C'tis draws from a range of historical influences, but is primarily based on Ancient Egypt. It is inhabited by two species of lizardmen.

C’tis is a swampy river valley surrounded by sandy deserts. In the fertile valley a sacred kingdom of lizard-like humanoids has formed. The kingdom is ancient by human standards and its wisdom and magical knowledge is great. At the top of the society is the Lizard King and his Royal Heirs. The king is the highest priest of C’tis. Under the king are the High Priests with their sacred serpents and the enigmatic Sauromancers, great mages of death and rebirth. The lizards are herbivores, but have enslaved a race of carnivorous lizardmen who serve as soldiers and workers. The C’tissians are somewhat slow in movement, but have thick hides that protect them from cuts and bruises. Both lizard races are cold-blooded and become exhausted very quickly when fighting in cold provinces. They have partial resistance to poison. The inhabitants of C’tis prefer to live in warm provinces.

C'tis is a very fun and interesting nation to play. If you like lizards who raise hordes of undead, then C'tis is for you. They have plenty of death access and high-level priests for smiting beings of death as well. Most of C'tis's units and commanders can swim, so those pesky rivers are no problem (although they lack the ability to enter sea provinces). C'tis's mages are pretty versatile, cost-efficient for their power, and can fill the gaps in your lines with skeleton hordes. They pack some strong basic troops such as the falchioneer and the slave runner, slave warrior, and elite warrior in terms of troops. They all have devastating multi attacks that chew through indies making expansion easier they also have natural protection and poison resist. This paired with your natural access to nature, water, and death access can be a quite brutal combination.

You're one of the most dominant nation in terms of death mage and should have many undead summons in the late game.

Now to the drawbacks: First off, C'tis is a nation that is very dominion reliant. If you attack someone in cold dominion, your troops and mages will fatigue out significantly faster then your warm-blooded opponents. Another big drawback is that EA C'tis does not have a good sacred lineup to justify a blessing, making C'tis prone to sacred rushes. They like to play tall in a game that tends to play wide, and they tend to get attacked due to this.

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The Temple City
Enables recruitment of Lizard King, Lizard Heir, and Serpent Dancer. Generates 42 per turn.

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All national commanders and units have at least MR 11, cold-blooded, swimming, swamp survival and poison resistance(5-10).

Beware: despite having some poison resistance, they are not immune and may die if they accumulate too much poison damage.

C'tis is a Sorcerous nation, with major focus on Death and consistent (if minor) Nature and Astral. Since your important mages have Nature magic, you can steadily build up random paths you need without too much fuss.

Death Level 4 is fairly common on your long-lived Sauromancers. Construction Level 4 elevates it to 5, and Construction Level 6 makes it 6.

Nature Level 2 is another path on your Sauromancers. Construction Level 4 makes it 3. Alternatively, your 11 Shamans can summon an 33 Couatl at Conjuration Level 7, who can in-turn bring you up to 4 at Construction Level 6. You can then outfit an 3 Ivy King with your Construction Level 6 boosters to acquire 5, giving you one last booster to get you all the way up to 6; if you have the Gems, of course.

Astral starts at Level 1, but Couatls bring you up to 3 at Conjuration Level 7; their inability to wear helmets prevents them from wearing their own booster items, but they can bring your other guys to 2 at Construction Level 6.

Water is the odd one out, starting at Level 1 on some of your Sauromancers, with Construction Level 6 elevating it to 2.

C'tis has depth, which is very nice, but it runs into a couple of cross-path issues. It doesn't have a lot of 11's, so Death Communions will be costly. It also doesn't have the paths necessary to cast Foul Vapors without a Thistle Mace or a good deal of luck with a 10% random, though an expensive option is better than no option at all.

Air is found through the 3 Faery Queen at Conjuration Level 8; she won't be able to Commune, unlike the Couatls, but she can turn your Chariots into Flying Chariots with the research you've been putting into skele-spam.

Earth (specifically 1) is found on roughly half of all Spectral Mages summoned at Conjuration Level 6, without any need for boosters.

