Underwater Nations!!!?

[UberPenguin]

I was remaking my entire nation-god settings for a new World War, I finished Abysia-humanbred, then I started on Atlantis, I realized why atlantis was always the bland, same old nation to me... it has no special themes! I was kind of sad at that, then I got to R'lyeh, it doesn't have a special theme either! Why, I ask, do the underwater nations have no special themes?
I also noticed that Jotunheim (is the only?) doesn't have a "normal" theme, but has "Iron Woods" instead of "normal." The other nations I see all have "Normal" there. Why are the underwater nations cursed with no themes, while Jotunheim has three, technically!?

[Norfleet]

Cthulhu doesn't need a theme. Cthulhu *IS* a theme!

[HotNifeThruButr]

Don't forget Broken Empires.

I like how they add themes, which are pretty much new nations in patches instead of expansions.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by UberPenguin:
I also noticed that Jotunheim (is the only?) doesn't have a "normal" theme, but has "Iron Woods" instead of "normal." The other nations I see all have "Normal" there.

I guess it's due to the way themes were introduced in Dominions 2. In PPP, Utgard was the standard Jotunheim, and Ashen Empire was the standard Ermor. Since these are the only 2 old nations which had their base theme changed, Iron Woods and Broken Empire had to be designed from scratch and got distinctive names, while the other nation's standard themes were just 'imported' from PPP unchanged.

[djtool]

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[djtool]

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