Favorite Civ from a Lore Perspective

[ÆNEAS]

What is everyone's favorite civ from a lore perspective? I know the Balseraphs are popular (the thread about them inspired this). It is a tough choice - Kael and everyone else on the storyline team have done an amazing job creating a living, real world.

Personally, I find the tale of the Bannor the most compelling. Forced to survive Hell and battle their way to freedom, fighting a crusade to keep Hell from following them into Erebus. I really like Kylorin's speach to the Amurite army at the battle of Adenshire about this:

Spoiler :

"I had a dream of a city plunged into the abyss, a place of eternal night and fire. Those people, surrounded by demons, are fighting to return to creation. They have hope in a barren world and memories of the joys of this world."

"Yet here we stand in their paradise and see nothing but loss around us. You have not seen victory beyond a single successful hunt, and often too many days between those. The empire of men has been broken, but we will reforge it here. We will fight through this world and claim it again for men, and if those in hell do return there will be a world here worth their efforts."
-Kylorin

Donal Lugh is also my favorite hero. I find him to be the most badass, as well as heroic, hero, and his backstory is awesome.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I love the Amurites... so much potential and power...

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Probably the Elohim. Possibly the Grigori.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Undoutbley the Illians

 

[DharmaMcLaren]

Ljosalfar. The idea of untamed natural beauty everywhere appeals to me so much. I guess I'm a Romantic.

 

[Wyrmhero]

The Grigori for me. The idea of an ideally pacifistic group who choose to not worship any god, but don't try to impose their view on others has stuck by me since I first played as them

 

[Legate Damar]

Calabim, with honorable mentions going to the Grigori and Balseraphs.

 

[thewyrm]

Definitely the Lanun. . . no I'm just kidding, of course it would be the Balseraphs. By far the most unique and fun civ in the game.

 

[Vehem]

The Bannor.

Whilst they look like the "good guys" at first glance (with a shiny gold angel leading them) - they're not your fairytale knights in shining armour. These are hard people, who have literally been to hell and back. Uncompromising, relentless - but no matter how intolerant and closed-minded they may be, they're going to be there on the front line, fighting to save civilized humanity from whatever threat arises - barbarian, demonic, libertarian... erm... hang on.

Still - great lore.

 

[civ_king]

Sheim, end of the world is Über 1337 stuff.

 

[ÆNEAS]

The Bannor.

Whilst they look like the "good guys" at first glance (with a shiny gold angel leading them) - they're not your fairytale knights in shining armour. These are hard people, who have literally been to hell and back. Uncompromising, relentless - but no matter how intolerant and closed-minded they may be, they're going to be there on the front line, fighting to save civilized humanity from whatever threat arises - barbarian, demonic, libertarian... erm... hang on.

Still - great lore.

Hahahaha, not a fan of the libertarians? Watch out, they are going to invade your lands by secretly undermining your own government until it cannot protect itself.....

Also, well put on why the Bannor are so interesting. The Crusade civic is appropriate for them - they're not much different from the historical crusaders. I feel the real life crusaders would have felt exactly as the Bannor feel (though the Bannor fight palpably evil foes intent on the destruction of civilization - though, in second thought, many Crusaders probably felt their enemies sought the same thing). I guess the fact that the Crusades are one of my favorite historical subjects is what draws me to the Bannor.

 

[ÆNEAS]

Looking at this thread, it is interesting to see that there is little overlap. It is a great testament to the mod team that so many different civs have such compelling backgrounds.

 

[loocas]

I'd have to say the Doviello. All those other civs are so... pretentious...

ahwooooooo

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Sheelba would disagree with loocas, but Jonas is borrowing her dictionary, so she doesn'tknow what pretentious means...

 

[Milosrdenstvi]

I am compelled by the Malakim and the Kuriotate.

 

[Alzara]

Sheaim and amurites... can't decide which

Al

 

[Avahz Darkwood]

Hahahaha, not a fan of the libertarians? Watch out, they are going to invade your lands by secretly undermining your own government until it cannot protect itself.....

Hay now we liberterians are not anarchist we like guns and a big military. Just get the government off our backs and let us do what we want in our own houses as long as it dont effect others in a negative way.... And on that note my favorite civs are the Hippus and the Clan, need I explain more?!? It is neet to note that most of our world views have a civ that matches up pretty well...

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Some libertarians are anarchists. In some countries the terms are considered synonyms. There are many different types of anarchist who have little resemblance to each other. There are Right-Anarchists and Left-anarchists, and Right-Libertarians and left-Libertarians. In the US we only view right-libertarians as libertarians. Some Libertarians are pro-military, others are very much against it. Libertarian anarchists (anarcho-capitalists) are often the pacifistic kind. (Libertarianism is probably opposed to the Law sphere, but definitely not aligned with Chaos. The closest it would come to chaos is represented in FfH by Air. At its best libertarianism is closer to Spirit, at its worst it is closest to mind)


While I wouldn't call Libertarianism evil, The Order/Bannor certainly would. It just doesn't square with unquestioning obedience. I had assumed that they were mentioned to concede the moral downside of the civ/religion. It would however be embraced by the Empyrean and Runes of Kilmorph, but in different forms. Runes would be more about protecting their own rights (to their profits, traditions, etc) and self sufficiency, while Empyrean would emphasize that we must not infringe upon the right of others. (The most libertarian civ is still the agnostic/deistic Grigori.)

 

[KingOfLands]

I'm prepared to jump ship and be a big fan of the Ilians when it's clearer what Auric is actually up to with his whole "One of the most dedicated builder AIs" thing, but for the moment I'm a fan of the Khazad. I like my dwarves greedy and warlike.

 

[ÆNEAS]

Hay now we liberterians are not anarchist we like guns and a big military. Just get the government off our backs and let us do what we want in our own houses as long as it dont effect others in a negative way.... And on that note my favorite civs are the Hippus and the Clan, need I explain more?!? It is neet to note that most of our world views have a civ that matches up pretty well...

Haha, I know. I was just kidding. I actually consider myself a classical liberal as well. I just found it funny that one could consider libertarians evil - their whole platform is about not oppressing anyone. Though MC's argument does make sense for the Bannor not liking them.