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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: The Balseraph Catapult launches ''[[Everything's Better
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Alazkan the Assassin, Gibbon Goetia, Kithra Kyriel, the Octopus Overlords...
* [[Age of Titles]]: The Age of Ice scenario.
* [[Alien Non
** The reason it's an unenforceable joke is that the gods are free to empower their human followers to act in their stead, as well as be summoned into Erebus via human-controlled magic. The aforementioned Infernals and Mercurians (as well as the Illians) take these loopholes to their logical conclusion.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Sort of. The in-game Civilopedia is less then trustworthy, but there is a PDF manual to help out newbies. And if it's a [[Backstory]] question, go to the forums and ask away.
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* [[Black Magic]]: Is your mage playing with Death and/or Entropic magic? They'll be joining the [[Legions of Hell|Infernals]] as a manes if they get killed.
* [[Blood Knight]]: The Eidola, the [[The Legions of Hell|demon]] version of the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy
* [[Bonus Level of Hell]]: The Lord of the Balors scenario.
* [[Celtic Mythology]]: The names of the majority of characters come from here.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Falamar. A less-than-chivalrous imposter of his attacks a woman in the opening text of one of the scenarios, only for the real Falamar to show up, kick his ass, and escort the poor girl home.
** The real Falamar is more a [[Chick Magnet]] with an [[Blessed
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: In terms of story there are a couple of people who qualify, and this being [[Civilization]] it runs rampant in the game.
** And the Council of Esus religion has a synergy with this attitude.
* [[Circus of Fear]]: The Balseraph civilization's [[Planet of Hats|hat]]. Occasionally mixed with [[Rule of Funny]].
* [[Circles of Hell]]: [[Swamps Are Evil|There]] [[Town
* [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]: The standard military units are represented by a group, but most of the more powerful units depict a single fighter.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Keelyn, who was raised by [[Raised
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: The Order definitely has some shades of this.
* [[Deal
* [[Death World]]: In the early stages of [[Civilization]], barbarians represent a minor but incessant nuisance. In [[Fall From Heaven]], they are [[It Got Worse|far more dangerous]].
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Cassiel, who fell because he could no longer accept the Gods meddling in Creation.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The safest way to kill [[Physical God|Auric Ascendant]] is with the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Godslayer]], but [[Zerg Rush|sending soldiers en masse]] will suffice.
* [[Disk One Nuke]]: In earlier games, civs with an archmage hero coming reasonably early could [[Mind Rape|Dominate]] [[Cult|Sons of the Inferno]], who have good strength and [[Game Breaker|can summon Fire Elementals]]. It is now significantly harder to do this, but still possible.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: You play a male leader? You will have a little diplomatic malus with [[Lilith|Os-Gabella]], who [[Double Standard Rape (Divine
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: While the Fall From Heaven universe is, as the name suggests, [[World Half Empty|usually unpleasant]], some of the civilizations are genuinely decent people... and there's the [[Ascend to
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Octopus Overlords religion is based around worshipping these.
** To be exact, the Octopus Overlords are "Incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities created by nightmares of a mad man, empowered by the dreams of the sleeping god of water, who has the Lord of Nightmares and Madness whispering in his ear." Yeah.
*** To be even more exact, [[Expy|they're]] [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: A whopping 21 of them are available to the mage classes: [[Another Dimension|Dimensionnal]] versus Enchantment, Law versus [[Entropy and Chaos Magic|Chaos]], [[Psychic Powers|Mind]] versus Metamagic, Creation versus [[Entropy and Chaos Magic|Entropy]], [[Green Thumb|Nature]] versus [[An Ice Person|Ice]], [[Healing Hands|Life]] versus [[Animate Dead|Death]], [[Light'Em Up|Sun]] versus [[Casting a Shadow|Shadow]], [[Playing
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]
* [[Enemy Mime]]: The Balseraphs have a sword-wielding mime unit called a Mimic.
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** The Neutrals (Loyals to the One, but less involved than the Good Gods):
*** [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|Arawn]], Angel of Death, [[Somebody Else's Problem|passivity]] and retirement. Associated with [[Animate Dead|Death mana]] (even if he disapproves its use), and [[Our Ghosts Are Different|the Sidar]] (even if he doesn't care about them).
