posted 20 September 2007 00:36 AM EDT (US)
(thx to Underpants Man & Zalpacuiztli)
Archaic Age
building of Town Centres allowed
K´aaxil winik
N'a
-150wood,150gold. Shoots arrows.
Favour gaining- 70% sacrificing + 30% fighting
1% worker
4% soldier
16% hero
K'inn- priest, macaw scout
---------------
HUNAB KU- KINICH AHAU
Sun god, 1st god, creator, father of Itzamna the teacher.
jaguar lord of the underworld by night,
the "sun eyed lord". He was shown as a young man, full of life and vigour like the rising sun itself. His realm, in Mechanus, overlooks the abandoned realm of the Torillian power A'tar or Amaunator, who was a former rival. For exactly twelve hours the realm is lit by sunlight, and then for twelve more it is plunged into darkness. On the centre of the cog upon which the realm sits is a temple with 144 steps up to the top.
Heroes,(Holkan)- Archaic- B'alam Quitze- lancer
------Classical- Caha-Paluma (f)- blowpiper
------Heroic----B'alam Agab- clubber
-----Mythic------Choimha (f)- bolas
God Power: Heatwave (causes all visible enemy farms & fishing boats to evaporate , price repaid to enemy)
Wonder-Pyramid (K'u noloch)
------------------------------------------------------------ ------
God of invention. Reptilian Top God. He's the son of the sun, Creator God HUNAB-KU, and was heavily involved in the development of Mayan culture.
He brought agriculture and medicine to the masses, and invented books and writing. Old and ragged with a bulbous red nose, he has a red-hot healing hand. Ideal for doctors needing quick cauterisation services.
ITZAMNA had a quick fling with IXCHEL, which resulted in the birth of the BACABS. . His feathery serpent mode KUKULCAN was identified with QUETZALCOATL by the Aztecs.
Heroes-Iqi B'alam- lancer
------Cakixia (f)- atlatl
-------Mahucatah- macana
------Tzununiha (f)- archer
God Power:
Technology: Ball Games (military units have increased attack)
Bonuses: Military units are faster, and technologies improving military units are cheaper.
Wonder- ball court (Pok K´upil)
------------------------------------------------
IX CHEL
Goddess of the moon, bees, medicine, rainbows & women esp pregnancy & weaving
Her husband is Chaac, the rain god; and he listens to her, and abides by her desires. If Ix Chel is happy, the right amount of rain falls. If not, then either floods or droughts occur.
Wonder- K'u Ek
Heroes-Hun-Hunahpu -clubber
------- Vucub-Hunahpu- archer
--------Xbalanque -macana
--------- Hunahpu.- lancer
God Power:
----------------
Economic Guild Armoury -N'a Maskab (free)
- upgrades of chert flint, obsidian, copper, silver, gold_
trade seems to have been broad-based, extending even to the enemies of the Aztecs: the Tarascans, for example, were a source of copper axes.
============================================================ =========
Classical Age
milpa- 50 wood + 20 gold
XANAN EK
God of the North Star and guidance.
God of the North with a black monkey head. God of Holiness and Godliness.
His symbol is the North Star, used for guidance and direction, His only indulgence, is incense from the resin of the copal tree.
GP-Confusion (enemy units in the vicinity of where the spell is
cast walk around in random directions).
Myth Units: Okol kolel (banshee)
According to folklore, La Llorona (Spanish for "the crying woman"), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death. It is wise to avoid La Llorona, as she is known for drowning passers-by in an attempt to replace her dead children.
Technology: Hijos Mios -my children.
------------------------------------------------
god of rain and thunder, and important as a fertility and agriculture god. In art, he was sometimes depicted as an old man with some reptilian or amphibian features, with fangs and a long nose, sometimes tears coming from his eyes (symbolizing rain) and carrying an axe (which caused thunder). He was associated with the frog. Chaac was the ancient Maya god of rain and lightning. He was one of the earliest and most worshipped gods among the all the people of mesoamerica.
