- New Historical Personal Story: The Last Real Viking - Harald Hardrada
- The Age of Excellence is upon the empire
- New Animal Paragon Ability
- New Mercenary Faction Unit: Carthaginian War Elephant
- New Paragon Ability: Instant Hunt
- Level-9 Gemstones
- New Gemstone currency: Jeweler's Chisels
- Added auto-start Animal Assist
- Event Buff improvements
- Regional Focus rebalance
- Alliance Mine rebalance
- New Holy Site boosts
- Increased Mercenary Contracts in the Mercenary Den