about those god gifts: this is what I thought they should look like: every god you worship( including major gods) give you a devine gift, which is related to them or the culture they belong to.
The Greeks: would get a object send from the gods. many greek gods and godesses were pictured with unique objects related to that god or goddess, like poseidon's trident or hephaistus' hammer. and so on. whenever you worship a minor god the object will be created at your temple for no costs. only heroes can wield it and use it's powers. every heroe can carry only one object. the objects have special powers ehich can be used once twice or more, depending. whenever used, the devine object would have to recharge at a temple to be used again.
the Egyptians: the Egyptians get special beasts. they can aid you in battle, economy etc. the animal is related to the worshipped god, and it helps the god with it's special task: Bast is the goddess of fertility and protection and villagers so she gets a friendly Tiger of Firtility that can aid you in hunting and brings his prey to your granary. set worshippers get 2 of each kind. they can also have special abilities such as Sekhmet's Lionness of Warfare, which can inflict serious damage to other units by hitting and stabbing eveery enmy it see's. heroes have no bonus damage to them and they respawn when killed in 2 minutes. they die permanently however when they have used all their special attck points. an example of an economy beat is the Shark of Protection, which protects your fishing boats with a grand bite and helps your food supplies by fishing at very quick rate. and so on.....
the Norse:
the Norse get special recources from their gods such as mithril or electrum. they can use these recources at their special devine blacksmith to create special weapons for their soldiers. you can use the recource only for 1 thing. for example: from thor you get mithril. when you build a devin blacksmith you can see an icon for the recource. when you click the recource you will see 3 options: improve pierce armor, improve hack armor, improve weapons. if you click IMPROVE PIERCE ARMOR you will see the icons of all your soldiers. you must then choose one and then it will be improved. so goes also for IMPROVE HACK ARMOR and IMPROVE WEAPONS.
so what about it.???????????? I can post more detailes if anyone is interested.