Greetings everyone, it’s my first time writing here in the forums and I am excited to bring my idea for the atlantheans as who should be the new God (also minor gods) for my favourite civilization inspired by the Freyr DLC. I was thinking about getting Arkantos as a God or Minor God.
For all of you that played the campaign (I hope everyone did), we remember how the fall of the trident ends, with Arkantos ascending to godhood with Athena herself. I played Age of Mythology back when I was 7 years old in 2007 (I know, 7 or 6 years after it was launched but I was born in 2000 so…) and the campaign plus RTS and city building mechanics amazed me and I ended up playing this game in the lan-houses non-stop. After finishing the amazing story, I think you will agree that Arkantos was a very acclaimed character and famous between all Age of Mythology fans, and few days ago after playing (and still playing) the game I thought to myself… why not make him a god or minor god?
He had an heroic adventure, defeated MANY foes and was also blessed by the gods, specially Zeus. He guided his son years later and it seemed to be working almost like side by side with Athena, showing us that he was no simple and forgotten figure in godhood. I think that as a way to show Arkantos our appreciation plus giving the Atlantheans a figure we all know AND that also makes sense, we could give him the spot of god next to Gaia, Kronos and Oranos, or if not possible by some reason, a place as a Minor God option with a divine power that reminds his special ability to boost units morale (or damage) plus the upgrades for units or ships since he was an admiral.
Anyway, this cool Freyr pack and addition gave us the opportunity to think about which gods could be added to the existent patheons so this was my idea, of course I have some ideas in mind like which upgrades he could have, or bonusses and etc but I don’t know how far my idea will go and how many people will see it, but as an Arkantos fan, I couldn’t just stay silent.
I like the idea of Arkantos as an Atlantean major god. I imagine that after the events of the New Atlantis campaign the Atlantean remnants would turn to worshipping Arkantos now that they know he’s a god, and in the game’s lore it gives the civilization a new direction in the aftermath of the Titan crisis. The game already is really its own setting that is very heavily inspired by real mythology, and so doesn’t necessarily have to cling only to established mythology when a deviation fits the setting.
It has a risk of coming across a bit tacky but I personally think it would be great to see Arkantos as the new Atlantean major god.
That’s what I thought, not only we can explore this option, but like I said it makes sense. Arkantos was an important figure in Atlantis too, so can you imagine him guiding your people and Kastor after the Titan crisis? (Plus Gaia’s blessing and guidence too). It would be so cool and so nice to have him there!! And lets not forget that this Atlanthean pantheon is basically greek too, with some stuff also added too so I don’t see a problem with Arkantos in there too >:)
Please don’t
I love Arkantos and everything, but the Atlanteans are fictional enough as is. The Atlantean gods should have been part of the Greek pantheon, especially now that the devs are open to adding new gods to old civs, but even if it’s too late for that there’s still a lot of actual mythological figures that weren’t used up by either the Greek or Atlanteans.
Arkantos as an Atlantean god make some sense. He is a god after all, and at the end of the New Atlantis storyline the Atlanteans witnessed his divinity.
So him showing up as a god in a new Mythic Battle pantheon makes perfect sense.
The Atlanteans are a made up civilisations.
Atlantis was never really part of Greek mythology, they were “fantasy” back then and people didn’t actually believe they existed. They were made up by Platon for an argument of why Athens should be more like Sparta.
So giving Atlanteans a made up God is not really wrong since the civilisation is wrong in the first place.
That would also allow the Atlanteans to exist as a civilisation that stopped worshipping the Titans.
But I think Poseidon is the new Major god the Atlanteans should get.
That sounded a bit like “remove atlanteans”. A take I’ve seen before, but not from you, Skadi.
If Arkantos is made a major god, what minor gods would he have access to? how many of those would be titans?
I like the idea of Arkantos as a god to signify that the Atlanteans stopped worshipping the Titans, but I don’t think it’d be easy to pull off, and be a bit of a controversial decision.
I have likely mentioned those arguments before.
I really don’t like the addition of the Atlanteans but I am generally against the removal of any civilisation.
I’m also against the removal of the Chinese, but I’m optimistic that the rework will be good.
I’d rather have them have Poseidon as a Major god but in both cases the Minor Gods would be Greek Minor gods.
Some of their Technologies need to be adjusted to also apply to whatever units and buildings this Hybrid civilisation has access to.
For example “Golden Apple” would need to have a secondary effect that either improves Oracle Favour generation or adds something else to Citizens.
A lot of those technologies already apply to “Archer”, “Infantry” or “Cavalry” anyway instead of specific units.
If you hate this then you didn’t like or didn’t see the end of the campaign, since he became a god and is actually active and guiding other humans like his son, but also I don’t think its bad you think to keep his identity as a human.
Your argument doesn’t make sense, “but the Atlanteans are fictional enough as is” and then “The Atlantean gods should have been part of the Greek pantheon”. Why do we need Greeks 2.0 if we already have greeks? And how can atlantheans be fictional enough as they are if they are already heavily influenced by Greek mythology? I don`t get your point
My point is Atlanteans shouldn’t be their own civ. Their gods are Greek and a lot of their units and techs reference modern conspiracy theories. The game even references Lemuria, which is a discredited theory from shortly before plate tectonics were discovered that was later revived as a conspiracy theory.
Not to mention the civ as it is grabs elements from existing cultures that would have been much better as their own cultures (like Andean-inspired architecture).
Now that the new devs are open to adding more gods to pre-existing civs, Atlanteans simply using gods the Greek didn’t already use is even dumber.
If you really want to keep Atlanteans (I personally don’t), there are dozens if not hundreds of “real” gods that didn’t get used by either Greek or Atlanteans, we don’t need to give such a position to a character made up for the game.
I see, but after chinese we will get an extra DLC with a new civilization where it coulb be slavs, aztecs, Incas and etc etc, is already giving space for many gods and minor gods to be used so we don’t need Atlantheans to necesseraly grab even more as the game is being diversed and expanded enough.
Also, your point as “My point is Atlanteans shouldn’t be their own civ” and few lines later “Not to mention the civ as it is grabs elements from existing cultures that would have been much better as their own cultures”. Bro you are confusing me, you are against giving identity to the Atlantheans but you also don’t want them to get stuff from others?? I don`t to be rude, this is a respectul discussion, but I simply do not understand you. You sound like my family when they are angry and turn back their previous argument
I don’t understand what is confusing about what I’m saying. They use Greek gods and mythological creatures who might as well have gone to the pre-existing Greek civ, their units are mostly based on Roman military and gladiators, and their architecture is based on Andean and Mesoamerican architecture. There’s no reason why they should be a civ instead of the ones they were inspired by.
Edit: And I guess that should be a given, but the language Atlanteans speak in this game is made up.
Since my post is not getting much views I don’t think we need to worry about this because I am sure the devs will not see it, but anyway I think I get your point now. I really do like the Atlantheans so let’s see what they will bring for them in the future