The Sylvan of Aetolia

Syntax: LANDBOND and REGROW

Should you choose to seek the warm embrace of the land beneath, you may shed your mortal form and meld your spirit within the protective arms of the natural earth. While bonded in this manner, the dark star and those beasts and creatures who roam wild and aggressive will all find that you are unable to be affected by their whims. When you are ready to return to the physical, you may REGROW your physical form.

Syntax: NUTRIFY <corpse>

Even in death, a fresh corpse still holds the last traces of lifeforce, and those remnants may be given back to the world through reverent rite. Simply place your hands upon a corpse - whether you hold it or it lies upon the ground - and offer what remains of its lifeforce unto the land, letting it flow into root and soil as tribute. In return, the magic of your oath is nourished, and your own vitality is replenished as proof of your covenant with She Who is Life and Her High Courts.

True nourishment is best drawn from the passing of a once-sentient soul. Lesser remnants may still answer the rite, but they are far less potent.

You may nutrify corpses even while outside your class. However, if you do so while within it, the offering will restore you more fully, and it will ease your need as though you had just eaten.

Syntax: THRASH <target>

Let fly a ululating cry into the air as you bring down the brutal aspect of nature's devastation, beating your prey with blunt damage and a stunning strike. If they have had their blood effused, then the damage you deal against them is enhanced.

This ability may be used with the TARGET ability in Weaponry to attack any part of the opponent's body.

Syntax: PETRIFY <target>
Blood cost: 10

Bring unto your prey the cold of that which damns Life, inflicting a freezing layer upon them.

Syntax: NIGHTSIGHT

Let not the darkness keep you from your prey; walk with the moon-blessed sight of the asrai, penetrating the utter black of midnight's curtain.

Syntax: VEERING [OFF]

Tap into a higher sense of the conflict between predator and prey, bringing about a preternatural state of mind. There is an upkeep cost of endurance to stay within this state and while in it your ability to dodge attacks directed at you is increased.

You can read HELP AVOIDANCE for more information.

Syntax: HIDE and EMERGE

Conceal yourself from view, hiding yourself from the eyes of others within the room. You may emerge if you wish to reveal yourself and cease to hide.

Syntax: GUISE [OFF]
Blood cost: 100

Additional syntax: DESCRIBE GUISED SELF <description>

The work of those oathsworn to the Fae stretches far and wide as they carry out acts in the name of Dia'ruian prosperity. You may adopt a guise to accomplish these acts, impersonating but one of countless living mortals to such a plausible state that none shall be able to glean your true nature. The gleaming nature of this magic allows you to alter how you appear to others.

Syntax: BECOME BARGHEST and REVERT
Blood cost: 400

Additional syntax: DASH <dir>

By tapping into your Faebound connection and allowing an animalistic instinct to overcome you, you may take on the form of the barghest which roam the distant, unconnected pieces of Dia'ruis. Your actions will be limited, but in return you shall be able to DASH like a midsummer's breeze across the land and escape any repercussions from the presence of the dark star.

Syntax: FAETRAIL
Blood cost: 300

From dusk til dawn, be as the elusive Fae by silencing your movements under the cover of night's reign. When the sun crests over the horizon once more, this effect will fade.

Syntax: SNARL <target>

Lock eyes with your prey and utter a snarl that sets even the most staunch of beasts to a dreadful whimper, forcing your foe's body to betray itself and begin to sweat profusely. This will remove the fangbarrier defence and leave them with slickness.

Syntax: CLOT [#]

This ability will allow you to partially clot your bleeding in trade for your mana. You can specify how many times you wish to clot if need be. If you input no amount, then you will try and clot away 20 bleeding by default.

Syntax: CATCHING [OFF]

With this ability active, you have a chance to snatch arrows from the air before they strike you. There is an endurance upkeep associated with this ability in order to maintain your focus.

Syntax: WOUND <target>

Grab your foe by the throat and split their flesh open with two instances of cutting-based damage and bleeding.

If they are an adventurer, it will rip open a wound on their flesh giving them the rend affliction. If the flesh is already rended, then you will cause additional bleeding.

Syntax: INDURATE
Blood cost: 200

The bounty of Dia'ruis is fathomless as you may drink deep of Her power, fortifying your physical form from harm. By claiming this boon, you may become inexorable in your predations upon the Manu and reduce the damage you take from cutting and blunt damage types as though you are wearing additional armour.

