Clans

In Northgard, you start by picking a Clan. Each Clan has different characteristics and bonuses unique to that Clan. Some Clans are included in the base game while others are only available by purchasing DLC.

Base Clans

Stag Eikthyrnir

Start You Start with +75 Food, Wood, Kröwns and +40 Lore. The Hall of Skalds replaces the Brewery and produces additional Fame. Fame 200 Fame : Supplies You gain +150 Food, Wood and Kröwns, +75 Lore and +10 Stone. 500 Fame : Dedication Upgraded buildings gain an additional 10% production bonus. All productions gets +1% per 100 Fame. Lore Hero Emblem — Stone cost to build an Altar of Kings is reduced to 5. It gives +2 Happiness and produces Fame. Food Preservation — Increases Food production by +3 and Happiness by +1 for each Food Silo (+5 Food if upgraded). Young and Proud — Increases your military units' attack power by 3% for every positive Happiness you have. The Value of Great Deeds — Skald will produce +1 Kröwns (+1.5 if their building is upgraded). Skalds' tool improvement is free and forging time is divided by 2. Glory of the Clan — Increases Fame by 20%. Increases gains from Trade Routes and Great Trade Routes by 20%. Relic Hlidskjalf : Gives your Warchief the Annexation ability. Whenever your Warchief decolonizes a zone, you colonize it for free. Conquest +50% for Skalds production. Food Silos are free, use no building slot and improve Food gathering from Villagers. +200, +200, +200, +20 and +10 when reaching 500 .

Goat Heidrun

Start Start with 1 Sheep and can build two Sheepfolds. Increases the production bonus of your feasts by 20%. Fame 200 Fame : Shepherd Allows to build an additional sheepfold. Obtain two free sheep. Sheepfold production is increased by 10%. 500 Fame : Team Work Your Defense Towers and all your Military units gain 20% resistance when feasting. You gain one free Feast per year. Lore Spare Tools — Tool improvement for Farmers, Hunters and Fishermen costs no Kröwns or Iron, and forging time for those tools is divided by 2. Amenities — Costs 80% less to develop a zone. Industrious — Upgraded Food-producing buildings can be assigned an additional Villager. Barricades — Increases your civilians' resistance by 20% per building in the area. Food Trade — Trading Food increases your Trade Routes' Kröwns income by 50%. Relic Gefjun's Jar : Allows you to spend Food to summon new Villagers or Sheep and build another Sheepfold. Required Happiness for your population is reduced by 10%. Conquest Start with three Sheep instead of one. You start with Barricades, it grants +100% bonus on defense. Feasts last two month instead of one.

Wolf Fenrir

Start Killing a Wolf provides 15 Meat, Brown Bear and Kaija provides 120 Meat. Your military units consume 30% less Food and military unit grant Happiness (see below). Whenever you have no military units, the first unit recruited is free (excluding the Warchief). Following units cost starts at 25 Kröwns Fame 200 Fame : Dominion Your Berserker can colonize cleared areas for free (every 12 months). 500 Fame : Assault Your military units gain a 15% Attack bonus when fighting outside your territory. Dominion cooldown is reduced by 50%. Lore Field Rations — Reduced your military units' Food consumption by 75%. Spoils of War — Gain some Kröwns for each enemy unit killed. Plunder — When you decolonize an area, your units there gain +30% health. Conqueror — Increases your military power against Defense Towers by 75%, and makes decolonization twice as fast. Veiled Threats — Improve your Trade Route's Kröwns income by +75% if you have a Berserker and by +150% with the Berserker in the same zone as the Trading Post. You can trade even when at war. Relic Horn of Managarm : Summons up to 3 White Wolves under your control for 50 Food each, with the cost being reduced by half if you build it in a Wolf Den tile. You can summon them every 2 months. 3 is the total maximum number; if you summon 3 wolves and lose 2 of them, next time the Horn of Managarm is off cooldown you will be able to summon only 2 wolves. Conquest Meat provided by Wolf or Brown Bear is increased by 100%. Your Berserker gains + 20% Attack Power and defense and his recruitment cost is reduced by 20%. Happiness provided by your military units is increased by 100%.