*** Cernunnos, former Archangel of Sucellus and now Angel of Growth and progressive change. Associated with [[Green Thumb|Nature mana]] and [[Our Elves Are Better|the Ljosalfar]]. [[In Harmony
*** Dagda, Angel of [[Balance Between Good and Evil|Balance]], contracts, and democracy. Associated with [[Anti-Magic|Force mana]], and [[Badass Normal|the Grigori]] (due to their leader [[Defector From Decadence|Cassiel]] being his former Archangel, even if the Grigori themselves [[Nay Theist|don't worship any God]].
*** [[Cool Old Guy|Danalin]], Angel of Water and serenity. He is associated with [[Making a Splash|Water mana]] and [[Pirates|the Lanun]]. [[Heroic BSOD|Now sleeping]] after the [[Despair Event Horizon|disparition]] of his race, [[Fish People|the Aifons]], [[Your Mind Makes It Real|his nightmares created]] [[Eldritch Abominations|the Octopus Overlords]].
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** The Evil Gods, who rebelled against the One for various reasons:
*** [[Genius Bruiser|Aeron]], former [[The Big Guy|Angel of Strength]], now Angel of Rage, [[Lawful Evil|domination of the strongs]] and [[Lust|physical pleasure]]. Associated with [[Super Strength|Body mana]] and [[Our Vampires Are Different|the Calabim]].
*** [[Satan|Agares]], former Angel of [[Hope Springs Eternal|Hope]], now Angel of [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Despair]]. Associated with [[Entropy and Chaos Magic|Entropy mana]] and [[The Legions of Hell|the Infernals]] (with his Archangel Hyborem leading them). The [[Bigger Bad]] of the setting, worshipped along with the demons and the various evil gods by [[Deal
*** [[Fallen Hero|Bhall]], former Angel of Fire and [[Heroic Resolve|righteous indignation]] up until the [[Fall From Heaven Age of Ice|Age Of Ice]], now Angel of Passion and [[Unstoppable Rage|fury]]. Her associated mana is [[Playing
*** Camulos, former [[The Heart|Angel of Peace]], now [[Ax Crazy|Angel of War]] and strife. Associated with [[Wild Magic|Chaos mana]], [[Barbarian Tribe|the Doviello]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolves]].
*** Ceridwen, former Angel of the Stars, now Angel of Magic and unhealthy relationships. She is associated with [[Another Dimension|Dimensional mana]] and [[Omnicidal Maniac|the Sheaim]]. Possibly [[The Man Behind the Man|the woman behind Agares]], and on of the most active of the gods in [[The End of the World
*** Esus, former Angel of [[The Power of Trust|Trust]], now Angel of [[Consummate Liar|Deception]], relativism, and incertainty. Associated with [[Casting a Shadow|Shadow Mana]] and [[The Fair Folk|the Svartalfar]]. Worshipped by [[Secret Circle of Secrets|the Council of Esus]].
*** Mammon, former [[Seers|Angel of Foresight]], now Angel of [[Greed]]. Associated with [[Psychic Powers|Mind mana]] and [[Circus of Fear|the Balseraphs]]. His Archangel [[Cthuhlhu Mythos|Hastur]], [[Names To Run Away To Really Fast|Lord of the Nightmares]], is responsible for twisting the [[Your Mind Makes It Real|nightmares]] of [[Making a Splash|the god Danalin]], making him partially responsible for the creation of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Octopus Overlords]].
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* [[Five Races]]:
** The good civilizations:
*** Stout: [[Chew Toy|The]] [[Mecha
*** Fairy: [[Light Is Not Good|The]] [[Soulsaving Crusader|Mercurians]], [[Our Angels Are Different|angels]] [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|come]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|to]] [[Back From the Dead|battle]] [[He Who Fights Monsters|the]] [[The Legions of Hell|Infernal]].