This bonus armour will become weaker the less blood you have.

Syntax: BECOME SYLPH and REVERT
Blood cost: 400

Additional syntax: FLY and LAND

Take to the skyline with the form of a sylph, a wispy form capable of FLYing through the skies with natural grace. While in this form, your actions will be severely limited, but the effects of the dark star will not find purchase upon you.

Syntax: CELERITY
Blood cost: 150

This will halve the time it takes for your movement limit to be reset, allowing you to move about the land considerably faster.

Syntax: BLOCK <direction> and UNBLOCK

Move into a position that blocks others from leaving your location should they attempt to leave, providing you are not incapacited. Should you move, you will cease to block.

This ability is passive.

When THRASHing a target embraced by a magical shield, your predatory instincts will allow you to demolish the barrier that stands between you and cowering prey.

Syntax: SPIRITWALK

Though normally a state found only after your life has been cut short, you may now choose to depart mortal physicality and walk among the ethereal as but a roaming spirit. While in this form you will be immune to most attacks, and the effects of the dark star, but your actions will be severely limited.

To return to your body, you must bond with the land or return to your pactbound seedbed.

Syntax: REJUVENATION
Blood cost: 300

Sacrifice a portion of your blood to call upon blessed renewal, healing your body's physical wounds in but an instant.

The less blood you have when you call upon this boon, the stronger your body will be healed.

Cooldown: 25 seconds

Syntax: BLOODSCENT [OFF]
Blood cost: 200

Call upon the magic of the barghest as you seek out the presence of others nearby with sharpened senses. This ability will only last a short time before its effects fade.

Syntax: PERSIST
Blood cost: 200

Channel the will of Amitivis, the Fang of Vengeance to survive no matter its captivity, enwrapping yourself in his mystical coils for protection against magical type damage.

Syntax: PROWL
Blood cost: 50

Haunt the woods, the streets, the hills... swathe yourself in shadows and lurk unseen, hiding away from sight even when in the presence of others.

Syntax: REAP <target> [GENTLY]

It is not only by your claws and curses that your prey shall know your fury, as you may choose to wield a two-handed blade with which to take the reaper's toll of flesh from your foes. Should you overlay a venom upon your weapon, they shall taste its poisonous sting. This strike will do more damage than a standard blow from a weapon.

Should it fit your needs, you may hold back on the strike. This will reduce the damage you deal, but it will be quicker and can be performed while one of your arms is crippled.

Syntax: ENVENOM <weapon|LEFT|RIGHT> WITH <venom>
WIPE <weapon>

With this ability, you may layer venoms on an edged weapon. Each time that weapon hits somebody, one venom will poison your opponent, and disappear from the weapon.

Venoms work on a last-on, first-off basis, so if you put xentio on a weapon, and then put voyria on, the voyria would come off first, and the xentio second. You must possess a rag with the venom in order to apply it to a weapon.

In order to get rid of the venoms on a weapon, simply WIPE <weapon>.

Syntax: RAGDOLL <target>

Bound by duty as you are, you may forcefully cast aside those who stand in the way of your blessed hunt. Let fly a battlecry as you charge upon your steed and make of your challenged foe a ragdoll tossed skyward.

Gravity will become a natural ally when making use of this skill, assuming they cannot fly.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Syntax: BURY SEEDBED, FASTBOND, and REGROW

Though you already find connections to Dia'ruis through your pact with the Fae, you may also encase a portion of yourself within the ground to further your bond and tie yourself into the very fabric of the land itself. After procuring a seedbed filled with natural soil large enough to fit your physical form, you must bury it somewhere with soft soil. You may only be linked to one such seedbed at a time.

Once so buried, you may sojourn through the ethereal to rest within it provided you are within the same area. This will allow you to heal yourself or regain your physical body much faster than a normal bond with the land. When you are ready to return to the land above, you must regrow your physical form.

Syntax: SLAKE <target> and RELEASE

Attempt to slake your bloodthirst in an grappling assault upon your prey, tearing rivers of sanguine offerings from their flesh with all your Fae ferocity. The target must be prone or suffering from paresis for this to take effect, and the fangbarrier defence will deter the brunt of such a frenzied act and make it ineffective.

Engaging in such a hallowed, savage hunt will sate the demands of your vow, replenishing its magics at the expense of the prey captured in your feral clutches until they either writhe free, you RELEASE them, or they perish.

