The Priestess replaces the Healer and is unique to the Incas. It is available to the Incas starting in the Commerce Age and can be spawned by the Healers Ceremony at the Community Plaza or if The Wise Woman is chosen when advancing in age. Priestesses can commune at the Community Plaza, an action at which they are particularly effective, they can heal allied units, and they have the unique ability to convert enemy units with the exception of heroes, ships, and buildings.
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Overview[]
It functions similarly to the Healer, but can work as one and a halfvillagers at the Community Plaza and convert enemy units. Although the limit of Priestesses can reach 16, only 10 of them can work at the Community Plaza at a time.
With their conversion ability, they can convert enemy and treasure guardian units; they work similar to the Monk in Age of Empires II.
+40% hit points, +4 Line of Sight and Conversion range, -1.2 sec. Conversion time
+50% hit points, +4 Line of Sight and Conversion range, -1.2 sec. Conversion time
Civilization differences[]
The Mexicans can get 1 Priestess named María Uicab upon revolting to the Maya through the "María Uicab" Home City Card. María Uicab has 150% more hit points, and can be retrained at the Cathedral for 300 coin if she dies.
The Portuguese and Spanish can send the "6 Priestess" Home City Card upon revolting to Peru, which delivers 6 Priestesses and can be sent an infinite number of times.
For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Colegio de San Nicolas
Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
National Servant
Unit (except herded animals) hit points +10%; Padre heal work rate +200%
Imperial Age
María Uicab
Delivers 1 Priestess named María Uicab with +150% hit points and +12 Conversion range; enables María Uicab to be retrained at the Cathedral for 300 coin
Originally, Priestesses cost two population and work as two Villagers at the Community Plaza. With update 9476, they cost one population, work as 1.5 Villagers at the Community Plaza, and every card and Politician that deliver Priestesses now ships more Priestesses than before.
Originally, Priestesses had a training limit of 15. With update 9476, they have a training limit of 16.
Originally, conversion range improves by +4 in the Fortress and Industrial Ages. With a later update, conversion range improves by +4.5 in the Fortress and Industrial Ages.
With update 13.18214, Conversion range improves upon reaching the Fortress, Industrial, and Imperial Ages by +5.
With update 13.27885, Conversion range improves by +4 and conversion delay reduces 1.2 per Age.
With update 15.59076, Priestess hit points reduced from 360 to 320.
History[]
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In Inca religion, women who lived in temple convents under a vow of chastity. Their duties included the preparation of ritual food, the maintenance of a sacred fire, and the weaving of garments for the emperor and for ritual use. At the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century, the Virgins numbered several thousand and were governed by a high priestess, the Coya Pasca, a noblewoman who was believed to be the earthly consort of the sun god. The Virgins, not of noble birth, were village girls selected by officials for their beauty and talent; they were chosen at the age of 8 or 10 and shut up in the temples, which they were not allowed to leave for six or seven years. Of these girls, some became sacrificial victims, whereas others were sometimes made imperial concubines or the wives of nobles.
Conversion: Converts an enemy unit (except heroes, Daimyo, Shogun Tokugawa, villagers, healing units, wagons/travois/rickshaws/builders, and Hot Air Balloons) to the Priestess' side from a range of 12 with the process taking 6 seconds to complete, which can be shorter or longer depending on the unit in question. 60 seconds cooldown.
Mission Fervor (+50%; Europeans only)
Medical Science (+35%; United States only)
Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only)
Tar Kilns (+5%)
Town Watch (+3)
Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Immigrants (-10%; -5% spawn time)
Jagiellonian Legacy (delivers 3/5/5 Priestesses if The Wise Woman was chosen for the Inca to reach the Commerce/Industrial/Imperial Age respectively)
6 Priestesses
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure
Western Reforms
Ignatian Spirituality
TEAM Aqllakuna
1 Priestess
5 Priestesses
Temple of Mama Killa
Road Building
TEAM Inca Bridges
Chicha Brewing
Dravidian Martial Arts
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
TEAM Mariachi
Colegio de San Nicolas
National Servant
María Uicab
TEAM Patriarchy
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
