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[Lion.Kanzen]

I didn't know this was a thing in AoM until recently.

[Genava55]

15 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

I didn't know this was a thing in AoM until recently.

These are only possible in a scenario or in the editor. You cannot create them.

Edited October 5 by Genava55

[Lion.Kanzen]

30 minutes ago, Genava55 said:

These are only possible in a scenario or in the editor. You cannot create them.

According to what I read(or I saw in a video), it was one of the main ideas that were later discarded.

Now I know where some of Delenda Est's ideas come from.

[Lion.Kanzen]

 

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31457

It seems there was a video of that.

I found the following:

at 0:46 villagers can be seen praying outside a shrine; maybe in early versions the temple was used only to create mythological creatures and god favour was obtained through sending villagers to a shrine?. I have this idea mainly because: the shrine building in the retail version can be placed only in the editor and can be seen in some campaign scenarios and each culture group (greek, egyptian and norse) have a different model for the shrine building; and at the end, when you click the building, it has its own sound. My thesis is that it is a scrapped building later recycled as campaign decoration only.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Pilgrims and the making of pilgrimages are common in many religions, including the faiths of ancient Egypt, Persia in the Mithraic period, India, China, and Japan. The Greek and Roman customs of consulting the gods at local oracles, such as those at Dodona or Delphi, both in Greece, are widely known. In Greece, pilgrimages could either be personal or state-sponsored.[7] The Eleusinian mysteries included a pilgrimage. The procession to Eleusis began at the Athenian cemetery Kerameikos and from there the participants walked to Eleusis, along the Sacred Way (Ἱερὰ Ὁδός, Hierá Hodós).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

Maybe they could generate gold instead of glory.

 

[Lion.Kanzen]

Abandoned temple ruins, maybe it would be another mechanic.

I must investigate further, with secrets and unique technologies from some forgotten civilization.

In this way, knowledge from another era would be discovered.

[Lion.Kanzen]

On 05/10/2024 at 4:15 PM, Lion.Kanzen said:

According to what I read(or I saw in a video), it was one of the main ideas that were later discarded.

Now I know where some of Delenda Est's ideas come from.

I found written sources.

https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Cut_content_(Age_of_Mythology)

 

 

 

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The Shrine was originally used to train (Alpha) Classical Age Myth Units and research related technologies, with the Temple becoming available in the (then second) Heroic Age. The building is available in the Scenario Editor, though due to human error the Egyptian Shrine model is a renamed copy of the Archaic Age Egyptian Temple (and thus will be bigger than its obstruction radius)

Major Temples were cut, only an animation file remains. It may have been yet another variant of the temple that became available in the third age (Olympic Age) of the pre-release builds, training the myth units, and researching technologies then.

Greek Major Temples were most likely reused for the Temple of the Gods building, whilst the Norse Major Temple was based upon (erroneously) Stonehenge.

Edited October 17 by Lion.Kanzen