# Why is Atlantis the only mythological faction? **URL:** \ **Category:** AoM - Discussion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/why-is-atlantis-the-only-mythological-faction/288687 "2026-08-10T04:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![smiki5five](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/smiki5five/32/217730_2.png) [@smiki5five](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/smiki5five)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/why-is-atlantis-the-only-mythological-faction/288687/7 "2026-08-10T12:16:40Z")
Hyperboreans could’ve been fun if they haven’t been appropriated by white nationalist movements. But I could see Tengrists or Finns with mammoth units. > [@What would be like to see released in 2026?](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/what-would-be-like-to-see-released-in-2026/280446/30): > > 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… > [@Grandy02](#): > > The Amazons? Not that I would prefer them to peoples that exist or existed without a doubt, but I could imagine them to be popular. Not sure about their goddesses, though, there might be overlap with existing factions. Amazons were basically what Greeks knew about Scythians. Give them Scythian gods and it’s done. > **[Scythian religion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_religion)** > > The Scythian religion refers to the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Scythian cultures, a collection of closely related ancient Iranic peoples who inhabited Central Asia and the Pontic–Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe throughout Classical Antiquity, spoke the Scythian language (itself a member of the Eastern Iranic language family), and which included the Scythians proper, the Cimmerians, the Sarmatians, the Alans, the Sindi, the Massagetae and the Saka. The Scythian religion is ass... --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/why-is-atlantis-the-only-mythological-faction/288687)._