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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.4
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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Many in Maj'Eyal have heard of "demons", sadistic creatures who appear seemingly from nowhere, leaving a trail of suffering and destruction whereever they go. Their Fearscape floats far above the skies, watching and waiting, but not idly; their agents scout the land, their legions build up their forces, and their scholars develop new spells and strategies. As the barrier between our worlds begins to crack under their scrutiny, helpless Eyalites have begun to disappear, whisked up to serve as their slaves and playthings. They imbue these victims with magical powers to better survive the ensuing stresses - can you use your new-found abilities to escape the legions of Mal'Rok?

Features:

  • Start with a new class, the Doombringer! These avatars of demonic destruction charge into battle with massive two-handed weapons, cutting swaths of firey devastation through hordes of opponents. Armed with flame magic and demonic strength, they delight in fighting against overwhelming odds, softening up the crowd with waves of fire, then feeding on the flames and suffering of their surroundings to stay alive while quickly reducing any group to a pile of ash and gore.
  • Unlock a new class, the Demonologist, with an all-new item enhancement mechanic! Bearing a shield and the magic of the Spellblaze itself, these melee-fighting casters can grow demonic seeds from their fallen enemies. Imbue these seeds onto your items to gain a wide array of new talents and passive benefits, and summon the demons within them to fight on your side! Ever looked at a gigantic demon-cursed minotaur and wished it was on your side for once? Well, now you CAN summon one to pound your foes into paste while you cast devastating spells from afar, or call forth a squad of Fire Imps to pelt your enemies to death while they exhaust themselves on your impenetrable defenses! Demons have persistent health, making them a little more precious than disposable necromancer skeletons or summoner beasts, but can be revived from death nonetheless.
  • Two new zones, with all-new art, foes, and bosses! You've seen the plains of the Fearscape before, now see the lairs and headquarters of the demons themselves!
  • Over 10,000 words of written lore to find! The demons were once an enlightened, peaceful race, hailing from a distant planet known as Mal'Rok; learn what drove them to plot Eyal's eternal torture! Discover monuments to each of the demonic species and noteworthy individuals, showing the place of honor each has among them! Get a glimpse into the culture and daily lives of these sadistic invaders and their brainwashed thralls!
  • Unlock a new race, Doomelves: Shalore who've taken to the demonic alterations especially well, corrupting their typical abilities into a darker form. Blink away to safety, transform into a shadowy dúathedlen to hide in the shadows or prey on your foes with blasts of darkness, use your new resilience to soak up status effects and critical hits, and assault your enemies' minds to leave them unsteady in combat!
  • Between the aforementioned classes and Doomelves, a whopping 75 new talents!
  • Unlock two new cosmetic options! You know you've always wanted demon-horns.
  • Two new events, appearing anywhere in Eyal!
  • 20 new artifacts, with unique and interesting effects. Collect the Obsidian Treasures to amass more and more power! Slip your hands into the Will of Ul'Gruth and watch your sweeping blows smash down walls! Wear a giant hideous hell-mouth as a fashionable belt!
  • 7 new achievements! Conquer the worst Urh'Rok's forces can throw at you, and hang their metaphorical skulls from your profile page!

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

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Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.
 

Features:

