Animal Mastery

Animal Mastery is a Kai Grand Master Discipline. This discipline grants the Grand Master considerable control over hostile, non-sentient creatures. Also they have the ability to converse with the birds and fishes and use them as guides. It is an improved discipline of the Magnakai Discipline Animal Control and Kai Discipline Animal Kinship.

On higher ranks, the benefits gained from this discipline is as follows:

Kai Grand-Guardian: Able to summon a limited number of forest animals to their location. Creatures summoned will become loyal and willing allies. However this ability could only happen on an outdoor setting.

Sun Thane: Able to command animals to fall asleep at will. Some hostile animals may be resistant to the command but most will. The duration effect and number of animals increase by rank advancement.

Grand Thane (New Order series only): An animal can be commanded to halt and remain motionless. It affects most animals. Only one animal can remain in that state and the effect only lasts for a minute.

Grand Crown: Able to plant into the mind of any animal their most feared predator or adversary. Under the influence of this illusion, the animal will believe that it is confronted by such creature instead of a Grand Crown.

Sun Prince: Able to alter their appearance to to take on the guise (including clothing and equipment) of the animal of their choosing. The witness to this effect is only the animal in question.

Usage

Animal Mastery is a moderately-useful discipline. Typically, it either helps you avoid fights with animals, or provides you with bonuses when you are on horseback. A discipline such as Assimilance or Grand Huntmastery will often provide more direct bonuses, but after those have been learned Animal Mastery becomes a good choice.