Doge of Venucci

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Alessadri, The Doge of Venucci is a fictional character in the 2006 real-time strategy computer game Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends.

[edit] Background

Since time immemorial, a bitter rivalry was formed between the Vinci city states of Miana - led by Lord Petruzzo - and the Doge's own state of Venucci. Both were vaguely different from the other - Petruzzo was widely-revered and looks after his people's wellbeing, while the Doge rules Venucci with an iron fist such as the citzens are forced to labour on the construction of war machines to fuel his ambition of conquering all of the Vinci states while searching for bits and pieces of Cuotl technology to aid him in this ordeal.

In the beginning of the game itself, The Doge and his troops arrive in the mines of Vernazza to uncover a relic (a Cuotl laser, later discovered to be a relay transmitter) that is making the local miners sick. By chance, Petruzzo, his brother Giacomo and his advisor Carlini were also trying to uncover the said object. In an attempt to end the feud between both houses (as well to test out his newfound "weapon"), he causes a landslide that killed Petruzzo, leaving Giacomo to mourn for his fallen brother and swear his vengeance against The Doge. The Pirata - led by Lenora - then quickly transport the object away.

As the Pirata refuse to further assist the Doge in this undertaking, he constructs a massive anti-air platform nicknamed "The Sky Crusher" to keep them under siege, thus cutting off all supply routes to the Aerodrome. Giacomo and his men managed to capture the Sky Crusher, and Pirata vowed to join forces with the Mianans' fight against the Doge. At the city of Venucci the Doge is found to have constructed "The Doge's Hammer", a giant powerful cannon capable of levelling an entire city. As Giacomo takes the city, the Doge leaves with the real Hammer, leaving the decoy that Giacomo captured in Venucci while proceeding to attack the city of Miana, levelling it to the ground. He then flees with his army to the Alin lands, to Azar Harif to "lend assistance" to go to Mezekesh and defeat the Dark Alin. However, he goes to Mezekesh with the intention of obtaining the Talisman cotrolling Sawu. He waits and deploys the Hammer there, knowing Giacomo is hot on his trail to defeat Sawu and then get the Talisman. In the tremendous fighting that ensued, he and Giacomo fought to the death in melee combat between their respective Walkers: "Ha! Killing you... even easier... than killing your brother..." Using his brother's watch (a homing beacon of sorts for the Mianan Clockwork Men, who rise and attack the Doge) as a distraction, Giacomo managed to kill the Doge in an explosion after ripping out the circuits holding the Cuotl laser in place, thus avenging Petruzzo's death.

[edit] Abilities

As a means to flaunt on the battlefield as well as intimidate his enemies, the Doge rides upon a quadrupedal Walker on which he mounts his Cuotl laser on. His abilities are purely offensive in nautre - sending out a cloud of toxic gas to poison an area, a Pain Ray which deals a lot of damage unto a single target,a Siege Laser which does the same to buildings, and The Doge's Hammer - a long ranged, slow firing cannon which does a tremendous amount of damage in a large area and comes with three different variety of ammunition: shrapnel, demolition and poison (the shells can be easily avoided before the Hammer hits the targeted area). Having the Doge on the battlefield also means that units built at the Steam Fortress (Juggernaut tanks and Steam Cannons) and the Glorious Statue (Doge's Elite Guards and Doge Walkers) all recieve improvements on their stats.

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Civilizations & Factions	Vinci • Alin • Cuotl • Neutral factions
Vinci Heroes	Battaglion • Distruzio • Carlini • Giacomo • Lenora • Pulitore • The Doge • Venza
Alin Heroes	Andromelek • Arri • Belisari • Dahkla • Damanhur • Sawu
Cuotl Heroes	Czin • Ix • Kakoolha • Shok • Xil • Yontash