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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Mo Money, Mo Problems - Let's Play Dominions 4!
 
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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Shady Amish Terror posted:

While the population starts the highest in LA, it's generally the premier point thematically for apocalyptic events, such as massive blood sacrifice rituals or insanity-spreading dominion or (in Dom3) blighted undead dominion turning the world to dust.

Also it should be stated that the chronology of the Dominions world is a little muddled. EA is clearly followed by MA which is clearly followed by LA, but the Ascension Wars JUST KEEP HAPPENING. Half or more of the big-ticket summons are explicitly servants of the/a previous Pantokrator, and there's ways of calling on previously banished and defeated Pretender Gods among other powerful, sealed-away beings. In fact, there's no practical limit to how many you can get. The overall implication is that the world is in some hellish cycle of death and rebirth that keeps churning out new Gods who then disappear creating a power vacuum that everyone else rushes to fill over and over again. It's like some incredibly convoluted way of implying that every game of Dominions is canon, even the ones won by turkeys. Especially the ones won by turkeys.

I think the idea is that, as someone said, if there's no ascension war then the ages progress, but they never get past late age because an ascension war always happens. And after it does, presumably the setting reverts to pre-Early Age, where the Pantokrator's magic beasts roam everywhere and under their watchful eye populations rebuild from the apocalyptic events of the last war, until some indeterminate amount of time later the Pantokrator disappears again and slowly humanity takes over again as the magic from the old Pantokrator's reign slowly fades away, until another ascension war breaks out perpetuating the cycle.

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

PurpleXVI posted:

You'd also need the entirety of the Drakengard 1 cast as national heroes that can pop in randomly. Zero and her sisters might also do as custom Pretenders.

If you include Nier as well then you can have mages that are flying grimoires, and national troops that are shades. Their backstory is hosed up enough to be random Dominions troops that die by the hundreds.

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
 How did you gain one frog?

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
 Gath barely even exists anymore. It's a bunch of terrified people huddled in perpetual night, afraid to go outside because they'll either get abducted to be sacrificed to summon demons or eaten by wolves. Or both, if they resist when the Gath Police K-9 Unit comes to take their daughters. They can't grow crops because there is no sun, so they're slowly starving to death trying to ration the tiny amounts of food they still have left, again because foraging or hunting risks getting eaten by roving packs of wolves.

Somewhat ironically, the Gath citizens who are best off are the dozens who get seduced and turned into vampires every month, because at least they still have some kind of food supply.

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