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This article is about the god in Age of Mythology. For the god in Age of Empires: Mythologies, see Loki (Age of Empires: Mythologies). |
Loki is a Norse major god in Age of Mythology who focuses on myth units.
Attributes[]
God power[]
Spy: Secretly grants the Line of Sight of the targeted enemy unit or animal.
Technology[]
- Eyes in the Forest: Nearby animals and natural objects (trees, mines, Forage Bushes) which are within the Line of Sight of the player's units reveal the area around them. The effect continues to persist temporarily when the natural objects go out of view.
Bonuses[]
- Damaging enemy units can spawn myth units. (Human soldiers contribute 15%; Hersirs 50% of damage dealt; others have no contribution)
- Human soldiers and heroes +10% counter damage.
- Buildings (constructed by military units) are constructed 10% faster.
- Ox Carts are 50% cheaper.
- Transforming Gatherers and Dwarves into Berserks is 50% cheaper.
Minor gods[]
- Classical Age
- Forseti - God power: Healing Spring, myth unit: Troll
- Heimdall - God power: Undermine, myth unit: Einheri
- Heroic Age
- Bragi - God power: Flaming Weapons, myth unit: Battle Boar
- Njord - God power: Walking Woods, myth unit: Mountain Giant
- Mythic Age
- Hel - God power: Nidhogg, myth units: Mountain Giant, Frost Giant, Fire Giant
- Tyr - God power: Fimbulwinter, myth unit: Fenris Wolf Brood
Myth unit summoning[]
Loki's human units and heroes can summon myth units as they fight. The units which can spawn this way are all the Norse myth units which are trainable at the Temple until and including the current Age of the player. This includes myth units of other minor gods than the one chosen by the player, including those minor gods not available to Loki.
When the player first advances to the Classical Age, the game randomly chooses a valid myth unit. As the player's human units and heroes deal damage to the hit points of enemy units other than enemy myth units, they generate points which fill up a hidden meter. Hersirs contribute 50% of damage dealt of towards the meter, while other units, including Godis, contribute 15%. When the accumulated points total the resource cost of the unit (with a factor of 10 for the favor cost), the reserved myth unit is spawned next to the unit which filled up the meter. The myth unit is spawned even without any population space left.
Where,
- Points needed to spawn the randomly selected myth unit
- Food cost of the myth unit
- Wood cost of the myth unit
- Gold cost of the myth unit
- Favor cost of the myth unit
Loki's Hersirs can spawn myth units as they fight. The spawned myth unit is randomly chosen from among all Norse myth units which are trainable in the Temple and available until and including the current Age of the player. This includes myth units of other minor gods than the one chosen by the player, including those minor gods not available to Loki.
The mechanism is such that Loki's Hersirs gather a hidden resource as they fight, which is pooled into a separate counter, hereinafter referred to as "spawn pool". Since the Classical Age, when Hersirs fight, they add to the spawn pool as long as population space for new spawns is available. A myth unit is randomly chosen by the game and kept in standby. When the meter in the spawn pool reaches 90% of the normal favor cost of the chosen myth unit, and the player has spare population space, the amount is deducted from the spawn pool and the myth unit is spawned near the Hersir which last added to the spawn pool.
Where,
- Spawn pool collection amount
- Damage dealt to target in % of its total hit points
- Target's favor bounty
- The attacker's favor bounty multiplier, which is 2 for Hersirs
The 1.2 is the unitBonusBountyModifier value assigned in the game config (.cfg) file.
For example, a generic Villager has a favor bounty of 1.08. A Hersir has a favor bounty multiplier of 2×, so upon a Hersir killing a Villager, the player would have gained 2.16 favor (displaying rounded value). The spawn pool meter would thus increase by points.
As only myth units actively trainable at the Temple can be spawned this way, it does not spawn Ravens (which are spawned by Odin's Temples automatically) or aquatic myth units (which are trained at the Dock).
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- Bonuses:
- Hersirs move 10% faster.
- Hersirs summon myth units after fighting for long enough.
- Myth units cost -10% favor.
- Longhouse units train 10% faster.
- Ox Carts move 50% faster, cost half as much, and have +45% hit points.
The Titans[]
- Ox Cart bonus of 45% more hit points is changed to 45% less hit points.
Retold[]
- Bonuses changed to:
- Damaging enemy units can spawn myth units. (Human soldiers contribute 10%; Hersirs 50% of damage dealt.)
- Human soldiers and heroes +25% damage multipliers.
- Buildings (constructed by military units) are constructed 25% faster.
- Ox Carts are 50% cheaper.
- Transforming Gatherers and Dwarves into Berserks is free.
- With update 17.30764, the free worker into Berserk transformation is instead only 50% cheaper.
- With update 17.36100, the building rate bonus is reduced to 10%.
- With update 17.64528, human soldiers and heroes have +20% damage multipliers.
Immortal Pillars[]
- With update 18.21333, human soldiers and heroes have +10% damage multipliers.
Heavenly Spear[]
- With update 18.56738, Human soldiers contribute 15% of damage dealt to spawning myth units.
Mythology[]
| “ | The son of giants, Loki was the fire god, but also a mischievous trickster and shape-changer who grew bored with the repetitive life of the gods. Many of his exploits caused great damage or hurt, but he was usually quick enough to restore order and prevent complete disaster. In one case, he caused the gods to temporarily lose the source of their immortality. In another situation, he tricked Thor into a threatening situation for his own gain, but later devised the clever plan to recover Thor's stolen hammer. His tricks became increasingly nasty and evil, peaking when he caused the death of Odin's son Baldr. When he tormented and insulted the gods at a great banquet, the gods turned on him and he escaped temporarily by changing into a salmon. He could not escape Odin's all-seeing vision, however, and Loki was bound up in a dark cave. Loki's first marriage to a giant produced three fearsome and evil creatures: Fenrir the wolf, the great serpent Jormungand, and Hel, the partially decomposed goddess of the underworld. He had two sons, Vali and Narvi, by a second marriage. At the time of Loki's imprisonment, Vali was changed into a wolf that killed Narvi. The dead man's intestines were used to bind Loki in the cave beneath the mouth of a giant snake, dripping venom, where he waited for Ragnarok. Loki was destined to lead the army of evil at that final battle with the gods, where he would be killed by Heimdall. |
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In-game dialogue[]
Loki has a few lines of dialogue in Arena of the Gods.
In the intro cutscene of scenario 20, alongside Freyr:
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Loki: Now I know I've been out of the loop, being imprisoned and all... ...but Atlanteans interfering in Ragnarok? This is bizarre. |
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Freyr: He does not stand alone. |
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Loki: Oh, Freyr... Now you of all gods should know that nature must run its course. That's all I want. |
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Freyr: You want endless snows, the death of gods, the destruction of the world? |
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Loki: Oho, you're afraid, aren't you? Let's have ourselves a little brawl. This chaos will only hasten the end of days. |
After the player destroys all of the giants' villages in scenario 20 and wins the scenario, Loki has the following dialogue with Kastor:
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Loki: For such a noble man, you've got a real brutal streak. I can respect that. But you're also a witless fool. Whenever and however it comes, Ragnarok is inevitable. |
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Kastor: So long as I live, trickster, your mad plans will never come to pass. |
Trivia[]
- Loki's portrait resembles Arthur Rackham's depiction of Hagen [1], a legendary Burgundian warrior and brother of Gunnarr, and the one who kills Siegfried in Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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