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What setsAge of Mythology: Retoldapart, as the name suggests, is its inclusion of mythological and strategic elements. While mastering the playstyle of your chosen pantheon, you must also maintain a stable economy. You’ll need to exploit gold mines, forests, berry bushes, and wild animals to build an army that can outmatch your opponents.
But, of course, armies aren’t just made up of human units. Myth units, with their unique abilities, often turn the tide of battle and make things more challenging. For these, you need Favor. But do you know how to earn Favor?
Updated July 05, 2025, by Emre Pala:With the Immortal Pillars expansion, the Chinese pantheon has been added to the game. Naturally, their method of gaining Favor differs from other pantheons. We’ve updated our guide to include how to generate Favor when playing as the Chinese pantheon.
What Is Favor? What Is It Used For?
Favor is one of the four resources you can obtain in the game. However, unlike Food, Gold, and Wood, you cannot gather Favor from the map.Each pantheon has its own unique method of earning Favor, so you must follow that specific method to gain it. Favor serves five purposes:
How To Earn Favor In The Greek Pantheon
If you’re playing as one of the Greek gods, all you need to do isbuild a Temple, which can already be done in the first age, the Archaic Age. After that, you canassign your Villagers to worship at the Temple, and they will start generating Favor.
How To Further Increase Favor
How To Earn Favor In The Egyptian Pantheon
The Egyptian gods have a hassle-free way of earning Favor.All you need to do is build monuments.There are five different monuments you may construct in total. These monuments willautomatically and steadily generate Favor.
The last monument you construct, the Monument to Gods, generates more Favor than other monuments. Additionally, you canempower the monuments with your Pharaohs to further increase your Favor gain.If you want to further increase your Favor:
How To Earn Favor In The Norse Pantheon
Gaining Favor with the Norse Pantheon is more challenging compared to other pantheons because your Favor gain isn’t tied to any buildings. To gain Favor as the Norse,you need to fight.Whenever a Norse soldier or ship battles enemy units, you will earn Favor. Hersirs, heroes trained from the Temple,earn Favor more quickly from combat compared to other units.
How To Earn Favor In The Atlantean Pantheon
For Atlantean gods, Favor is earned through your scouts, the Oracles.The longer your Oracles stand still, the more their line of sight will increase, and they will also generate Favor. You can train Oracles from the Temple, but note that you cannot have more than ten Oracles at any given time.
However, you must be cautious of a few things. The more your Oracles move, the less Favor they will generate. If two Oracles are within each other’s line of sight,only one of them will generate Favor.Therefore, it’s best toplace them far apart in safe locations.
How To Earn Favor In The Chinese Pantheon
If you’re playing as a god from the Chinese pantheon, the first thing you need to understand about gaining Favor is the concept of Favored Land. This refers to theyellow circle that expands around your Town Centers.The purpose of these yellow circles is to generate Favor for you.
If you select any of your buildings, you’ll notice these circles.
Every building you construct has its own circle. By default, these circles appear gray. However, if youplace a building so that its gray circle touches the yellow area of a Town Center(or another yellow circle), it will turn yellow.
So, when playing as the Chinese, your goal for gaining Favor is toexpand the yellow area around your Town Centers.You do this by placing buildings in a way that connects to the existing yellow circles.The larger your yellow area, the more Favor you generate.Remember, every Town Center you build will create a new Favored Land area.
Avoid building in cramped spaces, as this will limit your Favor gain. Instead, spread your buildings apart while ensuring that their circles remain connected.
