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Arcoscephale, Golden Era
A loose league of bronze-age city-states whose armies combine myrmidons, chariots, engineers, flying Icarids, and sacred Pegasus Riders with gifted philosophers and mystics.
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Mekone, Brazen Giants
Exalted Gigantes rule an uneasy population of human helots, fielding a small core of mighty warriors and Cyclope smiths beside large numbers of slave soldiers.
Official manual, page 245Early Age
Pangaea, Age of Revelry
A woodland realm of satyrs, centaurs, minotaurs, and Maenads led from sacred groves by powerful nature mages known as Panii.
Official manual, page 246Early Age
Ermor, New Faith
A rising human empire of disciplined legionnaires and lizard auxiliaries where the New Faith is replacing older cults and strengthening an already powerful priesthood.
Official manual, page 248Early Age
Sauromatia, Amazon Queens
Nomadic warrior tribes led by Amazon queens fight with cavalry, serpent and lizard riders, and hydras, supported by death, nature, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 250Early Age
Fomoria, The Cursed Ones
Cursed Fomorian giants rule alongside Fir Bolg and Nemedian descendants, bringing strong storm and death magic to armies that can cross the sea.
Official manual, page 252Early Age
Tir na n'Og, Land of the Ever Young
The mist-shrouded home of the Tuatha and Sidhe, where Fir Bolg infantry supports elusive sacred warriors and masters of glamour, nature, and water magic.
Official manual, page 254Early Age
Marverni, Time of Druids
A union of tribal chiefdoms guided by Druids, with tattooed warriors, noble cavalry, sacred boars, and broad earth, astral, nature, and water magic.
Official manual, page 256Early Age
Ulm, Enigma of Steel
Cold-hardened forest barbarians follow warrior-smiths in search of the Enigma of Steel, favouring strong stealthy infantry and exceptionally efficient forging.
Official manual, page 258Early Age
Pyrène, Kingdom of the Bekrydes
Cave-dwelling Bekrydes share their mountain kingdom with ancient giants, cyclopes, and storm-witches, combining human troops with boulder-throwing giants and earth-air magic.
Official manual, page 259Early Age
Agartha, Pale Ones
One-eyed Pale Ones inhabit the deep earth and underwater caverns, serving ancient Oracles and fielding amphibious troops and enormous sacred Ancient Ones.
Official manual, page 261Early Age
Abysia, Children of Flame
Magma-born humanoids march in very heavy armour with salamanders, radiating heat and practising powerful fire and blood magic in a scorched volcanic realm.
Official manual, page 263Early Age
Hinnom, Sons of the Fallen
Descendants of fallen angels rule a hierarchy of Rephaite, Avvite, Horite, and Enkidu giants, backed by chariots and unusually broad elemental, astral, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 265Early Age
Ubar, Kingdom of the Unseen
Jinnun and human servants inhabit the hidden desert city of Iram, fielding camel riders, Ghuls, invisible Jinn, and sacred Ifrit warriors under a concealing dominion.
Official manual, page 267Early Age
Ur, The First City
Civilised and nomadic Enkidu tribes meet around the First City, with terrain-dependent recruits, strong shamans, and sacred Mushussu dragon-kin.
Official manual, page 269Early Age
Kailasa, Rise of the Ape Kings
Rare semi-divine Yakshas guide newly civilised apes from sacred Mount Kailasa, relying on numerous light troops and strong astral, nature, and glamour magic.
Official manual, page 271Early Age
Lanka, Land of Demons
Rakshasa demon-ogres have enslaved the apes of Kailasa, combining powerful sacred demons, light monkey troops, reanimated servants, and blood-death magic.
Official manual, page 272Early Age
T'ien Ch'i, Spring and Autumn
Before the Celestial Empire, rival nobles wage war across a realm steeped in the magic of the Way, supported by reclusive masters and summoned celestial beings.
Official manual, page 274Early Age
Yomi, Oni Kings
Oni kings emerge from a volcanic entrance to the Netherworld and command demons, Bakemono, and human servants in a harsh land shaped by chaos.
Official manual, page 276Early Age
Caelum, Eagle Kings
Three clans of winged humanoids serve the last Eagle Kings, using skilled archers, cold-forged ice equipment, mammoths, and powerful air magic.
