Editing Dominions (section)

====Sauromatia====
Sauromatia is a nation of nomadic warrior tribes ruled by women. Men and women fight side by side and all prominent tribes are ruled by warrior queens. This is a legacy of the Sauromatians merging with the Amazon tribes in times past. The Amazons leaders were not accepted, because they were not warriors, but they influenced the Sauromatians and women warriors gained power and prestige. Only the tribe of the Androphags has totally rejected the notion of female leadership. The Androphags are ruled by ancient Witch Kings who introduced cannibalism and man-flaying to the Sauromatians. The Androphags also use hydras from the Marshes of Pythia in warfare. Conquered by Ermor in Early Age, apparently and made into Pythium. Army is fairly simple and deceptively strong, horse archers, horse lancers and cataphracts, as well as lizard riders and raptor riding women supported by male archers, some of them (Androphag tribe) using poison bows. They look weak except a little feature called...

...Magic Tattoos. Every, EVERY Sauromatian unit is tattooed across his/her body, and a level 3 faction spell can awaken the tattoos on the battlefield, granting them extra stats, and ten percent or similar chance to [[Cheese|shrug off the entirety of a blow]]. Needless to say, your average human Strength grade men and women who are mostly a tick above the neutral region units can steamroll entire armies, considering Sauromatian leaders often have immense nature magic to feed soldiers for free.

Loosely based off of the ancient Sarmatians, grandchildren of Amazons and Scythians around the Black Sea, who supposedly practiced ritual cannibalism (old Roman maps showed a tribe named Androphagi) and flayed defeated foes alive. On top of that, it has been suggested that the ancient Scythians were the basis for the Greek stories of Amazons, since their male shamans wore women's clothing during their ceremonies.(Enarie)