Introduction

A bonus to your Seasonal Wage is given for a number of reasons. These are detailed below. Please note that any added bonus should be applied for with your Seasonal Wage, in the same application. See also the Wealth Skill page for loyalty bonus and skill level bonus.

Higher Education

If you have completed a Higher Education Qualification, you may apply the following to your Wealth Thread so long as your Wealth Skill is the same as - or related to - your qualification.

• Letter = +1wp a Season
• Certificate = +2wp a Season
• Diploma = +3wp a Season
• Charter = +4wp a Season
• Licentiate = +5wp a Season.

These bonuses are NOT cumulative. If you have a Charter, you have +4 TOTAL, not +4 +3 +2 +1, and you always have +4, until you graduate to +5 for the Licentiate.

So, if your Seasonal Wage was 16wp/Season and you had a Charter, you would add +4wp to your wage for that Season. 
16 + 4 = 20wp for that Season.

The next season, your Seasonal Wage would be 17wp/Season. If you still had a Charter, you would still add +4wp to your wage for that
Season.
17 + 4 = 21wp for that Season.

The next season after that, your Seasonal Wage would be 18wp/Season. If you had graduated to Licentiate, you would add +5wp to your
wage for that Season.
18 + 5 = 23wp for that Season.

Language Bonus

In order to promote and encourage long-term involvement in a location that a PC is invested in, a PC may opt in to a "Loyalty Bonus" for the local language of their area. This reflects the PC picking up colloquialisms and other tidbits of the language in their everyday dealings in the location. The more time they spend in the area around the local language, the more they would recognise its quirks and intricacies.

If the PC spends a total of two (2) separate seasons in the area, they may take the local language of that area up to the level of "Broken" for FREE. If they spend a total of six (6) separate seasons in the area, they may take the local language of that area up to "Conversational" for FREE. If they spend a total of twelve (12) separate seasons in the area, they may take the local language of that area up to "Fluent" for FREE.

These seasons do not need to be consecutive in order to qualify for the local language "Loyalty Bonus". Each season can only be used to count towards the improvement of one local language.

Players must link each local language request in their CS. These requests can either be placed in the Wealth Submissions Thread, or in the Local Language Submissions Thread, both of which are located in the Review Forum. For example, a PC with a combined total of six (6) wealth requests and/or local language requests located in Scalvoris would be considered to have acquired Scalveen to a "Conversational" level.

Additionally, a PC who is "Fluent" in a local language may add a +1 WP bonus to their wage in that location. This bonus is NOT cumulative. Each season that you are in the location, you get +1 WP to your wage for that Season. For example, for a PC who is fluent in Ith'ession and works in Etzos, any Wealth Threads completed in that location would be eligible for the +1WP bonus. However, if the same PC moves to Rhakros, the +1WP bonus is lost, and the PC would have to learn Xanevic to be eligible for the +1WP bonus in Rhakros. This reflects the employers and merchants of the area looking more favourably upon those who speak the local language.

Other Bonuses

There may be other bonuses that you can apply to your Seasonal Wage, but which are applied differently than the ones on this page.

• Renown
• Loyalty bonus is detailed in the Wealth Skill page
• Skill Level bonus is detailed in the Wealth Skill page.