ForeverGinger 147 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Have you ever had a pet you really really love? Have you evel felt strange around that animal? Like, a strange bond. Maybe a painful jab when you're far away from them? Well my friend, you may have formed a Link with that animal. A Link is formed when an animal and a descendant are very close to each other. Not close physically, but that would help, but close emotionally. That emotional bond, if allowed, can form a mental bond between the animal and the descendant, linking them permanently to each other. When someone is very close to an animal, they may feel a strange calling when in the presence of said pet. This calling feels like a powerful tugging sensation, almost as if the beast is attempting to pull you inside of it. If you accept to follow this pull, you form the beginnings of a Link with this animal, and tie the both of you together forever. A Link is a very odd, disorienting sensation and takes some getting used to when first formed. Many describe a Link as feeling like a sort of spatial awareness, as if their eyes have been opened after being closed. This may seem as a vague description, but everyone experiences a Link in slightly different ways. When a Link is first formed, it is a very small connection. Bound pairs can not stray far from each other in the beginning and can only communicate via small surges of emotion. As the Link stabilizes and grows, the pairs can move farther away from each other and communicate easily from any distance as if speaking. Some of the closest pairs are able to look through each others eyes and see what the other sees. The pair can strengthen their Link merely by being in each others presence, but this growth can be aided by going through life altering experiences together. The growth of a Link is like a tiny stream growing into a large river, a rush of energy connecting two sources, transporting memories, emotions and sensations from one to the other. Increasing the strength of your bond is something that happens very gradually. When going from Tier 1 to Tier 2, you will not just jump from one to another. The Link is strengthened over time. For example, before being able to see through each others eyes, you would get flashes from your partners point of view. If one partner is killed, the other will experience insanity-causing pain Tiers One through Three and death for Tiers Four and Five. Tier 1: You have just responded to the call and have been successfully bound to your animal. Your Link is still small and weak. You can not be out of arms reach of your new partner without experiancing slight discomfort. If your partner is taken more than four meters away from you, you both will feel a sharp, steady pain in your heads. The farther you get from each other, the more painful the feeling becomes. This sensation is not leathal, but it can be an efective interrogation tecnique. The pair can communicate via intense emotions. If one partner dies during this period, the other experiences very intense pain and can potentially go insane. Tier 2: Your Link is slightly stonger. You are be roughly nine to ten meters apart without experiancing any pain. Any farther and the pain will begin. It will start subtly, a slight headache, but for every meter the two of you are separated, the pain scales tremendously. The feeling is still not lethal, but can drive the pair insane easily. Both can communicate in a rudimentary form, emoting desires and more subtle emotions with each other. Tier 3: Your Link with your companion is much stronger by now. Your bond can stretch roughly twenty five meters. Pain from being separated still begins subtly, but is much more intense for every meter of separation. The pain can be lethal at this point, but only if the bond is severly overreached, say, double the limit. You can communicate with your partner almost as if you were speaking with them, as long as you have not overeached your bond distance. Your partner is now much more intelligent than ordinary animals and can comprehend specific instructions. Tier 4: The Link between the two of you is now very strong. You can be separated by fifty meters, but can streach that bond another twenty five meters with only a slight twinge. Any farther though, and the pain will scale almost immedietly and is always lethal. Any pain inflicted on one is felt by the other, but without visible wounds. You both can communicate with images alongside mental commands and the animal can understand spoken languages its partner knows. Tier 5: The Link between partners is at its strongest. The two can be separated by about one hundred meters, and can travel another seventy five meters with only slight discomfort. After this point, the partners can not communicate with each other and both will experiance extreme pain. After twenty five more meters between them, two hundred meters total, the pair will both die. Any pain inflicted on one will affect the other visible so, cutting one will cut the other in roughly the same place The animal has about the same metal capacity as the owner and is able to think and plan on its own. However, the pair will always stay loyal to each other and one would never even think of betraying the other. By now, the pair can see through each others eyes and experiance what the other is feeling. They can also communicate flawlessly, using a combination of emotion, images and language to convey meaning to each other. Pros: Partners can communicate with each other The pair can see through each others eyes at Tier 5 Partners form a bond with each other only broken by death Animal becomes sentient at Tier 3 Cons: Intense pain, possibly death when separated Sympathetic wounds between the pair at Tier 4 Red Lines (No-Nos): Not RPing communication (meditation, zoning out, focusing) Not RPing pain and/or death when separated Be realistic on distances, you can bend the limits of distance, because they are a bit fuzzy, but do not break them. Think carefully before becoming Linked, because in combat and other scenarios, you will have to RP two entities, yourself and your partner Edit: Fixed colors and tweaked some stuff in Tier 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaBearJade 2088 Share Posted January 25, 2015 color fix please. Then I will give my thoughts on it So far all i can tell is its like golden compass with animal bonds Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swgrclan 2635 Share Posted January 25, 2015 This seems like something oriented with Druidism, especially the communication abilities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydra 513 Share Posted January 25, 2015 This is horrible no -1 Firstly Okar bonds do this kind of, bonding with an animal oversteps druids and i don't understand the point of the lore. Second RPing two entities is outrageously OP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nug 1886 Share Posted January 25, 2015 This is horrible no -1 Firstly Okar bonds do this kind of, bonding with an animal oversteps druids and i don't understand the point of the lore. Second RPing two entities is outrageously OP. You don't need to be so rude as to say it's horrible and some people already roleplay their animal companion fighting with them as well as emoting for their own character's actions. (conjurers, druids, necromancers, etc.) I like the lore but it seems that every magic proposed that has any relation with nature or animals is deemed too close to Druidism and shut down because of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverGinger 147 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Looking over it later, I can see how people would think this is too close to Druidism. However, Linking is more of an emotional bond between two parties transforming into a mental bond with that specific animal. Druids could Link with an animal, but so could anyone else, as long as they were close enough to their partner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jistuma 1995 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm sorry to say that this lore has been Denied. The lore goes too much into druid stuff, and doesn't have a worthy explanation on why the things happen. It is simply a "call" or a "link" between someone and their pet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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