Pets

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Pets are optional companions that can be chosen on character creation. Currently, all official pets can only be gotten from being a Arconaut or higher tier ($5+) patron on the Freehold Games Patreon. One new pet is released every month.

All pets start friendly to the player and are immune to beguiling, Proselytize, and love injectors. This means that even if one can be spawned, it will not be friendly unless it is properly created upon character creation.

They cannot be wished for without downloading the respective content.

Redeeming a Code

After becoming a patron, the locked posts for all previous pets will be unlocked.

  • Copy the code for the pet you want to download
  • On the start menu, select Redeem Code
  • Paste the code into the input box.
  • It is successful when the message "Your new pet is ready to love." pops up.

List of Pets

Pet Description
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Bon te Bok
It moves as if painted onto the scene, each slender limb and fluted horn the gestalt of a thousand brushstrokes moving in smoothly rapid sequence. This picture of an antelope never opens its physical eyes, but between its horns wide-stares an eye of light that sees you, within you, beyond you. Whatever moves the handle of the brush that paints its effigy is terribly distant-- a distance that is a suggestion, felt in dread.
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CAP-N
It's not so tall as a chrome pyramid, nor so wide, nor powerful, nor heavy, nor frightening, and no 'however' follows this clause. The semblance is there in outline, but it carries no weight, and all that's left is a pylon small and pointy.
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Ebenshabat
His chassis is illuminated with the artifacts of life: dirt smeared over his undercarriage, dead leaves pinned by bolts to his hardpoints, lichen angling for sunlight on his armatures. A hat crumpled like cheese cloth shades the glass lune of his sensor array, where with a dim but golden iris he sees, and muses.
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Either
It's you, but the shadows on your face are cast by a different sun and spire. Your weal, your woe, the totality of your actions: you've a new context for them now. Where you reach to the branch of a fruiting tree for a starapple, either likewise reaches, but what do they pull back? The answer is obscured by the umbra of a thousand timelines.
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Ercolano
Sprial-grained wood was coopered into the Sublime Angle by a secret carver in three places: the headrest and two rockers. A small inscription on the oblong splat avers the wood was stolen from an emir's palace grove in the Hanging Hills and smuggled across the Homs Delta. There, this mysterious stranger worked a simple beauty out of the wood. But what other workbench sorcery was performed? The chair rocks of its own accord, and its tight friction squeals are a bride language to those who listen.
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E-Ros
Antennae splay from =pronouns.possessive= broad stannic face at just the right angle to form the 'love frustum' -- a shape phenomenologically proven to arouse the spirit into filling the body -- and =pronouns.possessive= expression is an atlas of grooves that reads as dumb desire.
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Esbear
Though bipedal and clad in robe and sandal, this is no Urshiib. With no quills or technical expertise to speak of, this ursine companion's talents lie in =pronouns.possessive= inexplicable force of ego. Power shines behind =pronouns.possessive= eyes, albeit in the absence of substantial intellect.
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Fire-on-Asphalt
Peculiar and little, the dawnglider-like glides not through the air but on the ground. He is propelled via a flexble plastron, sliding through all terrain with supreme alacrity. Low from where his head lies, a tendril of smoke twirls.
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Frillicent
By the high salt sun =pronouns.subjective= nearly =verb:glow:afterpronoun=. How the hide of =pronouns.possessive= striped trunk shines like ribbons of painted glass suspended in a crystal shell -- and yet =pronouns.subjective= =verb:move:afterpronoun=. Beside =pronouns.possessive= charge =pronouns.subjective= =verb:glide:afterpronoun=, and =pronouns.possessive= crystalline fractal gills waft in an unseen current. Though dusk dulls =pronouns.possessive= sheen, by the Beetle Moon =pronouns.subjective= =verb:sing:afterpronoun= to =pronouns.possessive= favorite beings.
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Frondzie
Shuffling along on countless little fronds like a smarmy caterpillar, this vine sidles along =pronouns.possessive= way, eternally seeking a worthy audience for =pronouns.possessive= slippery wit.
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Gloaming
Two wide eyes open like bright-shored lochs of a different realm. The mere act of looking traps your own eye in their currents, and you're dragged through a procession of spectral forms and drowned in their black waters before rising to the surface of your familiar, buoyant world. Now the smooth and feathered bird is visible to you, lit from behind by a distant gleam. As =pronouns.subjective= flap the shadows off =pronouns.possessive= wings, they appear to take on the shape of something else.
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Goshling
This girshling runt's proportions transform what would normally be a repulsive abomination into a portrait of cuteness. From =pronouns.possessive= pale stubby legs to =pronouns.possessive= shining and innumerable black eyes to =pronouns.possessive= darling little fangs, one could almost forget for a moment that =pronouns.subjective= =verb:are:afterpronoun= of the Second Plague, created to vex all sapients and heralding a possible end of days.
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Gru-wof-ufo, loyal snapjaw retainer
Though bent the body and small the frame,

a Stalwart spirit towers above! No greater foe or larger strife, shall break this servant's bond of love.

