The Kin of Sheredyn represent humanity's last bastion in Endless Legend 2 dying world of Saiadha. While other factions rely on exotic mechanics like coral networks or necromantic larvae, these space marines excel through straightforward defensive mastery and devastating orbital abilities. You'll transform your cities into impregnable fortresses while unleashing divine wrath upon your enemies.
What Makes the Kin of Sheredyn Unique?
The Kin operate through the Strength of Zeal system, unlocking powerful abilities as your empire's fortifications grow. Unlike factions that spread quickly across the map, you'll focus on building tall, creating defensive strongholds that become economic powerhouses.
Your faction revolves around three core elements: Fortifications that fuel your special abilities, Holy Commandments that provide devastating tactical options, and Chosen units that serve as mobile command centers for your abilities.
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Fortification System Mechanics
Every Keep you construct adds fortification points to your empire total. These aren't just defensive bonuses - they're your pathway to unlocking game-changing abilities. The more keeps you build, the more Holy Commandments become available.
Here's how the thresholds work:
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Each Holy Commandment costs influence to activate and has significant cooldowns. Plan your usage carefully during critical moments.
Early Game Foundation Strategy
Optimal Starting Build Order
Begin with Sanctity of Nature as your first improvement for immediate FIDSI bonuses. Follow this with your first Keep to unlock Divine Service, then prioritize the Strength of Garen technology for +5 defense on all units and +2 industry on military districts.
Your opening tech priorities should be:
- Scientific Charter - Unlocks laboratories for science generation
- Strength of Garen - Faction-specific military bonus
- Currency - Immediate dust income boost
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The Kin suffer from doubled city founding costs, encouraging tall gameplay over wide expansion. Focus on maximizing your capital before considering a second city.
Population Management Excellence
The Divine Service ability transforms regular Kin population into Divine variants that provide +1 to all FIDSI regardless of their assigned slot. Even better, these bonuses scale dramatically:
- 3 Divine population: Bonuses double to +2 each
- 6 Divine population: Bonuses triple to +3 each
Wait until you have at least 5 regular population before converting, as they provide the Military Press improvement bonus (+2 influence on military districts).
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Military Dominance Through Defensive Superiority
The Chosen Unit Advantage
Chosen units serve as your faction's cornerstone military asset. These massive constructs not only deal tremendous damage but extend your Holy Commandment range beyond your territory. You can only build a limited number (starting at 4 empire-wide), making each one precious.
Chosen units unlock through your faction quest line, with the first arriving as a quest reward. Their Righteous Wrath ability devastates multiple enemy units simultaneously, making them perfect for breaking enemy formations.
Holy Commandments in Combat
Your abilities transform battles when used strategically:
Rejuvenation allows units to move and attack twice in one turn - perfect for hit-and-run tactics or securing crucial positioning. Wrath of the Skies delivers area-of-effect damage that can cripple entire enemy armies, but requires careful targeting to avoid friendly fire.
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Holy Commandments only function in your territory or near Chosen units. Position your Chosen strategically to extend your tactical options into enemy lands.
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Economic Powerhouse Development
Keep Spam Strategy
Each Keep becomes incredibly productive with proper support. The Legionaries Workshop improvement provides industry equal to your city's fortification level - easily reaching 1000+ industry in developed cities.
With the Strength of Garen technology and proper counselors, keeps provide:
- Base fortification for abilities
- +2 industry from technology
- +3 approval (faction bonus)
- Additional bonuses from adjacency
Resource Acquisition Mastery
Blessed Earth revolutionizes resource gathering by instantly providing 10 units of any strategic resource from deposits in your territory or near Chosen units. This ability has only a 5-turn cooldown, making wealth victory surprisingly achievable.
For wealth victory, you need 20 of each strategic resource held for 5 turns. With Blessed Earth, you can acquire 10 units every 5 turns from any deposit, making this victory condition very manageable.
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Advanced Tactical Combinations
Counselor Synergies
The Badge counselor provides massive bonuses to military districts: +5 food, +5 industry, +10 dust, +5 science, and +5 influence. This single counselor can transform your keeps into economic engines rivaling dedicated districts.
Priority counselor selection:
- Badge - Military district bonuses
- Reduced industry costs - Faster construction
- Capital bonuses - Early game boost
Territory Control Strategy
Unlike factions requiring intermediate steps for expansion, you can place Camps directly in unoccupied territory. However, your doubled founding costs make each expansion decision critical.
Focus on territories with:
- Multiple anomalies for immediate bonuses
- Strategic resource deposits for Blessed Earth
- Defensive terrain for fortification bonuses
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Consider seizing Fortresses after Tidefall events. These provide automatic camps if you choose the "Seize" option, bypassing influence costs entirely.
Victory Path Optimization
Wealth Victory Excellence
The Kin excel at wealth victory through Blessed Earth resource extraction. Target territories with diverse strategic resources and use Chosen units to extend your extraction range. The faction quest can provide 18 of each strategic resource through the Tanya encounter, bringing you within 2 resources of victory.
Military Conquest Approach
Your defensive bonuses and Holy Commandments make you nearly unbeatable in your own territory. Use this advantage to:
- Force enemies to attack your fortified positions
- Counterattack with Rejuvenation-enhanced armies
- Devastate sieges with Wrath of the Skies bombardments
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Common Pitfalls and Solutions
Influence Management Crisis
The Kin's biggest weakness is limited influence generation early game. Prioritize:
- Forum districts for influence production
- Scriptorum technology for additional influence buildings
- Converting population to scribes for influence generation
Expansion Timing Mistakes
Don't rush your second city. The doubled founding cost means you need substantial influence reserves. Instead, focus on:
- Maximizing your capital's potential first
- Securing nearby territories through camps
- Building influence infrastructure before expanding
Faction Matchup Strategies
Against aggressive factions like Necrophage, leverage your defensive bonuses and wait for them to attack your fortified positions. Against diplomatic factions like Aspects, focus on resource accumulation for wealth victory before they can achieve diplomatic dominance.
Your straightforward mechanics make you predictable but reliable - embrace this by building such overwhelming defensive superiority that predictability becomes irrelevant.
The Kin of Sheredyn may lack the flashy mechanics of other factions, but their combination of defensive mastery, economic scaling, and devastating abilities creates an empire that grows stronger with every turn. Master their fortress-building gameplay, and you'll command respect across Saiadha's ever-changing world.
For more Endless Legend 2, take a look at our Aspects Faction guide, and check out the Necrophage Faction guide.