster for battles, and one difficult to hurt at that. Also, it lacks HtH combat abilities (so you cannot make it a full supercombatant), and the restricted item slots mean that you´ll have a hard time using magic boosting items (so you'd better boost those paths you like from design, or be prepared to dish out lots of gems)
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Next: some custom blood spells for Pangaea

#newspell
#name "Create Demon Tree"
#descr "The caster calls forth a spirit from the void and binds it to an ancient oak. The resulting entity is immobile, but

skilled in blood and nature magic, and specially adept at summoning and enthralling potential ritual victims. The entity's

presence twists natural things in their surroundings, which tends to disturb the inhabitants of the province in which it's

rooted."
#school 6
#researchlevel 3
#path 0 7
#pathlevel 0 3
#path 1 6
#pathlevel 1 3
#effect 10021
#nreff 1
#fatiguecost 1500
#damage 2900
#restricted 11
#restricted 40
#restricted 61
#end

#newspell
#name "Carrion Festival"
#descr "The caster performs the ritual over a cauldron full of a mixture of dirt from an enemy province and sacrificial

blood, and pours the contents on the ground. Ghoulish vines will pull corpses from their graves, and more sensitive women

from the province will tear their clothes in revelry and go to the streets to dance along with the dead, in a ghastly parody

of a festival."
#school 6
#researchlevel 4
#path 0 7
#pathlevel 0 3
#path 1 6
#pathlevel 1 4
#effect 10038
#damage 314+435
#nreff 30
#fatiguecost 1000
#restricted 11
#restricted 40
#restricted 61
#end

Now, more stuff: Tcho Tcho's. I made them basically as a way to allow late age pangaea to blood hunt reliably. Also, as some cheap skirmish troops.

#newmonster 2901
#name "Tcho Tcho witch doctor"
#descr "The Tcho Tcho are wildland-dwelling human tribes with a penchant for cannibalism and human sacrifice. Their priests

are the leaders of a vaguely druidic blood cult, and often combine knowledge of nature magic with necromancy or

demonology.Tcho Tchos are cowardly, and will retreat from battle if things look dire. Tcho Tcho sorcerers are rumored to

reach prodigious ages."
#copyspr 1891
#clearmagic
#clearspec
#magicskill 6 1
#custommagic 4096 50
#custommagic 16384 50
#custommagic 4096 5
#custommagic 16384 5
#custommagic 8192 5
#researchbonus -2
#poorleader
#stealthy 3
#ap 8
#hp 4
#mapmove 2
#size 2
#prot 0
#enc 3
#str 9
#att 8
#def 8
#prec 8
#mr 10
#mor 2
#gcost 120
#startage 160
#maxage 120
#older 30
#end



#newmonster 2902
#copystats 125
#copyspr 125
#name "Tcho Tcho hunter"
#descr "The Tcho Tcho are wildland-dwelling human tribes with a penchant for cannibalism and human sacrifice. Their hunters

are stealthy and use blowtubes with poisonous darts. They don't wear any armor, and avoid close combat."



#end

That's all for now. Any thoughts?

[Poopsi]

Forgot: demon tree (for the spell)

#newmonster 2900
#name "Demon Tree"
#descr "This dark tree seem to sway ominously even when there is no wind, and the rustle of it's green and

healthy-yet-unwholesome leaves seems to carry eerie whispers. In truth, the shape is but the physical confinement of a demon

from Outside. The demon is a skilled blood sorcerer, but it's shape renders it immobile."
#spr1 "./mytheology/DemonTree.tga"
#ap 10
#mapmove 0
#hp 15
#prot 14
#size 4
#str 14
#enc 0
#att 10
#def 10
#mr 13
#mor 20
#gcost 100

#weapon 63
#weapon 63
#weapon 63
#weapon 63

#demon
#blind
#immobile
#poisonres 100
#startage 200
#maxage 4000
#heal
#neednoteat
#regeneration 2
#douse 3
#magicskill 7 2
#magicskill 6 2
#itemslots 4096
#nametype 140
#noleader
#entangle
#stealthy
#forestsurvival
#animalawe 2
#incunrest 5
#end

Basically a blood version of the treelord.

[Poopsi]

for the record: yes, as far as I am concerned, I added this stuff to the mytheology mod (which is rather cool). But it should work as a standalone.

Hell, in fact, if you do use mytheology, bear in mind that I deleted the Pantokrator entry to put in Shub Niggurath.

And the spell "Carrion festival" was inspired by a horror story I read in an old book concerning a town where the dead drowned at sea came out the night of the 24th of july to dance with the living in a festival...

