Illuvitars

**The Illuvitars** of Illuvium are NFTs Profile pictures that represent you in the entire Illuvium ecosystem. Since they are NFTs this means you have ownership over them and can trade them for other NFTs or funds with other players. The Illuvitars are incredibly detailed, living up to Illuvium's mantra of being the best at everything. The NFT pictures can be customised as they are made up of a few layers. The background, Base layer, 5 different Accessories, an NFT badge that shows you were here from the start, and your guild allegiance, will all affect your profile picture. The Illuvitars are obtainable in sets, where a single set can be indefinitely minted for a certain amount of funds until its time has run out. With the quality of the NFTs, it comes as no surprise that every set that is created takes more effort to create than the entirety of Axie Infinity Art (stated by Aaron Warwick).

## The Layers

### Base Layers

Each Illuvitar consists of its initial base layer, that depicts a single Illuvial. There will be three iterations of the same illuvial, but every set has its unique design. Later on, this design will never be used again! On top of the base layer, you will be able to add five accessories that change the appearance of your illuvitar. There are five accessories.

The Vermi (T3) is one of the few complete illuvitars available that were leaked.

The base layers have different types of eyes/emotions and background. The rarity of your Illuvial and the background are all determined when minting an illuvitar. Then there are different accessories that can be separately minted, again with their own odds of being rare:

Eyewear: the mask

Headwear: the bandana

Bodywear: The necklace

Props: The pipe

We haven't seen the last accessory called the "skin". This "skin" is just a scar or other blemish on the illuvial.

### Badge effect

After customising the illuvitar with its accessories, you will be able to burn a Badge to your account. The exact effect of your badge is not clarified yet, but we can expect a colorful addition based on the rarity of your badge. A bronze badge would likely add a brown detail, whereas a platinum badge would give you a platinum accent.

### Guild affiliation

The guild that you are in also will affect the outlook of your profile picture. The surrounding border of your Illuvitar will likely be detailed with some kind of speck of your guild.

### Arena rank

In Illuvium, you will be able to battle other players to gain an official ranking. This rank starts at bronze and goes up to Dark holographic, which consists of the top 100 players of the world. The rank that you achieve will affect the appearance of your Illuvitar as well. In the Image you can see how a Bronze border would turn Silver when you rank up in the PVP ranking system.

## The Layer Rarity

Each Layer will have its own rarity based on its tier, as well as the odd chance of it being a shiny. The exact chances per tier and it being a shiny should be leaked before the illuvitar sale, but right now is not known yet. The only information we have, dates back over 8 months ago to Illuvium Improvement Proposal (IIP-13). https://gov.illuvium.io/#/proposal/QmcLp2kGMh1JyMDVTJ3cWPz7yHazxjFXnTSjSWkGHkPu4C

Tier zero Illuvials will be free to mint, while T1 through T5 illuvials will be more and more rare. A rhamphyre that is Tier 5, would obviously have the lowest odds of being minted. An accessory with the coolest looking graphics obviously will also be a higher tier, and thus be more rare.

A price range is mentioned in it, but the market has changed drastically in this short period of time. A value of 0.25 Eth for a single high grade box of accessories might just be too much. Discussions have also arisen on the way that the lootboxes are tiered. There have been notions of making the lootboxes function differently than the five tiers mentioned in the IIP. Why wouldn't we have a single, cheap lootbox that can have any illuvitar tier in it? This has its own benefits and the majority of the community might end up supporting this.

## The Costs

With the absence of a new IIP, the old prices can't be taken as factual information. We will have to wait to see whether the IIP remains unchanged, or that a new IIP is drafted up.