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You have inherited the crown of [[The Kingdom]] of Ardania, a [[Medieval European Fantasy]] kingdom with a surplus of [[The Hero|heroes]] but a desperate need of an [[The Leader|inspired leader]] to lead them to victory. Taking up the throne of Ardania, it is your duty as Sovereign to forge alliances with [[Five Races|the other races]], placate the gods, hire heroes to defend your kingdom, and send them on quests to drive back the [[Exclusively Evil]] monsters that threaten Ardania's borders.
Released by Cyberlore in 2000, '''''Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim''''' portrays a typical fantasy [[RPG]] world from a slightly different angle. The game can probably best be described as a city-building [[Sim]] with [[Real Time Strategy]] and [[RPG Elements]], but that doesn't quite encompass the extent of the gameplay. The player is cast as the Sovereign of Ardania, a [[Affectionate Parody|deliberately stereotypical]] fantasy kingdom, and is given complete control over construction, taxation, research, and the hiring of heroes to defend the realm.
Gameplay starts with the player in control of their palace. From here, they can send out peasants to construct new buildings, including guardhouses for the [[Redshirt Army]], shops, and guilds, temples, and enclaves for other races. The last three all allow the player to hire heroes, the bulk of the game's units. Uniquely, Majesty does not allow the player to command their heroes directly - heroes will act intelligently based on their artificial intelligence, shopping and going hunting on their own time, but they can be enticed to act by placing bounties on specific enemies.
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An expansion back, appropriately titled ''The Northern Expansion'', was released in 2002; it was released with the original game in a box set called ''Majesty Gold''. A sequel, ''Majesty Legends'', was in development, but was eventually canceled. Paradox has since acquired the rights to the franchise, and ''Majesty 2'' is out now.
In addition, there is a version of ''Majesty'' recently developed for cell phones, by Herocraft and Paradox Interactive. To save on memory, it cuts out and/or fuses the functions of many aspects of the original ''Majesty'' (for example, you can only build temples to Agrela, Krypta, or Krolm, and they're all mutually exclusive, you can no longer hire gnomes, their dwelling instead providing a one-time reduction to construction time on all buildings on the map, although it still prevents you from hiring elves or dwarves, and several types of heroes, such as rogues, are removed entirely). This version takes, if possible, an even more tongue-in-cheek look at the stereotypical fantasy setting than the original version did, replacing the graphics with cartoony sprites and adding a number of blatant references (your wizards can randomly be named [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]]). The campaign is significantly shorter as well, comprising a handful of linearly unlocked missions.
Apart of the main games, two spinoff games set in the same universe have been released. The first one, ''Defenders of Ardania'', is a Tower Defense & Offense game. The second, ''Warlock: Master of the Arcane'', is a turn based 4X game in the style of ''[[Master of Magic]]'', and is considered a [[Spiritual Successor]] of it.
Both the main games and the spinoffs can be bought at [[Steam]] and [[GOG.com]].
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Judging by what crawls out, at least. Or rolls out. "Ratapults"?
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** Adepts, usually. They constantly use speed charms on themselves, making them the fastest characters in the game, and have incredibly good stats to boot. Unfortunately, they spend most of the time patrolling your palace, so they rarely put their skills to good use by, say, exploring or fighting monsters. And even when they do get into a fight, they're extremely cowardly, usually fleeing after a single hit. Once they get a few levels under their belts they shape up, especially in the Northern Expansion, which gives them the ability to teleport anywhere on the map, turning them into something of a magical SWAT team.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Warriors of discord are insane to the point of stupidity and are quite bloodthirsty. They wear leather "armor" and use a [[Blade on a Stick]]
* [[Back
** The sequel shifts the ressurection function to a graveyard building, eliminating the need to invest heavily into high level temples to access that ability. However, graveyards are placed automatically the first time a hero dies, and [[Blessed with Suck|periodically spawn animated skeletons and zombies]].
** Healers do this when killed. Once per gained level.
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** Majesty 2, and how! Each guild only holds 3 heroes, and the more advanced classes aren't available right away in most of the "beginner" and "advanced" quests. There is one mission where the kingdom is constantly under fire by a dragon, with minotaurs and serpents attacking your kingdom every 5 minutes, and including the annoyance of sewer rats and ratmen! Good luck hoping your heroes will survive the constant attacks in time to find the witch who will help you find a way to defeat the dragon...and did we mention this particular mission is listed as "Advanced", rather than "Expert"?
*** After awhile, the missions become essentially luck based. Monster Kingdom is damnright impossible after a few levels in due to the rampant cheating the AI puts your through
*** YMMV, and then some. Actually, one of the biggest complaints about this game is that once you get past the minute 10 mark on (MOST) maps, if you're still alive, you've won. The dragon level would probably qualify as more of a [["Wake
* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: Barbarians have a chance of going into one of these instead of dying.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Rogues, represented in-game by their being the class most susceptible to rewards. "[[Famous Last Words|Leave... my gold... ]]''[[Famous Last Words|alone]]''..."
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