While held within your grasp, they will also suffer cutting damage until they escape.

Syntax: SEEDWARD
Blood cost: 1000

After you have buried a seedbed within the soft earth, you may form a spiritual bond with it to ensure that you may fastbond from anywhere on the continent instead of merely its local area. While standing on the ground above it, you may slash open your palm and offer a sanguine gift to seal the bond.

Should you fastbond while outside your bound seedbed's local area, this bond will break and need to be established once more.

Syntax: THRIVE <STRENGTH|INTELLIGENCE|CONSTITUTION|DEXTERITY|WISDOM>
Blood cost: 250

The magic of your Fae pact allows you to choose a boon at will that will strengthen your blessed hunt, granting you an additional stat of your choice.

Syntax: BARBARITY <BALANCE|EQUILIBRIUM|DAMAGE>
Blood cost: 500

The savage instincts of the wild grant you primal adaptability in combat. Your barbaric nature allows you to shift freely between speed enhancements for balance, equilibrium, or damage; however, you must have selected one of the three already.

For more information on enhancements, please see AB HUNTING ENHANCEMENT

Syntax: ESCAPE <direction>

Even the most deadly of predators must know how to evade those who would seek to take them down and you are no different. Should you wish to escape from battle, you may disengage and bypass certain traps and triggers that might normally prevent you from leaving. Those following you will be lost, and any who see you depart will be unable to know in which direction.

Syntax: REKNIT <body part>
Blood cost: 200

Swipe aside the thoughts of pain and suffering that one of your limbs experiences by forcing transformative healing upon its structure. This ability will heal its trauma by 6%, restoring it toward its original form. You may heal the head, torso, left/right arm, or left/right leg.

This will only work while the limb is either broken or mangled.

Cooldown: 50 seconds

Syntax: NATURALISE
Blood cost: 250

Call upon the nature of your pact to turn those afflictions that plague your body into mulch fit for Dia'ruis' growth while suffusing you with life's vitality. A single affliction will be cured instantly and another will be cured 2 seconds later. There is no prevention to this ability other than the initial mana cost and requiring balance and equilibrium to perform.

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Syntax: LIFEVISION

Your keen senses allow you to see all living things within your sight, regardless if they are hidden or not. It will additionally provide some measure of protection against illusions, allowing you to occasionally tell if they are fake.

Syntax: IMPRECATE <affliction> <target>
Blood cost: 90 per cursed imprecation

Curses that you imprecate upon your foes are the method by which you can layer mental maladies upon your prey, overwhelming their minds.

All imprecations may be performed off balance providing you have not fallen on the ground, allowing you to utilise an attack with fist or forged implement and then curse them with an additional affliction.

You will learn new curses as you progress in Caprice.

While imprecating curses is possible in many situations where normally you'd be unable to act, it is however difficult to do so while fallen and afflicted by stupidity, or while transfixed.

You can type AFFLICTION <name> to learn more about what an affliction from Caprice does.

Syntax: DEATHSIGHT [OFF]

Using this ability, you will be linked with the Underhalls, allowing you to sense those who perish and pass through it.

Syntax: PSYCHALLENGE <player>

Psychic combat is a telepathic battle between two players where the goal is to crumple your opponent's mind. There is no penalty for losing, however those with deathsight will feel the moment a game is decided. There are only seven commands associated with psychic combat that may be used, and when you accept you will be transported to a special location out of harm's way. Most other commands will not work until the game is complete.

You can do the following in psychic combat:

PSY BLAST:
Blast your opponent's mind and attack their mental fortitude.

PSY BARRIER:
Erect a barrier that protects your mind from psychic blasts.

PSY WHIP:
Tear away your opponent's mental barrier if they have one.

PSY SURGE:
If your opponent has less than half of their mental energy, you can end the match in a surge of psychic power. This is costly to perform and could result in your own loss if misjudged.

PSY PROBE:
Use your mind to determine your opponent's mental energy.

PSY MEDITATE:
Meditate your mind in order to recover your mental energy. This is a slow process.

PSY ESCAPE:
This takes some time, during which you may not do anything else. Once the ability is successful, an exit will open up, allowing you to escape.

Syntax: ASSESS <target>

Determine the physical state of another individual, discovering their current health levels. As a student of faebound Imprecation, you may additionally perform this ability off balance.

