Heroes

You need a Leader to spawn a Hero. Upon spawning a Hero, the leader will transform into a Hero.

A hero gains the ability to fire a projectile, which will instantly destroy it on contact, and leave a Ruins in its' place. A Hero can attack and destroy a building directly, also destroying it, with a possibility of this also killing him.

Heroes can be killed either by Drowning or Burning, or by enemy Populants and Settlements. Heroes spawn a skull during their death animation.

There are three Heroes in the game, Minotaur (Earth element), Boreas (Wind element), and Hephaestus (Fire element.) All of them share some basic traits in common, such as having an advantage over normal populants in combat, causing destruction to enemy terrain, and a larger and taller sprite than typical populants. However, some have unique abilities of their own, such as Hephaestus' ability to emit projectiles that will destroy enemy settlements from a remote distance, without needing to fight them directly. Further, a group containing all of these heroes will be generated when the Pandora's Box Wonder is used.