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I was thinking about this. Obviously, all the season have multiple characters and plots, with lots of protagonists and antagonists... but, if I had to pinpoint one... Murder House is the only season I couldn't pinpoint one main protagonist, and NYC is the only one I've no idea about the main antagonist.

Murder House:

• Protagonists: The Harmons (Connie Britton, Taissa Farmiga, Dylan McDermott)
• Antagonist: Tate Langdon (Evan Peters)

Asylum:

• Protagonist: Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson)
• Antagonist: Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto)

Coven:

• Protagonist: Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson)
• Antagonist: Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange)

Freak Show:

• Protagonist: Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson)
• Antagonist: Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock)

Hotel:

• Protagonist: Det. John Lowe (Wes Bentley)
• Antagonist: James Patrick March (Evan Peters)

Roanoke:

• Protagonist: Lee Harris (Adina Porter, Angela Bassett)
• Antagonist: The Butcher (Kathy Bates)

Cult:

• Protagonist: Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson)
• Antagonist: Kai Anderson (Evan Peters)

Apocalypse:

• Protagonist: Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson)
• Antagonist: Michael Langdon (Cody Fern)

1984:

• Protagonist: Brooke Thompson (Emma Roberts)
• Antagonist: Margaret Booth (Leslie Grossman)

Double Feature:

Red tide:

• Protagonist: Harry Gardner (Finn Wittrock)
• Antagonist: Ursula Khan (Leslie Grossman)

Death Valley:

• Protagonist: Kendall Carr (Kaia Gerber)
• Antagonist: Mamie Eisenhower (Sarah Paulson)

NYC:

• Protagonist: Det. Patrick Read (Russell Tovey)
• Antagonist: No idea

Delicate:

• Protagonist: Anna Victoria Alcott (Emma Roberts)
• Antagonist: Siobhan Corbyn (Kim Kardashian)

The main protagonist of Season 13 is almost certainly going to be Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson), but let's not get too ahead.

Is Bloody Mary episode of Stories connected to AHS Coven? Specifically to the VooDoo sect of Marie Laveau and Dinah Stevens?

Why am I writing this? Because it's fun!

The choice for the 4th Aztec major god is obvious from the start. The 4th tezcatlipoca (godly emperor) has been left out, so here we go. The idea is for him to subvert expectations (like Freyr and Demeter do) and encourage you to play defensively. So he's focused on defense, with quite a bit of healing mechanism. His techs and minor gods are also designed to attempt to make the less useful Aztec units more useful. Myth units images were found online (credits to the artists), while god portraits were generated with ChatGPT, due to lack of proper depictions online. Numbers are placeholders. So here goes:

Xipe Totec: The red tezcatlipoca and the emperor of the East. Associated with blood, bounty of the Earth and Corn (yeah, the Aztecs obviously knew human blood was a good fertilizer, lol). Despite his bloody appearance, he was a good associated with peace and prosperity.

God power: Corn Field -> Cast on a Farm or Chinampa to upgrade them into a Corn Field (similar to Shennong's Farms). Corn Field works the same as a Chinampa, but it can also devout Settlers, earning favor. Once the the Settler has been devout on the Field, the Field becomes blessed for 2 minutes, significantly increasing food production, as well as producing lumber and gold.

Unique units:

• Teixiptla: Xipe Totec Teixiptla "drains blood" from enemy units, effectively having a ranged attack, and distributing it to allies units in aoe of 10. For every X damage Teixiptla deals, allied units in range are healed equally for X/number of allied units.
• Xipe Totec Incarnate: A powerful ranged hero with the special ability to shield allied units in aoe of 10, gaining them temporary bonus XP and healing them for 20% of their health.

Bonuses:

• Quimichin Spies and War Hut Units (units that can build traps) can also repair buildings. Buildings are repaired 10% faster.
• Tzompantli Towers are 10% cheaper and Tzompantli Watch Tower is researched instantly for free once reaching Classical Age.
• Otontin Smashers, Shorn Ones and Quinametzin have +10% movement speed.
• War Priest regenerate 0.5 HP/s when out of combat.

