Lydia is age 18 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 560 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 18 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 560 BCE |
| Legendary | Croesus |
| Automation | Needs Aryenis at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Croesus, Omphale, Gyges, Aryenis |
Croesus raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
"Rich as Croesus" - the Lydian king minted the world’s first standardized gold and silver coins, an invention that changed everything. Warned by an oracle that attacking Persia would destroy a great empire, he attacked. It did: his own. Every coin ever flipped descends from his mint.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Omphale, queen of Lydia, bought the mightiest hero in the world: Heracles, sentenced to serve her for a year. Myth says she wore his lion skin and carried his club while he sat at her feet - the ancient world’s favorite image of power turned upside down. They parted on excellent terms.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Gyges seized the Lydian throne, founding the dynasty that would end with Croesus. Plato retold him as the shepherd who found a ring of invisibility and used it to take a kingdom - then asked the question that still haunts ethics: if no one could see you, would you stay good?
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Aryenis, a Lydian princess, sealed one of history’s strangest peaces: mid-battle, a solar eclipse - predicted by Thales - terrified both armies into stopping. The war ended with her marriage across the battle lines, turning an omen in the sky into a border that held.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Aryenis to 5 is what automates Lydia.
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