Fall From Heaven II is a Dark Fantasy mod for Civilization IV, arising from the CivFanatics Civ boards, and one of the game's most famous mods. It is vaguely based on the originator (Derek "Kael" Paxton)'s long-running Dungeons & Dragons game, and D&D's influence on the setting really shows.

After the Age of Ice, the various tribes of the world of Erebus are forming into civilizations once again, seeking to reclaim the glories of a previous age, leave their own mark upon Erebus, conquer everything in sight, or just blow it all to Hell. But untamed Erebus is not a nice place, and many of the civilizations (possibly including your own) will quite happily make it even worse.

Fall from Heaven II completely changes the game, adding a whole set of completely new concepts. Some of these concepts are, Magic and Spellcasters, Religions that affect the way you play, and other major and minor changes to diplomacy, combat, victory conditions, and more.

Magic

Magic is a new feature unique to FFH2 (not found in Civilization IV). It introduces a new dimension of gameplay by allowing the existence of Arcane and Disciple units, which can complement and even supplement (at times) the conventional Melee, Mounted, Archery and Siege Weapons.

Arcane units are generally traditional magic-users associated with wizards, sorcerers, channelers and oracles, and Disciple units are generally religion-based magic-users associated with priests, clerics, and healers.

There a 21 Spheres of magic, with each sphere being associated with one of the 21 gods, and each of the 21 different civilizations being associated with a sphere and its respective god. The number 21, as well as 3 and 7, come up a lot in the lore and gameplay, if you'll notice.

Civilizations

As I just said, there are 21 civilizations, each of which follow one of the alignments. However, this is not a hard and fast list: the religion you follow can change your alignment, and some of the different leaders with a civilization can have a different alignment. Each civ is associated with an element and Angel (god). With that said, here as a list of them:

The Good-Aligned Civs:

• The Bannor, holy crusaders and templars. Element: Law. God: Junil, Angel of Justice, transcendant law and submission to authority.

• The Elohim, diplomats and defenders of Holy places. Element: Spirit God: Sirona, Angel of Wisdom, charity and goodness.

• The Kuriotates, "children" of the Gold Dragon. Element: Creation God: Amatheon, Angel of Fertility, youth, creation and emergence.

• The Luchuirp, dwarven Golem crafters. Element: Enchantment God: Nantosuelta, Angel of Faith, and direct self-improvement.

• The Malakim, desert nomads and priests. Element: Sun God: Lugus, Angel of Light, Revelation and honesty.

• The Mercurians, angels come to battle the Infernal. Element: Life God: Sucellus, Angel of Life, resilience and self-sacrifice.

The Neutral-Aligned Civs:

• The Amurites, masters of sorcery. Element: Metamagic God: Oghma, Angel of Knowledge, memory and curiosity.

• The Grigori, heroes who reject the gods. Element: Force God: Dagda, Angel of Balance, contracts, and democracy.

• The Hippus, mercenary horsemen. Element: Air God: Tali, Angel of Air, fun and irresponsability.

• The Khazad, dwarven empire ruled by mining and gold. Element: Earth God: Kilmorph, Angel of Earth and hard work.

• The Lanun, pirates and rulers of the sea. Element: Water God: Danalin, Angel of Water and serenity.

• The Ljosalfar, elven defenders of the forest. Element: Nature God: Cernunnos, Angel of Growth and progressive change.

• The Sidar, the undying ghosts of Erebus. Element: Death God: Arawn, Angel of Death, passivity and retirement.

The Evil-Aligned Civs:

• The Balseraphs, the twisted carnival. Element: Mind God: Mammon, former Angel of Foresight, now Angel of Greed.

• The Calabim, vampiric aristocracy. Element: Body God: Aeron, former Angel of Strength, now Angel of Rage, domination of the strong and physical pleasure.

• The Clan of Embers, united tribes of bestial races. Element: Fire God: Bhall, former Angel of Fire and righteous indignation up until the Age of Ice, now Angel of Passion and fury.

• The Doviello, raiders and the wolves of winter. Element: Chaos God: Camulos, former Angel of Peace, now Angel of War and strife.

• The Illians, legacy of the fallen god of winter. Element: Ice God: Mulcarn, former Angel of Ice, now Angel of Winter and reactionnarism. Killed at the end of Fall from Heaven: Age of Ice, he is in the way of being replaced by Auric Ulvin.

• The Infernal, demonic harbingers of Hell. Element: Entropy God: Agares, former Angel of Hope, now Angel of Despair. The main force of Evil of the setting.

• The Sheaim, Seekers of Armaggedon. Element: Dimensional God: Ceridwen, former Angel of the Stars, now Angel of Magic and unhealthy relationships.

• The Svartalfar, elven assassins and illusionists. Element: Shadow God: Esus, former Angel of Trust, now Angel of Deception, relativism, and incertainty.

How to Get It

The Civfanatics page that has the download link can be found here. In addition, Not only FFH2 a mod, it has its own ModMods, which, in turn, have their own further Modifications. Another Civfanatics link for such modmods can be found here. In addition, for more explanation of the mod, the FFH2 wiki has a link here.

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When two statements A and B are mutually exclusive, only one is true. Proving A true by proving B false is called proof by contradiction.

Example: The sum of two numbers is 75. The first is larger than the second by 15. Prove by contradiction that the second number is 30.

Solution: :expert-shapiro: Suppose the second number is not 30. Then it is either greater than 30 or less than 30. If it is greater than 30, the first number is greater than 45 and their sum is greater than 75, which is impossible. If it is less than 30, the first number is less than 45, and their sum is less than 75, which is also impossible.

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