When the shields join together in the phalanx, they got their names from the idea that the enemies break against the shield wall like waves on a stone. The shields they carry are massive iron tower shields that are very heavy to carry around. They create the phalanx that everyone else revolves around. "Stoneshields they fight with spear and shield - large tower shields. And, in keeping with the bronze-age theme, they fight like ancient Greeks.
He is the leader of faction known as the Disfavored. One of those great archons is named Graven Ashe. Rather than conquer his enemies and destroy them utterly, he - like the historical Achaemenid Persian empire - is willing to bring them under his flag if they’re willing to fight at his side. While Kyros brings the sword, he also brings an open hand. The leaders who sit below Kyros are called archons, and at least one of them is a traitor to his people. "We think of you as the Judge Dredd character, judge jury and executioner of everyone you meet because your word effectively is law." Who gets to proceed forward with their plans and who has to admit failure to their leader. "When those arise, it’s your job as a fatebinder to settle disputes that decide who gets to win. "Your role in Kyros’ empire is, whenever there are different armies and mage guilds in the same area they’re going to have conflicts with each other, either from their own personal politics or driven by the Archons that control them," Heins says. In Tyranny players will take on the role of a fatebinder, a kind of justice of the peace on the edge of Kyros’ advance. It was much easier for people to outfit larger armies."Īnd it’s with those bigger armies, some 10 times larger than those that stood against them, that Tyranny’s villain Kyros has conquered the land. "With iron you only need a single source of iron in order to make weapons and armor. But the proliferation was a game changer. "The first iron weapons were crude, heavy, brittle and prone to shattering," Heins says. Now imagine wearing a half dozen pans woven into a jacket. Imagine swinging around a cast iron pan on the battlefield. While steel is thin and light, iron is dark, heavy, black as night and crudely wrought. That’s because they’re thinking of steel." "One of the things I love about this period in history is that a lot of people have this idea that iron weapons are inherently better than bronze. But in Tyranny, Heins and his team went a step further to explore how new materials would have changed the face of warfare in an ancient land. Imagine World of Warcraft or the Elder Scrolls games and how they treat the difference between stone and metal and glass as simply a set of stat buffs. In so many role-playing games the materials that the weapons of war are made from are simply a pastiche. It was a skill and a high art." Kyros the Overlord's secret weapon is a new and fearsome technology - iron. It took a lot of money to make ‘weapons-grade bronze’ as I like to say.
had armies that were numbered in the dozens of people, possibly over 100 for wealthy nations because outfitting warriors with bronze armor was very expensive. "For T yranny, the majority of nations in this world prior to Kyros’ conquest. There’s a lot of expense that came with that, so most places could only outfit either partially in bronze or a small number in bronze. Then you had very skilled smiths who knew the proper ratios to actually create the alloy that was durable enough to make weapons and armor. "You didn’t always have the minerals necessary to forge bronze weapons in your own territory. "A lot of times to make bronze you had to trade," Heins says, sounding more like a college professor than a game developer. Historically speaking, it’s not that iron was any better than bronze, though. The secret of his vast war machine, Heins says, is a new and fearsome technology - iron. Tyranny, in contrast, rolls the clock back to the bronze age.įor hundreds of years, a shadowy figure known as Kyros the Overlord has been sweeping across the known world from the east, bringing Tyranny’s large, single continent under his control. While Pillars of Eternity was a fantasy world, it took place in a pseudo-historical period following the invention of gunpowder. The best place to begin understanding the world of Tyranny is with a discussion of its technology.
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