First reaction: Why did you put such an announcement in Personal Computing?    Talk about Out of Place

Ok, let's see if I get it: Find woman, force her to do your bidding and you win. OK

You say that Fallen Enchantress is 'Epic'. Whatcha mean with that?

It doesn't say what it will cost for those of us who haven't bought War of Magic. Guessing 40$ ?       And lastly, why do you do that crap of saying it costs 29.95$ instead of 30$ ??

Well, look first at the picture below who show the woman used for model the "Fallen Enchantress" and look up to the red text from your quote... you will understand why it is EPIC...

I hope the twist is Ceresa is actually a fallen woman i.e taken up prostitution.

That could work if the devs broke down and wrote some religion into the game. It's possible that prostitution began as an offshoot of religious devotions where some supplicants offered sex to other supplicants who offered donations to the temple.

There's evidence that monkeys prostitute themselves for things they want. I dare say prostitution came before religion.

Maybe off-topic, but I really fucking love that art in the OP. My compliments to whoever drew it up.

Depending on how broadly you define prostitution, I could agree. I was thinking about human societies after the agricultural revolution--prostitution as a form of transferring surplus resources, not sexual favors as a form of reducing conflict over scarce resources or managing status hierarchies.

But now that you make me think about it, the term "religion" is just as vague in the context. Most folks think of holy books and ordained leaders when they think of religion, but the roots of those things probably date back 60,000 years or more to the first ceremonial burials. 

Sigh, wow this thread has headed down a weird direction. I believe this thread is supposed to be an introduction to FE for new people. They are going to think we are bloody weird....

Blame it on the Stardockia forum sprawl, and Stardock's ambivalence about marketing 'content.' (And note that ID posted from joeuser.com, which is hardly an inviting domain for mass market customers who could care less about politics.)

For my part in particular, you can also blame the long pre-beta phase in which a few of us knew there was some sort of NotMoM project brewing and the long actual beta during which the devs seemed to want little or no feedback on the content side of the game. 

I tend to think of it as the code-before-content bias problem, and it was the driving force behind my disappointment with the released versions of WoM. But I'm still hopeful that FE will turn out to be at least in the neighborhood of what I started hoping to see long before the Elemental forums launched.

All that aside, new folks should know that "we are bloody weird." That fact is no small part of why I bought GC1 and GC2 and began pre-ordering when the GC2 expansions rolled out. The crowds who favor deck games and EA-type titles are bloody boring and Stardock games seem to be my only hope for an excuse to keep ruining my carpal tunnels in the name of fun.