Official manual, page 277Early Age
Mictlan, Reign of Blood
An isolated tribal empire sustains its dominion through blood sacrifice, sending slave levies and sacred Jaguar and Eagle Warriors into battle under mage-priests.
Official manual, page 279Early Age
Xibalba, Vigil of the Sun
Swarms of stealthy bat people guard the old paths of the sun beneath Mictlan, relying on flight, numbers, blood hunting, and dark magic.
Official manual, page 280Early Age
C'tis, Lizard Kings
A sacral kingdom of cold-blooded lizardfolk rules a warm river valley with chariots, slave warriors, sacred serpents, and accomplished death and nature mages.
Official manual, page 282Early Age
Machaka, Lion Kings
Totemic clans serve semi-divine Colossi of the Lion Clan, fielding human infantry, poison archers, spider riders, war lions, and elephants.
Official manual, page 284Early Age
Berytos, The Phoenix Empire
A reborn seafaring empire descended from Telkhine-taught colonists is ruled by Colossi sorcerer-queens and prospers through coastal trade, sailing, and wide magical access.
Official manual, page 286Early Age
Vanheim, Age of Vanir
Glamour-shrouded Vanir sail from misty northern halls with enchanted cavalry, blood priests, and dwarven smiths skilled in air and earth magic.
Official manual, page 288Early Age
Helheim, Dusk and Death
Ancient Vanir who guide the dead rule a shadowed land, where flying Valkyries and elusive cavalry serve masters of death, glamour, and air.
Official manual, page 289Early Age
Rus, Sons of Heaven
Humans and mighty Chudes share a cold northern realm, mustering hunters, berserkers, and sacred bear skinshifters beneath mages of air, nature, and fire.
Official manual, page 291Early Age
Niefelheim, Sons of Winter
Frost giants descended from primordial Rimtursar lead Jotun infantry and skinshifters from a land of eternal winter, backed by water, blood, and death magic.
Official manual, page 293Early Age
Muspelheim, Sons of Fire
Fire giants dwell in an ashen valley among cold-loving Jotuns, joining immense infantry with strong fire, air, death, glamour, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 294Early Age
Pelagia, Pearl Kings
Ancient Pearl Kings unite aquatic Triton clans with amphibious mermen, building the first deep kingdom around water, astral, and nature magic.
Official manual, page 296Early Age
Oceania, Coming of the Capricorns
Shapechanging half-men and guardians of the kelp forests cross freely between sea and shore, spreading coastal turmoil through nature, water, and glamour magic.
Official manual, page 298Early Age
Therodos, Telkhine Spectre
Ghosts of a drowned kingdom serve Daktyloi smiths and surviving islanders, while its dominion empties living lands and calls more spectral soldiers.
Official manual, page 299Early Age
Atlantis, Emergence of the Deep Ones
Long-lived amphibious Deep Ones rise from the ocean trenches under Basalt Kings, fighting with heavy basalt weapons and strong earth, water, and fire magic.
Official manual, page 300Early Age
R'lyeh, Time of Aboleths
Ancient Aboleth Mind Lords rule the deepest seas by enslaving mermen and Deep Ones, pairing mental domination with powerful astral and water magic.
Official manual, page 301Middle Age
Arcoscephale, The Old Kingdom
An ageing human kingdom preserves archaic armies of hoplites, cavalry, and elephants while returning Astrologers and Mystics rebuild its once-famous magical strength.
Official manual, page 303Middle Age
Phlegra, Deformed Giants
Descendants of Mekone's Gigantes dominate a much larger slave population, relying on deformed giants, human taskmasters, and formidable fire-earth magic.
Official manual, page 305Middle Age
Pangaea, Age of Bronze
Satyrs, centaurs, and minotaurs remain bound to the forests, but bronze weapons and armour now reinforce their sacred warriors and nature mages.
Official manual, page 306Middle Age
Asphodel, Carrion Woods
A corrupted branch of Pangaea turns the forest toward death, raising carrion creatures and undead half-men as its dominion consumes the living population.
Official manual, page 308Middle Age
Ermor, Ashen Empire
The old empire has collapsed into an undead catastrophe whose death mages, spectral legions, and lethal dominion replace ordinary recruitment and economy.
Official manual, page 310Middle Age
Sceleria, The Reformed Empire
A human successor to Ermor combines disciplined legionnaires with Thaumaturgs and priests who reanimate large numbers of undead servants.
