Breeding Monsters (Guide)

Late MYN Content

Breeding Monsters Summary
Limited-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				7+/14+/21++ A				1 A
Progress Details			Raise any number of Thwarting Beastly Devils, Taming the Beast and The Hunt is On! to 7. Higher reward for completing more of them.
Items Inputs/Outputs Start-up Somnolent Hyaena Tomb-Lion Plated Seal Rubbery Hound Boosting The Formula for Empyrean Redolence Outputs Primordial Shriek Extraordinary Implication Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe Carnival Ticket Surface-Silk Scrap Compromising Document Memory of Distant Shores Foxfire Candle Stub Bottle of Morelways 1872 Phosphorescent Scarab Memory of Light Infernal Contract An Identity Uncovered! Presbyterate Passphrase Antique Mystery Mystery of the Elder Continent Phosphorescent Scarab Scrap of Incendiary Gossip Hound of Heaven Cellar of Wine Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 Favours: The Church Favour in High Places Piece of Rostygold Favours: Constables Shard of Glim Rat on a String Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax Journal of Infamy Storm-Threnody Corresponding Ocelot Obdurate Stallion Slavering Dream-Hound Ocular Toadbeast
Raw EPA			1.36			Raw SPA			-

Theological husbandry in the Labyrinth of Tigers. Unlocked with Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers 16.

Before you Begin

1. Find Mr. Inch in the Labyrinth of Tigers to finish A Name Scrawled in Blood and set Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers to 3.
2. Go back to the first coil and do Odd jobs in the Labyrinth to get The Hunt is On! to 7 so you can unlock Meeting a junior keeper. (See The Hunt is On! (Guide) for more details.)
3. Do the same thing several more times. Eventually you will get Making Progress up to 16.

Catching the livestock

•   A Somnolent Hyaena may be found  In the Labyrinth of Tigers, Navigating Coil 2. You need 100  Drop of Prisoner's Honey and  Nightmares 5 to catch it. (By the way, there is also a useful action on the Hyaena's storylet that reduces Nightmares.)

Cost (If we add the cost of moving to and from the 4th coil):

5 actions, 100 Drop of Prisoner's Honey and 10 Cryptic Clues.

• You may encounter a Tomb-Lion in Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies. Do make overtures when you meet this curious creature.

Cost (Not taking into account getting out of exile):

1 action, 1 F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour (1 E if bought from the Bazaar)

• The Plated Seal is found at zee.

Cost:

Setting zail from London and returning with a seal takes 14.4-18 actions. Swift Zee-Clipper saves one action over Majestic Pleasure Yacht and Zubmarine, and Rusty Tramp Steamer takes 2 actions more than Yacht and Zub. Being a Monster-Hunter saves approximately 0.6 actions on average, thanks to Make a daring approach. 14.4 actions is for a Monster Hunter with a Clipper, 18 is the expected for non-Monster Hunters with a Rusty Tramp Steamer. If you happened to be in Stormbones anyway, it takes 5.4-6 actions.

• The Rubbery Hound is FATE-locked and may be found in Flute Street. According to the Fate policy, only mechanical rewards regarding the Hound may be recorded on the wiki.

Ways to breed, and the results

You can work at raising one, two, or all three of the following 3 Progress qualities ( Thwarting Beastly Devils, Taming the Beast and The Hunt is On!) to 6 in order to breed your beast. The different combinations will give different results for a total of 7 possible results from any one animal! For increasing The Hunt is On! one may also use options in Wolfstack Docks. Getting a progress quality to 6 takes 7 actions with 100% on the hardest options.

Breeding through Discipline

Requires Taming the Beast

• Hyaena:  1050 x Primordial Shriek on a success; 700 on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 2000 x Foxfire Candle Stub on a success; 1300 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 15 x Presbyterate Passphrase on a success; 11 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 4400 x Foxfire Candle Stub on a success; 2900 on a failure.

Just Keep the Devils Away

Requires Thwarting Beastly Devils

• Hyaena: 8 x Extraordinary Implication on a success; 6 on a failure
• Tomb-Lion: 8 x Extraordinary Implication on a success; 6 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 3 x Antique Mystery on a success; 2 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 4400 x Shard of Glim on a success; 2900 on a failure.

Just the Toadstools

Requires The Hunt is On!

• Hyaena: 2 x Carnival Ticket plus 42 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe on a success; 28 x Absinthe on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 200 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 on a success; 130 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 70 x Mystery of the Elder Continent on a success; 56 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 4400 x Rat on a String on a success; 2900 on a failure.

