Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

[d'Arthez]

Of course, it will be a steppe faction. Because no one expects as much.

[Folgore]

I'm going on the colors and say that it's a new Arabic faction so Saba has someone to contend with. Maybe Hadramaut, Qataban or Ma'in? The symbol is a life tree of some sort maybe?

[Rustrider]

well, looks like a tree, i would guess a Boswellia sacra. That would mean an arabic faction, probably the source of Frankincense, Hadhramout.

[Brennus]

I'm going on the colors and say that it's a new Arabic faction so Saba has someone to contend with. Maybe Hadramaut, Qataban or Ma'in? The symbol is a life tree of some sort maybe?

I think they were ruled out on the grounds of being too similar to Saba.

[Hernan Cortles]

Did you think was any connection to the Boswellia sacra, in other ways here i found a interesting history of use of the frankincense

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The lost city of Ubar, sometimes identified with Irem in what is now the town of Shisr in Oman, is believed to have been a centre of the frankincense trade along the recently rediscovered "Incense Road". Ubar was rediscovered in the early 1990s and is now under archaeological excavation.

[Morte66]

Damn it. I thought the last one was an ox and it indicated an Indian faction, but the whole "no Mauryan" thing diverted me. This time I've got no bloody idea at all.

I imagine it will be somebody obscure, that very casual readers of history like me have never heard of, because all the obvious ones have been suggested by now. Somebody whose archaeological/historical information is greater than their fame, so the EB team have heard of them but us plebs haven't.

Of course Ubar would bring a whole new meaning to "Occultus Faction". :)

[d'Arthez]

UBAR

Unexpected
Beyond
All
Reason

[Arjos]

I'm gonna throw in another for the fun of it :P
Could it be two crossed cornucopias?

[Moros]

Did you think was any connection to the Boswellia sacra, in other ways here i found a interesting history of use of the frankincense

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The lost city of Ubar, sometimes identified with Irem in what is now the town of Shisr in Oman, is believed to have been a centre of the frankincense trade along the recently rediscovered "Incense Road". Ubar was rediscovered in the early 1990s and is now under archaeological excavation.

Ubar is not discovered at the small site at Shisr, which is no more than a small stop. It has some walls and towers and some minor structures within but it really is small. A little later during the same investigation (they used sattelite image analyses to find the sites) they actually found a bigger one a little north and west of modern day Salalah, which appears to have been called Saffara. This will most likely be the local province capital. However this region is one of those places we virtually have no information about. It's the last place where you'll have to look for a faction sadly. Probably will not even get a unique unit.

[Hernan Cortles]

Dammit! anyways do somone know a mod in about the EB timeframe that how bobbin get the answer

[Brennus]

I think I have made a discovery, bobbin and Moros have different occultus symbols. Look at bobbin's and you can make out the possible Silphium plant, look at Moros sig and you can make out the head of a bird of prey. However, you cannot find the same pattern in the two sigs, indeed the colour scheme is slightly different. I think we have two occultus factions here, a Silphium like symbol and one with a raptor in it.