Groves

Groves is a skill available to those of the Druid and Sylvan classes. It allows practitioners to create a physical bond with the forest and, through that bond, exercise a variety of unique forestal abilities. This bond can be enhanced with the artefact known as the Lupine Plinth.

Abilities in Groves

** Harmony only available to those druids in appropriate forestal organisations. **

Ability	Description
Imprint	Choose a forest location as your grove.
Syntax: IMPRINT Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: Once you have discovered a vacant forest or jungle location, this ability may be used to claim it as your own. Be warned: this bond is nearly permanent, and nobody but you may undo it.
Perceive	Determine if a forest area has been claimed as a grove.
Syntax: PERCEIVE Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: Use this ability to discover if a forest location has been claimed as a grove or not.
Sever	Erase your imprint permanently from your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SEVER Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: This ability will permanently sever the link with your grove. All sunlight energy in your grove will be lost.
Energy	Determine how much sunlight your grove has stored.
Syntax: GROVE ENERGY Extra Information: Energy: 1 Details: By communing with your grove, you may discover how much sunlight energy remains.
Who	Sense who is in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE WHO Extra Information: Energy: NONE Details: This ability will cause the forest itself to report on the presence of other adventurers that are in it.
Status	Discover information on the status of your grove.
Syntax: GROVE STATUS Extra Information: Energy: 2 Details: Use this ability to discover various pieces of information on the status of your grove.
Look	See through the eyes of a forest into a distant location.
Syntax: GROVE LOOK <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: Use this ability to view a wooded location that another adventurer is standing in.
Shake	Send a tremor throughout your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SHAKE Extra Information: Energy: 100 Details: Send a tremor through ground and trees alike in and near your grove. Nearby mounted adventurers will find themselves on the ground, while those in the trees may experience rapid loss of altitude combined with injury.
Elevate	Ascend into the treetops.
Syntax: GROVE ELEVATE GROVE ELEVATE <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 20 Works on/against: Adventurers and self Details: Using this ability, you may rise into the trees. Once there, you may travel normally, using DOWN to leave the trees.
Watch	Command your grove to report certain activity within it.
Syntax: GROVE WATCH/UNWATCH Extra Information: Energy: 10 Details: This strange ability will allow you to share a mental kinship with others in your grove. It will cause you to receive much information that would normally be seen only by the individual adventurers in your grove. UNWATCH will stop you watching again.
Eject	Toss all but yourself out of your grove.
Syntax: GROVE EJECT Extra Information: Energy: 15 Works on/against: Room Details: With this ability, you may cause the wilderness in your grove to throw out all in it, save for yourself and your allies.
Return	Return instantly to your grove from anywhere in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE RETURN Extra Information: Energy: 100 Details: When activated, this ability will cause you to return to your grove from any wooded area.
Eyes	Locate everyone in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE EYES Extra Information: Energy: 20 Details: Grove eyes will, like GROVE WHO, tell you who is in the forest, with the added advantage of telling you where in the forest they are.
Forestwatch	Know all entry and exit from the forest.
Syntax: GROVE FORESTWATCH ON|OFF Extra Information: Energy: 25 Details: This ability will inform everyone in your grove every time an adventurer enters or exits the forest.
Seal	Prevent night-time draining sunlight from your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SEAL Extra Information: Energy: 60 Works on/against: Room Details: For one Achaean month, this ability will seal off your grove from nighttime energy loss.
Tend	Lovingly caring for your grove.
Syntax: GROVE TEND Extra Information: Energy: Boosts energy Details: Though this is only useable once an Achaean year, it will add ten percent to the sunlight energy in your grove.
Screen	Raise a screen against telepathy within your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SCREEN Extra Information: Energy: 80 Works on/against: Room Details: While this ability is active, your grove will be safe from those attempting to gain a telepathic lock on anyone within.
Roots	Secure yourself to the ground with tree roots.
Syntax: GROVE ROOTS Extra Information: Energy: 40 Details: While using this ability, you will be secured to the ground and none of the various abilities that attempt to lift a target will succeed on you.
Preservation	For one year, shield your grove from damage.
Syntax: GROVE PRESERVATION Extra Information: Energy: 200 Works on/against: Room Details: For one Achaean year, this ability will render your grove immune to damage from certain abilities.