A Firm Hand

Requires Taming the Beast and Thwarting Beastly Devils

• Hyaena: 310 x Surface-Silk Scrap on a success, 210 on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 300 x Phosphorescent Scarab on a success; 200 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 4 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap on a success; 2 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 5500 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax on a success; 3700 on a failure.

Toadstools and a Stick

Requires Taming the Beast and The Hunt is On!

• Hyaena: 62 x Compromising Document on a success; 42 on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 60 x Memory of Light on a success; 40 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 500 x Phosphorescent Scarab on a success; 300 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 110 x Compromising Document on a success; 74 on a failure.
• Sabotage the process, for the benefit of devils (with all the beasts):

2 x Brass Ring, 4000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 3 x Favours: Hell, clears Favours: The Church

Fungus and Pious Wrath

Requires The Hunt is On! and Thwarting Beastly Devils

• Hyaena: 310 x Maniac's Prayer on a success; 210 on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 150 x Infernal Contract on a success; 100 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 100 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip on a success; 60 on a failure.
• Rubbery Hound: 110 x Journal of Infamy on a success; 74 on a failure.

Pulling out the Stops

Requires all 3 qualities

• Hyaena: 80 x Memory of Distant Shores on a success; 55 on a failure.
• Tomb-Lion: 18 x An Identity Uncovered! on a success; 12 on a failure.
• Plated Seal: 1 x Hound of Heaven on success and failure alike.
• Rubbery Hound: 5 x Storm-Threnody on a success; 4 on a failure.

Hounds of Heaven can be handed over for:

• 3 x Cellar of Wine
• 6 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
• 3 x Favours: The Church

or

• 3 x Favour in High Places
• 1500 x Piece of Rostygold
• 3 x Favours: Constables

The Formula for Empyrean Redolence

This guide is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.

What needs work: Details on advancing the storyline once you get the formula.

Should you have this FATE-locked item, some additional options will be open to you under Pulling out the Stops. You will be able to breed four new beasts with their own opportunity cards. You will also need access to Flute Street for the Rubbery Hound. Once all beasts are bred, you may breed a Bifurcated Owl by using 500 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes in your lodgings.

• Somnolent Hyaena breeds into Corresponding Ocelot
• Rubbery Hound breeds into Ocular Toadbeast
• Tomb-Lion breeds into Obdurate Stallion (NB: transport, not companion)
• Plated Seal breeds into Slavering Dream-Hound
• , , , , and 500 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes breed into Bifurcated Owl

Empyrean Redolence cards

Each of the Corresponding Ocelot, Ocular Toadbeast, Obdurate Stallion, Slavering Dream-Hound and Bifurcated Owl have an associated opportunity card. As these companions/transport are FATE-locked, no narrative text may be recorded on the wiki but mechanical effects may be recorded.

Card Requirements	Option Image	Option Requirements	Challenge	Rewards
Corresponding Ocelot		n/a	n/a	+1 CP A Scholar of the Correspondence (up to level 10) +1 CP Wounds 20 x Appalling Secret
		n/a	Persuasive	Success: -1 CP Scandal Failure: +1 CP Scandal
		Watchful 175	n/a	Lose Corresponding Ocelot 50 x Correspondence Plaque 1 x Volume of Collated Research
Ocular Toadbeast		n/a	50% Luck	Success: 2 x Extraordinary Implication Failure: +2 CP Nightmares
		n/a	50% Luck	Success: 1 x Sulky Bat 1 x Lucky Weasel 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber 1 x Reprehensible Lizard 20 x Sapphire Failure: +1 CP Suspicion -5 CP Connected: The Duchess
		Dangerous 175	n/a	Lose Ocular Toadbeast 1 x Vital Intelligence 30 x Compromising Document
Obdurate Stallion		n/a	70% Luck	Success: -2 CP Suspicion 1 x Favours: Society Failure: +3 CP Suspicion
		Watchful Gains 18	n/a	+1 CP Humouring a Buyer of Transports 5 x Hinterland Scrip Gain Loaned Out your Obdurate Stallion
Obdurate Stallion No Bound in Diocesan Intrigue No Loaned Out your Obdurate Stallion		n/a	15 Renown: The Church	Success: Gain Bound in Diocesan Intrigue Failure: Gain Bound in Diocesan Intrigue
Slavering Dream-Hound		n/a	n/a	-2 CP Nightmares
		n/a	n/a	200 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
		Persuasive 175	n/a	Lose Slavering Dream-Hound 50 x Memory of Light 1 x Justificande Coin
Slavering Dream-Hound Wounds (Rare Frequency)		n/a	n/a	20 x Rostygold per level of Wounds Lose all Wounds
Bifurcated Owl		1 x Lucky Weasel 1 x Foxfire Candle Stub A Scholar of the Correspondence	50% Luck	Success: -1 x Lucky Weasel -1 x Foxfire Candle Stub 10 x Appalling Secret +5 CP A Scholar of the Correspondence (up to level 10) Rare success bonus: 1 x Extraordinary Implication Failure: -1 x Lucky Weasel -1 x Foxfire Candle Stub +1 CP Nightmares
		1 x Appalling Secret	50% Luck	Success: -1 x Appalling Secret 1 x Aeolian Scream 5 x Tale of Terror!! +1 CP Nightmares Rare success: -1 x Appalling Secret 1 x Storm-Threnody 1 x Tale of Terror!! Failure: -1 x Appalling Secret +3 CP Nightmares 1 x Tale of Terror!!

