A voodoo civi would also be cool with zombies.
Its unfortunate the game cant add more civis via modding.
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The Viking Age was from 800-1000 AD (that’s what the Norse represent), the siege for Troy was around 1200 BC and that’s also around the time that the Bronze Age ends and Egypt starts declining.
The Aztecs and Inca would be around 1400-150 AD they are much closer to the Norse than the Egyptians are.
Well than we could just add a Medieval Civilisation, right?
How about the Knights as in the Knights Templar, Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve Paladins.
A romanticised version of the Middle Ages based on French, German and English mythology with saints instead of Minor gods. Basically how the Late Middle Ages thought the Early Middle Ages were like.
Heroes like King Arthur, Siegfried, Roland etc. Legends that are based on the time before the Viking Age.
That’s just an idea, not saying that should be in the game.
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Romantic Knights who fought dragons and saved princesses. All in all, it could be interesting - worse with the gods (unless they were replaced in this culture by saints, e.g. Saint George and Saint Andrew).
There would just be 1 God.
It does not work in AoM, as it is right now.
Or 3 depending on how you look at it.
People killed each other over how that works so I don’t want to open a discussion.
I was thinking of a potential AoM2 that doesn’t have a 3 main god selection before the match.
It would be wise to keep out abrahamic religions out.It might bring unneeded issues among players.
i’m pretty sure there are different “Buddhas” which may work, not sure but still made it an option
Major gods being Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, and Tezcatlipoca? not sure but i think that would work, not sure how we would do Celts though, as they may be an umbrella group.
I just mentioned the cultures that win the vote.
Personally, I think pre-Columbian cultures definitely deserve to be in the game.
Hindus have a unique culture and religion - there is no other game like AoM that can better introduce Hindus. AoE does not focus on mythology and religion so it cannot portray the Hindus in an interesting way. Another thing is AoM that definitely needs them.
The Celts got a lot of votes, but I think if this thing should appear in the DLC, not as the base civilization in AoM DE or in AoM 2. I would prefer the Mesopotamian culture. It could be a combination of Babylon and Assyria.
The Romans amazed me that they decorated so many voices. Their mythology is the extended mythology of the Greeks. I think if it were to appear in the DLC, not in the base game.
The result of the Japanese surprised me. Probably it’s because of the name - if Japanese were written instead of Shintoism - they would probably be on the podium (Japan is in fashion).
The Slavs are the most overlooked civilization and culture in pop culture. Wrong.
Some say it’s the same as the Celts or the Vikings - it’s not true.
Slavic mythology has more to do with Vedic mythology than with Vikings or Celts. The similarities with the mythology of the Balts is due to a common origin - Proto-Balto-Slavs.
It is worth getting interested in this culture and mythology, as it is unfairly overlooked by people.
It would be nice to see them in the base version of the game, or at least in the DLC. They would definitely bring something new to the game.
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I wish I could see the Lakota mythologies expanded in AoM. I wrote down the basis and a full set of spirits for an AoM Lakota civ 
I think they’d be pretty fun. Imagine having more economic units and less military units, but with each minor spirit increasing the capabilities of specific units so you can prioritize a specific unit over others through the ages.
Lord Shiva is of Dravidian Origin with Linga and Yoni statues being worshipped in Harappan Civilization. It is not Aryan. Early aryans worshipped Indra Agni Soma not Shiva. And Shiva is worshipped as a phallic symbol (Shiv Linga). Makes zero sense to compare it with a goddess.
Buddha came thousands of years later after Aryans had already settled and mixed with Populace. And you are trying to find correlation with things millenium years apart.
Do your own research before copy pasting non-sense.
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https://www.hinduwebsite.com/siva/sivabhavani.asp
It’s not just any copy-paste, you genius…
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Similar sounding words don’t make things related.
Ziva is more comparable with Venus (goddess of fertility) from Greek/Roman mythology not Shiva(the Destroyer)
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European religions are not similar to asian religions none of them have a concept of a rebirth or karma.
