Magranon Holy Site

Description

A mysterious, impenetrable obelisk that has fallen from the sky and embedded itself into the sand like a spear. It bears an aura of Magranon.

A Magranon Holy site will spawn randomly and will have a Magranon theme and biome. It will be in a unsettled area of the map.

There are two different types of Magranon Holy sites that can spawn

Glowing Fissure

• A glowing, volcanic crack in the rock.
• Spawns in barren, rocky terrain.

Otherworldly Monolith

• An obelisk that has fallen from the sky and buried itself into the ground.
• Spawns on sand.

Positive effects

Holy Sites have several positive effects. Except when otherwise stated, all these effects are available only to accounts with Premium time, and that have at least 30 Faith with the Holy Site’s deity.

Passive effects

These are active whenever you are within the Holy Site. Special visual effects and a spell effect icon will make it clear when you are within the Holy Site’s current borders.

Doubled QL gain bonus for items favored by Magranon, which means items receive +20% to QL increases from improvement, rather than 10%.

• Magranon grants this effect to metal items.
• Higher faith gain, and greater favor gain for Magranon, for all prayers and sermons held at any altar within the site or at the Holy site itself.

Special actions

Glowing Fissure

• Unearth a random item using a pickaxe, shovel, or trowel.
• This will usually be a gem and may come stored with favor.
• There is a small chance of receiving a large source crystal.
• There is a very small chance of receiving a random unique blood.
• On rare actions, there is a chance ot receiving a strange bone fragment instead.

Otherworldly Monolith

• Rummage at the monolith for a random metal lump from the impact site. These can be, in order of decreasing likelihood: A random base metal (any metal that can be mined as ore), a random alloy, empyrean iron, and a random moon metal.
• Empyrean iron is a new type of metal that can be harvested in this manner as well as from Magranon ritual effect meteorites.

Pulse effects

Glowing Fissure Erupts, giving one archaeology fragment to everyone within the Holy Site.

• Fragment item types are drawn from a different list than usual.
• Some items that are impossible to find through normal archaeology can be found.
• Some items that can be found normally through archaeology are excluded especially wooden items.
• Fragments should generally have somewhat better end results in terms of enchantments, runes, and materials.

Otherworldly Monolith Summons a quantity of Magranon ritual meteorites to land on random tiles within and near the Holy Site.

• These function identically to normal Ritual of the Sun meteorites, and cannot harm players by falling on them.

Creature spawns

Creatures, often with conditions, may spawn in or near the holy sites.

• This may include creatures with conditions that cannot spawn normally. For example, a scared seal or champion sheep.
• The types of creatures that can spawn, and the condition they are likely to have, depends on the type of Holy site.
• Magranon sites have a slightly higher chance to spawn champion creatures.

Backlash effects

When performing any action at a Holy Site that might affect its Power or Corruption level (praying, preaching, purifying, or desecrating), there is a chance of a negative “Backlash” effect happening to you. This effect usually shares a theme with the Holy Site type or deity.

The chance of a Backlash effect, and the average intensity of them, is increased by:

• The Holy Site’s Corruption being above 40.
• Higher Corruption if praying or preaching to increase Power.
• Higher Power if attempting to desecrate the site.
• Lower skill for a Power or Corruption influencing action (Praying, Preaching, or Exorcism).
• Actions relating directly to Corruption (purifying or desecrating).

If the Holy Site’s Corruption is above 40, there is also a small chance to trigger a Backlash effect when performing the Holy Site’s special action.

All Backlash effects may be partially or completely resisted by a Soul Strength skill check.

Various Backlash effects are possible, including a random wound, various hostile spell effects being applied to you, or hostile creatures being summoned against you.

Expiration effects

When the activated Holy sites expires, the following things will happen:

• A very large amount of favor, for charging Ritual of the Sun will be granted.
• The amount of favor is increased by higher power when the site expires.
• Rarity of the site also increases the favor amount significantly.
• The amount is decreased by high corruption.

One last pulse effect is triggered, but with a significantly enhanced effect, as if the site had a power closer to 100.