Epona (Empathic Bond)
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| - | This bond requires an unknown amount of skills, and various deeds and actions to bond an [[Epona]]. Of the five people to get the bond at the time of writing, three were [[Aedarene]]. All have enough quest and exploration points to no longer get karma challenges for those (80%?). Any skill or stat requirements are unknown. You cannot have any bond capability, though having previous bond capability is fine. | + | This bond requires an unknown amount of skills, and various deeds and actions to bond an [[Epona]]. Of the five people to get the bond at the time of writing, three were [[Aedarene]]. All have enough quest points to no longer get karma challenges for those (80%?). Any skill or stat requirements are unknown. You cannot have any bond capability, though having previous bond capability is fine. |
| When you feel you're ready to be tested, find [[Nindari]] and say 'bond' or 'epona' to her. If you are lucky you may get an attempt to bond, and if you're found worthy: | When you feel you're ready to be tested, find [[Nindari]] and say 'bond' or 'epona' to her. If you are lucky you may get an attempt to bond, and if you're found worthy: | ||
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Bonding Requirements
This bond requires an unknown amount of skills, and various deeds and actions to bond an Epona. Of the five people to get the bond at the time of writing, three were Aedarene. All have enough quest points to no longer get karma challenges for those (80%?). Any skill or stat requirements are unknown. You cannot have any bond capability, though having previous bond capability is fine.
When you feel you're ready to be tested, find Nindari and say 'bond' or 'epona' to her. If you are lucky you may get an attempt to bond, and if you're found worthy:
You say, "epona" in lyrically-accented Anglic.
Nindari remarks, -%) Hmm. Hm hm hm! Well, okay, just this once. (%-
Nindari lets loose a piercing whistle, which seems to reverberate strangely through the air as though echoing far beyond what you can hear.
The air begins to ripple strangely.
A pearlescent glow appears in the air.
The pearlescent glow flares brightly, then disappears, leaving behind a white epona stallion.
The white epona stallion nuzzles Nindari lovingly, then turns toward you.
The white epona stallion regards you regally for a moment.
You feel as though you are being judged spiritually, as some eternal and pure force examines your soul deeply for flaws and imperfections.
The white epona stallion pauses for a long moment, then touches you gently with his muzzle.
You feel a massive wave of spectral power cascade through you as the hand of Aeda touches your soul, bestowing upon you a rare and precious gift.
You sense a new emotional need opening up within you -- an incompleteness you never fully grasped, the need for a true soulmate of some kind -- along with the desire and ability to fulfill that need and to complete yourself.
A wave of emotion, tenuous at first, reaches out to you from the white epona stallion. It rapidly burgeons in strength as the moments pass, carrying feelings of comfort, belonging, and oneness as the white epona stallion's soul becomes gently entwined with your own.
You will now trust a white epona stallion.
The white epona stallion is limned with an enormous faintly shimmering mana aura.
You feel spiritually exhausted but deeply contented, as though you have been made more complete.
The white epona stallion flies to your side.
You have been granted a divine empathic bond with the white epona stallion. [event logged]
Nindari remarks, -%) Hey, how about that, it likes ya! Guess you should feel pretty lucky, Fitz. Not a lot of folks measure up. (%-
Nindari remarks, -%) Take care of each other, okay? Aeda expects ya to be worthy -- not just today, but forever. (%-
The white epona stallion nickers good-naturedly.
This bond is a full 100% strength bond, and does not require a bond capability (in fact, a bond capability seems to make getting an epona impossible).
Known Abilities
Attribute Modifications
Untested
Combat Modifications
Epona gives its consort a 1x skill rating bonus to attack rating, damage rating, and deflect rating, from Piety and Empathy, as well as a scaling bonus depending on bond strength to the same ratings from Spirit Lore, maxing out at 3x at complete.