  • Explore a whole new campaign from level 1 to 50, one year after the events of the original Tales of Maj'Eyal campaign. Liberate the Orcs (or die trying) by rising up against the Sunwall, the Steam Giants of Atmos, and other dangers that may lie in wait...
  • Play as one of three new races: the battle-hardened Orcs, the brutal Yetis, and the unstoppable Whitehooves. Discover their stories, their pains, their hopes... and their awesome racial powers!
  • Risk your life in over 20 unique zones! Explore the ruins of a lost city, lay siege to the Sunwall forces at the Gates of Morning, and raid the Steam Giants' mining quarry - each has its own unique foes and hazards, leading each to feel and play different from the others.
  • Play as one of the four new tinker classes: Gunslingers, Sawbutchers, Psyshots and Annihilators! Plus a class evolution: Technomancers! Crush and rend your foes with heavy metal, electrocute and immolate them with your gadgets, charge across the battlefield or nimbly strafe in style - each plays differently, and none provide any shortage of ways to slay your foes.
  • Master steam technology to build powerful tinkers to augment your equipment. Need to close in a bit quicker? Turn your boots into rocket boots! Having a hard time deciding whether to shoot someone or stab them? Build a Hand Cannon into your gloves, or deploy a Weapon Automaton to do the stabbing for you! If you have a problem, steamtech has a solution, usually involving explosions; with over 80 different powerful contraptions to craft, enjoy unparalleled versatility and trying something different with every playthrough.
  • Master the tactical uses of over 140 talents! Fire bouncing trick-shots and psychic-infused shots, use your steamsaws as shields or wheels, terrify your foes with long mechanical arms - there are no "boring" talents here, everything has its own special applications and properties!
  • Use advanced technology in the world of Eyal! Burrow through sand, plant bombs to destroy tunnels, and discover that you aren't alone in using it...
  • Infusions and runes are for puny humans; implant new medical injectors to pump an array of experimental chemicals into your body! Injectors can use any (infinitely reusable) salve in your inventory as long as they're off their cooldown, giving you versatility you've wished you could get with a couple of inscriptions.
  • Loot over 70 new and powerful artifacts. Pump lead into foes with big guns, quick guns, and explosive guns! Shred them with saws that maim, saws that thirst for blood, and saws that aren't really saws! Violate common sense by strapping a rocket to your back and calling it a jetpack!
  • Enjoy dying in horrible and exotic ways at the hands (or claws, jaws, guns...) of over 140 new creatures! Not mere piles of stats and chain-stuns, these foes will provide unique challenges - suffer the Sunwall's newest cosmic spells, the new breeds of ritches that infest and multiply, the Steam Giants' elaborate defense systems, and find new strategies to adapt to each!
  • Earn a trunkload of achievements! Have your accomplishments recognized for liberating the Orcish people, displaying exceptional mercy or cruelty, or showing your prowess with impressive feats! Give a boss a fate worse than death, show Sunwall forces how frustrating it is to fight a Radiant Horror as a paladin, come out on top against impossible odds, display a suicidal lack of situational awareness, and wear a badge of pride or shame for each!
  • Read roughly 27,000 words of new lore to immerse yourself in the world! Learn how things have changed since the Scourge's campaign, feel hatred and/or pity for your foes, uncover grand schemes and sinister plots, and notice the elaborate connections between Var'Eyal's numerous factions. Every zone has a story behind it, and every story ties into a bigger picture; enjoy a tale of horror and humor, of intrigue and glory, of despair and hope.
  • Earn the right to use the classic (and Ashes of Urh'Rok) classes in Embers of Rage, and the new tinker classes in Maj'Eyal! Play a Brawler in the East to fulfill your life-long dream of suplexing an entire nation of giants, or play a Sawbutcher in Maj'Eyal to shred through Dreadfell in a whirlwind of sawblades and steam!
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Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Not all adventurers seek fortune, not all that defend the world have good deeds in mind.
Lately the number of sightings of horrors have grown tremendously. People wander off the beaten paths only to be found years later, horribly mutated and partly insane, if they are found at all. It is becoming evident something is stirring deep below Maj'Eyal.
That something is you.

Forbidden Cults is a big expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal to let you explore the horrors that lurk beneath the surface, to delve in long lost knowledge and lore and as usual to die a lot!


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

  • Writhing One: Give in to the corrupting forces and turn yourself gradually into an horror, summon horrors to do your bidding, shed your skin and melt your face to assault your foes. With your arm already turned into a tentacle, what creature can stop you?
  • Cultist of Entropy: Using its insanity and control of entropic forces to unravel the normal laws of physic this caster class can turn healing into attacks and call upon the forces of the void to reduce its foes to dust.

Both those classes use a new resource called Insanity that gradually makes you both more chaotic and powerful as it fills up.


