GOD 2025 E2 specials

This page lists things that are likely to affect GOD crew, because they're special for this event and change how we normally do things.

This doesn't try to cover everything in the Winds of Fortune: sometimes player ask for information about conjunctions, or about how certain titles or opportunities work. They're things we might be able to help with, but they're not covered here because they don't fundamentally change how GOD processes work.

General event information

This is the Spring Equinox 387YE. This event, dusk is 21:00–22:00. Bows and crossbows cannot be used in Anvil after 21:30, and cannot be used on quests that start after 21:30.

If you have plot wiki access, see also Ref Info Spring 387 which covers a similar but different set of topics.

TODO: Check against GOD 2025 E1 specials because some things might keep applying and I haven't reviewed them as I was writing that article.

Character packs

Cattle bonds

• High Hopes: Some Marcher farm owners will have opted to receive cattle bonds rather than their normal income; these will be slips of paper in their packs.

Ribbons

• Read the directions: Players with fleets taking part in the Great Race will have received a variety of resources and/or ribbons.
• Speak to me: Song of the White Wood: Some players will have "chime ribbons" in their packs. If players want more information about these, direct them to the linked wiki page.

Pack hand-in

• High Hopes: We're gonna have a bunch of characters providing hand-in baggies with cattle bonds. Any hand-in bags that contain cattle wains – regardless of whether they contain anything else – get sent down to the Matt Cave to be Steve K's problem.

Magic

Ephisis' Scale

• Read the directions: Cinquefoil and Tourmaline:
  • Players may send ribboned items to Ephisis. GOD should process these as normal.
  • Players may try to send these to Rhianos. This needs to be processed at the regio; if the player can't get to the regio for accessibility reasons, pass them over to the refs.

Infant Starts with a Blank Slate

• Stars and sigils: Transformation of Lore: if a player is targeted by this ritual and consumes a pawn of vis while it is cast, it will mean rituals from the relevant realm don't get forgotten due to the ritual's casting. If you're not confident managing this yourself, escalate to a ref or to Adam.

Casting using blood

• Stars and sigils: Red in Tooth and Claw: Some rituals – check the wiki page for which – can be cast using blood (i.e. character hit points) rather than up to three mana. This can only be done once per day, and using up three hits will put most characters on their death count.

Permanent enchantments

• Stars and sigils: Stars Above and Below: creating permanent enchantments using ilium is cheaper at this event. If it happens, you'll still want to get a ref involved, as it's rare and important to get right.

Arcane Projections

• Stars and sigils: The Unravelling: Arcane Projections enchanting armies, navies, military units or fleets can be exchanged in GOD for 10 mana. If someone brings one in, give them the 10 mana, take the AP from them and write a short note saying it's been exchanged for mana, and put it in the inbox for so we can record that the AP has unravelled and can no longer be cast.

Spells

• Stars and sigils: Cascade of Power and Stars and sigils: Shared Wisdom: these both change how some rituals affect spellcasting. These changes will be flagged in the pop-up message when the rituals are processed.

Character resources

• Rules update 2025: Military Units and Fleets: The rules around what fleets and military units can do in downtime have changed. We shouldn't need to do anything about this, but it's possible some people won't have spotted the changes and won't have realised the rituals cast on them last event would only have made a difference if they'd taken a different action in downtime. If someone is upset about this, treat it as a complaint and escalate to a head of department.
• Golden light: Every Forest Falls: Players can change resource for free if all the following apply:
  • They are getting a new regular resource (rather than, say, a swap).
  • The new resource is in the same territory as their existing resource.
  • The new resource provides votes in the character's nation, per the table at Tally of the Votes.

Religious ceremonies

Dedicate

• Stars and sigils: Dedicated Dreams: the dedicate skill can also be used to cause both priest and target to experience dreams, although this effect is rarely used. At this event, the players can get dream visions provided by PD: if someone comes to GOD asking for these, there will be a pack of visions available in GOD, at the RAT, or at the Regio. Both priest and target get the same dream, and normal rules for visions apply: the players can spend as long as they want with the paper slip, but cannot make notes or confer until they return the slip.