Total War: PHARAOH

Total War: PHARAOH

historical local gods as factions' crest
Seti  [developer] Jun 8, 2024 @ 2:27am
Egyptian Crests
to avoid repetitions to playable factions, ram gods/ Set's cult centres will mostly be avoided, and replaced by nearby towns' mascots.

faction's name [historical patron god]: emblem or reason
Nile east bank first, north to south

Buto [Wadjet]:
uraeus

Per Amun [Amun]:
ram (unchanged)

Pi-Ramesses [Set]:
using phoenix as Ramesses II associated himself with Ra.

Hardai (Anubis):
occupied by Seti in-game so remains as Set Animal.

Uba-Duat [???]:
Apep snake, Uba-Duat is probably a made-up town, since Apep resides in Duat and UbaDuat is Seti's first enemy, i use Apep snake to continue the Set-Apep rivalry

Khent-Min [Min]:
eh Min's symbol could be nsfw.

Waset [Amun]:
too many rams already, and because Nekheb is close to Waset & in-game Waset holds the white crown, Nekhbet's Vulture.

Saww [???]:
couldn't find much info of its religious, Khepri is god of rising sun while Saww is the most eastern faction, Khepri's beatle.

Nubt (Kom Ombo) [Sobek]:
Sobek croc. not to be confused with the other Nubt (Naqada, Set's historical cult centre)

west bank

Rhacotis [Ra]
bennu phoenix

Shedyt [Sobek]
croc

Het-nesut
unchanged, looks like default crest is part of the hieroglyphical name.

Khemenu [Thoth]
ape

Zawty [Anubis]
jackal

Abdju [Osiris]
Atef crown

Mes [???]
Serpopard

Kurkur [???]
scorpion

Miam
hippo


Main Factions:

Mennefer [Ptah]:
Djed, recoloured to green to fit Merneptah & Ptah

Amenmesse [Amun]:
since Amun is associated with blue,
& the default red conflicts against the red crown of northern egypt,
so Amenmesse is now blue;
secondary colour is white to associate his temporary kingship of Southern Egypt (white crown).

Seti [Set]:
although Set is associated to red, Seti has to share Set with Setnakhte.
Purple, Set animal is recoloured to red, to colour matches Seti' cape.

Tausret:
violet, with green as secondary colour.
we got other main factions with green primary colour, Merneptah & Bay. she's closer to Seti (purple) than Merneptah/ Bay (green) anyway.

Ramesses [Ra]:
gold, with blue as secondary colour.
amenmesses is now blue as primary colour,
also blue is the opposite of red (setnakhte),
so i downplay blue a bit,
shift Ramesses' primary colour to his armour colour, gold.
gold with blue is a pharonic colour as well.

Setnakhte [Set]:
Red, with gold as secondary colour (secondary colour links to new Ramesses)
reverted Seti as place-holder,
logo will be Was-Sceptre in next update.

suggestions are welcomed :)
Last edited by Seti; May 27 @ 8:38pm
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Kendji Jun 9, 2024 @ 7:02am 
-Uba-Duat, yeah the Apep snake, but Osiris could maybe also work since wasn't Osiris the god in Duat.
-Kurkur, I looked at a map and isn't in-game Kurkur around modern day Aswan city? Swenett in Egyptian, aka the godess Taweret
-Saww, haven't checked closer, but from memory at least part of Saww is located in the Medjay. I remeber the Medjay where famous for their elite paramilitary police and some ox or cow breed. Maybe cow horns?
Last edited by Kendji; Jun 9, 2024 @ 7:02am
Seti  [developer] Jun 9, 2024 @ 9:13am 
thanks for the suggestions Kendji 🙂

Uba-Duat: indeed Osiris is the lord of Duat, Osiris got Abdju now, so i guess something else could give more diversity.
Ammit, another resident of Duat, was a potential candidate, but there are already 2 crocodile factions 🐊.

Swenett: i thought Aswan would be by River Nile because of that stupid dam? maybe near Miam?
if that is the case, locating Miam as hippo was a coincidence XD i was only thinking locate Hippo to the 'godless' town by Nile.

Saww: ah isn't Medjay further down south?
currently Tausret got hathor horns, Beersheba (occupy Hathor) got Hathor crest (hathor human face with cow horns).
Libu got ox factions, relocating it is considered, and then Canaan might get ox from Moloch as well 🤔
Last edited by Seti; Jun 9, 2024 @ 9:14am
Kendji Jun 9, 2024 @ 9:49am 
I have a book on Nubia, and it just shows everything east of the Nubian Nile as Medjay without borders so idk tbh, you could be right though. Maybe an fishing boat for Saww?

As to Aswan, not sure either, the dam screws with you when trying to place things around there since much of the area is now a lake. Acc. to Google Maps it's what 30km from Asswan with nothing else nearby Kurkur. Maybe give it an Camel, it was known as a stopover for trade caravans going through.

As for Duat, how about the horus falcon above Osiris? I'm not sure, but if I understand it correctly, it represents the vision of the afterlife that Osiris gets, when judging the dead dude. Like depicting Osiris without depicting Osiris.
Pic: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/8-1-1024x1024.jpg
Article: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/judgement-scene-hunefer/
Last edited by Kendji; Jun 9, 2024 @ 10:02am
Seti  [developer] Jun 12, 2024 @ 11:27pm 
Kurkur: Horrible Histories say they didn't have tamed camel back then 🐪
https://i.postimg.cc/gktV3q1M/P-20230907-182918-125142.jpg

UbaDuat: squeezing in both Horus & Osiris into one crest could make it over-crowded,
i think that could make Abdju & Qau less unique😵
Last edited by Seti; Jun 13, 2024 @ 4:35am
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