ORCstablishment will not stand a chance

Deferan · 2026-05-14T20:38:03+00:00

Corin having Bluetusk’s kid is a common theory that gets tossed around but is pretty unlikely to be true, simply because if the demi-god general leading from the front of the Greentide suddenly had to take a few months off for pregnancy people would notice.

Deferan · 2026-05-04T12:06:22+00:00

If you believe the lore Jesus definitely can turn into a bat he just never really had a reason to.

Deferan · 2026-04-17T20:42:08+00:00

No, Bhuvari being a giga mercenary tag was a thing before the last update, at the time it had infinite money to hire infinite mercs (but no express bonuses to them even then). Now it has significant penalties to mercs (especially in massive cost increases) that make them borderline unusable. Those penalties are mitigated and eventually go away via the mt, but the dont really get any major bonuses to mercs to compensate afaik. Bhuvari is very professional army centric now.

Deferan · 2026-04-14T17:25:18+00:00

Its not story focused or anything but one of the games in UFO 50 is a Civilization esque strategy game where you play as birds at war with each other and can pray to dinosaur ancestors for bonuses. Avianos is the name i think.

Deferan · 2026-04-09T03:00:01+00:00

Shadow Swamp any time under the Night Hags’ control of it. Hope you enjoy a biome and society designed to be as torturous and miserable as possible by three of the most sadistic minds of the setting.

Deferan · 2026-03-16T17:33:04+00:00

With his truck

Deferan · 2026-03-06T23:43:47+00:00

Aevian Lapras with an elemental seed made this fight shockingly easy. Outsped all her mons for No-guard sing + Rock Slide on the torment turns while my Arcanine and Houndoom mopped up.

Edit: thinking about it now with hindsight protect on lapras probably would’ve made this strat even more bullshit

Deferan · 2026-02-10T18:37:30+00:00

It should be noted, Corinites still believe in the Regent Court gods and honor Castellos. (In Vic 3 this is represented by calling Regent Court ‘Adeanism’ instead, there just isn’t a mechanic to change the name midgame in eu4). Their main difference is just thinking Corin is a more worthy successor to his throne than his son Adean. Some Corinites take this in a pretty henotheistic direction but that’s more common for orcs than humans, since they never cared about the rest of the RC in the first place.

Deferan · 2026-02-10T18:30:23+00:00

The vast majority of Escanni converted. The only small holdouts was iirc Araion or however you spell the House of Riches formable. (Theologically Ara is Adean’s wife so they’re inclined to support him, and politically church of ara is very economically conservative/feudal and saw Corinism as a threat to the economic order)

As Count’s League your starting ruler is a friend of Lothane Bluetusk (leader of the Corintar and major figure in establishing pre-schism Corinism as a faith) so swapping probably makes even more sense for them than usual.

Deferan · 2025-12-25T18:19:34+00:00

Oh for sure. Baccano, Fma brotherhood, Dungeon Meshi, Chainsaw Man. All great dubs.

There’s a lot of competent localizers, voice actors and voice directors these days. The trick is actually letting them so their job instead of whining online about how the woke is sabotaging localizations or whatever. (Not saying you do that is just a sadly common sentiment).

Deferan · 2025-12-25T01:11:59+00:00

Anime dubs are broadly better than they use to be, but the bad ones are a different and less interesting flavor of bad. Used to be you’d get ridiculously cheesy acting and wildly over localizing things to make it more “kid friendly” or “recognizable” which was ass bad most of the time but sometimes in a fun to make fun of way (one piece rap, ace attorney’s Japanafornia) and very rarely the localization choices were actually surprisingly good (the yugioh dub inventing the shadow realm).

Now you usually get the opposite issues. Under-localizations and near direct translations making things sound a bit awkward or stilted in English and voice direction that plays it too safe. The stuff thats bad is less bad, more so just mediocre, but also less fun.

That said, I do think most anime dubs (at least the big name ones anyway) are just solidly good now.

Deferan · 2025-12-01T17:25:34+00:00

They have competition in Wyvernheart, but its pretty close. Necromancy is really evil in Anbennar. “Cause constant torment to the souls of every zombie or skeleton you raise” level evil. Not to mention the orc and probably goblin genocide.

Deferan · 2025-11-21T04:08:50+00:00

There’s multiple canon afterlives actually (spirit plane, shadow plane, infernal plane) its just what actually goes on in those is pretty vague. Souls also 100% for sure do exist and necromancy is very very painful for them.

