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. Most clans don't have a special unit.
Food Trade — Trading food via Trade Routes' gives +50% Kröwns and +70% on tiles with a natural food source. Trade routes with Jötunns earn you +50% more relationship.
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.
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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%.
All upkeep is reduced by 15%. Upkeep of military building is reduced by 50%Mercenaries can be recruited from military buildings, They do not consume food or wood but require Kröwns to stay in your warband.
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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 (+0.75Happiness per area, -0.5Happiness 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 +30% forging speed.
You gain +3 Fame per enemy unit killed in a zone with Borgild. Your Military units gain 1% power per 100 Fame. Kaija, the Armored Bear can now go in enemy territory.
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Hibernation — Your non-sick clan members health regenerates during winter in allied territory.
Harpoons — Fish production is increased by 30% and 1 more Fisherman can be assigned.
Protector of the Land — Gain +1 Happiness per zone with at least one military camp.
Shield Mastery — Shield Bearers' weapon forge is free. Increases the resistance of all military units by 5%.
Winter Festival — During winter, Food production is no longer reduced, and all other productions are increased by +15%.
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Scabbard of Gram : Your Warchief wields the sword Gram. Enemies hit by Gram are frozen, along with the area around them. Gives +10% attack, +10% defense to Borgild.
Lay of the Land — Reduces environment hostility by 70%. Increases non-villager productions by 10% in Forests, Swamps or Lakes.
Bartering — Neutral factions will accept any resources and you gain +1 Happiness when trading with them. Trade routes with neutral factions earn you +20% more Kröwns and relationship.
Stolen Lore — Steals a Lore from another clan, replacing this slot with one of the following lores: Field Rations Industrious Food Preservation Journeymen Harpoons Osmosis Draconic Frenzy Ancestral Influence Knowledge From Beyond City Builder Spoils Of Plenty Stockpiling
Under Pressure — Skirmishers can attack enemy production buildings and houses to steal the resources they contain.
Guerilla Tactics — Permanently increases your military units' attack power by +1% for any unit slain or lost in enemy territory (20% max). The bonus is 100% more effective for the first 5 seconds of combat.
Black Market — Your Trade Routes produce +100% Kröwns. Merchants produce +20% more Kröwns. You can trade even when at war. When unit's are using cloaked on Neutral Faction zones, all enemy clans' relationship with this faction slowly worsens.
Rapacious Exploitation — +1 Happiness for each zone affected by Swidden Field(max 3).
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Gungnir : All military units get 10% dodge chance. Unlocks the Stealth ability for all your military units.
Dragonkin Altar a second time. Your Dragon Essence gauge reaches it's maximum size and increases ::the value of the bonuses.
Your Dragon Essence gauge is complete, and bonuses are increased.
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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 and Dwarf count as 2 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%.
Endless Tide — Increases all your military units' attack power by 20%. Reduces the cost of military units by 15%. Each military camp gives +1 Warband.
Knowledge from Beyond — Your Trade Routes produce +100% Kröwns. Reveals the position of all neutral factions (without removing the fog of war). All Trade Routes give you +3 Lore. Trade Routes with neutral factions earn you 20% more Kröwns and +20% more relationship.
Near The Sea Spirit — Generates +1 Kröwns and +1 Wyrd for every 3 buildings on coastal zones.
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Edda of Vör : You can force the Kraken's Event. During Kraken's event, if any boat is destroyed you will receive resources.
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.
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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.
Ferocious Charge — Close combat unit's with improved weapons gain charge and +30% damage on a charge attack. Weapons are 100% faster to forge and cost 60% less.
Unstoppable — Torfin gains +5% 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.
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.
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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.
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. The next Feast's Food cost is reduced by 5% (up to 50%) per animal you clan killed.
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.
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Spoils of Plenty — Your warchief can put up to 2 Lures in your territory to attract Savage Deer (+10% bonus Meat over normal Deer). Hunters' tool improvement is free and forging time is divided by 2.
Defensive Arrows — no Tooltip available
Nimble Paws — Lynxes frequently leap and dodge every attack while airbone. Gives Brundr and Kaelinn +35% max life.
