[poll] What pantheon would you like to see next?

[damodar]

Aqueducts instead of roads

[Scintilus]

The more the merrier and I don’t care about balance. You left out Filipino pantheon such an underrated mythology for South East Asia.

[smiki5five]

Tengrists, because I want to see mammoths lol.

What would be like to see released in 2026?

Tengrists, so that we can have mammoths as a unit. Fun Fact: In Tengriism, there is a kind of mythologized memory of the disappearance of the mammoths. It is claimed that when Kaia banished Erlig to the 9th layer of the underworld, after a heavenly war; he dragged the mammoths along with him, to have livestock down there, and placed a curse that makes them freeze any time they try to escape back to the surface. The Turkic peoples of Siberia are the ones who have the most vibrant and colorfu…

Regarding Israelites & Phoenicians: both believed in the same Semitic pantheon, the true monotheism would only start during the Babylonian Exile due to exposition to Zoroastrianism. A single Canaanite pantheon would be fine.

Revised Canaanite (Biblical) mythology build

I posted an earlier version of this already but I’ve made some substantial changes so I decided to post it again. As established in my earlier post, Canaanite civilization could be villager-focused, with a gather-based favor system. The standard hero unit is the shepherd. Shepherds act as extra villagers, gathering food at a rapid rate. Canaanites can only gather from chickens, goats, cattle, aurochs, elk, deer, gazelles, giraffes and sheep (a new herdable they start with no matter what map th…

@Akleoni

I’t’s not the same as the Hindus who still worship and pay respect to their gods more directly and see as more controversial and disrespectful their portrayal in games.

Some Hindu gods are ridiculed by Hindus themselves. As long as the devs include only the early Rigvedic gods (no Ganesha, no Trimurti, Tridevi, nor their avatars), the only people offended should be hardcore Vedic revivalists (a movement as serious as western neopagans).

@Skadidesu

North Americans

They got a lot of interesting and diverse mythology. Of course one specific one would have to be picked here but there are many good options.

Yeah, they can generalize a bit but they shouldn’t lump the whole continent together.

@Scintilus

You left out Filipino pantheon such an underrated mythology for South East Asia.

+1

[DemonAura]

It would be cool to have Aboriginal Australia in the game.

[smiki5five]

@Skadidesu

Buddhism is definitely not monotheistic. They have many gods but Buddha himself is not one of them.

One major issue about the Buddhists as a separate pantheon in AoM is that their gods are essentially identical to the Hindu ones – and it’s not the case of two different cultures like Greeks and Romans identifying their gods with each other’s, both arose from the same Indian society, have identical names unless translated to Chinese/Japanese/Korean, etc.

A single Dharmic pantheon for India would work much better imho.

[smiki5five]

In contrast, I wouldn’t lump Scythians together with Turco-Mongol Tengrists, even conjoining them with Avestan Iranians might be a stretch given that they had very different names and roles for their deities (Scythian fire deity is female and called Tabiti, Avestan fire deity is male and called Atar)