Praying & Deity Influence
This Guide goes over the Influence System and How to Pray to the Deities in Vassal.
This Guide goes over the Influence System and How to Pray to the Deities in Vassal.
Influence is a Statistic you have that defines how "Devoted" you are to a Deity, and Influence directly contributes to how interactions with that Deity may go in Roleplay. If you have Low or No Influence with a Deity, they're quite unlikely to speak with you. However, if you have High Influence, they may choose to speak with you. And if you have an Unfathomably High Influence, the deity may even seek you out as a sort of Prophet.
Influence may also sometimes contribute to special benefits or boons with the Deity, though this is not a guaranteed thing, or even a common thing. On Launch, there will only be one Deity with any sort of effect on Gameplay at high levels of Influence.
To Increase your Influence, you need to Pray at a Shrine to the Deity of your Choice. You can only do this once every 4 Hours (Which the cooldown for only ticks while you are online), and if you don't pray to your Deity within 1 Hour (Similar Timer Rules), you will Start to Lose Influence every 4 Hours (Again, Same Timer Rules).
You can check your current highest influence by pressing the I Key. You can only check your highest, there is no other way to check for other influences.
You can only Gain Influence with the Deities of Eionism and Lotheism. Oracresm does not revolve around deities, but real, deceased prophets, and communing with the dead is a very different process. Additionally, the Cult of the Wyrm is just that, a cult, and does not revolve around anything close to a Deity, simply just reverence for a certain type of Creature within Tannal.
To Pray, you'll first need to Find or Create a Shrine to your Deity. Most Towns may have a communal shrine or two, but if those Shrines are not the ones of your Deity, or if you don't have any Shrines in your town, they are Craftable, though still difficult to make.
Next, you'll need to offer a specific item or item type to the Shrine. Once you do this, your Influence will increase, and you'll gain the Pious Status Effect for 2.5 Minutes, which acts as Regeneration.
Each Deity has their own specific items they accept, as follows:
Eion - Gold or Diamonds
Ydon - Bones or Rotten Flesh
Kiriel - Bread or Honey
Irah - Bronze or Iron
Diesya - Saplings
Cala - Meat (#forge:food/meat)
Naeliah - Crops
Romis - Lavender, Carnations, or a Soul Shard