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

Official Expansion!

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

Features:

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

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

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Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

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

Features:

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

Official Expansion!

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

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


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

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


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

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


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

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeInsane Roguelike
SexMale
RaceDwarf
ClassStone Warden
Level / Exp9 / 29%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Aeruvena the blue crystal at level 9 on the 15th Dearth 122nd year of Ascendancy at 22:02
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Primary Stats

Strength28 (base 18)
Dexterity8 (base 10)
Constitution15 (base 10)
Magic20 (base 20)
Willpower27 (base 14)
Cunning14 (base 10)

Resources

Life-76/288
Mana160/233
Equilibrium34
Healing Factor1.0460311219418
Regeneration2.8765855853398

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite4
See Invisible6

Offense: Mainhand

Damage31
Accuracy24
Crit Chance4%
APR0
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage16
Accuracy24
Crit Chance4%
APR0
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower20
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower22
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Cold+4%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)21.551211628464 (73.607947236566%)
Defense5
Ranged Defense5
Fatigue36
Physical Save20
Spell Save20
Mental Save19

Defense: Resistances

Blight+ 5%( 70%)
Cold+ 28%( 70%)
Fire+ 5%( 70%)
All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%
Confusion Resistance20%

Inscriptions (3/3)

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 100 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 21
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to instantly dissipate the energy of your ailments, cleansing all cross tier effects and 1 physical, mental, and magical effect.
You use the dissipated energy to create a shield lasting 3 turns and blocking 40 damage per debuff cleansed (not counting cross-tier ones).
If there were only cross-tier effects to cleanse, no shield is created and the rune goes on a 75% reduced cooldown.
Its effects scale with your Constitution stat.
Rune: Shatter Afflictions
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 instantly heal yourself for 50 then cleanse 1 wound, poison, and disease effect.
Infusion: Healing