Official manual, page 311Middle Age
Pythium, Emerald Empire
A surviving imperial state fields legionnaires and sacred troops beneath Theurgs whose astral communions preserve the magical traditions that escaped Ermor's fall.
Official manual, page 313Middle Age
Man, Tower of Avalon
A feudal human kingdom built over conquered Tuatha lands, known for longbowmen, knights, Wardens, and the air and nature magic of Avalon.
Official manual, page 315Middle Age
Eriu, Last of the Tuatha
The remaining Tuatha and Sidhe live among Fir Bolg and humans after losing their blessed isle, fighting through stealth, glamour, and mobile sacred warriors.
Official manual, page 317Middle Age
Agartha, Golem Cult
Humans now dominate the cavern realm while the dwindling Pale Ones and their Oracles support a cult of statues, constructs, and powerful earth magic.
Official manual, page 319Middle Age
Ulm, Forges of Ulm
An iron-clad human kingdom turns the Enigma of Steel into massed heavy infantry, crossbows, master smiths, and exceptionally productive fortresses.
Official manual, page 321Middle Age
Marignon, Fiery Justice
A militant feudal theocracy sends inquisitors, crossbowmen, knights, and flagellants against heresy under strong fire and astral mages.
Official manual, page 323Middle Age
Pyrène, Time of the Akelarre
Pyrène has become a mountain feudal kingdom where human nobles coexist uneasily with Sorginak witches, Jentilak giants, and the secret gatherings of the Akelarre.
Official manual, page 325Middle Age
Abysia, Blood and Fire
The magma-born people retain their heavy infantry and fire immunity while Warlocks and blood priests give the volcanic kingdom an increasingly sinister magical arm.
Official manual, page 327Middle Age
Ashdod, Reign of the Anakim
Degenerated descendants of the Nephilim still tower over other peoples, ruling human subjects with mighty Anakite warriors and broad fire, earth, astral, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 329Middle Age
Na'Ba, Queens of the Desert
Jiniri queens descended from Ubar rule a desert realm of human soldiers and Jinn, drawing on strong air, fire, and glamour magic.
Official manual, page 331Middle Age
Uruk, City States
The Enkidu realm has grown into rival city-states whose urban armies, rural levies, priestesses, and shamans retain strong ties to plains, swamps, and ancient spirits.
Official manual, page 333Middle Age
Ind, Magnificent Kingdom of Exalted Virtue
A fabulously wealthy sacred kingdom led by the Prester King commands many unusual subject peoples, diverse armies, and an exceptionally influential priesthood.
Official manual, page 335Middle Age
Bandar Log, Land of the Apes
Civilised apes now rule themselves, combining numerous monkey troops, Bandar warriors, sacred White Ones, elephants, and accomplished astral and nature mages.
Official manual, page 336Middle Age
T'ien Ch'i, Imperial Bureaucracy
An ancient Celestial Empire supports balanced infantry, cavalry, and archers through an efficient bureaucracy and mages drawn from every elemental path.
Official manual, page 338Middle Age
Shinuyama, Land of the Bakemono
Bakemono who overthrew their Oni masters have founded a mountain kingdom of goblin armies, skilled smiths, assassins, and powerful sorcerers.
Official manual, page 340Middle Age
Caelum, Reign of the Seraphim
Winged clans are united beneath the Seraphim, fielding fast archers, ice-armoured troops, and mammoths under masters of air and water magic.
Official manual, page 342Middle Age
Nazca, Kingdom of the Sun
A winged mountain necrocracy venerates its dead Sun Kings, using living and mummified servants alongside strong air, death, and solar magic.
Official manual, page 344Middle Age
Mictlan, Reign of the Lawgiver
The old tribal empire has been reshaped by the Lawgiver, retaining light armies and sacred Jaguar and Eagle Warriors while turning away from its former blood cult.
Official manual, page 346Middle Age
Xibalba, Flooded Caves
Bat people and amphibious Muuch share a realm of flooded caverns, combining flying and aquatic troops with water, death, earth, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 348Middle Age
C'tis, Miasma
The lizard kingdom's warm swamps are protected by a supernatural miasma, while Sauromancers lead poison-resistant troops through death and nature magic.