*** Mundane: [[Good Is Impotent|The]] [[Actual Pacifist|Elohim]], [[You Shall Not Pass|defenders]] [[Butt Monkey|of]] [[Warrior Monk|Holy]] [[Barrier Warrior|places]], and [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|the]] [[Arabian Nights
*** High Men: [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|The]] [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|Bannor]], [[Knight Templar|holy]] [[Good Is Not Nice|crusaders]].
*** Cute: [[Land of One City|The]] [[City of Adventure|Kuriotates]], [[Pals
** The neutral civilizations:
*** Stout: [[Elaborate Underground Base|The]] [[Shout-Out|Khazad]], [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarven]] [[The Empire|empire]] [[Naive Newcomer|ruled]] [[Dishing Out Dirt|by]] [[Greed|gold]].
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*** Mundane: [[Defector From Decadence|The]] [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks|Grigori]], [[Nay Theist|godless]] [[Badass Normal|heroes]], [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|the]] [[Animal Motifs|Hippus]], [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] [[Cool Horse|horsemen]], and [[True Neutral|the]] [[Chivalrous Pervert|Lanun]], [[Pirate|pirates]] [[Lovable Rogue|and]] [[Boarding Party|rulers]] [[Privateer|of]] [[Not-So-Safe Harbor|the]] [[Religion of Evil|sea]].
*** High Men: [[Magnificent Bastard|the]] [[Proud Scholar Race Guy|Amurites]], [[The Magocracy|masters]] [[In the Blood|of]] [[Magical Society|sorcery]].
*** Cute: [[Hidden Elf Village|The]] [[Norse Mythology|Ljosalfar]], [[Our Elves Are Better|elven]] [[You Shall Not Pass|defenders]] [[In Harmony
** [[Fantasy Axis of Evil|The evil civilizations]]:
*** Savage: [[Jungle Japes|The]] [[Barbarian Tribe|Clan]] [[Hot-Blooded|of]] [[Playing
*** Eldritch: [[Another Dimension|The]] [[Demonic Invaders|Infernal]], [[Our Demons Are Different|demonic]] [[The Legions of Hell|harbingers]] [[Circles of Hell|of]] [[Physical Hell|Hell]].
*** Humanoid: [[Psychopathic Manchild|The]] [[Monster Clown|Balseraphs]], [[Crazy Awesome|the]] [[Faux Affably Evil|twisted]] [[Circus of Fear|carnival]].
*** Fallen: [[To Serve Man|The]] [[Dystopia|Calabim]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampiric]] [[Aristocrats Are Evil|aristocracy]], and [[Evil Counterpart|the]] [[The Fair Folk|Svartalfar]], [[Our Elves Are Different|elven]] [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|assassins]] [[Casting a Shadow|and]] [[Master of Illusion|illusionists]].
*** Crafty: [[A God Am I|The]] [[An Ice Person|Illians]], [[Have You Seen My God?|legacy]] [[Nostalgia Filter|of]] [[Physical God|the]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|fallen]] [[Our Gods Are Greater|god]] [[Grim Up North|of]] [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|winter]], and [[Black Magic|the]] [[Evil Sorcerer|Sheaim]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|Seekers]] [[Summoning Ritual|of]] [[The End of the World
* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: Averted, though gunpowder is a very late-game tech.
** Played literaly with the Callabim who are barred from gunpowder units. While not explicitly stated perhaps because said technology is too dangerous for their cattle to have.
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* [[Good Powers, Bad People]]: Spirit Magic is usually used to bring peace, inspire courage, and generally do good things. The dead archmage Laroth is using it to [[Rage Against the Heavens|conquer the underworld and overthrow the]] [[Somebody Else's Problem|non-interventionist God of Death]].
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Gibbon Goetia's modus operandi. Also what [[Monster Clown|Perpentach]] does when his old body grows, well, old.
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: [[Barrier Warrior|The]] [[Warrior Monk|Elohim]] can construct buildings and units from the original civilization of captured cities.
* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Also [[Faith Heel Turn]]. The only way to change alignment in the original game is to change religions.
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* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: Sthephanos (Conquest), Buboes (War), Yersinia (Pestilence) and Ars Moriendi (Death).
* [[If I Can't Have You]]: [[Love Makes You Evil|"Love most tragic, love most fair...]] [[You Do NOT Want to Know|you don't want to know the rest]].
