Now hear me out....
Personally, I'd love it if familiars stayed after being awakened, then you could finally sell/boil them down. But they don't, and I don't have 700+ dragons to match all my familiars to (I have like 644 of them, but I'm sure we're going to get more). But I like looking at all of them, but hate having to pay ctrl +W tag to rebond everyone on one poor dragon in the back of my lair. I don't know how the Hibernal Den is going to work, how much space it will offer, or even if I could finally match dragon to fam in it. If I can, then put this idea way on the backburner.
But what if, after awakening a familiar AND keeping it, we could then bond them in the Bestiary.
This is a play on the word Awakened. I'm using it in a sense of "Awakened to (something)". Our familiars are awakened to the value of being friends with dragons, fully know them and can be let off the leash, so to speak. They can do their own thing, but dragons can go and hang out with them without needing to be bonded to them to do so. A bond is pretty binding, and the familiar has no choice but to talk to the dragon it's bound to, so it's a bit forced to me, they can't "leave" until the dragon ditches them. Bonding from the Beastiary is a bit freeer semantically, and in any case, could be more lore-interesting.
"But the treasure influx!" You say, well, I never said the bonding gift would be treasure.
Once Per day:
From familiars you get in the coli:
50/50 chance of the food item they drop or the trinket they drop.
Treasure Marketplace Only Familiars:
50/50 chance of the 50t that you get from Awakened Familiars or a unique trinket (I want Vustel Crystals so bad!)
Gem Marketplace Only Familiars:
50/50 chance of 100t or a unique trinket (Scrap of Pukasloth fur, Capricat track imprints? anyone?)
Festival Familiars:
One food item from their region per day.
ex. drops or or any item you get from the "Indigenous Life" randomizer in the World Map.
Personally, I'd love it if familiars stayed after being awakened, then you could finally sell/boil them down. But they don't, and I don't have 700+ dragons to match all my familiars to (I have like 644 of them, but I'm sure we're going to get more). But I like looking at all of them, but hate having to pay ctrl +W tag to rebond everyone on one poor dragon in the back of my lair. I don't know how the Hibernal Den is going to work, how much space it will offer, or even if I could finally match dragon to fam in it. If I can, then put this idea way on the backburner.
But what if, after awakening a familiar AND keeping it, we could then bond them in the Bestiary.
This is a play on the word Awakened. I'm using it in a sense of "Awakened to (something)". Our familiars are awakened to the value of being friends with dragons, fully know them and can be let off the leash, so to speak. They can do their own thing, but dragons can go and hang out with them without needing to be bonded to them to do so. A bond is pretty binding, and the familiar has no choice but to talk to the dragon it's bound to, so it's a bit forced to me, they can't "leave" until the dragon ditches them. Bonding from the Beastiary is a bit freeer semantically, and in any case, could be more lore-interesting.
"But the treasure influx!" You say, well, I never said the bonding gift would be treasure.
Once Per day:
From familiars you get in the coli:
50/50 chance of the food item they drop or the trinket they drop.
Treasure Marketplace Only Familiars:
50/50 chance of the 50t that you get from Awakened Familiars or a unique trinket (I want Vustel Crystals so bad!)
Gem Marketplace Only Familiars:
50/50 chance of 100t or a unique trinket (Scrap of Pukasloth fur, Capricat track imprints? anyone?)
Festival Familiars:
One food item from their region per day.
ex. drops or or any item you get from the "Indigenous Life" randomizer in the World Map.
During their festival!
One elemental token Per Day, because these aren't normal animal familiars, they're the eyes/guardians/spirits of the various dragon deities
ex. The Blazing Goblin would only drop 7 additional Glowing Embers over the week of the Flameforger's Festival, IF they were Awakened by then.
Sound interesting and puts Awakened familiars to use?
One elemental token Per Day, because these aren't normal animal familiars, they're the eyes/guardians/spirits of the various dragon deities
ex. The Blazing Goblin would only drop 7 additional Glowing Embers over the week of the Flameforger's Festival, IF they were Awakened by then.
Sound interesting and puts Awakened familiars to use?