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

  • Drem: A corrupt subrace of dwarves, that somehow managed to keep a shred of sanity to not fully devolve into mindless horrors. They can enter a frenzy and even learn to summon horrors.
  • Krog: Ogres transformed by the very thing that should kill them. Their powerful attacks can stun their foes and they are so strong they can dual wield any one handed weapons.


Forbidden Cults adds many new zones for you to explore and die in:

  • Kroshkkur: An ancient Sher'tul Fortress laying half in ruins that serves as a focal point, and home, for all kinds of creatures seeking lost knowledge.
  • The Maggot: A huge living corrupted worm about to destroy Kroshkkur! Teleport inside and save your sanctuary of horrors!
  • The Godfeaster: Deep undergroud the ground shakes as ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • The Scourge Pits: On the south of the Iron Throne lays a fool pit of ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • Forbidden Tomes: Find special artifact books of ancient lore. But, read at your own peril, for the story they tell may very well suck you in... quite literally.
    Maybe you will even find The One That Writes...
  • Occult Egress: A strange, extremely old, contraption of unknown origin. It seems to require some kind of code sequence to activate. Maybe you will find some during your adventures?
  • The Entropic Void: So you think you are strong? Powerful? Invulnerable? In the end, entropy always wins, as you will learn...


What would an expansion about horrors be without a bunch of new horrors to torment you with? Please give a warm welcome to:

  • Searing Horrors: You liked luminous horrors? You loved radiant horrors? You will absolutely adore their searing big brothers!
  • Nethergates: It sleeps. Maybe it should stay that way.
  • Netherworms: Vampiric worm masses that are bound to tickle your fancy! And tickle hard.
  • Fearful Symmetry: Geometry has never been so lively!
  • Entropic Shards: Take an entropic crystal, shatter it with tentacles. And die.
  • : And more ...


"DarkGod, is that all?" Obviously not! You will also find your usual addition of:

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Roguelike
SexFemale
RaceDoomelf
ClassAdventurer
Level / Exp1 / 58%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by investigator at level 1 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 20:25
/ 1

Primary Stats

Strength10 (base 12)
Dexterity13 (base 12)
Constitution13 (base 12)
Magic15 (base 12)
Willpower12 (base 12)
Cunning15 (base 15)

Resources

Life-17/112
Hate52/100
Stamina72/105
Healing Factor0.69853191953981
Regeneration0.17463297988495

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage7
Accuracy7
Crit Chance4%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower18
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower14
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Physical+10%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)1 (30%)
Defense3
Ranged Defense3
Fatigue0
Physical Save8
Spell Save9
Mental Save9

Defense: Resistances

All+ 7%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 100 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 18
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to instantly dissipate the energy of your ailments, cleansing all cross tier effects and 1 physical, mental, and magical effect.
You use the dissipated energy to create a shield lasting 3 turns and blocking 50 damage per debuff cleansed (not counting cross-tier ones).
If there were only cross-tier effects to cleanse, no shield is created and the rune goes on a 75% reduced cooldown.
Rune: Shatter Afflictions
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: 3
Cooldown: 16
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport up to 3 spaces within line of sight. Afterwards you stay out of phase for 3 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
Rune: Blink