Official manual, page 350Middle Age
Machaka, Reign of Sorcerors
A sacral human kingdom ruled by a replaceable priest-king relies on hoplites, archers, spider riders, and feared sorcerers of fire, earth, death, and nature.
Official manual, page 352Middle Age
Phaeacia, Isle of the Dark Ships
Colossi queens rule a wealthy island whose magical Dark Ships cross the oceans, carrying heavy troops and mages with unusually broad elemental access.
Official manual, page 354Middle Age
Vanheim, Arrival of Man
Humans now form most of Vanheim's population, but the dwindling Vanir still rule through glamour, sailing, enchanted cavalry, and powerful air magic.
Official manual, page 356Middle Age
Vanarus, Land of the Chuds
Vanir influence has reshaped the cold lands of humans and Chudes into a mixed realm of infantry, mounted archers, sacred warriors, and northern sorcery.
Official manual, page 357Middle Age
Jotunheim, Iron Woods
Jotun giants descended from primordial frost beings rule cold forests with giant infantry, goblin servants, skinshifters, and water, death, nature, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 359Middle Age
Nidavangr, Bear, Wolf and Crow
Fierce human settlers occupy frozen mountains and moors, fighting as berserkers and skinshifters under smiths, seers, and the old powers of bear, wolf, and crow.
Official manual, page 361Middle Age
Ys, Morgen Queens
Morgen queens rule the splendid coastal city of Ys, joining Tuatha heritage, amphibious nobles, sacred knights, and strong water and glamour magic.
Official manual, page 363Middle Age
Pelagia, Triton Kings
Triton kings and amphibious mermen defend a mature underwater realm with varied marine infantry and dependable water, astral, and nature magic.
Official manual, page 365Middle Age
Oceania, Mermidons
Underwater half-men have lost much of their old domain, but Mermidon warriors and adaptable nature-water mages still defend the remaining kelp forests.
Official manual, page 367Middle Age
Atlantis, Kings of the Deep
After the fall of the Basalt City, amphibious Atlantians rebuild under new kings with heavy infantry and strong water, earth, and death magic.
Official manual, page 369Middle Age
R'lyeh, Fallen Star
Alien Starspawn from a shattered world rule beneath the sea, enslaving Atlantians and mermen through mind power and overwhelming astral magic.
Official manual, page 371Late Age
Arcoscephale, Sibylline Guidance
A diminished but enduring human kingdom follows the prophecies of Sibyls, fielding archaic infantry, elephants, cavalry, and mages with wide magical access.
Official manual, page 373Late Age
Phlegra, Sleeping Giants
Human slaves rule themselves while monstrous giants remain imprisoned below, but younger Cyclopes already serve as soldiers and smiths as the old terror begins to return.
Official manual, page 375Late Age
Pangaea, New Era
The woodland realm has adapted to a changing world, combining minotaurs, centaurs, satyrs, sacred dryads, and heavy centaur cavalry under nature mages.
Official manual, page 377Late Age
Pythium, Serpent Cult
The faded Emerald Empire has embraced a serpent cult, pairing heavy legionnaires, serpent cavalry, gladiators, and sacred hydras with varied but mostly modest magic.
Official manual, page 378Late Age
Lemuria, Soul Gates
The dead of old Ermor pour through opened Soul Gates, forming an immortal priesthood and spectral legions sustained by a population-killing dominion.
Official manual, page 380Late Age
Man, Towers of Chelms
A mature feudal kingdom defends its towers with longbowmen, crossbow infantry, knights, and Wardens while learned mages preserve air, earth, and astral traditions.
Official manual, page 381Late Age
Ulm, Black Forest
After civil war and a great malediction, Ulm is ruled from the Black Forest by secret orders, blood mages, and vampires supported by infantry, knights, and ghoul guardians.
Official manual, page 383Late Age
Agartha, Ktonian Dead
The Pale Ones are gone, leaving human cave-dwellers to command their dead Oracles, animated statues, heavy infantry, and powerful earth-death magic.
Official manual, page 385Late Age
Marignon, Conquerors of the Sea
The old theocracy has become a seaborne imperial power whose sailors, crossbows, flagellants, inquisitors, and blood priests carry fiery faith across the oceans.
Official manual, page 387Late Age
Abysia, Blood of Humans
Humanbred descendants now dominate a fading Abysia, retaining fire resistance, disciplined infantry, axe throwers, and the old kingdom's fire and blood magic.