[HoneyBadger]

Absolutely awesome. I'm a little confused about the demon tree though. It summons a demon tree? If so, would you mind posting the stats? I'd love to take a look. Am I missing them?

Oh never mind, there he is

[HoneyBadger]

This is a really nice effort, Poopsi. Thank you very much!

[Poopsi]

(Caveat: the spell "summon demon tree" is fairly straightfoward and should work, but I´ve not playtested "Carrion Festival" yet. I´m concerned about a potential mass rout through lack of leaders.)

[Poopsi]

Thanks

To add the Tcho Tcho's to late Pangea:

#selectnation 61
#addreccom 2901
#addrecunit 2902
#end

I was thinking on adding them to Sauromantia, as well, but I dont think they really need them, either balance wise (it´s expensive, but they can blood hunt with witch kings), or thematically (The Androphags are a good thematical substitute, I think)

[Poopsi]

Ok, I am focusing mainly on Late Pangaea. I think they can use the Tcho Tchos as base blood gatherers, and the like.

I tried my hand at adding two new units, one of which would be an archer/skirmisher with very light armor, and the other a somewhat decent commander. But I´m having problems adding armor. Maybe it´s ok for the skirmisers as balance, but I do think the commander should get a scale mail at least.

Edit: Done. Any suggestions for a more glamourous name than "Raid leader"?

#newmonster 2903
#name "Tcho Tcho marauder"
#descr "The strongest and ablest members of a Tcho Tcho tribe get martial training, and go forth from their abodes in

mountain forests to raid other peoples for livestock and slaves. Marauders are crack shots with their compound bows, and can

put up a decent fight in close combat with their crooked knives, but they wear only light armor, and are easy to rout."
#copyspr 123
#ap 13
#mapmove 2
#hp 10
#size 2
#str 10
#prot 0
#enc 2
#att 11
#def 11
#prec 11
#mr 11
#mor 8
#gcost 13
#rcost 1
#weapon 264
#weapon 256
#weapon 256

#holy
#forestsurvival
#mountainsurvival
#swampsurvival
#stealthy 3
#ambidextrous 3



#end


#newmonster 2904
#copystats 2903
#copyspr 2903
#descr "The strongest and ablest members of a Tcho Tcho tribe get martial training, and go forth from their abodes in

mountain forests to raid other peoples for livestock and slaves. The Tcho Tcho Raid Leaders are the chosen leaders for those

expeditions. Armed with claymores, they can cut down any enemy that survives the deadly hail of arrows from their great bows.

Raid Leaders are heavily armored, something unusual for Tcho Tchos."
#name "Tcho Tcho Raid Leader"
#copyspr 123
#ap 13
#mapmove 2
#hp 15
#size 2
#str 12
#prot 0
#enc 2
#att 13
#def 13
#prec 13
#mr 11
#mor 14
#gcost 70
#rcost 10
#weapon 266
#weapon 258
#armor "Ring Mail Cuirass"
#armor "Ring Mail Hauberk"

#holy
#forestsurvival
#mountainsurvival
#swampsurvival
#stealthy 3
#ambidextrous 3
#okleader

#end

[Poopsi]

a TGA for the Dark Deity of the Grove

[Poopsi]

Ok, update on the Tcho Tcho WD: I´ve been playtesting it and it doesnt work as intended. The idea was to have a 50% chance of death+ nature, and a 50% chance of blood + nature. Instead, it has 25% of an extra point of death, 25% of an extra point of nature, and 50% of no extra points. Also, the description is a bit poorly written, so I´m revamping that too.

The new Tcho Tcho WD will get a dot of blood magic, with a 25-25-50 chances of getting nature-death-nothing as an extra point, as well. He wont be that old, either. I intend to keep it with low research skills to avoid exploiting it, as well.

#newmonster 2901
#name "Tcho Tcho witch doctor"
#descr "The Tcho Tcho are wildland-dwelling human tribes with a penchant for cannibalism and human sacrifice. Their priests are the leaders of a vaguely druidic cult, combining ghastly blood rituals with necromancy and nature magic. They are secretive by nature, and thus poor research collaborators."
#copyspr 1255
#clearmagic
#clearspec
#magicskill 7 1
#custommagic 4096 50
#custommagic 16384 5
#custommagic 8192 50
#researchbonus -2
#poorleader
#stealthy 3
#ap 8
#hp 4
#mapmove 2
#size 2
#prot 0
#enc 3
#str 9
#att 8
#def 8
#prec 8
#mr 10
#mor 2
#gcost 120
#startage 160
#maxage 180
#older 30
#end