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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.3.1
Addons

Escorts Enhanced 1.3.1

Various enhancements to escort quest NPCs:
- Escorts now follow the player when not close to the portal.
- Escorts occasionally say useful things.
- Escorts heal 5% of their maximum health per turn.

Escorts Enhanced 1.3.1

Stone Wardens Bonus Class 1.2.3

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Stone Wardens Bonus Class 1.2.3
Steamtech UI 1.1.4

Succor and easement 1.0.1

INFO: This mod is *defunct*. Dead and buried. Been for years now.
Hope you had fun using it while it worked.

Edit: Actually... I might remake it shortly. Make it stronger, faster and so on. If you've got any suggestions, fire away in the comment section.

To be honest, I've been hoping something similar would make it into the main game but it never did. Which I will forever be miffed by :).

There are alternatives (for both, the alchemist part and the escort part), check the comments, search the addons.

I keep it here for those few who might want to play an older version of the game or for coding reference.

--- Old description:

A few things to make rng less random with regards to character build (because I really, really dislike it when a build is subject to randomness).

This includes and is limited to:
- no alchemist poaching,
- choose your own escort types.

It does make the game easier. Not in a significant way but use at risk to your own pride.

Formerly "known" as Succor and easement.

Succor and easement 1.0.1

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.2.4

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 1.2.4

Necromancy+ 1.3.1

Features:
Cunning/Dead Secrets - generic category available to Necromancer, Doomed and Shadowblade.
Grave Resolve: passive. Bonus to Fear immunity and Mental save.
Darktouched: active. Small resistance bonus against darkness, cold, undead. + touch attack Heals undead/harms others.
Dead Whispers: active. Grants telepathy Undead for a short time. Also let's you see what your minions see.
Necroanatomy: passive. You do increased damage to undead. Decreased damage you do to your own minions. Adds healing to Surge of Undeath. Increases max life of Doomed Shadows.

Spell/Charnel - class category available to Necromancer only.
Blood Burst: radius 1 blight damage ranged burst, splash heals undead.
Grasping Claws: mass pin/bleed.
Meat Shield: sustain, grants a physical ward on kill.
Vampiric Gift: moved from Spell/Grave

Tweaked Categories:
Spell/Grave
Chill of the Tomb: no change
Will o' the Wisps: Also buffs your cold damage and resistance a little. Grants a chance to summon a wisp on spell hitting.
Frozen Flames: Slowly burns status effects from friendly and enemies. Selective about whether it burns beneficial or detrimental.
Ghost Touch: Curse, lowers mindsave, cold resist and stun resist.

Spell/Advanced Necrotic Minions
Undead Explosion: If used on a Wisp, it will be a radius 1 freeze. If used on a Bone Giant it will provide the Bone Shield and do physical damage.
Soulwind: Increases minion's movement speed and grants a chance to recover a soul when a minion dies.
Assemble: Better level scaling.
Minion Mastery: Added a Greater Mummy that upgrades on Ghoul King. Also protects your minions from interminion damage.

Spell/Necrotic Minions
Aura Mastery move to Necrosis.
Undeath Link moved to slot 2, now does less damage to your minions, but also adds all minions life drains together.

Spell/Necrosis
Undeath Link moved to Necrotic Minions.
Impending Doom moved the slot 3.
Aura Mastery added to slot 2.

Spell/Shades
Shadow Tunnel now also includes the effect of Curse of the Meek.
Curse of the Meek removed.
Nether Breach added to slot 2. Its like Aether Breach but does darkness damage and won't hurt minions with Invoke Darkness 5.

Tweaked the talent levels granted by Blighted Summoning.

Also adds in a new class called the Spiritmancer:

The dead do not always rest easy, even free from fell influences.
Some linger, wishing to finish some unfinished business.
Others want to pass on a message to a loved one.
Some seek another chance for glory in battle or revenge against those who killed them.
They all eventually find a Spiritmancer, and bargain temporary servitude for closure.
The Spiritmancer can give form to the lost souls, allowing them to fight again. They also have powerful light and lightning magic.

Categories:
Spirit
Ghost Light: active. Summons Wisps of light. Melee light damage.
Spirit Guide. sustain. each summon you control increases your defense and saves.
Rest In Peace: active. bolt does light damage. more vs undead. becomes a beam at 5.
Spirit Form: active. can walk through walls temporarily. Light affinity.

