Line #3 VideoGame/TheFourNationsAnAvatarTheLastAirbenderMod


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3	''[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-four-nations-an-avatar-the-last-airbender-mod-release.878195/ The Four Nations - An Avatar: The Last Airbender Mod]]'' is a GameMod using the game ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'' that is set in the universe of ''[[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. The player can play at various points in the Avatar Timeline from the Death of Chin to Azulon's Coronation (with plans to expand into the events of ''The Last Airbender'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra The Legend of Korra]]''[[note]]This has appeared in public beta as 'Sneak Peek' with several of the earlier versions for later bookmarks as incomplete[[/note]]).
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5	The mod is currently running in [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/pduswsy2vdo67eg/Avatar%20-%20Four%20Nations%201.01.zip?dl=0 1.01]] and right thereafter, now their recent announced with [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-four-nations-an-avatar-the-last-airbender-mod-release.878195/page-73#post-23124682 "Dragon: Update" that includes reworking events, more new content and especially Dragons]].
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8	!!This mod provides examples of the following tropes:
9	* TheAce: In the ''Before The Storm'' bookmark, Azula has the Genius Trait and is a Legendary Firebender [[note]]"legendary" is the highest level of bending skill possible for a character[[/note]] even though she's just a baby. Though it's likely that in later bookmarks she'll be a BrokenAce.
10	* AdaptationalVillainy: The mechanics of the game mean that even the good sides will engage in assassination plots, in-fighting, torture, and other harsh acts.
11	** If you play as a canonically good character (such as Bumi or Iroh) then you can invoke this trope by committing truly heinous acts.
12	* ApocalypseCult:
13	** Vaatuism, which focuses on the worship of Vaatu and seeks to usher in a time of darkness and chaos by restoring his corporeal form. In the start, it has one county at the farthest edge of The North Pole.
14	*** Currently it is available in public Beta and 1.01 but not as the predominant religion, [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-four-nations-an-avatar-the-last-airbender-mod-release.878195/page-73#post-23124682 however, it is soon possibly replaced or reconverted into Society, as seen here]] and that will undo this in later versions.
15	* BeingEvilSucks: Having maximum authority as the Earth King, or being an Unjust Ruler as the Fire Lord, are both good ways to alienate vassals and ensure disloyalty.
16	* BenevolentConspiracy: The White Lotus is one of the secret societies present in the game. The prerequisite for membership includes having high learning and possessing at least one virtue trait.
17	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: As in the canon series fire is red, water is blue, earth is green, and air is yellow and orange.
18	* DeathOfTheOldGods: Several religions that are significant in the earlier bookmarks (Shamanism, Fortune-Telling, Great Swamp, Eternal Flame, Followers of Kyoshi, etc) are greatly reduced or entirely eliminated. During the Hundred Years War, Fire Spiritualism is in turn replaced by Fire Imperialism.
19	* DarkerAndEdgier: Due to game mechanics the setting can get far more brutal than it was even in Canon.
20	** If you activate [[RapePillageAndBurn unrestricted raiding]] then it is possible for all sides to pillage their neighbors. While it's not a surprize that the Fire Nation Rulers will do a lot of raiding, what is less expected is that Earth Kingdom rulers tend to engage in this as well.
21	** You can set diseases to deadly, causing [[ThePlague plagues]] (which were not present in canon) to appear in-game.
22	** You can torture or mutilate your prisoners; in canon, torture was rare (and less gruesome than in CKII) and mutilation does not feature.
23	* ElementalPowers: As in the television show, several characters have the power to bend one of four elements [[note]]Fire, Earth, Water, Air[[/note]]. In addition to being born with bending powers, rulers can invite benders to court for a cost of money and prestige and can train benders for their army by building dojos in their counties.
24	* TheEmpire: The Earth Kingdom and The Fire Nation both fill this role throughout of mod. The Fire Nation, once it has conquered enough areas, can even rename itself as ''The Phoenix Kingdom''.
25	* FinalSolution: The Air Nomad Genocide is featured in this game.
26	* GodEmperor: Earth Monarchism, described as the worship of the Earth King as a God, is one of the religions featured in the Game. In the early bookmarks, it's confined to Ba Sing Se, and afterwards it's supplanted with the religion Ba Sing Se Heritage.
27	* HandicappedBadass: In the game, Chin has the "Imbecile" trait. This means he had a severe mental disability, and was still able to conquer most of the Earth Kingdom and could only be stopped by The Avatar.
28	* HeroicLineage: The children and descendants of The Avatar get a special trait.
29	* LastOfHisKind: Like the show, Fire Nation can do events that led the Air Genocide and making Aang as the Last Airbender. [[ThereIsAnother Subverted with generated physicians]], who can sometimes be Airbenders even after the Air Genocide.
30	* LaResistance: As in the base game, there will be periodic Peasant Revolts, Religious Revolts, and Nationalist Revolts. However, the conquered territories of the Fire Nation during the Hundred Years War are especially prone to this.
31	* NayTheist: There is one 'religion' for the United Republic of Nations called Modernism, which represents people depending on themselves and ignoring the Spirits. This belief doesn't say that the Spirits don't exist, just that [[TheGodsMustBeLazy they don't care about humans]] so humans shouldn't care about them.
32	* NightmarishFactory: Played with. For a large financial investment, rulers can build factories in their counties. While these factories have their merits [[note]]they can produce consumer goods for the masses, preserve food to reduce the risk of famine, and bring in a significant income[[/note]], there are events that pop up where the workers in them complain about low wages and poor work conditions.