Class Talents

Cursed / Shadows1.20
  • Effective talent level: 2.4
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: While this ability is active, you will continually call up to 1 level 1 shadows to aid you in battle. Each shadow costs 5 hate to summon. Shadows are weak combatants that can: Use Arcane Reconstruction to heal themselves (level 2), Blindside their opponents (level 2), and Phase Door from place to place.
    Shadows ignore 41% of the damage dealt to them by their master.
    Call Shadows
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Instill hate in your shadows, strengthening their attacks. They gain -12% extra Accuracy and -18% extra damage. The fury of their attacks gives them the ability to try to Dominate their foes, increasing all damage taken by that foe for 4 turns (level 0, 0% chance at range 1). They also gain the ability to Fade when hit, avoiding all damage until their next turn (8 turn cooldown).
    Shadow Warriors
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Infuse magic into your shadows to give them fearsome spells. Your shadows receive a bonus of 0 to their Spellpower.
    Your shadows can strike adjacent foes with Lightning (level 0, 0% chance at range 1).
    At level 3 your shadows can sear their enemies from a distance with Flames (level 0, 0% chance at range 2 to 6).
    At level 5 when your shadows are struck down they will attempt to Reform, becoming whole again (50% chance).
    Shadow Mages
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Focus your shadows on a single target. Friendly targets will be defended for 1 turns. Hostile targets will be attacked, with a 16% chance the shadows will blindside the target.
    If you have less than maximum shadows available, they will automatically be summoned before focusing.
    This talent has no cost.
    Focus Shadows
0/5
Cunning / Stealth1.00
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Enters stealth mode (power 25, based on Cunning), making you harder to detect.
    If successful (re-checked each turn), enemies will not know exactly where you are, or may not notice you at all.
    Stealth reduces your light radius to 0, increases your infravision by 3, and will not work with heavy or massive armours.
    You cannot enter stealth if there are foes in sight within range 8.
    Any non-instant, non-movement action will break stealth if not otherwise specified.

    Enemies uncertain of your location will still make educated guesses at it.
    While stealthed, enemies cannot share information about your location with each other and will be delayed in telling their allies that you exist at all.
    Stealth
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You know how to make the most out of being unseen.
    When striking from stealth, your attacks are automatically critical if the target does not notice you just before you land it. (Spell and mind attacks critically strike even if the target notices you.)
    Your critical multiplier against targets that cannot see you is increased by up to 0%. (You must be able to see your target and the bonus is reduced from its full value at range 3 to 0 at range 10.)
    Also, after exiting stealth for any reason, the critical multiplier persists for 3 turns (with no range limitation).
    Shadowstrike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have a special affinity for darkness and shadows.
    When standing in an unlit grid, the minimum range to your foes for activating stealth or for maintaining it after a Shadow Dance is reduced by 0.
    While stealthed, your life regeneration is increased by 0.8 (based on your Cunning) and your stamina regeneration is increased by 0.2. The regeneration effects persist for 3 turns after exiting stealth, with 5 times the normal rate.
    Soothing Darkness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 41
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your mastery of stealth allows you to vanish from sight at any time.
    You automatically enter stealth and cause it to not break from unstealthy actions for 0 turns.
    Shadow Dance
0/5
Cunning / Trapping1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: This talent allows you to prepare up to 1 different trap(s) of tier 1 or less for later deployment. (Use this ability to select which to prepare.)
    Designs known:

    Tier 1: Disarming Trap
    Deals 63.09 acid damage, disarms for 2 turns.
    Tier 1: Bear Trap
    Deals 41.47 physical damage and pins, slows (30%), and wounds for an additional 41.47 damage over 5 turns).
    Tier 2: Springrazor Trap
    Shrapnel (radius 2) deals 48.67 physical damage, reduces accuracy, armour, and defence by 5.
    Tier 3: Pitfall Trap
    Deals 59.67 physical damage. Target removed from combat or pinned 5 turns.
    Tier 4: Flash Bang Trap
    Explodes (radius 2) for 76.17 physical damage, 50% blind/daze for 3 turns.
    Tier 5: Bladestorm Trap
    Construct attacks all adjacent enemies each turn for 6 turns.

