Editing Dominions (section)

====R'lyeh====
[[File:Aboleth Trap.png|thumb|right|Even Aboleths can be seduced according to game mechanics. ]]
{{topquote|Kill squiggers. Behead squiggers. Roundhouse kick a squigger into the ocean. Slam dunk a mindslayer into the trashcan. Crucify filthy illithids. Defecate in a squigger brain. Launch squiggers into the abyss. Trample squiggers with an elephant. Turn squigger provinces into active volcanoes. Urinate on a squigger's god. Judo throw squiggers into a doomstack. Twist squigger heads off. Report squiggers to the pankoman. Karate chop squiggers in half. Fireball pregnant pink squiggers. Trap squiggers in caves. Crush squiggers in pincer maneuvers. Liquefy squiggers in a rain of acid. Eat squiggers. Freeze squiggers. Exterminate squiggers in the foul vapor chamber. Stomp squigger skulls with enchanted bronze boots. Cremate squiggers with 99 2F mages. Lobotomize squiggers. Mandatory coalitions for squiggers. Process squigger fetuses into blood slaves. Drown squiggers in freespawn skeletons. Vaporize squiggers with a meteor. Kick old squiggers into elemental planes. Feed squiggers to werewolves. Dissect squiggers for research points.|Anonymous}}
In the deepest of oceans lives the strange fishlike race called the [[Aboleth]]s. These beings are highly intelligent and the older Aboleths called Mind Lords can enslave lesser beings with the force of will alone. Having this power means they have enslaved Mermen and Deep Ones to do the daily work and to fill up the ranks of their armies. In a deep gorge the enslaved workers have built a score of small but magnificent cities for their rulers. In this gorge live the greatest of the Aboleths. Shore regions, if fortified, can train Androleths, [[Grimdark|Aboleth spawn inserted in human bodies for a painful puppeteer warrior.]]

In Middle Age, a star smashes into R'lyeh, bringing...You guessed it, Illithids! They replace Aboleths, but one or two linger alive, and don't mind rolling along with similarly brain raping amoral assholes from beyond. Not much changes, but the new bosses are amphibian and can blast your brain either way. Shore territories, when fortified, spawn free half-spawn, Deep Ones from Innsmouth, and can pay to train stronger half-spawns with armor.

In Late Age, it's Middle Age with an extra twist: population dies in your Dominion, and is "raised", brought to your army as crazed Cultist swarms. Have fun juggling 100 territories in multiplayer and getting starvation reports when everyone is busy flailing around shitting themselves, including your leaders, and eventually even your own God! Yes, madness is a mechanic in game, every turn your insanity rating may cause your leaders to freeze in their province and shit themselves, babble, or jack off, and no, it's not R'lyeh specific as anyone who does stupid shit like eat mercury or play around with dimensional bullshit has a chance to go wacko. 

As you might guess from the above quote, picking R'lyeh isn't likely to win you friends in multiplayer, at least in MA. Not only do you start underwater which lets you expand and research unmolested unless someone else counterpicked Atlantis or Pelagia, you have good access to Water and Astral, most of your best troops and mages are amphibious, and you can train Star Children (stealthy mind-blasting assassins who can research when they're not dunking on enemy heroes) from any fort. Their unique pretender, Uttervast, is an utterly undefeatable combat monster (being Yog-Sothoth by another name) and can never spawn earlier than five years into the game.