Syntax: DISRUPT <target>
Blood cost: 100

Should your opponent have two mental afflictions, you may disrupt them of their equilibrium. They will not be able to recover until they CONCENTRATE.

Look at HELP TYPES for more information on what is regarded as a mental affliction.

Syntax: DEPLETE <target>
Blood cost: 100

With little effort, you can quickly steal mana from your opponent and bolster your own.

Syntax: BEWITCH <target>
Blood cost: 100

Lock eyes with your prey and hiss a lilting curse, momentarily capturing their attention while in the heat of battle. While bewitched by you, it will transfix them in place and they will be unable to act. Should your foe be brimming with courage, your charm will simply fail.

Syntax: IMPRECATE <affliction> <affliction> <target>

Fated jinxes and bewildering hexes depart your lips in tandem, bewitching your target with two simultaneous curses in the same breath.

Syntax: TELESENSE <ON|OFF>

Tune your senses to detect any telepathic attempts made on yourself or those in your location. Be warned, this will drain your mana while active.

Syntax: IMPRECATE SPOOK <target/mount>

Utter a dire mixture of curses and predatory sounds towards a creature, causing it to buck its rider off or flee outright from your presence. This curse cannot be combined with another via use of twincurse.

Syntax: CONTEMPLATE <target>

Contemplate your opponent's mental state and discover their mana levels.

Syntax: EXECRATE <affliction> [affliction]

Let the sounds of your curses rain down unto all those you consider as enemies, imparting their deleterious effects upon those who exist within your location. You may overlay a secondary curse so long as you retain the knowledge of speaking twincurses.

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Syntax: TEMPT <target>
Blood cost: 250

Whisper a fleeting curse into the wind, disguising it as a tempting allure of Dia'ruian bounty. Should your target be within three rooms of you, they will mindlessly heed the call and stalk towards your location as if they moved of their own accord.

This ability will strip the rebounding defence if it is successful in moving the target.

Syntax: DISSOCIATE <target>
Blood cost: 300

Should your prey find their mind addlepated and drained to having less than 35% of their maximum mana reserves, you can seize the moment to unhinge their feeble mental state even further and instantly slay them in the name of blessed Dia'ruis.

Syntax: IMPRECATE CONFUSION <target>

Plant confusing echoes and voices into the mind of your target, afflicting them with confusion.

Syntax: IMPRECATE FEAR <target>

Plant unnatural dread into the mind of your target, causing them to flee in fear until they compose themselves.

Syntax: IMPRECATE IMPATIENCE <target>

Reduce the attention span of your opponent, making it difficult to focus and afflicting them with impatience.

Syntax: IMPRECATE PARANOIA <target>

Instill your opponent with irrational suspicion, afflicting them with paranoia.

Syntax: IMPRECATE STUPIDITY <target>

Stupefy and slow your opponent's mind, afflicting them with stupidity.

Syntax: IMPRECATE AGORAPHOBIA <target>

Instill your opponent with a fear of the outdoors, afflicting them with agoraphobia.

Syntax: IMPRECATE MASOCHISM <target>

Afflict your opponent with masochism, causing them to periodically do themselves harm.

Syntax: IMPRECATE INFATUATION <target>

Weave fae glamour into their emotions, ensnaring them with unnatural longing and afflicting them with infatuation.

Syntax: IMPRECATE PSYCHOSIS <target>

Curse their mind with the maddening whispers of the fae courts, afflicting them with psychosis.

Syntax: IMPRECATE TRICKERY <target>

Impart a measure of winsome Fae trickery against your foe's mental reserves, claiming them for yourself. This will last until they leave your presence for a short while.

Syntax: IMPRECATE EPILEPSY <target>

Cause your opponent to spasm and twitch, afflicting them with epilepsy.

Syntax: IMPRECATE ANOREXIA <target>

Implant the fear of consumption into your opponent, afflicting them with anorexia.

Syntax: IMPRECATE AMNESIA <target>

Confuse the thoughts of your opponent, making them forget the next action they wish to perform.

Syntax: IMPRECATE LONELINESS <target>

Cause your opponent to crave the company of others, afflicting them with loneliness.

Syntax: IMPRECATE DEMENTIA <target>

Subvert your opponent's facility for recognising their surroundings, afflicting them with dementia.

Syntax: IMPRECATE MANIA <target>

Channel the savage fury of the untamed wilds into your foe, afflicting them with mania.