    Traps prepared this way are difficult to detect (10 detection 'power') and disarm (12 disarm 'power') based on your Cunning. They gain +25% effectiveness, and can be deployed without breaking stealth 18% of the time.
    You are immune to the damage and negative effects of your traps, and traps may critically strike based on your physical crit chance.
    Most traps last 9 turns if not triggered, and refund 80% of their stamina cost on expiration.
    More designs may be discovered via disarming or learned from special instructors in the world.
    Trap Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Deploy a noisy lure that attracts all creatures within radius 1 to it for 0 turns.
    It has 17 life (based on your Cunning) and is very durable, with 1 armor and 61% resistance to non-physical damage.
    At level 5, when the lure is destroyed, it will trigger some traps in a radius of 2 around it (check individual trap descriptions to see if they are triggered).
    Use of this talent will not break stealth.
    Lure
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn new techniques for setting traps.
    Deploying one of your traps is possible up to 1 grids from you, takes 0% less time than normal, and has 0% less chance to break stealth.
    Advanced Trap Deployment
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You prepare an additional trap (up to tier 0) with a special primed trigger that causes it to activate immediately when deployed. (Use this ability to select the trap.)
    Not all traps can be prepared this way and each trap can have only one type of preparation.
    Known primable designs:

    Tier 1: Bear Trap
    Deals 37.57 physical damage and pins, slows (30%), and wounds for an additional 37.57 damage over 5 turns).
    Tier 2: Springrazor Trap
    Shrapnel (radius 2) deals 38.93 physical damage, reduces accuracy, armour, and defence by 4.
    Tier 4: Flash Bang Trap
    Explodes (radius 2) for 66.43 physical damage, 50% blind/daze for 3 turns.

    A trap with a primed trigger gains +0% effectiveness (replacing the normal bonus from Trap Mastery) and won't break stealth 14% of the time.
    Current primed trap: none
    Trap Priming
0/5

Generic Talents

Cursed / Cursed form1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your body's strength is fed by your hatred. This causes most forms of healing to be between 50% effective (at 0 Hate) to 100% effective (at 100+ Hate). In addition, after each kill, you store the waning life force to invigorate yourself, restoring 7 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 18 at any time). You can heal no more than 6.5 life per turn this way, and it is not affected by your hatred level or other effects.
    Healing from kills improves with your Willpower.
    Unnatural Body
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +11% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You have learned to hold onto your hate and use your suffering to fuel your body's rage. Every turn you take damage, the damage you inflict increases, until it reaches a maximum of +17% after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus.
    Seethe
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You rise to meet the pain that others would inflict on you. Every turn you take damage, your Strength and Willpower increase until they reach a maximum of +1 after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus. While in effect, your body also has a 5% chance to overcome poisons and diseases each turn.
    Grim Resolve
0/5
Race / Doomelf1.00
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 42
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hasten yourself out of phase, teleporting you to a specific location up to 4 spaces away.
    You can activate this talent up to twice within the same turn, but the second activation will not be instant.
    Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 turns. In this state your defense is increased by 8 and all your resistances by 8%.
    The bonus will increase with your Willpower.
    Haste of the Doomed
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: The tortures you had to endure on the Fearscape have increased your resilience.
    All detrimental status effects last 0% less on you and all direct critical hits (physical, mental, spells) against you have a 2% lower critical multiplier (but always do at least normal damage).
    Resilience of the Doomed
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 52
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your original invisibility talent was corrupted and twisted.
    You have 12% chance to turn into a dúathedlen for 5 turns, when hit by a blow doing at least 10% of your total life.
    While in this form you gain the following effects:
    - you have permanent stealth (power 9)
    - your darkness damage is increased by -1%
    - any non mind and non physical damage you deal above 1 triggers a darkness explosion of radius 1 for half the damage (this can only happen once per turn)
    - when you transform the cooldowns of Haste of the Doomed and Pitiless are reset
    Corruption of the Doomed
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 54
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You launch a mental assault on the target.
    The assult increases the cooldown of any already cooling down talents by 1, the duration of any magical, physical or mental detrimental effects by 2 (max 4x duration) and decreases the duration of any magical, physical or mental beneficial effects by 1.
    Pitiless
0/5
Cursed / Cursed aura1.20
  • Effective talent level: 2.4
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your defiling touch permeates everything around you, permanently imparting a random curse on each item you find. When you equip a cursed item, you gain the effects of that curse (shown as a beneficial effect). Each item with the same curse that is equipped increases the curse's power. Initially curses are harmful, but powerful benefits accumulate as the power of the curse increases.
    The Dark Gifts talent unlocks higher level curse effects and increases their power.
    Your aura permeates your equipment more thoroughly with talent level and can affect items as follows:
    Level 1 -- weapons
    Level 2 -- body armor and cloaks
    Level 3 -- shields and helmets
    Level 4 -- gloves, boots and belts
    Level 6 -- rings
    Level 7 -- amulets/necklaces
    Level 8 -- lites
    Level 9 -- tools/totems/torques/wands
    level 10 -- ammunition
    At level 5, you can activate this talent to surround yourself with an aura that adds 2 levels to a curse of your choosing. (None chosen)
    Also, talent levels above 5 reduce the negative effects of your curses (currently 0% reduction).
    Defiling Touch
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your curses bring you dark gifts. Unlocks bonus level 0 effects on all of your curses, allowing you to gain that effect when the power level of your curse reaches that level. At talent level 5, the luck penalty of cursed effects is reduced to 1.
    Talent levels above 5 add bonus power levels to your curses, increasing their effects (currently 0.2).
    Dark Gifts
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Curse the earth around you in a radius of 2 for 3 turns. Any who stand upon it are weakened, reducing the damage they inflict by -1%
    Ruined Earth
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 5
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Instill a part of your living curse into a weapon in your inventory, and toss it nearby. This nearly impervious sentry will attack all nearby enemies for 3 turns. When the curse ends, the weapon will drop to the ground.
    Cursed Sentry attack speed (currently 16%) will improve with talent level.
    When you first select a weapon, it will be remembered and used as long as it's in your inventory. Use Choose Cursed Sentry talent to alter your selection.
    At talent level 3, you get the ability to afflict powerful mundane objects (greater egos).
    At talent level 5, you can corrupt artifacts.
    Cursed Sentry
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    (Note that wearing mail or plate armour will interfere with stealth.)
    Heavy Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 0.
    Combat Accuracy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

