Your New Secret Weapon: Clan Avatars!

Any clan with a citadel can now create, customise and deploy clan avatars. Summoned and controlled by designated avatar wardens within your clan, these living embodiments of your citadel can accompany you to the surface world and support your clan with an array of buffs. These buffs affect every eligible clan member within the avatar's aura of influence. Whether you're a clan of legendary warriors or a collective of shrewd artisans, your avatar has your back.

Combat-focused clans will benefit from buffs that heal over time, randomly resurrect fallen clan members and redirect damage taken by clan members to the avatar.In times of peace, your avatar can increase the resource yield from citadel skill plots, double the duration of Summoning familiars, and can offer a healthy XP boost for any skill training, even outside of your citadel. Depending on the tier of your citadel, an avatar can have up to three slots for equipping these buffs, so they can be tailored to any task at hand.

For an avatar to take up residence, you'll first need to build a habitat within your clan citadel. Here, clan members with the necessary permissions can designate buffs to an avatar. Other permissions can enable you to customise its appearance, choosing from four styles for each of its nine components. Your clan logo and colours will also be proudly displayed on your avatar's body, so no two avatars need ever look the same.

Habitats come in three varieties, each with its own resource requirement:

Basic: 3,000 timber.
Medium: 30,000 timber, 30,000 precious bars.
Grand: 30,000 timber, 30,000 precious bars, 30,000 rations.

The basic habitat houses one avatar, while the medium habitat holds two and the grand habitat three, so the extra investment is well worth it. While your clan can only summon one avatar at a time, you'll have up to three avatars ready and waiting to assist, whatever the situation.

To benefit from the clan avatar's buffs, each individual will need to pay 300 anagogic orts to the avatar, which will buy a week's access to its clan-boosting benefits. These items are non-tradable, but they can be gathered as drops from monsters throughout RuneScape, as well as during skill training - so long as you're a member of a clan. These are also used to heal your avatar when it takes damage in combat, so be sure to stock up if you're taking a clan avatar into multi-way combat or PvP!

Gather your resources, muster your clan mates and summon your new secret weapon. Your clan just got a whole lot bigger.

Mod Maz
Queen of the Squirrels
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Getting Started with Clan Avatars:

See the Captain of the Guard at the clan camp for full details of how to build, maintain and use your clan avatar.

Requirements

To build a clan avatar, or benefit from its buffs, you must be a member.
You must be part of a clan which owns a clan citadel.
Your citadels must include a clan avatar habitat.
You must pay fee of 300 anagogic orts to benefit from clan avatar buffs. This earns you a week's access to buff from avatars owned by your clan. These are non-tradable, and can be gathered from monster drops and skill training.
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In Other News

Discuss this here.

LETS DO IT!!!!

I think it might be nice

No in other news. 0/10.

Seems cool I guess

I like it and it's something else for us to work for

honestly im iffy on the update and its potential but i look forward to seeing what can happen

Seems pointless tbh,
1. This should of been released with citadels.
2. There's so many other issues with the game right now, they need to be focussing all of their attention on scammers and dupers.
3. As Justin said, no "In other news", which is usually the best part of any update.
4. Those things, the orts or w/e, don't auto go in your bank, and offer are mistaken for good boss drops.

Rated it 1/5.

Got a "not bad" out of me. I like how we have something new to work towards for our citadel and how the avatar works, specifically how you need to be in it's vacinity for the benefits to pass over to you. This makes events a whole lot more interesting.

I don't like the little bits of poo that drop at your feet and if you're not paying enough attention they disappear before you can pick them up (as happened to me in the Citadel earlier today). The poo should land right into your inventory at least, like strange rocks, as illogical as that all is...

In the patch notes, they said there is an option to always have the doors in your house open. So that's probably the best thing.