Wildermyth is an RPG all about options and decisions. You will often see your heroes grow and change together through the course of adventures. But at times, the possibility to transform them forever will appear, leading to all sorts of consequences. This guide covers how transformations work and the full list of everything you can expect to see in your ventures.
How Do Transformations Work in Wildermyth?
In Wildermyth, transformations are permanent changes to your heroes that can affect them in various ways. Some are purely cosmetic, but others can have lasting effects, either with passive or active abilities or by changing their stats as well. In some cases, if your hero happens to lose a limb in battle, this will automatically be replaced with one corresponding to the transformation.
Most of them are obtained by completing events or making certain decisions throughout them. They can affect different parts of the body (head and both arms and legs individually), but there is no set rule as some can vary greatly. Those who affect several parts will appear during the years of peace (a period that follows a chapter’s end) as a character option, so you’ll be able to either take or stop the transformation from happening.
Keep in mind that these transformations can stay with characters after you turn them into legacy heroes. Meaning after finishing an adventure, you can choose to keep the heroes in your save file, so you can take them into new campaigns with you while retaining their bonuses. Choose wisely, but also, don’t be afraid to experiment! After all, it’s part of Wildermyth’s charm.
Transformations List – Wildermyth
Below are all the current transformations available in the game:
Beartouched
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Shape Of Things To Come.
- Head: Grants the hero +1 health
- Left Arm: Gives Bear Hug (deals damage and pins an enemy)
- Right Arm: Gives Swipe (attack two adjacent targets at once)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Reduces block chance but adds dodge chance, while also decreasing overall speed slightly
Botanical
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Strider.
- Head: Grants +10 recovery rate
- Left Arm: Gives Thorn Lash (attack that deals damage and applies poison in a line)
- Right Arm: Gives Entangle (you can move an enemy or ally to a specific tile once per turn)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Reduces speed slightly but grants dodge chance
Celestial
This transformation affects heroes who have the coward or goofball stat maxed. It can also affect heroes with the poet, romantic or healer stat maxed (higher or equal to 60, and less than 55 of age). It’s granted from the event chain that involves the Star Dance, Book of Stars, and Glimmering Pool events.
- Head: Grants the passive ability Blinding Attacks (chance to blind enemies with each attack)
- Left Arm: Gives Shooting Star (range attack available once per turn)
- Right Arm: Gives Shooting Star (range attack available once per turn)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases speed and reduces armor slightly, as well as having the chance to give a tile +10 accuracy after leaving it
Child of the Hills
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Offering.
- Head: No special effects (looks cool, though)Left arm: You can no longer equip weapons or use items, but you gain Crush (melee strike that pushes enemies to another tile, dealing additional damage depending on the knock back distance)
- Right Arm: Gives Stonewall (armor buff until the next turn begins)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases armor and reduces speed slightly
Crowtouched
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event As The Crow Flies.
- Head: Gives Crow Peck (attacks a nearby enemy)
- Wings: Gives Fly (increases speed)
- Leg: Gives Stalker (boost to speed for each tile moved before attacking)
- Tail: Gives Evade (boost to dodge for each tile moved until the next turn begins)
Crystalline
This transformation can affect heroes with either of the following maxed stats: bookish, coward, goofball, loner, greedy, poet or snark (need to be higher or equal than 80). When a character is maimed, their limb is replaced by a Gem limb. It’s granted from the event Heart of Stone.
- Head: Grants a Gem Eye (increases stunt chance)
- Left Arm: Increases both stunt chance and grants a shield (reduces damage from non-flanking attacks)
- Right Arm: Gives a Crystal Sword (attacks a nearby enemy)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Reduces speed slightly and increases block moderately
Drauven Wings
This transformation can affect a hero with a high bookish stat. It’s granted from the event Featherless Flight.
- Wings: Grant a boost to speed
Elmsoul
This transformation targets the hero with the highest loner stat. It’s granted from the event Splinter. Any previously lost limbs are replaced with tree limbs.
- Photosynthesis: Gives the hero +10 recovery rate
- Left Arm/Right Arm: Grants Bash (attacks and knocks an enemy to another tile, dealing additional damage equal to the knock back distance)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases speed and armor slightly
Flamesoul
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event Stories of Fire.
- Head: Does not grant specific bonuses but now the hero’s hair looks great
- Left Arm: You can no longer use weapons or items – grants Cone of Fire (attacks one or more lines and has a chance to set them on fire)
- Right Arm: Heroes that lose their right arm get it replaced by a fire arm (can use a strike ability for a melee attack)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: If the hero loses a leg, this is replaced by a fire leg (grants boost to speed and warding)
Foxish
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Merchant.
