Better: female version of trade unit
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Women have always been a big presence in commerce.
Vasco da Gama himself was rumored to say the only person he was hesitant to disappoint with a bad, but necessary deal, was his wife.
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and maybe female version of monk?
nuns were the first prominent nurses in history, so their healing abilities are justified. And why couldnt a nun just convert a unit, when saint Therese of Lisieux is the patron of missions?
Although this model would need new voicelines
Female Monks would be cool, but only Christian and Buddhist civs would get them, which may anger some people.
We only have the generic monk and aztec one in game so not a big deal.
There were Native American shamans and also the nomadic civs…
The native civs we have now had priesthood, not really shamanhood (worshipped gods with rituals, not commune with spiritual forces on an individual level).
Besides the Mongols and the Huns (and we know nothing about the Hunnic religion, taht it is Tengriism is just a theory because other related tribes were) all the otehr Nomadic civs were islamic.
I don’t think Polynesian civs fit the AoE2 style of civ design sadly,
Remember that AoE2 skins are client sided mods.
The Cumans and Huns venerated sacred swords and other implements, not dissimilar to shamanism. Else the Mongols could also get nuns(as they embraced Tibetan Buddhism).
On Cumans - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325631140_Shocks_in_the_western_European_cumans’_religious_culture_in_13th-14th_centuries_by_Archaeological_sources
Norse could also fit this mould. A female priestess/Shamaness could also apply to the Aztec/Inca/Mayans.
How come the Ethiopian Yodit was given as a skin to the Malian Gbeto Warrior in the Women of History event? 
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