Myth technology: Giant's Precision: Quinametzin get an additional +10% movement speed (roughly matching Draft Horses), more attack precision when attacking human units (roughly matching Ballistics) and a bonus pierce attack when attacking Human Soldiers, making them more effective at ranged combat.

Wonder: Teotlacho, most pre Colombian Central American cities had one. An arena where they'd play their iconic ball game. The largest one ever build was, of course, in Tenochtitlan.

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CLASSICAL AGE:

Huehuecoyotl (Focus: Traps and Stealth) or Mixcoatl (Focus: Archers and Hunting)

Mixcoatl, god of archery and the hunt. Associated with the Milky Way.

God Power: Divine Precision -> For 10 seconds your Tequihua Archers, Eagle Warriors and Arrow Canoes deal divine damage.

Myth unit: Cueyatl, a frog warrior. Has the ability to jump at place dealing damage to all the units around them (less damage to heroes). Not strong while alone, but dangerous in large numbers. Amphibious, can swim and fight in water.

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Technologies:

• Camouflage Survival: Archers have +5% movement speed and -10% hack and pierce vulnerability.
• Fine Querry: Tequihua Archers fire +10% projectile speed and deal +10% damage. Arrow Canoes fire +10% projectile speed.
• Jungle Hunt: Settlers deal +10% damage while hunting wild animals, and gather food from dead animals 10% faster.

HEROIC AGE:

Itzpapalotl (Focus: Tonalli and Noble Hut soldiers) or Xiuhtecuhtli (Focus: Houses and Defense)

Xiuhtecuhtli, the Turquoise Lord, god of Fire and Home.

God Power: Flaming Idol -> Target to spawn an Flaming Idol, which can be gathered for gold or attack enemy units nearby with fire, depleting the gold contained; more gold in later Ages.

Myth unit: Cihuateteo, fire spirit of the women who died during childbirth. Ranged, fires flame projectiles at enemies that deal aoe damage and debuff enemy units hit, increasing vulnerability.

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Technologies:

• Fine Dining: When Houses are in a range of a Farm or Chinampa, they support additional population, max 2 additional population per House.
• Fiery Heart: Houses gain ability to heal units in a small range around them for 3 HP/s. Max one unit at a time per House.
• Dessert Wind: Coyote Warriors gain the ability to blink through Infantry and attack Archers directly.
• Obsidian Fire: Tepoztli Canoes gain bonus crush damage and have their damage increased as they loose hit points.

MYTHIC AGE:

Tlaloc (Focus: Economy and Great Temples) or Xochiquetzal (Focus: Offense)

Xochiquetzal, goddess of Beauty, Love and Sexuallity. Associated with nature and particularly flowers.

God Power: River of Sundew -> Covers the enitire map in green toxins, dealing damage to all enemy non garrisoned units. At every Farm or Chinampa, a Lasher (Classical Age tier myth unit) spawns. Lashers are your units, but are not controllable and will attack enemy units. Last for 31 seconds (Aztec version of Fimbulwinter).

Lasher

Myth Unit: Amoxoaque, a treant like myth unit. Slow, but durable. Melee. Has the ability to turn enemy human soldiers into trees.

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Technologies:

• Strength of the Forest: Turns Amoxoaque into Elder Amoxoaque, with more hit points and reduced recharge time of turning enemy human soldiers into trees.
• Rows of Roses: Jaguar Riders deal more damage as enemies lose health.
• Nature's Clubs: Infantry deal +10% damage, Otontin Smashers do bonus damage to Infantry and Cavalry.
• Jungle Adaptability: Tequihua Archers and Eagle Warriors get +2 range, Quienametzin get +3 range.

Does Olden Era even have caravans? Or am I just not seeing it? Where's the caravan button?

You know, a way to hire creatures from your other towns and dwellings from the town of your choosing and transport them to that town...

Title. Since many OG stars are portraying multiple characters from past seasons (a la Apocalypse style)... but, what of the Jessica Lange herself?

Ryan shared a photo of her as Constance, so she's back as Constance definitely. But what about the other three?

I doubt she'll be returning as Fiona, cause the Coven seems to be the main plot of the season, and Fiona's story arc (probably the best in the series) had such a fine conclusion and her well deserved "reward".