- Tail: Increases speed, stunt chance and dodge
Frogtouched
This transformation affects a hero with a goofball stat higher or equal to 80. It’s granted from the event Jigsaw.
- Head: Grants a Frog Head with the Tongue Whip ability (pulls a target towards the hero using the tongue)
Gorgonoid
This transformation can affect the hero with the highest hothead stat. It’s granted from the final battle in Chapter 1 of the Age of Ulstryx campaign.
- Head: Does not grant specific bonuses, just a scar from battle
Hawksoul
This transformation can affect heroes with either of the following maxed stats: leader, hothead or greedy (need to be higher or equal than 80). It’s granted from the Dreams of Icarus event.
- Wings: Boosts speed
Mark of the Horn
This transformation can affect heroes with a romantic stat higher than 80. It’s granted from the Into The Underworld event.
- Head: Increases warding slightly, as well as both charisma and tenacity
Mortificial Enhancements
This transformation can affect maimed heroes. It’s granted from the Troygan the Enchanger event.
- Head: Can result in either Braincase or Clockwork Skull heads (neither give particular effects)
Left Arm: Grants a Crossbow (shoots a nearby enemy) - Right Arm: Grants a Hammer (melee strike that pushes enemies to another tile, dealing additional damage depending on the knock back distance)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Gains speed slightly but decreases dodge moderately
Mothly
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the Eluna and the Moth campaign.
- Wings: Grants Gloamglow (the party enters graplane once per combat)
Petrified
This transformation can affect heroes who are maimed by a True Gorgon.
- Left Arm/Right Arm: Increases armor slightly and gives Stone Claw (attacks a nearby enemy)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases both speed and armor slightly
Ratlike
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Offering.
- Tail: Has no specific effect – aside from giving you a rat tail, that is
Scorpioid
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Merchant.
- Tail: The hero obtains a scorpion tail that gives the Sting ability (melee attack that applies poison)
Shadow
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event The Inhabitant. If the hero happens to lose any limbs in the future, those can be replaced by shadow limbs.
- Head: Increases the hero’s speed
- Left Arm/Right Arm: Grants Harvest (melee attack – if it kills the enemy, this is consumed and gives health for each shadow limb the hero has)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases the hero’s speed
Skeletal
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the To Humble Ends event. It has the particularity of being an on-going curse that will gradually get worse. The hero won’t be able to use any other weapons aside from a cursed dagger. In addition, the hero won’t be able to keep or form new relationships.
- Head: Grants Inscrutable Stare (causes the enemy to flee for one turn)
- Left Arm: Grants Bitter Scratch (shreds 1 armor from a nearby enemy)
- Right Arm: Increases warding and potency – it also grants Dagger Strike (melee attack)
Left Leg/Right Leg: Increases the hero’s speed
Skunkish
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from The Merchant event.
- Tail: Grants Skunk Spray (attacks and applies spoison to enemies)
Spell Touched
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the event Worlds Apart.
- Blue Skin: Increases both potency and recovery rate, adds +10 to retirement age and decreases bonus damage slightly
Stormtouched
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from The Stormwell event, but only after having completed the Distant Thunder event first. In addition, you can choose your first transformation.
- Head: Grants Static Shock (has a chance to deal damage to enemies who melee attacks the hero)
- Left Arm: Grants Jumpjolt (deals damage to one enemy and half damage to a second one with a chance to stun)
- Right Arm: Jumpjolt is upgraded to Chain Lighting (deals damage to one enemy and half damage to a second and third enemy)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Decreases block chance and grants Thunder Stomp (ground attack with a chance to stun enemies in the affected area)
Sylvan
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from the Drifters event.
- Head: Reduces tenacity and adds +5 to retirement age
- Left Arm: Grants Invigoration (gives temporary health to an adjacent target twice per combat)
- Right Arm: Grants Witherbolt (spell that can leap up to three targets, doubling in damage for each target hit)
- Left Leg: Reduces speed and increases dodge moderately
- Right Leg: Reduces speed and increases health slightly
Teeny Wings
This transformation can affect heroes with a leader, hothead or greedy stat that is higher or equal than 80. It’s granted from the Dreams of Icarus event.
- Wings: Does not grant any specific affect (sorry!)
Wolftouched
This transformation can affect all heroes. It’s granted from The Wolf Price event. The hero immediately receives a Wolf Head, as well as having previously maimed limbs replaced by wolf limbs. Any other lost limbs in the future are automatically replaced as well.
- Head: Grants Wolf Bite (bites a nearby enemy)
- Left Arm: Grants Wolf Claw (attacks a nearby enemy)
- Right Arm: Grants Frenzy once you have both wolf arms (the hero attacks three times dealing damage to a random enemy within range)
- Left Leg/Right Leg: Reduces block and decreases speed slightly