That leaves Fire and Blood. Fire can be found by equipping a 1-in-16 2 Spectral Mage with Earth Boots (Construction Level 4) and casting Hidden in Sand (Enchantment Level 6) for a good chance of a Dust Priest with the magic you want; it's quite expensive, but it's an option. Blood requires running the full gauntlet of Nature described above, giving the Treelord's Staff and the Moonvine Bracelet to a 2 Sauromancer, and having them contact a Lamia Queen for a roughly-50% chance of at least 1. Empowering an 1 to 2 will most-likely be cheaper than repeatedly rolling for the correct paths, while empowering the 2 Sauromancer to 3 will let you save 25 if you're not planning on attaining 6.

Pride of Lions: 2 Conj 3 10 (summon 10+ Great Lion). Summons Fast moving animal chaff.

Sacred Crocodile: 22 Conj 4 3 (summon 1 Sacred Crocodile). Big, slow and sacred attack animals. A lot of their attributes make them fantastic Soul Slay magnets to take the pressure off your mages.

Summon Monster Toads: 2 Conj 5 8 (summon 3 Monster Toad). Sacred Tramplers that spread poison with their poison cloud and Poison Skin. Likely to Die, but will kill formation as the toads will suicidally trample to the middle of it to spread the Miasma.

Contact Couatl: 11 Conj 7 40 (summon 1 Couatl). Cost a lot of gems but any Shaman can summon this strong Flying Astral and Nature mage.

Contact Scorpion Man:11 Conj 8 12 (summon 1 Scorpion Man). Comes too late to be useful. Scaring away infantry is not so good when late game is purely mage dominated.

Generally, the goal of your magic in combat should be to spam poison and undead, while buffing the resilient living troops.

Sauromancer magic randoms:

• Nature randoms: Use for high-level Nature with a Thistle Mace and Moonlight Bracelet.
• Water randoms: Needed to cast Foul Vapors.
  
• Death randoms: Don't need communions for high death, with the two death boosters your 6. It can make the immortal death thugs.
• Astral randoms: Can join communions to cast higher level Death and Nature magic. Can cast Nether Bolt and Nether Darts.

Troop Buffs: Wooden Warriors, Army of Giants, Mass Protection, Stygian Rains

Chaff Summoning: Horde of Skeletons, Swarm, Creeping Doom

AOE: Poison Cloud, Enfeeble, Vortex of Unlife

Battlefield Globals: Foul Vapors, Howl, Darkness, Rigor Mortis, Relief, Plague, Life after Death, Undead Mastery

Area Fatigue or Immobilization: Shadow Blast, Syllable of Sleep, Storm of Thorns, Wild Growth, Stellar Cascades

Area Morale Reduction: Panic, Terror

Single Target Elimination: Curse of the Frog Prince, Charm, Disintegrate, Nether Bolt, Nether Darts, Astral Geyser

Thug/SC Self Buffs (summoned undead thugs): Soul Vortex, Invulnerability

Mother Oak

Twiceborn

Transformation

Well of Misery

Stygian Paths

Black Death

Summons Infantry- Revive Wights/Legion of Wights, Construct Manikin, Construct Mandragora, Reanimation, Pale Riders, Contact Lamias, Awaken Vine Men, Awaken Vine Ogres

Immortal Summons - Call the Worm That Walks, Call Wraith Lord, Lichcraft, Curse of Blood

Summons Other- Tartarian Gate, Summon Spectre, Summon Mount Fiend, Contact Lamia Queen

• The Jade Mask: a Unique end game Helmet. Need 63 and where must be cold-blooded (No Undead or most pretender chassis). Grants a lot of large array of good mage buffs. Is Notable a better Skullface with Regeneration and Auto cast Rigor Mortis

Amulet of the Dead Makes your reanimation casting more gem efficient.

Mage items: Clam of Pearls, Black Bow of Botulf, Amulet of Resilience, Coral Blade, Ethereal Crossbow, Ring of Regeneration, Skull Mentor

Thug Items: Vine Shield, Astral Serpent, Coral Blade/Duskdagger, Doom Glaive, Boots of Quickness, Robe of Invulnerability

Fear Thug Items: Horror Helmet, Spirit Mask, Skull Standard

Interesting Items: Effigy of War,

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