"Atlantis is another nation devastated in the end of the second era. Late Atlantis incorporates Inuit concepts apart from the earlier Lovecraftian elements." - Illwinter

The two sentences above sum up Late-Age Atlantis rather well; the same disaster that drove the adaptable Atlantians from the unknowable depths into shallower waters at the end of the Early Ages has now, through its consequences, pushed the Atlantian leaders out of the sea. While some fled to warmer parts, others felt less secure about imposing on humans, leaving for a land that not even decomposers can survive in. There are still Atlantians under the sea, but the collapsed happened so recently that none of them are big enough to rule. Barely a generation has passed, in fact, at least for the Atlantians; all who are bigger than a human (and therefore over a century old) are still haunted by memories of what happened, and guilty that they didn't make a last stand under the sea. The surface-bound Atlantians' fortunes are already shifting, however; their destroyers have broken themselves, and the ocean Atlantians are ready to welcome them back with open arms.

Atlantis is strong, both on-land and under the sea. It would love to get back underwater, in fact, where the medium-sized Mages and their powers of Communion are waiting. Heavy Ice-protected infantry are the cornerstone of their armies (though they do have other options), and practically all of them have Magic Ice Weapons that handle Lemuria. The underwater Atlantians in particular are a massive middle finger to R'lyeh, since they have Void Sanity. Your big Capital Mage is also really good on-land, occasionally providing a crosspath (Death and Air) that's as nation-defining as always. On the other hand, the best parts of Atlantis are quite expensive, and its lack of Nature Magic might run it into trouble against nations who use another nation-defining crosspath (Nature and Water).

Special Race Attributes	Military	Magic Access	Priests	Buildings
Prefers 2 Sailing cap-only commanders Amphibious Atlantians Trace income across oceans	Hard-hitting polearms Ubiquitous magic weapons Harpoons	4 (rare 5) 3 (rare 4) 2 1 (rare 2) 1 (rare 2) 1	2 Cap-only 1 On-land 2 Underwater	Ice Forts in coastal provinces Can build forts underwater

Death and Air are only found on land (with Air being found only in the capital), while Fire and Astral are only found underwater. Remember this.

LA Atlantian troops are somewhat cold-resistant amphibians with partial darkvision; all of these traits are pretty good for taking the seas, as you can imagine, but the first thing is great for on-land Water Magic while the last thing is neat for Darkness plays. They also have Snow Shoes; this combined with the Ice Protection means they operate at the fullest capacity in cold scales, and do not do so well in heat.

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Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Description
	Tent Owner 25 6 1	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Stealthy (40) Amphibious Snow Move	Amphibious scout with 10 leadership! Less stealthy than a generic scout, however.
	Snow Captain 70 26 1	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Ice Protection (1) Amphibious Snow Move	80 leadership commander.
	Ice Captain 110 32 2	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Ice Protection (2) Amphibious Snow Move	120 leadership commander.
	Tungalik 110 4 2	111 9 Sacred Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Amphibious Snow Move	40 leadership mage-priest. The only mage that can be recruited in Atlantis's non-capital land forts. Somewhat expensive for the research and lacks combat utility prior to spells like Frozen Heart, but their upkeep is halved due to their sacred status.
	Angakok 425 1 4 Capital Only	3221100% 10% 17 Sacred Cold Resistance (10) Darkvision (50%) Gift of Water Breathing (20) Sailing (Max size 6) Amphibious Snow Move	Centrepiece caster, priest and 80 leadership sailing commander. A critical mage for LA Atlantis, bringing Stygian Rains to the battle field and providing access to the coveted crosspath. Can thug in a pinch, especially the earth varieties, but are rather expensive for the job.

The following commanders can only be recruited from underwater forts.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Description
	Shambler Chief 50 2 1	Darkvision (50%) Amphibious	60 leadership commander.
	Merciful Mother 95 5 2	2 Sacred Darkvision (50%) Void Sanity (10) Amphibious Female	40 leadership priest.
	Unsleeping Consort 115 26 1	1 Sacred Darkvision (50%) Void Sanity (10) Poison Barbs (5) Amphibious	80 leadership lesser priest.
	Forgiving Father 185 4 2	211100% 13 Darkvision (50%) Gift of Water Breathing (10) Void Sanity (10) Amphibious	Off-cap combat mage with more utility than the Tungalik, but slightly less research compared to gold cost. Can bring earth into communions. As the only astral mage on Atlantis' roster, the Forgiving Father is somewhat vulnerable to Magic Duel.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Description
	Seal Hunter 10 5 9	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Amphibious Snow Move	Light infantry armed with harpoons. Harpoons will net enemies they hit, giving them a defense penalty.
	Snow Warrior (spear) 10 22 9	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Ice Protection (1) Amphibious Snow Move	Ice-protected medium infantry with magic weapons. The glaive version does significantly more damage.
	Snow Warrior (glaive) 10 26 9
	Ice Warrior (spear) 13 37 15	Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Ice Protection (2) Amphibious Snow Move	Ice-protected heavy infantry with a magic spear. Something of a transitional unit between the Snow Warriors and Ice Guards, having more protection than the Snow Warriors but less defense than the Ice Guard swordsman and dealing less damage than the Ice Guard glaive-wielder. Its pure piercing damage weapon is better suited for underwater combat, however.
	Ice Guard (sword and shield) 16 39 21		Ice-protected heavy infantry with magic weapons. The sword and shield version has moderate damage output and much higher defense; the glaive version deals the most damage but has less defense. Very resource and recruitment point-intensive. In 3 scales, Ice Guard have the same protection as the famed Ulmish infantry and come with several major advantages, including wielding magic weapons, being resistant to cold and being amphibious. These are one of the strongest baseline troops in the game, though you do pay a premium for the privilege of having them!
	Ice Guard (glaive) 16 32 21
	Arssartut 23 10 25 Capital Only	Sacred Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Amphibious Snow Move	Very high damage, sacred medium infantry with a magic weapon that inflicts permanent weakness on its opponents. Due to their low resource cost, these may be an option for building up expansion parties before you have the resources to mass Ice Guard.
	Mournful 25 14 30	Darkvision (50%) Amphibious	Very high damage medium-heavy infantry. Rather recruitment point-intensive. Similar to the Arssartut, the Mournful make decent early expanders due to their low resource cost.

