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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.4.8
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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 1.4.0

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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexFemale
RaceShalore
ClassAlchemist
Level / Exp1 / 20%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by copperhead snake at level 1 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 11:56
Killed by test at level 1 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 12:02
0 / 2

Primary Stats

Strength8 (base 10)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution13 (base 13)
Magic17 (base 15)
Willpower14 (base 11)
Cunning11 (base 10)

Resources

Life102/102
Mana120/120
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement-66.666666666667%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage7
Accuracy5
Crit Chance3%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower20
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower14
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)0 (30%)
Defense0
Ranged Defense0
Fatigue0
Physical Save7
Spell Save10
Mental Save8

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport randomly in a range of 10.
Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 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: Phase Door
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: 25
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 620% for 10 turns and instantly restoring 31 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
Rune: Manasurge

Class Talents

Spell / Explosive admixtures1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Imbue an alchemist gem with an explosive charge of mana and throw it.
    The gem will explode for 41.4 physical damage.
    Each kind of gem will also provide a specific effect.
    The damage will improve with better gems and with your Spellpower.
    Throw Bomb
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Grants 0% protection to you, your golem and other friendly creatures against the elemental damage of your own bombs, and against external elemental damage (fire, cold, lightning and acid) by 0%.
    At talent level 5 it also protects against all side effects of your bombs.
    Alchemist Protection
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your alchemist bombs now affect a radius of 1 around them.
    Explosion damage may increase by 0% (if the explosion is not contained) to 15% if the area of effect is confined.
    Explosion Expert
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 32
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Crush together two alchemist gems, making them extremely unstable.
    You then throw them to a target area, where they explode on impact, dealing 4.06 physical damage and knocking back any creatures in the blast radius.
    Each kind of gem will also provide a specific effect.
    The damage will improve with better gems and with your Spellpower.
    Shockwave Bomb
0/5
Spell / Fire alchemy1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you throw your alchemist bombs, you infuse them with flames that burn for a few turns.
    In addition all fire damage you do is increased by 7%.
    Flame Infusion
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 82
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 34
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Throw a smoke bomb, blocking everyone's line of sight. The smoke dissipates after 2 turns.
    If a creature inside is victim of fire burns the smoke will consume instantly, replicating the burns on all foes and increasing its duration by 1 turns.
    Duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Smoke Bomb
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 70
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A furious fire storm rages around the caster, doing 3.00 fire damage in a radius of 3 each turn for 7 turns.
    You closely control the firestorm, preventing it from harming your party members.
    The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Fire Storm
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 250
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: 240% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Turn your body into pure flame, increasing your fire resistance by 1%, burning any creatures attacking you for 0.59 fire damage, and projecting 0 random slow-moving fire bolts per turn at targets in sight, doing 2.21 fire damage with each bolt.
    The projectiles safely go through your friends without harming them.
    This powerful spell drains 0.00 mana while active.
    The damage and resistance will increase with your Spellpower.
    Body of Fire
0/5
Spell / Frost alchemy1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you throw your alchemist bombs, you infuse them with cold damage that can freeze your foes.
    In addition all cold damage you do is increased by 0%.
    Frost Infusion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: While Frost Infusion is active, your bombs deposit a layer of ice on your golem for 2 turns when they hit it.
    This ice provides your golem with 1 additional armour, melee attacks against it deal 1.7 Cold damage to the attacker, and 50% of its damage is converted to Cold.
    The effects increase with your talent level and with the Spellpower and damage modifiers of your golem.
    Ice Armour
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Invoke a blast of cold all around you with a radius of 0, doing 7.4 Cold damage and freezing creatures to the ground for 2 turns.
    Affected creatures can still act, but cannot move.
    The duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flash Freeze
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 100
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Turn your body into pure ice, increasing your Cold damage affinity by -1% and your physical resistance by 1%.
    All direct critical hits (physical, mental, spells) against you have a 0% lower Critical multiplier (but always do at least normal damage).
    The effects increase with your Spellpower.
    Ice Core
0/5
Spell / Acid alchemy1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you throw your alchemist bombs, you infuse them with explosive acid that can blind.
    In addition all acid damage you do is increased by 0%.
    Acid Infusion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: While Acid Infusion is active, your bombs coat your golem in acid for 2 turns when they hit it.
    While coated, any melee hit agaist your golem has a 20% chance to trigger a radius 4 cone of acid towards the attacker that does 3.0 Acid damage to all caught inside. (This can only happen once per turn.)
    The effects increase with your talent level and with the Spellpower and damage modifiers of your golem.
    Caustic Golem
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 50
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A radius 3 pool of acid spawns at the target location, doing 1.5 Acid damage each turn for 2 turns.
    All creatures caught in the mire will also suffer a -3% slowness effect.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Caustic Mire
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 45
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Acid errupts all around your target, dealing 12.8 acid damage.
    The acid attack is extremely distracting, and may remove up to 1 physical or mental temporary effects or mental sustains (depending on the Spell Save of the target).
    The damage and chance to remove effects will increase with your Spellpower.
    Dissolving Acid
0/5
Spell / Golemancy1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your golem's proficiency with weapons, increasing its Accuracy by 15, Physical Power by 0 and damage by 0%.
    Golem Power
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your golem's armour training and damage resistance.
    Increases all damage resistance by 0%; increases Armour value by 5, Armour hardiness by 30%, and reduces chance to be critically hit by 10% when wearing heavy mail or massive plate armour; and increases healing factor by 0%.
    The golem can always use any kind of armour, including massive armours.
    Golem Resilience
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You invoke your golem to your side, granting it a temporary melee power increase of 2 for 5 turns.
    Invoke Golem
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleport to your golem, while your golem teleports to your location. Your foes will be confused, and those that were attacking you will have a 25% chance to target your golem instead.
    Golem Portal
0/5