But what about Sister Jude or Elsa Mars? No characters from those seasons habe been confirmed to return (thus far, to my knowledge).

Kao dete, voleo sam da gledam... ali zadnjih 10-ak godina ne gledam uopšte, osim u IZUZETNO retkim prilikama kad me neki naš predstavnik baš omađija (Konstrakta i Hurricane).

Ne mogu da odredim tačan trenutak, ali čini mi se kao da je od kad su uveli glasanje tog nekog "stručnog žirija" takmičenje iz godine u godinu postajalo sve gore.. pesme sve dosadnije (da bi se valjda dopalo tom "stručnom žiriju"), nastupi sve više bez veze, pevači sve dosadniji, istih 10-ak zemalja se vrti na prvih 10 mesta....

Mada, sada kada sagledam, možda je za mene prelomni trenutak bio pobeda Končite Wurst... da, znam kako zvuči, ali ne, iz sasvim drugih razloga, jer je kbjektivno te godine bilo mnooogoo mnoogoo boljih pesama, ali je ona pobedila zbog glasova tog nekog "stručnog žirija".

Naslov. Veliki deo cele poente i reklo bi se tajne tih filmova je što su smešteni i snimljeni u 1960im.. i to se baš vidi. Predstavljaju peak male fantasy, gde su žene (u glavnom u kupaćim kostimima) bez mozga i on ih tretira kao prolazne igračke.

Prosto da su univerzalno prihvaćeni najbolji filmovi franšize (npr. Goldfinger, Thunderbolt, pa i For Your Eyes Only) snimljeni danas, bili bi momentalno cancel-ovani na društvenim mrežama, dobili ogroman hate i bili proglašeni najgorim filmovima ikad snimljenim. Jednostavno je tako.

Filmovi su nastajali 60ih i 70ih (Conery, Moore i Lasenby)... 80ih i 90ih (Dalton i Brosnan) "klima" je već bila promenjena, žene počinju da imaju malo veću ulogu (ne svode se na "ja sam seksi" i mogu čak i da govore)... ali opet predstavljaju peak male fantasy, gde su žene 90% prolazne igračke i filmovi su se "izvukli" jer tada nisu postojale društvene mreže.

Onlda dolazimo do 2000-ih i Craig ere... i tu se već vidi problem. Producenti dolaze na sjajnu ideju ekranizacije Casino Royal, filma za kog postoji roman... i da, opet velika većina žena su igračke u kupaćim, ali se pojavljuje i Vesper Lind (Eva Green) lik iz romana sa svojom agendom, planovima, igrom... koja parira Bondu i izvadila je film. Tako da Vesper Lind, činjenica da je bila 2006-ta (društvene mreže tek u povoju) pa se film "izvukao".

Nakon Casino Royal-a, potpuno menjaju strategiju, da filmove "prilagode današnjem vremenu"... pa su umesto luks destinacija, luksuznih kola, trošenja ogromnih količina novaca, kockanja, žena igračaka u bikinijima, itd... pravili filmove o tom nekom njegovom psihološkom stanju, unutrašnjem konfliktu i sličnim stvarima... i upravo su svi ti filmovi ocenjeni kao najgori u franšizi...😅

Tako da, da li je "in this day and age" uopšte moguće napraviti dobar pravi James Bond film?

Several times by now, I've been looking for Gems and Mercury... only to find out they were right besides me. Red Murmurwoods especially.

Haven't played Might and Magic VIII, so I've no idea about the lore behind Schism.

That said, the Campaign is about us, the Dominion of Alvar (Dungeon), ruled by Triumvirate, ally of the Temple of the Sun (Temple) and with a strain relations with Murmurswood (Grove) and Necromancers (Necropolis). As the other three faction battle each other, all three encounter firey insect incursion (Hive)... we as the most powerful faction on the continent choose to either side with the Temple, our ally, or with their enemies and gain new allies... so we solve the inter faction conflict just as the massive Hive invasion happens and we end up destroyed..

That said, while the other 5 factions are heavily featured. Schism is completely absent. What could be their role?

Title. How much or often do you use them?

They take forever to transform, last increadibly short and die easily even during their short life span, lol.

In other shorts, even classical from the 50s and 60s, he speaks normally just like all the other characters.