Karma
Sprites: active. Summons Wisps of lightning. Ranged zappers.
Jolt of Fate: active. Lighting hits a random visible enemy.
Karmic Shield: active. Absorbs damage for a few turns then explodes based on damage absorbed.
Karmic Wave: active. weakish lightning damage cone. stronger when you are low on health.

Life Giver
Clay Golem: active. imbue a clay golem with the soul of a fallen warrior. Golem grants a physical resistance aura.
Poltergeist: sustain. randomly inflicts disarm or knockback against nearby enemies.
Gift of Life: active. give part of your life to your summons, healing them and making them tougher.
Hope: sustain. reduces debuff durations, increases fear resist.

Ghosts
Ghost Bulwark: active. summons a ghostly bulwark which can block attacks against adjacent allies.
Pale Veil: passive. allows your ghosts to Fade.
Ghost Berserker: active. summons a ghostly berserker. Choppy ghost.
Banshee: active. summon a banshee. Caster ghost.

Dawn
Shining Binds: active. ranged explosion for light damage and pin.
Pool of Light: active. Ground effect. Heals friendly. Lightblind enemies.
Holy Word: active. All nearby enemy undead/demons/horrors take light/arcane damage and are deafened.
Endless Light: sustain. increases light damage, light penentration and decreases spell cooldowns.

Justice
Lightning Flash: active. Throws a ball of lightning that explodes for lightning and blindness.
Peacemakers: active. Increases your summoned creatures strengths and speeds.
Indignation: active. Inscribe a symbol of justice on the ground. After a short delay it explodes with high lightning daze damage.
Righteous Fury: Lightning Mastery that also adds lightning damage to minion attacks.

Necromancy+ 1.3.1

Corner-Only Threat Brackets 1.1.5

Changes the threat brackets in shockbolt so they're only the upper left corner and don't hide the healthbars.

Corner-Only Threat Brackets 1.1.5

Improved Auto-explore and Rest 1.3.1

Quality of Life improvements for resting and auto-exploring.

v3.5.0 *** FOR ToME v1.6.5 ***
This is a fork (with permission) of Marson's auto-explore and rest tweaks. It includes as well C.Lowe/CaptainTrip's improvements as well. It does not include, but recommends also using Johnny0's Faster RRE add-on for even better rest and auto-explore experience. This add-on contains numerous Quality of Life improvements designed to make resting and auto-exploring easier to use, brings the add-on overall up to being compatible with 1.6.x, and generally seeks to remove it being more optimal to do timed rests or manual recovery (particularly to help higher difficulty level and players without Faster RRE). Cleaned up feature list in this take, to make it easier to see what it does.

It is recommended to turn off Marson's Rest and Auto-Explore as well as C.Lowe's Rest Tweaks if using. This addon is meant to include all of them.

Latest Update Notes:
• Changed steam sustain behavior to match current gameplay. Before sustains tended to shut off when available resource was 0, now they don't seem to do so. This will now only turn off sustains that drain steam if steam is going below 0, so as to get to a steady finish state.
• Fix minor bug where stealth enabling was always on if you had it.
• Added new option to ignore quest members when resting or exploring. It defaults to off but for those folks that know they want to ignore those quest allies and rest a bit.