Quests

You do not remember much of your life before you were on this burning continent, floating in the void between worlds. You have been helping demons, happily participating in their experiments to shatter some sort of shield preventing them from taking their righteous revenge on Eyal.

You are being taken by your handler to the torture-pits to help them figure out how to cause the most pain to those on Eyal, when you hear a roaring above you; you look up and see a burning meteor, flying closer, and the demons' spells failing to divert its course! It lands near you, knocking you off your feet with its shockwave and killing your handler instantly.

As you recover, and your platform of searing earth splits from the main continent, your old memories flood your mind and you come to your senses - the demons are out to destroy your home! You must escape... but not without destroying the crystal they've used to keep track of you.

* You have to destroy the controlling crystal before leaving or the demons will be able to track you down.
Ashes in the Wind		active

Equipment

Main armor
linen robe (Corpses) (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +7% all
Curse of Corpses


A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (Corpses) (0 def, 0 armour)
On hands
rough leather gloves (0 def, 1 armour)
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.


Light gloves which do not seriously hinder finger movements, while still protecting the hands somewhat.
rough leather gloves (0 def, 1 armour)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Cloak
linen cloak (Nightmares) (1 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +1 (+1 eff.)
Curse of Nightmares


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
linen cloak (Nightmares) (1 def, 0 armour)
In main hand
elm starstaff (Nightmares) (10-12 power, 2 apr, physical element)
Requires:
- Magic 11

5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / staff ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 10.0 - 12.0
Uses stat: 80% Mag
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +10% physical
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Spellpower: +3 (+2 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +1%
Curse of Nightmares


Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
elm starstaff (Nightmares) (10-12 power, 2 apr, physical element)

Inventory

This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
medical injector implant (efficiency 87% / cooldown 90%)
Powered by steamtech
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / implant ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 1
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Medical injector allows using therapeutics with 87% efficiency and cooldown mod of 90%.
It can be used to implant on your skin..

Steamtech implants can be grafted on the users skin..
medical injector implant (efficiency 87% / cooldown 90%)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
medical injector implant (efficiency 90% / cooldown 52%)
Powered by steamtech
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / implant ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 1
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Medical injector allows using therapeutics with 90% efficiency and cooldown mod of 52%.
It can be used to implant on your skin..

