VISIONARY
By sheer willpower or some magical force, your wolf has somehow learned to use the eyes of their familiar to their advantage. Unless you have purchased the Dr Doolittle familiar enhancement, you cannot control what the familiar does, where it goes, or fully communicate with it, but either way the ability can give the user brief situational viewpoints. You must have already purchased a Familiar to be able to purchase this item.
TIER RATING
This is a tier one ability.
STAGES
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STAGE 1: Beginning stage
The ability is passive in this stage. Your wolf occasionally slips out of their own conciousness, and for a brief period of less than 30 seconds, can see through the eyes of their familiar instead. Upon returning to their own self, your wolf is extremely disorientated, and will often suffer from overwhelming headaches for hours afterward.
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STAGE 2: Intermediate
Acquired by completing three pieces of artwork or roleplay that relate directly to your ability
With focus and practive, your wolf is now able to view the world from perspective of their familiar at will. During this stage, your wolf can remain in their familiar's perspective for a period of no longer than five minutes before they must return to their own body. The ability will also terminate if the familiar travels more than 1 mile from the user's location, as the familiar is out of range. There is a cooldown between uses of five days. The wolf is still occasionally disorientated when they return to their own eyes, but as their control grows, this side effect weakens.
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STAGE 3: Master
Acquired by completing a further three pieces of artwork or roleplay that relate directly to your ability.
In addition to the above, the user can now uphold the ability for up to 20 minutes at a a time. They can shift from themselves to their familiar without any loss of orientation, and the headaches that often come with use are much rarer than before. The range of the ability also grows, allowing the familiar to travel any distance within the 20 minute usage period. The cooldown between uses is 24 hours.
OVERALL RESTRICTIONS
If you have not purchased the Dr Doolittle enhancement, you cannot command the familiar in any way. While you can use Visionary to look through its eyes, you cannot order it to go to a certain place or do something in particular. Under no circumstances should any users try to circumvent this by having the familiar coincidentally travel to the exact place the user wished them to go. We're not stupid.
If you have purchased the Dr Doolittle enchancement, you can communicate with, give instructions to or command your familiar before you use the ability. However, once you have transferred your conciousness to use the familiar's eyes, you can no longer communicate with them (i.e. this ability combined with Dr Doolittle does not make you a shapeshifter, you are not a wolf using a birds body as your own, you are simply using its eyes for an alternative viewpoint).
This ability is visual only. When you use it, you can see through the eyes of your familiar, but you cannot hear conversations. Wolves converse in a different language to other creatures, so if you come across wolves conversing while looking through your familiar, you will not be able to understand what they are saying.
The familiar must be within eyesight to begin using the ability, but after the initial transfer, the familiar can travel beyond where the user's body remains (in accordance with the range limits set in the ability stages).
While using the ability, the user's wolf body will slip to the ground and remain there in a catatonic state, as though they have fainted. They will have no awareness of what is happening at the site their body is at. This leaves them vulnerable, so it is wise to employ another character to take care of your character's body while they are using the Visionary ability.
If a blind wolf this ability, they will be free from their impairment for the duration of usage, provided that the familiar is healthy.
If the familiar dies, the ability is nullified.