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This article is about the god in Age of Mythology. For the god in Age of Empires: Mythologies, see Thor (Age of Empires: Mythologies). |
Thor is a Norse major god in Age of Mythology who focuses on Dwarves and the Dwarven Armory.
Attributes[]
God power[]
Dwarven Mine: Creates a Gold Mine wherever the player wants it to be placed. The Gold Mine holds more gold if cast in later Ages and is mined faster. Any player can mine from it.
Technologies[]
- Hammer of Thunder: Gives Hersirs 15% damage buff and increased favor gain. (since Retold)
- Dwarven Weapons: All human soldiers, heroes, ships, and buildings have improved attack.
- Meteoric Iron Armor: All human units, heroes, and ships have reduced hack vulnerability. Ships also have reduced crush vulnerability.
- Dragonscale Shields: All human units, heroes, and ships have reduced pierce vulnerability.
- Pig Sticker: Villagers have +5 attack against animals and gather food from hunting 10% faster. (before Retold)
Unique building[]
- Dwarven Armory: Building that replaces the Armory. It has no Age restriction on technology research and enables three additional technologies. It also spawns a Dwarf for every technology researched from it. It researches slower in the Archaic Age, but becomes faster than others in subsequent Ages.
Bonuses[]
- Start with three Dwarves instead of three Gatherers.
- Dwarves cost -10 gold, and gather food and wood 15% faster, nearly as fast as Gatherers.
- Builds Dwarven Armory instead of Armory. Dwarven Armory can be built and research upgrades in any age, and can research three additional technologies.
- Receive a free Dwarf for each Dwarven Armory upgrade researched.
Minor gods[]
- Classical Age
- Forseti - God power: Healing Spring, myth unit: Troll
- Freyja - God power: Forest Fire, myth unit: Valkyrie
- Heroic Age
- Bragi - God power: Flaming Weapons, myth unit: Battle Boar
- Skadi - God power: Frost, myth unit: Frost Giant
- Mythic Age
- Baldr - God power: Ragnarok, myth unit: Fire Giant
- Tyr - God power: Fimbulwinter, myth unit: Fenris Wolf Brood
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- His myth technology is Pig Sticker.
- Has the bonuses:
- Starts the game with two Dwarves instead of two Gatherers.
- Dwarves gather food at the same rate as regular Villagers and gather wood only slightly slower; regular Dwarves gather food and wood 20% slower.
- Dwarven Armory (Armory replacement) technologies are cheaper.
Retold[]
- His myth technology is Hammer of Thunder.
- Bonuses changed:
- Starts the game with three Dwarves instead of three Gatherers.
- Dwarves cost -10 gold, and gather food and wood 15% faster (does not apply if harvesting Peach Blossom Spring).
- Cheaper Dwarven Armory technologies bonus changed to receive a free Dwarf for each Dwarven Armory technology researched.
Mythology[]
| “ | The thunder god, Thor was the son of Odin and Fjorgyn, the goddess of earth. He was large for a god, immensely strong, and a big eater (a cow could be a single meal). He loved contests of strength and was the main champion of the gods against their enemies, the frost giants. Farmers who appreciated his simple honesty and revulsion of evil worshiped him, rather than Odin, who was more attractive to those with the raiding spirit. Thor's weapon was a magic war hammer (bolts of lightning) with a huge head and short handle that never missed its target. He wore magic iron gauntlets to handle the white-hot hammer shaft and a belt that doubled his strength. Thor enjoyed the company of Loki despite the trickster's penchant for getting them both in trouble. The tales of their adventures are some of the richest in Norse mythology. In the Norse pantheon, Thor was the destroyer of evil. At Ragnarok, Thor was aligned against his friend Loki who had gone over to the side of the evil frost giants. Thor was destined to kill the grim serpent Jormungand, spawn of Loki, but die in the struggle. Anglo-Saxons gave Thor's name to the fifth day of their week, Thursday. |
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| —In-game help section | ||
Technology tree[]
 Thor |
God power | |
|---|---|---|
 Dwarven Mine | ||
 Dwarven Armory |
 Dwarven Weapons |
 Meteoric Iron Armor |
 Dragonscale Shields |
 Hammer of Thunder | |
 Dwarf (Spawned by every research) |
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Trivia[]
- According to the Age of Mythology guide book, Thor was originally going to have an additional bonus that enabled cavalry to produce gold when attacking buildings.
- In Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, the unlockable hero skin for the Community Event Challenge of March 2024 was Thor, replacing the Swedish Explorer. The custom Thor Explorer looks like the major god as portrayed in Age of Mythology, uses a large hammer in melee range, and reuses voice lines from Age of Mythology Norse, like Hersirs, with lower pitch.
- Unlike the generic weapon and shield technologies, the ones unique to Thor do not change the visible equipment of units.
Gallery[]
Icon of the original game
Original portrait by David Cherry
Retold beta portrait
Thor's original UI
Thor's UI in The Titans
Thor's UI in the Extended Edition
In-game user interface watermark in Retold
Victory emblem in Retold
In-game statue depiction
In-game statue depiction of Thor in Retold
Wonder for Thor in the original game
Wonder for Thor in Retold
Promotional art of Thor for the Extended Edition
Thor and Ra profile background
In-game Thor skin for the Swedish Explorer
A bronze statuette of Thor found in Iceland, c. 1000 AD
