Blood magic

Effects of Blood magic near the Tower of Carphin.

Blood magic is a school of magic that creates a certain amount of corruption in the caster. This corruption can bleed over into the environment and other things that the caster draw Essence from in order to cast these spells.

• The curse of Carphin was born from blood magic. This began with the blood sacrifice of Veric Pulsifer by Laria Lemonte, which started a ritual that led to the mass killing of the residents of Carphin, turning them undead.

• The ability to wield blood magic might be considered "illegal" by certain lawful citizens and nations of Верра. There may be ramifications when players discover and experience blood magic in the world.

When we say that blood magic is "illegal", we're talking about in the context of a normal everyday player who's a citizen of Verra having come from Sanctus. You are adhering to the local laws and guidance from nation governments and/or node governments to be a good upstanding citizen of Verra. You adhere to these laws. The ability to wield blood magic might be seen in some storylines we'll see. That is left to the players to experience and discover. Those types of choices might have ramifications on your character and or ramifications within story lines... Whether players will be able to wield blood magic is up to the different story lines you all explore. – Steven Sharif

• The developers adhere to a style guide for blood magic, along with other schools of magic.

When we talk about how do we create a blood corruption setting, well what is the associated colors, what's the shape language of blood magic. This flowing river- you saw some of them in the VFX of the zone and Carphin- you saw the mist in the deep red saturation. Each of the environments and the magics and what we create has an associated style guide that includes color wheels and palettes across different influences. – Steven Sharif

Corrupted Essence

The Wreckage of Carphin corrupted area.

Corrupted Essence (commonly referred to simply as Corruption) is a negative aspect of Эссенция that was spread by Древние during the Apocalypse.

Corruption is a representation of The Ancients' magic: The Ancients hatred. The Ancients desire to strike back at the creation of what their the gods who banished them to the void have tried to accomplish on Verra. And so corruption is this influence of The Essence that permeates around locations in the world and tries to pervert what that creation really is. – Steven Sharif

• Corruption was brought to Верра by the Предвестники, which are comet-like celestial bodies powered by a very strong source of magic.

• Corruption in the world manifests as a result of player activity.
  • Events and story arcs can lead to the spreading of corruption that players will have to fight back against.
  • Corruption is present in corrupted areas/zones that evolve with node progression and story arcs.
  • Corrupted areas do not confer corruption onto a player. Only PvP related activities lead to player corruption (in the flagging system).
  • Corrupted resources are variations of resources that are only available in corrupted areas or during certain story arcs.

What does corruption do as it seeps in through the world? It seeps in a way that's responsive to player progression. So as the nodes develop, as the world becomes more civilized by society, going out and standing up these cities and these nodes and whatnot, corruption responds to that. It is an equal pushback that it's trying to achieve. And it's up to players to thwart the advancement of that corruption through achieving certain story arc quest lines, through killing certain bosses, through, participating in content that relates to that corruption seeping into the world. But corruption is not all bad, because corruption changes spawners and it changes populations and it changes resources that become available- unique resources... So there is a relevance- meaningful component of why that corruption would want to be interacted with from the player's perspective. But it's a push and pull situation. That's really what corruption is intended to provide, push and pull between the advancement of society and what was there that's more feral. – Steven Sharif

• Corruption is intended to spread through wilderness areas in the world. It will not impact the freehold system.

Визуальные эффекты

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