The following troops can only be recruited underwater.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Description
	Atlantian Light Infantry 10 9 9	Darkvision (50%) Poison Barbs (5) Amphibious	Light infantry with a poison spear.
	Atlantian Shield Bearer 10 3 9	Darkvision (50%) Amphibious	Militia with a shield and poison spear.
	Atlantian Infantry 10 12 9	Darkvision (50%) Poison Barbs (5) Amphibious	Infantry with a poison spear. Has a hat.
	Unsleeping 35 26 47	Darkvision (50%) Void Sanity (5) Poison Barbs (5) Amphibious	Very-high damage medium-heavy infantry. Expensive in gold and recruitment points.

Aside from a throne-claimer, LA Atlantis's heroes are relatively tame.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Description
	Mother Hydra - Once and Future Queen	4 Sacred Fire Resistance (5) Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (100%) Fear (5) Void Sanity (20) Amphibious Snow Move Female	Very powerful, durable priest
	Sialuk - Kivigtok	121 Sacred Cold Resistance (5) Darkvision (50%) Mounted Poor Amphibian Snow Move	A slightly upgraded Tungalik.

LA Atlantis has quite broad magic access, with the notable gap of nature magic. In combat, it can bring fire, earth and, of course, astral into communions using Forgiving Fathers.

For rituals, LA Atlantis has access to the following paths:

Elements

• 1 on Forgiving Fathers
• 1 on Angakut
• 4 on Angakut, 7 via a Water Bracelet, Robe of the Sea and Queen of Elemental Water (expensive!)
• 1 on Forgiving Fathers

Sorceries

• 2 on Forgiving Fathers, 3 via a Starshine Skullcap
• 3 on Angakut, 4 via a Skull Staff
• No nature magic
• No blood magic

Combat

• LA Atlantis has no national combat spells

Ritual

• Conjuration 6 3 for 6: Summon Monster Fish ( Monster Fish×1)
  Summons a big sack of scary, undisciplined hitpoints that can swallow smaller opponents.

• Enchantment 5 31 for 5: Send Tupilak
  Sends a flying Tupilak to assassinate an enemy commander.

LA Atlantis is notable for getting an enormous amount of value from research in Evocation. At Evocation 6 is the classic Wailing Winds, castable by 25% of Angakoks and one of the most difficult spells in the game to play against. Evocation 7 brings the critical Stygian Rains, a spell which LA Atlantis is uniquely suited to make use of; the battlefield-wide invulnerability is nullified for opponents by Atlantis' ubiquitous magic weapons, so it is pure benefit! Invulnerability 15 combined with ice armor brings Ice Guard to an impressive 29 protection (vs. mundane weapons) in 3 scales. Also in the Evocation tree is Maelstrom, allowing LA Atlantis to pick up a powerful gem generator without using too much more research.

Speaking of cold scales, Ice Guard drop to 11 protection in 3, which opponents are liable to counterpick in anticipation of Atlantis' amazing troops. For critical battles where friendly dominion hasn't had the time to catch up, several early Wolven Winter (Alteration 4) casts may be useful to keep that temperature down and dramatically improve the effectiveness of your troops.

The Atlantians' native 50% darkvision makes Darkness (Alteration 6) a natural fit, as they ignore half the penalty of darkness and essentially gain +3/+3 in Attack and Defence against non-darkseeing opponents. Note that full darkvision units will completely ignore the darkness penalty and gain +3/+3 against your Atlantians!

The complete lack of nature magic in Atlantis's mage corps means that Foul Vapors is one of the few spells that can stop Atlantian infantry in the early-to-mid game. As a result, nations such as LA Pythium may be an unusually poor matchup for Atlantis's otherwise very powerful armies.

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Nations
Early Ages	Arcoscephale • Ermor • Ulm • Marverni • Sauromatia • T'ien Ch'i • Machaka • Mictlan • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Agartha • Tir na n'Og • Fomoria • Vanheim • Helheim • Niefelheim • Rus • Kailasa • Lanka • Yomi • Hinnom • Ur • Berytos • Xibalba • Mekone • Ubar • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Pelagia • Oceania • Therodos
Middle Ages	Arcoscephale • Ermor • Sceleria • Pythium • Man • Eriu • Ulm • Marignon • Mictlan • T'ien Ch'i • Machaka • Agartha • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Asphodel • Vanheim • Jotunheim • Vanarus • Bandar Log • Shinuyama • Ashdod • Uruk • Nazca • Xibalba • Phlegra • Phaeacia • Ind • Na'ba • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Pelagia • Oceania • Ys
Late Ages	Arcoscephale • Pythium • Lemuria • Man • Ulm • Marignon • Mictlan • T'ien Ch'i • Jomon • Agartha • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Midgård • Utgård • Bogarus • Patala • Gath • Ragha • Xibalba • Phlegra • Vaettiheim • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Erytheia