Golden boar

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**Golden boar** (also known as Gullinbursti) is a very slow Norse mount that can feed anywhere by activating the mount ability. Feeding buffs nearby farm plots and has a random chance to generate 3 coins.

## Unlocking

The boar can be found as a sacred golden idol over an altar, somewhere in the forest of the fifth island of the Norse Lands campaign.

It requires three gems to unlock and twelve coins to ride.
Once unlocked with gems, the idol comes alive.
The statue becomes organic with a portion of the gold becoming its armor.
The animal roars for a second and jumps off the altar.
Down on the ground, it will display the option to pay with coins.

## Rooting the earth

Trigger for the special ability
 2nd Player
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The main ability of the boar is turning up the ground with its snout in search of food.

This ability has to be activated and comes with two potential benefits:

* finding coins (random chance of 3 coins, about 1/8 of the time)
* enhancing farms (speedup, and double coin output)

### Feed anywhere

By rooting in the ground, the boar can replenish its stamina and receive the well-fed buff.
It can be done anywhere on the island (including the forest), at any time of the day (including nighttime), and during all seasons (including winter).

This ability isn't enough to make the golden boar a mount of choice when looking for mobility, even during the winter.
It cannot overcome the animal's terrible speed and stamina.
Other mounts that cannot graze during the winter, like the stag, the fire horse, and possibily even the standard horse, are still overall better for moving around during the snowy days.
Although the boar is slow and tires easily, with its ability to "graze" anywhere it can still escape a cave explosion with *very* carefully timed activation of its special-ability to feed. The boar will even just barely outrun the explosion on the last island, although the accompanying squad might not make it in time and be reduced to vagrants.

### Action required

Unlike *all* other mounts, the boar will not feed itself if simply left resting.
It does require an action by the player for the boar to feed and recharge it's stamina *(see the table for the trigger)*.

Also unlike all other mounts, the boar is unable to regain any level of stamina by walking instead of galloping.
This means that an exhausted boar cannot simply walk for a while in order to go back to running.
It can keep walking, out of breath, forever, but if the player does not activate the special ability, it will never be able to run again.

### Digging coins

While looking for food, the boar will sometimes find and dig out three coins for the Monarch to collect. This is similar to the unicorn’s ability to "make" coins every time it grazes.

However, unlike the unicorn, the boar’s coins have only an approximate 1-in-8 chance to appear. The uncertain chance for coins to appear while the boar’s ability is activated is somewhat compensated for by the boar’s ability to feed multiple times in a row.

### Enhancing farm fields

Rooting on a farm plot accelerates the farm's growth by one level, and doubles the crop yield from 6 coins to 12 coins. Each dig affects all nearby plots (up to 2 plots in each direction). The enhancement can only be used once per plot, and once per growth cycle. Once the crops over the enhanced fields have matured and dropped their 12 coins, the ability can be reapplied on the same plots.

The affected farm plots will have small particle effects floating on top of them to indicate that they have already been buffed (not to be confused with the sparkling effect on the ground that comes from the Statue).

## Norse mythology

Gullinbursti means "Gold Mane" in Old Norse. In the Norse mythology, when Loki had bet his head that the dwarves, Brokkr and Eitri, would not been able to craft a better gift than the ones fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi; Brokkr and Eitri crafted Mjolnir, Draupnir, and the golden mane boar, Gullinbursti. In the aftermath of the bet, the boar was gifted to Freyr, the god of harvest and fertility.

In Norse Lands the Gullinbursti shows its relation to the god of harvest with its ability to give the monarch a greater harvest from the farm plots.