Traits

**Traits** in *Rivengard* are permanent modifications that a unit may possess.

### List of Traits

* **Affinity Weakness** - Enemies of opposite affinities/colors deal ×2 damage against the unit's armor and have ×2 crit and block chances against the unit.
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon (and their Dragonlings)
	+ Objects with this trait: Amphora, Rare Chest
* **Amphibious** - Can pass Water tiles but not end their move on them.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Dorga, Gix, Tokon
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Bushkin** - Deals +20% attack damage when standing in Shrubs.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Cervidus, Nixie, Oakenshrub, Scruffy, Silverroot
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Burned by Light** - Takes 50% of max Health as damage at the start of each of its turns when not in **Darkness**, and takes ×2 damage from Light units.
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Burrow** - Moves underground, ignoring obstacles and units.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Harun
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Dragon Scales** - Armor completely regenerates at the beginning of its turn.
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon (and their Dragonlings)
* **Eager** - Moves one tile towards the nearest enemy at the start of its turn, if not adjacent to an enemy.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Lyonette, The Red Rat
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Elemental** - Gets healed by 25% of initial health at the beginning of the turn when standing on a tile of matching affinity/color, and ignores its negative effects.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Coryn, Oakenshrub, Zefa
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Erratic** - Targets a random enemy in range when attacking.
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Fatal Landing** - Damages and displaces units when landing (units that cannot be displaced die)
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon
* **Fear of Death** - Moves to an adjacent tile, trying to move as far as possible from the damage source, after taking damage.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Lucente III, Mivera
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Flying** - Can traverse impassable tiles and enemies and move between any elevation.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Coryn, Sunshine, Thana Moh, Wingtip
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon (and their Dragonlings)
* **Healer** - Can heal a friendly unit as its action. Heal amount is Healer's damage.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Hanna, Lucente III, Nixie, Tawa Rinji
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Hulking** - Cannot be displaced or devoured. Must stop its movement immediately after going to higher elevation.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Boulder, Bullmon, Buzzy Klonkson, The Red Rat, Yasamin, Zefa
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon
* **Immune** - Immune to all tile and unit effects
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragon, Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, Web Dragon
* **Inebriated** - Deals and receives +10% damage for each round after the first.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Agnar, Balmur, Cinder, Salvo, Vittoria
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Life Bond** - Any damage dealt is also immediately dealt to the unit that originally summoned it
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragonling
* **Looter** - Adds 10% Gold to the battle rewards for each enemy defeated in an adjacent tile (excluding Summons and Objects) **if** hero survives.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Buzzy Klonkson, Vittoria, Yasamin
* **Magic Resistance** - Takes 20% less magical damage
	+ Heroes with this trait: Snazzbang, Sprocket, Staticrackle, Wingtip
* **Mechanic** - Can *Repair* a friendly unit as its action. Health and Armor repaired is Mechanic's damage.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Cinder, Snazzbang, Sprocket, Staticrackle
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Mechanical** - Cannot be healed, but can be repaired. Repair also increases Armor by the same amount.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Buzzy Klonkson, Sunshine
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Mounted** - Movement not blocked by special tiles (e.g. Thorns or Broken Ice).
	+ Heroes with this trait: Akio, Harun, Lyonette, Silverroot, Sir Florianus, Sir Matteus, Timtim, Voyassa, Yasamin
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Night Vision** - Have no negative effects from **Darkness** and deal +50% damage against enemies in **Darkness.**
	+ Heroes with this trait: Aceshru, Nimrul, Ranaklu, Umanu, Voyassa
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Object** - Automatically takes its action, if any at the beginning of the turn. Cannot be Healed. A player loses the battle if their only remaining units are Objects.
	+ Units with this trait: Amphora, Explosive Barrel, Fancy Box, Fire Spitter, Rare Chest
* **Polearm** - Deals 50% more damage against *Mounted* units. Enemies entering an adjacent tile must stop.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Gibbo & Gobbo, Naevys, Pelator, Taro, Tokon
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Ranged** - When adjacent to an enemy, range is reduced to 1 and damage is reduced by 50%.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Aceshru, Aradel, Ardasi, Areus, Balmur, Bullmon, Caradan, Cervidus, Freneric, Gix, Grandma Bones, Hanna, Ignozio, Katsume, Lucente III, Mivera, Monty, Nixie, Pari, Pendar, Salvo, Snazzbang, Staticrackle, Tawa Rinji, Timtim, Umanu
	+ Monsters with this trait: Goblin Slinger, Undead Gunner
	+ Every unit with range 2 or greater possesses this trait
* **Shadewalker** - When starting their turn in **Darkness**, can move to any other Tile on the board with **Darkness**.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Ranaklu
	+ Monsters with this trait:
* **Steppable** - Can be stepped on
	+ Units with this trait: Gold Pile, Sea Urchin, XP Book
* **Sturdy** - Takes 75% less damage from ranged units' normal attack.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Freneric
	+ Monsters with this trait:
	+ Objects with this trait: Fancy Box, Rare Chest
* **Summon** - Moves and attacks automatically at the beginning of its turn.
	+ Heroes with this trait: Shun (after active ability)
	+ Monsters with this trait: Dark Dragonling, Frog, Skeleton Warrior, Spirit Samurai, Tadpole
* **Terrifying** - Takes 40% less melee damage
	+ Heroes with this trait: Ranaklu
	+ Monsters with this trait: