Cultists of Zigûr image - Age of the Ring mod for Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch King
11 unique factions full of new heroes, spells, and abilities. Hundreds of new maps. A brand-new campaign. A thoroughly reworked and expanded War of the Ring mode - and much more!
Cultists of Zigûr
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The Zigûr Cultists have dedicated their life and souls to the worship of Sauron inside their Black Sanctums. They surround themselves with willing acolytes that they sacrifice to the Dark Lord in order to cast a variety of spells.
MY LIFE FOR ZIGUR! (Actually the life of my servants xd)
I really hope you will incorporate the worship of Morgoth & Sauron in the gameplay & spell book. I've been dying to see a mod fully explore the potential of an evil human faction, influenced by Numenor, only twisted, complex and advanced culturally, worshipping evil and channelling its influence. Your designs are already miles ahead in variety and complexity to most mods that tackle the evil human faction idea. I can't wait to see how all of this is worked into game mechanics. Given how creatively you've incorporated lore into gameplay with the other factions, I genuinely can't wait. This is the most excited I've been watching the development of a BFME mod in years.
That's very kind of you to say, glad to hear that you're excited! Sacrifice and Melkor-worship are prevalent throughout Haradwaith: the Cultists sacrifice their acolytes to cast spells to fortify the player's units, the Golden King can empower units with dark magic that will inevitably kill them. Syâr-Rhul can brand units as traitors to Melkor - killing them to strengthen nearby units with the buff scaling with how many units were sacrificed.
Plus Zigûr himself references Morgoth many times in his powers and voice set!
Definitely Black Numenoreans.
The Mouth of Sauron influence screams within them, it’s quiet amazing to see what happened to the Majority of the Numenoreans who became the Kings men and departed from the Faithful who became Arnor and Gondor after Numenor sank by Zigûr!
Your team is the best modding community at this state revive such and old game into an epic invention.
It's getting better every day!
I know this is out of place but...why do i have the idea they would throw a really sick party? Like one of the best parties in Middle-Earth but with a heavier theme, only electronic music and would probably be in a giant cave or some tunnels. Or at the top of Barad-dur
I'm not much of a pharmaceutical adventurer, but fir an event like that I would make an exception to the rule.
Very amazing!
They look absolutely amazing. Might actually be my favourite.
Amazing models coming THANKss for everything
Is this the last faction for this wonderful mod because when the queen of spiders from Mirkwood showed up I was hoping there still be room for more war in the north stuff to show up like as another evil faction to balance out the good faction.?
Yes, Haradwaith will be the final faction added to Age of the Ring.
I love the outfit - the colors and golden ornaments fit together really well, creating this sort of darkly decadent feel to them. Also cool to see them wearing the veil over their faces, linking them to Syar Rhul!
what about alatar and pallando guys?
They will not be appearing in the mod.
Is the Cult if Zigûr going to be a religious establishment with mixed members all over Harad(like the Catholic Church in Europe) or is it going to be a Black Númenórean establishment, where the cultists are Black Númenóreans and the acolytes are mixed Haradrim?
I personally think the former is more interesting. Because it shows how Sauron's influence has infected Haradwaith, even with his absence and the small numbers of Black Númenóreans. The latter is still neat though, because it's a representation of how the King's Men(and Sauron indirectly) oppress their southern allies.