Favor

There are many, many ways to generate favor. Among them are:

• Communicating with your fellow faithful. (Coming Soon!)
• Phylacteries (sacrificing your daily Phylactery of Worship).
• Blood Favor (slaying monsters).
• Sacrificing valuable items (bloodjewels especially, but most other items of value also qualify).
• Religious tasks (pilgramages, etc).
• Recruiting new members to your church.
• Many religious ceremonies.
• Idols and Relics.
• Many, many more systems and player behaviors.

We keep the exact mechanics secret, and the exact moment-to-moment results deliberately delayed and obfuscated, to prevent gaming the system.

Favor is part of a monthly competitive game system called the Favor Battle. That is an *OPTIONAL* competitive game system with individual and church based leaderboards. Every month a special event, Divine Audience, takes place where rewards and Divine reaction to the Favor Battle takes place. This is a combination roleplay event and reward ceremony for people who CHOOSE to participate in this competitive system. Read more here: help favor battle

Other Benefits of favor

The "Favored" Church is whoever is #1 in favor at the top and is generally considered the most active faith. The "Highly Favored" are the top 33% of all Churches in favor.

• If your church is dominant, any time you kill a monster, 10% of its dropped coin is calculated and contributed to your temple as a tithe. This, however, is only a mechanic of partying. It is to encourage grouping with your faith-mates, but it will work regardless of the religious makeup of the party.
• If your church is in the top 33% of the favor race, you will receive a bonus to the possible number of resources gathered. This is cumulative with clan dominance bonus.