Naturalism (skill)

The service of a [[Shaman (class)|Shaman as a guardian of Nature is manifest directly in the skill of Naturalism. Expanding the role the Druids once served, the transition to Shaman also expanded their arsenal considerably, allowing the Shaman greater control over the forces of Nature itself rather than a subset of its physical presence.

By studying Naturalism, a Shaman first learns to navigate through their domain, gaining a degree of aid from the forests of Sapience and allowing them swift and safe passage. The Shaman also retains a haven of their choice in the form of a grove - a single location where the Shaman is master of their surroundings, a testament to the art of the Druid, and a home to center their studies. Within this location, the Shaman may shun all visitors, travel rapidly to other groves and even enhance the growth of nature, invigorating not only the plants within but all they claim as allies.

Perhaps the most powerful tool within Naturalism is the ability to manifest wild, tangling overgrowth anywhere sunlight may reach. While simply a mess of plants at first glance, overgrowth acts as an extension of the Shaman's might, directly controlled by mere will. A Shaman may spread the overgrowth as they please, even sprouting fresh life at their heel, and control it as if they stood beside it. Through this growth, a Shaman may pull their enemies from where they stand, animate the plantlife around them into a savage weapon, generate impassable barriers of vines and thorns and even invigorate all allies who stand within their domain.

Skill Rank Percent Description
Elevate Novice 50 % Ascend into the treetops with ease.
Emergence Skilled 0 % Purge the taint of the Earthen.
Blending Gifted 33 % Fade away into the forest's shadow.
Thorncoat Expert 50 % A coat of vile thorns to punish your foes.
Panacea Virtuoso 33 % Purify your body of ailments and maladies.
Rejuvenate Fabled 33 % Heal the land that has been blighted.
Malevolence Mythical 66 % Brand the foes of nature.

Grove Abilities

Skill Rank Percent Description
Perceive Inept 0 % Notice the presence of a Shamanic grove.
Imprint Inept 0 % Place your mark and bring forth a grove.
Sever Inept 0 % Destroy the bond between you and your grove.
Look Apprentice 0 % Use your grove to gaze upon another.
Cage Apprentice 33 % Prevent all entry to and from your abode.
Whisper Apprentice 66 % Speak through the trees themselves.
Eyes Capable 0 % Discern the presence of any within the forest.
Fertility Capable 33 % Speed the growth of plants temporarily.
Return Adept 0 % Quickly return home to your grove.
Everbloom Adept 33 % Invigorate body and mind with ephemeral blossoms.
GroveFlow Skilled 15 % Travel through Grove links.
Linking Fabled 0 % Form a permanent connection between groves.
Annihilation Transcendent 0 % Destroy everything in one fatal blast.

Overgrowth Abilities

Skill Rank Percent Description
Release Novice 0 % Return the surge to the depths of Dia'ruis.
Overgrowth Novice 0 % The surge of Dia'ruis itself.
Trespassers Capable 33 % View those who intrude upon your overgrowths.
Canopy Capable 66 % Occlude the skies with dense overgrowth.
Roots Adept 66 % Hold yourself steady amongst plantlife.
Screen Skilled 33 % Deflect telepathic efforts within your growth.
Thornwall Skilled 50 % A hindering wall of thorns.
Whispers Skilled 66 % Sense the movement of any within your domain.
Flow Gifted 0 % Travel across overgrowth to your target.
Pulling Gifted 66 % Draw a nearby foe to your location.
Hinder Expert 0 % Summon gripping vines to prevent trespass.
Animation Virtuoso 0 % Lash out at any hostile entities in your domain.
Surge Virtuoso 66 % Send forth a rapidly growing burst of plant life.
Renewal Fabled 25 % Spread healing energy through your overgrowth.
Displacement Fabled 66 % Swap places with another within your overgrowth.
Consumption Mythical 0 % Consume your overgrowth to empower your energy.
Barrier Mythical 33 % Cast a protective shield upon an ally.
Greenfoot Transcendent 0 % Travel across the land with growth at your heels.

Elevate Ascend into the treetops with ease
Syntax: NATURE ELEVATE
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Details: A skilled Shaman need not bother to climb trees - should they wish to ascend to the

canopy, you can command nature to simply lift you. You can ignore disabling effects such as paresis due to nature doing the lifting for you.

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Emergence Purge the taint of the Earthen
Syntax: NATURE EMERGENCE
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Details: Should you find yourself standing within someone else's domain, you may beckon the

natural state of nature to emerge forth, banishing all domains except for your own. If one of the domain's controller resides in your location, there will be a slight delay to this ability.

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Blending Fade away into the forest's shadow
Syntax: NATURE BLEND
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Details: Being well-versed in the eminence of nature, you may simply step into the foliage to hide

yourself. You will only be able to find adequate cover when standing within a forest.