Steamtech implants can be grafted on the users skin..
medical injector implant (efficiency 90% / cooldown 52%)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
steam generator implant (steam 4)
Powered by steamtech
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / implant ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 24
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Steam generator that permanently creates 4.0 steam per turn.
Can be activated for an instant burst of 20 steam.
It can be used to implant on your skin..

Steamtech implants can be grafted on the users skin..
steam generator implant (steam 4)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
manasurge rune (regen 600% over 10 turns; mana 30; cd 17)
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / rune

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 17
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Won't Break Stealth: 100%
Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 600% for 10 turns (15 total) and instantly restoring 30 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the rune.

Magical runes may be inscribed onto your body, granting you an on-demand spell talent.
manasurge rune (regen 600% over 10 turns; mana 30; cd 17)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron dagger (Madness) (10-12 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

Base power: 9.5 - 12.3
Uses stats: 50% Str, 50% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Madness


Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (Madness) (10-12 power, 5 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron greatsword (Nightmares) (15-24 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / greatsword ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 15.0 - 24.0
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Nightmares


Massive two-handed swords.
iron greatsword (Nightmares) (15-24 power, 1 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
elm longbow (Madness)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot

4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longbow ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Curse of Madness


Longbows are used to shoot arrows at your foes.
elm longbow (Madness)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron longsword (Madness) (13-18 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longsword ; tier 1

Base power: 13.0 - 18.2
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Madness


Sharp, long, and deadly.
iron longsword (Madness) (13-18 power, 2 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron longsword (Nightmares) (12-16 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longsword ; tier 1

Base power: 11.5 - 16.1
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Nightmares


Sharp, long, and deadly.
iron longsword (Nightmares) (12-16 power, 2 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
mossy mindstar (Corpses) (2-3 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 11

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 2.5 - 2.8
Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
Damage type: Nature
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +12
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Talent granted: +1 Attune Mindstar
Mindpower: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Curse of Corpses


Mindstars are natural products. Natural gems covered in living matter, they are used to focus the mental powers of all nature defenders and psionics.
Using mindstars in the offhand does not incur the normal offhand damage penalty.
mossy mindstar (Corpses) (2-3 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
mossy mindstar (Madness) (2-2 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 11

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 2.0 - 2.2
Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
Damage type: Nature
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +12
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Talent granted: +1 Attune Mindstar
Mindpower: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Curse of Madness


Mindstars are natural products. Natural gems covered in living matter, they are used to focus the mental powers of all nature defenders and psionics.
Using mindstars in the offhand does not incur the normal offhand damage penalty.
mossy mindstar (Madness) (2-2 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
rough leather sling (Nightmares)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot

4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / sling ; tier 1

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Curse of Nightmares


Slings are used to hurl stones or metal shots at your foes.
rough leather sling (Nightmares)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron steamgun (Misfortune)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot
- Talent Steam Pool

Powered by steamtech
4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / steamgun ; tier 1

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Travel speed: +600%
Attacks use: 2.0 Steam
Curse of Misfortune


Steamguns use bursts of steam directly injected in the barrel to propel metal shots with great force.
iron steamgun (Misfortune)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron steamgun (Nightmares)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot
- Talent Steam Pool

Powered by steamtech
4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / steamgun ; tier 1

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Travel speed: +600%
Attacks use: 2.0 Steam
Curse of Nightmares


Steamguns use bursts of steam directly injected in the barrel to propel metal shots with great force.
iron steamgun (Nightmares)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron steamsaw (Shrouds) (10-15 power, 0 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11
- Talent Steam Pool

Powered by steamtech
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / steamsaw ; tier 1

Base power: 10.0 - 15.0
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical bleed
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Crit. chance: +1.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Block value: +9
Attacks use: 1.0 Steam
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +4%
Talent granted: +1 Block
Curse of Shrouds


