Early-Age Caelum is a “magocracy” lead by the Yazatas, also known as the “Eagle Kings” or the “Adorable Ones”. In a previous era, the practically-divine Yazatas ruled large swathes of the world, with mortal servants and distant descendants known as the Kavi & the Airya, perpetually fighting their demonic Daevic counterparts and the Daevas' mortal Mairya descendants. The Yazatas and the Daevas were led by powerful forces diametrically opposed to each other, but the previous Pantokrator was not among them. Tired of their eternal war and the casualties it accrued – among them Catharsis, King of Purifying Flames – the last Pantokrator banished all of the Daevas from this world along with the strongest of the Yazatas. While most of the remaining Yazatas fled to the Celestial Spheres anyway, a few lingered in this world, and they have since managed to reassemble some of their lost power.

The Yazatas of this world are few in number, and virtually all of them who could contact their kin with Astral Magic have already used it to leave. Most of Caelum's residents descend from the three clans of servants. The Kavi settled on Spire Horn Mountain and retained their ancestors' ability to fly in storms, later renaming themselves the Tempest Clan (though most still call them "Spire Horn Caelians"). The Airya remained with at least a few of the Yazatas in a mountain Forest that was snow-covered ten months each year, becoming physically-weak but retaining their ancestors' clear minds, and thus the "magocracy" and Priesthood are primarily staffed by them. The Mairya settled in the relatively-nice Raven's Vale, losing much of their ancestors' traits but retaining more of their ancestors' physical strength & ferocity than other Caelians, later renaming themselves the Raptors; they were accepted into Caelum when the Yazatas emerged to form their state, but not before every Fire Mage among them was massacred to prevent them from continuing their ancestors' mischief. The Raptors once used Death Magic to serve their ancestors, and recent contact with Ermor (who stole C'tis's Death Magic and will hopefully not misuse it) has inspired them to try and reconnect with their old roots; hopefully they don't misuse Death either.

Caelum was originally a purely fictional nation of winged humanoids living atop the coldest mountain
peaks. Later development has gifted them with Zoroastrian traits. In a Dominions 4 patch, the nation’s
backstory was remade and more Zoroastrian traits, summons, and spells were added to the nation. The
backstory of a primordial was between Daevas and Yazatas along with concepts of the pollution of the
sacred flame merged with earlier ideas of Catharsis/Anthrax. We also added some new guardian spirit
mechanics based on Zoroastrian concepts of the soul.

Early-Age Caelum has the three angel-winged clans working under the oversight of gold-winged guys.

Your sacreds are capital-only, but a significant amount of them can fly. Wherever you need them, you can get them there. Don't take a Flaming Weapons Bless unless you don't plan on using your Ice-using Sacred guys.

Your best mage is capital-only and you lack Communions, but your many minor mages can still do some neat things.

Race	Military	Magic Access	Priests	Buildings
Prefers Cold 2 Flying Size 3 w/ Wings Airya Caelians: Cold Resistance 15 +2 MR vs. Humans +1 PRE vs. Humans -1 HP, STR, & DEF vs. Humans Spire Horn Caelians: Cold Resistance 5 Shock Resistance 5 +1 MR & PRE vs. Humans -1 DEF vs. Humans Raptor Caelians: +1 HP, MOR, & ATT vs. Humans	Magic Ice Gear Raptors use Bronze & Iron Ice Protection Storm Immunity Flying Infantry Archers Tramplers Three Sacreds: - Mundane Stealthy Pillagers - Storm Power Archers - Wingless Magic Infantry	4 (rare 5) 2 1 (rare 2) 1 (rare 2) 1	Average (2) Flying and Stealthy Guardian spirits: Priests have a (10% * holy level + 1% * friendly candles in province; negative if hostile) chance of summoning a free Fravashi in battle. National summons like the Ancestral Fravashi are spirits themselves, and thus lack guardian spirits.	Fortresses

• Your Dominion spreads Cold Scales to adjacent provinces, but only to provinces that aren't already Cold. The chance is around 10%.

Caelian troops are exceptionally mobile (as fliers), but are weaker than humans and do not pack as tightly in combat. They can make use of their mobility by dividing their forces to raid, then unifying to concentrate force against a portion of the enemy army when they divide their force in response.

Their troops mostly consist of many flavors of melee fliers, many armed with magic ice weapons; they also have shortbow archers.

