Characters / Age of Mythology

A list of Characters from Age of Mythology.

For tropes for most of the gods and heroes in the mythologies, see their character pages.

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Index

• Campaign characters (Fall of the Trident, The Titans and Tale of the Dragon)
• Civilizations:
  • Greek Civilization
  • Norse Civilization
  • Egyptian Civilization
  • Atlantean Civilization
  • Chinese Civilization

Shared Units

Caravan

Cost: 100 food

Availability: Archaic Age

Trained at: Market

God-specific bonuses:

Gaia: Cost -20%, HP +25%

Upgrades: Coinage^note Market, movement speed +20%

God-specific upgrades:

Dionysus: Bacchanalia ^note Temple, HP +5%

Apollo: Oracle ^note Temple, LOS +6

Gaia: Channel ^note Town Center/Temple (from Tales of the Dragon onward), speed +20%

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• Worker Unit: The Caravan is an economic unit that cannot fight, and instead travels back and forth between the owner's Market and a friendly Town Center, generating gold for the owner.

Fishing Ship

Cost: 50 wood

Availability: Archaic Age

Trained at: Dock

Upgrades: Purse Seine^note Dock, fishing gathering rate +30%, Salt Amphora^note Dock, fishing gathering rate +40%, food carrying capacity +100%, Copper Mail/Bronze Mail/Iron Mail^note Armory, Hack attack vulnerability -10%, Copper Shields/Bronze Shields/Iron Shields^note Armory, Pierce attack vulnerability -10%, Conscript Sailors^note Dock, training time -20%.

God-specific upgrades:

Dionysus: Bacchanalia ^note Temple, HP +5%

Apollo: Oracle ^note Temple, LOS +6

Leto: Volcanic Forge ^note Temple/Armory, pierce attack vulnerability -10%

Sun Wukong: Pillar of the Ocean ^note Dock, HP +15%

Ao Kuang: East Sea ^note Dock, cost -20%

Chongli: Ancient Destroyer ^note Dock, speed +15%

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• Worker Unit: Fishing Ships are non-combat units that gather food by catching fish (which, unlike in the previous games, do not run out and cannot be gathered by land workers). Egyptian Fishing Ships can also slowly build Obelisks, Docks and Lighthouses.

Transport Ship

Cost: 120 wood

Availability: Classical Age

Trained at: Dock

Upgrades: Enclosed Deck^note Dock, unit carrying capacity +100%, Copper Mail/Bronze Mail/Iron Mail^note Armory, Hack attack vulnerability -10%, Copper Shields/Bronze Shields/Iron Shields^note Armory, Pierce attack vulnerability -10%, Conscript Sailors^note Dock, training time -20%.

God-specific upgrades:

Dionysus: Bacchanalia ^note Temple, HP +5%

Apollo: Oracle ^note Temple, LOS +6

Leto: Volcanic Forge ^note Temple/Armory, pierce attack vulnerability -10%

Sun Wukong: Pillar of the Ocean ^note Dock, HP +15%

Ao Kuang: East Sea ^note Dock, cost -20%

Chongli: Ancient Destroyer ^note Dock, speed +15%

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• Defenseless Transports: Transport Ships cannot attack and must be protected, because if they are destroyed, all units they carry die.

Titan

Availability: Titan Age

Trained at: Titan Gate

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• Chase Stops at Water: Titans cannot swim and are too big to enter Transport Ships.
• Mighty Glacier: Titans are very large and slow, and boast unfathomable amounts of health and armour as well as massive attack damage.
• No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Like most other god powers, the Titan Gate can only be invoked once, and disappears once it's excavated and the Titan emerges from it. If the Titan is killed, the owning player has no way to replace it.
• One-Man Army: Titans can dispatch average armies of human soldiers with ease. But Death of a Thousand Cuts will be in effect if the enemy still has resources to keep making more units, so target their buildings.
• Physical God: As divine entities, Titans are the closest the game has to playable physical deities. Their in-game description even states outright that they defy scientific classification.
• Summoning Ritual: Creating a Titan involves researching Secrets of the Titans, which unlocks the Titan Gate god power. Once the god power is invoked, a Titan Gate will appear, which must then be excavated by villagers or Norse infantry before the Titan appears.
• Tactical Superweapon Unit: The Titan is a massive mythological monster with enormous health, damage resistance, and damage output against buildings, at the expense of low speed and a Summoning Ritual whose time and resource cost are many times those of a regular unit's or hero's. When backed up by a proper army, a Titan can level virtually anything in its path. The only foolproof defence against a Titan is water, as Titans can't swim and are too big to fit in transport ships.

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