Lore

Lore is a resource that can be assimilated to research. It stacks up as the game goes on and allows players to unlock knowledges from the Lore Tree. Knowledges are bonuses that are divided in three main branches : Production, Military, and Economy. Unlocking enough knowledges grants other additional bonuses called "Blessing" and can eventually lead to a Wisdom Victory. In game, the Lore menu can be opened by pressing the shortcut "L".

The Knowledge tree

The lore tree is composed of a set of standard knowledges, with an additional set of 5 clan-specific replacement knowledges (except for the Boar clan, which has 7). Depending on the clan, specific knowledges replaces various common knowledges to better fit that clan's specific gameplay. As a result, even though most of the knowledges are common across clans, each clan has its own unique lore tree that will affect its playstyle.

Sharp Axes

Your Woodcutters will produce 20% more Wood.

Colonization

Reduces the amount of Food necessary to colonize one File:Zone.png zone by 30%.

Eradication

Food Silos gain a 10% Food production bonus. Also reduces Food Silo upgrade cost by 50%.

Recruitment

Permanently increases population growth speed by 25%. You gain an additional 5% during 4 months for each unit from your clan killed by an enemy clan or sacrificed (max +75%).

Medicine

Increases your Healer's healing speed by 50%.

Hearthstone

Reduces extra Wood Firewood consumption during winter by 50% and reduce winter Food penalty by 20%.

Shiny Happy People

-20% required Happiness based on your population.

Weaponsmith

Increases all your military units' attack power by 20%.

Fur Coats

Your units no longer have reduced power during winter.

Defensive Strategy

Increases you civilians' attack and your Defense Towers' resistance by 30%.

Military Strategy

Military units gain +5% attack for each type of friendly military unit in the File:Zone.png zone (max +25%).

Feeling Safe

Gain +3 Happiness if you have a Warchief and +1 Happiness per upgraded military camp.

Legendary Heroes

Improves your Warchief's attack and defense by 25%.

Monster Slayer

Improves yourd military units' attack by 10% against Draconic units and by 30% against other mystical creatures. Also increases Military Experience gains by 50% for each mystical creature killed.

Mining Efficiency

Miners extract ore from deposits 30% faster.

Shipbuilding

Unlocks sea trade-route with Miklagard. Unlocks the Lighthouse.
Increases Sailors' resource production by 25%.

Coinage

Unlocks trade-route with Miklagard. Your Trade Routes produce +100% Kröwns.
Your Merchants will produce 20% more Kröwns.

Erudition

Increases Loremaster production by 40%. Your next Carved Stone is free.

Carpentry Mastery

Reduces your buildings' upgrade costs by 20%.
Reduces upkeep from upgraded buildings by 20%.

Negotiation

Reduces prices on the Marketplace by 50% and stock replenishment is 20% faster.

Trading Caravan

Trade Routes earn 20% more Kröwns. Relations with neutral factions improve 20% faster.

Lore Sources

Population Size	Lore generated
1-5	+1
6-9	+2
10-19	+3
20-32	+4
>32	+5

• Population - Some lore is gained based on population size. (around 0.25 lore per vilager)
• Loremaster - Produce 3 Lore at Runestones, Carved Stones or Ancient Graveyard, production gets a bonus in Circle of Stones and Relic of the Gods.
  Erudition gives an additional 40% bonus to all loremasters.
• Sailor - Each sailor produces 0.8 Lore when on Lore Raids. Shipbuilding increases sailors production by 25%.
• relation - 0.5 per lore you have discover time the number of player you have favorable relation with
• Vedrfolnir - Healing the creature earns 100.
• Ancient Graveyard gives 50 to the first player who colonize it.
• Ruins - Scouting them gives at least 50. This is a powerful early boost.
• Altar of Kings - Passively produces 1 Lore every 200 fame.
• Jörmunr - Produce lore based on territory size. Allows areas to be colonized with lore.

Number of areas	1 - 5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Lore generated	1	3	5	7	9	11	14	17	21	25

• Boar clan : Mender - Produce 1 Lore each, if not actively healing.
• Raven clan : Raiding coastal tiles related to Lore mechanics (with Runestones, Ancient Graveyard etc) grants the player per Mercenary 12
• Horse clan : Excavation allows Eitria and Brok to produce lore while mining. Making it one of the key knowledges of the clan.
• Kraken clan : Knowledge from Beyond makes trade routes generate lore. Also a key knowledge of the clan.
• Rat clan : When the clan units kill foes or die, the corpses are cremated in a Purification Pyre at the Shaman Camp, producing Lore and attracting new villagers faster.

Knowledges cost

To unlock a knowledge, a certain amount of has to be gathered. The quantity needed will increase with the number of knowledges already owned.

Knowledges number	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Lore needed	80	100	130	160	200	250	310	380	470	580	710	860	1050	1280	1550
						First Blessing			Second Blessing			Third Blessing			Wisdom Victory

A Wisdom Victory requires 8110 Lore in total.

Blessings and Wisdom Victory

Upon learning your 6th Knowledge, you may select a Blessing from the Gods. For each additional 3 Knowledges that you learn thereafter, you may select another Blessing from the Gods.
Freya's Blessing - Reduces loss of Food production during winter by 50% and Wood consumption by 15%.
Baldr's Blessing - You gain +3 Happiness.
Jord's Blessing - You gain 15 Stone and 10 Iron.
Ancient Wisdom - You can build the Relic of Knowledge now for a Wisdom Victory. It costs 150 Wood and 5 Stone and needs a building capacity of 3. Once built, all produced knowledge will be gathered in there for the Wisdom Victory. You can turn the knowledge gathering on and off at the relic, allowing you to proceed researching Lore if you changed your mind.

Tips and Tricks

Carved Stone wastes valuable stone. You may want to build it only if going for wisdom victory and after unlocking Erudition to save on the first building. Building it on Circle of Stones or Relic of the Gods makes the loremaster benefit from the area bonus too.

In multiplayer games, lore choices are just as important as build order. While some are almost mandatory (Recruitment, Fur Coats, Military Strategy, Most of Happiness-related Clan Unique...), others can be very situational and nearly useless most of the time (Hearthstone, Negotiation, Monster Slayer, Erudition...). Watch your clan page for more specific advice.

Trivia

It costs 27450 to unlock the entire knowledge tree. The last knowledge costs 4940 to acquire, which is more than the first 12 choices combined.