Divine intervention

Divine intervention is something that is part of the Deity system.

Divine intervention is something that happens on a chance based upon the current Piety of your character. When the percentage is high enough, you will have a chance that your chosen deity will benefit you, depending on the deity's aspect.

Both the *prays* ability and the activation of an aspect's benefit drain piety.

Pray

Praying can be done by using the emote *prays*. This will force your character to kneel, and will give you a random effect, based on the Piety of your character. Below are a few of the effects:

• A small, temporary, bonus (+1 or +2) to your attributes.
• A large, temporary, bonus (+2 or +3) to your attributes.
• Healing.
• Cure Disease/Cure Poison. (Only occurs if diseased/poisoned, and then almost always occurs)
• Restoring your Hunger/Thirst/Fatigue percentages (if one of them drops to the point where you incur a penalty).
• Nothing.

A successful prayer will sap some of your deity's power and bestow you with one of the bonuses above. You can also use the *prays* emote in combat for some different effects:

• Healing.
• Smiting of enemies. (A good 100-200 damage dealt to hostile creatures around you. PC's can make a save against this. Only works for divine classes.)
• Nothing.

Regardless of success, a combat-prayer will cost you a percentage of your experience points.

*prays* can only be used every so often, so use it wisely.