The Valorian Host
Faith, Steel, and the Crown.
Lore
The kingdom of Valoria stands as a bastion of order in a world of chaos. Led by knights, paladins, and battle priests, the Valorian Host marches under the Eternal Flame — a holy order dedicated to protecting the realm. With trebuchets, war wagons, and griffin riders at their command, they bring overwhelming force tempered by unwavering faith.
Sub-Factions & Player Colors
While every warband recognizes the overarching sigil of The Valorian Host, regional kingdoms, ancient holds, and frontier marches march under their own heraldic colors and ancestral standards. In multiplayer matches, each player color represents a distinct historical sub-faction with unique lore and doctrine.
Primary racial banner displayed across battlefield command centers and fortress ramparts.
Kingdom of Val-Rhea
The Kingdom of Val-Rhea is the historic cradle of human civilization in the realm of Sol-Khemia. Built upon the white granite bluffs overlooking the western ocean, its tiered ivory towers and gilded ramparts have withstood three separate demonic convergences. The High Crown traces its royal lineage back to High King Joshua the Founder, whose miraculous blade first cleaved the veil during the Shattering. In warfare, Val-Rhea exemplifies chivalric orthodoxy. Its armies march beneath soaring blue standards adorned with the crowned griffin, accompanied by radiant Battle Priests of the Sun and the most disciplined heavy cavalry cohorts in the known world. Where others resort to subterfuge or chaotic alchemy, the High Crown answers with unyielding formations of shining steel plate and righteous hymns.
Order of the Scarlet Griffin
Stationed along the volcanic borderlands of the Cinder Marches, the Order of the Scarlet Griffin was forged during the century-long Goblin wars. When royal reinforcements failed to arrive at the siege of Redmont, the garrison knights dyed their surcoats in the ash and blood of their fallen brethren, swearing an unbreakable vow to never yield a foot of human soil to savagery. The Knights of the Scarlet Griffin are famed for their aggressive shock tactics. While other orders favor defensive shield walls, the Scarlet Griffin trains exclusively in devastating lance charges that punch straight through enemy battle lines. Their chaplains brand sacred sun runes into their steeds' bards, urging men and beasts forward with fiery fervor.
Merchant League of Kellsport
The Merchant League of Kellsport governs the greatest deep-water trade harbor in Aethermere. Where feudal lords levy tenant levies, the Merchant High Council finances standing mercenary armies with the wealth of worldwide commerce. Their merchant galleons dominate oceanic shipping lanes, ferrying spices, lumber, and rare ores between the continents. In field engagements, the League deploys massed regiments of repeating steel crossbowmen equipped with master-crafted cranesquin mechanisms. Backed by wealthy paymasters who pay instant gold bounties for enemy officers, Kellsport's armies combine maritime adaptability with overwhelming mercenary firepower.
Arch-Duchy of Veyenne
Veyenne is an aristocratic realm of manicured vineyards, marble colonnades, and court intrigue. The Arch-Duchy maintains that brute military might is hollow without cultural refinement and philosophical discipline. Its grand palaces sit beside crystalline reflecting pools where battle tacticians study historical campaigns like games of chess. Veyenne armies field the fabled Royal Chevaliers, who fight clad in purple silk surcoats embroidered with silver filigree over articulated fluted armor. Supported by court abjurators who bend magical trajectories away from their ranks, the Arch-Duchy wins victories through pristine positioning and peerless tactical elegance.
Solar Templars of Sol-Aureus
The Solar Templars are an ascetic holy order dedicated entirely to the worship of the eternal celestial dawn. Headquartered in the colossal cliffside Cathedral of Sol-Aureus, the Templars spend years training in solemn meditation, divine spellcraft, and swordplay. Their monastic cloisters glow with an ambient warmth that repels undead corruption and pestilence. On the field, the Templars radiate blinding solar authority. Their Priests channel radiant light that closes grievous wounds in heartbeats, while their zealots advance beneath shimmering auroras that dazzle archers and incinerate lesser fiends on contact. To face Sol-Aureus is to face the wrath of the morning sun.
Grand March of the Sun-Spears
Guarding the perilous mountain passes connecting humanity's fertile heartlands with the wild southern wastes, the Sun-Spears know neither comfort nor respite. Generation after generation of frontier soldiers have spent their lives drilling spear formations against beast tides, goblin raids, and saurian incursions. The Sun-Spear doctrine centers upon the interlocking pavise shield and eighteen-foot ashwood pike. When deployed in close order, their bristling spear-hedges form an impassable barrier that turns cavalry charges into slaughter and grinds monstrous war-beasts to bone.
