Knight Templar: Fittingly for the trope name, some of the knighthood orders fall under this trope.
Filk Song: Soundtrack includes several tracks from the band Lind Erebros, which made some music inspired by The Silmarillion.Fantasy Gun Control: Averted with the 3.9.2 version that adds firearms to the Barclay troops.Scorpion Assasins are the games version of.Order of the Radiant Cross are a group of knights that both practice and protect practicioners of medicine, similar to The Knights Hospitallers.Faction called The Inquisition added in version 3.9 is meant to mirror them even further.everyone) and originate from the game's counterpart of Portugal/Spain. Order of the Dawn are a group of religious fanatics who burn anyone who has committed a sin in their lives (i.e.Some of the knighthood orders also count.Barclay is an offscreen, technologically advanced colonial empire based on Portugal and Spain.Mettenheim are based on the Renaissance era German and Swiss Landsknecht mercenaries.Jatu are the typical steppe people primarily based on the Cumans with elements also taken from Mongols, Huns and other Eurasian Nomads.They are part of the empire that survived much of the chaos during the barbarian invasion. Melitine Empire on the other hand is clearly based on Byzantine Empire.The Empire in Pendor retains much of the Greco Roman style aesthetic you'd expect from such faction combined with late medieval/renaissance era technology and weaponry.The two remaining parts of empire are also diffrent types of counterpart cultures. They were a once mighty empire similar to ancient Pendor that fell into civil war and invasions by barbarians. The off screen Baccus Empire is basically Ancient Rome.The D'Shar Principalities are Persian-like nomads.The Kingdom of Ravenstern is also inspired by medieval Europe, this time styled after Scot Ireland with a bit of a Norse flavor thrown in.The Fierdsvain and the Kingdom of Sarleon are two classical European fantasy factions, Fierdsvain being primarily Norse inspired while Sarleon has an English/French flavor to it.
However in their attempts to study their enemy, they ended up getting corrupted by their texts and became heretics themselves.
Evintide instead decided to focus on combating the heretics.