Existing Features:
• removed First Sighting and Reset on Rest. Someone can patch them in if they'd like it back, but I'm not really keeping them alive.
• Fixed actor bugs causing Elemental Surge to never reset. Thanks Reca♥den.
• Fixed bug with Paradox Spacetime Tuning from 1.5.5. This may rebreak posessors with paradox, hard to kinda test.
• Mostly verified working on 1.6.0
• Compatibility with restart sustains. Thanks zizzo.
• When resting, it will check for infusions and runes that could be used to accelerate HP, Mana, or Equilibrium (via Ancestral Life or Meditation) recovery. If the acceleration appears significant, it will use them, rotating from first available infusion or rune outward. In experiment, I found this often reduced rest turn time by 50-80 percent, improving the more drained the resource was. Particularly helpful for Mana, as it avoids trade-off advantages of short term resting (for increased mana regen) + rune use by just handling that more optimal play for you automatically without breaking rest.
• Support for steam implants, with usual checkboxes. This may not always be faster based on steam sustains that may disable after the initial round of rest and steam implants having very long cooldowns (30+ turns) and steam's resource max being pretty small. It tries to be conservative on that, so will most likely help for cases where your functional steam regen rate is < 2.00 and never activate for things much above it. I found I was often getting 5-20 steam per turn, which makes the implant support useless.
• Supports for medical healing salve injectors. Cooldown measurements are a bit odd here, since they can range from 5-20 depending on injector. Went with 10 as a happy medium for how many turns of natural regen is considered to be equal to the cooldown cost of using it.
• Adding support to auto-stealth if available and not stealthed.
• Option for ignoring small damage when moving and resting, basically if it is <5%, it will ignore it by default, prevent small DoTs from preventing rest.
• Options added to control whether or not to use inscriptions to accelerate recovery of things.
• Fixes a ToME bug that can cause autoexplore or running to move only a single square and hang if used immediately after killing an enemy.
• Lore discovery will only stop autoexplore if it triggers a popup.
• Autoexplore will ignore Exploratory/Infinite Farportal return portals until the entire level has been explored.
• Ignores special terrain features such as Font of Healing after they are first discovered.
• Ignores open chests and alt Maze floor cracks.
• Rest and AE ask for confirmation if you have an escort in your party.
• Ignore already activated pedestals.
• Checks for and waits on any rechargeable items.
• Checks for and reloads any ammo in offhand quiver.
• Waits for cooldowns of talents set to auto-use.
• Waits for depleted air to replenish.
• Combines all checks into a single instance of rest, rather than having cooldowns etc. require a second resting phase.

Determines how auto-explore and running respond to telepathy, including mouse moves. Regardless of the setting, hostiles seen via telepathy will not halt resting or the Rod of Recall, nor trigger automated talents. Unique or powerful monsters (rank > 3) will always trigger a halt to running when they are spotted via telepathy for any mode except 'Original'.

Available modes:
• 'Always Viligant' always stops running when a hostile creature is seen via telepathy.
• 'Original' is standard ToME auto-explore behavior, which ignores telepathy when running or auto-exploring.

• Compatible with ToME v1.6.0

Notes:
Folks who have helped with bugfixes over the years:
Reca♥den
St_ranger_er
zizzo

• Telepathy will not prevent auto-exploring the way normal sight will. If a halt is triggered by telepathy, hitting auto-explore again will move you at least one more square in the direction of the auto-explore path. If in 'Always Viligant' mode and a hostile is within telepathic sight (but not normal sight), you will auto-explore in 1 square per keypress increments.

Improved Auto-explore and Rest 1.3.1

Items Vault 1.3.0

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Items Vault 1.3.0
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceDwarf
ClassCursed
Level / Exp9 / 93%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Ivymitta the forest troll at level 5 on the 2nd Acquisition 122nd year of Ascendancy at 13:28
Killed by assassin at level 9 on the 4th Profit 122nd year of Ascendancy at 04:12
2 / 2

Primary Stats

Strength33 (base 29)
Dexterity12 (base 13)
Constitution19 (base 10)
Magic8 (base 10)
Willpower34 (base 24)
Cunning12 (base 10)

Resources

Life305/305
Hate32/100
Healing Factor0.95778957185718
Regeneration0.2394473929643

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite2
See Stealth10
See Invisible10

Offense: Mainhand

Damage32
Accuracy22
Crit Chance5%
APR3
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower8
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower28.3
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

All0%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)26.92 (81.030927835052%)
Defense4.7
Ranged Defense4.7
Fatigue26
Physical Save28.1
Spell Save14.7
Mental Save16.1

Defense: Resistances

All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Stun Resistance15%
Confusion Resistance15%
Fear Resistance15%
Instadeath Resistance100%
Knockback Resistance15%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.

Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Infusion: Wild
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 24
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 121 damage for 3 turns.
Its effects scale with your Constitution stat.
Rune: Shielding
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 17
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 125 life over 5 turns.
Its effects scale with your Constitution stat.
Infusion: Regeneration

Class Talents

Cursed / Strife1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 6.1
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Turn your attention to a nearby foe, and dominate them with your overwhelming presence. If the target fails to save versus your Mindpower, it will be unable to move for 2 turns and vulnerable to attacks. They will lose 1 Armour, 2 Defense and your attacks will gain 7% resistance penetration. If the target is adjacent to you, your domination will include a melee attack.
    Effects will improve with your Willpower.
    Dominate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your preternatural senses aid you in your hunt for the next victim. You sense foes in a radius of 0.0. You will always sense a stalked victim in a radius of 10.
    Also increases stealth detection by 5 and invisibility detection by 5.
    Stealth and invisibility detection improves with your Willpower
    Preternatural Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 6.1
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: With blinding speed, you suddenly appear next to a target up to 6 spaces away and attack for 21% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Your sudden appearance catches everyone off-guard, giving you 2 extra Defense for 1 turn.
    The Defense boost improves with your Strength.
    Blindside
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Rather than hide from the onslaught, you face down every threat. While active you have a 3% chance of repelling a melee attack. The recklessness of your defense brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Repel chance increases with your Strength, and when equipped with a shield.
    Repel
0/5
Cursed / Slaughter1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 3
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You slash wildly at your target for 122% (at 0 Hate) to 173% (at 100+ Hate) damage.
    At level 3, any wound you inflict with this carries a part of your curse, reducing the effectiveness of healing by 22% for 15 turns. The effect will stack.
    The damage multiplier increases with your Strength.
    Slash
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 3
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Assault nearby foes with 4 fast attacks for 23% (at 0 Hate) to 46% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Stalked prey are always targeted if nearby.
    At level 3 the intensity of your assault overwhelms anyone who is struck, reducing their Accuracy by 13 for 3 turns.
    The damage multiplier and Accuracy reduction increase with your Strength.
    Frenzy
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 7.6
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Charge through your opponents, attacking anyone near your path for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Small opponents may be knocked away from your path. You can attack a maximum of 2 times, and can hit targets along your path more than once.
    Reckless Charge
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: While active, every swing of your weapon has a 13% (if one-handed) or 26% (if two-handed) chance of striking a second nearby target for 0% (at 0 Hate) to 0% (at 100+ Hate) damage (+25% for two-handed weapons). The recklessness of your attacks brings you bad luck (luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The Cleave chance and damage increase with your Strength.
    Cleave
0/5
Cursed / Endless hunt1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: When you focus your attacks on a single foe and strike them in melee for two consecutive turns, your hatred of them overcomes you and you begin to stalk them with single-minded purpose. The effect will last for 40 turns, or until your prey is dead. Stalking gives you bonuses against your foe that grow each turn you hit them, and diminish each turn you don't.
    Bonus level 1: +7 Accuracy, +7% melee damage, +0.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 2: +10 Accuracy, +14% melee damage, +1.00 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 3: +12 Accuracy, +20% melee damage, +1.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    The accuracy bonus improves with your Willpower, and the melee damage bonus with your Strength.
    Stalk
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 3
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: The connection between predator and prey allows you to speak to the mind of your target and beckon them closer. For 5 turns, they will try to come to you, even pushing others aside to do so. They will move towards you instead of acting 5% of the time, but can save verses Mindpower to slow the effect. If they take significant damage, the beckoning may be overcome altogether. The effect makes concentration difficult for your target, reducing Spellpower and Mindpower by 1 until they reach you.
    The Spellpower and Mindpower reduction increases with your Willpower.
    Beckon
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 7.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Harass your stalked victim with two quick attacks for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 67% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Each attack that scores a hit disrupts one talent, rune or infusion for 3 turns. Your opponent will be unnerved by the attacks, reducing the damage they deal by 11% for 2 turns.
    Damage reduction increases with the Willpower stat.
    Harass Prey
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Let hate fuel your movements. While active, you gain 4% movement speed. The recklessness of your movement brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The speed of your movements, combined with the balance and utility of two weapons, gives you 1 extra Defense while dual-wielding.
    Movement speed and dual-wielding Defense both increase with with the Willpower stat.
    Surge
0/5
Cursed / Gloom1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: A terrible gloom surrounds you, affecting all those who approach to within radius 3. Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an 12% chance to suffer from slowness, stun or confusion for 3 turns.
    This ability is innate, and carries no cost to activate or deactivate. Each point in Gloom increases the mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +9).
    Gloom
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an 14% chance to be crippled by fear for 3 turns, reducing damage they inflict by -24%. The first time you melee strike a foe after they have been weakened will give you 2 hate.
    Each point in Weakness increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +9).
    Weakness
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower or have an 4.0% chance of becoming dismayed for 3 turns. When dismayed, the first melee attack against the foe will result in a critical hit.
    Each point in Dismay increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +9).
    Dismay
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your gloom has become a sanctuary from the outside world. Damage from any attack that originates beyond the boundary of your gloom is reduced by 0%.
    Each point in Sanctuary increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +9).
    Sanctuary
0/5