Chaac was often depicted with a serpentine axe in his hand a metaphor for lightning, and his body was scaled and reptilian. He was worshipped at sacred wells or cenotes, and was associated with the life giving rain needed for agriculture. At the dawn of time Chac split apart a sacred stone with his axe, from which sprung the first ear of maize. When he was not among the clouds the god could be found near falling waters.
God Power: Epithytes (causes jungle vines to consume a Town Center,
eroding its HPs until they die; must be cast on rival Town Centers)
Myth Unit:
These elf-like beings would attack intruders, frightening them so that their soul would abandon their body, which the chaneques enclosed in the depth of the land. If the victim did not recover their soul through a specific ritual, he or she would become ill and die soon after.
Technology: Jungle Night (upgrades Chaneques into more powerful
Oztochaneques)
Technology: Rainforest Mist (Farms produce 50% more food)
Bonuses: Peasants have more HP, Farms take less time to seed, and
buildings are less expensive
------------------------------------------------------
YUMIL KAXOB
personification of maize and a god of agriculture and nature, known to indigenous peoples of North America. The one invoked by hunters, he is owner of all the game. He can appear to hunters in an instant, and possesses songs that will allow a hunter success or allow his arrows to come back to him. The Maize god is representative of the ripe grain which was the base of the Mayan agriculture & is principally shown with a headdress of maize and a curved streak on his cheek. He is also noticeable from other gods by his youth, despite which he was powerless by himself. He suffered when the Death god, Ah Puch, exercised drought and famine. A passive and defenseless creature, victim of attacks by birds, insects and rodents. His survival depended on the help of the god of rain, Chaac. Corn also depended on man's rituals and offerings to the god of rain, weeding out plants which competed with Corn for space, scaring off predators, and giving life to the god by planting him. In gratitude for all man's care, Corn fed him.
MU -Tocotl giant spiders- Chiwoh. In Mexico it was believed that the creation of the world was assisted by Tocotl a Spider God, who spins a huge hammock to hold the world up. The Mayans believed that after death of the body the soul was destined to wander through the many dark passages of the underworld until they met a great river which they could not cross on their own. Each soul can only can only get to the other side of this river with the help of a spider person. The spider people spin a web rafts and then one spider person and one soul journey across the underground river linked in a sort of spiritual bond so that each is totally dependent on the other until they reach safety on the other side.
----------------------
N'a Ah ba´te´el
Molay- clubber
--------------
Archery range blowpiper- Halal Ten ts´ak bufotoxin & curare coated darts
Recruited from jungle monkey & bird hunters. Poisonous & very accurate, aimed at , & usually hitting, exposed flesh (faces, limbs). Heavy hardwood pipe used as club in close quarters.
Upgrade- spearhead blowpipe.
Military unit- villagers convertable to blowpipers, at cost
============================================================ =======
Heroic Age
-----------------
AH PUCH (god of death}
King of Metnal, the ninth level of the Maya underworld, Xibalba, a place of eternal darkness and cold. He was depicted as a skeleton or corpse adorned with bells, sometimes the head of an owl; even today, some Mexicans and Central Americans believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death.
MU- fighting skeletons, Multun tsek´il
---------------------------------------
GP- Bat plague, infects enemy with rabies & histoplasmosis
MU-DESMODUS DRACULAE GIGANTIS: giant vampire bat
---------------------------------------------
4-part god of directions & ground water. Upheld the earth. Son of Itzamna & Ix Chel.
MU -rolling boulders {siege} Noxi tunich
--------------------------------------------
barracks- macana warrior, cricket-bat type weapon, studded with obsidian flakes, sharper than modern surgical steel, recorded to have beheaded a Spanish horse in battle.
Upgrade- spearhead macana.
archery range- boleadorae a weapon of entanglement. The third ball, or Maneja, is slightly lighter than the other two.
