Insanity

Insanity is a game mechanic mainly present in The Depths, but also on the Surface to a lesser extent.
Insanity is dictated by a meter that is not directly shown to the player, but its progress can be tracked by a blue hue on the border of the screen. Once your sanity has decreased enough, it will begin to debilitate your character in increasingly harsher ways the more insane you become.
Players start with base 80 sanity. Being in The Depths passively takes sanity at a rate of 1 point every 30 seconds, meaning you can spend about 40 minutes in The Depths with 0 Willpower and no equipment bonuses before you reach maximum insanity.
Insanity can be resisted by leveling up the Willpower attribute, by taking Talent cards from the Mental Fortress deck, wearing a blindfold, or wearing equipment with a sanity bonus.
== Insanity effects ==
When losing enough sanity, the player will incur negative effects.
Insanity Effect	Effect 	Sanity Threshold	Cooldown
Shivering 	Slows you down for 2 seconds. The Unfazed Talent makes you immune to this while above 40% Sanity. 	<70% 	30–36 seconds
Saturation Lose	The world loses its colors. Gets more intense the more sanity you are missing 	<70% 	N/A
Blurring 	Blurs your vision, making it harder to see further. Gets more intense the more sanity you are missing 	<50% 	N/A
Panicking 	Stuns you for 1 second and deal 10 damage (5 with Grasp on Reality Talent). Is then followed by shivering. With the Unfazed Talent, this effect is ignored and replaced by 2.5 seconds of shivering.	<40% 	30–36 seconds
Hidden Faces 	When panicking of scratching, hide the face and name of nearby humanoids (including players) for 30 seconds. 	<40% 	360 seconds
Scratching 	Stuns you for 1.5 second and deal 20 damage (10 with Grasp on Reality Talent). Is then followed by shivering. The Unfazed Talent offer no protection against this. 	<10% 	30–36 seconds
Execution 	If knocked by any means, including scratching, you are immediatly killed. 	<10% 	N/A
Head Explosion 	Reaching 0 Sanity with a No-Life King enchantment in The Depth or while observing the eyeballs in The Ancient Rotland will immediatly kill the player. 	0% 	N/A
==Sanity Decreasing Effects==
*Being in range of the Megalodaunt or Primadon's screech attack
*Being hit by the Deep Widow's web or bite attack
*Being hit by the Mudskipper Broodlord
*Being in the First Layer
*Being hit by a player with Shared Misery active
* Drinking or being splashed by a Mindbreaking potion
*Using Heretic's Sutra
*Using Blindseer Mantras
*As a potential corrupted resonance downside; gives a massive amount of insanity, making it dangerous to use in general.
*Being hit by a weapon enchanted with Curse of the No Life King, which gives you a 2% sanity decrease
*Equipping a weapon enchanted with Curse of the No Life King, which constantly gives you insanity when unsheathed while in The Depths.
**The effects of this can be reduced through increasing Willpower. However, you'll still die if you don't regenerate your sanity.
*Being in the immediate vicinity of the pulsating brains with eyes and looking at them in Ancient Rotlands
*Having the Wishbound flaw during nighttime
==Sanity Restoring Effects==
* Passive sanity regeneration. (Disabled in the Depths)
*Sitting at a campfire (Improved if sharing the campfire with a Capra) (Graceful Flame included)
*Receiving the Mark of Jurik from a Capra.
*Drinking or being splashed by a Heartening potion
*The Conquer Your Fears Talent
*The Castle Light sanity aura, which is exclusive to the Deepbound origin.
== Trivia==
*While often attributed to him by the community, Yun'Shul is not the cause of Insanity; rather, the eldritch nature of the First Layer is responsible. This is likely why the Second Layer does not cause Insanity, as despite its variety of monsters it's more grounded in reality.
*With just sanity increases (blindfold, Mental Fortress Talent deck, 100 willpower and Blindseer Oath) and no randomly rolled sanity stat on gear and no potions, players can reach 436 sanity, which equals to just below 2 hours (118 minutes) in The Depths before tier 3 insanity.
*Each point of sanity equals to 30 extra seconds in the Depths before reaching 100% insanity.
*The spoken phrases caused by Heretic's Sutra consist of the following (albeit without the same degree of distortion):
**"Ś̵̮Ô̴̰ ̸̞̈́M̵̧͌U̷̧͗C̴̺͗H̶͎̏ ̶̛̞Ṱ̴͗E̵͖͆R̷̞̊R̸̺̍O̷͍͗R̷̛͇"
**"T̸̳̏H̷͉͌E̴̖͠R̴̯̈É̶̙ ̶̻͝A̵͚͛R̶̼͐E̴̦̚ ̶͇̈́N̸̮̿O̷̞͊ ̶̺̅G̷͖̑O̵̟͐Ď̵̮S̶͓̎"
**"H̵̞͇̍͜E̴̖̅́̀͒ͅL̶̡̯̃͘͝P̵̮̊ ̴̯̫̟̣͐̀͐͝͠ͅM̵̝̟̭͛̈́E̵̘̲̗̝͐̔̓͘͝"
**"T̶͚͌H̶̲̓E̴̦̔ ̸̧͑V̸̱͌Ǒ̵̜Í̵̞C̴̭̍E̵̮͝S̷̋͜ ̷̥̓Ĉ̸̼Ä̷̯́Ḻ̶̾L̵̻͌ ̵̤̅O̴̘̚U̶͇̚T̵̬̄"
== Gallery ==
File:InsanityEffect.png|A guard as viewed through tier 3 insanity
File:Shivershiver.png|Stages 1–2 of insanity: Shivers
File:Eye tear.png|Stage 3 of insanity: Eye ripping
File:Insanity lessen effect.gif|Effects of insanity lessening
File:Heretic's Sutra.png|Heretic's sutra text
Category:Mechanics