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"You have advanced to the Heroic Age through the Vengeance of Skadi."
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Skadi is a Heroic Age Norse minor goddess. She is available to worshipers of Thor and Odin.

Attributes

God Power

Name	Description
Frost	Temporarily freezes enemy units in the area of casting. Grants the affected units 99% hack, pierce, and crush armor, essentially making them invulnerable for the duration of the god power.

Technology

Name	Description
Winter Harvest	Farm gather rate +20%, other food gather rate +10%.
Rime	Frost Giants are upgraded to Frost Giants of Thrym, granting +20% attack, +33% hit points, and -25% ability recharge time.
Huntress' Axe	Throwing Axemen have +1 range and their projectiles always hit their targets.

Myth Unit

Name	Description
Frost Giant	Powerful unit that can freeze an enemy unit with its breath attack.

Gameplay

Skadi brings mostly defensive benefits plus an economic technology. She increases Throwing Axeman attack, which makes these units better at attacking and defending (especially against other infantry). As it is slow, Skadi's myth unit, the Frost Giant, is best used defensively, to weaken an attacking army. The attack should be targeted at powerful enemies when possible. Her God Power, Frost, can also be used defensively – typically this will be in an emergency when a player needs time to counter the now-frozen attackers. The power can also be used to stop a defending army in its tracks allowing the player to attack with impunity.

Skadi's economic benefit is Winter Harvest. This increases food production and is a rare bonus for the Norse.

Mythology

"Skadi was the goddess of winter and a huntress who used a bow and often traveled on skis. She was not one of the Aesir or Vanir, but rather the daughter of the jotun Thiazi. When Thiazi was killed by the gods, she marched on Asgard to exact revenge. Recognizing that she deserved compensation, the gods of Asgard offered to place her father's eyes into heaven as stars and allow her a god for a husband. However, she had to choose her mate by examining feet only, and hoped to select Baldr. She chose Njord, a god of the sea, instead, guessing the feet incorrectly. They were not suited for each other and eventually separated. Some say that she later bore Odin several sons."
In-game compendium

