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Hal the level 2 Higher Shadowblade by Halberdman

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.6.7
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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.6.7

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 1.6.7

Items Vault 1.6.0

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Items Vault 1.6.0

Talent Point Planner 1.6.0

The Talent Point Planner allows you to plan how to spend your character's future talent points (hence the name).  Bound to the <alt-shift-g> key by default [which can be changed in the usual manner], the planner makes a temporary copy of your character, levels it up to level 50, and opens the level-up dialog for you to set up your point plan.  When you're finished, the plan will be saved and displayed as annotations in the regular level-up dialog.

    Also provides various small improvements and bugfixes for the levelup dialog:

    • New game option "[ZOmnibus] | Sort unlearnt talent trees by name", with settings "None", "Unlearnt" or "All".
    • New game option "[ZOmnibus] | Verbose talent requirements", which adds a warning message to talent descriptions in the levelup dialog if you cannot use a talent due to not wielding appropriate equipment or similar requirements.
    • In the planner levelup dialog, press <Ctrl-U> to dump the current point plan to a file.
    • Improves "advanced display" mode for talents with maximum level greater than 5.
    • Updates stat display when increasing or decreasing level of talents that passively improve stats.

    Also available as part of the ZOmnibus Addon Pack and ZOmnibus Lite.

      Frequently Asked Questions:

      Talent Point Planner 1.6.0

      Possessor Bonus Class 1.6.6

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      Possessor Bonus Class 1.6.6

      Embers of Rage 1.6.7

      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!
      Embers of Rage 1.6.7

      Forbidden Cults 1.6.7

      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 1.6.7
      CampaignMaj'Eyal
      ModeNightmare Adventure
      SexMale
      RaceHigher
      ClassShadowblade
      Level / Exp2 / 49%
      Sizemedium
      Lifes / Deaths
      Killed by giant spider at level 2 on the 75th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 13:25
      Killed by giant spider at level 2 on the 75th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 14:37
      Killed by Hal at level 2 on the 75th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 14:44
      0 / 3

      Primary Stats

      Strength11 (base 10)
      Dexterity15 (base 14)
      Constitution10 (base 10)
      Magic15 (base 14)
      Willpower11 (base 10)
      Cunning14 (base 14)

      Resources

      Life113/113
      Mana111/111
      Stamina106/106
      Healing Factor1
      Regeneration0.25

      Speed

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

      Vision

      Sight10
      Lite3

      Offense: Mainhand

      Damage8
      Accuracy21
      Crit Chance11%
      APR5
      Speed1.00

      Offense: Offhand

      Damage4
      Accuracy21
      Crit Chance11%
      APR5
      Speed1.00

      Offense: Spell

      Spellpower15
      Crit Chance2%
      Speed1

      Offense: Mind

      Mindpower13
      Crit Chance2%
      Speed1

      Defense: Base

      Armour (hardiness)2 (30%)
      Defense6
      Ranged Defense6
      Fatigue6
      Physical Save7
      Spell Save9
      Mental Save8

      Defense: Resistances

      All 0%( 70%)

      Defense: Immunities

      Instadeath Resistance100%

      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)
      Won't Break Stealth: 100%
      Is: a nature gift
      Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 100 life over 5 turns.
      Infusion: Regeneration
      Infusions
      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 nature gift
      Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
      Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
      Infusion: Wild
      Runes
      Effective talent level: 1.0
      Use mode: Activated
      Range: melee/personal
      Cooldown: 15
      Travel Speed: instantaneous
      Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
      Won't Break Stealth: 100%
      Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
      Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 820% for 10 turns (0 total) and instantly restoring 41 mana.
      Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
      Rune: Manasurge

      Class Talents

      Technique / Duelist1.00
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Your offhand weapon damage penalty is reduced to 52%.
        Up to 2.1 times a turn, you have a 4% chance to parry up to 1 damage (based on your offhand weapon damage) from a melee or ranged attack. The number of parries increases with your Cunning. (A fractional parry has a reduced chance to succeed.)
        A successful parry reduces damage like armour (before any attack multipliers) and prevents critical strikes. It is difficult to parry attacks from unseen attackers and you cannot parry with a mindstar.
        Dual Weapon Mastery
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: The flow of battle invigorates you, allowing you to press your advantage as the fight progresses.
        Up to once each per turn, while dual wielding, you may:
        Riposte -- If a melee or archery attack misses you or you parry it, you instantly restore 0.1 stamina and gain 3% of a turn.
        Recover -- On performing a critical strike with your offhand weapon, you instantly restore 0.1 stamina.
        Tempo
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 6.4
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 8
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Make a cunning feint that tricks your target into swapping places with you. While moving, you take the opportunity to trip them, pinning and dazing them for 2 turns.
        Switching places distracts your foes and allows you to improve your defenses: For 1 turns, Dual Weapon Mastery yields one extra parry each turn and you are -13% less likely to miss your parry opportunities.
        The chance to pin and to daze increases with your Accuracy
        Feint
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 12.7
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 18
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Exploiting a gap in your target's defenses, you make a lethal strike with your offhand weapon for 180% damage that causes them to drop their weapon, disarming them for 0 turns.
        Tempo will reduce the cooldown of this talent by 1 turn each time it is triggered defensively.
        The chance to disarm increases with your Accuracy.
        Lunge
      		0/5
      Cunning / Stealth1.30
      • Effective talent level: 1.3
        Use mode: Sustained
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: Enters stealth mode (power 20, based on Cunning), making you harder to detect.
        If successful (re-checked each turn), enemies will not know exactly where you are, or may not notice you at all.
        Stealth reduces your light radius to 0, increases your infravision by 3, and will not work with heavy or massive armours.
        You cannot enter stealth if there are foes in sight within range 9.
        Any non-instant, non-movement action will break stealth if not otherwise specified.