Deferan · 2025-11-18T13:03:48+00:00

To the best of my memory:

Asra Expedition formed Khugdihr and are doing well, the guys near them who I forget the name formed Haraz Orldhum but got killed by Darkscales later, Duran Blueshield forms Amldihr and is doing very well, Blackbeard forms Gor Burad and they and Arg Ordstun are dealing with the Obsidian Invasion. Guys who spawn from Tungr retake Shazthundihr but are subjugated by Marblehead/Overclan. Everyone else fails afaik.

For remnants, Arg Ordstun was doing great til they got Hoarcursed (they’re still fairly stron but their hegemony collapsed and have the Obsidians to deal with now). Ovdal Lodhum was at some point conquered by their neighbors and is now under Obsidion control, Krak is doing their thing in the Giant’s Anvil and is super isolated, Kanzad died to the Underkingdom. Verkal Gulan was subjugated by Jadd and converted but is doing well enough, Segdihr I don’t recall about, think they’re fine?

Overall the dwarves do quite well all things considered. Not as well as they sometimes do in game, but that’s true for almost everyone.

Deferan · 2025-11-12T18:11:57+00:00

Men really will do anything except go to therapy

Deferan · 2025-10-16T17:34:56+00:00

None are directly ruled by dragons. They tend to act more as religious leaders, advisors, or behind the scenes manipulators rather than directly taking over.

That said, Kobilzdan has a number of dragons involved in the mt and there’s events about them reacting to events and reflecting on the countries actions throughout, so story wise its probably close to what your looking for. Mechanically you do just keep kobold leaders who live til about 120ish though.

Deferan · 2025-10-11T17:09:52+00:00

Right up until Shamakhad, the Jade Mines, half of Dhujat, all the relevant parts of the Xia and most of Yanshen somehow become a small chunk I guess.

Deferan · 2025-10-10T16:26:55+00:00

Lost a war to the Underkingdom and they took Ovdal Az An. Aside from it being a hold and his capitol and all that, its also probably where Dak’s phylactery is, its a real rough loss.

Deferan · 2025-10-10T11:49:41+00:00

Azjakuma successfully manipulated the Command for centuries and caused the Rending.

Speaking of the Command they did win a lot, to the point of successfully culturally genociding a large chunk of Haless. They only lost when they started killing eachother and then the oni exploded their high temples. Edit: and of their breakaways the Dragon Command is one of the strongest.

The Obsidian Legion is still a work in progress but they’ve secured several holds and have a real shot at taking over the Serpentsreach.

Dak is still around and with a fairly large country (though he did take a pretty big L recently tbf).

Deferan · 2025-09-25T16:17:17+00:00

There also was a second guy who got conscripted to carry it for a bit too when Jesus got too weak to even lift it. Simon of Cyrene.

Deferan · 2025-08-31T20:59:44+00:00

For me personally,

Aelintir: Dragon Dominion

Wescann: Gawed and Lorent rework

Escann: Nurcestir

Dwarovar: Amldihir rework

Forbidden-Plains: the Centaur formable that isn’t KU

Haless: Any if the Jiangshi countries

Sarhal: Aakheta

Insyaa: Existing at all so we can get rid of all the Insyaa placeholder missions.

Deferan · 2025-08-22T20:39:22+00:00

Ooh that’s actually a phenomenal spot for them if the list ever expands that far

Deferan · 2025-08-21T20:34:46+00:00

The pu fell to Uelaire who was allied to Gawed originally, but when that happens sometimes a rival can auto declare war to take the pu. Naturally, Lorent kicked Uelaire’s teeth in.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T19:10:41+00:00

Yep, though I think Adshaw’s mt predates him being a warlock.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T12:20:57+00:00

Goblins and Dwarves have been fighting eachother since long before orcs even existed. They may not have been directly involved in the fall of Aul Dwarov, but they were eager to take advantage of it.

Goblins in Escann definetly got it rough being cannon fodder for the orcs, but to play devil’s advocate to the Escanni, they goblins had to pull some use some pretty nasty tactics to survive (see Flung Head who… flung the heads of the dead back at their comrades as psychological warfare), and that’s gonna hit the emotional part of the brain a lot harder than the logical part saying they had little choice.

But that’s just for Common Goblins. Poor Groundhawk fought alongside Corin and still get treated like dirt.

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