Vivi's Spirits

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Vivi's Spirits Mod

Also known as the 'spawn in everything forest/lake mod'...
I'm joking.

About the mod:
Rituals, and prayers to the deities Mielikki, Tapio, and Ahti
Specialised Tools to be able to do the above(and their own pngs)
Ability to make fur/leather cover, and Kota to use these covers

We work under a favor system, inspired by Rudy's Magic mod

Installation Instructions:
Copy and paste all files to the URW directory
You may want to backup biy_glossary!

Utility Articles:
Shaman Necklace - Allows you to do rituals
Kantele - Allows you to do prayers
fur cover - For kota, if you decide to replace biy-glossary
leather cover - For kota, if you decide to replace biy-glossary

The cover is needed for kota, as fur tokens don't count as a Cover for vanilla Kota usage(despite it being a simulation for fur, so the workaround is that we make covers out of both vanilla fur and the fur tokens). You can decide not to use it if you don't want to, but i recommend to do so. In any case it is more or less the same as vanilla, just that a cover can be made with the least amount of fur to carry around now. In vanilla, the minimum amount of leather/fur that would count is 4.5kg. So all the covers made with either fur or leather will need that amount of fur/leather and will weight that amount!

The kantele is an instrument used in olden finnish-or lets pretend it is. My finnish history is shit. Wishlist: Horsehair instead of bronze...

Rituals:
Allows you to sacrifice raw meat/fish, bones, and antlers.

No sacrificing skulls! The bear is sacred, and as for seals... well does it matter?

Mielikki Prayers:
Cloudberries
Noaidi's Mushrooms
All none poisonous herbs(therefore excluding: Bog flower, Marsh Calla, Water Lily, Wolf Pipe)
Note that if you do not have enough herblore, it will show as... idk, puffy grass and random adjectives! Its different per game so as to make the player unable to see what herb it is(until herblore is leveled ofc). They still work the same, I like to think of this as the forest teaching you what grass/flower it is. They're also kinda useless ingame because its rare you get sick, you have shaman to heal you for free, and also you rarely would get very injured to need them. Its still cool to roleplay as a herbalist/shaman, if you so wish, or actually try out the effects and see how the herbal system works.

The forest offers you cloudberries for they are the most plentiful and able to stave off your hunger. Noaidi mushrooms are essential for communing with the spirits!
Mielikki is a known healer who may gift herbs to those who know to ask. She is the lady of the forest and the wife of Tapio.

Tapio Prayers:
Fur Token: Allows one to double the amount of fur they have on hand. 2.5kg to 5kg. Inherits the fur that is used! So if you want reindeer fur, use reindeer fur. If that reindeer fur token is made into clothing, it inherits reindeer fur properties! The token itself cannot be used to make cloth cord, but once it is made into clothing that is possible. You can also use this to make kota cover! In the case of using 2 furs together, the one with the most ratio is inherited.

This is like, a pass from the deity to take this amount from their area of domain. :")

Animal Blessings: Allows the trading of the fur token to villagers(Simulate passing the spirit's gifts to other people). The price of these are the same as whatever fur it is used, including its weight. (reindeer blessing == reindeer fur, except you can only trade it now). All furs can be turned into this(Excluding the seals, which is the domain of Ahti).

I mean, you shouldn't expect spirits to not be angry if you just pass their favor to you to other people without permission, could you?

Tapio is king of the forest, the people pray to him for big game like elk, moose, etc.

Ahti Prayers:
Blessings: For the grey and ringed seals fur tokens. Seals and the aquatic creatures are under Ahti's watch.
Fishes: All fishes! The bigger the fish, the more favor is used.

Ahti is the deity that fisherman pray to for good luck for their catches! Seal hunters pray to him in hopes of catching seals.



References and Links:
http://www.finnishmyth.org/FINNISH_MYTHS_GODS/TAPIO.html
https://littlewomen.medium.com/ancient-finnish-gods-and-goddesses-bc880277e45c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele
https://www.temps.fi/en/research/kantele/
http://www.llti.lt/failai/13%20Rainio(1).pdf (Bells? Huh.)

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V1 Changelog: Fixed fur cover rotting.