Sváfnir

Overview

The Clan of the Snake. Cunning and deceitful, the Snake has little regard for fame or honor. Members of the clan prefer working in the shadows and using guerilla tactics rather than open warfare.

This Clan benefits from harassment tactics and an aggressive hit and run playstyle. Additionally, the Stolen Lore allows adaptability for otherwise adverse situations.

Starting Bonuses

• 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.

Bonuses

• The Clan of the Snake does not have access to Fame nor the Fame Victory. Instead, Signy grows more powerful over time.

Specific bonuses:

Age 16 (801) : Pride of the clan

• Signy's movement speed is increased by 5% and her attack type switches from melee to ranged.

Age 17 (802) : Shadow of the Wild

• Signy can go through tiles with foes without engaging combat, similar to Skirmishers.

Age 18 (803) : Tears of the Earth

• Signy's movement speed is increased by 10% (instead of 5%).
• Signy gains access to the Scorched Earth ability. Upon scorching a tile, Signy steals resources from it; the tile remains scorched for 3 months. This ability has a 3 month cooldown.
• While a tile is affected by Scorched Earth, all production in that tile is reduced by 50%. Additionally, units and buildings that belong to the Snake Clan gain +50% attack power while they are in a tile that is affected by Scorched Earth. While Signy is casting Scorched Earth, her defense is increased by 100%.

Signy's stats	Year	Attack power	Resistance	Health
	800	10	7	50
	801	14	10	64
	802	14	10	67
	803	15	11	70
	804	15	11	71
	805	16	12	73
	806	16	12	74
	807	16	12	75
	808	16	12	76
	809	16	12	77
	810	17	13	78
	811	17	13	79

Lore Tree

Sharp Axes

Your Woodcutters will produce 20% more Wood.

Colonization

Reduces the amount of Food necessary to colonize one area 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 Firewood consumption during winter by 50% and reduce winter Food penalty by 20%.

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.

Fur Coats

Your units no longer have reduced power during winter.

Defensive Strategy

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

Guerilla Tactics

Permanently increases your military units' attack power by +1% for any unit slain or lost in enemy territory (30% max).

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 your military units' attack by 50% against mystical creatures (Draugar, Valkyries, Rock Golems, Spectral Warriors and Wyverns). Also increases Military Experience gains by 50% for each mystical creature killed.

Mining Efficiency

Miners extract Stone and Iron from deposits 50% faster.

Shipbuilding

Unlocks the Lighthouse.
Increases Sailors' resource production by 20%.

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.

Erudition

Increases Loremaster production by 40%. The first Carved Stone is free.

Carpentry Mastery

Reduces your buildings' upgrade costs by 20%.

Rapacious Exploitation

Ruins or Shipwrecks in your territory provide +2 Happiness. Bonuses from special zones are doubled.

Trading Caravan

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

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.

Tips and Tricks

Black Market

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.

The clan of the snake has access to a unique lore, the Black Market. This makes trading with enemy clans very effective since you get 4.5 Kröwns per 6 Food or Wood you send, while avoiding to give them any resources. One fully upgraded Woodcutter in the forest yields you 7.29 Wood and even a fully upgraded Fisherman (with silo lvl 2) yields you 7.2 Food. When we take into account that one Trading Post (lvl 1) costs 0.375 Kröwns in instant upkeep, this results in one Woodcutter effectively generating 5.09 Kröwns. For comparison: a fully upgraded Merchant generates 3.64 Kröwns. (+10% (Lore), +15% (Iron tools), +20% (Trading Post Lvl 2), +20% (Marketplace Lvl 2))

(Updated 13.12.2019)

Rapacious Exploitation

Rapacious Exploitation Ruins or Shipwrecks in your territory provide +2 Happiness. Bonuses from special zones are doubled.

The Lore Rapacious Exploitation does not affect common tiles like stone circles or forests. It only affects special tiles like Thor's Wrath or Geysers

Stolen 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

This lets you choose between the following lores Field Rations Reduced your military units' Food consumption by 75%. Industrious Upgraded Food-producing buildings can be assigned an additional Villager. Food Preservation Increases Food production by +3 and Happiness by +1 for each Food Silo (+5 Food if upgraded). Journeymen Increases your Happiness based on the areas you have explored (+0.75 Happiness per area, -0.5 Happiness per team member). Harpoons Fisherman's Huts can have one more Fisherman, and their production is increased by 25%. Osmosis You obtain 1 Happiness for every 3 colonized zones. Zones with Forests, Swamps or Lakes provide 1 Happiness. Draconic Frenzy +100% attack power for a military unit with no other military allies in their zone. Ancestral Influence Relics don't use a building slot. Zones with or adjacent to an active relic gain +5% production. 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. 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.

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