Verdant Barons of West-Reach
The West-Reach is the breadbasket of the continent. Governed by rural landed barons who live close to the soil and seasonal floods, the realm produces both bountiful harvests and the hardiest yeomen yeomanry in the human kingdoms. Every child in the West-Reach draws a yew longbow from the age of seven. When mobilized for war, the Verdant Barons assemble vast archer regiments capable of blotting out the sky with whistling bodkin arrows. Protected by earthwork redoubts and wooden stakes, their defensive arrow storms soften enemy advances long before hand-to-hand combat begins.
Iron-Marches of Bor-Korr
Dwelling in the rugged foothill country alongside their dwarven allies, the folk of Bor-Korr are master quarrymen, stonecutters, and sappers. Their settlements are less like towns and more like monolithic fortresses carved directly into exposed granite cliffsides. Bor-Korr commanders view battlefield warfare as a mathematical problem of structural mechanics. Their engineers construct devastating counterweight trebuchets on-site in hours, reducing enemy towers to rubble while their heavily armored pavisiers hold fortified choke points with relentless stubbornness.
Knights of the Argent Star
Perched atop the snow-dusted needles of Mount Asteria, the Knights of the Argent Star follow a strict code of chivalric purity. No knight may carry an ornament of gold or brass; their armor is burnished to blinding silver mirror sheen, reflecting the clear alpine skies. They serve as arbiters of sacred oaths and protectors of royal heirs. In battle, the Argent Star stands like a wall of living diamond. Morale among their ranks never wavers, even when encircled by tenfold odds. Their presence on the field inspires neighboring levies, lifting panic and restoring discipline through the sheer majesty of their example.
Blackwatch of the Iron Gate
The Blackwatch mans the forbidding hundred-league ditch and rampart that seals humanity from the necrotic horrors of the Desolation. Condemned outlaws, disgraced nobles, and grim veterans take the Black Vow together, shaving their heads and clad in blackened steel that never receives oil or polish. The Blackwatch knows no quarter and asks for none. Armed with brutal heavy halberds and bearded billhooks, they specialize in brutal trench warfare, cutting down creeping abominations in the mud. They are the terrifying shield that allows the kingdoms behind them to sleep in peace.
Heroes
Heroes level up in battle, choosing one of two abilities at levels 3, 6 and 9.
Marshal Katherine of Caelum
Pike-Wall Marshal
Spear-Hedge
Slam the pavise: a 90 degree wall of phantom gold spears rises 4 tiles ahead for 5s. Enemies that charge or dash into it take 60 damage and are stunned 1.5s (0.75s on heroes). Cost 50 Rage. Cooldown 40s.
Caelum's Gate, a sun-headed pike whose gold spiked boss marks the Grand March. It is planted at Fortress Caelum's gate whenever she is home, and no beast tide has passed it.
- Marshal Katherine of Caelum, Pike-Wall Marshal. Caelum's Gate, a sun-headed pike whose gold spiked boss marks the Grand March. It is planted at Fortress Caelum's gate whenever she is home, and no beast tide has passed it.
- Corvus Vane, the Paymaster, Bounty Crossbowman. The Ledger, a repeating crossbow whose brass dial gauge ticks once per shot fired. Kellsport pays its bounties off that count.
- Lady Orelia, the Mirror-Knight, Unshakable Mirror-Knight. The Morning Star Standard, the swallow-tailed star-and-sword banner that flew over the High Spires of Asteria when the Order stood encircled at tenfold odds and did not break.
- Grand Justiciar Halden, the Dawn-Bearer, Sunrise Standard-Bearer. The Unconquered Lens, a Precursor sun-lens set in a sunburst monstrance. It focuses dawn into beams that close wounds and burn the dead.
- Baron Theobald of Oakengard, Longbow Baron. Old Oakengard, a recurve longbow of Great River oak with gilt horn tips, cut from the tree on the barony's arms. Every West-Reach child draws a copy at age seven, and he still draws the original.
- Vespera, the Widow of the Iron Gate, Iron Gate Widow. The Last Lantern, a caged grave-lamp chained under her glaive blade. Any dead who cross its light burn and do not rise again.
- Harek, the Crag-Giant of Bor-Korr, Stone-Hurling Giant. The Counterweight, the first trebuchet stone block Bor-Korr ever cut, iron-strapped and chained. Harek carried it off the siege field when the trebuchet broke, and the guild made him an honorary Guildmaster.
- Vigil-Captain Dustin of Redmont, Ever-Charging Lancer. Redmont's Ember, a steel-headed lance quenched in the ash of the Redmont garrison. It runs cold until he charges, then the head glows.
