Yomi is a nation based on Japanese mythology and especially in this age around the myths of the underworld (hell). Violent demons spew forth from their capital to bring death and misfortune to the human population, aided by evil sorcerers and other henchmen. The demons remain as national summons in later ages into Shinuyama and Jomon, but in this age they are prevalent and plentiful as they can be recruited from any fort with a lab and a temple.

The lands of Oni Kings are primitive and poor, represented by several game mechanics. First, Yomi gets a 25% income penalty. Secondly, they can only build primitive forts with only 1 commander point so recruitment of mages is slower than other nations. Thirdly, all oni troops cause unrest which further decreases their gold income, and have turmoil power so picking turmoil scales on them is mandatory. Also, most of their gold recruitable troops have low tech weapons and armour, and shields are not used at all.

The main strengths of the nation are strong demon commanders and troops, a good capital recruitable super-combatant chassis(with few weaknesses though), and access to good spell paths, especially in death magic. Even the most basic ko-oni hit hard in turmoil and survive because of their ethereal second shape. Later in the game your oni commanders can survive a lot of things that kill frail human mages.

Race	Military	Magic Access	Priests	Buildings
Human Bakemono Oni	Size 1 troops Bandit Raiders Oni Raiders Demon Thugs Demon Supercombatant	3 (Rare 4) 1 (Rare 2) 3 (Rare 4) 4 (Rare 5) 1 Summonable 3, 3, 2	1 Priests Temples cost 200 Temples spawn Oni units	Primitive Forts (Palisades) Starts with a Fortress Temples cost 200

• -25% income penalty
• Halved income penalties from heat and cold scales.
• Extra gold and resources from forts built in caves.

• Capital is treated as a mountain province for the purpose of Oni summoning

Provide a brief overview of commanders and units and what tools they provide you with. Outline any peculiarities across the roster (e.g. the animal tag, cold blooded). Highlight any particular strengths of the roster and describe their roles (e.g. high-quality infantry, thugs, powerful mages).

Oni will appear in all temples that are inside Yomi’s dominion. A high Turmoil scale will increase the number of Oni that spawn in the temples. The spawn rate is not affected by your Dominion Strength but does require at least 1 candle to be present.

The location of the temple determines what type of Oni might appear – mountains or highlands are required to get the most powerful types. Cold or Warm provinces will occasionally spawn Ao-oni or Aka-oni respectively as each thrives in that particular type of climate. Temples in temperate provinces without mountains or highlands will only produce Ko-Oni.

Disciples to Yomi do not get this dominion feature.

Specifics by Loggy: Friendly dominion and a temple is required.

"Terrains" is true in any combination of caves/mountains/highlands, otherwise false.

"Your cap" also technically includes Shinuyama's cap, both of them have the flag used for this for some reason.

The number of spawn attempts is Turmoil + 1 (Max 4 attempts in 3 ).

If End of Culture is up, add Turmoil again (so it becomes 2×Turmoil + 1) (Max 7 attempts in 3).

While the number of spawn attempts > 0:

• 66% to just flat out fail (-1 spawn attempt).
• If (terrains or your cap) and a 2% (total 0.66%) chance: Amanojaku (-2 spawn attempts)
• If (terrains or your cap) and a 80% (total 25.872%) chance: Kuro-Oni (-2 spawn attempts)
• If (terrains or your cap) and a 70% (total 4.5276%) chance: Oni (-2 spawn attempts) double check odds math.
• 30% chance per cold scale: Ao-Oni (-1 spawn attempt)
• 30% chance per heat scale: Aka-Oni (-1 spawn attempt)
• Otherwise: 1d4 (non-exploding) Ko-Oni (-1 spawn attempt)

(Once a single check succeeds, go spawn the units, subtract the spawn attempts, and then go back to the top of the bullets)

Shared Traits: demon(If Alive) or Ethereal and undead(If Ghost), Undisciplined, Chaos Power(1), Gluttony, Pillager, Cause Unrest, Wounded Shape Oni Spirit, Mountain Survival, Need not Eat, Spirit Sight