Class Talents

Spell / Eldritch shield1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 17.2
    Equilibrium cost: 3
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Channel eldritch forces into a melee attack, hitting the target with your weapon and shield for 128% arcane damage.
    If either attack hits, the target will be stunned for 2 turns and you automatically Block.
    The chance for the attack to stun increases with your Physical Power, but it is considered a magical attack and thus is resisted with spell save, rather than physical save.
    Damage increases with Spellpower.
    Eldritch Blow
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Sustain equilibrium cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Imbues your shields with arcane power, dealing 7.35 arcane damage with each melee strike and 5.15 arcane damage when hit.
    Your shields radiate with eldritch forces, imbuing you back with 6 spellpower and mindpower per tier of your shields (offhand counts for half). Current bonus is 8.
    Allows counterstrikes after incomplete blocks and the cooldown of Block is reduced by 0 turns.
    The damage will increase with Spellpower.
    Eldritch Infusion
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 51.6
    Equilibrium cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Channel eldritch forces into a ferocious melee attack, hitting the target three times with your shields doing 60% Nature damage.
    If any of the attacks hit, the target will be dazed for 1 turns and your Block cooldown is reset.
    The chance for the attack to daze increases with you Physical Power, but it is considered a magical attack and thus is resisted with spell save, rather than physical save.
    Eldritch Fury
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 51.6
    Equilibrium cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Slam your shield on the ground creating a shockwave.
    You perform a melee attack for 130% arcane damage against everyone within radius 0.
    Any creature hit by the attack will be submitted to a Counterstrike effect for 3 turns, as if you had blocked against them.
    At level 5 your Block cooldown is reset.
    Eldritch Slam
0/5
Spell / Earth1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25.8
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Fire a powerful beam of stone-shattering force, digging out any walls in its path up to 1 range.
    The beam continues to a range of 10, affecting any creatures in its path, dealing 49.83 physical damage to them.
    If any walls are dug, you gain 16% physical damage bonus for 6 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Pulverizing Auger
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster's skin grows as hard as stone, granting a 4 bonus to Armour.
    Each time you are hit in melee, you have a 40% chance to reduce the cooldown of an Earth or Stone spell by 2 (this effect can only happen once per turn).
    The bonus to Armour will increase with your Spellpower.
    Stone Skin
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 34.4
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures a mudslide, dealing 7.41 physical damage in a radius of 1. Any creatures caught inside will be knocked back 8 spaces.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Mudslide
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 86
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 60
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Entomb yourself in a wall of stone for 2 turns.
    At level 4, it becomes targetable.
    Any hostile creature caught in the radius will also suffer 9.12 physical damage.
    Duration and damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Stone Wall
0/5
Wild-gift / Earthen power1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: The first time you take damage each turn, you regenerate 8% of the damage dealt as mana (up to a maximum of 6.45) and 8% as equilibrium (up to 5.65).
    Increases Physical Power by 30, increases damage done with shields by 34%, and allows you to dual-wield shields.
    Also, all of your melee attacks will perform a shield bash in addition to their normal effects.
    Stoneshield
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: When you use your Resilience of the Dwarves racial power your skin becomes so tough that it even absorbs damage from non-physical attacks.
    Non-physical damage is reduced by 67% of your total armour value (ignoring hardiness).
    While this effect is not active, half of it is still applied against foes entangled by your stone vines.
    For Drems this effect activates as long as the hungering mouth summoned by From Below It Devours is alive.
    Stone Fortress
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain equilibrium cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Sharp shards of stone grow from your shields.
    When you are hit in melee, you will get a free attack against the attacker with the shards doing 40% shield damage (as Nature).
    This effect can only happen once per turn and is not affected by counterstrike.
    Shards
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Creates a shield of impenetrable stone around you for 7 turns, absorbing up to 80 damage.
    Your equilibrium will increase by twice the damage absorbed.
    When the effect ends, all equilibrium above minimum will be converted to mana in a storm of arcane energy and the cooldown of your Block is reset.
    The storm inflicts Arcane damage equal to the converted equilibrium (maximum 0) against everyone around you in a radius 1.
    Also while resting you will passively regenerate 0.00 mana each turn.
    The shield strength will increase with Willpower
    Eldritch Stone
0/5
Wild-gift / Earthen vines1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain equilibrium cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: From the ground around you, you form living stone vines extending from your feet.
    Each turn, the vines will attempt to seize a random target within radius 4.
    Affected creatures are pinned to the ground and take 11.1 nature and 11.1 Arcane damage each turn for 5 turns.
    A creature entangled by the vines will have a chance to break free each turn, and will automatically succeed if it is more than 8 grids away from you.
    The chance to affect targets and damage increase with talent level and Willpower.
    Stone Vines
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Each time one of your stone vines deals damage to a creature it will restore 0.4 equilibrium and 0.5 mana.
    Your vines also become infused with eldritch energies, dealing an additional 11.1 arcane damage.
    Eldritch Vines
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 15
    Range: 20
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Merge with one of your stone vines, traversing it to emerge near an entangled creature (maximum range 20).
    Merging with the stone is beneficial for you, healing 122.60 life (increases with Willpower).
    This will not break Body of Stone.
    Rockwalk
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 15
    Range: 20
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Merge your target (within range 20) with one of your stone vines that has seized it, forcing it to traverse the vine and reappear near you.
    Merging with the stone is detrimental for the target, dealing 92.5 nature damage.
    The damage will increases with your Willpower.
    Rockswallow
0/5
Wild-gift / Dwarven nature1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Reach inside your dwarven core and summon your stone and crystaline halves to fight alongside you for 6 turns.
    Your Crystaline Half will attack your foes with earthen missiles.
    Your Stone Half will taunt your foes to protect you.
    This power can not be called upon while under the effect of Deeprock Form.
    Elemental Split
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Your halves learn new talents.
    Crystaline Half: Rain of Spikes - A massive effect that makes all nearby foes bleed.
    Stone Half: Stone Link - A protective shield that will redirect all damage against nearby allies to your Stone Half.
    The level of those talents is 0.
    Power Core
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: You call upon the immediate help of your Halves.
    Your Stone Half will trade places (if in sight) with you and all creatures currently targetting you in a radius of 1 will target it instead.
    Your Crystaline Half will instantly fire a volley of level 0 earthen missiles at all foes near the stone half (or you if the stone half is dead) in radius 1.
    In addition, as passive effect, your halves now also learn your level of Combat Accuracy.
    Dwarven Unity
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Is: a nature gift
    Description: Merges your halves back into you, cleansing your body of 5 detrimental magical, mental or physical effects.
    Each half also heals you for 14 and releases a shockwave dealing 14.03 Nature damage in a radius 3.
    Mergeback
0/5