Smudge	Remove ground-based runes from your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SMUDGE Extra Information: Energy: 50 Details: With this ability, you may command your grove to remove a rune from it.
Quarterstaff	Summon a powerful quarterstaff from your grove.
Syntax: GROVE QUARTERSTAFF SHARPEN QUARTERSTAFF SPIN QUARTERSTAFF TAP QUARTERSTAFF WHIRL QUARTERSTAFF SWING QUARTERSTAFF [target] Extra Information: Energy: 1000 Details: Using this ability, you will gain a quarterstaff from the heart of a tree in your grove. You may then SHARPEN QUARTERSTAFF to sharpen it. Once sharpened, you may STAB <target>. You may also SPIN QUARTERSTAFF to conjure an aura of protection against physical and magical damage. TAP QUARTERSTAFF will turn your quarterstaff into a source of light. WHIRL QUARTERSTAFF will reveal many hidden or cloaked people that may be in your location. It is rumoured that there are other abilities that may be performed with your quarterstaff, including one to create a slightly more powerful aura of protection.
Calling	Call your loyal creatures back to your grove.
Syntax: GROVE CALLING Details: This ability will call all creatures loyal to you back to your grove.
Track	Constantly track the movement of anyone in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE TRACK <adventurer> GROVE TRACK OFF Extra Information: Energy: 20 Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Using this ability, you may track an adventurer's movement through the forest. GROVE TRACK OFF will cease this tracking.
Portal	Open a portal to your grove for anyone in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE PORTAL <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 75 Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With this ability, you can create a portal to any adventurer in the same area, who may then come to you through the portal. The portal is one-way: it may not be used to go to the adventurer.
Summon	After a time, bring anyone in the forest to your grove.
Syntax: GROVE SUMMON <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 50 Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With this ability, you may begin the process of summoning any adventurer in a forest to your grove. It will take a small amount of time, during which the adventurer may escape the summoning by moving. Also any actions on your part during the summoning process will halt the summons.
Flow	Slip instantly from your grove to anyone in the forest.
Syntax: GROVE FLOW <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 150 Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With this ability, you may instantly travel from your grove to anyone in forest or jungle.
Imbue	Infuse your quarterstaff with the power of sunlight.
Syntax: GROVE IMBUE EVOKE SUNLIGHT EVOKE STATUS Extra Information: Energy: 3500 (GROVE IMBUE) Details: Imbue your quarterstaff with the light of the sun. You must be standing in a sunlit place to EVOKE SUNLIGHT. Be aware that empowering a quarterstaff in this way may cause some personal damage. The capacity of your quarterstaff to store light will grow with your skill in Groves. EVOKE STATUS will inform you of its current charge and capacity. When in your grove, you may GROVE IMBUE to charge your quarterstaff rapidly, be it day or night, at a severe drain to your grove.
Regrowth	Reform a sharpened quarterstaff.
Syntax: REGROW QUARTERSTAFF Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 10 Details: Through the power of imbued sunlight, you may return a sharpened quarterstaff to its full length.
Cure	Cure someone of an affliction.
Syntax: GROVE CURE GROVE CURE <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 10 Works on/against: Adventurers and self Details: Cure will allow you to cure yourself or an adventurer of a random affliction.
Isolation	Transport yourself to the Glade of Isolation.
Syntax: GROVE ISOLATION Extra Information: Energy: 220 Details: This powerful ability will take you, and anyone following you to a secret grove with exits to many places in the land. Be warned though, that it is quite expensive in sunlight energy.
Channel	Transfer energy to the grove of another.
Syntax: GROVE CHANNEL <grove user> GROVE CHANNEL STOP Extra Information: Energy: Varies Details: This ability will allow you to transfer sunlight energy from one grove to another. Both you and the target adventurer must be standing in your respective groves. This can be a useful ability though it should be noted some energy is lost maintaining the channel.
Vigour	Call on the invigorating warmth of sunlight.
Syntax: EVOKE VIGOUR EVOKE VIGOUR <adventurer> Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 300 Details: By showering yourself or another with sunlight, you may encourage regeneration of health for a brief period. The benefit experienced by another will not be as significant as that felt when this ability is used on one's self.
Remedy	Heal another of maladies and ailments.
Syntax: EVOKE REMEDY <adventurer> Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 50 Details: This technique can heal another adventurer of a single affliction at a time. It may not be used on one's self. Not all afflictions may be remedied.
