Aura

Heroes and heroines can be affected by colorful temporary effects refered as Auras.

Gameplay

Effects

Heroes can only be affected by one aura at a time and those last from a few couples of minutes to several hours.

If another aura is activated, it will replace the one in effect. If the hero dies, the aura will be lost.

Exact effects of an aura changes from one aura to another ; some are mostly benefic, some not so much. Despite a decades of auras, deities are still not exactly confident on the exact full effect of some auras.

See the List of Auras section for the list of auras and their effects.

How to obtain a new aura

Random auras

• Randomly when questing
• Activating certain Activatable Artifacts
• Completing the Godville Times' Crossword
• Glowing Monsters will grant one upon defeat ; or remove one if the hero is defeated

Specific auras

• Aura of bliss when punishing a low health hero
• Aura of censorship when Censoring Monsters defeat the hero
• Aura of rage when encouraging a fully healthy hero
• Aura of spookiness sometimes on resurrecting.
• Aura of totemism on encountering a totem monster

List of auras

On the table below is the list and summary of known auras.

See also Category:Auras or the navbox below, for a list of all auras with a Godwiki article.

Obtainable Auras

Name	Effect	Notes
Abstinence	Heroes in town will be barred from partying/saving their gold.
Audibility	Heroes are more likely to hear Godvoices.
Baiting	Heroines are more likely to fish.
Bliss	Heroes heals slightly for each monster slain.	Obtained by punishing a low health hero.
Confusion	Heroes will write their diaries with altered caps, in Cyrillic, or backwards.	Obtained very rarely after any monster death, but can also be obtained from mushrooms.
Curiosity	Heroines may activate activatable artifacts on their own.
Hoarding	Monsters will guarantee dropping their artifacts upon death, but drop no gold.
Huckstering	Heroines may sells their artifacts at an higher price.
Hunting	Heroes are more likely to encounter a Boss-Monster when digging.
Immortality	Heroines on low health may refuse to die from monsters or lose loot while sailing.
Pacifism	Heroes will be unable to encounter monsters.
Rage	Heroes will deal slightly more damage to monsters. (?)	Obtained by encouraging a fully healthy hero.
Saving	Heroes in town will guarantee saving their gold for retirement.	Cannot be obtained by pre-temple heroes or hero-traders.
Spookiness	Heroines are less likely to encounter monsters.	Can be obtained upon ressurecting the hero or activating autumn mushrooms
Totemism	Heroes may restore godpower upon defeating monsters.	Can be obtained upon encountering a totem monster
Trail	Heroines are more likely to encounter special monsters, WANTED monsters or tameable pets.

Lore

It is said that all living things radiate an ethereal form of energy, the essence of life. Not only is it said, but it is also proven.

There are many types of auras each with different implications for their sources. Different auras reflect different wavelengths of light enabling an observer to infer the type of aura they can see.

Heroes are dull creatures. We all know this. By default they therefore emit useless grey auras which afford them no special advantage.

Unfortunately, very few living things can perceive the magical aura so nobody much notices the miserable lines of flux surrounding one of those particularly dreary souls.

More colourful auras are temporary but allow the hero privileges depending on the type of aura.

The thing about most auras, is that they last for a finite, and often short, period of time before the wisps of energy dissipate completely.

However, most auras will during this time period bestow the most astonishing luck upon a hero in one particular part of their life.

We can't have heroes everywhere having too much of an easy life so naturally, the more weird and wonderful auras are much harder to come by.