Generic Talents

Wild-gift / Call of the wild1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Removes equilibrium: 4.7
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power and a nature gift
    Description: Meditate on your link with Nature.
    While meditating, your equilibrium decreases by 4.66 per turn, your Mental Save is increased by 12, and your healing factor increases by 10%.
    Your deep meditation does not let you deal damage correctly, reducing the damage you and your summons deal by 50%.
    Also, any time you are resting (even with Meditation not sustained) you enter a simple meditative state that decreases your equilibrium by 0.69 per turn.
    The activated effects increase with your Mindpower.
    Meditation
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power and a nature gift
    Description: Touch a target (or yourself) to infuse it with Nature, healing it for 138 (this heal does not work on undead).
    The amount healed will increase with your Mindpower.
    Nature's Touch
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 3
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power and a nature gift
    Description: Using your connection to Nature, you can see your surrounding area in a radius of 4.
    Also, while meditating, you are able to detect the presence of creatures around you in a radius of 2.
    Earth's Eyes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Equilibrium cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Fixed Cooldown: 50
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power and a nature gift
    Description: Your deep link with Nature allows you to reset the cooldown of 2 of your wild gifts of tier 0 or less.
    Nature's Balance
0/5
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 armour (+9), armour hardiness (+20%), spell (+13) and physical (+13) saves for 8 turns.
    The bonuses 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 and 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: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: While the origins of the dwarves remain clouded in mystery to the other races, it is obvious that they share strong ties to the stone.
    You can target any wall and immediately enter it, appearing on the other side.
    This can pass through up to 1 tiles (increases with Constitution and talent level).
    Stone Walking
0/5
Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 9, Armour hardiness by 44%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 11% 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
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 27.
    Combat Accuracy
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

Quests

You met a novice mage who was tasked to collect an arcane powered artifact.
He asked for your help, should you collect some that you do not need.
* Collect an artifact arcane powered item.
An apprentice task		done
Ungrol of Last Hope asked you to look for his wife's friend Celia, who has been reported missing. She frequently visits her late husband's mausoleum, in the graveyard near Last Hope.
And now for a grave		active
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		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
Various alchemists around Maj'Eyal are competing to gain entry into the great Brotherhood of Alchemists, and one or more have enlisted your aid.
Agrimley the hermit needs your help making an elixir of focus. He has given you some notes on the ingredients:
 * 'Needed: one honey tree root. Keep a firm grip on it. These things will dig themselves right back into the ground if you drop them.'
 * 'Needed: one faerlhing fang. I've lost a number of adventurers to this one, but I'm sure you'll be fine.'
 * 'Needed: one mummified bone. That is, a bone from a corpse that's undergone mummification. Actually, any bit of the body would do, but the bones are the only parts you're certain to find when you kick a mummy apart. I recommend finding one that doesn't apply curses.'
Ungrol of Last Hope needs your help making an elixir of foundations. He has given you some notes on the ingredients:
 * 'Needed: one sandworm tooth. Yes, sandworms have teeth. They're just very small and well back from where you're ever likely to see them and live.'
 * 'Needed: one naga tongue. Best results occur with tongues never tainted by profanity, so if you happen to know any saintly nagas...'
 * 'Needed: one skeleton mage skull. If the eyes are still glowing, please bash it around a bit until they fade. I'll not have another one of those coming alive and wreaking havoc in my lab.'
The Brotherhood of Alchemists		active
You met a half-mad lumberjack fleeing a small village, rambling about an untold horror lurking there, slaughtering people.
The beast within		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
On head
insulating rough leather cap of constitution (+2) (0 def, 1 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Changes stats: +2 Con
Changes resistances: +5% fire / +6% cold