Rain	Conjuring a magical shower of rejuvenating rain.
Syntax: GROVE RAIN Extra Information: Energy: 250 Works on/against: Room Details: By calling a refreshing rain into your grove, you will cause everyone in the grove to experience relatively rapid refreshing of endurance and willpower.
Fertility	Perform the rites of fertility.
Syntax: EVOKE FERTILITY Works on/against: Room Details: Imbued Sunlight: 100 The rites of fertility will temporarily bolster plant growth wherever they are performed.
Concealment	Hide all those within your grove from prying eyes.
Syntax: GROVE CONCEALMENT Extra Information: Energy: 60 Works on/against: Room Details: Use this ability to conceal your grove from the prying eyes of all but the Gods Themselves.
Harvest	The ability to harvest plants for Concoctions.
Syntax: HARVEST <plant> Works on/against: Room Details: The ability to harvest is one that is prized amongst the forestals of Sapience. With this ability you can harvest the precious plantlife used for curing the ailments of the worlds and in brewing the various elixirs and salves. Your skill in concoctions will determine what plants you have gained the ability to harvest.
Sharing	Granting the use of your grove to your allies.
Syntax: GROVE SHARE GROVE WITHDRAW Extra Information: Energy: 200 Details: Grove sharing will allow any grove user on your allies list to use your grove as if it were his own. GROVE WITHDRAW will disable grove sharing.
Flash	Illuminate the surroundings with a revealing flash of light.
Syntax: EVOKE FLASH Works on/against: Room Details: Imbued Sunlight: 300 By channeling your sunlight reserves, Flash has the chance to reveal the presence of all hidden adventurers in the room, save for the Divinities.
Gate	Open a gateway of light.
Syntax: GROVE GATE <adventurer> EVOKE GATE <adventurer> Extra Information: Energy: 150 Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Grove gate will allow you to open a two-way portal between you and any adventurer, anywhere on the same continent as yourself. It is also possible to evoke a portal from an imbued quarterstaff, though the range of this gateway will be limited to the local area.
Harmony	Seek Nature's blessing through absolute harmony.
Syntax: EVOKE HARMONY [STATUS|ME|<target>] Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 250 (to give blessings) 1000 (to harmonise) Details: When standing in one of several natural environments, a Druid may attempt to harmonise him or herself to that environment with EVOKE HARMONY. Once three Druids are in harmony with the same environment, all Druids* will be able to bestow a blessing associated with that harmonisation on him/herself or another adventurer**, using EVOKE HARMONY <ME|target>. Only one environment may be fully harmonised at a time, and this harmonisation will last until the end of the year. EVOKE HARMONY STATUS will show the current state of harmony of the various environments. The effects of each environment are: Forest: Increased health regeneration. Ocean: Increased mana regeneration. Mountains: Increased willpower and endurance regeneration. Desert: Increased damage versus denizens. Tundra: Increased effectiveness of frost and venom elixirs. * This ability is available to Druids of Eleusis and cityless Druids who are also members of Oakstone, the Ancient Circle of Druids, the Sylvanic Fellowship, or the Sentinels of Nature. ** Harmony blessings may be granted to members of Eleusis and cityless members of Oakstone, the Ancient Circle of Druids, the Sylvanic Fellowship, and the Sentinels of Nature. -
Hive	Create a hive of stinging bees to defend your grove.
Syntax: GROVE HIVE HARVEST HIVE TAP HIVE CALL BEES CALL NEW SWARM Extra Information: Energy: 120 Details: Hive will create a hive of bees in your grove that will live there and protect it. TAP HIVE will call forth the bees, who will proceed to attack your enemies in your grove. Bees are also capable of following you around Sapience (see HELP DENIZENS for more commands). An added benefit to this magical hive is that you may HARVEST HIVE. Doing this will not only feed you and heal your mind and body fully, but it will also attempt to increase a random skill of yours slightly. If the random skill happens to be Transcendent already, then no benefit will be gained. This ability may only be used infrequently.
Overgrowth	Return a runic totem to the embrace of Nature.
Syntax: EVOKE OVERGROWTH Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 250 Details: This ability must be performed in a location where a runic totem is implanted. By ensconcing the totem with an overgrowth of dense greenery, you may conceal its runes from view, rendering it powerless. A well-placed lash of fire may destroy the obscuring plantlife, returning the totem to full function.
Rejuvenate	Restore an exterminated room to its natural state.
Syntax: REJUVENATE Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: This ability will allow you to rejuvenate land that has been exterminated by a foul Necromancer. It requires the presence of a cube of elemental ice in your inventory.
Snowstorm	Spread the white cloak of winter across the land.