Raven Huginn and Muninn

Start Can colonize with Kröwns instead of Food. Can build the Harbor (replaces Longship Dock) to explore coastal areas and later send Mercenaries attacks. Upgrading a Harbor grants +20% exploration speed. +10% production from Merchants and Sailors. Fame 200 Fame : Recruits You obtain 3 Villagers, 3 max population and 1 happiness 500 Fame : Mercenaries You can hire Mercenaries at your Harbor and send them to raid coastal areas. Harbors can be assigned one additional sailor. Lore Rangers — Increases your scouting and exploration speed by 100%. Your Scouts no longer consume Food and cannot be hurt while exploring. Journeymen — Increases your Happiness based on the areas you have explored (+0.75 Happiness per area, -0.5 Happiness per team member). Gear Upgrade — Gives you 2% attack power and defense per active Sailor and Merchant (20% max). Cost of weapon improvements reduced by 50%. Negotiators — Gain +2 Kröwns production and +20% Commercial Influence. Exotic Goods — Gain +1 Happiness per Harbor, +2 Happiness if upgraded. Relic Naglfar : Allows you to send two Son of Hrymr to raid coastal tiles. Conquest Receive « Recruits » bonus every 200 . Colonizing with Kröwns costs -30%. When hiring Mercenary raid, it is doubled.

Bear Bjarki

Start During winter, Food and Firewood penalties are reduced by 30%. Instead of having reduced power, your Military units gain 10% resistance bonus during winter. You can summon Kaija, the Armored Bear for 40 Kröwns and 40 Food and a Shield Maiden. Shield maiden has more defense than regular Warchief and replaces it. Fame 200 Fame : Kindred Spirit Having Kaija or the Shield Maiden in an area, increases local production by 15%. 500 Fame : The Bear Awakens You gain +3 Fame per enemy unit killed in an area with the Shield Maiden. Your Military units gain 1% power per 100 Fame. Kaija, "The Armored Bear" can now go in enemy territory. Lore Hibernation — Your non-sick clan members heal during winter in allied territory. Harpoons — Fisherman's Huts can have one more Fisherman, and their production is increased by 25%. Protector of the Land — Gain +1 Happiness per area with at least one military camp. Shield Mastery — Shield Bearers cost less Kröwns, and their resistance is increased by 5%. Shield Bearer Camps have no upkeep cost. Winter Festival — During winter, Food production loss is reduced by 50%, Happiness is increased by 3 and Kröwns earned from Trade Routes is increased by 50%. Relic Scabbard of Gram : Equips your Warchief with the unique sword Gram, which freezes enemies (-20% attack speed) along with the area around them. Conquest Start with Kaija, the Armored Bear, she has +10% Attack Power and defense. Shield Bearers start with their weapon improved. Start with Scabbard of Gram relic available.

Boar Slidrugtanni

Start The Mender's Hut replaces the Healer's Hut. Menders produce 1 Lore while not healing instead of food. Learning a new Lore  gives 20 Fame   instead of 15. Each additional territory gives +2 max population. No happiness penalties for non-upgraded houses or Town Hall. Fame 200 Fame : Heritage You gain one free Knowledge, this does not count toward a Lore Victory or Blessing unlock. 500 Fame : Greater Blessings All blessings have upgraded effects: Freya: Winter penalty is massively reduced (70% for Food, 50% for Wood) Baldr: +5 Happiness and +2 Lore  production Jörd: Your army and Upgraded Towers now get +10% Attack Power. Lore Simple Living — Construction costs -50% Wood to build. Herbalism — Each active Mender provides +5% production in Mender's Hut territory (+10% Lore production). Increases your Menders' healing speed by 20%. Legacy — Increases Happiness and production yields from Altar of Kings by 50%. Lay of the Land — Reduces environment hostility by 70%. Increases non-villager productions by 10% in Forests, Swamps or Lakes. Bartering — Enables Trade Routes with neutral factions at the Trading Post. Neutral factions will accept any resource and you gain +1 Happiness when trading with them. Handiwork — Non-upgraded buildings receive +15% production. Osmosis — You obtain 1 Happiness for every 3 colonized zones. Zones with Forests, Swamps or Lakes provide 1 Happiness. Relic Mask of Gullinbursti : Reveals all forests and summons a Giant Boar in each. Boars in allied territory are pacified and can be sacrificed for 500. Boars in neutral or enemy territory are hostile ( 200 if killed by Wolf Clan). Conquest Menders produces +50% more. Their tool costs no resources and forge time is divided by 2. Altar of Kings cost is reduced by 50% and gives 50% more. Whenever upgrading your townhall, you gain three free building upgrade.

