This lore prompt delves into the formative years of your Kiji and Tally characters, exploring their journeys of self-discovery as they learn the ways of their unique species. Choose one path to delve deeper into their story:
Branch 1: The Seeker's Path:
Prompt: Your character seeks out a renowned elder or master within their species. Describe the circumstances of their meeting, the challenges they face to earn the elder's tutelage, and the lessons they learn about their heritage, abilities, and responsibilities.
Rewards: Rewards change whether your spirit is a Kiji or a Tally. By completing this prompt, your character's faction reputation will change. Your actions and choices will greatly influence how these forces perceive you.
You can also choose between two skills:
Kiji:
Nature’s Boon: Nature's bounty is your weapon! Earn the Adaptive Forager skill, which grants you a bonus item to regular drops in activities!
Gaia's Embrace: Feel Gaia's pulse in every step! Earn the Nature’s Flow skill, which grants you a passive healing skill, restoring 5% of your max health stat after every battle.
Tally:
Hidden Potential: Bolster your resistance! Earn the Unrelenting Resilience skill, which grants you 1 point of extra Defense for every 5 Stamina.
Shin'en's Insight: Leave no treasure unturned! Earn the Unveiled Mastery skill, which grants you a 5% possibility of changing a loot gained into a rarer or better version.
Branch 2: The Self-Made Path:
Prompt: Your character chooses to learn through self-discovery. Describe their adventures as they explore their surroundings, encounter other members of their species, and overcome challenges that test their understanding of their heritage, abilities, and place in the world.
Rewards: Rewards change whether your spirit is a Kiji or a Tally. By completing this prompt, your character's faction reputation will change. Your actions and choices will greatly influence how these forces perceive you.
You can also choose between two skills:
Kiji:
Wild Wisdom: Harness the abundance of Gaia! Earn the Wildheart's Harmony skill, which grants you an extra loot for each location discovered!
Kokoro's Whisper: Reach out to the children of Gaia! Earn the Unveiled Legacy skill, which grants you a 10% chance to pacify hostile mobs at the beginning of battles.
Tally:
Battle Hardened: Weather any storm! Earn the Enduring Spirit skill, which grants you the ability to push through pain and ignore battle cooldowns, with a toll to health that depends on the damage taken.
Yile's Precision: Embrace the untamed spirit of Yile and channel her raw power! Earn the Wild Fury skill, which grants you an extra 5 EXP for every item you loot.
Rules: The art/lit must be true to lore for all characters in the piece, including background characters. True to lore means not only keeping them in character, but keeping accurate to the world and species in the world. Spinoffs and AUs are not allowed to be submitted here. There is no limit to the number of characters submitted per piece or pieces submitted for lore per week.
Requirements: Art submissions must include a intermediate background, and either be in color (Shading not required) or shaded monochrome. Art must be accompanied by at least 200 word literature and all characters must be over 50%. Literature only must be at least 1000 words, and all literatures must show enough detail in the writing about the scene.