Temple of the Sun

Temple of the Sun
Building
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend
Type	Active Landmark
Civilization	Zhu Xi's Legacy
Age	Castle Age
Use	Advances the builder to the Imperial Age Gives access to passive bonuses
Construction
Food	2,400
Gold	1,200
Build time	125 seconds
Statistics
Size	4 x 4 tiles
Hit points	5,000
Ranged armor	50
Fire armor	0
Line of Sight	8.889 tiles

“	Activate powerful abilities that improve speed, damage, range, or regeneration of specific units	”
—Age of Empires IV description

The Temple of the Sun is a military landmark in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend, available to Zhu Xi's Legacy in the Castle Age. It provides one of four passive global military or defensive bonuses.

Special ability

The Temple of the Sun allows the player to select one of four powerful passive bonuses for their units or defensive structures.

• Divine Defense: Gunpowder units and defensive structures gain +1 range
• Divine Haste: Infantry units move 15% faster
• Divine Vitality: Military units out of combat heal 2 hit points per second. Workers and Transport Ships are not affected.
• Divine Charge: Cavalry units deal +20% damage. Applies to bonus damage as well as base damage.

Further statistics

Technologies
Hit points	Court Architects (+30%)
Resource cost	Tang Dynasty (-15%)

Gallery

The Temple of the Sun

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