# Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms Founders' Day 2026 Event!

- Product: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/idle-champions-of-the-forgotten-realms)
- Vendor: Codename Entertainment Inc.
- Date: 2026-07-01
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/627690/view/711153447479543637
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- **added** — Recruit legendary monster hunter Rudolph van Richten as a new champion
- **added** — Rebalance three Flex Champions (Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut) instead of a single reworked champion
- **changed** — Nahara's To Amuse or Avenge ability now uses multiplicative damage instead of additive and benefits from feats and equipment buffing the pre-stack value
- **changed** — Nahara's Strong Society affiliation synergy now benefits from Ultimate Cooldown equipment for larger damage boost in full Black Dice Society formations
- **changed** — Strongheart's Justice Needs Champions base buff has been increased
- **changed** — Strongheart's three specialization choices now benefit from feats and equipment as pre-stack buffs instead of post-stack
- **changed** — Walnut's Documancer ability now removes only half stacks when changing areas instead of resetting completely, with feats and equipment buffing the pre-stack value
- **changed** — Walnut's Job's Done ability magnitude and duration have been increased
- **changed** — Walnut's Wolfnut temporary hit point shield magnitude has been increased and base health has been bumped up
- **changed** — Walnut's Pen-Paws ability changed from additive to multiplicative stacking for significantly greater impact at high stacks
- **changed** — Walnut's Co-Signer specialization base effect has been doubled for more impact in formations with multiple C-Team Champions
- **changed** — Walnut's Temporary Alliance specialization changed from additive to multiplicative for better synergy in unaffiliated formations
- **changed** — Walnut gains a health-boosting equipment piece replacing her Ultimate Damage equipment
- **added** — Golden Offers event augment provides one weekly offer with an additional 10% discount that persists when rerolled
- **added** — Auto-Blacksmith event augment grants event champions common rarity equipment in all slots and applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to equipment for completing tier two or higher variants
- **added** — New dread-domain skins and familiars available throughout the Founders' Day event month

Founders' Day has arrived! Recruit the legendary monster hunter **Rudolph van Richten**, and rediscover Flex Champions **Nahara**, **Strongheart**, and **Walnut** with their fresh rebalances, available today! Complete your gothic looks with eerie new dread-domain skins and familiars released throughout the month!
_Celebrations are underway to commemorate the founding of the Free City of Waterdeep. Founders Day attracts huge crowds to the Field of Triumph, where audiences watch illusory shows about Waterdeep's history and martial exhibitions by notable Champions and the renown city guard._

_Festivities have also brought an ancient power from Avernus, first layer of the Nine Hells. A fallen angel has arrived to collect souls for the Blood War..._

##### Event Updates

This update includes an exciting change to our event structure, with an expansion of featured updates for Champions. Instead of a single reworked Champion this month, THREE of this event's Champions have had targeted rebalances, pumping up their numbers to make them more effective in your formations. You'll find updates to **Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut** available for flex slots now! _

##### Featured Champions

##### Van Richten

Learn more about Van Richten in his [Champion Spotlight](https://codenameentertainment.com/?page=idle_champions&post_id=1923#blog).

##### Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests duringevents, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event.This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of theevent as well as some Champions whose events have been retired.This event's Flex Slot pool includes the following Champions, three of which have been rebalanced:

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    Deekin
**SEAT 1**

    Nahara - REBALANCED
**SEAT 3**

    Xander
**SEAT 5**

    Sgt. Knox
**SEAT 6**

    Freely
**SEAT 7**

    Umberto
**SEAT 7**

    Vin Ursa
**SEAT 7**

    Tess
**SEAT 8**

    Walnut - REBALANCED
**SEAT 8**

    Aeon
**SEAT 10**

    Strongheart - REBALANCED
**SEAT 11**

##### Nahara Rebalance

- **To Amuse or Avenge** is an interesting speed and damage combo ability. We're happy with the speed effect, but have adjusted the damage from additive to multiplicative so that it's much more effective at boosting Nahara's damage at low stacks. We've also made it so that feats and equipment buffing this ability will affect the pre-stack value, providing more oomph if she's well-equipped.
- **Strong Society** is Nahara's affiliation synergy and was her featured pre-stack ability. Unfortunately, it was only buffed by a single specialization choice. To fix this, we've swapped her Ultimate Cooldown equipment over to buff this ability, which should provide for a much larger damage boost if you're running a full Black Dice Society formation with decent equipment levels.
- In addition to the above changes, we have redone Nahara's upgrades to align with his kit updates.

##### Strongheart Rebalance

- **Justice Needs Champions** is Strongheart's base buff, and has been bumped up a touch given as he's in a higher bench seat.
- Our main change to Strongheart is to adjust all three of his specialization choices to be buffed pre-stack by feats and equipment, rather than post-stack. This will be especially powerful for people who run his A Righteous Event specialization at high stacks.
- In addition to the above changes, we have redone Strongheart's upgrades to align with his kit updates.

##### Walnut Rebalance

- **Documancer** was a bit of a NOMBO for Walnut. Since you start each area with zero stacks and must kill enemies to get stacks, it is very ineffective when you reach your wall. We've opted to adjust how the stacks reset, removing only half of them when changing areas instead of resetting them. Additionally, feats and equipment that buff this ability will now apply to the pre-stack value, rather than post-stack.
- **Job's Done** intenti

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