Ecology

Ecology is the specialization of Hunting which is open for druids and commune bards. Those who choose Ecology tap into the essence of animal, plant and minerals. They are also charged with maintaining the balance of nature, protecting its delicate balance. Most notably, ecologists often have an animal familiar that follows them around.

Skill	Learned At	Description
Empathy	Master+0%	Empathically communicate with animals.
HillsSmudge	Master+20%	Mud slides can be a danger in the hills.
SoftCharm	Master+40%	Basic minerals can be used to protect.
WingsFetish	Master+60%	Craft a bone fetish and add deadly wings.
BatBane	Master+80%	Sounds cause pain to sensitive ears.
Rebirth	Gifted+0%	Give animals new life in a new form.
DesertSmudge	Gifted+20%	Desert sand storms can scour the flesh.
HerbRenewal	Gifted+40%	Even barren locations can be made to flourish.
FetishArmour	Gifted+60%	Make your familiar invincible with your fetish.
FamiliarSmudge	Gifted+80%	Armoured familiars can carry your smudges.
FinsFetish	Expert+0%	With fins, your bone fetish is even more deadly.
SwampSmudge	Expert+20%	Beware the quicksand found in swamps.
AnimalGrowth	Expert+40%	Enlarge animals to be more deadly.
PreciousCharm	Expert+60%	Add precious metals to your protective charm.
FamiliarSting	Expert+80%	Poison the bone armour on your familiar.
SwiftFetish	Virtuoso+0%	Your bone fetish can find its target within line of sight.
ValleySmudge	Virtuoso+20%	Tornados often form in valleys.
StingerFetish	Virtuoso+40%	Place a stinger upon your bone fetish.
Unite	Virtuoso+60%	Travel to your animal familiar where it may be.
SnakeBane	Virtuoso+80%	Sensitivity to poisons become more pronounced.
HardCharm	Fabled+0%	More protections can be added with the hardest ore.
MountainSmudge	Fabled+20%	Only in mountains is there a danger of avalanches.
FangsFetish	Fabled+40%	Your bone fetish can grow vicious fangs.
SnakeBond	Fabled+50%	Place a stinger upon your bone fetish.
HerbBane	Fabled+60%	Curse a body to violently reject healing herbs.
FamiliarShield	Fabled+80%	Your armoured familiar will attempt to protect you.
Conceal	Mythical+0%	Conceal the movements of your animal familiar.
ForgePath	Mythical+20%	Create the mystic pathways with another forger of paths.
ForestSmudge	Mythical+40%	Sometimes fires are necessary to a forest's health.
BerserkFetish	Mythical+60%	Instill a berserk state within your bone fetish.
FamiliarBerserk	Mythical+80%	Make your familiar berserk for a short period.
Transmigration	Transcendent+0%	Prepare a soul for transmigration.

Tending the Bats (by Gavriel)

Empathy

You are now able to connect empathically with animals, and so will be able to influence them. However, as animal minds are fairly simple, they only understand empowerment and weakening, so the influencing methods you use must be to one of these two purposes.

Note well that an ego battle with an animal requires a direct conflict between your emotions and your very spirits, as this is the common ground needed to communicate with animals. You are not able to influence any kind of marine life, as their minds and emotions are too alien to you.

HillsSmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION HILLS SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4p from Any if quickburn)

Ingredients: pennyroyal 2

You can fashion a smudge stick from herbs found in the hills. When you burn the smudge, the smoke will eventually form into fleeting hills, causing a mudslide to harm your enemies.

NOTES ON SMUDGE STICKS: Smudges are powerful items made of the plant kingdom, infused with your own spirit through use of your ego. As such, you can only ever have one prepared at a time, and only you will be able to burn it. Gusts of wind will temporarily blow a smudge stick out, but it will eventually rekindle on its own. Smudges can be burned both on the ground or in trees.

SoftCharm

Syntax:

CHARM FASHION <comm> <amt> [<comm>] [<amt>] ...

Damage Modifier: 20 (total, divided as outlined below)

Charms are made of the mineral kingdom and can be powerful protections. A charm must be made with exactly 20 commodities. The commodities you use determine what the charm will protect against and the weight it will protect you. You begin by learning to work with with soft minerals and ores, which protect against the following:

• Sulfur : Protection vs. Poison
• Salt  : Protection vs. Electricity
• Coal  : Protection vs. Asphyxiation

For example, a charm made with 10 sulfur commodities and 10 salt commodities will use 50% of its protective powers against poison damage and 50% against electric damage. You can fashion your charm in any proportion so long as 20 commodities are used. You can fashion your charm as often as you like, though there will never be more than one charm and it is only usable by you.

WingsFetish

Syntax:

FETISH FASHION FROM <animal> FETISH GRAFT WINGS FROM <animal> FETISH ATTACK <target> <poison> FETISH CALL

Power: 10 (any) (to fashion and graft only)

Bone fetishes are representations of the power of the animal kingdom. First, you begin by making a basic fetish from the bones of an animal. This is your basic bone fetish and is not useful until you begin grafting parts of animals onto it. You first begin by learning those animals who produce the following poisons: ANEROD and NIRICOL.