Syntax: IMPRECATE INDIFFERENCE <target>

Induce disregard into your opponent's state of mind, giving them the indifference affliction. Such indolent prey will suffer increased limb trauma as apathy forestalls their defensive instincts.

Syntax: IMPRECATE VERTIGO <target>

Implant a fear of heights into your opponent, afflicting them with vertigo.

Syntax: IMPRECATE HOODWINK <target>

Pull the proverbial wool over your target's eyes as you siphon off a shred of their vitality, claiming it for yourself. This effect will last until they leave your presence for a short while.

Syntax: IMPRECATE RECKLESSNESS <target>

Bring about a state of recklessness in your target, causing them to disregard their own state of health.

This ability is passive.

Blood is the essence of life and the currency of the old magics and it provides the necessary spirit to sustain those boons granted by your Fae geas. Utilising your pact magic draws directly upon the power in your blood, and thus the lifeforce it grants, rendering it a significant toll in exchange for your power. As you deplete your lifeforce, you will become more feral in strength, losing yourself to Her call for unending violence. However, this also leaves you susceptible to certain dangers.

The following is a list of attributes you will develop the less lifeforce you have:
- Major weakness to fire damage as the wild world asserts itself in your aspect
- Resistance to cold damage
- Resistance to asphyxiation damage
- Resistance to poison damage
- Resistance to electric damage
- Reduced intelligence
- Additional strength

Additionally, you will no longer suffer the effects of less natural healing that applies when you have lost blood. You can read HELP BLOOD for more information.

Syntax: FAE EXPEL
Blood cost: 5% to 7%

Your pact with the Fae courts grants you the power to willingly spill your own enchanted blood. This will cause a small amount of bleeding to yourself as well.

Be warned, should you expel all your blood, you will perish.

Syntax: FAE SCAVENGE

Attune your senses towards dead prey to scavenge from in the local area.

Syntax: FAE PLY <villager> FOR LOCK
FAE BEGUILE <villager>
CALL PAWN
RELEASE PAWN

Blood cost: 750

Though She raises no armies, blessed Dia'ruis recognises the need for soldiers and warriors. For this reason, you are empowered to conscript the commonfolk into your geas as servants and pawns, for all must pay their due to She Who Gives Life.

The power of your pawn will scale with your level, where the higher level you are, the more damage it will deal.

Any pawn already bewitched into your service must first be released to their mundane life before a new one can be bewitched, for the High Courts see no reason for thoughtless herds.

You can only bewitch common denizens from the following areas:
Abelaas, Aerie, Arbothia, Arurer Haven, Bihrkaen, Bravestarr, Cantor's Copse, Craneskull, El'Jazira, Jaru, Kald, Kornar, Masilia, Mitrine, Moghedu, Mournhold, Nuunva, Rimewatch, Salma, Saluria, Stormcaller Crag, Tainhelm, Torston, Vilimo, Vimuna, and Vintal Glade.

You may also ply a villager for a lock of their hair, allowing you to call them to service at a future date through truly ancient compulsion magics.

Syntax: SACRAMENTS

Call upon the ancient sacraments of the wood, allowing you to perform elder rites from a time when the world's forces were rougher and less controllable. SACRAMENTS will provide more details on what knowledge yet remains to Sapience's sylvans.

Performing a miracle prayer:
INFUSE DRUM WITH SORCERY

To conduct a sacrament, you must stand before the Drum of Life and Death and infuse it with your vital sorcery. When this is done, you may whisper invocations and anoint the people, or the ground, in question.

Collecting blood:
COLLECT BLOOD FROM <target>
BLOODLIST

All of these sacred rites will require your own blood or that of the intended recipient in order to enact them. In order to collect said lifeblood, you will need to use a phial and their blood must be spilling freely, either via use of Extirpation Bloodbath or some other means.

Syntax: FAE BLOODHUNT [OFF]

Attune yourself with the blessed wolfine and smell those wounded, bleeding prey who dare tread near you. This will drain your blood reserves for as long as you have it active and allow you to sense how much others are bleeding for within your room.

This ability is passive.

When you beguile a new pawn, it will now be enlisted under your direct command - allowing you to issue orders. You may view HELP LOYALTY for more information.

Syntax: FAE ANOINT <weapon>
Blood cost: 100

Using your own blood to scribe runic markings, you may provide a large blade the ability to harvest the blood of others with each blessed strike you make, so long as they are not protected by the fangbarrier defence.