List of Gods

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 | icon13 = egp-abl-scourge-of-the-skies.webp
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-| content6 = [[Meteor]]
+| content6 = [[Frost]]
-| content7 = [[Phoenix]]
+| content7 = [[Frost Giant]]
-| content8 = [[Valley]]
+| content8 = [[Winter Harvest]]
-| content9 = [[Book]]
+| content9 = [[Rime]]
-| content10 = [[Tusks]]
+| content10 = [[Huntress' Axe]]
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 }}
-{{Quote|You have advanced to the Mythic Age through the Secrets of Thoth.|Age up text}}
+{{Quote|You have advanced to the Heroic Age through the Vengeance of Skadi.|Age up text}}
-Thoth is an ibis-headed Egyptian Mythic Age minor god in Age of Mythology. He is available to worshipers of Set and Isis.
+Skadi is a Heroic Age Norse minor goddess. She is available to worshipers of Thor and Odin.
 ==Attributes==
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 ! Name !! Description
 |-
-| [[File:nrs-gp-meteor.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Meteor]] || Rains down meteors in the targeted area, doing massive damage to buildings and moderate damage to units while also scattering them.
+| [[File:nrs-gp-frost.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Frost]] || Temporarily freezes enemy units in the area of casting. Grants the affected units 99% hack, pierce, and crush armor, essentially making them invulnerable for the duration of the god power.
 |}
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 ! Name !! Description
 |-
-| [[File:nrs-t-kings.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Valley]] || Migdol Strongholds produce a free duplicate of the units they train while empowered.
+| [[File:nrs-t-winter-harvest.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Winter Harvest]] || [[Farm]] gather rate +20%, other food gather rate +10%.
 |-
-| [[File:nrs-t-book.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Book]] || Improves [[Laborer]] gather rates of food, wood and gold by 10%.
+| [[File:nrs-t-rime.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Rime]] || [[Frost Giant]]s are upgraded to Frost Giants of Thrym, granting +20% attack, +33% hit points, and -25% ability recharge time.
 |-
-| [[File:nrs-t-tusks-of-apedemak.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Tusks]] || [[War Elephant]]s gain 10% attack, occupy 1 less population slot, and cost 10% less.
+| [[File:nrs-t-huntress-axe.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Huntress' Axe]] || [[Throwing Axeman|Throwing Axemen]] have +1 range and their projectiles always hit their targets.
 |}
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 ! Name !! Description
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-| [[File:phoenix.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Phoenix]] || A flying fiery bird that does Area of Effect damage. Turns into an egg when killed, from which it can be reborn for free.
+| [[File:frost-giant.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Frost Giant]] || Powerful unit that can freeze an enemy unit with its breath attack.
 |}
 ==Gameplay==
+Skadi brings mostly defensive benefits plus an economic technology. She increases Throwing Axeman attack, which makes these units better at attacking and defending (especially against other infantry). As it is slow, Skadi's myth unit, the Frost Giant, is best used defensively, to weaken an attacking army. The attack should be targeted at powerful enemies when possible. Her God Power, Frost, can also be used defensively – typically this will be in an emergency when a player needs time to counter the now-frozen attackers. The power can also be used to stop a defending army in its tracks allowing the player to attack with impunity.
-Thoth's bonuses are mostly offensive, though one is economic. First, his Tusks of Apedemak technology makes War Elephants deal more damage, cost less, and take up less population space, allowing them to be massed more easily. This pairs especially well with Valley of the Kings, which allows empowered Migdol Strongholds to spawn double any units being trained. These improvements allow the player to create a huge army of War Elephants that can destroy anything that gets in their way.
+Skadi's economic benefit is Winter Harvest. This increases food production and is a rare bonus for the Norse.
-Thoth's myth unit, the Phoenix, is highly powerful against both units and buildings. If slain, it can be reborn, provided enemies do not attack and destroy the egg.
-Economically, Thoth improves the gather rate of all resources, offsetting the initial Egyptian gathering penalty. This gives the player the option of training fewer Laborers and more military units at maximum population.
-Followers of Set who pick Sekhmet for the Heroic Age and Thoth for the Mythic Age will be able to amass large armies of strengthened Chariot Archers. Likewise, two of the Egyptian Classical Age minor gods, Bast (accessible to Isis) and Ptah (accessible to Set), have economic bonuses which synergize nicely with Thoth's economic improvement.
 ==Mythology==
+{{Quote|Skadi was the goddess of winter and a huntress who used a bow and often traveled on skis. She was not one of the Aesir or Vanir, but rather the daughter of the jotun Thiazi. When Thiazi was killed by the gods, she marched on Asgard to exact revenge. Recognizing that she deserved compensation, the gods of Asgard offered to place her father's eyes into heaven as stars and allow her a god for a husband. However, she had to choose her mate by examining feet only, and hoped to select Baldr. She chose Njord, a god of the sea, instead, guessing the feet incorrectly. They were not suited for each other and eventually separated. Some say that she later bore Odin several sons.|In-game compendium}}
-{{Quote|A patron of learning and invention, Thoth was the chief god of the city of Khmun and a divine scribe. He served as a loyal advocate and supporter of Osiris, defending him against charges by Set, helping Isis resurrect him as lord of the underworld, helping to keep Horus hidden from Set until the son reached adulthood, and then helping Horus regain his inheritance. Thoth then assisted Osiris by recording the past deeds of all who sought to enter the Underworld. He read the scales when the hearts of those seeking entrance were weighed versus the feather of truth. Thoth grew in importance as people sought his help in proving their innocence at judgment time. The priests of Thoth enhanced his reputation as a magician and claimed he had access to spells that gave him domination over the natural world and the gods themselves. Thoth is usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon.
-"Thereupon shall come Thoth, who is equipped with words of power in great abundance, and shall untie the fetters, even the fetters of the god Set which are over my mouth."
--- From the Papyrus of Ani|In-game compendium}}
 ==List of Gods==