Fo Holy Site

Description

A divine mechanism supplying all that sustains life. It bears an aura of Fo.

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

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

Wishing Tree

• A magical tree, blossoming with many types of fruit and other produce.
• This type of site will spawn in dense forests.

Sampo

• A strange divine mechanism, dispensing the necessities of life.
• This type of site will spawn on steppe.

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 Fo, which means items receive +20% to QL increases from improvement, rather than 10%.

• Fo grants this effect to clay and cloth items.

Hostile monsters will not longer be hostile towards you.

• This is the same effect the Fo priests are granted at 60 faith. These monsters include the hostile creatures that are considered animals. This does not include dragons, trolls, lava fiends, goblins or scorpions.
• Higher faith gain, and greater favor gain for Fo, for all prayers and sermons held at any altar within the site or at the Holy site itself.

Special actions

Wishing Tree

• You may harvest a random harvestable product from the tree using a sickle.
• The product may be any type of fruit, berry, nut, herb, spice.
• The tree will provide more items than harvesting a normal tree or bush, and at a higher QL.
• The tree can also give special item within those categories that are not available anywhere else, and that grant more complexity than normal food to any dishes they are used in.

Sampo

• Feast for a refresh effect giving you a maximum food, water, stamina, and CCFP bars.
• Cures any disease
• Gives a random temporary affinity of long duration similar to a food affinity.
• Give a significant amounts of source salt.
• There is a rare chance to get a source seed along with the source salt, which when fed to an animal will increase your effective animal husbandry skill when breeding it. I will last for 1 hour.

Pulse effects

Wishing Tree

• Spawns flowers randomly on grass tiles in and near the site.
• It will make all trees and bushes harvestable even if they are not in season.

Sampo

• Humid Drizzle effect on all animals in and near the Holy Site.
• It resets the shearing status of sheep and rams.

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.

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 Holy Crop 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.