Reply To: Saga Age of Magic: Gaming in the gaps – do you have any wild ideas for warbands?

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Great additions to the thread. I’ve thought about Africa but its just a matter of narrowing down the area and really digging into the myths. I haven’t set my head to it as I think most minis lines you’d end up with would lack great distinctions. As far as cultural dress there are distinctions visually but medieval (?) Sub-Saharan Africa  just doesn’t have a history of armor that would lend a distinct look that separated one people from another very well.

Looking at the Japanese information I’m struck in the same way as when I first watched the film “The Mikado”. The listing that would be best in AoM for the forces would be The Otherworld. Its a catch all monstrous/mythical/eldritch supernatural force but you can probably take your oni army and say they are Lords of the Wild as they live in the cursed corners of the earth or perhaps The Horde from the sheer desire to spread far and wide from escaping the underworld. For the mechanics of Saga it pretty much runs light with minor variations between stereotypes of armies. There are no set armies for races as to allow for being miniatures agnostic. That being said, the Age of Magic book actually features various oni in the photos used for The Otherworld section as to show that its not all Eurocentric mythology minis.

Thinking back to the Slavic/Eastern European mythology there might be space for people who wanted to jump into something along the lines of The Witcher.

When you wrote “Philippians” did you mean the Philippines? That opens up Tagalog, Cebuano and Ilocano major language resources as well as a slough of smaller dialects to try and draw from depending on what island you’re on. It reminds me of the Netlfix series that just came out not long ago (terrible animation imo) that could be a jumping off point for monsters.