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EA Frostlings, Reign of the Ice Queens (now DE compatible)

Now updated to include a version compatible with Dominions Enhanced 2.12!


To the north of the regions occupied by the Vans, Chuds, and Rusian peoples are polar regions where the entrance to Kokytos is rumored to be located. Tribes of nomadic Frostlings, distant cousins of the rimvaetti wolfkin, eeked out a meager subsistence living across the arid taigas and tundras.

Bune, one of the Ice Devils of Koyktos, once corrupted an unknown Queen of Elemental Water, and their union led to the creation of an all-female magical race of pale-skinned humanoids. While few in number, these creatures somehow self-propagate by magical means, and soon there were enough to sally forth and conquer nearby Frostling tribes with superior magical and martial prowess. The leaders of these magical women, self-described 'Ice Queens' styled after their origin mother, realized the value of Frostlings as thralls and minions. One by one, petty chiefs came to pay tribute to and worship the Ice Queens, and permanent settlements were built around their temples and halls.

Now with the Awakening God, the Ice Queens, their progeny, and their Frostling subjects roll forward like a frigid fog to consume all who oppose them in their path.


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DESCRIPTION
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Welcome! This mod attempts to bring the Frostlings faction from the Age of Wonders series of games to Dominions 6, with the greatest influence from Age of Wonders 3 in particular. I tried to make the Frostlings fit within the Dominions universe lore as best as possible, and to give them enough differences that they are not an Early Age reskin of Vaettiheim. This nation is obviously not based on real world nations or mythology, but I did include a real life myth from the Saami people of northern Scandinavia in the description for one of the heroes.

Credit also goes to makers of SpriteGen and sprite artists of the Magic Enhanced mod for Dominions 5 for some of the units or inspirations for sprites.

Magic:
- This is primarily a Water and Death nation, with medium access to Nature and Air, and weak but important access to Fire. Heroes give moderate Blood and Astral access.
- Frostlings have 7 national combat spells and 3 national ritual spells.

Priests:
- H1 mage-priests in every fort, H2 cap-only mage-priest.

Troops:
- Frostlings are size 2 with stats similar to Vaetti, but have 10 cold resistance and -5 fire resistance (however, there is a very early national spell to buff fire res in a moderate AoE), snow movement, and are mostly stealthy
- Frostlings cavalry include dire wolves and mammoths
- The sacreds are large female magic beings with magic weapons and can be recruited out of any fort, provided it is at least Cold 1 in that province
- Cap-only mindless inanimate made out of ice with cold power and ice protection

Summons:
- There are 3 units that are either ritual or combat summons

Items:
- No special items

Infrastructure:
- The capital has a powerful Ice Castle, but outlying forts are fortified villages. These take only 4 turns to build and cost 800 gold, but have weak wall strength, much like EA Rus in Dominions 5 (This turn-advantage may be too powerful and get changed in a future patch)

Scales and Domain
- Cold 3 and dominion spreads cold. Unfortunately, I could not figure out a mod command from the manual on how to prevent excess population deaths from cold like with Niefelheim. This may get changed in a future patch if this mod command becomes available


I may make additional tweaks to balance and add a missing attack sprite for some of the heroes. I welcome your feedback!