Animated Armor: The Lords of the Amber Plains bound their souls into suits of armor to survive Auriga's collapsing climate, turning themselves into the Broken Lords.The blurb on the faction description makes it clear that the Mezari are supposed to be who the Vaulters were before they crash-landed on Auriga. And Your Reward Is Clothes: Purchasing the deluxe version of Dungeon of the Endless gives you the Mezari, who are re-skinned Vaulters with a different leader screen and unit appearances.Their entire quest line revolves around becoming strong enough that they can never be imprisoned again. Morgawr remembers being imprisoned for centuries.The exact nature of the Queen is deliberately ambiguous, but since her Cult is made up of fanatic broken robots, it's likely she's some kind of AI that cannot self-terminate. This is also one of the reasons why she wants to destroy what's left of the Endless and anything associated with them. The fate of the Queen of The Cultists of the Eternal End still alive, still thinking, but unable to do anything but issue orders from the prison of her own body.There are "normal" people in their ranks, but they wear masks that make them look just like the robots. Ambiguous Robots: Cultists of the Eternal End are lead by Endless robots and use robots (or cyborgs) in their military.Ambadassador: Drakken heroes aren't too shabby in combat, learn tricks that keep Minor Faction armies from attacking them, and the faction as a whole can burn influence to force peace treaties or alliances.Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: The Vaulters, who remember their origins in space, develop manned space travel before they develop firearms they make do with Automatic Crossbows, salvaged Powered Armor, and Dust-powered Humongous Mecha.Alien Blood: The pearls used by the Allayi are actually clumps of Primordial Dust (the original form of Dust the Endless based theirs on) that come from Mother Auriga the Lost, who lives within and is fused to Auriga the planet.Is a Crapshoot: The Cultists of the Eternal End are led by malfunctioning Endless robots who have dedicated themselves to wiping out the legacy of the Endless. Auriga is currently one of the few survivors, but her days are numbered. The Endless also killed the Lost (a race of space-faring sentients from which Dust originated) and claim to have created it themselves.It's most fair to say that the Endless ranged from Benevolent Precursors to Neglectful Precursors, since their abuses were the result of the Dust Wars.EL twists the formula further with RPG-style heroes and a story quest for each faction that unlocks unique techs and structures for each faction. Unusually for a 4X the factions are distinct beyond bonus or penalized stats (though those are there as well), and unit designs can be altered/improved to make them mechanically-if not visibly-distinct. An Even Better Sequel to its predecessor, it uses the FIDSI (Food-Industry-Dust-Science-Influence) system from Endless Space on a hex map, with each hex producing one or more of them. Will you expand to cover the planet? Exterminate all who stand in your way? Rely on science or commerce? Or will you rediscover the secret legacy in your legends?Įndless Legend is a 2014 Science Fantasy 4X game developed by Amplitude Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive as the second game in the Endless setting, following Endless Space and followed by Dungeon of the Endless. With knowledge from Endless ruins and sufficient mastery of Dust (the magical substance that permeates everything on Auriga) the great nations can survive, and thrive. Shattered as they are the once-great nations are not powerless: They are the successors of the Endless, who left their mark on Auriga before destroying themselves. Natural disasters and internal strife force nations to take drastic survival measures, bringing them into contact and competition. Auriga is dying every winter is worse than the last according to every generation in living memory.
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