FAMILIARS & ACCESSORIES

Familiars are the only creature type that a Valleyfolk may communicate freely with, however in order to reach this level, you must improve your bond!

• Pieces must be canon and chime-worthy drawings, literatures, or roleplays

• Pieces showing interactions do not need to be the main focus of the piece, but they should still hold a significant role in it.

  • i.e. it should not just show your character and their familiar exchanging a glance, or knowing your character’s familiar is watching from somewhere in the trees

To improve the bond, the following requirements must be met:

• Stage One [starting point] > Stage Two

  • 5 canon and chime-worthy pieces

• Stage Two > Stage Three [ending point]

  • 7 canon and chime-worthy pieces

• To progress, submit a post in your cashing ticket showing all of the required pieces to move up to the next stage. Staff will look it over to approve it and let you know once we’ve finished reviewing. Once you’ve received staff approval, we will also send the description for the next stage and what is unlocked in that through the bond.

Some important things to note about familiars prior to purchasing one:

• Familiars can be purchased to start with a character (outside of the first character), their fee would simply be added on to the character creation fee that is paid for by your other characters. They will still start at stage one level of bonding though, and you must still work through the different stages to bond with the familiar.

• Familiars should generally follow the same global rules for character creation, keeping their colors/markings semi-realistic to their species, and the eyes should not be a special/purchasable eye-type (heterochromia, pink/purple, etc). This also applies for mutations and things like albinism, as all of these will eventually be available through special events as prizes!

• Familiars should be drawn on the reference sheet with your character. We do not have a separate sheet for familiars.

• Featuring a familiar (at least 50% visible) that belongs to you earns an additional +1 Chime, but they do not earn Chimes of their own! They don't have access to a bank.

• Characters may only have one familiar at a time. 

• At this time, familiars are region/climate locked. i.e. you would not find a meerkat (traditionally from Goldenwind) in Eirmuir. We are open to allowing real-world species from all over the globe since WSV is not based specifically on any one location in the real world, but try to keep it realistic to the climate of where they originate from.