DLC Clans

Snake Sváfnir

Start You start with your warchief, the young Signy. Iron is not needed to summon Signy. She can be summoned from the Skirmisher Camp. The Skirmisher Camp is an exclusive building of the clan, it allows to recruit Skirmishers that can go through neutrals foes without being detected. The clan doesn't have access to Fame. Signy grows up, getting stronger and unlocking new abilities instead. Fame This clan does not have any Fame bonuses. Lore Stolen Lore — Steals a Lore from another clan, replacing this slot with one of the following lores: Field Rations Industrious 20px Food Preservation Journeymen Harpoons Osmosis Draconic Frenzy 20px Ancestral Influence 20px Knowledge From Beyond City Builder Under Pressure — You gain +0.5 Happiness and +1 Food for each military unit in a non allied zone next to or within an enemy territory. Increases the Skirmishers' attack power by 20% and other military units' attack power by 10%. Skirmishers are less affected by the attack penalty from their distance to Town Hall. Guerilla Tactics — Permanently increases your military units' attack power by +1% for any unit slain or lost in enemy territory (30% max). Black Market — Enables Trade Routes at the Trading Post. Merchants produce +10% more Kröwns. You gain +50% Kröwns when trading with enemy clans, deteriorating diplomatic relations. You can trade even when at war. Enemy clans get no resource from black market trading. Rapacious Exploitation — Ruins or Shipwrecks in your territory provide +2 Happiness. Bonuses from special zones are doubled. Relic Gungnir : Unlocks the Stealth Ability to all military units. If a Stealthed unit enters a tile with a hostile Defense Tower in it, that Defense Tower will wait for 5 seconds before attacking them. Conquest Skirmishers have +50% Attack Power and defense. Signy gets +20% Attack Power and defense and +25 health. Scorched earth lasts ten years.

Dragon Nidhogg

Start Your Civilians can go into neutral territory. No Happiness or production penalty for being wounded. You start with a Sacrificial Pyre. You can build a Dragonkin Altar instead of other military camps. Start with 2 Thralls and only 3 Villagers. You can buy thralls from your Longship Docks. Fame 200 Fame : Reluctant Workforce Receive 5 Thralls. Your Dragon Essence gauge is extended, and bonuses are increased. 500 Fame : Tenacious Grudge +10% attack power against an opponent for each victory condition in which they are ahead of you ( Commercial Influence, Lore, and Fame). Your Dragon Essence gauge is complete, and bonuses are increased. Lore Hard Labor — Thralls can be conscripted to production buildings to increase their output (maximum of 1 per building). Blood Sweat and Tears — no Tooltip available Draconic Frenzy — +100% attack power for a military unit with no other military allies in their zone. Capture — Military units have a chance to enslave wounded enemy civilians or neutral faction units. Enslaved Myrkalfar count as 3 Thralls, Jötnar count as 5 Thralls. Chance of capture is multiplied by 2 if your Warchief is in the zone. Slave Trade — Thralls are 50% cheaper, and minimum price is also reduced by 50%. Relic Skull of Hrungnir : Allows you to summon an Undead Giant. Conquest Dragonkin have +50 health. +1 Dragon Essence for each sacrifice. Boats bring one more Thralls, your thrall capacity is 50% higher. Thralls can’t revolt.

Horse Svadilfari

Start Eitria and Brok are the 2 clan Warchiefs, they can be recruited in the Forge, instead of the usual Military Camps, for 150 , no needed The Clan does not have access to Mines, Miners or Smiths Warchiefs mining and forging speed is 10% higher Völund's Forge replaces the regular Forge Villagers build and repair buildings 30% faster Fame 200 Fame : Craftsmen Upgraded tools get an additional +5% production bonus Selling or gives 20% more and trading partner gets twice the amount of those resources 500 Fame : Legacy of the Earth You can build a second Relic 2 and 2 deposits spawns randomly in your territory. All deposits accumulate 20 and 10 Lore Ancestral Influence — Relics don't use a building slot. Zones with or adjacent to an active relic gain +5% production. Great Tower — A second upgrade for Watch Towers giving +50% attack power and +50% structure. Metalcraft — Warchiefs' mining and forging speed is increased by 60%. Excavation — Each Warchief mining Stone or Iron earns +4 Lore. Quality of Life — +1 Happiness per territory with upgraded civilian buildings (except houses). Relic Dainsleif & Tyrfing : Gives your warchiefs, Eitria and Brok +20% , +20% , +20% , +20% mining and +20% forge speed. Conquest Your Warchiefs regenerate in your territory. +10% bonus production in zones with a Warchief. Whenever a Great Tower is destroyed, it kills all units in the territory.

