Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/The Brotherhood of Asmodia

"Peace Through Power!"

- The voice when the Brotherhood of Asmodia is selected in the Campaign or Conquest mode.

The Brotherhood of Asmodia are one of the twenty-one core factions in Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict. This faction centered around the concepts of stealth and speed, preferring outmaneuvering their enemies, hit-and-run attacks, guerrilla tactics and subterfuge.

Description
"IN THE NAME OF KANE!!!"

- One of many war cries of the Brotherhood

The central tenets of Asmodia's beliefs included the worship of the Asmodians, a race that are located in the darker hemisphere of Gaiaterra and the worship of Kane, Asmodia's charismatic leader from Fódlan, believed to be immortal by many within the Brotherhood. In addtion, the Brotherhood consistently presented itself as the voice of the oppressed masses, and worked to unite the downtrodden and the disenfranchised against the Aion Defense Initiative (ADI), which it painted as a fascist group subservient to the wealthy nations of Zemuria (including their allies that soon to become members of the Guardians of the Tacitus: Andora, Aquila, The Alliance of Hawke, Elsword Empire and the Katsuragis) and global elites and later, the Guardians of the Tacitus organization.

The origin of Asmodia is shrouded in mystery, with the group itself claiming that it existed since in the ancient times, somepoint after Balthazar had murdered Tacitus and was cursed by Elysea. It rose to prominence in 1993 V.C., when they started an revolt that results the take over of Fódlan and then later in 1995 V.C., they launched a series of terrorist attacks all over Zemuria and absorb new species into the Brotherhood with the Vampires, the Blood Elves, Khajits and the Draenei. In response, the government of Zemuria founded the Aion Defense Initiative, a multinational military alliance with the goal of eliminating multinational terrorism and later the Destroyers of Balthazar, after the ADI inducted to the Guardians of the Tacitus organization.

The conflict between Asmodia and the ADI escalated into a war in 2000 V.C., and would later be known as the First ADI-Asmodia War. Though Asmodia was defeated during the First ADI-Asmodia War, it returned time and time again in the decades that followed, leading to new conflicts against the Katsuragi Protectorate in the Katsuragi-Asmodia War, Andora allied with the ADI in the 2nd ADI-Asmodia War and later the Guardians of the Tacitus.

Lore Articles

 * Fódlan
 * Origin of the Brotherhood
 * Who is Kane?
 * The Asmodian People
 * The Followers of Kane
 * Fódlan before Kane's take over
 * Kane's take over of Fódlan
 * The Church of Seiros
 * What happend to Seiros and Sothis after Kane's take over?
 * The Blood Elves
 * The Draenei
 * The Khajits
 * The ADI-Brotherhood Alliance Breakdown during the 1st ADI-Asmodia War
 * Brotherhood's weaponry during the 1st ADI-Asmodia War
 * Brotherhood's Military Doctrine
 * The Fodlan-Silvermoon Tunnel System
 * The Stealth Tank Story
 * Tiberium Weaponry
 * The Origin of CABAL
 * Cybernetics Development
 * Brotherhood Characters

Tactics
The Brotherhood of Asmodia is centered around the concepts of stealth and speed, preferring outmaneuvering their enemies, hit-and-run attacks, guerrilla tactics and subterfuge and makes extensive use of underground facilities, tunnel networks, and stealth technology to avoid detection.

Veterancy Levels
The ranks of the Brotherhood are the bases of these veterancy ranks.

Pre-2015 V.C.

 * Federation of Aquila: At War
 * Aion Defense Initiative: At War
 * Grey Steel Order: Hostile
 * Socialist Union of Voshkod: ???
 * Great Horde: Hostile
 * Jeralt's Militia: At War

Notable locations

 * Garreg Mach Temple Prime
 * Exodar Temple of Asmodia
 * Quel'Thalas Temple Prime
 * Astral Knights Memorial

Notable characters

 * LEGION: Brotherhood EVA
 * Kane: The Founder of the Brotherhood
 * Killian Qatar
 * Oxanna Kristos
 * Ajay
 * Ravenshaw
 * Seteth
 * Arval
 * Kael'thas Sunstrider
 * Lady Liadrin
 * Edelgard von Hresvelg
 * Claude von Riegan
 * Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
 * Byleth and Jeane Eisner (formerly from 1995 V.C. to 2008 V.C.)
 * Shez
 * Cyril (1998 V.C to 2008 V.C.)
 * Felix Hugo Fraldarius
 * Hubert von Vestra
 * Alexa Kovacs
 * Ferdinand von Aegir (1965 V.C. to 2000 V.C.)
 * Leonie Pinelli
 * Catherine
 * Ashe Ubert
 * Raphael Kirsten
 * Caspar von Bergliez
 * Ingrid Brandl Galatea
 * Hapi (1988 V.C. to 2004 V.C.)
 * Ignatz Victor "V13CT0R"
 * Manuela Casagranda
 * Dedue Molinaro
 * Annette Fantine Dominic
 * Mercedes von Maritz
 * Hilda Valentine Goneril
 * Yuri LeClerc
 * Balthus von Albrecht
 * Dorothea Arnault
 * Marianne von Edmund
 * Constance von Nuvelle
 * Bernadetta von Varley
 * Lysithea von Ordelia
 * Petra MacNeary
 * Sylvain Jose Gautier
 * Lindhardt von Hevring
 * Marcion
 * Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
 * Hassan
 * Seth
 * Jade Liang