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The Godslayer, which [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The Sheaim worldspell [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Knight Templar]]: The Order religion. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Maybe]].
** Then we have Basium, the leader of the Mercurians. He likes killing demons. And people who associate with demons. And people who use magic of a vaguely demonic nature. And anyone who's been in the same room as a demon at some point in time. And good people, but that's for a different reason: he wants them to return as angels to fight on his side.
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* [[Monster Clown]]: Perpentach, king of the [[Circus of Fear|Balseraphs]], a telepath who doesn't believe in [[Mind Over Manners]]. Every time he [[Mind Rape|invades another's mind]], however, [[Talking to Themself|he gets a copy of that person permanently placed in his]]. Suffice it to say, [[The Caligula|he is quite nuts]], though [[The Mad Hatter|he's learned to enjoy it.]]
** The Balseraph hero Loki is also a good example.
* [[The Heartless]]: The Avatar of Wrath. Born of people's hatred, fury, and despair. Since he's created on [[World Half Empty|Erebus]] during the grand finale of [[The End of the World
* [[Hero Unit]]: Not usually a representation of the [[Non-Entity General|player]], but very useful and capable of turning the tide of battle.
* [[Mind Rape]]: The game includes a [[Deconstructed Trope|very dark portrayal]] of the usually-innocuous [[Charm Person]] spell; essentially, it warps the genuine emotions of love and protection that the target feels for, say, their friends or family, and then maps it to the caster instead. The victim still hates the person who's doing this to them, but the mental manipulation is so great that it leaves the victim [[And I Must Scream|completely unable to fight back or even defend themselves while the caster's allies cut them to ribbons]].
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Sheaim civilization's [[Planet of Hats|hat]].
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Sabathiel: "His mind appeared to work on an entirely different plane. While humans had to stumble through their choices, hoping the one they made was the best possible, the angel simply knew. He was capable of total mercilessness, of deceit and exquisite cruelty, but the results of an action commanded by Sabathiel would always be better than any alternative course of action could have brought. The angel, however heartless and wrong he seemed at the time, was always right."
* [[Orcus
* [[Our Angels Are Different|Our Angels Are]] [[Ax Crazy]]: The Mercurians, rogue angels who fell for the sole purpose of hunting demons. They don't much care about humans who happen to be in the way.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The Khazad are isolationists who love their gold, have a slight taste for [[Steampunk]], build the best siege engines in the game, and are completely useless with magic. The Luchuirp have never actually lived underground, also love [[Steampunk]], and use golems for everything, including and especially war.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: The Ljosalfar are the local wood elves. As usual, they're [[Rain of Arrows|masters of archery]]. But they exchange [[Hidden Elf Village|the usual isolationism]] for [[The Empire|a more proactive approach]]. The Svartalfar are the resident dark elves. They don't live in caves: [[Depending
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: The orcs of Fall From Heaven are physically like Blizzard orcs ([[Spikes of Villainy|WITH SPIKES!]]), and culturally straddle the line between Blizzard and Tolkien variants; the Clan of Embers is slightly more the former, the barbarians more the latter. Jonas Endain of the Clan is almost a counterpart to [[
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The Calabim, a vampiric aristocracy who [[Dystopia|treat their human subjects]] [[To Serve Man|like cattle]] (or worse). They aren't undead, and the blood-drinking isn't necessary; they [[Deader Than Dead|devour souls]] for [[Immortality Immorality|immortality]].
** It's a bit of a [[Flip-Flop of God]] in that regard, as in some pages of the civilopedia they are stated to eat souls, whereas in some others they are able to subsist on "lesser blood" when in need.
* [[Pals
* [[Personality Powers]]: Each Magic Sphere has such influence on the mage (or the god).
* [[Physical God]]: Auric Ascendant.
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* [[Pirate]]: The Lanun civilization, although they still live on land.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: The Hippus. The Doviello and Bannor have hints of this too, though the Bannor are more [[Knight Templar]] and the Doviello more [[Ax Crazy]].
* [[Raised
* [[Reality Warper]]: Hemah and Danalin's dreams.
