Ao Kuang

"You have advanced to the Mythic Age through the Wrath of Ao Kuang."

—Age up text in Age of Mythology

Ao Kuang is a Mythic Age Chinese minor god in Tale of the Dragon, available to Fu Xi and Shennong.

Attributes Edit

God Power Edit

• Great Flood: Sends a destructive wave that sweeps away buildings and units in a direction of choice.

Technologies Edit

• Dragon Scales: Human soldiers +10% hack armor.
• East Sea: Decreases the cost of ships by 20%.
• Nezha’s Defeat: Charged attack of Azure Dragons +50% hack damage.

Myth Unit Edit

• Azure Dragon: Amphibious, fire-breathing dragon.
• Dragon Turtle: Naval half-dragon half-turtle that breathes fire.

Strategy Edit

Ao Kuang’s benefits are primarily offensive and especially useful for water maps. His East Sea technology lowers the cost of all ships, making war ships easier to mass and enabling the player to maintain control of the water. For land battles, he also grants Dragon Scales which provides more hack armor to infantry, archers and cavalry units. Regardless of which human soldiers the enemy masses, the player will have stronger counters. For Fu Xi worshipers, this can be used in combination with Dabo Gong’s Burials technology; players can make a small army of monks to convert enemy soldiers at tremendous speed and rely on these stronger new recruits who otherwise lack the benefit of unit line upgrades (unless they also are Chinese units of course).

Ao Kuang is the only Chinese god to provide two Myth Units; the amphibious Azure Dragon and the naval Dragon Turtle. Both are very tough units and are valuable additions to the Chinese navy. Azure Dragons in particular can be made even more deadly with the Nezha’s Defeat technology. To devastate enemy buildings, Ao Kuang grants his followers the Great Flood god power. It is not only useful on water maps such as Islands where towns are clustered in one area but also for team games as the powerful waves can travel long distances and strike multiple enemies in one cast.

MythologyEdit

The dragon Ao Kuang is Lord of the Eastern Sea. His three brothers, Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun rule the seas of the other cardinal directions. He and his brothers are fickle rulers, and Ao Kuang’s many ill-reputed sons cause their share of mayhem on earth. Over time this built him a following of fearful subjects eager to appease him. He maintains a vast collection of heavenly weapons and artifacts in his grand undersea palace.

Ao Kuang’s reputation made him many enemies, perhaps the most notable of which was Nezha, son of the military commander Li Jing. When Ao Kuang demanded a sacrifice of children to eat, Nezha beat off his minions and killed the Dragon King’s third son, Ao Bing. Ao Kuang fled to the Jade Emperor’s court to plead for vengeance, but Nezha followed him there and beat him severely, ripping off scales and drawing blood. Ao Kuang then took Li Jing and his wife hostage in exchange for Nehza’s life, and Nezha committed suicide to placate the dragon.

Tale of the Dragon campaign Edit

"My dragons succumbed to the forces of chaos and went rogue!"

-Ao Kuang to Jiao-Long after being released.

In The Water Palace, the seventh scenario of the Tale of the Dragon campaign, Ao Kuang appears as an Azure Dragon who needs to be saved from captivity. In return, he will provide a map to the protagonists which will guide them through the southern jungle and to Pangu's altar on the other side. He also makes a brief appearance in the epilogue cinematic.

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Major and minor gods in Age of Mythology
Culture	Archaic Age	Classical Age	Heroic Age	Mythic Age
Greek	Zeus Hades Poseidon	Athena Hermes Ares	Apollo Dionysus Aphrodite	Hera Hephaestus Artemis
Egyptian	Ra Isis Set	Bast Ptah Anubis	Hathor Sekhmet Nephthys	Osiris Horus Thoth
Norse	Thor Odin Loki	Freyja Heimdall Forseti	Skadi Bragi Njord	Baldr Tyr Hel
Atlantean	Kronos Oranos Gaia	Prometheus Leto Oceanus	Hyperion Rheia Theia	Helios Atlas Hekate
Chinese	Fu Xi Nü Wa Shennong	Huang Di Sun Wukong Chang'e	Dabo Gong Zhong Kui He Bo	Chongli Ao Kuang Xi Wangmu

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