Syntax: EVOKE SNOWSTORM Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 200 Works on/against: Room Details: This technique will conjure up a blizzard to temporarily blanket the area, every bit as fierce and cold as a naturally occurring snowstorm. The effects of the heat vibration may interfere with this evocation.
Wildgrowth	Ensnare your enemies with tenacious plantlife.
Syntax: EVOKE WILDGROWTH Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 200 Works on/against: Room Details: On using this technique, wild growth will sprout from the earth wherever you go for a short period of time. Any personal enemies attempting to leave your location by most conventional means risk being hindered by this plantlife.
Barrier	Form an impenetrable barrier of light itself.
Syntax: EVOKE BARRIER EVOKE BARRIER <adventurer> Works on/against: Adventurers and self Details: Imbued Sunlight: 350 By forming a wall of solid light around yourself, or another adventurer, you may create a powerful defensive barrier able to withstand most attacks. While largely impenetrable, the barrier will dissolve should whomever it protects perform an action (with some exceptions).
Forestbinding	Prevent all entry and exit from the forest.
Syntax: GROVE FORESTBINDING Extra Information: Energy: 3000 Details: This powerful ability will prevent entry to and egress from the forest that is bound for all those not in an organisation aligned with Nature. Only one forest may be bound at a given time. The grove energy cost is doubled after the first use, if used again within 24 Achaean days.
Resurrection	Restore yourself or a friend to life.
Syntax: GROVE RESURRECTION <adventurer> [FORCE]. GROVE RESURRECTION Extra Information: Energy: 350 Works on/against: Adventurers and self Details: This very costly ability will grant life to the corpse of any adventurer you specify, provided the corpse is in your grove. The second form is used for yourself. The forest will resist attempts to resurrect an enemy of Oakstone. If you wish to proceed with the resurrection, you will be required to FORCE the attempt at a much higher personal cost. Note that forcing your grove to resurrect an individual will ALWAYS have a higher cost. Those grove users who are truly devoted to Nature are also able to resurrect the souls of others, so long as they too are adherents to Nature's worship and protection. Those who are citizens of Eleusis, or cityless members of Oakstone and the Druids, Sylvans, and Sentinels houses fall into this category.
Guardian	Summon an earth golem to guard your grove.
Syntax: GROVE GUARDIAN Extra Information: Energy: 1000 Works on/against: Room Details: So strong is your bond with your grove that you are able to reach down into the roots of the earth and call forth one of the fabled earth golem Guardians to stand guard over your grove. It will protect your grove, attacking anyone on your enemies list who comes in, and will stay until dead. Note, however, that there is a very high grove energy cost.
Dampen	Put an end to aural interferences.
Syntax: EVOKE DAMPENING Works on/against: Room Details: Imbued Sunlight: 200 With a swirling rush of leaves, you may dampen the complex tonal structures that bind vibrations and harmonics together, immediately putting one to an end.
Lightning	Strike your foes with nature's fury.
Syntax: EVOKE LIGHTNING <adventurer> <direction> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Imbued Sunlight: 10 Harnessing the wrath of the sky, you may direct a powerful bolt of lightning to strike a foe. Your target must be a sufficient distance away from you, and within your line of sight. Lightning is a mercurial force, and may occasionally leave your target plagued with ailments, or fizzle out harmlessly.
Panacea	Nature's touch can heal all ills.
Syntax: EVOKE PANACEA Extra Information: Imbued Sunlight: 250 Details: Through your quarterstaff, you may focus the restorative powers of Nature on yourself. For a time, you will be healed of afflictions at regular intervals.
Portability	The ultimate expression of the bond with your grove.
Syntax: PLANT QUARTERSTAFF GROVE UNIFY Extra Information: Energy: NONE Works on/against: Room Details: This, the most powerful of all grove abilities, allows you to temporarily move your grove to any forest or jungle location where there is not already a grove or temporary grove. Planting a quarterstaff in such a location will move your grove there, though only temporarily. With time, your grove will return to its home. If you wish to prematurely move your grove back to its original location, simply GROVE UNIFY. It should be noted that a few abilities will not work in a temporary grove. These are: Channel Sever Guardian Sharing Hive Forestbinding

At some point in the past, the following abilities were changed and/or removed from the skill and replaced:

Entangle	Command your grove to bind your enemies.
Cage	Command the branches of your grove to seal it closed.
Vigour	Absorb energy from your grove directly into your body.
Thorns	Give life to the surrounding undergrowth to harm your foes.
Trap	Form a cage of branches around anyone in the forest.
Join	Lend support to another Druid in his grove.
Exorcise	Drive entities of Chaos from your Grove.
Displacement	Swap places with a target in the forest.
Hinder	Call upon the forest to impede the progress of a foe.
Hypercure	Constant healing of afflictions.

See also

• Concoctions
• Metamorphosis