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Originally Posted by Doo

EA Machaka would be good. Maybe their lack of armor wouldn't be such a pain in EA. Spiders are cool, I hope they keep them.

EA Machaka would in all likelihood not have spiders. They are supposedly a lion themed nation. There's a lot of stuff to work with for them, but if cultural/mythological progression is followed, EA Machaka would also be a primarily Air/Fire/Nature nation instead of Earth/Fire/Death like MA Machaka.

This ties into the prevalent black African creation myths where people dwelling in the clouds are a regularly featured convention, as well as learning fire from them and men being immortal until they were tricked by a lizard (in some variations a snake, but most often a lizard) to bury the body of a person killed by some means in the earth, which caused all men to become mortal and subject to death by disease and other methods.

I had a good chat with Kristoffer about these things a couple of years back, but at the time he was busy developing Jomon and a few other things so EA Machaka got sidelined.