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This article is about the technology in Age of Empires II. For other uses, see Sanctity.

Sanctity is a technology in Age of Empires II that can be researched at the Monastery. Once researched, it increases the hit points of Monks, Warrior Priests and Missionaries by +15.

Availability chart[]

Available Unavailable

Civilizations[]

The following civilizations can research technologies or have bonuses related to Sanctity:

Unique technologies[]

Civilization bonuses[]

  • Aztecs: Sanctity gives Monks an additional +5 hit points (total +20).
  • Bohemians: Sanctity affects Villagers.
  • Burmese: Sanctity is 50% cheaper.
  • Chinese: Sanctity is 10%/15% cheaper in the Castle/Imperial Age.
  • Spanish: Receive 20 gold after researching Sanctity.

Team bonuses[]

Changelog[]

Return of Rome[]

History[]

To achieve sanctity was to achieve a holiness of life and character. The holy men of the great religions of the Middle Ages strove for sanctity through their obedience to sacred texts, their vows of poverty, and their respect for all living things. Through sanctity they inspired those of other religions or those less committed.
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings manual

Trivia[]

  • Sanctity's icon is based on the Holy Grail, a cup that purportedly caught some of Jesus' blood during his crucifixion.
  • Although the in-game description before the Definitive Edition stated that Sanctity gives +50% hit points, it is always flat +15. The effect stated in the description did not interact with the Aztec Monk hit point bonus or Bloodlines for Missionaries, i.e., the order of research of the technologies does not matter.
Technologies in Age of Empires II
Economic technologies
Villager Wheelbarrow Hand Cart
Food Horse Collar Heavy Plow Crop Rotation
Gillnets
Domestication Pastoralism Transhumance
Wood Double-Bit Axe Bow Saw Two-Man Saw
Gold Gold Mining Gold Shaft Mining
Caravan
Stone Stone Mining Stone Shaft Mining
Civilian ships Dry Dock · Shipwright
Market Coinage Banking
Guilds
Military technologies
General Conscription
Heresy · Devotion Faith
Upgrades
Melee units Forging Iron Casting Blast Furnace
Cavalry Bloodlines · Husbandry
Scale Barding Armor Chain Barding Armor Plate Barding Armor
Infantry Gambesons · Squires · Arson
Scale Mail Armor Chain Mail Armor Plate Mail Armor
Ranged units Ballistics · Chemistry
Fletching Bodkin Arrow Bracer
Archers Padded Archer Armor Leather Archer Armor Ring Archer Armor
Thumb Ring · Parthian Tactics
Siege Siege Engineers
Ship Careening Dry Dock
Shipwright
War Galley
Building Town Watch Town Patrol
Masonry Architecture
Heated Shot · Arrowslits · Murder Holes · Treadmill Crane · Hoardings · Bombard Tower
Herbal Medicine
Monk Redemption · Atonement · Sanctity · Fervor · Illumination · Block Printing · Theocracy
Villager Loom · Sappers
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Removed/cut generic technologies
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