Generally, animals who produce these poisons fly and you will need to find the bones of one of them. Contact a poison expert if you are not sure what animal produces ANEROD or NIRICOL. Then you can graft representations of wings onto your fetish. At this point, through use of your ego, you can use your bone fetish as a weapon to deliver these two poisons. You will, of course, need vials of these poisons handy for your bone fetish to use.

If you lose your fetish, you can always CALL it back to you.

BatBane

Syntax:

BANE BAT <target>

Power: 3 (Any)

Those under the curse of the Bat Bane is particularly sensitive to sound, and will suffer increased damage from all sources coming from sound, including mana barbs, power spikes and ego vices. There are no cures for banes but they will lift on their own after one minute.

Rebirth

Syntax:

REBIRTH <animal>

Power: 5 (commune nexus)

Sometimes you may want to give the spirit of a dead animal another chance upon the cycle of life and death. Though not all animals may be given a chance at rebirth, if successful it will be granted a new animal body.

The first animal you give rebirth to will form a close bond with you, and if your bonded animal dies, you will suffer great damage so it is important to keep your bonded animal safe. After its death, the next animal spirit you grant rebirth to will become your bonded animal. Of course, you can continue to grant rebirth to as many other animals as you desire but you will only ever have one at any time that has the special bond.

Syntax:

BOND LOOK BOND MOVE <direction> BOND LISTEN <ON/OFF> BOND ATTACK <target> BOND RECALL BOND PROBE <item> BOND DISMISS FAMILIAR

Power: 5 (any) (To recall from another plane)

After you develop this bond, you are able to give your familiar various commands using your bond with it, provided you are on the same plane as your bonded animal.

Commanding your familiar to listen will allow you to use its ears as your own, picking up all conversations that it can hear, while commanding it to look will allow you to use its eyes, showing you what it sees. You may also command it to move remotely, and recall it to you if necessary, though this will take longer if it is out of your local area. Finally, you may command your familiar to attack an enemy that is with it. You can also order your familiar to observe its surroundings. In the event you wish to dismiss your familiar, you can as well.

DesertSmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION DESERT SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4 power from any if quickburn)

Ingredients: sage 1 weed 1

You can create a smudge from the plants of a desert. When burned, this smudge will create a terrible sandstorm that will scour your enemies.

HerbRenewal

Syntax:

RENEW HERBS

Power: 5 (any)

In any natural environment capable of growing herbal plants that happens to be barren, you can renew the ground causing one type of plant to sprout. The type is a random type that naturally grows in that environment.

FetishArmour

Syntax:

FETISH ARMOUR <CLASP|UNCLASP>

You may use your fetish to encase your familiar as a living armour, making your bonded familiar invulnerable to all damage. While your familiar is armoured, you will not have access to your fetish. Also, if your armoured familiar is not in the same room as you, it will always seek to return to you if it is attacked.

FamiliarSmudge

Syntax:

BOND SMUDGE <target>

If your familiar is armoured, you can have it deliver a smudge to a target up to 10 rooms away. The target can't be in the same room as you, nor will your familiar drop the smudge anywhere other than at ground level.

FinsFetish

Syntax:

FETISH GRAFT FINS FROM <animal>

Power: 10 (any)

You can graft fins onto your bone fetish. Fins are made from the bones of any animal that produces the poisons MANTAKAYA, CALCISE, TETRODIN, INYOKA or MORPHITE. Likewise, your fetish can now use any of these poisons.

SwampSmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION SWAMP SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4p from any if quickburn)

Ingredients: calamus 1 myrtle 1

You can fashion a smudge from the plants of a swamp. When burned, your enemies may be caught in quicksand, making it impossible for them to move until freed. Note that the larger the size, the easier it is to get out of quicksand (ironically enough), but trying to move will cause a victim to sink deeper into it.

AnimalGrowth

Syntax:

ENLARGE <animal>

Power: 5 (any)

You can temporarily enlarge any animal, increasing its size and strength.

PreciousCharm

Syntax:

CHARM FASHION <comm> <amt> [<comm>] [<amt>] ...

Damage Modifier: 30

Your protective charm is now more effective than it was before, and you can now fashion your charm with precious metals which give more options for protection. Otherwise the charm operates exactly the same as before.

• Gold  : Protection vs. Fire
• Platinum : Protection vs. Cold
• Silver  : Protection vs. Magic

FamiliarSting

Syntax:

BOND ENVENOM <poison> BOND ENVENOM SHOW BOND ENVENOM CLEAR BOND STING <target> BOND PASSIVE

Power: 3 (any)

You may envenom your armoured familiar with 10 poisons. When commanded to sting, the familiar will attack its target with those poisons. You may also order it passive to stand down.

