Magister Modmod

The Gentle One. The Guardian of the Placid Sea. The Scarecrow of the Coward God. The Neutered-Guard-Dog of the Waves. Such were the appellations recorded in the oldest annals to refer to the beast whose name mortals had forgotten before the rise of Patria, if they ever knew it at all.

While gods and dragons warred across Creation, Danalin dwelt among his favored people, with this pet safe at his feet. He had been made as a sign to other gods that Danalin could defend his followers if they encroached upon his sacred waters. There were other beasts as well, but the Blue Dragon appeared most able to project the might of the sea onto land if need be.

Danalin and Sucellus were not dragged into the Godswar until near its end, so their beasts saw little action. The Great Blue Dragon fought only 4 days in the war before a truce was called, during which time he did nothing really worth recording. He never turned the tide of a single battle in that age, and rarely dared to lead any assault himself. His only claim to fame was that he was the first beast to retreat when the great truce was called, and was the first to leave Erebus after the signing of the Compact. In Kylorin’s early armies, “Blue Dragon” became a jocular synonym for coward or paper tiger. That would change.

Incomprehensible omens, visions, dreams of torment too horrid to describe, and prophecies that left the prophets catatonic were becoming almost commonplace in the era of the Patrian Civil War. Many signs pointed to a catastrophe looming over the Aifons, and some even named a date for their demise, but no one knew what it was that threatened them. Kylorin’s former student the Aifon Trenton Majosi travelled all the lands of Erebus seeking salvation for his people, but did could find it. The closest he came was uncovering a ritual that could summon his god into Erebus itself in order to personally protect them from whatever doom awaited them. He began the ritual, but then stopped as he realized he was unleashing a second Godswar upon a helpless Erebus, which might save his family but could doom all those he had met on his travels. Disheartened at his inability to personally help, he awakened his beasts to guard his children from their death.

No man nor god knows what happened on that day. No Aifon soul reaches Danalin’s vault, Arawn’s Netherworld, or any heaven or hell. They simply vanished, or were consumed by something too horrible for words. Of the creatures sent to guard them, only Leviathan and the Blue Dragon remained, and they were never the same. Driven mad by whatever they saw, these once wise and gentle beasts became the most vicious creatures in Creation. Leviathan was confined to the waves, but the dragon roams far and wide, leveling cities in his wake. Neither the Fire Rain nor the completion of Trenton’s ritual by the Illians to summon Mulcarn slowed him down. Some claim that not even the new God of Erebus dared to face him, after seeing him devour the seven Aquilans sent in an effort to recruit the beast.

His rampage could not last forever. In the twenty-third year since the deep freeze, the Beast met his match in Lucar and his horde. Legends tell of six thousand men of valor who saved the world from this abomination, only to find it a pyrrhic victory. Lucar’s spear struck true, but as the dragon breathed it last its heart burst open with not blood, but the greatest flood of water ever seen. The army arrayed against him was washed away in the deluge, which rushed down into the valley below, eroding away a whole maintain range, toppling the last of the Thraxian citadels, and drowning all who lived within. When the waters subsided all signs of civilization had been washed to floor bottom of the Aegean, a sea which is said to have doubled in size on that day.


With the resurrection of Acheron, Drifa, and Abashi, rumors spread that this beast too may live again. Some Cultists claim that the Lords of the Aegean demand he be given new life, that he might lay low all land and expand their domain of the Masters of the Depths.

Bedouin Improvements vs Cottage Improvements

Cottage- 1
Hamlet- 2
Village- 3, +1 at Taxation
Town- 4, +1 at Taxation

Bedouin Sit- 1 (Costs 15 )
Bedouin Camp- 1 1
Bedouin Gathering- 2 2
Bedouin Village- 3 2, +1 at Sanitation

Bedouin improvements now also require 1 tile of space between each other, which is set via xml in RifE. In compensation, their civ trait, Merchant (In RifE and FF, originally Malakim+) grants food from trade.