33	* NoEndorHolocaust: Averted with Chin's death in the earliest bookmark. In the canon show no harm comes of his end, but in the games it caused his empire to collapse into chaos as his successor states compete for the remnants.
34	* OffTheRails: When you start the game things start to get non-canon ''very quickly''. You can really mess things up if you so wish, and can even adjust in the pre-game settings whether or not you want canon events to fire. However, some characters are pre-scripted to be born and to die at specific dates, (for instance Azulon's first son is always Iroh).
35	* OriginalCharacter: Many of these are pre-generated to fill the gaps (we don't know the rules of every single village and town across every era), some are created for ArtisticLicense (Chin has two sons in the mod which were clearly not mentioned in Canon), some canon characters will sire non-canon children (such as if Azulon has three or more sons), and finally ruler designer allows for the creation of this whole cloth.
36	** In Fire Spirituality and Fire Imperialism, the main spirit they worship is called Agni. In canon, the Fire Nation had a tradition of ritualistic dueling called Agni Kai, but it isn't known to be associated with a spirit or deity.
37	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: See NayTheist above.
38	* PathOfInspiration: Fortune-Telling, which in the canon series was only represented by a single village, is a full-fledged religion in the mod. In the earlier bookmarks, it actually has a really large following. The religion description plays with this trope; it mentions that it is commonly seen by outsiders as a sham and an affront to true spiritualism, but it also mentions that those who believe in it do so sincerely and even entrust their lives to it.
39	* {{Pirate}}: Represented in the game as a trait, a religion, and two different mercenary companies.
40	* {{Poetry}}: The Five-Seven-Five society features in the game. In general, only women from Ba Sing Se can join, though the society is willing to make exceptions and admit foreign women with the poet trait.
41	* RisingEmpire:
42	** You can recreate the Fire Nation's rise from its founding to its attempt to conquer the globe as ''The Pheonix Kingdom''.
43	** ''Unified'' Water Tribe can be created through events from either Water Tribes.
44	** Air Nomads in this version can be created as one political entity either before Air Genocide or After it.
45	** Earth Empire can trigger or exist in two final incomplete bookmarks.
46	* SettlingTheFrontier: This occurs a few times.
47	** Immediately after the Air Nomad Genocide, Earth Islanders have moved into the old Air Temples and established tribal communities there.
48	** When Characters with the Fire Imperialism religion rule a county that doesn't have the Fire Nation Culture, they can spend 250 gold and 300 prestige to establish a colony of Fire Nation people there. It takes several years for the colony to reach all four stages, but when it does the county becomes the Fire Imperialism religion and Colonial culture. If the Fire Nation loses the Hundred Years War then counties with the Colonial culture join the United Republic of Nations instead of returning to the Earth Nation.
49	* ShockAndAwe: Firebenders who are proficient enough in their bending abilities can learn to bend Lightning.
50	* ShownTheirWork: The mod manages to recapture almost of franchise's canonical lore, characters[[note]]and even try to make characters anime-like[[/note]] and traits.
51	* StrawNihilist: Nomadic Nihilism, the other (far less common) religion of the Air Nomads. Unlike Nomadic Pacifism, which stresses harmony between all living things, Nomadic Nihilism holds that existence is pointless and therefore protecting life is too.
52	* ThereIsAnother: When you search for a physician, it is possible the generated physician will be an Airbender. Even after the Air Nomad Genocide, when they're allegedly extinct. It's stated in canon that some Airbenders escaped from the initial attack and had to be lured into traps with relics, and it's reasonable to posit that handful might have stayed in hiding in the court of a ruler from the Earth Kingdom or Water Tribes. However it is especially jarring when a Fire Imperialist, or Fire Lord Sozin himself, is openly employing an Airbender as a physician.
53	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The trait "Tea Master", for characters who are fond of tea, based on one General Iroh and his love for tea.
54	* UpbringingMakesTheHero: Some bookmarks feature canonically evil characters when they were children, so creating a heroic Ozai is as easy as giving him as picking the positive traits in the child-rearing events.
55	* TheUsurper: How Bumi becomes king of Omashu.
56	* VestigialEmpire:
57	** Chin's Empire. In the Fall of Chin bookmark, it has fragmented into a handful of fragmented warlords vying for power. Two of them are even ruled by Chin's two OriginalCharacter sons. In later bookmarks, Chin's bloodline is entirely extinct and only one county named after him remains that follow his philosophy.
58	** The Kingdom of the Sun Warriors. Despite once making up the majority of the Fire Nation, by the earliest bookmark, it only has two islands left with few provinces in the North of the ''Pre-Fire Nation territories'' and only one territory has the religion, with the most in Sandu territory[[note]]In this version, before Fire Nation was formed, there are independent kingdoms, territories like Sandu, and "Lordships" like Ember Island[[/note]] are ''still'' follow their native religion Eternal Flame. In later bookmarks, there is only one island left and their culture is almost entirely wiped out with them being the last bastion of their faith.
59	** The Earth Kingdom starts out ruling the various Earth Rulers as a suzerain instead of as a true vassal. Additionally, the game is set up so the Earth King's control slips even further. In later bookmarks, the Earth King is a puppet ruler. You can even adjust the settings to make all of the lands outside of Ba Sing Se fully independent.
60	* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Every realm begins with internal vassal wars allowed, and the tributes of the Earth Kingdom are able to fight against each other as well. This means that, during the Hundred Years War, the feudal lords of the Earth Kingdom will fight against each other even as the Fire Nation bares down on them.

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