Ancestor Worship Enhanced : An Anbennar Submod
From the guy who brought creepers to Anbennar comes Ancestor Worship Enhanced!
Ancestor Worship Enhanced aims to improve the Dwarven Ancestor Worship faith by better aligning its features with the religious lore of Anbennar by using existing EUIV mechanics.
The Gist of it:
Ancestor Worship now features the "ancestors" mechanics of Totemism. There has also been an overhaul of the UI elements relating to holy sites (which are still present, making this faith perhaps one of the most powerful).
The reasons for it:
In the setting, Ancestor Worship is best described by two large facets of its faith: The Great Nine Ancestors of the Dwarves, and the regionalism of the ancestral cults. The Great Nine are
ancient ancestors whose legendary lives and deeds have elevated them to worship by all dwarves. However, many followers of this faith also venerate their own local champions and leaders alongside this core roster. By enhancing Ancestor Worship with totemism mechanics, it becomes possible to reflect these facts in the game. I mean, it’s called ancestor worship. We have a mechanic for that in EUIV, it’s called Ancestors.
In the release version, the Totemism mechanics have been implemented, and all rulers following the faith with assigned personalities have been given their totemist counterparts. Negative personality traits have not been reimplemented yet.
Gerin Orcrend has received an appropriately overpowered personality to reflect his legendary status among the Dwarves of Ovdal Lodhum. I also hotfixed Ovdal Tungr’s ruler so he won’t die immediately.
In the future, I plan to introduce custom ruler personalities that can be earned through a variety of means (events, missions, conquest, etc), as well as the reimplement maluses for rulers.