Kraken Lyngbakr

Start No commercial Victory. No port. No Lighthouse. Can build Fishery on lake tiles and beaches to assign fishermen. +50% colonising and Wood building cost on non coastal zone. -30% Attack Power on non coastal zone. Can build Hörgr to assign Norns. Only female vikings can become Norns. Replaces Brewery. Norns produce Happiness and Wyrd. The Clan of the Kraken starts with 400 Wyrd. Wyrd can be used to activate special abilities, or transform Norns into mighty Valkyries Fame 200 Fame : Future Sight You gain 400 Wyrd. You are warned of events long before they happen (~5 months). During the attack of the kraken event, your clan is feasting. 500 Fame : Howl from The Sea Master Each enemy unit killed outside your territory have 30% chance to become Spectral Warriors under your control (max 7). Spectral warriors bring unhappiness to the zone controller. Lore Foresight — Norns generate 20% more Wyrd and 50% more Happiness. Fresh Fish — Fishermen produce 20% more Food. Their tool improvements are free and their forging time is divided by 2. Endless Tide — Increases all your military units' attack power by 20%. Reduces the cost of military units by 20%. Each military camp gives +1 Warband. Knowledge from Beyond — Unlocks Trade Routes at the Trading Post. Reveals all neutral factions. All Trade Routes give you +3 Lore. Trade Routes with neutral factions earn you 20% more Kröwns. Near The Sea Spirit — Generates +1 Kröwns and +1 Wyrd for every 3 buildings on coastal zones. Relic Edda of Vör : Allows your Norns to earn Fame, at a rate of 1.2 Fame per month. Grants 1000 Wyrd once built. Conquest +50% bonus production for Norns. You can control one more Valkyrie. Enemy units in your coastal territory lose life over time.

Ox Himminbrjotir

Start Your Warchief is the powerful Torfin. Torfin can find Ancestral equipment from Ancient battlegrounds and equip them to become even stronger. Your units are tougher, larger and eat 10% more than the other clans. Your units have a +15% attack power and defence bonus. Specialized civilian units have a +40% base production bonus, except loremasters. Non-upgraded buildings can hold only one unit, and houses hold fewer people. Fame 200 Fame : Military Pressure Every non-villager unit receives a 4% production bonus for each military unit you control. 500 Fame : The True Hero Unlocks Ram ability for Torfin, which can target an enemy building with a powerful charge. It causes Torfin to run towards it and destroy it in one headbutt, causing fear amongst enemy units on the way. A few buildings are immune to this attack : non-clan buildings, carved stone and Townhall. Lore City Builder — Improving a zone is 50% cheaper. In improved zones, specialized units get a +10% production bonus and buildings have a -50% upkeep cost. Military Training — Idle military units in your territory gain Military Experience. Upgrading Training Camp costs 50% of its normal costs. Ferocious Charge — Warriors gain +50% damage on a charge attack. Weapons are 100% faster to forge and cost 50% less. Unstoppable — Torfin gains +10% attack power and defense for each discovered Ancestral Equipment. Whenever a unit dies in the same zone as Torfin, his health slowly regenerates by 10% of the dead unit's max health. Warcraft — Gaining Military Experience gives Lore and Fame. Relic Aegir : Torfin can use Provocation : All enemy units and towers target Torfin during a short period and his defense is increased by 100% for 6 seconds. Conquest Destroying your buildings earns you back their building cost. Likewise destroying enemy ones using Ram ability. All unit gain +25 . Torfin can summon his own shadow to follow him everywhere.

Lynx Brundr and Kaelinn

Start Earn Hunting Trophies on animal kills. You can summon Brundr and Kaelinn to your Training Camp. Mielikki the Beastmaster is weaker than other warchiefs but does not cost iron. The Archery Range replaces the Axe Thrower Camp. The Trackers they train are ranged units shooting a wide variety of arrows. The Path of the Hunter replaces Military Paths. Spend Hunting Trophies to unlock powerful abilities for Brundr, Kaelinn and the Trackers. Fame 200 Fame : Lure Unlock Mythical Lure for Mielikki. She can place a lure in a non enemy controlled zone, which will periodically attract Mythical animals. They come in higher numbers as time passes. 500 Fame : Oskoreia Unlock the Oskoreia ability for Mielikki. She can sacrifice herself to recall the last and strongest Mythical animals the clan killed. In their spirit form, they come back for a last rampage on earth. Lore Spoils of Plenty — The next Feast's Food cost is reduced by 5% (up to 50%) per animal you clan killed. +2 Happiness during a Feast. Also gives 1 free Silo upgrade. Defensive Arrows — Defense Towers are equipped with the Tracker’s arrows you have selected in the Archery Range. Nimble Paws — Lynxes frequently leap and dodge every attack while airbone. Gives Brundr and Kaelinn +35% max life. The Wild Hunt — Mielikki can place one additional lure at a time. Oskoreia spirits gain +20% Attack Power. Poaching — Unlocks Trade Routes at the Trading Post. Allows you to sell Hunting trophies in the Marketplace (2:1 ratio). Merchants produce +15% more Kröwns. Relic Glepnir : Allows you to place a trap in a non-enemy zone. Activate on demand to reveal spikes that damage and slow enemies for as long as they are in the zone. Lasts 30 seconds. Conquest Reduce arrow's Wood consumption by 50% Allied military units in the same zone as a trap or lure gain +20% Attack Power and +20% defense Wild Hunt now calls the last two waves of mythical animals killed.