Generic Talents

Race / Dwarf1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Call upon the legendary resilience of the Dwarven race to increase your Armor (+10), Spell (+14) and Physical (+14) saves for 8 turns.
    The bonus will increase with your Constitution.
    Resilience of the Dwarves
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Dwarf skin is a complex structure, it can automatically react to physical blows to harden itself.
    When you are hit in melee, you have a 15% chance to increase your Armour total by 0 for 5 turns.
    Stoneskin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Money is the heart of the Dwarven Empire; it rules over all other considerations.
    Increases Physical, Mental and Spell Saves based on the amount of gold you possess.
    +1 save every 96 gold, up to +0. (currently +0)
    Power is Money
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 59
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: While the origins of the dwarves remain clouded in mysteries to the other races, it is obvious they share strong ties to the stone.
    You can target any wall and immediately enter it and appear on the other side of the obstacle.
    Works up to 1 grids away (increases with Constitution and talent level).
    Stone Walking
0/5
Cursed / Cursed aura1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    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
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your curses bring you dark gifts. Unlocks bonus level 3 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 0.0).
    Dark Gifts
3/5
  • 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 1 turns. When the curse ends, the weapon will drop to the ground.
    Cursed Sentry attack speed (currently 0%) 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
Cursed / Cursed form1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    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 16 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 35 at any time). You can heal no more than 10.9 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: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +15% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    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 +10% after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus.
    Seethe
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    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 +0 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
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • 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: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 11, Armour hardiness by 51%, and reduces chance to be critically hit by 17% 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.
    Armour Training
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 15.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 13, and increases weapon damage by 25% when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

talent
Gloom
talent
Stalk
beneficial effect
Horrible visions fill your mind.
Penalty : Plagued by Visions: Your mental save has a 20% chance to be reduced by 9% when tested.
Power 1+: Removed from Reality: +2 Physical Resistance, +1 Maximum Physical Resistance
Power 2+: -1 Luck, +3 Willpower
Power 3+: Suffocate: Your touch instills a horror that suffocates any weak, non-elite foe that hits you or that you hit in melee. At 3 levels below yours they lose 11 air and an additional 5 air for each level below that.
Power 4+: Nightmare: Each time you are damaged by a foe there is a chance (currently 0%) of triggering a radius 5 nightmare (slow effects, hateful whispers, and summoned Terrors) for 8 turns. This chance grows each time you are struck but fades over time.
Curse of Nightmares (power 1.0)

Quests

You successfully escorted the lost warrior to the recall portal on level 2 of Ruins of Kor'Pul.
As a reward you improved talent Exotic Weapons Mastery (+1 level(s)).
Escort: lost warrior (level 2 of Ruins of Kor'Pul)		done
Your escape from Reknor got your heart pounding and your desire for wealth and power increased tenfold.
Maybe it is time for you to start an adventurer's career. Deep below the Iron Throne mountains lies the Deep Bellow.
It has been long sealed away but still, from time to time adventurers go there looking for wealth.
None that you know of has come back yet, but you did survive Reknor. You are great.
From bellow, it devours		active
You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
You have slain Bill. His treasure is yours for the taking.
Hidden treasure		done
It is time to explore some new places -- dark, forgotten and dangerous ones.
The Old Forest is just south-east of the town of Derth.
The Maze is west of Derth.
The Sandworm Lair is to the far west of Derth, near the sea.
The Daikara is on the eastern borders of the Thaloren forest.
* You must explore the Old Forest and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Maze and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Sandworm Lair and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Daikara and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Into the darkness		active
You were part of a group of dwarves sent to investigate the situation of the kingdom of Reknor.
When you arrived there you found nothing but orcs, well organized and very powerful.
Most of your team was killed there and now you and Norgan (the sole survivor besides you) must hurry back to the Iron Council to bring the news.
Let nothing stop you.
Reknor is lost!		done
You were asked to prove your worth as a fighter by a rogue, in order to participate in the arena
The agent of the arena		done