Bound in Diocesan Intrigue

Once you have bred the Obdurate Stallion, you will unlock an opportunity card in London that will grant one point of Bound in Diocesan Intrigue. This in turn will unlock a series of opportunity cards in London that each grant +1 CP of the trait upon successfully completing them. Some of these have unique options with Caught Up in a Soldier's Heartbreaking Tale 8 or Cultivating an Acquaintance with His Amused Lordship 3. Upon reaching Bound in Diocesan Intrigue 5, you will unlock a final opportunity card that gives you four options to conclude the story. None have direct material rewards, but each may increase various traits, and two grant a unique trait needed to unlock the Destiny of The Instrument. See the list of rewards in Theological Husbandry.

Overview

(See also [1][2])	Somnolent Hyaena	Tomb-Lion	Plated Seal	Rubbery Hound FATE
Breeding through Discipline	1050 / 700 x Primordial Shriek (21 / 14 Echoes) (Expected: 18.9 )	2000 / 1300 x Foxfire Candle Stub (20 / 13 Echoes) (Expected: 17.9 )	15 / 11 x Presbyterate Passphrase (37.5 / 27.5 Echoes) (Expected: 34.5 )	4400 / 2900 x Foxfire Candle Stub (44 / 29 Echoes) (Expected: 39.5 )
Just Keep the Devils Away	8 / 6 x Extraordinary Implication (20 / 15 Echoes) (Expected: 18.5 )	8 / 6 x Extraordinary Implication (20 / 15 Echoes) (Expected: 18.5 )	3 / 2 x Antique Mystery (37.5 / 25 Echoes) (Expected: 33.75 )	4400 / 2900 x Shard of Glim (44 / 29 Echoes) (Expected: 39.5 )
Just the Toadstools	42 / 28 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe 2 / 0 x Carnival Ticket (21 / 14 Echoes) (Expected: 18.9 )	200 / 130 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 (20 / 13 Echoes) (Expected: 17.9 )	70 / 56 x Mystery of the Elder Continent (35 / 28 Echoes) (Expected: 32.9 )	4400 / 2900 x Rat on a String (44 / 29 Echoes) (Expected: 39.5 )
A Firm Hand	310 / 210 x Surface-Silk Scrap (31 / 21 Echoes) (Expected: 28 )	300 / 200 x Phosphorescent Scarab (30 / 20 Echoes) (Expected: 27 )	4 / 2 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap (50 / 25 Echoes) (Expected: 42.5 )	5500 / 3700 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax (55 / 37 Echoes) (Expected: 49.6 )
Toadstools and a Stick	62 / 42 x Compromising Document (31 / 21 Echoes) (Expected: 28.0 )	60 / 40 x Memory of Light (30 / 20 Echoes) (Expected: 27.0 )	500 / 300 x Phosphorescent Scarab (50 / 30 Echoes) (Expected: 44.0 )	110 / 74 x Compromising Document (55 / 37 Echoes) (Expected: 49.6 )
Fungus and Pious Wrath	310 / 210 x Maniac's Prayer (31 / 21 Echoes) (Expected: 28.0 )	150 / 100 x Infernal Contract (30 / 20 Echoes) (Expected: 27.0 )	100 / 60 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip (50 / 30 Echoes) (Expected: 44.0 )	110 / 74 x Journal of Infamy (55 / 37 Echoes) (Expected: 49.6 )
Pulling out the Stops	80 / 55 x Memory of Distant Shores (40 / 27.5 Echoes) (Expected: 36.25 )	18 / 12 x An Identity Uncovered! (45 / 30 Echoes) (Expected: 40.5 )	1 x Hound of Heaven (52.5 plus 3 Favours)	5 / 4 x Storm-Threnody (62.5 / 50 Echoes) (Expected: 58.75 )
Pulling out the Stops	1 x Corresponding Ocelot (35 )	1 x Obdurate Stallion (35 )	1 x Slavering Dream-Hound (35 )	1 x Ocular Toadbeast (35 )