"Agartha is inspired by fantasy RPG's in general, and an Earth Dawn setting of my brother's imagination, ripe with mummified ancestors entombed in ancient cavern halls, in particular. Old ideas of a race of pale, cave-dwelling humanoids from my ideas of the game “Shepherds of Creation” completed the conglomerate. Think of opulent halls adorned with riches of the deeper earth in which reside ancient bloated oracles with pallid skins ruling their kin with increasing desperation; desperation because their proud race is dying. Agartha is perhaps the most tragic of the nations in Dominions. Surviving oracles cling to memories of a glorious past unable to stop the unavoidable disappearance of their ancient race. I wanted a sense of loss to permeate the nation. " -Illwinter

In dark caverns under the Roots of the Earth a strange kind of one-eyed humanoids has evolved. Untouched by the sun, they have become known to humans as the Pale Ones. The Pale Ones are gifted with perfect darkvision and gills and inhabit underwater rivers and lakes as well as cavernous halls. Pale Ones never stop growing and ancient ones can grow to huge proportions. The wisest of the Ancient Ones are known as the Oracles, priest-mages of great power. The Oracles are gathered in a great, cavernous hall where they divine the fate of the Pale Ones.

EA Agartha is a nation of Pale Ones, a slow and clumsy race that excels at enduring punishment but has trouble hitting enemies and avoiding attacks. All Pale Ones are amphibious, need not eat, and excel at tearing down forts. They are arguably the most dedicated Earth nation in the game, with E4 mages from their capital and E2 available elsewhere; they otherwise have access to Fire, Water, and Death.

EA Agartha has access to a variety of national summons in Fire, Earth, Water, and Death. They can recruit Olms, sacred mindblasting worm-creatures, from their capital and any cave. They can also recruit Ancient Ones, sacred giant Pale Ones, from any fort.

At its strongest, EA Agartha presents its opponents with a formidable wall of Pale Ones, able to endure magic and arrows, fortified by earth magic. Their clumsiness doesn't matter, since opponents find themselves rooted to the ground by spells like Earth Meld or paralyzed by Giant Olms. Summons like Magma Children and Umbrals provide killing power that the Pale Ones lack, while large enemy armies can be battered with Earthquakes. Their siege bonus allows the slow-moving Agarthan army to crack forts in one round before moving on to the next.

At its weakest, EA Agartha's clumsy Pale Ones will find themselves cut down by superior troops of other nations; their high hp total doesn't matter if they can't hit anything and are always hit themselves. Their limited magic access – mostly Earth with a bit of Fire, Water, and Death – leaves them without mobility and utility from the other paths.

The Agarthans are guardians of the Seal, a chamber deep within their caves that seals away the spirits of fallen gods. They may break this Seal (with the spell Unleash Imprisoned Ones); in the lore, they do this to gain short-term power to win a war, at the sacrifice of their civilization in the long term.

EA Agartha has very strong national summons. EA Agartha also gets +2 earth bless points, a welcome gift for a nation who loves so many of the earth blesses.

Special Race Attributes	Military	Magic Access	Priests	Buildings
Pale Ones: Amphibious options Siege Bonuses 100% dark vision Cold blooded	Powerful Defense Siege Bonuses Earth bless points +2	4 (Rare 5) 2 (Rare 3) 2 (Rare 3) 2 (Rare 3) National Heros 2, 3, 3, 5	Strong Priests (lvl3)	Standard Forts Can build Underwater Forts

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Roots of the Earth	The Chamber of the Seal	Halls of the Oracles	The Womb of the Earth
Generates 31 per turn.	Enables recruitment of Seal Guard Generates 1 per turn.	Enables recruitment of Oracle of Subterranean Waters Oracle of Subterranean Fires Oracle of the Dead	Enables recruitment of Olm Sage Great Olm Generates 1 per turn.

Agartha main units are slow Cyclopien giants. Despite the common troop being Size 3 with decent strength and decent mount of HP that cost less than Indiependient Militia, this is drastically balanced by their poor attack and weapon skill, making a lot of their attacks miss and taking only a few swings to bring them down while taking more of a harassment penalty.

They are also cold Blooded, so taking cold scales is not advisable.

Many Agarthan units are relatively cheap in gold but cost more recruitment points. Agartha does have many good points like ignoring the concept of province supply, able to march through popkilled wastelands and park massive sieging forces on a fort without worrying about starving. Being Ampbdous also opens up underwater expectations despite not being as strong in that area as other underwater nations.

An advantage you can defiantly leverage in combat is your 100% dark vision, Evening the odds if not overcorrect for your bad stats.

• Revive Cavern Wights Conj 3, 11, 8. (Cavern Wight x3)
• Bind Penumbral Conj 3, 11, 1. (Penumbral x1)
• Bind Umbral Conj 5, 21, 2. (Umbralx1)

• Barathrus Pact Conj 3, 2, 2, Practly Cap only. (Earth Elemental x1)
• Rhuax Pact Conj 3, 11, 2, Practly Cap only. (Magma Child x5)

• Liquid Flames of Rhuax Evocation 5, 31.
• Living Mercury Enchament 5, 11, 7. (Living Mercury x1)

• Mirror of Earths Memories Thaumaturgy 4, 21 for 5. find the gems you national use if your find another cave.

• Unleash Imprisoned Ones Alteration 9, 64, 100. (God Vesselx1 or God Vesselx1 or God Vesselx1). You nuke your own capital, losing your ability to summon national elementals but gain more death gems income, guards, and unleash 3 uncontrollable god chassis to roam and popkill in their wake. On death turn into (Legion of Gods).

Earth (max 4)
Fire (max 1)
Water (max 1, 2 with national summon)
Death (max 2)

What is the best spell you can use in combat. What spells the best support your national lineup, Is their weakness that you need to fix? Any tricks you should be aware you have?

What is the best ritual you could cast. Are there any globals you want up, any units you should be summoning? Are there any Generic rituals few nations can cast?

Do you have any National items(Construction Level, Price, and required Paths). Any unique generic items few other nations can forge? What item would be useful on your unit lineup (non-standard recommend thug gear)?

What kinds of scales dose your nation like? Do they require any to function? Any blesses your sacreds would like? Do you desperately need an awake expander? Examples of Pretenders?

How to expand, potential pitfalls and how to get around them, obvious weakness strength, how much do you have to focus on war/infrastructure

what is the first big research rush, what is the first big powerspike, where do you shift recruitment to? what are the big magic diversity issues, are there particular globals you should gun for

How do you close out the game if you are in it, is the high-level research stuff you can do uniquely well, does your nation fall off, aka do you have to force things to conclude swiftly