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Thorncoat A coat of vile thorns to punish your foes
Syntax: NATURE THORNCOAT [target]
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Works against: Players only
Cooldown: 20 seconds
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Details: Engulf yourself or a friend in an armour of thorns for a limited time. Not only will you

protect them from a significant portion of physical damage, but the mitigated damage will be returned to their attacker.

There is also a 33% chance that your coat of thorns will give the loki venom to the attacker, although this venom is not hidden like usual.

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Panacea Purify your body of ailments and maladies
Syntax: NATURE PANACEA
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Details: You may call upon the Cycle itself to remedy a single malady that afflicts you.

If you stand within a forest or overgrown location, this is increased to two afflictions. Nature will only heal an extra affliction every 35 seconds, even if you use this skill again.

This ability is not usable while you suffer from paresis or paralysis.

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Rejuvenate Heal the land that has been blighted
Syntax: NATURE REJUVENATE
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Details: Requires elemental ice.

You may restore the state of an environmental location that has been transformed for an ability through this simple incantation. It will cost 10 ice if it has been exterminated by a Necromancer, otherwise it is simply 1 ice to do so.

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Malevolence Brand the foes of nature
Syntax: NATURE MALEVOLENCE <target>
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Details: You may declare your foe to be an enemy of nature itself, placing a curse upon them that

will destroy magical shields while they linger within a forest or overgrowth location. It will additionally increase the damage dealt by natural weather.

Only one target may be cursed at a time and it will have little effect if you are in the same location as the target. The effect will fade if they no longer stand within a location with overgrowth or a forest.

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Perceive Notice the presence of a Shamanic grove
Syntax: PERCEIVE
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Details: Discern whether a location has been marked as the property of another in some fashion.
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Imprint Place your mark and bring forth a grove
Syntax: GROVE IMPRINT
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Details: Bond with the forests in your location, making it your personal Grove. You may not form a

Grove in a location someone else has.

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Sever Destroy the bond between you and your grove
Syntax: GROVE SEVER
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Details: Sever the bond you share with your Grove, allowing you imprint a new one elsewhere. There

is a short delay until it is fully severed.

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Look Use your grove to gaze upon another
Syntax: GROVE LOOK <target>
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Details: Draw upon the bond with your Grove to take a glimpse through the forest at someone

standing within one.

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Cage Prevent all entry to and from your abode
Syntax: GROVE CAGE GROVE UNCAGE
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Details: Cage off entry and exit from your Grove, preventing people from moving through it for a

temporary period of time, or until you release it. Additionally, the thick foliage will prevent many line of sight abilities while you remain within your Grove.

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Whisper Speak through the trees themselves
Syntax: GROVE WHISPER <target> <message>
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Details: Whisper through the trees to anybody standing in the forest. They will not know who is

speaking to them.

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Eyes Discern the presence of any within the forest
Syntax: GROVE EYES
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Details: Detect the presence and whereabouts of all people who stand within a forested location.
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Fertility Speed the growth of plants temporarily
Syntax: GROVE FERTILITY
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Details: At your behest, you may make a variety of wild flowers grow instantly within your Grove,

which you can then use.

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Return Quickly return home to your grove
Syntax: GROVE RETURN
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Details: Return to your Grove from any forested location after a short delay. This is a channelled

action and will require your full attention until completion.

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Everbloom Invigorate body and mind with ephemeral blossoms
Syntax: GROVE EVERBLOOM
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Cooldown: 4 hours
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Details: Draws upon the latent energy of your Grove to create a radiant garden that lasts for one

quarter of an Aetolian day. This garden will grant increased willpower and endurance regeneration for everybody within your Grove.

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GroveFlow Travel through Grove links
Syntax: GROVE FLOW
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Details: Travel through between two Groves that are linked together. Refer to AB NATURALISM

LINKING for more information on how the link is formed.

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Linking Form a permanent connection between groves
Syntax: GROVE LINK <target>
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Details: Create a unidirectional spiritual pathway from your Grove to the Grove of one who

considers you an ally. Once linked, any Shaman can use Groveflow in your Grove to end up at the linked Grove.

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Annihilation Destroy everything in one fatal blast
Syntax: GROVE ANNIHILATION
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Details: At the cost of your Grove and the surrounding plantlife, you can completely destroy all

within your location in a single devastating wave of power that will deal an incredibly large amount of spirit damage. In order to perform this action, you must be still for a short period as the power is drawn forth from your Grove.

Once the deed is done, the forests will reject your touch and prevent you from imprinting a new Grove for at least one full season.

