Vinci

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The Vinci are a Human civilization that feature in the game Rise of Naions: Rise of Legends.

History

Three Mianan heroes, Petruzzo, Lord of Miana; Giacomo, his brother and Miana's most brilliant inventor; and Carlini, Miana's head general, accompany a group of soldiers sent to identify and recover an object in a mine in Vernazza that is making the miners horribly sick, so that Giacomo may study it in his lab. On their arrival they find the Doge of Venucci, a terrible leader with bloodthirsty ideals, who has already recovered the object, and wielding a powerful laser cannon grafted into his massive battlesuit. Intent on 'testing' the laser, the Doge fires a beam at a rock outcrop, causing a landslide which kills Petruzzo and several of Carlini's men. Giacomo swears vengeance on the Doge and sets out on a quest to kill him.

Gathering a larger force, Giacomo sets towards Padonia, an adjacent city-state, and learns that Marwan, a corrupt Alin, is imprisoning Vinci military units, including Giacomo's personal walker, in Dark Glass prisons. He also finds Venza, a disgruntled Pirata commander, who explains the Doge, after using Pirata airships to abscond with the device, is intent on capturing Pirata. To this end, he has started the construction of an immense Sky Crusher, a massive anti-aircraft fortress, in order to keep the Pirata Aerodome under siege. Giacomo manages to destroy the Doge's machine and forms an alliance with the leader of Pirata, Lenora. They continue to march towards Venucci, destroying the armies of two of the Doge's powerful puppets, Rocco, the Lord of the Wasteland, and Sclario, Don of Feligno, and recovering the territories of the land for Miana along the way. In one of their marches, Carlini notices Giacomo keeps his brother's broken watch. Lenora and Carlini convince Giacomo the war is necessary to stop the Doge.

However, in the way, they stop to destroy one of the Doge's military prisons, where many of the enemies he wishes to keep alive are kept. Out of these, the most important are some key political figures of Venucci who objected to the Doge's questionable ethics and tactics, and by the way learn the Doge is apparently serving a foreign force, as guards wielding unknown weapons (actually Cuotl technology and guards) are spotted in the prison's inner sanctums.

At Venucci, Giacomo confronts the Doge, and captures the city-levelling Doge Hammer from him, before turning it on Venucci itself. However, upon searching the city, it is soon discovered that the Doge has escaped, and that the Hammer at Venucci was just a decoy, with the real one already been moved eastward, towards Miana. Giacomo speeds back to the city, but finds it devastated, with no known survivors. Giacomo rallies his few remaining forces, and heads after the Doge into the Kalahese desert, towards Azar Harif.

Background

The Vinci are a highly technological, steampunk civilization, whose army units and buildings rely heavily on the advent of clockwork and gunpowder. Its designs are highly influenced by the 16th century Italian Renaissance inventor and artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. They are led by Giacomo, the Inventor of Miana, who provides the Vinci with a wide variety of creations to use on the battlefield. The main Vinci adversary is the Doge of Venucci, who has created a giant city-leveling machine, the Doge Hammer, and was responsible for the death of Giacomo's brother, Petruzzo, Lord of Miana.

The Vinci national power is Industrial Devastation, which causes giant bores and drills to rise from beneath the surface of the earth, displacing anything in their way. Buildings and units caught in the powerful attack take heavy damage, and smaller units are thrown to the ground and stunned. Further research into the Mining research track increases the power and radius of the attack. Also, structures cannot be built on the affected land for some time.

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