There's not a single Death/Water item in Dominions

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Endoperez said:

DrPraetorious said it best:

Ha ha ha .

This is so cool, now there can be a hijacking of the thread with at least a couple new nerdy discussions, this time about whether (1) imaginary Tritons lay eggs or are placental mammals or are some sort of aquatic marsupial, and whether (2) blood sacrificing has anything to do with menstruating.

I'll kick off the discussion with a vote for aquatic marsupial, since with twice the equipment they'll have no trouble with all that frolicking.

And I've got to go with a resounding "No" vote on the blood-sacrifice-menstruating deal, since those Aztec dudes generally just yanked the heart out and didn't generally bother with any naughty bits AFAIK.

But this brings up a (3)rd discussion point ... is there something special about humans, which makes them the only type of acceptable blood slave? Visual observation shows even Lanka demons cart around a gaggle of human blood slaves, it seems chimpanzees just don't cut it.

[Argitoth]

I didn't think mermaids laid eggs.

You know what though? Try doing a blood sacrifice in shark-infested waters. I seriously don't think sacrificing underwater is a good idea. Lol

[thejeff]

I think you can assume the mages Lab won't be shark infested.

More generally, this brings up some conceptual problems with the whole poptype model. You can bloodhunt in any land province and you get human blood slaves. This would seem to indicate that, despite the defenders and recruitables the main population is always human. But those humans, and even those where both defenders and recruitables are human thrive best under the rulers temperature scale. Niefelhiem conquers some indy lizard province and suddenly their crops grow better in the dead of winter? Best not to think about it too much...

[Folket]

But when you conquer a new land you bring your own crop with you and force the original population to grow it. You are the chosen by god, why should not your food be the best?

[Kadelake]

Folket said:
But when you conquer a new land you bring your own crop with you and force the original population to grow it. You are the chosen by god, why should not your food be the best?

That's actually quite logical in a religious kind of way. Your people’s native crops (or whatever Giants eat) are adapted to the natural climate. When you conquer a new province you introduce your own crops since you don't want to eat filthy foreign food not blessed by your god. Religious wars don’t tend to be very reasonable or smart.

[Spendios]

Maybe what we need is just a LA Oceania of soulless mermen and triton lichs ?

[Argitoth]

thejeff said:Niefelhiem conquers some indy lizard province and suddenly their crops grow better in the dead of winter? Best not to think about it too much...

What crops do you know that grows in the dead of winter? Niefelheim surely don't eat conventional foods.

[Ballbarian]

Squirrel blubber.

[thejeff]

Right, that's the point. Neifel Giants may not eat conventional foods, but the humans that make up the bulk of the population everywhere do. So why do these humans suddenly come to love the freezing cold when they get conquered?

[Ballbarian]

Neifel Giants eat the human men thereby making blood hunting easier. Humans are in turn forced to eat frozen Squirrel blubber.