Equipment

On feet
pair of rough leather boots of tirelessness (0 def, 1 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Stamina each turn: +0.30
Maximum stamina: +10.00


A pair of boots made of leather.
pair of rough leather boots of tirelessness (0 def, 1 armour)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


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
On head
Kheladur (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Talent Armour Training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +6 (+3 eff.)
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +5%
Changes stats: +3 Con
Maximum life: +20.00


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
Kheladur (0 def, 3 armour)
Tool
Telekinetic Core
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: charm / torque ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +3 (+2 eff.)
Changes stats: +5 Wil
Changes resistances: +5% physical
Changes damage: +6% physical
Physical save: +12 (+6 eff.)
Mindpower: +3 (+2 eff.)
It can be used to activate talent Psionic Pull (costing 18 power out of 35/35) :
Effective talent level: 3.0
Power cost: 18 out of 35/35.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Description: Pull all foes toward you in radius 5 while dealing 47 physical damage.
The damage will increase with your mindpower.

This heavy torque appears to draw nearby matter towards it.
Telekinetic Core
On fingers
Wheel of Fate
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Damage when hit (Melee): 4 mind
Changes stats: +1 Wil / +3 Con
Changes resistances: +20% nature / +22% acid
Changes damage: +13% nature / +11% acid
Physical save: +6 (+3 eff.)
Can be unequipped or rerolled.
It can be used to re-generate the item with random stats. Can only be done three levels after the last reroll. Cannot be unequipped unless a reroll is available, or you are level 50, costing 1 power out of 1/1.

"This isn't what I wished for!" - Howar Muransk, Cornac demonologist.

This band of gothic obsidian menaces with an embossed image of a grinning skull. It beckons you to tempt fate and put it on. Do you?
Wheel of Fate
Around waist
Girdle of the Calm Waters
Infused by nature
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Wil
Changes resistances: +20% blight / +20% cold / +20% nature
Healing mod.: +30%


A belt rumoured to have been worn by the Conclave healers.
Girdle of the Calm Waters
In main hand
steel waraxe 'Shadowblur' (Nightmares) (15-21 power, 3 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 16

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / waraxe ; tier 2

Base power: 15.0 - 21.0
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +3
Physical crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage (Melee): +5 nature / +6 temporal
When wielded/worn:
Damage when hit (Melee): 4 nature
Changes resistances penetration: +10% darkness
Curse of Nightmares


One-handed war axes.
steel waraxe 'Shadowblur' (Nightmares) (15-21 power, 3 apr)
Main armor
impenetrable iron plate armour of fire resistance (3 def, 12 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 22
- Talent Armour Training (level 3)

Crafted by a master
17.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / massive ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +12
Defense: +3 (+3 eff.)
Fatigue: +20%
Changes resistances: +15% fire


A suit of armour made of metal plates.
impenetrable iron plate armour of fire resistance (3 def, 12 armour)
Cloak
linen cloak of Eldoral (1 def, 0 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +1 (+1 eff.)
Changes stats: +2 Cun / +1 Dex


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
linen cloak of Eldoral (1 def, 0 armour)
Around neck
Withering Orbs
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Damage (Melee): 5 mind
Damage (Ranged): 5 mind
Mindpower: +5 (+2 eff.)
See stealth: +10
See invisible: +10
Blind-Fight: This item allows the wearer to attack unseen targets without any penalties.


These opalescent orbs stare at you with deathly knowledge, undeceived by your vanities and pretences. They have lived and died through horrors you could never imagine, and now they lie strung in black chords watching every twitch of the shadows.
If you close your eyes a moment, you can almost imagine what dread sights they see...
Withering Orbs

Inventory

healing infusion (heal 50)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / infusion ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to instantly heal yourself for 50 and cleanse 1 wound and poison effect.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the infusion..

Natural infusions may be grafted onto your body, granting you an on-demand ability.
healing infusion (heal 50)
iron battleaxe (Shrouds) (15-22.5 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 15.0 - 22.5
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +1
Physical crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Shrouds


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
iron battleaxe (Shrouds) (15-22.5 power, 1 apr)
insulating rough leather belt of the mystic
Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +5% fire / +5% cold
Mental save: +5 (+4 eff.)
Spellpower: +4 (+4 eff.)


