NUBIANS.
Some maps Archaic
KHNUM

usually depicted as a Ram-headed man at a potter's wheel, with recently created children standing on the wheel, although he also appeared in his earlier guise as a water-god, holding a jar from which flowed a stream of water. God of the source of the Nile River. Since the annual flooding of the Nile brought with it silt and clay, and its water brought life to its surrounds, he was thought to be the creator of human children, which he made at a potter's wheel, from clay, and placed in their mothers' wombs. He was later described as having molded the other gods, and he had the titles Divine Potter and Lord of created things from himself.
GP- Tottum (heal)- rain of healing frogs,. The skin of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) produces peptides called magainins that assist in the natural healing of cuts and bruises.

Wonder- ram headed sphinx avenue at Karnak
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ANHUR

god of defensive war, Slayer of Enemies. Anhur was depicted as a bearded man wearing a robe and a headdress with four feathers, holding a spear or lance,
Wonder- Meroe pyramid
GP- Swamp Line -barrier impassable only to enemy ground units. If used in Archaic- 2 wall sections long, multiplied by 2 so if used in Mythic, 16 sections long.

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APEDEMAK & MENHIT

Nubian lion & lioness gods of offensive war
A lion-headed man, sometimes shown standing on elephants or holding lions and elephants on leashes.
She was believed to ride ahead of the armies and cut down their enemies with fiery arrows, Her name depicts this warrior status, as it means (she who) massacres.
Wonder-Major Temple, surrounded by Nile moat

GP- Toxoplasmosis, weakens enemy in targeted area.
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Temple

Samenon (Priest), illuminates trees & animals into beacons for same price as obelisks.

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Nubiin terms (the extinct and ancient language of Nubia/Makuria):
melechi:king
samenon (priest, literally "holy man")
darchi (palace)
gherchi (road)
cursollottosam (farm)
suchi (market)
abechi (port, literally "riverbank")
ascharchi (army)
demma (castle)
vachilghi (governor)
scerifom (noble)
borgeghi ghenoghossom (lit. "house of weapons", barracks)
irre ("counting house")
vuerdo teleuobon ("smith house", blacksmith)

Commands
tuuedden =to hunt
colghi madanaghi- to dig a vein of gold
ghognossum- to build
bannaghognossum- to build a wall
ghiridesom- to attack
anchsossum- to heal others
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Favour gaining- granite statue of each god, each age.
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CLASSICAL
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BES

Patron of: the home, childbirth, infants, humor, song and dance.
Appearance: A fat bearded dwarf, ugly to the point of being comical. He is often shown sticking out his tongue and holding a rattle. When carved or painted on a wall, he is never shown in profile, but always full-face, almost unique in Egyptian art. There are also depictions of Bes with feline or leonine features.
Description: Bes is a very unusual god. He does not appear to be Egyptian at all, but where he does come from his largely unknown. He resembles gods found in central and southern Africa, and his function is very much like that of the Fool Shaman. Bes was primarily the protector of childbirth. During the birth, Bes would dance about the room, shaking his rattle and yelling to frighten away demons that would otherwise put a curse on the child. After the child was born, Bes would stay by the cradle entertaining the child. When a baby laughed or smiled for no apparent reason, it was believed that Bes was somewhere in the room making funny faces.
Bes' role as demon-queller also extended to driving off mischievous beings that were believed to cause minor misfortune, like tripping people and souring food. Bes was so ugly that even a statue of him would frighten away wicked creatures. Thus, many houses would keep a statue of Bes near the door to guard it.
Worship: Though there are no temples to Bes, and no formal ritual, shrines to him were found in many homes, especially those with children or pregnant women.
MU-- Zebra centaur lancer
GP- Besite swarm- tendon cutting ,burrow hiding gnomes
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MAFDET
Cheetah goddess

protector against snakes, scorpions and other dangerous animals.
Appearance: a woman with the head of a cheetah, her hair braided and ending in scorpion tails. Sometimes she wears a headdress of snakes.
Description: The ancient Egyptians revered felines as sacred for many centuries apparently, as Mafdet-Menhit is a very old goddess, dating to around the First Dynasty. She was prayed to for protection against scorpion stings and snakebite, and invoked in healing rituals for those who had been afflicted by such.
Mafdet, "the runner", was a cheetah goddess whose ferocity prevails over snakes and scorpions. the scratch of her claws is lethal to snakes, so symbolically the harpoon of the king becomes Mafdet's claws for decapitating his enemies in the Underworld. When Mafdet-Menhit is described as leaping at the necks of snakes, the imagery seems to suggest her form takes on that of a mongoose. In one epithet, Mafdet wears braided locks, probably a reference to her displaying the jointed bodies of the scorpions which she has killed.
Worship: As her cult was incredibly ancient but supplanted by that of Bast, it is unknown how widespread Mafdet's cult was.
MU- were-cheetah
GP- Cheetah speed; villagers speed & productivity quadruples
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MUT