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Comments
	Ko-Oni	Gluttony (1) Pillager(1) Cause Unrest(+0.1 per month) Wounded Shape Oni spirit	The common Demonic chaff of Yomi. Use like Bakemono – Mass on the font lines to soak up/make a lot of attacks. They will die somewhat easily, though enemies will also need to kill their ghost forms which gives them additional staying power. Will passively spawn from both Oni Shugo and Dai Oni.
	Aka-Oni Spawns in heat scales	Resist Fire(5) Gluttony (2) Pillager(1) Cause Unrest(+0.3 per month) Wounded Shape Oni Spirit	One of the rank and file Oni above Ko-Oni. Only recruitable in hot provinces, they hit hard with their Clubs and AP Fireballs which will penetrate armour worn by most EA units.
	Ao-Oni Spawns in cold scales	Resist Cold(5) Gluttony (2) Pillager(1) Cause Unrest(+0.3 per month) Wounded Shape Oni Spirit Snow-Move	A lesser-seen Oni as Going heat Yomi for the ranged Aka-Oni is more tempting. Like the Aka-Oni but has a Chill 20 attacks but is partially reduced by protection. Other units will be slowed down by snow but they and the recruitable oni commanders will not be.
	Oni Spawns in mountains or highlands	Gluttony (2) Pillager(1) Cause Unrest(+0.5 per month) Wounded Shape Oni Spirit	Higher quality Oni that comes out of the mountains. when mixed with other units they are decent in combate.
	Kuro-Oni Spawns in mountains or highlands	Resist Fire(5) Resist Poison(5) Gluttony (3) Pillager(2) Cause Unrest(+0.5 per month) Wounded Shape Oni Spirit	upgraded Oni with minor resistance, throw fire, and Spit poison.
	Amanojaku Spawns in mountains or highlands Rare.	Sacred Resist Fire(5) Resist Poison(5) Gluttony (3) Pillager(2) Cause Unrest(+1 per month) Wounded Shape Oni Spirit	A Rare spawn. Sacred Demons in heavy armour. Too uncommon to make a strategy around them but try to bless them if used.

Death Dai Oni can get you up to 6, Fire can also go up to 5 with boosters. Earth can only go as high as 4. If you somehow get Air 2 on one of your national mages, then Dai Tengu is an expensive alternative to Fairy Queens for 3.

For thugs Death summons, if you go Conjuration, there are immortal Wraith Lords and Mound Fiends, the latter Could mass-produce you an army of Longdead Horsemen as a late-game option. Lich is an alternative going deep into late game Enchantment being an immortal 4 mage.

If you happen to get a 21 and a swamp lab, to get into Water, and then able to boost up to Water Queens if you do.

Hannya Pact 1 6 See Chunari

Greater Hannya Pact 2 12 See Hannya

Summon Kappa: 11 Conj 1 for 3 (summon 3 Kappa). Despite having Land Encumberance, If your lucky and expenditure of water gems, they can break you underwater by year 1. With their High Strength, Natual protection and Two attacks (one causes the limp affliction), a group can muscle out most Underwater Indies.

Ambush of Tigers: 3 Conj 3 for 10 (summon Tigerx10+[lv]). Fast moving two attacker. Can flank.

Ghost General 3 Conj 4 for 10. ( Shura) Shuras are ARMORED ghost commanders with 120 Undead Leadership, somewhat ideal for herding your Oni flocks. They're also standard Ghosts, with Etherealness, a Cold Aura, and Fear, and they have a Bane Blade; thus, they're okay for light raids, and they might counter certain thugs and supercombatants.

Summon Shikome 2 Conj 4 for 8. (Shikomex8). Sacred Berserkers with two Undead paralyzing claws. You get a good one-for-one trade with them, able to rend middle game chaff with buffs.

Contact Nushi: 21 Conj 5 for 25. Need a Swamp. ( Nushi) Nushis are basically Naiads with 312 instead of 33, not to mention their snake forms. Homesickness prevents them from moving far. They can't be away from her home Swamp for long, but they can be defensive by casting Bone Melter and Foul Vapors at invading armies. They can also help you climb other paths as they can cast Contact Naiad and (with a booster) Streams from Hades. On the other hand, Yomi doesn't have the native paths; their best chances are with the rare 21 Jade Sorceress (1-in-16 chance), from Swamps that have them.

Summon Gozu Mezu 3 Conj 6 for 7. ( Ox-headx1 + Horse-facex1) Gozu & Mezu have magic polearms which "Trap the Soul", inflicting a variety of False Fetters that requires 16 Magic Resistance to be more likely than not to resist; it does not Soul-Slay, despite the similar name, but it can keep troops and thugs with all but the highest levels of Magic Resistance pinned. The polearms also do massive damage, in the hands of their wielders. The Ox-headed one is stronger, and gets an additional attack that does half as much damage as their polearm, while the Horse-faced one has far better attack and defense.