Skill Effects
Note that these are all rough estimates based on old logs of skill access:
| Skill | Access | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Equestrian | 16 | 75 + 10% base |
| Mounted Combat | 16 | 75 + 10% base |
| Riding | 16 | 75 + 10% base |
| Spirit Lore | 16 | 75 + 10% base |
| Athleticism | 12 | 60 |
| Recuperation | 12 | 60 |
| Running | 12 | 60 |
| Stamina | 12 | 60 |
| Steadiness | 12 | 60 |
| Hammer | 8 | 40 |
| Leadership | 8 | 40 |
| Pole Arm | 8 | 40 |
| Shield | 8 | 40 |
| Spear | 8 | 40 |
| Sword | 8 | 40 |
| Discipline | 6 | 32 |
| Hills Fieldcraft | 6 | 32 |
| Plains Fieldcraft | 6 | 32 |
| Archery | 4 | 20 |
| Armour Use | 4 | 20 |
| Flight | 3 | none |
| Meditation | 3 | none |
| Quickness | 3 | none |
| Tenacity | 3 | none |
| Hardiness | 2 | none |
Charms
You sense that you have one method by which you can form an empathic bond: a full essence bond via the divinity of Aeda. You sense that this bond is enabling you to perform loads of charms, arcane feats accomplished by simple mental acts.
- Immediately
First, the ability to tame creatures over which your familiar is sovereign. To do this, concentrate on taming the creature.
Second, the ability to urge your familiar to specific action. This ability can be used even if you do not know where your familiar is. To do this, concentrate on urging your familiar to undertake the desired action.
Third, the ability to perceive subtle energy flows. To do this, concentrate on perceiving subtle energy flows. To end the effects of this charm, concentrate on ceasing to perceive subtle energy flows.
Fourth, the ability to command a friendly creature over which your familiar is sovereign to undertake a specific action. You can command multiple creatures at once in this manner. To do this, concentrate on commanding your follower or followers to undertake the desired action.
-This works on horses
Fifth, the ability to replenish the breath of all those friendly to you nearby. To do this, concentrate on breathing.
- Somewhat frail
Sixth, the ability to enable oneself or others to see in the darkness. To do this, concentrate on enabling yourself or your target to see in the dark.
Seventh, the ability to recall your conjured followers to your side. To do this, concentrate on recalling the desired follower or followers.
Eighth, the ability to send your familiar to safety. This ability can be used even if you do not know where your familiar is. To do this, concentrate on sending your familiar to safety.
Ninth, the ability to call your familiar to your side. To do this, concentrate on calling your familiar.
Tenth, the ability to imbue oneself with energy that will spur you to travel at incredible speeds while mounted to your familiar. This charm only works if your familiar is running or walking, not swimming or flying. To do this, imagine myself traveling like the wind. To end the effects of this charm, imagine myself traveling at normal speeds.
-As the mount is always flying, this is entirely ineffective
Eleventh, the ability to become one with your familiar. This ability can be used even if you do not know where your familiar is. To do this, concentrate on becoming one with your familiar.
Twelfth, the ability to see through your familiar's eyes. This ability can be used even if you do not know where your familiar is. To do this, concentrate on seeing what your familiar sees.
- Somewhat frail, midway
Thirteenth, the ability to channel spiritual energy from your familiar to yourself. To do this, concentrate on channeling spiritual energy inward.
Fourteenth, the ability to send tamed followers to safety. To do this, concentrate on sheltering the desired follower or followers.
- Fairly healthy
Fifteenth, the ability to convert spiritual energy into more refined forms. You sense that this bond is enabling you to acquire elemental air, elemental earth, elemental fire, and elemental water energies with this ability. To do this, concentrate on channeling my spiritual energy into the desired type of energy.
- Fairly healthy, midway
Sixteenth, the ability to fly. If you already have wings, this charm will increase your maneuverability. To do this, think of flying.
- Very healthy, midway
Seventeenth, the ability to send conjured followers to safety. To do this, concentrate on harboring the desired follower or followers.
