Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith

***Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith*** is a 4X turn-based strategy game created and published by Illwinter Game Design in 2017. It is characterized by simplistic graphics, a functional UI, and deep gameplay, with a roster of over 80 playable nations able to interact with more than 900 unique spells, 400 magic items, and thousands of different unit types. Players take on the role of pretenders, immortals with vast magical powers who are venerated as gods by a given nation. Their goal is to spread their faith, eliminate rival Pretenders and ascend as supreme god of their world. Compared to its predecessor, *Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension*, *Dominions 5* has been described as mainly a refinement, introducing real time combat for battles between armies, revising map generation, and a new system for blessings allowing the bonuses bestowed by gods to their nation to be customized.

While not having been adapted, Scarlet Marines had indeed watched a Dominions 5 playthrough-commentary by OfficiallyDevin. After watching watching two Dominions 5 playlists (the first wasn't completed) involving Middle Age T'ien Ch'i, this article was created by yours truly for the purpose of fun as well as creating Scarletverse nations. Some nations from the game will also be adapted.

## List of nations

### Sovereign Justice

#### Middle Age

 T'ien Ch'i, Imperial Bureaucracy | T'ien Ch'i is a Celestial Empire, led by a family supposedly chosen by Heaven itself. In practice, nothing is expected of the Imperial family, and we aren't sure if the Emperor is even aware of the Ascension Wars. Those handling the affairs of the Empire are the Emperor's Eunuchs, who attend to all corners of the Empire and engineer all aspects of its society. The Celestial Emperor and his eunuchs were made contact with scouts from Valaderis, who wish to discuss with them on the world around them. After meeting with the Governor-Militant and his officers in the Imperial Palace and learning of the barbarians' intent of overcoming Tien Chi, both the Northern Captaincy of Valaderis and the Celestial Empire of Tien Chi concluded an alliance with each other.

#### Reformist Wars

The Reformist Wars sub-section doesn't really exist in Dominions 5, so treat the Reformist Wars section as a sort of what-if scenario.

### Ancient Empires

#### Middle Age

In a sudden and unexpected turn of events, one that would upset the state of the world, the military governor of Kalaidis designated **Borealis Norsoutha**, a 16-year-old Kalaidian woman who studied under his tutelage, his heir as he worked to organize the governorate for a potential conquest. To the surprise of all but the few who knew her well, governor-heiress Borealis helped improve the governorial armies and transformed them from a massive, convoluted force to a small yet highly-professional army. In the next few years, the 20-year-old woman was made governor-militant and, unexpectedly, empress of Kalaidis; this unexpected coronation was done at the behest of the previous governor. Under her reign the region gradually transformed in several short months from a governorate to a proper empire that was worthy of becoming the heir to the Astrian Empire's lands. New methods were developed to allow the nation to prosper. And finally, the time has come to launch the empress's ambitions - to civilize the entire world.
Under her reign, Empress Borealis had espoused a religion, Pormasyneidism, or "The Formation of Consciousness". Though a small religion, her patronage before her becoming governor and then empress had helped spread the new faith throughout Kalaidis. The most high gods who were once foreign gods that had been adapted into this growing religion were **Amaterasu Omikami the Sun Goddess**, **Sagittarius the archer and scholar goddess**, **Persephone the goddess of destruction and the underworld**, **Ishtar the goddess of war, divine beauty and justice**, and recently **Sourastan (Surasthana) the goddess of nature, peace and knowledge**; unbeknownst to everyone, Empress Borealis had descended from Amaterasu, Sagittarius, Persephone and Ishtar, and she knew of her divine ancestry after finding relics, mosaics and stone tablets in a cave only she knows when she was 16.

#### Late Age

##### Kalaidian Empire

 Babylonia, Domain of Ishtar
 Yavana, Kingdom of Knowledge
 Japan, Land of the Rising Sun