A belt that goes around your waist.
insulating rough leather belt of the mystic
nightruned rough leather belt
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +6% light / +7% darkness


A belt that goes around your waist.
nightruned rough leather belt
Frost Treads (1 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Dexterity 16

Infused by nature
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: armor / feet ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +1 (+1 eff.)
Fatigue: +7%
Changes stats: +4 Str / +4 Dex / +4 Cun
Changes resistances: +10% nature / +20% cold
Changes damage: +15% cold
Light radius: +1


A pair of leather boots. Cold to the touch, they radiate a cold blue light.
Frost Treads (1 def, 4 armour)
iron helm 'Higohir' (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Talent Armour Training

Infused by arcane disrupting forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +5%
Damage when hit (Melee): 4 physical
Changes resistances: +7% nature / +6% blight
Maximum life: +20.00
Healing mod.: +10%


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
iron helm 'Higohir' (0 def, 3 armour)
miner's iron helm (0 def, 5 armour)
Requires:
- Talent Armour Training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +5
Fatigue: +5%
Infravision radius: +1


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
miner's iron helm (0 def, 5 armour)
iron mail armour (Shrouds) (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 14
- Talent Armour Training

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (Shrouds) (2 def, 4 armour)
2 agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
When used to imbue an object:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
Latent Damage Type: Acid


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 agate
3 spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+1 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
When used to imbue an object:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+1 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Latent Damage Type: Nature


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
3 spinel
Prox's Lucky Halfling Foot
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +5 (+5 eff.)
Changes stats: +5 Lck
Trap disarming bonus: +5
Detects traps.
Removes (25% chance) up to three stuns, pins, or dazes each turn


A large hairy foot, very recognizably a halfling's, is strung on a piece of thick twine. In its decomposed state it's hard to tell how long ago it parted with its owner, but from what look like teeth marks around the ankle you get the impression that it wasn't given willingly.
It has been kept somewhat intact with layers of salt and clay, but in spite of this it's clear that nature is beginning to take its toll on the dead flesh. Some say the foot of a halfling brings luck to its bearer - right now the only thing you can be sure of is that it stinks.
Prox's Lucky Halfling Foot
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
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns, costing 202 power out of 400/400.

This rod is made entirely of voratun, infused with raw magical energies that can bend space itself.
You have heard of such items before. They are very useful to adventurers, allowing faster travel.
Rod of Recall (1/1)
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), costing 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
amethyst
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / violet ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Physical crit. chance: +2.0%
Changes damage: +4% all
Spell crit. chance: +2%
Mental crit. chance: +2%
When used to imbue an object:
Physical crit. chance: +2.0%
Changes damage: +4% all
Spell crit. chance: +2%
Mental crit. chance: +2%
Latent Damage Type: Arcane


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
amethyst
2 ametrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical crit. chance: +1.0%
Changes damage: +2% all
Spell crit. chance: +1%
Mental crit. chance: +1%
When used to imbue an object:
Physical crit. chance: +1.0%
Changes damage: +2% all
Spell crit. chance: +1%
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 ametrine
2 citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +1
Infravision radius: +2
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +1
Infravision radius: +2
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 citrine

Achievements

Squadmate Escaped from Reknor alive with your squadmate Norgan.
By Drawven the Dwarf Cursed level 5
17th Voratun 122nd year of Ascendancy at 09:44 see stats
The Arena Unlocked Arena mode.
By Drawven the Dwarf Cursed level 9
4th Profit 122nd year of Ascendancy at 16:50 see stats

Log

Saving done.
Today is the 5th Profit of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 22:50.

There is a tranquil meadow here (press '' or right click to use).
Today is the 6th Profit of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 01:38.

There is a A gate into the Maze here (press '' or right click to use).

Today is the 7th Profit of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 00:05.

There is a Derth (Town) here (press '' or right click to use).

There is an exit to the worldmap here (press '' or right click to use).
Saving game...

Saving done.

Resting starts...
Rested for 0 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).
There is an exit to the worldmap here (press '' or right click to use).
Ran for 27 turns (stop reason: at exit).

There is an exit to the worldmap here (press '' or right click to use).

There is a Derth (Town) here (press '' or right click to use).
You stride into this area without a second thought, while stifling a yawn. You feel your time might be better spent elsewhere.
Saving game...
Saving done.
Drawven deactivates Stalk.
Drawven deactivates Gloom.