Generic Talents

Spell / Stone alchemy1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Extract magical gems from metal weapons and armours. At this skill level you can work with:
    Extract Gems
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 80
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 100
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Imbue a body armour with a gem (up to tier 0), granting it additional powers.
    You can only imbue items once, and it is permanent.
    Imbue Item
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Crush 5 alchemist gems into dust to mark impassable terrain next to you. You immediately enter it and appear on the other side of the obstacle, up to 4 grids away.
    Gem Portal
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 45
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Touch your foe and turn it to stone for 1 turns.
    Stoned creatures are unable to act or regen life, and are very brittle.
    If a stoned creature is hit by an attack that deals more than 30% of its life, it will shatter and be destroyed.
    Stoned creatures are highly resistant to fire and lightning, and somewhat resistant to physical attacks.
    At level 3 the touch will become a beam.
    This spell may fail against creatures resistant to being stunned, that are specifically immune to stoning, or certain bosses.
    Stone Touch
0/5
Spell / Staff combat1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Range: 8
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Channel raw mana through your staff, projecting a bolt of your staff's damage type, doing 76% staff damage.
    The bolt will only hurt hostile targets, and pass safely through friendly ones.
    This attack always has a 100% chance to hit, and ignores the target's Armour.
    When projecting a bolt with your staff its damage modifier is increased by 20%.
    Channel Staff
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0 and increases weapon damage by 0% when using staves.
    Staff Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Adopt a defensive posture, increasing your Defense and Armour by 1.
    Defensive Posture
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hit a target for 100% melee damage and stun it for 0 turns.
    Stun chance will improve with Spellpower.
    At level 5, this attack cannot miss.
    Blunt Thrust
0/5
Race / Shalore1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 46
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Call upon the grace of the Eternals to increase your general speed by 14% for 8 turns.
    The speed bonus will increase with your Dexterity or Magic (whichever is higher).
    Grace of the Eternals
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Reality bends slightly in the presence of a Shaloren, due to their inherent magical nature.
    Increases critical chance by 0% and critical strike power by 0%.
    Magic of the Eternals
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: As the only immortal race of Eyal, Shaloren have learnt, over the long years, to use their innate inner magic to protect themselves.
    11% chance to become invisible (power 10) for 5 turns, when hit by a blow doing at least 10% of their total life.
    Secrets of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 54
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: The world grows old as you stand through the ages. To you, time is different.
    Reduces the time remaining on detrimental effects by 2, most cooling down talents by 1, and increases the time remaining on beneficial effects by 1 (up to 2 times the current duration).
    Timeless
0/5

Effects

detrimental effect
There is no gravity here; you float in the air. Movement is three times as slow, and any melee or archery blows have a chance to knockback. Maximum encumbrance is greatly increased.
Zero Gravity

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a renegade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active

Equipment

Quiver
44 alchemist agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: alchemist-gem / black ; tier 1

When used as an alchemist bomb:
Bomb damage +5%


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
44 alchemist agate
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
Main armor
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1



A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
In main hand
elm starstaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, temporal 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: +2.5% procs dam / acc
Armour Penetration: +2
Physical crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +10% temporal
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Spellpower: +3 (+1 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +1%


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

Inventory

spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
When used to imbue an object:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
When used as an alchemist bomb:
Mana regain 10
Latent Damage Type: Nature


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
spinel
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
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%
When used as an alchemist bomb:
Lights terrain (power 10)
Latent Damage Type: Light


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

Achievements

Log

golem (servant of test) killed Giant brown rat!
Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 9 physical damage.

Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 8 physical damage.
White crystal casts Phase Door.
Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 8 physical damage.

Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 9 physical damage.
White crystal's Ice Bolt hits golem (servant of test) for 38 cold damage.

Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 9 physical damage.
Copperhead snake bites poison into golem (servant of test).

Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 4 nature damage.
Copperhead snake hits golem (servant of test) for 8 physical damage.

Character control switched to test.
Copperhead snake hits Golem (servant of test) for 9 physical damage.
test the level 1 shalore alchemist was eviscerated to death by a copperhead snake on level 1 of Scintillating Caves.
You have no more lives left.
Test stops being poisoned.
You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
Saving game...
Copperhead snake killed Golem (servant of test)!

Saving done.
Ran for 2 turns (stop reason: interesting character).

Saving game...