Oocca (Total War)

The Oocca are an unplayable emergent faction in Hyrule: Total War.

Description
The Oocca are an incredibly ancient civilization: undoubtedly the first to exist in the world of Hyrule. In addition to the First Sages, they were in direct communion with the Goddesses that created them and the world. Unlike the other creatures and civilizations that would inhabit the surface, the Oocca were created with specific intent and a finalized form. They were granted weak, frail, and useless bodies, but an intellect and technology far superior to anything that has been seen in Hyrule. From their inception they created and maintained massive self-sustaining and floating cities that hovered across the world. They crafted many tools that could manipulate inanimate objects and constructs to do what their physical bodies could not. Perhaps most importantly they created the most terrifying and destructive weapons ever unleashed unto the world.

Sometime in the distant past before recorded history, the Oocca suddenly ceased all contact with the rest of the Hyrule. They retreated into their many floating Sky Cities and vanished high above the world, slowly fading into legend and obscurity. Many civilizations in Hyrule continued to revere them after their departure, indeed many began to idolize and worship them as gods incarnate throughout history. Their reasons for their ascendance and disappearance remain unknown to this day. Despite this concealment, they are well aware of and active in Hyrule, manipulating and directing the course of history and assuring the spread of all religion centered around the three Golden Goddesses and the utter destruction and eradication of all Majora influence.

They have long kept themselves, and the biggest conspiracy in all of history a well guarded secret for thousands of years. Soon though, they will be forced to descend and become a direct part of Hyrule again. Soon their terrible and unforgivable lie will be exposed.

Ancient Age
The Oocca's precursors were the Wind Tribe, an advanced humanoid race known for their distinctive blank white eyes, that made the Armos and were tasked to safeguard the divine Triforce by the First Sages. The Wind Tribe ruled much of ancient Holodrum from cities such as Tarm. In 4992 BG, the Druthulidi Vaati, after waking from its slumber, took over the body of a Minish sorcerer and successfully convinced Zalunbar, the God King of the Darknut Legion, to make an alliance against the Wind Tribe with the intent of taking the Triforce for themselves. The Darknuts, with their superior discipline and equipment, launched a crusade against the Wind Tribe's homeland Holodrum and nearly destroyed their people. On the brink of extinction, the Wind Tribe decided to ascend to the Heavens and leave Hyrule forever, and their Queen Siroc asked for the help of the Ancient Hylians. King Gustaf accepted, and the Darknuts, unable to get through the Hylians, had to watch the Wind Tribe depart Hyrule with the power they so dearly seeked. With the Wind Tribe's departure, the Triforce is entrusted to the fledgeling Kingdom of Hyrule.

When the Wind Tribe ascended to the heavens after their war with the Darknut Legion, they began to construct their cities amongst the sky leaving many of the ruins found in Hyrule. This eventually awakened the First Sage Demoko, who approached their people impressed at how far they had come since the dawn of time. He then offered to help them ascend further as instructed by the Goddesses, transforming them into the Oocca after several centuries. Unfortunately the Triforce that was left in their care had been passed unto the Hylians, and thus Demoko and the Oocca would work to guide them in their development so that they may ascend to the Heavens as well.

The Return of Sulkaris
In 128 AG, alerted to the rampage of Sulkaris across Hyrule by the murder of Malkorbagia, Demoko commands an army of Oocca to land on the surface, hellbent on stopping Sulkaris on her tracks. After initial failures, the increasingly uncontrollable First Sage attempts to wipe out the Gohma at all costs by "glassing" the Death Mountain range with the Oocca Sky-City's energy weapons, but fails in eradicating the threat. The threat of compete annihilation of the surface leads the allied forces led by Link to briefly ally with the Gohma against the Oocca ground forces, and it the chaos, the Gohma are able to secure portals leading into the City in the Sky and invade it. Demoko is subsequently slain by Sulkaris and the City in the Sky is overrun by Gohma despite a successful evacuation of most of its inhabitants. Heavily damaged in the fighting, it plummets to the surface of Hyrule, wreaking untold devastation.

Physiology
Prior to ascending to the heavens, the Wind Tribe were part of the same species as Ancient Hylians, Lokomo, and Cobble, with red hair, round ears and pupil-less, luminescent white eyes. After 5000 years of artificial evolution and isolation in their sky-cities, the Oocca are radically different from their ancestors, their bodies having atrophied to nothing more than a nearly featureless head with beady, luminescent blue eyes, a thin nose and mouth, and a prominent brow ridge.

Strengths and Weaknesses

 * Gods Amongst Hyrule: The Oocca are armed with powerful god-like abilities and technology that easily outmatches anything in Hyrule.
 * Faithful Rewarders: Factions that maintain Strict Goddess Worship are generally supported and rewarded by the Oocca, sometimes to their knowledge and sometimes in secrecy.
 * Smiters of Evil: The Oocca encourage their allies to seek out and destroy worshipers of Majora. If Majora Worship becomes too widespread in Hyrule the Oocca will land armies to deal with the threat in the campaign.
 * Unknown Force: There is no known weakness of the Oocca in battle.

Campaign Info

 * Faction Leader: Demoko
 * Spawns when Majora Worship is present in at least 50% of the settlements in Hyrule.

Gameplay
The Oocca's predecessors, the Wind Tribe, appear as units for the Ancient Hylians in custom battles and the Hyrule Historia mission Windbreaker.

Initially, the Oocca are not present in Hyrule, only appearing if the spread of Majora worship has reached critical levels (roughly 50% of settlements in Hyrule). Unlike other NPC factions (except the Church of Majora), the Oocca act on their own and expand like any normal playable faction. As such, they cannot directly be absorbed and assimilated like every other NPC faction. Rather, building certain structures (such as buildings that spread Strict Goddess Worship) and performing certain actions, as well as undertaking quests and missions assigned by a Mediator, will raise your approval with the Oocca. Once your approval is high enough, the Oocca will request the construction of a sky portal in one of your settlements. From here you will be able to produce their three powerful and unmatched units.

Standard

 * Surveyors
 * Commandant

Siege Weaponry

 * Walker Cannon

Agents

 * Inquisitor

Heroes

 * Demoko
 * Mediator Ooccoo
 * Liyer

Tech Tree
The only building available to the Oocca is the Sky Portal, which spreads Strict Goddess Worship and trains all three Oocca units. The Oocca can also grant factions in high favour with them permission to construct Sky Portals in one of their cities.