When villagers and the Aztec’s Warrior Priests danced around it, they would receive special bonuses that ranged from spawning warriors, to increasing all melee and ranged attacks, to spawning skull knights or growing population (depending on the civilisation and age). The Fire Pit, for instance, was a special building unique to the Native American civilisations in Age of Empires 3. Some mechanics and other elements have been changed, too, because they no longer made sense.
“So we have changed those civ names in the DE to their Indigenous names-Lakota (Sioux) and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).”
“Before we started working on the DE with our Native American and First Nations consultants, we didn’t know that the names Sioux and Iroquois were given to them by European settlers,” World’s Edge said on the Age of Empires website.
That effort resulted in Anthony Brave, a Sicangu Oyate and Chippewa-Cree descendant who served as the chief cultural expert on the game’s indigenous tribes, helping to rewrite elements of the second act. So when making Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition, developers World’s Edge reached out to cultural consultants to correct the record.