The amount of blood that will be harvested is based upon the penetration stat of your weapon, however, it will not harvest any further blood once your target has less than half their blood reserves left.

This ability can only be used on the large blade weapon class.

Syntax: FAE TRANSFUSE <target>
Blood transfer: 500

Be evergiving of your own reserves, empowering a fellow Faebound with a direct transfusion of your blood.

Syntax: FAE VENERATE
Blood cost: 3000

Expend a large volume of your own enchanted blood to sanctify your surroundings as a meeting place for the Primal Courts. The venerable sanctification will disrupt all attempts to shed corporeal form while it lingers.

Additionally, it will enforce elemental equilibrium and deny any harmful effects of the dark stars, while regenerating a small amount of health for all sylvan who stand upon its hallowed soil.

Syntax: FAE WEEPING <target>
Blood cost: 200

Invoke ancient magic as you look upon your foe, sowing a promise of painful agony that shall bring about a crimson effusion of fresh blood.

Your prey will find they cannot cure this effect unless they first flee the proximity of your predatory hunger.

Syntax: FAE LIFEFORCE <target>

Determine how much blood your target has remaining.

Syntax: FAE CONTINGENCY
Blood cost: 500

Reframe the terms of your bewitching geas to extend your pawn's service beyond their next visit to Crowned Death's Simulacrum. It will take some time before your pawn finds their way back, however.

Syntax: FAE MASK
Blood cost: 100

Swathe your beguiled pawn in deceptive trickery, preventing its presence from being easily seen by prying eyes.

Syntax: THRASH <target> <type>
Blood cost: 50

For those moments where simply slaking your thirst for violence is not enough, you may empower your clawed strikes to enforce Fae curses upon them. This requires that your opponent is affected by the required affliction(s) beforehand, else your attempt to thrash will behave as normal.

Asrai:
Call forth the radiance of a lunar blessing onto your claws, draining your prey of mana should they have at least three depressant-healed afflictions.

Soliad:
Providing your opponent has their blood effused, you will curse that process and cause a single affliction from weariness, clumsiness, or vomiting the next time the effusion affects them. The affliction is chosen in order, starting with weariness.

Wolfine:
Bring forth the might of the sylvan to break the spirit of your lowly prey, throwing them to the ground and stripping their courage defence as long as they have at least three antipsychotic-healed afflictions.

Undine:
Saddle your prey with the weight of rough currents and turbulent tides, sapping away their dexterity to use for yourself should they have at least three euphoriant-healed afflictions.

You can view HELP CURE ORDER for information on the various curing trees.

Syntax: FAE BADGER <target>
Blood cost: 100

Should your prey be unwilling to strike yet possess both balance and equilibrium, you may attempt to provoke them. If successful, you will trigger the instinct to fight back as you badger them into a provoked assault against yourself.

Syntax: FAE ABUNDANCE

To remain on the hunt for an extended period of time, you may call upon a blessing to grant you the wisdom necessary to expend your blood more strategically.

Syntax: FAE COVENANT <court>

Pledge your service to one of the Fae courts, offering your effort in exchange for their magical prowess. You may select from the Queensguard, those concerned with empowering their beguiled pawn, the Soliad, those Fae who impart physical acts to destroy the Manu, or the Asrai, those who provide manipulations of the blood and its magical properties. You can select NONE in order to return to a state lacking a covenant.

Each Covenant grants five new abilities, learned as part of Glamours:

Queensguard Soliad Asrai
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Disfavour Bloodthirst Bloodbath
Favour Wildfury Skulduggery
Greensong Winnow Nightbrand
Concealing Awe Redress
Dryad Savage Spellbind

You can type AB GLAMOURS <ability> to learn more about them.

Cooldown: 4 hours.

Syntax: FAE OATHBIND <ally>
FAE OATHBIND OFF

Blood cost: 300

Use your own blood to scrawl a rune upon an ally, forming a pact betwixt you and they that dilutes the pain of attacks made against either of you should you remain within the same location.

While so pacted, you may perform acts typically reserved for those who bear oaths directly to you.

Syntax: FAE INEXORABLE
Blood cost: 500

Work in the name of Dia'ruian vengeance, an extension of Her fury and fervour, even when death's maw looms just on the periphery. You may fall below zero health and still live, but this effect will only last for a short period, after which any further damage will slay you.