A cap made of leather.
insulating rough leather cap of constitution (+2) (0 def, 1 armour)
On hands
polar iron gauntlets of strength (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Infused by nature
Crafted by a master
1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+1 eff.)
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Damage (Melee): 6 cold
Changes stats: +3 Str
Changes resistances: +6% cold
Changes damage: +4% cold
When used to modify unarmed attacks:
Power: 109% Range: 1.4x
Uses stats: 40% Cun, 40% Dex, 40% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Crit. chance: +2.0%
Attack speed: 83%
When this weapon hits: Ice Breath (10% chance level 1).
Damage (radius 2) on crit: +6 ice


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
polar iron gauntlets of strength (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
Tool
iron pickaxe of endurance (dig speed 38 turns)
Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: tool / digger ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Fatigue: -4%
Changes stats: +3 Str
When carried:
Talent granted: +1 Dig


Allows you to dig a wall, remove a tree, create ways.
iron pickaxe of endurance (dig speed 38 turns)
On fingers
wizard's copper ring of clarity
Powered by arcane forces
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +2 Mag
Spell save: +4 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +5 (+3 eff.)
Confusion immunity: +20%


Rings make your fingers look great!
wizard's copper ring of clarity
Around neck
copper amulet of willpower (+3)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Wil


Amulets make your neck look great!
copper amulet of willpower (+3)
In main hand
acidic iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 98% power, 23 block)
Requires:
- Shield usage training
- Strength 11

Infused by nature
7.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

When used to attack (with talents):
Power: 99% Range: 1.2x
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Stoneshield
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Block value: +23
On weapon hit:
* 12% chance to reduce armor by 22%
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Fatigue: +8%
Damage (Melee): 5 acid
Damage when hit (Melee): 2 acid
Talent granted: +1 Block


Handheld deflection devices.
acidic iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 98% power, 23 block)
Around waist
noble's rough leather belt of unlife
Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Cun / +3 Wil
Changes resistances: +5% blight
Damage against: +15% Summoned
Reduced damage from: +16% Summoned
The wearer is treated as an undead.
The wearer no longer has to breathe.


A belt that goes around your waist.
noble's rough leather belt of unlife
In off hand
iron shield of cold resistance (+16%) (0 def, 2 armour, 98% power, 19.5 block)
Requires:
- Shield usage training
- Strength 11

Crafted by a master
7.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

When used to attack (with talents):
Power: 99% Range: 1.2x
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Stoneshield
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Block value: +20
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Fatigue: +8%
Changes resistances: +16% cold
Talent granted: +1 Block


Handheld deflection devices.
iron shield of cold resistance (+16%) (0 def, 2 armour, 98% power, 19.5 block)
Cloak
Manyrig (7 def, 0 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +7 (+7 eff.)
Changes stats: +1 Cun / +4 Wil
Physical save: +5 (+2 eff.)
Light radius: +1
See invisible: +6


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
Manyrig (7 def, 0 armour)
Main armor
rejuvenating iron plate armour (0 def, 7 armour)
Requires:
- Massive armour training
- Strength 22

Infused by nature
17.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / massive ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +7
Fatigue: +22%
Life regen: +2.50
Stamina each turn: +0.50


A suit of armour made of metal plates.
rejuvenating iron plate armour (0 def, 7 armour)

Inventory

regeneration infusion of the psychic (heal 152; 12 cd)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / infusion

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 152 life over 5 turns.
Its effects scale with your Willpower stat.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the infusion.

