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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceDwarf
ClassCursed
Level / Exp1 / 7%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
1 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength20 (base 16)
Dexterity8 (base 10)
Constitution13 (base 10)
Magic8 (base 10)
Willpower17 (base 16)
Cunning10 (base 10)

Resources

Life12/122
Hate91/100
Healing Factor0.98263220322422
Regeneration0.24565805080606

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage23
Accuracy15
Crit Chance4%
APR1
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower8
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower15
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)9.5225936422747 (63.098591549296%)
Defense1
Ranged Defense1
Fatigue12
Physical Save11
Spell Save8
Mental Save9

Defense: Resistances

All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (2/3)

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
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 60 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration

Class Talents

Cursed / Strife1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    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, 1 Defense and your attacks will gain 5% 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 0 and invisibility detection by 0.
    Stealth and invisibility detection improves with your Willpower
    Preternatural Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    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 2% 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: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You slash wildly at your target for 116% (at 0 Hate) to 154% (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 33% for 15 turns. The effect will stack.
    The damage multiplier increases with your Strength.
    Slash
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Assault nearby foes with 4 fast attacks for 15% (at 0 Hate) to 30% (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 12 for 3 turns.
    The damage multiplier and Accuracy reduction increase with your Strength.
    Frenzy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    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
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: While active, every swing of your weapon has a 12% (if one-handed) or 25% (if two-handed) chance of striking a second nearby target for 25% (at 0 Hate) to 25% (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: 1.3
    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: +3 Accuracy, +5% melee damage, +0.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 2: +5 Accuracy, +11% melee damage, +1.00 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 3: +6 Accuracy, +16% 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
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    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: 5.6
    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 6% 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 2% 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 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: +3).
    Gloom
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an -1% chance to be crippled by fear for 3 turns, reducing damage they inflict by 12%. 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: +3).
    Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower or have an -0.3% 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: +3).
    Dismay
0/5
  • 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: +3).
    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 armour (+8), armour hardiness (+20%), spell (+13) and physical (+13) 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 and fully ignore the attack triggering it.
    There is no cooldown to this effect, it can happen while already active.
    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 95 gold, up to +0. (currently +0)
    Power is Money
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 57
    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: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    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
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 9 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 19 at any time). You can heal no more than 7.2 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
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +-1% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    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 +7% 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
    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 6% 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 0.1%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 6, Armour hardiness by 33%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 7% 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.
    Heavy Armour Training
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 0% 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: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    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 10% 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 1.2)

Quests

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!		active

Equipment

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
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 14
- Talent Heavy 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 (2 def, 4 armour)
In main hand
iron battleaxe (Nightmares) (13.5-20.25 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 13.5 - 20.3
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Nightmares


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
iron battleaxe (Nightmares) (13.5-20.25 power, 1 apr)

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 1 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)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
mossy mindstar (Shrouds) (2.5-2.75 power, 12 apr, mind damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 11

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 2.5 - 2.8
Uses stats: 30% Wil, 10% Cun
Damage type: Mind
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +12
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Mindpower: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Curse of Shrouds


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 (Shrouds) (2.5-2.75 power, 12 apr, mind 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: +0.1% dam / acc
Attack speed: 125%
Firing range: +6
Curse of Nightmares


Slings are used to hurl stones or metal shots at your foes.
rough leather sling (Nightmares)
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
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

You collect a new ingredient: orc heart (1).
Cur hits Orc warrior for 29 physical damage.
Norgan hits Orc warrior for 35 physical damage.
Norgan killed Orc warrior!

Orc warrior hits Norgan for 20 physical, 5 nature, 5 temporal (30 total damage).
Norgan misses Orc warrior.
Orc warrior moves reluctantly!

Orc warrior hits Cur for 15 physical, 5 nature, 5 temporal (25 total damage).
Norgan uses Infusion: Regeneration.
Norgan starts regenerating health quickly.
Cur hits Orc warrior for 29 physical damage.

Cur misses Orc warrior.
Norgan hits Orc warrior for 32 physical damage.
Your hatred grows even as your life fades! (+4 hate)
Orc warrior hits Cur for 11 physical, 5 nature, 5 temporal (21 total damage).

Norgan uses Stunning Blow.
You collect a new ingredient: orc heart (1).
Cur hits Orc warrior for 24 physical damage.
Norgan hits Orc warrior for 39 physical damage.
Norgan killed Orc warrior!

Cur picks up (c.): rough leather sling.

Norgan stops regenerating health quickly.
Cur deactivates Stalk.
Cur deactivates Gloom.