gained aspects of a creator goddess, since she was the mother from which the cosmos emerged. Vulture winged goddess of adoption.
GP- Vulture dread- unkillable flocks of vultures appear ,reducing enemies will to fight
MU- Set Animal Vuogheddechi ("poisonous animal", demonic mixture of hyena & aardvark) .By the late Pre-Dynastic Era, the nomadic warriors of the desert marshes held the agricultural population of the delta in thrall. Their totem animal was the so-called Set animal, a creature with red hair, long square-cropped ears and an arrow-like tail. When the Two Lands were unified, both symbols of Kingship, Horus and Set, became part of the attributes of the King. Set then became the strength or power of the King, as Horus became the vision or sight of the King.
Set-animal is even found on a mace-head of the Scorpion King, a Protodynastic ruler.
Was ("power") scepters represent the Set-animal. Was scepters were carried by gods, pharaohs, and priests, as a symbol of power, and in later use, control over the force of chaos (Set). The head and forked tail of the Set-animal are clearly present.
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Borgeghi ghenoghossom (barracks)-Guin sciaghi-(spearman),

and spear
Unique upgrade; wrestling training

siaghgiom (archer)

Ibex horn upgrade

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Emergency military unit- villagers converted to slingers , at cost.
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Demma
fort-

Haggianghi sciaghi camel lancer


vuerdo teleuobon

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HEROIC

DEDUN
was a Nubian god worshipped since at least 2400BC. There is much uncertainty about his original nature, the earliest known information indicates that he had become a god of incense. Since incense was, at this point in history, an extremely expensive luxury commodity, and Nubia was the source of much of it, he was quite an important god. The wealth that the trade in incense delivered to Nubia lead to him being the god of prosperity, and wealth in particular.
god of incense, and so associated with funerary rites, Dedun was protector of deceased (Nubian) rulers.
MU- smoke genie, chokes enemies
GP -choke, massive smoke cloud
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MA'AT

Patron of: truth, law and universal order.
Appearance: A woman wearing a crown surmounted by a huge ostrich feather. Her totem symbol is a stone platform or foundation, representing the stable base on which order is built.
Description: Maat was the personification of the fundamental order of the universe, without which all of creation would perish. The primary duty of the pharaoh was to uphold this order by maintaining the law and administering justice. To reflect this, many pharaohs took the title "Beloved of Maat," emphasizing their focus on justice and truth.
At any event in which something would be judged, Maat was said to be present, and her name would be invoked so that the judge involved would rule correctly and impartially. In the underworld, the heart of the deceased was weighed by Anubis against Maat's feather. If the heart was heavy with wicked deeds, it would outweigh the feather, and the soul would be fed to Ammit. But if the scales were balanced, indicating that the deceased was a just and honorable person in life, he would be welcomed by Osiris into the Blessed Land. Maat's presence in all worlds was universal, and all the gods deferred to her.
Worship: Worshipped and revered widely throughout all of Egypt. Even the gods are shown praising Maat.
MU- Werelion
GP- Trypanosomiasis (African horse sickness) - enemy's horses die in targeted area.
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SATIS

was the deification of the floods of the Nile River. One of her titles was She Who Runs Like an Arrow, which is thought to refer to the river current, and her symbols became the arrow and the running river. Satis was pictured as a woman wearing the conical crown of Upper Egypt with antelope horns, as a gazelle, or with a gazelle's head, sometimes having a headdress of feathers (thought by most Egyptologists to be a detail deriving from Nubia).
Other interpretations say her primary role was that of a guardian of Egypt's southern (Nubian) frontier and killing the enemies of the Pharaoh with her arrows.
She is also usually depicted as holding an ankh, due to her association with the life giving flooding of the nile. Consequently, it is true that Satis acted as a fertility goddess, thus granting the wishes of those who sought love. Satis is also described as offering jars of purifying water.
MU- Axex -Egyptian gryphon
GP- Divine Flood- thunderstorm drowns enemy units.
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borgeghi ghenoghossom
Nakhtu-aa axeman

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Demma
egheren-kopesh sickle sword cavalry


Temple, all
kriosphinx(siege ram sphinx)

