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Frostlings: Reign of the Ice Queens

To the north of the regions occupied by the Vans, Chuds, and Rusian peoples are polar regions where the entrance to Kokytos is rumored to be located. Tribes of nomadic Frostlings, distant cousins of the rimvaetti wolfkin, eeked out a meager subsistence living across the arid taigas and tundras.

Bune, one of the Ice Devils of Koyktos, once corrupted an unknown Queen of Elemental Water, and their union led to the creation of an all-female magical race of pale-skinned humanoids. While few in number, these creatures somehow self-propagate by magical means, and soon there were enough to sally forth and conquer nearby Frostling tribes with superior magical and martial prowess. The leaders of these magical women, self-described 'Ice Queens' styled after their origin mother, realized the value of Frostlings as thralls and minions. One by one, petty chiefs came to pay tribute to and worship the Ice Queens, and permanent settlements were built around their temples and halls.

Now with the Awakening God, the Ice Queens, their progeny, and their Frostling subjects roll forward like a frigid fog to consume all who oppose them in their path.


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UPDATES
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V 1.2

- Added events/sites to give cold population loss protection (credit to Selgeron's mod Thematic Temperature Resistance)
- Fixed slots on Frostling Shaman hag
- Boosted White Witch's leadership to okleader to avoid -1 morale for leading magic being sacreds
- Changed frost glaive on cap only ice guard to always cause AP cold even without damage
- Changed iceprot to icenatprot on several units
- Fixed prot on bear chariot to be the same as polar bears
- Fixed rp cost of scout


V. 1.1
- Added 1 Death base path to White Witch after feedback and further test play
- Increased Ice Queen to base Death 3 after feedback and further test play, increased cost slightly
- Added Poison knife to assassin multi-hero due to underperformance with just one weapon
- Fixed unintended mount issues with First Daughter hero who is meant to be on foot
- Fixed armor type for Archer to match their sprite model
- Slightly reduced gold cost of Ice Queens
- Reduced RP cost for most Frostling infantry by 1
- Removed astral path for summoning Dire Penguins because having two non-native paths for them to be cast is too onerous, now it is 2W - 2B to cast
- Spelling typo fixes

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DESCRIPTION
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Welcome! This mod attempts to bring the Frostlings faction from the Age of Wonders series of games to Dominions 6, with the greatest influence from Age of Wonders 3 in particular. I tried to make the Frostlings fit within the Dominions universe lore as best as possible, and to give them enough differences that they are not an Early Age reskin of Vaettiheim. This nation is obviously not based on real world nations or mythology, but I did include a real life myth from the Saami people of northern Scandinavia in the description for one of the heroes.

Credit also goes to makers of SpriteGen and sprite artists of the Magic Enhanced mod for Dominions 5 for some of the units or inspirations for sprites.

Magic:
- This is primarily a Water and Death nation, with medium access to Nature and Air, and weak but important access to Fire. Heroes give moderate Blood and Astral access.
- Frostlings have 7 national combat spells and 3 national ritual spells.

Priests:
- H1 mage-priests in every fort, H2 cap-only mage-priest.

Troops:
- Frostlings are size 2 with stats similar to Vaetti, but have 10 cold resistance and -5 fire resistance (however, there is a very early national spell to buff fire res in a moderate AoE), snow movement, and are mostly stealthy
- Frostling cavalry include dire wolves and mammoths
- The sacreds are larger female magic beings with magic weapons that can be recruited out of any fort provided it is at least Cold 1 in that province
- Cap-only mindless inanimate made out of ice with cold power and ice protection

Summons:
- There are 3 units that are either ritual or combat summons

Items:
- No special items

Infrastructure:
- The capital has a powerful Ice Castle, but outlying forts are fortified villages. These take only 4 turns to build and cost 800 gold, but have weak wall strength, much like EA Rus

Scales and Domain
- Cold 3 and dominion spreads cold, with temperature event sites to lessen population loss (credit to Selgeron's mod)


I may make additional tweaks to balance and add a missing attack sprite for some of the heroes. I welcome your feedback!