What is my physical presence?

There are two aspects of physical presence in the game:

• Your Avatar
• Your host race and minions

Your Avatar is a physical representation of your summoner. As such, it exists on the map and can travel (through a variety of means). It can involve itself in battle and even perish. However, death does not destroy a summoner, just its Avatar.

Should a spell or effect have a range in its description, this is measured from the current location of the Avatar.

Your Host Race is the collected the creatures in the world that believe in you and serve you. Their population, settlements, structures and armies are under your control while you have influence over them.

Minions are generally supernatural creatures you have summoned or acquired. They never lose faith in you through any natural means.

Influence is a measure of belief, fear, love and opinion. There are many ways to influence creatures to serve you, which is tied to the nature of the species. A population's influence is shown as a percentage, with 100% being utterly faithful and -100% at the lowest representing hatred for you. The 0% middle ground is neutral.