Horome of Moonshadow

The Goddess of Nefu who adores song and dance. She receives widespread support across species for her maternal yet ephemeral visage. In ancient times, she joined forces with her cherished brother Kizuami, wielding a pair of sacred blades to sever the body and soul of Yufu, a traitor who sided with the Gods of Negentropy. Her silhouette, performing a sword dance beneath the moonlight, is a vision of tragic beauty that has inspired countless plays.

Overview

She'll be both your mother and your wife~

Horome is the spellblade goddess, her bonuses tailored towards those who seek to pursue both martial and magic paths. The magical beauty of her silhouette lends itself to magic and charisma-based spells; she grants long sword bonuses for better melee performance, while casting bonuses help offset cast chance penalties from heavy equipment, shields and the like. Oddly enough, she's suitable as a goddess for performers due to her being the only deity to grant bonuses to music, and darkness resistance is useful for fighting many undead monsters.

Mana Drain

Horome's passive ability of draining mana when attacking in melee means that players are encouraged to mix up melee and magic in their playstyles; so long as you can keep fighting, you can keep casting, and hopefully you'll cast some spells to keep you fighting. The amount of mana drained seems to be proportional to damage dealt, and grants immense amounts of sustain in drawn-out combats against monster houses or heavy-duty enemies like big daddies.

Headpat

Headpat ability, differs from the standard Cuddle command in that it can be used on any human or creature. It also slightly increases affinity, making it useful for recruiting NPCs without gifts or love potions, or as a backup when those options are exhausted. Additionally, as a sort of bonus, using it on any ally grants a small buff of “Euphoric” to all other allies. Like the standard Cuddle command, Headpat also has the effect of causing the petted target to very rarely spawn milk or egg.

Apostle

The fox maid starts off weak, but eventually grows to become the tankiest apostle in the game with an impressive 200 life and boosted magic, dark and holy resistances. True to Japanese myth, each additional tail takes an exponentially increasing number of experience to gain, so you'll need to invest in her for the very long haul.

Misaki

Misaki, the Priestess of Horome, has the same Celestial Fox ability as the apostle, but as she does not count as an apostle, it is possible to include her in the same party with two apostles of other gods. She shares the same trait of only being powerful after very long term investment.

Muramasa

As a faction effect, Muramasa adds mana absorption and additional Nether damage to attacks. This allows Horome followers to absorb more MP with their attacks. Benefits available only to the equipped person include enhanced critical and spells, a human bane, and resistance to fire, nerve, and chaos, making it the perfect weapon for Horome believers who use both melee combat and spells.


Ammo Capacity		Empty Sockets		Best Range		Hardness
	★《Muramasa》	WT	DMG	HIT	PEN	DV	PV
	A Bewitched Sword	3.0s	6d6	+5	60%

A divine katana imbued with the power of moonshadow, bestowed by Horome.
It is made of meteorite.
It is categorized as Long Sword.
It uses the Long Sword skill.
It uses the Long Sword and Tactics skill.
It is equipped to Hand.
It is fireproof.
It is acidproof.
It is precious.
It is owned by Horome of Moonshadow.
It absorbs mana. [*****+] (Faction) (30) 【Absorb Mana】
It deals additional Nether damage. [*****+] (Faction) (30) 【Nether】
It makes you float. (Faction) (10) 【Levitation】
It increases your chance to deliver critical hits. [****] (15) 【Critical】
It enhances your spells. [****] (15) 【Enhance Spell】
It inflicts massive damage to humanoids. [*****+] (25) 【Man Bane】
It grants you Fire Resistance. [*****] (5) 【Fire Resistance】
It grants you Nether Resistance. [**] (2) 【Nether Resistance】
It grants you Nerve Resistance. [*****] (5) 【Nerve Resistance】
It grants you Chaos Resistance. [*****] (5) 【Chaos Resistance】

How to gain piety

Horome accepts Corpses, Long Swords, Rods, Rice cake, Round rice cake, Sake, Sake barrel and Cookie as offerings. Of these, the sake barrel is the easiest to gain piety, because it is heavy and valuable.

Sake barrels can be found in Nefu Village, and if you raise your carpentry skills and learn the recipe, you can craft them yourself.

If you don't have the recipe for the sake barrel, you can make sake in a brewing barrel, or purchase rods from from magic stores. These are the next best options.

Incidentally, as a special feature when converting from Kizuami to Horome or vice-versa, the player does not receive a conversion penalty, and in addition, they can retain half of their piety from before the conversion. If you want to switch between the faiths of both siblings ending in Horome, you could try gaining piety with Kizuami first before converting to Horome.

Mechanics

Bonuses

The darkness resistance bonus from faith has a maximum value of +20.

Signals from God

Action	Message
Converting	"Oh my, Who do we have here? Serve me well, and I'll take good care of you."
Turning Apostate	"I am sad to see you go..."
Turning Kizuami worshipper	"Oh my, I hope my brother takes a liking to you..." "Are you going to my brother? Be a good little one, alright?"
Taking Over An Altar	"You have done so well, my lovely servant. I will pat your head as a reward."
Failing to take over Horome's altar	"How adorable, did you think it would be that easy?"
Offering items worth high value	"Your generosity is most appreciated, my lovely servant." "Thank you, my lovely servant." "Such effort! You've made me proud, my servant." "Your faith warms me. My blessings are upon you."
Load Game/Entering Home	"Oh, you have returned. My embrace is always open for you."
Sleeping	"Let the shadow of moon bring you rest, wrapped in my tender care."
Praying	"I had two brothers... well, I used to. Yufu is no longer..." "Fear not the dark, for moonlight shall guide you." "Kizuami is such a reliable big brother, though he can be a bit mean at times." "Oh, what is wrong? Is there anything I can do for you?" "Yes. yes, I am listening carefully." "You have nothing to fear, my faithful servant. I will not let anyone hurt you." "You are going well. I am watching, always." "You wish to touch my tail? Oh, you are such a troublesome child."
Killing	"What a good child you are!" "Oh, what is this!" "You are full of energy, are you not?" "Oh my, no naughtiness now." "Pity, they should never have touched my child."
Activating Ability	(Not applicable)
Giving Pet	"My fox maid, I would like you to take care of this mortal just as you served me."
Giving Artifact	"May this serve you as you have served me, my beloved servant."

Lore and Trivia

Horome of Moonshadow is a backer god.
At implementation, Kizuami had red fur and Horome had white fur. However, due to requests from backers, Kizuami is now white and Horome is now red.