"Captured Cavalry"- dead enemy military horses first hit by bolas reincarnated as Mayan lancer cavalry, from temple, at cost. Includes cameleers No exceeding pop limit. Chariot archer= 2 horses.
atlatl -er torch thrower -Kib
In the hands of an expert the atlatl could hit a target from up to a hundred yards away. Bad enough in itself but this weapon had the ability to pierce the conquistadors steel armor and plow right on through and into their chests, effectively pinning them inside where they could die a slow and agonizing death. Points on the six-foot-long darts were barbed so that they had to be drawn out the other side in order to be removed.
In modern times, some have resurrected the spearthrower for sport, for distance and/or accuracy. Throws of almost 260 m (850 ft.) have been recorded.
Pa´
battering ram
-------------
Market caravan- pack llamas
==========================================================
MYTHIC AGE
------------------------------------------------------
HUNRAKEN
In Maya mythology, "Hunraken" ("one legged") was a wind, storm and fire god and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. He also caused the Great Flood after the first humans angered the gods. He supposedly lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeated "earth" until land came up from the seas. In appearance he has one leg the other being transformed into a serpent, a zoomorphic snout or long-nose and a smoking object such as a cigar, torch holder or axe head which pierces a mirror on his forehead.
GP- hurricane
MU cigar demon, Chamal Kisín
burns with fiery fingers & poisons by blowing 2nd hand smoke
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLTAN EK CHUAH, War & drum god
Literally, ‘black war leader’. This Maya deity, represented with a black-rimmed eye, was fierce and violent. He also concerned himself with those who had died in battle. A friendly aspect, however, was his patronage of merchants. Not only did Voltan Ek Chuah protect them from other city-states, but guided traders through the jungle, so that they reached their destinations safely. He sometimes appeared carrying a bundle of merchandise on his back like an itinerant salesman.
God Power: Invincibility (grants your warriors temporary invulnerability)
Myth Unit: Were-Jaguar, Balam Ah Winik, jumps 120% more than Anubite, kills like Avenger
--------------------------------------------------------
KUKULCAN
Warring aspect of Itzamna. A mortal who took on legendary characteristics as a god (or vice versa). When he left Tula in shame after a night of succumbing to temptations, he promised to return. He reappeared in the Yucatán. He is also symbolized as Venus, the moving star, and Ehécatl, the wind god. Kukulcán is credited with giving the Maya cacao (chocolate) and teaching them how to grow it, harvest it, roast it, and turn it into a drink with ceremonial and magical properties.
Technology: Kukulkan's Return (H'mans gather 50% more Favor)
Bonuses: Religious technologies are cheaper, Myth Units have more HP,
and K'inns are trained quicker.
GP= volcano- Kululal wits
Myth Unit- flying serpent, Xik´Kan , spits poison
================================================
Fort-
----------fire leg archer- halal elel
---------------------------------------
Dock
Acali
Fast canoe that fires arrows rapidly, although the impact is weak compared
to other arrow ships
Created At: Dock
Good Against: Hammer Ships
Counter With: Siege Ships
Macana Canoe
Swift hammer ship loaded with macana-brandishing warriors that will hack
at the bark of adjacent ships.
Created At: Dock
Good Against: Siege Ships
Counter With: Arrow Ships
Dock MU - Ghost drum ship, Chak pax Chem, sends out watery shockwaves.
water lily jaguar ,Ha´ Lol Balam
A scaled model (1"=1’) of a large Maya trading vessel based on current research illustrating the seaworthy features of a modern vessel. This particular vessel would have been about forty-five feet long with a beam
of six feet and probably propelled by ten to fourteen paddlers plus a helmsman at the steering oar.
---------------------------------
Ahcit Dzamalcum protective god of fishermen
Ahekkeh black hunter, devoted to hunting, a millenarian god
Ah Itzam water witch
Ah Puah god of fish
* Ixtab - Goddess of suicide (L).
* Zipacna - Underworld demon (PV).
------------------------------------
[This message has been edited by gadunnz (edited 09-27-2007 @ 06:53 PM).]
~ Khan