Official manual, page 389Late Age
Ragha, Dual Kingdom
Abysian-descended Turans and winged Airyan refugees share a seasonal monarchy, blending fire and ice, gryphon cavalry, flying troops, and both nations' magical traditions.
Official manual, page 391Late Age
Caelum, Return of the Raptors
The Raptor Clan has returned to prominence among Caelum's winged peoples, bringing earth and death magic to fast archers, ice troops, and mammoths.
Official manual, page 393Late Age
Gath, Last of the Giants
The last Gittite giants rule alongside several human tribes, fielding mighty sacred warriors and mages of fire, earth, astral, blood, nature, and death.
Official manual, page 395Late Age
Patala, Reign of the Nagas
Naga kings now rule the ape lands, joining sacred amphibious serpent warriors with monkey infantry, missile troops, and strong water, earth, nature, and astral magic.
Official manual, page 397Late Age
T'ien Ch'i, Barbarian Kings
Khans have seized a crumbling Celestial Empire, adding cavalry and mounted warfare to its heavy infantry, archers, celestial summons, and broad magical tradition.
Official manual, page 399Late Age
Jomon, Human Daimyos
Human rebels who overthrew Bakemono rule through rival Daimyos, fielding samurai infantry, archers, cavalry, ninja assassins, and many national summons.
Official manual, page 401Late Age
Mictlan, Blood and Rain
Atlantians have joined Mictlan's rain cult, adding sacred amphibious warriors and water magic to its light troops, blood sacrifices, and Jaguar and Eagle Warriors.
Official manual, page 403Late Age
Xibalba, Return of the Zotz
The bat people have reclaimed their caverns, mustering swarms of stealthy fliers and a few amphibious Muuch under water, death, earth, and blood mages.
Official manual, page 405Late Age
C'tis, Desert Tombs
The old swamps have become desert and the lizard kingdom now marches with reanimated dead, undead priests, and powerful death and fire magic.
Official manual, page 407Late Age
Midgård, Age of Men
Humans have inherited Vanheim while a few Vanir remain, combining heavy infantry, sailors, skinshifters, berserkers, and masters of air, astral, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 409Late Age
Bogarus, Age of Heroes
A cold human principality descended from Vanarus fields cavalry, mounted archers, and infantry while its learned mages command an unusually wide range of magic.
Official manual, page 410Late Age
Utgård, Well of Urd
Humans now share the old giant realm with remaining Jotuns, combining giant and human infantry with water, astral, death, glamour, and blood magic.
Official manual, page 412Late Age
Vaettiheim, Wolf Kin Jarldom
Small, stealthy Vaettir have founded their own cold jarldom, riding wolves and serving alongside a few giants under death, glamour, nature, and blood mages.
Official manual, page 414Late Age
Feminie, Sage-Queens
A hidden Amazon queendom freed from Ind fields sacred human infantry and knights beneath sage-queens whose dominion conceals the realm's borders.
Official manual, page 416Late Age
Piconye, Legacy of the Prester King
Small horned people once subject to Ind now defend their own kingdom with Bird Knights, sacred crossbowmen, strong priests, and astral-earth magic.
Official manual, page 418Late Age
Andramania, Dog Republic
Civilised Cynocephalian dog-men have built a disciplined republic whose conscript infantry and crossbowmen fight under mages of fire, astral, nature, and earth.
Official manual, page 420Late Age
Pyrène, Cambion Kings
Cambion dynasties rule a feudal mountain kingdom of cave-descended humans, crossbowmen, knights, and sacred demon cavalry supported by blood and glamour magic.
Official manual, page 422Late Age
Erytheia, Kingdom of Two Worlds
A marriage between Pelagian and Arcoscephalian colonies created a realm spanning land and sea, with amphibious mermen, Tritons, humans, and broad elemental magic.
Official manual, page 424Late Age
Atlantis, Frozen Sea
Exiled Atlantians have settled an icy coast, becoming ocean-sailing amphibians armed with magical ice polearms and supported by water and death magic.
Official manual, page 426Late Age
R'lyeh, Dreamlands
Alien Starspawn and Illithids rule an underwater slave empire of Atlantians, hybrids, and summoned Void beings, spreading insanity through astral and dream magic.
Official manual, page 428