Celtiberian religion did.
You died on this world, went to one that suited your life on this one, then died there and come back in this world.
People cried when children were born, and celebrated when others died, because of it.
It is not exactly karma and reincarnation, but the concept is not unknown in Ancient Europe.
Definitely need Slavic
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Looking at the vote, people want Slavic culture in AoM.
You can clearly see two potential DLCs:
Aztec, Celtic and Hindu
Slavic, Roman and Inca
However, it was more thematic:
Aztec, Hindu and Inca
Slavic, Roman and Celtic
However, with the Greeks and the Atlanteans in the game, I don’t think Roman is necessary. I would prefer the Mesopotamian culture.
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I do not think they will add multiple, of all the games AoM is prob hardest to balance because every aspect is unique
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The spirit and soul of the Slavs
The conceptual scope of these two words is quite wide in the beliefs of the Slavs, and there was no precise distinction between spirit and soul. The effect of this approach is that both of these words were often used interchangeably by the ancient Slavs and referred to many aspects of mental life. All this makes it difficult to talk today about the exact understanding of particular concepts by the former, but it is possible to outline some tendencies of thought without any major problems.
The Slavs had no doubts that both people and animals had a soul. They associated this concept with breath, breath - breathing is, after all, a credible sign of life. Both the spirit and the breath fill us from within. When our life comes to an end, our breath ends and our soul escapes. A relic of this type of thinking is a beautiful phraseology - ‘give up the ghost’ (die, die).
The breath, however, is only one of the spiritual elements present in man. Anthropological research allows us to think that, according to the Slavs, there was more than one spiritual element in man, and the fate of each of them after death was completely different. The most popular theory used to assume that the human soul consists of two important components.
The first is the soul of the self and thoughts - it is located primarily in the head and is responsible for shaping consciousness. This element is a reincarnated part of the human spirit - after death, it most likely goes to Wyraj, from where it returns in the spring, via a stork or other bird, to the human world, directly to the wombs of pregnant women. The second important component is the soul of life and breath - it determines the state of spiritual strength and is located primarily in the heart and belly. This part of the spirit most often goes to Niaea after death, where it unites with the spirits of ancestors.
In order to live, man needs both of these components, but both components may leave the human body for some time. During dreaming, the soul of thought can wander freely through the past and the future, in all possible places. In turn, in case of loss of consciousness, the soul of the breath may fly away for a short while. Human life ends only when both of these souls leave the body. Only then can we conclusively say that someone has given up the ghost.
Sometimes a ghost soul was additionally distinguished - a faithful copy of a dead creature, an immaterial double of a dead creature. It was distributed throughout the body, and after death it was sent to the afterlife. It was believed that she could return to the world during holidays, during special days of the year - during Dziady or the celebration of Generous Mating. Therefore, care was taken to take care of her in a proper way and to make her feel duly with food, drinks and the warmth of the fire. However, there are some similarities between this soul and the soul of breath and life.
The most popular view was that the soul looked like a bird. Birds flying to Wyraj in winter were supposed to symbolize the departing human souls, and it was assumed that souls (thoughts and selves) returned via storks and nightjar (spring, summer) or ravens (autumn and winter) to women’s wombs. Less frequently, the human soul was imagined as a firefly, butterfly or bee.
“In the opinion of the Slavs, everything ends with death” - that was how Thietmar spoke ruthlessly about the beliefs of the ancient Slavs. However, it can certainly be assumed that his opinion smelled of ignorance and a desire to demonize the image of pagans hostile to Christianity. The beliefs of the Slavs about spirit and soul were really complex - they combined both elements of faith in reincarnation and faith in a place where all the souls of ancestors unite. The afterlife is basically a continuation of mortality to some extent, with the difference that it is under certain new conditions. So what if the Slavs did not believe in any judgment rewarding you for good and punishing you for evil? It is enough that some souls after death had to wander around the world and could not be reunited with their ancestors. All in all, it’s a punishment that is at least as severe as hell.
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damn that would suck a lot
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