Eighteenth, the ability to summon a minor water elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a minor water elemental.
Nineteenth, the ability to summon a minor air elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a minor air elemental.
Twentieth, the ability to summon a minor fire elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a minor fire elemental.
Twenty-first, the ability to summon a minor earth elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a minor earth elemental.
- Robust
Twenty-second, the ability for you and your familiar to inspire those you jointly lead. To do this, concentrate on galvanizing my followers.
- Resilient
Twenty-third, the ability to enable oneself or others to breathe both air and water. To do this, concentrate on granting the ability to breathe both air and water to yourself or your target.
- Resilient, halfway
Twenty-fourth, the ability to manifest an aura of elemental mastery. To do this, concentrate on the power of the elements in my spirit.
This grants +200 to Air Affinity, Earth Affinity, Fire Affinity and Water Affinity, while draining your air, earth, water and fire energies over time. Also changes your unarmed attacks to a random one of those elements.
- Deep
Twenty-fifth, the ability to channel spiritual energy from yourself to your familiar. To do this, concentrate on channeling my spiritual energy outward.
Twenty-sixth, the ability to cleanse someone of disease. To do this, concentrate on cleansing someone.
- Very Deep
Twenty-seventh, the ability to summon a major earth elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a major earth elemental.
Twenty-eighth, the ability to summon a major fire elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a major fire elemental.
Twenty-ninth, the ability to summon a major air elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a major air elemental.
Thirtieth, the ability to summon a major water elemental. To do this, concentrate on summoning a major water elemental.
-These cost 150 of their element's energy
- Very Deep, midway
Thirty-first, the ability to remove a curse. To do this, concentrate on removing afflictions from a cursed person.
- Intimate, midway
Thirty-second, the ability to burn your injuries away with fire. To do this, will renewal.
- Nearly Complete
Thirty-third, the ability to commit an enchanted image of a follower to memory. To do this, concentrate on memorizing the essence of the follower. This ability is the keystone of a faculty of mnemonically preserving followers, a faculty that allows you to preserve your followers against the vicissitudes of time and fate. To exercise the ability to restore a follower from the enchanted mnemonic image, concentrate on mnemonically realizing the follower specified either by name or, more precisely, by the ordinality of the memory (e.g. "my second preserved memory"). To exercise the ability to call to mind and reflect upon the enchanted images you have burned into your memory, think of the essences burned into my memory. To exercise the ability to erase the enchanted image of a follower from memory, concentrate on forgetting the essence of the follower specified either by name or, more precisely, by the ordinality of the memory (e.g. "my second preserved memory").
Notes
When Nindari says 'aeda expects you to be worthy, not just today but forever', she really means it:
Pizza regards you forlornly.
You feel a wave of regret and sorrow flood through your empathic link with Pizza as he judges you to no longer be worthy of your bond.
Pizza glows softly with pearlescent radiance, then fades away, leaving behind a ripple of shimmering light which slowly dissipates into the air.
The enormous faintly shimmering mana aura around Pizza sizzles angrily, and then fades.
The shifting patina of air, earth, fire, and water your body fades away and vanishes.
You feel the restless power fade from your body.
Your field of vision becomes duller as your sensitivity to the subtle energy flows of the world diminishes.
You feel a great grief and sadness as Aeda, having found you wanting, withdraws Her blessing of a spiritual bond with Pizza from you.
You have lost your empathic bond with Pizza. [event logged]
You sense that you have lost all potential means of empathic bonding available to you and thus no longer possess this faculty.
You no longer specialize in conjuration or enchantment. [event logged]
This happened when trying to change guild, so maybe some skills despecced or your guild matters.
Addendum: Nindari will let you rebond when you meet the requirements again (albiet you still have to go through her randomness first). Also tried joining ldd when becoming adventurer and still lost the bond, so probably not worship related?
