Factions

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There are several types of Factions: Vanilla, which includes the Good & Evil Factions, Neutral, Prestige, and Mercenary. The Vanilla Factions show up by default, but the others first need to be unlocked. Once unlocked they will stay unlocked throughout all soft resets.

To affiliate with a Faction, you first need to choose their Alignment by purchasing their **Proof**. This makes all the Factions of that alignment available, and you can then choose which one to affiliate with by purchasing their **Trade Treaty**.

## Vanilla

Good and Evil Factions together are called "Vanilla".

## Good

Good Factions are oriented to a more active game-play, focusing on spells and treasure clicks.

## Evil

Evil Factions are oriented to a more idle game-play, focusing on steady and passive building production.

## Neutral

The Neutral Factions were added in the *Ancient Races* expansion. They cover a mixture of both active and passive game-play and may offer faster advancement than Good and Evil factions. Neutral Factions are only available once you have reached 1 B (1E9) gems and fulfilled certain requirements.

See Titan, Druid, and Faceless pages for more details.

## Prestige

Part of the *Underworld* and *Ancient Eternals*, the Prestige Factions are purchased in addition to, either a Vanilla Faction of the same alignment, or a Neutral Faction. They enable the player to combine the powers from both factions, giving combinations such as *Dwairy* for Fairy-Dwarf, *Droblin* for Goblin-Drow, or *Dragtan* for Dragon-Titan.

See the Dwarf, Drow and Dragon pages for more details.

## Mercenary

Mercenaries were added in the *Afterlife* expansion. They can combine the spells and upgrades from all the other factions to create custom cross-faction mercenary builds.

See the Mercenary page for more details.

## Description & Structure

    Each Faction has its own Faction-specific spell and 3x4 Tier upgrades (or 4x4 for mercenaries), and each bare their own distinctive appearance and color code. Faction upgrades have the faction-color for the background, and the interior metal-colors are the same for all factions.

In the example image on the right are the 12 yellowish Titan Faction upgrades.
In the first row are the bronze colored Tier 1 upgrades, in the second row, the silver colored Tier 2 upgrades, and third, the gold colored Tier 3 upgrades.

For all factions, the first upgrade of each tier are:

1. **Trade Treaty**, always represented with a scroll, enables to affiliate with the faction in question.
2. **Friendship Pact**
3. **Alliance** For vanilla and neutral factions, enables the related prestige faction's trade treaty to show up.

These can only be purchased in order of tier : Once the Trade Treaty has been purchased, the Friendship Pact will show up, and once the Friendship Pact purchased, the Alliance.

For all factions, they unlock the following metal-colored upgrades of the same tier, and cost Faction coins. The remaining metal-colored upgrades cost gold coins.

## Notation:

In order to simplify, instead of using the full individual names of each Faction upgrade, they can be identified numerically. For example : **Druid (2,3)** refers to the third secondary Tier upgrade belonging to Druid, which, in this case, is an upgrade named *Shapeshifting*.

In Mercenary build templates, the faction upgrades are numbered 1 to 9, and are preceded by the faction abbreviation.

## Tips

    In the early game, it is advised to quickly affiliate with each Faction at least once, because for each Faction, purchasing all their upgrades once grants their Faction Champion trophy, which in turn rewards their exclusive and universal Heritage upgrade.

The quantity of bought faction upgrades is tracked throughout reincarnations, and is required to unlock Bloodlines.

## References

1. ↑ *The Neutral Prestige faction, Dragon, was implemented during the expansion v.2.3 Ancient Eternals. (Oct 2016)*
2. ↑ *Since v2, each faction also have visually distinctive assistants.*
3. ↑ *RG v2 uses similar faction color codes from the previous UI, but have dropped their symbols. See previous Titan and Elven faction upgrades.*

## See Also

* Faction Upgrades
* Faction Upgrades by Effect