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Thera: Legacy of the Great Torment is a conversion mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms that creates an entirely new campaign map with a number of new and modified factions.

Thera was once a world much like our own: a world of vast forests and windswept plains, with mighty civilizations and rich, extensive cultures. The Great Torment happened. The ground heaved and shuddered, swallowing entire cities and cracking continents. Vast storms swept over regions for weeks, months, and in some places years. Frigid blizzards iced over many of the lands, and what wasn't frozen suffered famine and plagues. The civilizations of the world broke and scattered, with only the hardiest surviving the disasters that ensued. Some civilizations turned to warfare to survive, others to science, others to religion.

That was two hundred and twenty-two years ago. The seas have calmed, the storms have passed, the plagues have ended, and the fields are green again. The survivors of the Torment have banded together into a number of small civilizations, separated by vast lands of wilderness and hostile brigands. With stable food and a growing population, the leaders of the nations of Thera have begun to look outwards from their borders, with spies, diplomats, and armies mobilizing to see what remains of civilization and what they can seize for themselves.

As a campaign, Thera places emphasis on careful empire management, intermixed with the proud Total War tradition of finding someone to beat the snot out of and crushing them in tactical battles. The player starts out with a substantial war chest and a large number of unaffiliated rebel settlements bordering their territory, encouraging rapid expansion and buildup early on before real war erupts between the various nations. There is a wide variety of factions to choose from, some of them being modified original factions from Medieval II and Kingdoms while others are entirely new, with completely new character models. Though at first glance the mod looks like an alternate Earth, there's a lot of deliberate anachronisms and some Low Fantasy elements (primarily in the form of the bestial Uruk Dominion).