Natural infusions may be grafted onto your body, granting you an on-demand nature talent.
regeneration infusion of the psychic (heal 152; 12 cd)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron mace (109% power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mace ; tier 1

Power: 109% Range: 1.4x
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +0.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Blunt and deadly.
iron mace (109% power, 2 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
elm vilestaff 'Woewrecker' (100% power, 2 apr, darkness element)
Requires:
- Magic 11

Crafted by a master
5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / staff ; tier 1

Power: 100% Range: 1.2x
Uses stat: 80% Mag
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +1.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Effects on melee hit:
* 10% chance to reduce damage dealt by 13%
* 20% chance to reduce all saves and defense by 15
Changes resistances: +3% mind
Changes damage: +19% darkness / +6% mind
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 vilestaff 'Woewrecker' (100% power, 2 apr, darkness element)
Sparkmaim the pair of iron boots (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +2%
Changes resistances: +6% lightning / +3% acid / +3% blight / +6% cold / +5% arcane / +6% fire


Heavy boots, with metal strips at the toes, heels and other vulnerable parts, to better protect the wearer's feet from harm.
Sparkmaim the pair of iron boots (0 def, 3 armour)
3 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.
3 agate
132 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.
132 alchemist agate
Tooth of the Mouth (dig speed 12 turns)
Powered by unknown forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / digger ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour penetration: +15
Damage when hit (Melee): 10 draining blight
Changes damage: +5% blight
When carried:
Talent granted: +1 Dig


A huge tooth taken from the Mouth, in the Deep Bellow.
Tooth of the Mouth (dig speed 12 turns)
spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

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

Activation costs 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)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

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

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
Fuluntir [power 105] (15 cooldown)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / wand ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Effects on melee hit:
* 20% chance to reduce strength, dexterity, and constitution by 12
Damage when hit (Melee): 6 mind
Changes resistances penetration: +5% mind
Changes damage: +3% mind
It can be used to fire a magical bolt dealing 105 lightning damage

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 15 turns.
When used:
* Increase all damage penetration by 11% for 2 turns.


Magical wands are made by powerful Alchemists and Archmagi to store spells. Anybody can use them to release the spells.
Fuluntir [power 105] (15 cooldown)
citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
citrine
6 zircon
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
When used to imbue an object:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
6 zircon

Achievements

Squadmate (Insane (Roguelike) difficulty) Escaped from Reknor alive with your squadmate Norgan.
By roll Groo the Dwarf Stone Warden level 6
19th Voratun 122nd year of Ascendancy at 10:22 see stats
The secret city (Insane (Roguelike) difficulty) Discovered the truth about mages.
By roll Groo the Dwarf Stone Warden level 8
7th Wealth 122nd year of Ascendancy at 15:14 see stats

Log

roll Groo misses Elytira the dredgling.
roll Groo misses Elytira the dredgling.
Roll Groo stops regenerating health quickly.
Elytira the dredgling uses Condensate.

Elytira the dredgling hits roll Groo for 75 fire damage.
Roll Groo uses Nature's Touch.
Elytira the dredgling casts Dust to Dust.
Elytira the dredgling's spell attains critical power!
Elytira the dredgling is surging arcane power.

Elytira the dredgling hits roll Groo for 23 temporal, 23 physical (46 total damage).
Roll Groo uses Resilience of the Dwarves.
Roll Groo's skin turns to stone.
Elytira the dredgling shoots!

Aeruvena the blue crystal is seized by a stone vine.
Elytira the dredgling retunes the fabric of spacetime.

Stone Vine from Roll Groo hits Aeruvena the blue crystal for 10 nature, 10 arcane (20 total damage).
Aeruvena the blue crystal casts Searing Light.
Aeruvena the blue crystal hits roll Groo for (23 flat reduction), 42 light (42 total damage).
Roll Groo is no longer seared.

Stone Vine from Roll Groo hits Aeruvena the blue crystal for 10 nature, 10 arcane (20 total damage).
Aeruvena the blue crystal's light area effect hits roll Groo for (23 flat reduction), 10 light (10 total damage).
Aeruvena the blue crystal casts Moonlight Ray.
Aeruvena the blue crystal's spell attains critical power!
Aeruvena the blue crystal hits roll Groo for (23 flat reduction), 81 darkness (81 total damage).
roll Groo the level 9 dwarf stone warden was swallowed by the void to death by Aeruvena the blue crystal on level 2 of Scintillating Caves.