Idle Ages / Ages / Northern Wei
Northern Wei is age 39 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 386 CE. 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 39 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 386 CE |
| Legendary | Empress Dowager Feng |
| Automation | Needs Tuoba Gui at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Empress Dowager Feng, Emperor Xiaowen, Empress Dowager Hu, Tuoba Gui |
Empress Dowager Feng 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
Empress Dowager Feng took the regency of Northern Wei twice and ruled it outright for fourteen years. She rebuilt how land was held, taxes were gathered and villages were governed, then raised her grandson Xiaowen to continue the work.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Emperor Xiaowen moved the Northern Wei capital to Luoyang in 494 and ordered his Xianbei court into Chinese dress, language and surnames, changing his own to Yuan. He also began the Longmen grottoes, where thousands of Buddhas were cut straight into the cliffs.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare
Empress Dowager Hu ruled Northern Wei as regent for her young son, and poisoned him when he grew old enough to resist her. The outrage brought a warlord army down on Luoyang in 528, and she was thrown into the Yellow River.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Common Manager, level 5
Tuoba Gui rebuilt a shattered clan and proclaimed the state of Wei in 386, at the age of fifteen. He broke the rival Yan at Canhe Slope and founded a dynasty that would hold northern China for a century and a half.
Raises the output of their own age. Every level multiplies what they add by 1.6. Levelling Tuoba Gui to 5 is what automates Northern Wei.
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