From the Gods, these powers came.
Two wands, each alike, yet not at all the same.
Welcome to the Blessings & Curses journal! Interested in their origins? Click here for the full story.
Prices can be found in the Bazaar. (Update coming soon!)
Barachiel:
Barachiel’s Blessing: Guaranteed twins on your next breeding.
Pricing will vary based on mutation or natural foals. WILD CARD: Coming Soon
Justice: Been Cursed and feel you’ve done nothing to deserve it? Appeal to Barachiel’s sense of right and wrong, and he may choose to reverse the effects and put them on the wrongdoer instead!
There is a 50% chance he may go in either direction. Hopefully you haven't ticked Barachiel off lately! Er...uh...have...you?Moon Blindness: Over the next few months, your Nordanner will go completely blind.
Well. That probably wasn't what you were hoping for!Night Stricken: Your Nordanner will be incapacitated during the night hours.
No more night-rides for you! Portray this Curse in whatever way you choose. Want your Nordanner to fall down fainting-goat style once the sun goes down? You do you.Potion Sickness: Your Nordanner can no longer use potions.
How will you fight now?! You may show this Curse however you like.A Step Back: Lose Kaaring or STP
Amount varies. Based on RNG. Anywhere from 5 - 25 points.Tulia:
Decisions, Decisions: Choose any otherwise random RNG trait. (Excludes twins.) (Includes Pumpkin and Eggnog during respective seasons.)
This Blessing comes with the lingering effect of Luck, giving you the chance to pick an RNG trait on breedings thereafter as well. Lasts for up to 5 breeding rolls.Surprise!: Curse someone of your choosing. Tulia may borrow ANY of the other God’s Curses. The result is random; you do not select the Curse itself.
Must have approval of other party when trying to Curse another player’s horse.This may draw both Vahnex and Barachiel’s ire, but they will not necessarily interfere.
Gender Swap
Change your horse's gender, regardless of whether or not it has had foals. Breedings must still be accurately tracked, as always.Must have permission when using on another player's horse, and remember: you'll need 2 if you plan on switching back again.
Visions: What, Exactly, am I Looking At?
Ah, asked Tulia for a Vision, did you? She might show you any number of things! Where that Wild Nordanner is hiding, whether or not it's a good idea to participate in the Horoscope this month, or in her own whirlwind of fun...except, ah...she might not be always tellin' the truth.Lasts for 30 days & may be used once a week.
If there are no 'big' shows (or a Wild Weekender!) to use your Visions on, remember that the Arena and the RNG-Mini are good places for them, too! Just be careful; you never know when you might be led astray.
Ooh, Shiny Object!: The Coriolis Effect
Based on the actual phenomena: Tulia is a tornado in and of herself! Throwing an item into the maelstrom may not seem like a good idea (unless you wanted that pumpkin flung at your head at high speed), but trust me, it's good fun!How it works: Toss an item into the tornado. Tulia will throw one back. Depending on which way the cyclone is turning, you might even get a rarer item in exchange! Like Tulia, the tornado is wild and unpredictable.
Some days will be better than others, some worse! It is based on RNG.
This Blessing (or Curse, if you're the one hit in the head with that pumpkin...) expires after 3 months.
Vahnex:
Where You Belong
Import a design to the Nordanner breed. Your horse will be given faux lineage, and randomly rolled for which common starters they are related to. (You cannot roll for none.)
This Blessing is somewhat complex in that horses will look like starter imports but are not, and were never officially ‘born’ of the listed starters. They will be labeled with VB (Vahnex’s Blessing) on the ID lists and in lineages. Faux lineage may look something like the following:Sire: Pure Nordanner (NPC) SS: Majeed, SD: Ulmende
Dam: Pure Nordanner (NPC) DD: Shiya, DS: Fool’s Gold
If your horse had lineage previously, Vahnex will take it into consideration. I.e your 10th generation Other Breed horse will not be a 2nd gen Nordanner, and vice versa. Horses added to faux lineages are ‘common,’ recognizable names. If you happen to own one of these horses, your slots are in no way affected. They are chosen somewhat at random, but in a way that makes sense for lineage and genotypes wherever possible.
Rare, little bred starters will also be considered. For example, if the starter has 1-2 foals who also haven’t been bred much/at all, their name isn’t going to come up often, if at all.
Horses imported this way will be transferred via import sheet and begin life with 8 slots if natural, 4 if mutation, and can gain them regularly from there. At 200, both gain 10 slots, and naturals may proceed to unlimited at 400 kaaring.
If your horse already has Nordanner lineage for some inexplicable reason, it will be re-rolled. Neither will we steal lineage from other breeds. Stealing is bad.
'Starter' horses will be 2nd gen minimum.
DESIGNS MUST FIT NORDANNER REQUIREMENTS. If they do not, edits must be made to accommodate. No double or triple mutation designs will be accepted.
If your design has NOT existed in a breed, registry or otherwise prior to purchasing this Blessing (3 months or more) you will be assigned the lowest tier automatically.
Pricing will vary based on lineage length, and mutation vs natural horse.
Reality Check: It's Written in the Stars...
A Horoscope for your Nordanner. Much like real life, these readings may be fickle, and not always result in something positive.Example 1: MY OH MY YOUR LOINS ARE ON FIRE, SEXY BEAST. +2 SLOTS.
Example 2: You were caught humping the neighbor's mare, again, no breeding for a month
Cost is based on monthly OR yearly participation.
Infinite Lifespan: Immortality.
Self-explanatory, no? And useful in a fight against a dragon... Requires Death Blessing to remove! Death
A blessing, as your horse will no longer be immortal.Not immortal? Uh...got some bad news for you...
A Grave Offense: Consequences of Dropping the Rock sea of flesh eating spiders. You must also buy a new rock. You monster.
You dropped Dwayne?! Joke's on you, for a sea of flesh eating spiders has spilled from within him. Good luck.You must also buy a new rock. You monster.
Foresight: A Glimpse of the Future
Quite different from Visions, as Vahnex has no interest in silly games. This Blessing could give you any number of things, including but not limited to...Notification the day before a show begins
Several hour's notice before a sale
A heads-up before prices shift in the marketplace
Etc... etc... etc...
Chafing
It, uh...happens to the best of us, Champ. Lose anywhere from 2 - 4 breeding slots!Been Cursed?
The only way to reverse a Curse is to purchase a Shatterstone from the group.
Don't have any way to purchase the stone? You can earn your release from the Curse by:
For Barachiel:
Completing a certain amount of Quests & turning in your acquired Gems and Gold. This amount varies, but will never be less than a 3 Quest commitment. (No, you may not trade Gold or Gems you already have.)For Tulia:
Much like her personality, this varies greatly. She may ask for a certain amount of Gold/Gems (shiny objects!), for you to perform specific acts or Quests, or even make a sacrifice in her name.For Vahnex:
Sacrifice appeals to him the most. Give up something dear to you in order to show your worthiness. This may include a certain number of slots from specific horses, varying amounts of Gems/Gold, etc (and is not limited to what is mentioned as sacrifices are determined case-by-case), but this will certainly not be an easy task.However, be sure not to annoy them further by cursing their names or wishing you could smite them clean out of the sky, or it may be even harder to remove the Curse(s).
Questions? Ask!
F.A.Q
Q. Death: Omg I don't want my horse to actually die what kind of fiendish Curse is that?!
- - - A: I mean... Horses who die by Curse aren't officially deceased with the group--this means you can break that Curse! Sleeping Beauty style? Snow White style?! Up to you.