Shadows of the Lost – unique followers

Mod purpose in short:
💀 Destroy a faction → Gain a unique follower 👫

✨ Adds 340+ unique follower ancillaries (+64 Follower with Immortal Empires Expanded💥)
✨ Additionally: Magic items, item sets, abilities & spells

💡The idea behind this mod is simple:

Wipe factions from the map and claim their finest remnants. ⚔️

Defeating a Legendary Lord for a single trait never felt like enough.
If you conquer a faction completely, there should be something more to gain.

With this mod, every faction you erase from the world will reward you with a unique follower drawn from that faction’s identity, culture and theme.

Following the path of destruction also unlocks powerful artifacts.

On turn 3, you may choose which artifact set you want to pursue.
From that point on, you gain an item for every second follower earned until the chosen set is completed.

✔️ Items are optional and can be rejected via dilemma
✔️ Item sets grant additional bonuses and a unique army ability
✔️ Includes custom abilities and spells

🔥 349 Followers (+64 with IEE)
🔥 29 Magic Items (7 complete sets)
🔥 51 Abilities & Spells
🔥 7 Army Abilities

🛠️ Optimized for Immortal Empires and Immortal Empires Expanded
💾 Save-game compatible (the dilemma will trigger on next turn start if >3)
✅ Highly compatible with other mods (adds content only)
👫 Multiplayer compatible (limited testing)

🇨🇳 Chinese – Thx 玛丽莲猛撸
🇮🇹 Italian – Thx Thailady
🇪🇸 Spanish – Thx Kboss
🇫🇷 French – Thx Slavyk |ᴳᴷ| ᵖᶰˣ
🇷🇺 Russian – Thx Fesir
🇩🇪 German -Thx Balthasar23th

🔹Some of the effects are not displayed the moment you equip the follower! Especially the ones that give stat-boni to the whole army like +10% weapon damage. The army has to be "recalculated" first. This happens e.g. when changing stance, attacking or moving into settlement and a lot of other actions.

🔹Vassalizing a faction does not count as destroying it

🔹Confederation does count (side note: also "accept refugees" in the mod recruit defeated lords does count since it´s technically a confederation and it makes sense in the purpose of this mod: refugees = followers. I included a Dilemma that let you choose if you want that or if you decline followers from confederations completely. Only appears if you have recruit defeated lords active!)

🔹Quest- or event-spawned factions are excluded (e.g. rebellions)

🔹Roving Pirates are excluded – covered by my other mod

🔹AI does not get the items/followers. This would cause issues during AI turn simulation.

🔹I’ve put a lot of time into making the custom spells look and feel impactful – they’re absolutely worth trying out in battle

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⚠️ Disclaimer:
Side effects may include compulsive faction extermination and an unhealthy desire to get just one more follower.

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💀 Personal Note
This is my third and biggest mod so far. If you encounter bugs, game breaking balance issues or have suggestions, let me know in the comments. Any feedback is appreciated!

If you like it, like it 👍

My other mods:
Just More Items
Treasures of the Endless Deeps
Treasures of the Endless Oceans
No More (Un)Common Item Drops

Have fun! 🔥

Skulls

PS: Thanks to YTMightBeRuku for showcasing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJwv7GreNk