Summon Araburu-kami 11 Conj 7 for 5. ( Araburu-kamix1) These punished kami can be strong frontline units, if you can stop what you're doing and make a ton of them. They also have magical ranged attacks, up until they take a single point of damage and drop their divine façade; having Awe before getting scratched and a second melee attack after they get scratched makes the frontlines better for them, however. They're by no means efficient to procure, but they're far-more-reliable Sacreds than your Amanojaku.

Tengu
They are Sacred Storm-immune Flyers. They have high Att and Def skill with their two-handed Katanas and they throw a single very weak Lighting bolt. Tengus Are not strong themselves but they are an ok trick in your pocket. After stunning enemy chaff for around with their lighting, With some buffs and a minor blessing they can kill mages and archers if they were not expecting flyers. Unfortunately, while still better at it than Shinuyama, Yomi has some trouble gettng them.

• Summon Karasu Tengus: 11 Conj 2 for 3 ( Karasu Tengux3). Crow-Tengu unfortunately require Empowerment or a lucky Deer Tribe Shaman if you want to summon them; this is kind of a bummer, because they're more skilled than the other Tengu.
  
• Summon Konoha Tengus: 11 Conj 3 for 5(summon 5 Konoha Tengux5 + [1/2 lv]). Big-Nosed Tengu are readily summoned by around a quarter of your Sorcerers, using Gems from your capital. On the other hand, these are your least-skilled Tengu, and Air Gems have a number of other uses (such as boosting your Research, or Site-Searching, or Empowering).
  
• Contact Dai Tengu: 21 Conj 5 for 55 (Karasu Tengux15 + Tengu Warriorx10 + Dai Tengux1). The big draw of this spell is the Tengu King, a Flying 3112 mage-priest with 80 Leadership. Empowerment (or a very-lucky Item drop, or an also-insanely lucky Dai Oni) is generally required to get a Summoner without Pretender foresight, whether that's empowering one of your wimpy senior Sorcerers or empowering one of your 1 Dai Oni (both for 30).
  

End of Weakness 2 Alter 6 for 1. A Battlefield Enchantment that lets your Dai Oni (or your Earth-random Sorcerer) give all of your Demons Barkskin. This comes one Level before Marble Warriors, but it's cheaper to cast, and it doesn't care how spread-out your Undisciplined Oni are.

End of Culture 5 Thum 6 for 60. A Global Enchantment that makes your Dominion Spread Turmoil, similarly to how Niefelheim spreads Cold, and that increases the Oni Spawn rate from Temples and Oni Summoners ( By how much?). Like any Global Enchantment, Other players may not like that you cast it and may dispel it; they might not like having reduced Recruitment Points just because they neighbor you, or that you might make enough free Oni to keep up with other nations.

Discuss the top few generic spells that most increase a nation's combat power or synergize with national strategies. These will generally be early-to-mid game spells since individual spells matter much more during those periods of the game. Some examples are Foul Vapors for MA C'tis, Horde of Skeletons + Sabbath Master/Sabbath Slave for the Niefelheim line of nations, Mother Oak for the Pangaeas, Wailing Winds access, etc. For broader advice on magic use, link to Not-Lola's Basic Magic Use Guide.

This is also a good place to point out notable magic weaknesses, such as a lack of nature access making a nation vulnerable to Foul Vapors.

List and describe any unique national items or discounts in this section, discuss and compare with similar generic items. Also discuss generic items that are useful and accessible for the nation. These may include:

• Thug gear (if the nation has good thugs)
• Research boosters (particularly if the nation needs help researching or is already very good at researching)
• Other items that synergize with the nation (e.g. Dwarven Hammers for MA Ulm)

This is probably the most difficult section to get consensus for. Describe how strong the nation is during expansion, the early, mid and late game, and what makes it strong/weak at each of those points. This should give readers an idea of where the weaknesses of a nation lie (if they have not been shown already) and when to take advantage of a nation's strengths.

List some example expansion strategies here. If a strong bless or pretender is required then leave the specifics for the pretender section.

List some example pretender builds. Try to use the following format to keep authorship and pretender design rationale clear.

EA Yomi, underrated power house by kurple (2018)

Dominions 5 - EA Yomi (overview & multiplayer playthrough) by LucidTactics (2018)

Dominions 5: Yomi Design and Expansion by Yakri (2017)

Not-Lola's Order Yomi Build by Not-Lola, hosted on HP Munchcraft's channel (2021)

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