🧙Characters and Summons

Characters are the base resource required to advance your gameplay and one of the most essential economic units of value traded across the Pentachora ecosystem. There will be various pipelines for users to obtain Characters but the main supply will come from in-app purchases made by Web 2 gamers. This will make our underlying Value Cycle possible to advocate both Web 2 and Web 3 gamers on our ecosystem.

Certain characters will be awarded to gamers by finishing storylines, tutorials, and certain quests, but many of the stronger and unique characters will be exclusively obtainable through NFT Mints or Character Summons.

This page covers the basic mechanics related to Characters and Character Summons that will be universal to all games within the Pentachora ecosystem. The specifics of each Character may be different depending on which game you utilize the Character you own.

Characters

Characters within the Pentachora ecosystem are playable NFTs with unique backgrounds and roles within the World. Initially, these Characters will be developed by the studio, but we wish to give birth to a world where users write their Characters and Stories through Prism.

Characters can have different perks and skills depending on which game you want to utilize it within. For instance, if you wish to use a certain Character in an RPG genre game, its skill will be focused on battle mechanics, or if you wish to use the Character in Farming, its skill will be focused on either helping the crop grow; or protect it from external elements such as pest, draught or thieves.

Attributes and Skills of Characters can be leveled up separately within games using in-game resources and generally, the strength of each Character will be determined by their inherent Rarity. The quickest way to obtain higher rarity Characters is through Character Summons but they can also be obtained through Character Combines.

Character Combines

Combining a suit of excess Characters will give the user a chance to obtain a higher rarity Character. The probability will be affected by the rarity of the Character used in the combine and when unsuccessful, will receive a random same rarity Character used for the combine.

This function will largely decrease the amount of Character NFTs within the ecosystem and contribute to the deflationary NFT cycle. More information on this can be found in the "Deflationary NFTs" page.

Character Summons

Users can use the in-game equivalent currency of the $PRISM token to Summon Characters. Character Summons will be the main utility of the $PRISM token within games and the Character that can be summoned will be determined by events

The $PRISM token-denominated price of Character Summons will be universal to all games within the Pentachora Ecosystem, and this cannot be changed for third-party game developers. The fiat price of each summon will be pegged to a certain amount which can be prone to price volatility due to its' denomination in a number of $PRISM tokens or its in-game currency equivalent.

More information on the use of proceeds accrued through Character summons can be found in the "Value Loop" page.