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Tartarian Gate
The caster opens a gate to Tartarus and releases a dead Titan or Monstrum imprisoned in that horrible place. The Titans were gods in ancient times, but were defeated and imprisoned in Tartarus aeons ago. The dead Titan once had tremendous powers, but the imprisonment in the realm of perpetual pain might have destroyed the mind of the ancient god.
Tartarian Gate is a Conjuration 9 
7 ritual which summons one of a number of non-unique tartarians for 10
. The unspecified tortures these ancient gods and titans undergo in Tartarus is not pretty; although all tartarians have the potential to be powerful mages, many are feebleminded and most are summoned as units instead of commanders, requiring a Gift of Reason/Divine Name and healing to unlock their full capabilities. Their shattered soul trait cannot be removed and causes them to occasionally do random actions on their own, leaving you unable to give them orders.
Due to the difficulties involved in making tartarians useful and the high research and magic path requirement, Tartarian Gate is not usually a threat until the late game. Although tartarians can make good heavy thugs, where they stand out is as an alternative to Elemental Royalty for summoning durable, high-path mages that are difficult to assassinate and can reliably cast critical battlefield spells. When human mages are dying in droves to Flames from the Sky and all the unique summons are gone, tartarians can still be mass produced to bring a supply of big casters to late game battles.
Afflictions
All tartarians have a 50% chance to be feebleminded and an independent 20% chance to be a commander instead of a unit. They then have a 50% chance of gaining a new affliction (equal odds of major or minor) and continue rolling at 50% odds until an affliction is not gained.1) Remedying these issues makes most tartarians much more expensive than the 10 price tag would suggest.
Commanderifying a tartarian is as simple as casting Gift of Reason for 20
or Divine Name for 25
, but healing feebleminded is slightly more complicated due to tartarians being undead. The following methods will NOT work:
- The Chalice
- The
true healer trait on another commander
The following methods WILL work:
- Having a pretender with a
recuperation bless and giving the tartarian a Shroud of the Battle Saint (only works on tartarians with a body slot) - An active, friendly Gift of Health
The usable healing methods are difficult to achieve; you have to have either planned for tartarians from the beginning of the game or control a global that is itself very powerful and likely to draw a coalition. Assuming these conditions are fulfilled, a tartarian can be made functional for a total price of around 40 gems. This is (in absolute terms) cheaper than the obvious comparison, Elemental Royalty, and tartarians have the potential to be more powerful mages than even the Royalty.
Tartarians
A table of tartarians is included below. As undead, all tartarians have significant cold resistance, poison resistance and spirit sight. They also have fear, being scary gods who have returned from the realm of perpetual pain. The shattered soul trait is similar to insane, but allows more destructive random actions; see the dedicated page for more details. Note that the paths will only be revealed once you have removed feebleminded and made the tartarian a commander.
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Dominions 5 Late-game Strategy: Conjuration by Perun, 29:40 onwards
| Notable Spells | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rituals | Personal Enchantments | Divine Name/Gift of Reason • Transformation • Twiceborn • Cure Disease |
| Strategic | Domes • Globals • Magic Phase Movement • Remote Attacks | |
| Summons | Cross Breeding • Elemental Royalty • Hidden Underneath/in Snow/in Sand • Infernal Breeding • Reanimation • Release Lord of Civilization • Ritual of Rebirth • Tartarian Gate | |
| Other | Wish | |
| Combat Magic | Battlefield Enchantments | |
| Buffs | Hell Power • Life after Death • Mossbody • Pain Transfer • Phoenix Pyre • Returning • Soul Vortex • Strength of Giants • Time Stop | |
| Debuffs | Armor of Achilles • Earth Grip • False Fetters | |
| Direct Damage | Divine Magic • Magic Duel • Soul Slay | |
| Summons | Reanimation | |
| Other | Communions • Enslave Mind | |
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"Tartarians are 50% to feeblemind, 20% to be a commander. Then, 50% to add extra afflictions (equal odds of major and minor). Continue rolling 50%s until an affliction was not added" - Loggy's Misc reverse engineering notes
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