SwiftFetish

Syntax:

FETISH SWIFT <person> <direction>

Your bone fetish can now be used to target anyone within your line of sight.

ValleySmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION VALLEY SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4p from any if quickburn)

Ingredients: yarrow 1 rosehips 1 colewort 1

You can create a smudge stick with herbs of the valley. Burning this smudge creates a tornado that can blow your enemies up into the sky.

StingerFetish

Syntax:

FETISH GRAFT STINGER FROM <animal>

Power: 10 (any)

From the bones of an animal that use the poisons MACTANS, MELLITIN or CHARYBDON, you can graft a stinger onto your bone fetish in order to use those poisons to attack with it.

Unite

Syntax:

BOND UNITE

Power: 2 (Any)

Your bond with your animal familiar is now so strong that you are able to travel to it through sheer force of will. You must focus very hard on your bond, and after a short time the connection will become so powerful that you will be unable to be apart, and so you will be brought together. As opposed to recalling your familiar, this will bring you to its location, rather than it to yours.

SnakeBane

Syntax:

BANE SNAKE <target>

Power: 3 (Any)

This curse will make the recipient much more receptive to poisons, greatly decreasing the chance to shrug off poison effects. There are no cures for banes but they will lift on their own after one minute.

HardCharm

Syntax:

CHARM FASHION <comm> <amt> [<comm>] [<amt>] ...

Damage Modifier: 40

The protections of your charm is now as great as they will ever be. You now also have the option of adding hard elements of the mineral kingdom for other protections. Otherwise, it operates the same as before.

• Marble : Protection vs. Blunt
• Iron  : Protection vs. Cutting

MountainSmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION MOUNTAIN SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4p from any if quickburn)

Ingredients: juniper 1 arnica 1 kafe 1

You can fashion a smudge stick from mountain herbs. Burning this smudge will cause a tremendous avalanche of rocks to devastate your enemies.

FangsFetish

Syntax:

FETISH GRAFT FANGS FROM <animal>

Power: 10 (any)

You can graft deadly fangs onto your fetish from the bones of an animal that produces DULAK, DENDROXIN, ANATINE, ALEUTIAN or HAEMOTOX, after which your bone fetish can use those poisons.

SnakeBond

Syntax:

SNAKEBOND <snake> SNAKEBOND DISSOLVE

By bonding with a poisonous snake, you can convince it to shack up inside your familiar's armour. It will strike every time your familiar attacks by virtue of FamiliarSting.

HerbBane

Syntax:

BANE HERB <target>

Power: 3 (Any)

While under this powerful curse, the body rejects herbs. There is a 50% chance that any herb eaten will instead drain health from the one cursed. There are no cures for banes but they will lift on their own after one minute.

FamiliarShield

If you have this skill, your armoured familiar will automatically attempt to protect you from venoms. Your familiar must be in the same room as you and must be armoured.

Conceal

Syntax:

BOND CONCEAL

This ability will allow you to conceal your animal familiar, and while this does not make it invisible, it will make its movements undetectable to the mortal eye.

ForgePath

Syntax:

FORGEPATH <path forger>

Power: 10 (any)

With another person with this skill, you can forge mystic pathways between two locations of the same type of natural environment on the same plane. While the path is being formed, you are very limited in what you can do lest you disrupt the process.

ForestSmudge

Syntax:

SMUDGE FASHION FOREST SMUDGE [QUICK]BURN (4p from Any if quickburn)

Damage Type: 100% Heat Damage Source: Magical Ingredients: Mistletoe 1 Marjoram 1 Galingale 1 Coltsfoot 1

You can create a smudge with the plants found in forests. This will create a scene of a forest fire, which will burn your enemies with its hot wrath.

BerserkFetish

Syntax:

FETISH ATTACK <person> BERSERK <poison> <poison> FETISH SWIFT <person> <direction> BERSERK <poison> <poison>

Power: 1 (any)

You can put your fetish in a berserk state, causing it to attack with two poisons. This can be a normal attack or a swift attack in your line of sight.

FamiliarBerserk

Syntax:

BOND BERSERK <target>

Power: 6 (any)

For a short period, your armoured familiar will attack at an extremely fast speed. See AB ECOLOGY FAMILIARSTING.

Transmigration

Syntax:

DEEPBOND

Power: 5 (commune nexus)

You can form an even deeper bond with your animal familiar. This deep bond is the mingling of both your soul and its spirit. If you die, your soul will transmigrate into the body of your animal familiar and you will thus be reborn.

Your familiar will also provide you with a unique bonus.

• Owl - +1 int, flight
• Badger - +1 con, 10DMP damage increase
• Fox - +1 dex, 10DMP cold/fire resistance
• Vixen - +1 cha, level 2 seduction influence
• Tarantula - +1 con, 10DMP cold resistance
• Viper - +1 dex, high resistance to dendroxin venom
• Widow - +1 cha, high resistance to mactans venom
• Bat - +1 int, flight

Warning: If your familiar dies while you are in the realm, you will be severely injured.