Lineage Name: Nature's Child
Wielder: Lily Ambrosia
Purchase Proof: Post #308
Description
As most adventurers and wise men are aware nature is abundant with both life and magic, ancient and untamed and permeating the entire world. This is what grants nature its immense resilience and vitality: seasons change, disasters come and go, but in the end nature will always bounce back, stronger than before and even more tenacious. While each creature lives its individual life it could be said that they each are but a small part of the whole, a whole which has been called many names throughout the ages but is currently best known as Gaia.
Sometimes this mix of primal life and magic concentrates into a specific place or creature, and together with what could only be called the Will of Gaia a dryad is born: a tree whose lifeforce has passed a certain treshold to turn into a sentient nature spirit, closely attuned to all life and with powerful magic to control it. These entities often taken on the roles of protectors, nurturers and preservers, ensuring that neither civilization nor supernatural disasters bring harm to nature or the balance between various aspects.
Lily Ambrosia is one such dryad, a nucleus of life force and nature magic. As a child of Gaia she has a strong bond with all of nature and an equally strong will to aid in its continuation.
Abilities:
Wielder: Lily Ambrosia
Purchase Proof: Post #308
Description
As most adventurers and wise men are aware nature is abundant with both life and magic, ancient and untamed and permeating the entire world. This is what grants nature its immense resilience and vitality: seasons change, disasters come and go, but in the end nature will always bounce back, stronger than before and even more tenacious. While each creature lives its individual life it could be said that they each are but a small part of the whole, a whole which has been called many names throughout the ages but is currently best known as Gaia.
Sometimes this mix of primal life and magic concentrates into a specific place or creature, and together with what could only be called the Will of Gaia a dryad is born: a tree whose lifeforce has passed a certain treshold to turn into a sentient nature spirit, closely attuned to all life and with powerful magic to control it. These entities often taken on the roles of protectors, nurturers and preservers, ensuring that neither civilization nor supernatural disasters bring harm to nature or the balance between various aspects.
Lily Ambrosia is one such dryad, a nucleus of life force and nature magic. As a child of Gaia she has a strong bond with all of nature and an equally strong will to aid in its continuation.
Abilities:
- Combat Abilities:
- Deep Roots: The roots of the forest run deep, spreading throughout the ground and even tripping up oblivious creatures. Within burst range Lily can sense the presence of anything touching the ground (capped at S-Rank). Within the same range Lily can root a single enemy once every post with a projectile moving at ranked burst speed, immobilizing them for the round. Rooting an enemy which was immobilized last round instead applies a 40% slow, with an additional 5% per rank up to 60% at S-Rank.
Empathic Bond: Through her strong bond with all life Lily establishes an even stronger connection with those creatures closest to her. Lily shares a health pool with all of her combat pets. This health pool is Lily's own health with the health of any existent combat pets added to it. Health buffs are still calculated for the individual before being added to the whole. Lily can also have one additional combat pet.
Font of Life: As a dryad Lily is overflowing with nature magic. Every post Lily can unleash a wave of life force that heals all allies within burst range for ranked healing (affected by healing buffs/debuffs, capped at S-Rank). Lily's healing is also increased by 40% with an additional 5% per rank up to 60% at S-Rank.
Parasitism: In the wilds life is a vicious struggle, many different creatures fighting for survival. One of the most ruthless of strategies is parasitism. Whenever Lily or one of her pets deals damage to an enemy they are healed for 60% of the damage done, up to ranked healing per post (capped at S-rank).
Photosynthesis: Even as a dryad Lily is still a plant and because of that draws energy and nourishment from light. She gains mana from absorbing light, up to 5% per post. Furthermore whenever Lily gains mana from any source she is healed for the same amount (can't heal more per post than ranked healing, capped at S-Rank). Hostile light magic is not negated.
Tree Singer: While dryads themselves are the spirits of trees they are also the masters of manipulating the forest. Lily can freely grow and control plantlife within burst range, creating lasting forms or using them to attack and defend. Attacks made with this ability move at ranked burst speed and deal ranked melee damage and scale with spell damage/spell speed/spell range. Lily can also use this to form barriers which per post can block damage equal to a spell of the same rank, scaling with defensive spells. The stats of both offensive and defensive use are capped at S-Rank and this ability can only be used once per post.
- Plot Abilities:
- Biodiversity: Using her bond with all life Lily can change her shape into that of any living creature, although she needs to know the creature she's turning into. While she does adopt biological traits of any creature she turns into it doesn't affect her stats, and she can't imitate magical abilities either unless they have a biological origin. She can also use this to mimic specific people, although she needs to have met them personally beforehand for it to be convincing. OOC permission is required to turn into player characters/pets/event characters.
Comunication: Lily can freely communicate with any living creature, bypassing language barriers between cultures, races and species to instead exchange intent, meaning and feeling. Once she's encountered a living being she also learns how they communicate and can mimic them.
Life Cycle: As a nucleus of life force Lily does not suffer any of the detrimental effects of ageing, and also has no limit to her potential lifespan. When killed her being will reform over time, effectively reviving her for any future threads.
Nature's Guise: One theme which can be found everywhere in the wilds is camouflage, both plants and animals blending in with their surroundings to avoid being noticed. Lily has a similar ability, effectively allowing her to turn invisible and mask her scent. While she's doing this her body is more plant than animal, obscuring her from most detection methods aimed at creatures of flesh and blood (thermoception, electroreceptory).
Survivalist: Like normal trees Lily does not require food for sustenance, although she is capable of eating if she so desires. As long as her environment can support plantlife she can produce her own nourishment, and she can also last for extremely long periods of time without nourishment. Beyond that she doesn't need to sleep either, although she does enjoy it.
Tree Stride: Dryads are part of nature and can return to it, merging their bodies with nearby plantlife to hide or rest. Beyond that they can also move through the flow of life that fills the world, disappearing into one tree and stepping out of another in a different location. While this allows Lily to bypass the area between the point of entrance and point of exit it's not instantaneous and the process of merging with the plantlife takes too long for it to be safe during combat.
Last edited by Lily Ambrosia on 15th July 2019, 11:55 am; edited 3 times in total
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