Their mages emphasize air access, going up to A4 on their cap mage; they have minor fire, death, earth, and water access.

description of the workhorse options, for the sake of sanity better skip the clearly subpar and generic stuff (no h1 unless special qualities, no 40, 60 leadership dudes that are average, no scouts

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Comments
	Caelian Scout 25 13 1	Stealthy (55) Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (5) Ice Protection (1) Flying Storm Immunity Supply Size (2)	Flying scouts can provide excellent scouting if you have fort turns to spare.
	Sastar 75 14 1	Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (8) Flying Storm Immunity Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Mairya Ahu 65 12 1 Capital Only	Sacred Stealthy (40) Pillager (5) Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Spire Horn Seraph 45 1 2	1 7 Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (5) Flying Storm Immunity Supply Size (2)	dec
	Airya Seraphine 110 2 2	12 7 Sacred Stealthy (65) Resist Cold (15) Flying Supply Size (2) Female	dec
	Harab Seraph 115 3 2	111100% 11 Flying Supply Size (2)	dec
	Airya Seraph 125 2 2	21 11 Resist Cold (15) Flying Supply Size (2)	dec
	Eagle King 395 25 4 Capital Only	411010% 17 Sacred Awe (3) Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (17) Flying Storm Immunity Magic-Being Supply Size (2) Guardian Spirit (10)	dec

description of the workhorse options, for the sake of sanity better skip the clearly subpar and generic stuff (common indie like units with no gimmicks), merge units into a single description entry if functionally similar battle roles with only minor differences in gear.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Comments
	Raptorian Militia 8 4 5	Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Spire Horn Militia 8 5 5	Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (5) Flying Supply Size (2)	dec
	Raptorian Warrior 10 12 9	Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Spire Horn Warrior 10 7 9	Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (5) Storm Immunity Flying Supply Size (2)	dec
	Airya Light Infantry 10 11 9	Resist Cold (15) Ice Protection (1) Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Airya Infantry 10 16 9	Resist Cold (15) Ice Protection (1) Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Spire Horn Archer 10 6 9	Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (5) Storm Immunity Flying Supply Size (2)	dec
	Mammoth 120 20 30	Resist Cold (15) Animal Trample Snow-Move	Dec
	Tempest Warrior 15 12 21	Resist Cold (15) Resist Shock (8) Storm Immunity Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Iceclad 15 24 21	Resist Cold (15) Ice Protection (2) Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec
	Blizzard Warrior 16 13 23 Capital Only	Resist Cold (15) Ice Protection (1) Storm Immunity Flying Supply Size (2)	Non-sacred cap only archers with magical frost bows that can fatigue elites or titans, regardless of size or armour.
	Kavi Archer 16 9 16 Capital Only	Sacred Resist Cold (5) Resist Shock (8) Storm Power (2) Storm Immunity Flying Supply Size (2)	Sacred archers with normal short bows. Cheap and very good precision and, like all of EA Caelum's archers, they maintain that precision during storms. Their storm power is not enough to increase the damage of their bows.
	Airya Temple Guard 20 26 23 Capital Only	Sacred Resist Cold (15) Ice Protection (2) Bodyguard(1)	Dec
	Mairya Warrior 20 11 23 Capital Only	Sacred Stealthy (40) Pillager (1) Flying Supply Size (2)	Dec

What magic path/mages define your nation, what can you level, e.g., thunderstriking, astral, elementals, earth buffs, blood, what is recruitable anywhere and good, what are some summons you are likely able to get and are useable

Has access to special animal conjuration and 2 paths of national summons which can grant you reasonable access to every other path of magic and 3 priests.

Herd of Elephants 2 Herd of Buffaloes 2 Ambush of Tigers 2

Call Ahurani 21 Summon Yazatas 2 Call Fravashi 3 Call Celestial Yazad 4 Call Amesha Spenta 5

Call Daevas 21 Call Yata 32 Call Jahi 31 Call Greater Daeva 42

Call of the Drugvant 41

More Details in Caelum-Line Summons

Storm Power allows massed Lightning Bolts from Spire Horn Seraphs. Freezing Mist is useful for area damage.

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)?

do you have a game plan? Anything you should always be working toward? Any National weaknesses?

Caelum can work with almost any kind of pretender. Pure scales, diversity and emergency dormants or awake expanders. Whatever you pick, you would do well if it helps summoning either your good (astral) or evil (fire/death) national summons or contributes otherwise to improve your magic access (in particular earth and nature).

Caelum prefers Cold 2, but does well to pick Cold 3 as some units and spells benefit from cold. It also increases your mobility advantage as flying isn't impeded by the heavy snow. Of the other scales luck and order are of relatively less importance. Caelum has the mobility to deal with rebellions (i.e. bad luck) quickly and it is resource limited during expansion.

Shock and Awe - Caelum in the Early Age - local guide on illwiki.com by disnegativ
EA Caelum - video nation overview (47 min) - by attica
EA Caelum - video nation overview (67 min) - by lucidtactics
EA Caelum - video nation overview (44 min) - by rck79

Caelum - Aerial cavalry - older guide from Dominions 4
Caelum - AAR / Flyer Guide - older guide from Dominions 4

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