The Wild Hunt — Oskoreia spirits gain +20% Attack Power. While in the same zone as the Mythical Lure, Mielikki can summon spectral beasts to follow her, depending on the number of mythical waves you have hunted.
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.
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You start with Deers on your starting zone. Hunters produce +10% more .
The clan hoards greedily in anticipation of winter 2 months before it starts and can count on a 30% increase in production during this period. However, they have a harder time during winter itself as they consume more Food and Wood.
The Squirrel clan gather Ingredients in its territory, depending on the zone type.
You receive Ingredients of each type by boat and you increase your ingredient storage by 200. You can make Meals for your allies. You unlock Gift routes at the Trading Post.
Unlocks the specific new recipe Banquet of Valhöll. The clan of the Squirrel win the Game when prepared.
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Kitchen Nightmare — Your next warchief recruitment is free. Reviving warchief cooldown is reduced by 50%.
Economics — Every Kröwns income is increase by 10%. All Meals gain additional effects : +2 Happiness, +4 Kröwns.
Stockpiling — You gain +1 Food/Wood for each 100 Food/Wood you have in stock (max +10). This bonus isn’t affected by winter malus. Food silos don't require a building slot.
Cooking Mastery — Meal have improved effects. MealFood cost is reduced by 20%.
Rumor-mongering — You increase your relation's with every neutral faction over time. Allied neutral factions gains +20% defense against your enemies.
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Yggdrasil's root : The zone where Yggdrasil's Root is built becomes “Eldritch". Every 4 months, another zone becomes eldritch. Units in Eldritch zones benefit from periodical production bonuses. Enemy units in an eldritch zone have a chance to pick a fight with their own kin for 5s.
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You produce 20% more Ingredients. You can benefit from multiple meals at the same time.
The clan has more villagers but they arrive wounded. Wounded units do not count for Happiness requirement.
The clan doesn't have access to Houses, but all non-mystic buildings provide housing. Once max population is reached, extra villagers stack in a Population's reserve.
The Shaman Camp replaces the Healer's Hut and trains Shamans able to fight and heal multiple units and allies, even outside your territory.
When the clan units kill foes or die, the corpses are cremated at the Shaman Camp, producing Lore and attracting new villagers faster.
Overwork replaces the Feast and boosts all productions at the expense of your workers' health.
Units outside your territory consume 30% less Food and Firewood. Zones can be upgraded using Food. In upgraded zones houses give +1 population and military buildings give +1 warband
Ruins, Shipwreck, and all special zones can be explored once more to gain additional resources (except Fame). It is possible to reclaim a colonization bonus from a zone that already gave one.
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Falconers gain the ability watchkeeping. The Falconer deploy their Hawk to watch over the zone, improving the attack power of military units by 10% and the production of allied specialized units by 15%. Grif automatically triggers the ability and calls a Hawk in combat. }} — no Tooltip available
Hawks protect allied units in Boneyards by using Blind. A blinded unit will miss all its attacks for 3 seconds. }} — no Tooltip available
You gain +3Happiness if you have Grif and +1Happiness for each neutral or allied zone adjacent to your territory with no hostile units. }} — no Tooltip available
The Boneyard effect is applied to your enemy decolonized zones. All your Hawks gather resources from enemy production buildings in the zone.}} — no Tooltip available
You gain 60% more resources when closing a Wolf Den, a Draugr Tombs or colonizing a special zone. }} — no Tooltip available
You can evolve Monks into Paladins for a cost in Faith. Paladins can be assigned a Relic and carry it with them, including into enemy territory. Relics require no building slot.
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Steelwork — Each military building in a building with an active Smithy provides a +5% defense bonus to the associated units.
Ost — Your next Sentry Camp is upgrade is free. Military Experience gains are increased by 15%.
Marchfield — Military upgrades unlock faster and have a higher chance to trigger.
Chanson de Geste — Killing mystical creates generates Faith.
Miraculous Healing — Allied religious buildings slowly heal units within their zones.
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Altar of Volvinius : All resources produced in the zone are replaced with Kröwns and all deaths in the zone generate Kröwns.