You cannot bleed while below zero health.

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Syntax: FAE DISFAVOUR <target>
Blood cost: 200

By wielding your clout as a member of the Queensguard, you may deliver the terrible curse of Queen Titania's disfavour with a mere brush of your terrible claws, inducing sepsis. This curse will render their body slow to cure, extending the time it takes as long as at least one affliction is present within the antipsychotic, euphoriant, or depressant curing tree.

For each tree above that possesses an affliction, the more potent shall her disfavour become. This will only affect pill, poultice, and pipe balance recovery times.

You can view HELP CURE ORDER for information on the various curing trees.

You may use this ability while off balance.

This ability is passive.

When making use of the Wound ability, you will begin a seamless, primal assault that flows like Her unending song. As such, the next single imprecation you utilise will have the equilibrium recovery time reduced.

The speed increase from Bloodthirst is refreshed each time you use this ability, and can stack up to five times. Two stacks are added instead if the target already has the rend affliction.

Please see AB EXTIRPATION WOUND for more information on this ability.

Syntax: FAE BLOODBATH [OFF]

So terrible is your sylvan presence that raging violence churns about you as unseen tension, the gravity of your oath inflicting trauma upon those who would dare stand before you. As such, any enemies in your location will begin to slowly bleed and be stricken with haemophilia. While performing this act, the wick of your bloody vow shall burn down like a candle set aflame, inflicting an ongoing drain to your blood reserves.

This ability is passive.

Through tricksome asrai skulduggery, you can render your capricious curses silent to others 25% of the time, leaving them unaware of your baleful intent.

Syntax: FAE FAVOUR
Blood cost: 100

Prepare and bolster the effectiveness of Weeping with Queen Titania's favour for when you place the curse upon another. As such, it will additionally become incurable while the target has masochism.

Please see AB GLAMOURS WEEPING for more information on this ability.

Syntax: FAE WILDFURY [OFF]

So boundless is Her fury that you may drink deep of its wellspring and become an unstoppable predator. While elevated to this state, you will additionally be able to brutally Slake your bloodthirst by assaulting someone if they have at least one physical affliction.

Should you also Slake or Savage someone, you will gain a short-lived boost to your balance and equilibrium from the fresh blood, for She provides for Her raging children without hesitation. This effect can stack for each time you are successful, and is more effective if you use Savage.

See AB EXTIRPATION SLAKE or AB GLAMOURS SAVAGE for more information on those skills, and HELP AFFLICTION TYPES for what is considered a physical affliction.

Syntax: FAE GREENSONG <type>

By imbuing your pawn with a verse of the Greensong, you can grant them access to cursed magics that will make them more dangerous in battle.

Death: Their touch will cause paresis.
Ruin: They will cause haemophilia.
Life: They shall cause hallucinations.
Renewal: Your pawn will erode the fang barrier defense.

Syntax: FAE NIGHTBRAND <target>
FAE EVOKE
Blood cost: 200

By marking your target with an asrai curse mark, you may later evoke its power at any time for a small burst of health and mana damage.

Syntax: FAE WINNOW <target>
Blood cost: 500

Weak prey shall ever serve as food to fill Her gnashing maw, and it falls to you and your fellow sylvans to separate the wheat from the chaff accordingly. By speaking one of Her dire curses unto a victim, you can initially afflict them with ringing ears and strip the fangbarrier defence.

It will also do the following if they have certain afflictions:
* If they have sadness, it will give blisters.
* If they have misery, it will give impairment.
* If they have arrhythmia, it will give vomiting.

While this is rather powerful ability, your curse will weaken your voice in the process, removing the Twincurse ability until the cooldown expires.

Please see AB CAPRICE TWINCURSE for more information.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Syntax: FAE REDRESS
Blood cost: 200

Weave the cold fury of midnight into a vengeful ward of moonlit frost around yourself. It will protect you by storing up damage dealt to you, then after a certain threshold has passed, it will strike out at the mana of the next person to harm you.

Syntax: FAE AWE [OFF]

Call upon those most courtly Fae that mortals have dreams and nightmares of, invoking their presence as manifestations that traipse alongside your form as a royal entourage, inducing fears and anxieties into the hearts and minds of your prey. This will affect up to two enemies at once, and will consume your blood at a continual rate while it remains active.

Your awe-inspiring aura of Fae nobility can cause the following afflictions:
Arrhythmia, misery, and sadness.

