Custom Major Sanctuary
Custom Major Sanctuary is a type of advanced spell customization that changes the messaging associated with the Major Sanctuary (220) spell. Pre-written custom Major Sanctuary messaging is available at various festivals, pay events, and at Bayview Villa on Mist Harbor. Fully custom Major Sanctuary messaging is a delayed service when the player is writing their own. Custom Major Sanctuary is part of the Player Customization System and is managed via the CUSTOM verb.
Custom Major Sanctuary messaging provides a custom room appearance for the Major Sanctuary itself, plus arrival and departure messaging when entering or exiting the sanctuary.
Examples of custom Major Sanctuary messaging include the following from Rumor Woods:
Sanctuary: [Nest of the Lurker] Forming a pavilion-like structure, pale white spidersilk strands form a webbed space that subtly sways with each movement of its denizens. Tiny charms tied to cross sections of silky strand sway and jingle with a melodic quality, though something above stirs when too many ring out at once. The floor is spongy and soft, its surface pockmarked with translucent panes that offer a view of a distant floor littered in rocks and bones. 1P, entry: Skeins of off-white spidersilk shoot past you, blurring your vision and causing you to feel displaced. As the webbing falls away... 1P, exit: Drawing a finger along one section of webbing, your touch like a hot knife through butter, the gossamer skeins fall away, allowing you to slip through to... Sanctuary: [Glade of False Winter] Vibrant blue-green grass rises in tufts within the small glade, the dark protrusions producing a lush and verdant blanket. Yellowish green and star-headed, juniper moss rings the edges of the small glade, the glow of a distant light causing them to be slightly illuminated as they create a foliage barrier to the forest beyond. A false snow of pale Amelanchier petals dusts everything, the source a central tree with an umbrella-like canopy and white-speckled trunk. 1P, entry: Edged in pale pink, dozens of subtly sweet-scented white petals begin to flutter to the ground, briefly obscuring your vision as they fall... 1P, exit: Chill winds tug at your clothing, calling you back into the glade's embrace, though you resist and continue through a curtain of pale petals to the world beyond... Sanctuary: [Sandstorm Sanctuary] Producing a syncopated rhythm in the air, cyclonic winds swirl at the edges of the sanctuary, creating a sand-laden barrier. Golden sands stretch beneath you, the land uneven and scattered with stones and boulders stripped smooth from the passage of sand and time. Shadows shift and swirl across the desert landscape as clouds rapidly move before the sun within a pale sky. 1P, entry: Light but warm, a zephyr that starts at your feet swirls around you, kicking up sand and dust that sting the eyes. Your vision blurs from the assault... 3p, exit: Braving the cyclonic barrier to the small sanctuary, you step into the sand-laden zephyr. Instantly, your eyes tear up and your vision blurs... Sanctuary: [Hidden Lodge] High timber walls of cedar and red oak create a small sanctuary off of a bustling Great Hall, where laughter is plentiful and the scent of roasting meats fills the air. A thick carpet covered in a smattering of enormous pillows rests before a cheerily burning fireplace, while oil lambs cling to the walls, darkening the ceiling with their smoke. Over the mantel, a painting depicting a spider and scarab locked in combat presides over various enameled bric-a-brac. 1P, entry: Laughter and the flickering warmth of firelight reach you moments before you feel your world blur and shift... 1P, exit: You drift away from the firelight, leaving the laughter and comfortable warmth behind...
Additional examples of pre-written Major Sanctuary messaging can be viewed in the character customizations category, such as with the Rumor Woods 2024 advanced spell customizations.