Upcoming Relic System Detailed

The latest Darkfall: Unholy Wars blog has been posted on the official forums and lays out the details about the Relic System said to be arriving in game in November. Players can pick retrieve any randomly spawned relic and return it to a clan church where it provides a global buff. As long as the relic stays in the clan's holding, the buff remains in place but it can be stolen by other players in order to receive the buff for their clan.

Clarifications

A relic only exists in the world, carried on a players back or in a church. It cannot be placed in a backpack or bank or removed from the world in any other way apart from the ones described above, whereupon it will respawn at a random location.

In that vein, dropping a relic means it will actually appear where it is dropped allowing for a hasty escape or for hiding a relic in a remote area only to divulge the information of its location to the highest bidder.

Also, each church can only hold one Relic but clans can take advantage of multiple relics by having multiple holdings with churches.

Additionally, we are experimenting with a few solutions when it comes to carrying a relic in the safe zones, with our current plan being to have the relic drop when the carrying player enters a safe zone.

Read the full developer post on the Darkfall: Unholy Wars site.