* [[Reality Warping Is Not a Toy]]
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: The Ashen Veil. Octopus Overlords and the Council of Esus also qualify quite often.
* [[Room 101]]: The Octopus Overlords Asylum.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Chalid Astrakein, a [[Badass Bookworm]] who has his own spell, [[Kill It
** That said, he's a [[Subverted Trope|pretty nice guy]]. The Empyrean code he lives by is one of the more tolerant religions in the game universe (as opposed to [[Knight Templar|the Order]]), so as long as you're not a demon worshiper or other enemy of Good, you're safe with him around.
* [[Sculpted Physique]]: The angels, including [[Nay Theist|Cassiel]], Sabathiel and others.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sealed Good in
* [[Shadow Dictator]]: Sabathiel is this for the Bannor. {{spoiler|He's quit them a long time before the time of the official scenarios.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Many''. The Grigori cities are named after locations from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. The Lanun cities include [[
** And, according to [[Word of God]], a large part of the Great People names are [[Sdrawkcab Name|anagrams]] of [[The Muppets|Muppets names]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Its exact location depends on what civilizations are involved in any given game, and how well they do. It can go anywhere from [[Lighter and Softer|a peaceful world ruled by fundamentally good people]] to [[Darker and Edgier|a twisted hellscape where evil lunatics fight slightly less evil dictators to determine whether the world will be brutally enslaved or annihilated outright]]. The canonical position, though, is pretty far on the Cynical end.
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* [[Soul Jar]]: Tebryn Arbandi makes one out of Abashi the Black Dragon.
* [[Story and Gameplay Segregation]]: The two are kept in separate corners and forbidden to speak to each other on pain of death. Nothing prevents you from playing lore-wise pacifistic nations as greedy conquerors, and vice versa.
** They do manage to whisper to each other, on occasion. For example, in the civilopedia, Ethne The White has a dream in which she [[A Chat
** Also, the scenarios included with the main mod are more scripted.
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: The [[The Legions of Hell|Infernals]] cannot come to Erebus until summoned by an existing faction, but Hyborem owes no loyalty to his summoner, and may in fact decide that his summoner's people will serve better as Manes.
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Corlindale will quickly become this if the player knows what he is doing.
* [[Tech Tree]]: It's a [[Civilization]] mod, what do you expect? Differs from the original game's by having a greater variety of shorter, more specialised 'branches'.
* [[The Alliance]]: The mechanics encourage this when the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Armageddon]] [[The End of the World
* [[The Atoner]]: [[Technical Pacifist|Corlindale]], the [[Warrior Monk|Elohim]] Hero, and [[Badass Grandpa|Kylorin]], [[Retired Badass|at least]] in the [[Fall From Heaven Age of Ice|Age Of Ice]] scenario.
** The player is also free to do this with any of the evil civilizations by adopting a good-aligned religion to alter their alignment. Some civs, like the Clan of Embers, actually fare pretty well with this strategy.
* [[The Dragon]]: For a literal example, Drifa the White Dragon is [[Our Dragons Are Different|a dragon]] who is [[The Dragon]] to Auric.
** Hyborem is this to Agares.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: In the scenario ''[[Bonus Level of Hell|Lord of the Balors]]'', Keelyn. In normal gameplay, this is rare but possible.
* [[Ultimate Evil]]: [[Satan|Agares]] only appear in the backstory.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: The Sidar civilization has [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Shades]], men who give up part of their souls to become quite immortal. These souls are used by [[My Death Is Just the Beginning|Laroth]] as soldiers and weapons in [[
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Sabathiel.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Os-Gabella, the only true immortal (can't die even a violent death) in the cast of characters, wants to [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|end her existence]] and leads the Sheaim in their quest to [[The End of the World
** Not the only character - she has captured her also-immortal husband and experiments on him, using him as a guinea pig to find a way to end her life.
* [[World Half Empty]]: The default state of Erebus. Most ([[A World Half Full|but not all]]) civilizations, if not actively evil, [[Empire
* [[World-Wrecking Wave]]
* [[Zerg Rush]]: The Clan of Embers specializes in this. The AI however are more keen to do this with the Sheaim and their [[Goddamned Bats|Pyre zombies]]
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