Market

caravan camels

Emergency military unit, camel archer converted from pack camel & depleting a villager.
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MYTHIC
HEKA

was the deification of magic. Heka was said to have battled and conquered two serpents, and was usually depicted as a man choking two entwined serpents. Medicine and doctoring were thought to be a form of magic, and so Heka's priesthood performed these activities.The one who activates Ka He helped Re on his daily journey across the sky by keeping monsters away who wanted to hinder him from getting forward.
Commoners turned their prayers to him to fix their problems when other gods had failed. His regalia was two snakes and these animals are mentioned in the Bible as used by Egyptian wizards at the court of the pharaoh. Even today the symbol of medicine is a snake. He was son of the war goddess Menhit and Khnum and those three formed the triad of Latopolis (Esna) in Upper Egypt. He also had a temple in Heliopolis (north of today's Cairo) where he was said to be son of the local creator god Atum.
MU- sand demon
GP- Sandstorm-chokes units, buries & collapses buildings
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BABI

fierce, bloodthirsty baboon god who was ancient even in the realm of Egyptian gods. Babi can use his immense power to ward off dangers like snakes and control turbulent waters. Understandably in the Book of the Dead the deceased makes the magical progression to become Babi who in turn transforms into the "eldest son of Osiris".
MU - serpopard, leopard with serpent neck
GP- Simian Strength all units strength quadruples
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TAWERET

The Great Female - was the ancient goddess of maternity and childbirth, protector of women and children. Like Bes, she was both a fierce demonic fighter as well as a popular deity who guarded the mother and her newborn child.
She was depicted as a combination of a crocodile, a pregnant hippopotamus standing on her hind legs with large breasts and a lioness. Unlike the composite demoness Ammut, her head and body were that of the hippo, her paws were that of the lioness, and her back was the back of a crocodile. All of these animals were man killers, and as such she was a demoness.
All three animals were regarded as fierce creatures who would kill to protect their young.
MU -AMMUT: Destroyer of the souls of evil people. Appearance: Head of a crocodile, mane and front legs of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippo.
GP- Stampede- siege units quadruple
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Demma
African savannah war-elephant, carrying driver, archer & lancer

catapult
Titan , Werelion

[This message has been edited by Fejj (edited 06-01-2010 @ 09:22 AM).]

I don't think the Nubians would work as a full civ for AOM. They were really just black Africans who modeled their society and Religion after the Egyptians. An AOEIII-style sub civ, maybe.

To similar to the Egyptian civ maybe, but thumbs up for the research.

But for a century they ruled Egypt & restored its glory. Its that period I'm concentrating on. At least they actually existed, unlike the Atlanteans. Many Egyptian gods such as Isis were originally Nubian.

[This message has been edited by Fejj (edited 08-07-2008 @ 08:58 PM).]

You're a great researcher.. would you like to join Epic Studios and research star wars civilisations such as Vong?

[This message has been edited by Dope (edited 08-14-2008 @ 07:34 AM).]

Real civs only. If you really are Greek please proofread my Trojans civ for mistakes in soldiers names etc.

[This message has been edited by Fejj (edited 08-14-2008 @ 08:18 AM).]

I do think that Nubians would be a good civ, maybe not apart from the egyptians, but has a major god, like if you choose Seth then you get nubians, I even start a mod about this a while ago, mostly based on the mercenaries:

When theres at least 12 leftover gods, make a spin-off civ.
It keeps me from wandering the streets in an unemployable haze. Now, if I could just think up some god powers for Mayans & Slavs... Any ideas would be gratefully considered.
http://www.irook.com/images/products/product_36245.jpg
Seremnogiaamaachi- (barracks)
-sciaghi-(spearman),
and
spear
Unique upgrade; wrestling training
siaghgiom (archer range)
--nalossiom-(slinger)

[This message has been edited by Fejj (edited 08-19-2009 @ 10:11 AM).]

Mayans are never going to happen. Its a whole new style over there. They would be the most primitive civilization if they had them. AOM should stick to the Eurasian/African area, for all fairness.

However I DO believe the Nubians are a good idea, and have thought of it myself time to time. If ESO could pull off atty being similar to the greeks, they could definately pull of the war experienced Nubians.

sexy cat goddess? mmmeeeeoooow.

i honestly dont think that nubians/trojans/whatever other civ-that-is-from-the-same-area-as-another-civ would be a good idea. instead, they would go better as a part of a pre-existing civ: nubians for egyptian, trojans for greek, celts for norse, maybe, etc.

They're not from the same area as other civs, thus my inclusion of explaining maps. Neighbouring enemies/rivals, or even spin-offs, maybe.
As I've said, the Greeks fought the Celts, they never even met the Norse.
Troy was an alliance of states (Anatolia, Phrygia, Dardania etc) located between Greece & the Hittite empire.
Sorry about my delay in replying.

[This message has been edited by Fejj (edited 10-28-2008 @ 02:16 AM).]