- Chevalier Donald Vance, the Abjurer-Blade, Spell-Parrying Fencer. Fleur-Point, a rapier whose cup-hilt guard is a silver fleur-de-lis. Veyenne's court abjurators etched its blade to turn spells aside like steel.
- Aldric, the Griffin-Crowned, Griffin-Crowned Paladin. A noble, heavily armored paladin who leads human armies from the front line, wielding a consecrated greatsword and inspiring desperate soldiers to achieve miraculous stands.
Hero Progression
Heroes are the heart of your warband. They grow stronger every battle, learn signature abilities, equip legendary loot, and can even be taken under your direct command.
Earn XP & Level Up
Choose Your Path
Equip Legendary Gear
Outfit heroes across 8 equipment slots with gear from your faction blacksmith and the neutral Troll-Vault — plus tomes for permanent stat boosts.
Take Direct Control
Army Roster
22 units across ground, air, sea, and trade. Master every warrior to dominate the battlefield.
⚔️Ground Forces(10)
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14050🦅Flying Units(5)
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60⚓Naval Fleet(5)
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200100💰Trade Units(2)
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15010050📜Campaign Units(4)
Elite units unlocked through the single-player campaign — not available in skirmish.
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21080👑The King(1)
Regicide only. Your monarch stands in your base from the first second of the match, cannot be trained, replaced or rebuilt, and carries no weapon. Kill the enemy King and the match is over — lose yours and so are you.
Buildings
Key structures for the Humans faction. Build your economy, train your army, and fortify your defenses.
⚙️Command & Production(10)
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250100100⚓Naval & Oil(5)
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Equip your heroes with gear forged at the Human blacksmith and consecrated at its altar. Faction-exclusive pieces are found nowhere else, while the shared arsenal is stocked at other factions' shops too.
Faction-Exclusive(6)
+4 armor, +5 attack damage, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+1 armor. Nearby allies gain +2 attack damage.
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+5 attack damage, +5% critical strike chance. Melee heroes only.
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+2 armor, +2 attack damage.
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+2 armor, +2 attack damage.
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+0.4 movement speed, +0.4 HP regeneration per second.
200Shared Arsenal(40)
+2 armor, +10% crit, 5% lifesteal, +1 mana regeneration.
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+5 armor, reflects 3 melee damage, +1 HP regeneration per second.
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+6 armor, +2 HP regeneration per second, 5% lifesteal.
1200
+6 attack damage, +10% critical strike chance. Melee heroes only.
700
+5 attack damage, +15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
700
+25 spell power, +1 mana regeneration per second. Caster heroes only.
700
+5 armor, +1 HP regeneration per second.
700
+4 attack damage, +2 armor.
680
+10% critical strike chance, 5% lifesteal.
650
+3 armor. Reflects 2 damage to melee attackers.
650
Sound the horn: nearby allies gain +3 damage for 10 seconds. 30s cooldown.
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Nearby allies regenerate +0.75 HP per second.
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+0.25 mana regen. Nearby allied casters gain +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+15 spell power, +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+3 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
360
+15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
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+1 armor. Nearby allies reflect 2 damage to melee attackers.
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+2 armor, +0.3 movement speed.
350
+1 HP regeneration per second, +1 armor.
340
+0.75 mana regeneration per second.
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+0.7 movement speed, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+2 armor. Reflects 1 damage to melee attackers.
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+0.8 movement speed.
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Permanently increases the hero's attack damage by 2.
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Permanently increases the hero's armor by 1 and attack speed by 5%.
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Permanently increases the hero's maximum mana by 15 and mana regeneration.
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+0.35 movement speed, +1 armor.
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Permanently adds 3 backpack slots, up to 30.
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+3 attack damage. Melee heroes only.
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+3 attack damage. Ranged heroes only.
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+10 spell power. Caster heroes only.
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+1 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+2 attack damage.
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+2 armor.
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+0.55 movement speed.
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+0.4 movement speed.
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+0.25 mana regeneration per second.
100
+1 armor.
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+0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+1 armor.
75From the Custom Games
The Humans race their own cars in Wheels of Stone and build their own cities in Cities of Stone. Every prop here also stands in the Forge for your own maps.
Wheels of Stone
About Wheels of Stone →Race cars(2)
A long royal bonnet and a cab at the back. Steady, heavy, hard to shift.
Royal Charge: A short charge. Cars you hit are knocked spinning.
All wheels and nerve. Darts through the bends, bounces off everyone.
Sling: Throws a boulder far up the road. It bursts where it lands.