Cooldown (Imprint): Until a new Aetolian season

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Release Return the surge to the depths of Dia'ruis
Syntax: NATURE RELEASE [HERE]
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Details: In a single command, you may force all overgrown locations you control to recede at once.

Overgrowth you are standing in will not be affected, unless you supply the HERE argument which will then only affect your current room.

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Overgrowth The surge of Dia'ruis itself
Syntax: NATURE OVERGROWTH NATURE OVERGROWTH LIST
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Details: While standing outdoors in a non-urban environment, you can empower the force of nature,

causing plants to overgrow and encompass your surroundings. An overgrown location will allow numerous abilities to be used, many of them remotely.

Leaving an overgrown location will not cause the growth to recede, though each overgrowth beyond the first will place a toll on your willpower.

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Trespassers View those who intrude upon your overgrowths
Syntax: NATURE TRESPASSERS
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Details: List all those who currently step upon your overgrowth, along with their location.
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Canopy Occlude the skies with dense overgrowth
Syntax: NATURE CANOPY
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

By causing the plant growth around you to condense into a barrier over the sky, you can prevent those in your location from using flight as an escape option.

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Roots Hold yourself steady amongst plantlife
Syntax: NATURE ROOTS
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Call forth roots from your overgrowth to secure you to the ground, making you heavier and harder to move, much like the density defence.

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Screen Deflect telepathic efforts within your growth
Syntax: NATURE SCREEN
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

While standing within the presence of your overgrowth, you may command the life around you to form a barrier - one capable of introducing disruptive static into the mind of a telepath when they attempt to pierce its veil. This will increase the length of time it takes for a telepath to obtain a mind lock upon those in your location. You may only support one screen at a time.

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Thornwall A hindering wall of thorns
Syntax: NATURE THORNWALL
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Create a wall of hindering thorns across all exits. Any who pass through it will be scratched by the thorns, causing them to bleed and delivering the venom loki.

The thornwall will wither away faster if there is no overgrowth in the room and/or you do not remain with it.

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Whispers Sense the movement of any within your domain
Syntax: NATURE WHISPERS <ON/OFF>
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Details: At a significant drain to your willpower, track all movement in and adjacent to your all

your overgrowth.

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Flow Travel across overgrowth to your target
Syntax: NATURE FLOW <target>
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

While standing within your overgrowth, you may instantly travel to anyone else within your domain.

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Pulling Draw a nearby foe to your location
Syntax: NATURE PULL <target>
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Vines will lash out from the overgrowth in your current room, attempting to pull in a target from an adjacent room. If they are within line-of-sight, you can try to pull them providing they stand within your overgrowth.

While it can be prevented by the density defence, if they are marked by your malevolence then the vines will have the strength to overcome it.

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Hinder Summon gripping vines to prevent trespass
Syntax: NATURE HINDER
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

With a single command, you can force the plantlife around you to grow rapidly and snake around the legs of those within your presence - indiscriminately hindering all movement including your own.

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Animation Lash out at any hostile entities in your domain
Syntax: NATURE ANIMATION
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Any enemy standing within overgrowth in your current area will be struck by a thorny stalk that will deal cutting-based damage and inflict them with the loki venom.

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Surge Send forth a rapidly growing burst of plant life
Syntax: NATURE SURGE <target>
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

While standing within your overgrowth, you may direct the overgrowth around you to surge toward a target - moving it rapidly through every room between you and your target. This may only be performed within the same area, and only within a limited range.

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Renewal Spread healing energy through your overgrowth
Syntax: NATURE RENEWAL
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Spread healing energy over your overgrowths in the local area, slowly healing your allies standing within your overgrowth for the next few seconds.

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Displacement Swap places with another within your overgrowth
Syntax: NATURE DISPLACEMENT <target>
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

While standing within your overgrowth, you may instantly swap locations with anybody else that stands within your domain.

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Consumption Consume your overgrowth to empower your energy
Syntax: NATURE CONSUMPTION
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Cooldown: 30 seconds
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Details: Requires an overgrown location.

Instantly consume your overgrowth in thie location. Doing so will generate 3 primal energy for use with Primality.

Greenfoot will not cause the overgrowth to reappear after consumption, you must move first.

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Barrier Cast a protective shield upon an ally
Syntax: NATURE BARRIER <target>
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Details: Usable from overgrowth or a forest room. This will summon both a magical shield and a

prismatic barrier around any target, excluding yourself, in the local area who also stands within an overgrowth or a forest.

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Greenfoot Travel across the land with growth at your heels
Syntax: NATURE GREENFOOT <ON/OFF>
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Details: With a heavy toll to willpower, an overgrowth will spread out from your very feet after

moving to a new location, should you linger there. This overgrowth will recede again once you leave the location.

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