If they have all three afflictions, then it will strip courage from them.

Syntax: FAE CONCEAL
Blood cost: 400

Call upon the hunting courts by which you claim your covenant to suffuse your visible weaknesses with concealing magics, keeping them from easy sight of your prey when they try to gauge your state of well-being.

Syntax: FAE DRYAD
Blood cost: 2000

At significant cost to the enchanted geas running throughout your veins, you may summon the aid of an elder dryad. While in the dryad's presence, anyone who receives bleeding will empower her terrible runes by a small amount.

Once 450 bleeding has been caused in her presence, the dryad's bark will flare with ancient curselight, re-afflicting them with the last affliction they cured.

They do not need to bleed in order for this effect to happen and any attack that creates bleeding will work.

Be warned that the dryad is not immune to the machinations of your enemies - she can be attacked and destroyed.

Syntax: FAE SAVAGE <target>

If you have successfully bewitched your prey with capricious curses, you may brutally savage them with the full force of Her granted fury, opening a large wound which will cause them to lose a mass amount of blood, dealing both cutting and blunt damage at the same. This action will sate Her thirst and that of your vow both, replenishing your lifeforce.

Syntax: FAE SPELLBIND <target>
Blood cost: 400

Beseech the Lunar Courts for direct aid, wreathing your prey in glittering nightfury that shall ravage their sanity. It will scythe through their weak thoughts three times in a row, with the finale stunning them to their very core.

The amount of mental damage this will cause is proportionate to the amount of mental afflictions the target has each time they are drained of mana.

Look at HELP TYPES for more information on what is regarded as a mental affliction.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Syntax: FAE INDUCT <player>
VASSALS
BANISH VASSAL <name>

Blood cost: 2000

This powerful ritual will allow you to induct one of the Primal sylvans into your court, binding their oath of service and the responsibilities therein to you and your purview - provided they do not belong to another Primal court, anyways. The necessary spirit to form such a pact renders it very difficult to break and thus should be initiated with full confidence and utmost caution.

Induction may be carried out regardless of whether you are currently in the sylvan class or not.

Syntax: FAE MEASURE <vassal>
Blood cost: 100

Glance through the eyes of a chosen vassal, measuring their locale with a keen gaze.

Syntax: FAE CHARM <vassal> <image>
Blood cost: 200

Charm your bound vassals into seeing what isn't there, regardless of where they may be.

Note: You can add a new line into your illusion by using the tag $nl within the text, however there is a limit in that you may only do this five times.

Syntax: FAE CONVENE <vassal>
Blood cost: 500

Issue an edict of convocation, summoning a vassal to your court - physically - from anywhere on the continent.

Syntax: FAE EDICT <vassal> <command>
Blood cost: 300

Lay down a courtly order, commanding one of your vassals to perform to the letter of your demand so long as they are in the same location as you, or adjacent.

Syntax: FAE HIVEMIND <ON|OFF>
Blood cost: 100

Concentrate on your court, becoming one with their thoughts. If you are present in the location with them, you may hear anything they THINK.

Syntax: FAE SNOOP <vassal>
Blood cost: 100

By way of the clause allowing the High Courts to observe your wildhunts, you may directly oversee the activities of your vassals for a limited time.

Syntax: FAE HALLOW
Blood cost: 95%

Bolster the strength of all in your court, granting them extra protection from the attacks of denizens. This may only be used at the dead of Midnight, also known as the witching hour.

Syntax: FAE WISDOM
Blood cost: 95%

Confer the gift of the High Courts upon all within your own court, granting them a boost to their experience gain for one hour. This may only be used at the dead of Midnight, when the old sorceries of the wood are at their apex.

Syntax: FAE WILDHUNT
Blood cost: 500 per person affected

Organise your vassals for the hunt to come. All in court from yourself downwards will gain the defences of Abundance, Concealing, and Redress, at no cost to themselves.

Syntax: FAE PACTBIND <target>
VASSALS

Blood cost: 5000

With this ability, you help someone recite the oath of the sylvan, binding you to the geas. This process is quite draining on both the oathbearer and their oathsworn, and the newly accepted sworn will suffer an extreme need to vent their newborn fury and sate their bloodlust soon after.

At this stage, you are not bound in any lasting way to the oathbearer who binds you. See AB GLAMOURS INDUCT for more information.