Black Reliquary – Torch-Dependant Reaver Skills
In the Black Reliquary, the Wildlander Reaver has a prep-round buff skill called "Fury of the Old Ones". Despite always being the same regardless of whether she spawns during the day or at night, the skill looks as though it’s the daytime counterpart to a time-dependant skill, like the Solar Imbuement and Lunar Embrace of the Painwarden.
This mod reworks Fury of the Old Ones, dividing it up into three unique skills which the Reaver uses depending on the time of day. Each one offers unique buffs based on the associated deity from the Wildlander pantheon.
The first skill, "Rarakht’s Fury", is identical to "Fury of the Old Ones", as the Reaver calls upon Rarakht to buff her damage and defense during the day. Most often depicted as a muscular gorilla-like being (because, as we all know, the sun is a distant gorilla), Rarakht is the Wildlanders’ god of the sun, strength, endurance, and buffness. Those who follow her claim to be imbued with superhuman power, as though the light of the sun itself resided within them. Modern cryptozoologists attribute these myths to encounters with a creature called the "Pseudo-man", a hulking primate thought to be infected or symbiotic with amber.
The second skill, "Khonsol’s Wrath", is night-exclusive, and has the Reaver call upon Khonsol to increase her accuracy and dodge. Khonsol, as the resident moon goddess, is typically depicted as either an owl or a moth, and is associated with cunning, agility, and swiftness. Those who encounter and worship her claim to experience visions of the future, the past, and a strange alien world filled with etherial spheres. Modern cryptozoologists believe that encounters with the cryptid known as the "Cthonian", a flying bug-like humanoid with the capacity to induce paranoia and hallucinations, inspired these myths.
Given that it’s only used during the eclipse, I won’t say too much about what "Apoptis’s Bloodlust" does, except to describe the deity from which it is derived. Apoptis is a relatively new being in the Wildlander pantheon, a sort of devil-like trickster figure associated with eclipses, blood magic, chaos, and power in the hands of the unworthy. This deity is known by many names across many cultures: Apoptis, Mageddon, The Pale Father, OvJoplin, Akuma-jū, das Böse Genie, Nikolathotep, Son of Taiwhiro, "Him", and many others. In truth, this entity is actually a hyper-mutated form of the Knave, having consumed enough eldritch energy to metamorphosize into a spacetime-transcending cosmic being.
(Disclaimer: absolutely none of this lore is canon to the Black Reliquary universe, if it wasn’t obvious. Should the official pantheon of the Black Reliquary’s Wildlanders be released by that mod’s developers, I will change this mod in order to more accurately match their vision.)
In terms of the technical functionality of this mod, the art sprites used in these new abilities (which are as of yet just recolors of the original "Fury of the Old Ones") are only placeholders. That being said, even if I did have the resources or talent to produce completely original sprites for these abilities, I have no idea what they would look like, since the original sprite resembles a deer (in reference to the Reaver’s helmet) rather than anything connected to the "Old Ones", so it’s likely that I’ll just keep them as they are regardless. If anyone has any suggestions for what original sprites could look like, feel free to share them in the comments.
How to install:
For starters, go to:
Local Disk (C:)
└📁Program Files (x86)
⠀└📁steam
⠀⠀└📁steamapps
⠀⠀⠀└📁workshop
⠀⠀⠀⠀└📁content
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀└📁262060
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀└📁3240473110
And move the 3240473110 folder to:
Local Disk (C:)
└📁Program Files (x86)
⠀└📁steam
⠀⠀└📁steamapps
⠀⠀⠀└📁common
⠀⠀⠀⠀└📁Black Reliquary
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀└📁mods
It will then show up in the addons tab in the Black Reliquary main menu, and can be activated in a similar way to DD1’s mods.
Enjoy.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