Legendary Generals

 * Rhea: General of the Black Hand
 * Anton Slavik: General of the Marked of Asmodia
 * Yrel: General of Sons of Kane
 * CABAL: The Artificial Intelligence of CABAL

Commandos

 * Kronya: Black Hand Commando
 * Adam Smasher: CABAL Commando
 * Shamir Nevrand: Marked of Asmodia Commando
 * Valeera Sanguinar: Sons of Kane Commando

Sub-factions

 * Black Hand
 * CABAL
 * Marked of Asmodia
 * Sons of Kane

Arsenal
Main Article: Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Brotherhood Arsenal

Reinforcement Airstrip
While most factions produces vehicles at field bases with the war factories in early-to-mid game, the Brotherhood's field bases, on the other hand however, import completed units from their Reinforcment Airstrip, which is their receiving area for Tier I, Tier II and some Tier III vehicles, thus they are sent in bundles instead of individuals.

The IL-76 Candid, their delivery aircraft of the Brotherhood, does not land at the field. Instead, it slowly flies in at an extremely low altitude and releases the vehicles from the Candid's cargo bay as it passes over the gently inclined runway.

By Tier III and IV, the Brotherhood's field bases will use the Fist of Asmodia as their main means of vehicle production for the rest of the vehicles and later advanced vehicles like the Eclipse.

Reverse Engineering
With an infiltrator, whether a sleeper agent or active, in almost every place and faction. In times of war, the Brotherhood can call on these spies to steal their foe's technology so that the Brotherhood may reverse-engineer it and counter them. Unfortunately, in order to keep secrecy, they need to send in a Saboteur to alert these undercover agents by infiltrating any building (except defenses).

For a detailed list, see here.

Laser Detonation
Compared to other faction's laser weapons, which deals direct damage, the Brotherhood lasers are modified heat up the target without immediate physical damage until they explode, not doing any damage but guaranteed instant kill to most units with the explosion damaging those near them, the time it takes for units to explode is proportional to its health.

Structures
Basic Structures Defense and Support structures

Trivia

 * The Faction itself is based on the Brotherhood of Nod from Command & Conquer Tiberium sub-series and the Cartel from Act of Aggression and their arsenal is the mixed of Nod arsenal from Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun (including Twisted Insurrection mod), Tiberium Wars (including Kane's Wrath expansion and Tiberium Essence mod), the Consortium from Act of War and the Cartel from Act of Aggression with the aesthetics based on Twisted Insurrection Nod, with some elements of Tiberian Dawn era Nod and the Consortium and Cartel from Act of War/Aggression.
 * Their Sub-factions are based on what their arsenal (mainly vehicles and some of the infantry) of Nod (including Cartel and Consortium) being used in the Command & Conquer Tiberium series.
 * Black Hand: Tiberian Dawn era Nod (including their depiction in Dawn of the Tiberium Age and Renegade), Cult of the Black Hand from Red Alert Paradox, and Cartel from Act of Aggression
 * CABAL: Tiberian Sun era Nod (pre-Firestorm) and the Marked of Kane from Kane's Wrath (including the standard Nod mechs and Cyborgs like the Avatar from Tiberium Wars)
 * Marked of Asmodia: Tiberian Sun era (post-Firestorm) and Tiberium Wars era Nod (Including Tiberium Essence)
 * Sons of Kane: Twisted Insurrection era and Tiberian Twilight era Nod including their depiction in the Combined Arms mod for OpenRA
 * A closeup portrait of Shamir Nevrand is shown with crimson background at the back in each side of the Brotherhood' factional flag at the top, and the background with an army of Light Infantries, Black Hand Troopers, Asmodian Rocket Troopers, Raider Buggies, Scorpion Tanks, Flame Tanks, and Avatar Warmechs and a squadron of Freestyles, Venom Crafts and Vertigo Bombers with the shadow of the Core Defender far away, shown at the bottom. Both of these art designs are for the Brotherhood variant box art of Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict.