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Familiars are a kind of home pets, who help you in the battle with their skills. Familiars need your care, which they pay for with devotion and skills.

Kinds of Familiars and their abilities

• Polar fox – 5% of chance not to lose the things with the death of character, a skill «Loss of Balance», that increases the loss of the nursling on aim.
• Manul – 5% of second chance, in the battle can apply to the enemy the effect of «Blindness», that decreases the chance of hit and the chance of cast.
• Wolf – 5% of teleportation when dead in the battle (whithin the borders of region), can apply the effect of «Deathly grip» in a battle, that decreases armour and all the resistance.

Familiar Care, increasing of levels

• Increasing of levels of your Familiar takes place in the Guild of Familiars (Menagerie). A half of experience and half of gold is requiered for the proper level. A level of nursling cannot be higher than a level of his owner.
• Familiar gets experience after victories gained in the battle (if familiar took part in in the battle). The experience gets divided in half between you and familiar. The current experience of familiar cannot be higher than for 3 levels.
• The owner of the familiar has access to 2 skills: «To summon Familiar» and «To hide Familiar». It is forbidden to apply it in the battle.
• Feeding of familiar. Maximum satiety of familiar – 100. Familiar loses a unit of satiety for 1 minute of game (when not hiden). Eats the things, that takes Junk Dealer on a Dump. If satiety of nursling is zero, familiar begins to eat your trophies (any loot you pick up or knock out). The price of the item influences satiety of the nursling (1:1).
• You can get the full information on Familiar by examining yourself or familiar (experience, satiety etc.).

Cost of Familiar

A can of summon of the familiar сosts 250 platinum in platinum alchemical shops. With this, the familiar is given to you for 90 days. At the end of this term, familiar grows old and you need to use the Potion of Youth of Familiar. The cost of the potion is planned to be set whithin the limits of 25 platinum. Potion extends „the life” of familiar for 1 month.