John Muir

**John Muir** is one of the many Champions in Aeon Clash.

## Background

* **Source:** Wikipedia Article

John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America. His letters, essays, and books describing his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park, and his example has served as an inspiration for the preservation of many other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he co-founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. As part of the campaign to make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in The Century Magazine, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"; this helped support the push for U.S. Congress to pass a bill in 1890 establishing Yosemite National Park. The spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings has inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas. John Muir has been considered "an inspiration to both Scots and Americans". Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, believes that Muir has become "one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity", both political and recreational. As a result, his writings are commonly discussed in books and journals, and he has often been quoted by nature photographers such as Ansel Adams. "Muir has profoundly shaped the very categories through which Americans understand and envision their relationships with the natural world", writes Holmes. Muir was noted for being an ecological thinker, political spokesman, and religious prophet, whose writings became a personal guide into nature for many people, making his name "almost ubiquitous" in the modern environmental consciousness. According to author William Anderson, Muir exemplified "the archetype of our oneness with the earth", while biographer Donald Worster says he believed his mission was "saving the American soul from total surrender to materialism". On April 21, 2013, the first John Muir Day was celebrated in Scotland, which marked the 175th anniversary of his birth, paying homage to the conservationist.

## Stats

**John Muir** is a Utility Champion and a part of the **Specialist Class**.

* **Health:** 1000 (Lvl. 1) / 1570 (Lvl. 20)
	+ **[LVL = +30 HP]**
* **Damage:** 200 (Lvl. 1) / 485 (Lvl. 20)
	+ **[LVL = +15 DMG]**

## Skills

### Default Skills

* **PASSIVE: Resistance Boost**
	+ Killing an enemy gives the PLAYER temporary crowd control and status effect resistance for 15s.
* **SKILL 1: Break**
	+ The PLAYER removes the targeted enemy's active resistance skill and damaging them in the process.
		- **COOLDOWN:** 6s
* **SKILL 2: Cure**
	+ The PLAYER removes all status effects applied onto the targeted ally.
		- **COOLDOWN:** 8s
* **WEAPON ATTRIBUTE:**
	+ **STAFF:** The PLAYER has a 25% chance to avoid an attack.

### Champion Skill

* **CHAMPION SKILL:** Preservation
	+ John Muir targets an area in front of him, marking it as a protected area which enemies can't pass through for 30s. While the Champion Skill is active a magical tree grows inside of the area effect for 30s. Once the tree is fully grown it heals all allies on the map to full health and grants them damage and crowd control immunity for 15s. The tree can be destroyed with basic attacks by enemies, but they are damaged in the process.
		- **COOLDOWN: 25s**