I would like to make a custom recovery email (nice styles, including a picture). I don't quite understand how to write it, or what the variable names I'm looking for are in terms of href or how to store the image I need? I read this: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/concepts/email-sms#sender-address-and-template-customization But the only example is for verification, not recovery.

What would your ideal email look like?

An entire template really

Yes, you can do that. The link you provided is correct, in the example it says:

recovery:
      # the configuration structure is the same as the verification

so recovery works exactly like verification

so in the example here: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/concepts/email-sms#creating-templates for recovery I would use

{{ .RecoveryURL }}

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exactly 🙂

Fantastic. And how would I go about including an image? (The fairy thing is an image) Should I include it in the config file or make it available as an external source?

depends, if it is small you can use a base64 encoded image: https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/html/how-to-display-base64-images-in-html.html

hopefully it is, i'll check it out, thanks!