Steamsaws use steam pressure to rotate a serrated metal blade at high speed.
Those struck suffer severe lacerations and bleed for 10% of the damage done per turn for 5 turns (stacking).
They can be wielded in the main or off hand.
Vrmmmmm!
iron steamsaw (Shrouds) (10-15 power, 0 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron steamsaw (Shrouds) (10-16 power, 0 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11
- Talent Steam Pool

Powered by steamtech
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / steamsaw ; tier 1

Base power: 10.5 - 15.8
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical bleed
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Crit. chance: +1.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Block value: +12
Attacks use: 1.0 Steam
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +4%
Talent granted: +1 Block
Curse of Shrouds


Steamsaws use steam pressure to rotate a serrated metal blade at high speed.
Those struck suffer severe lacerations and bleed for 10% of the damage done per turn for 5 turns (stacking).
They can be wielded in the main or off hand.
Vrmmmmm!
iron steamsaw (Shrouds) (10-16 power, 0 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
rough leather armour (Corpses) (3 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +3 (+3 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%
Curse of Corpses


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (Corpses) (3 def, 2 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron plate armour (Madness) (0 def, 7 armour)
Requires:
- Massive armour training
- Strength 22

17.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / massive ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +7
Fatigue: +22%
Curse of Madness


A suit of armour made of metal plates.
iron plate armour (Madness) (0 def, 7 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 18.5 block)
Requires:
- Shield usage training
- Strength 11

7.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

Learn shield attack talent or enable 'Always show shield combat' to see combat stats.
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Fatigue: +8%
Talent granted: +1 Block


Handheld deflection devices.
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 18.5 block)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 21 block)
Requires:
- Shield usage training
- Strength 11

7.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

Learn shield attack talent or enable 'Always show shield combat' to see combat stats.
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Fatigue: +8%
Talent granted: +1 Block


Handheld deflection devices.
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 21 block)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
quiver of elm arrows (14/14, 12-18 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: ammo / arrow ; tier 1

Base power: 12.5 - 17.5
Uses stats: 50% Str, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Capacity: 14


Arrows are used with bows to pierce your foes to death.
quiver of elm arrows (14/14, 12-18 power, 5 apr)
Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Automated Portable Extractor
Powered by steamtech
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: tinker / power

When carried:
It can be used to melt all the items in the APE at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

The APE is a multifunction tinker toolbox. It can store temporarily any amount of items and when requested melt them down using metallurgic and chemical processes.
The metals are melted into lumps of ore to server for the creation of tinkers.
Any remains are melted and turned into valuable materials.
Automated Portable Extractor
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
pouch of iron shots (14/14, 14-16 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: ammo / shot ; tier 1

Base power: 13.5 - 16.2
Uses stats: 50% Cun, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.0%
Capacity: 14


Shots are used with slings to pummel your foes to death.
pouch of iron shots (14/14, 14-16 power, 1 apr)

Achievements

Log


Something hits Investigator for 3 physical damage.

Investigator casts Abduction.
Investigator misses Redd.

Investigator triggers a trap (Redd's bear trap)!
A bear trap snaps onto Investigator!
Redd's bear trap hits Investigator for 41 physical damage.
Shadow casts Blindside.
Shadow hits Investigator for 5 physical damage.
Talent Rune: Blink is ready to use.

Bear Trap from Redd hits Investigator for 8 physical damage.
Shadow misses Investigator.

Bear Trap from Redd hits Investigator for 8 physical damage.

Resting starts...
Talent Stealth is ready to use.
Redd activates Stealth.
Talent Bear Trap is ready to use.
Rested for 6 turns (stop reason: hostile spotted to the southwest (investigator)).

Redd activates a prepared device.
Placing Bear Trap...
Redd deactivates Stealth.
Investigator casts Abduction.
Investigator hits Redd for 21 physical, 5 nature, 28 physical (53 total damage).
Redd the level 1 doomelf adventurer was mauled to death by an investigator on level 1 of Searing Halls.