-- Willow Shakesprig's 'Macoun', Act III, scene ii
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Hylaeus
The wilds have matted =pronouns.possessive= layers of softest snow fur into a heath-brushed tundra. A wide snout =pronouns.subjective= =verb:bear:afterpronoun= for scooping out the rain-damp loam, and a staunch tail for vigorous wagging. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:pant:afterpronoun= and =verb:eep:afterpronoun= in awakened appreciation of a companion worth a damn.
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Important fish
Pneumatic and oxygenation technology has lifted the river out of itself and made it motile. Steel and chrome scaffolds the glass shell, and piston-powered legs take their watery resident about the world. Inside the cozy aquatic home, an important fish nibbles on a strand of river flora sourced from the Svy. The fish's eyes meet your own.
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Iopinax the Younger
Under a coat of curly fur, dappled skin dents -- dodecagons -- catch the filtered brightness of the wide world and thrash it back against itself twelve times, and then breathe out a soft glow. It lights the beards of the three thin necks, each craning a head to inspect the others and acting as a lever for its set of hooking horns. The god-goat is mute and severe.
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A network of roots
Arteries of wood tissue collapse into a navel knot, and their topology forms an inner space. The cirrus cabinet opens to the earth and into a world-scale circulatory infrastructure normally hidden from the regnum animale.
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Koharta
She wears a nest of waterweed upon her swarthy head, fronds spilling down like glorious tresses. Though she be the height of three woodsprogs and the girth of eight, she is brisk on her strapping trotters, o'er land and sea both.
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Lorent Epsome, Wraith-Knight Errant
Shifting in the darkness, a web of scattered light struggles to remain singular. Though bound to the shape of a monster, =pronouns.possessive= form is rendered soft by millions of voxels avulsed from place, drifting down in waves of fresh static snow.
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Lyy
Damp pistachio skin heaves around his tiny nares like miniature foothills caught in flood. He's perched on his twiggy shanks comfortably, and his star-bright eyes watch the wide world. The floor about him is wet with the inky prints of webbed feet; the dotted baby has erupted out of the realm of the imaginary.
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Man Opener
Though nearly extinct now, for a few short decades the pit beetle was a must-have accessory for any bandit fort or murder cave. Sporting a pair of articulated horns, a determined pit beetle excels at its favorite activity: peeling away armor and feasting on the contents. As violently loyal as =pronouns.subjective= =verb:are:afterpronoun= affectionate, Man Opener is a paragon of =pronouns.possessive= kind. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:wander:afterpronoun= Qud in search of a new keeper, or at least a friend.
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Mniq Mnaq
Like =pronouns.possessive= greater kin, =pronouns.subjective= trudges slowly, carrying =pronouns.possessive= dusty white dome low to the ground on stubby legs wrapped in cracked-salt hide, a boar leather travel pack fastened firmly to the shell's crown. That pace carries some measure less majesty than an 'ordinary' saltback, as =pronouns.subjective= stands no taller than a dromad calf, but Mniq Mnaq has a secret weapon: a theme song.
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Moldfella
=pronouns.Possessive= cap droops and the creases in =pronouns.possessive= gills look like a hundred wry smiles.
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Mote cloud
Dancing and still lights alike perform an old and beautiful dance of anecdotes long drifted free of their contextual confines. The aetheric debris waxes and wanes, orbits and follows, summoning stories of timelost experience.
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NaN-NA
Were it unclothed, one might mistake this robot for a fearsome limb-rending sawhander, but only at quite the distance. Wearing a humble mantle and sun hat, it is made even less fearsome by its small size and the blunt textured discs that whine at the end of each arm.
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OoEEOOH, baboon girl
She dances a Beetle Moon dance, limbs awhirl and aching with life. By day the sun shines through the umbra of her fur like tinted glass and she does what she must, but her heart longs for moonlight.
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Or
It's you, but the hue of your eyes shines by a different moon and lamp. Your judgements, your choices... were they yours at all? Where or reaches for a silhouetted space, you reach for the starapple of a fruiting tree. Your movement must be the source, you must be the agent. Yet you swear it was or who moved first.
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Recall Star
Smooth and crystalline walls stretch betwixt the joining of twelve perfect seams at identical angles. From those opaque panes, a soft ultramarine glow pulses like breath. The shape remains aloft in near-silence, ever tracking in a slow rotation.
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Small Problems
Fungal roots snake-hold the dirt, and a trio of blunted hyphae with beaks peer from their roosts atop ropy, craning necks. Each one widens to make a cryptic declaration that resonates like a tremor in the deep rock.
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Snakelite
Product out of placement, this strange appliance wanders the wastes. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:are:afterpronoun= called &MSnakelite&y, a beacon of aggressive advertisement hawking wares in the voice of a long-dead manufacturer. Buried aside &MSnakelite&y's creator lies the rationale behind granting machine intelligence to a mechanical worm with an electric torch for a head. Why =verb:were:afterpronoun= =pronouns.subjective= made to be as long as a human child? =verb:Were:afterpronoun= =pronouns.subjective= intended to defend =pronouns.possessive= owner with dispassionate and disproportionate violence? We will never know. &MIt's Snakelite&y!
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Unpleasant mirror
Stately and tall, this mirror seems almost purpose-built by its unknown creator to evoke in its beholders a keen sense of their own lack.
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Uthabatafah
Little hooves pat the ground in practiced fury, and three little horns arch toward the sky in menacing miniature. Into the slate-scale skin of his diminutive body is a labyrinth of scar-etched filigree, and while it looks as though it could be the work of a meticulous gemcutter, in fact it's the aftermath of a hundred skirmishes and a gratuitous reduction in size. There, the tiny spirals that were incised by the puma's claw just before it was gored and dashed against the trunk of a diacalyptus tree. There, the miniscule triangle of a warden's pike, who was flattened into a bloody mess and fed to worms. A fate-wrench took Uthabatafah's beastly dominion from him, but might it have gifted him something in return? Through the feckless fury, how might being in the world on a new scale bind him to others in ways he couldn't have imagined before?
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You, but mechanical
A hideous specimen.