        Enemies uncertain of your location will still make educated guesses at it.
        While stealthed, enemies cannot share information about your location with each other and will be delayed in telling their allies that you exist at all.
        Stealth
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You know how to make the most out of being unseen.
        When striking from stealth, your attacks are automatically critical if the target does not notice you just before you land it. (Spell and mind attacks critically strike even if the target notices you.)
        Your critical multiplier against targets that cannot see you is increased by up to 0%. (You must be able to see your target and the bonus is reduced from its full value at range 3 to 0 at range 10.)
        Also, after exiting stealth for any reason, the critical multiplier persists for 3 turns (with no range limitation).
        Shadowstrike
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You have a special affinity for darkness and shadows.
        When standing in an unlit grid, the minimum range to your foes for activating stealth or for maintaining it after a Shadow Dance is reduced by 0.
        While stealthed, your life regeneration is increased by 0.8 (based on your Cunning) and your stamina regeneration is increased by 0.2. The regeneration effects persist for 3 turns after exiting stealth, with 5 times the normal rate.
        Soothing Darkness
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 31.8
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 72
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: Your mastery of stealth allows you to vanish from sight at any time.
        You automatically enter stealth and cause it to not break from unstealthy actions for -1 turns.
        Shadow Dance
      		0/5
      Technique / Dual techniques1.00
      • Effective talent level: 1.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 15.9
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 6
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Attack with your offhand weapon for 106% damage. If the attack hits, the target is stunned for 3 turns, and you hit it with your mainhand weapon doing 106% damage.
        The stun chance increases with your Accuracy.
        Dual Strike
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 31.8
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 12
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Lashes out with a flurry of blows, hitting your target three times with each weapon for 40% damage.
        Flurry
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 10.6
        Range: 3
        Cooldown: 8
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Swiftly leap to your target and strike at their vital points with both weapons, dealing 100% weapon damage. This attack deals -2% increased critical strike damage.
        Heartseeker
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 10.6
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: 2000% of base
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: You quickly move up to 0 tiles to arrive adjacent to a target location you can see, leaping around or over anyone in your way. During your movement, you attack all foes within one grid of your path with both weapons for 60% weapon damage, causing those struck to bleed for 50% of the damage dealt over 5 turns.
        Whirlwind
      		0/5
      Cunning / Shadow magic1.30
      • Effective talent level: 2.6
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 10
        Sustain mana cost: 50
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 5
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Channel raw magical energy into your melee attacks; each blow you land will do an additional 19.04 darkness damage.
        The damage will improve with your Spellpower.
        Shadow Combat
      		2/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Is: a spell
        Description: Your preparations give you greater magical capabilities. You gain a bonus to Spellpower equal to 13% of your Cunning (Current bonus: 2).
        Shadow Cunning
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 10
        Sustain mana cost: 20
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 5
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: You draw energy from the depths of the shadows.
        While sustained, you regenerate 0.05 mana per turn, and your physical and spell attack speed increases by 0.0%.
        Shadow Feed
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 21.2
        Mana cost: 22.4
        Range: 3
        Cooldown: 6
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Step through the shadows to your target, dazing it for 2 turns and hitting it with all your weapons for 80% darkness weapon damage.
        Dazed targets are significantly impaired, but any damage will free them.
        To Shadowstep, you need to be able to see the target.
        Shadowstep
      		0/5
      Spell / Phantasm1.00
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Mana cost: 5.6
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 14
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Creates a globe of pure light within a radius of 3 that illuminates the area.
        At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.
        At level 4, it also deals 6.54 light damage.
        Illuminate
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain mana cost: 30
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: The caster's image blurs, granting a 0 bonus to Defense.
        The bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
        Blur Sight
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain mana cost: 20
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: The caster is surrounded by a phantasmal shield granting 10% chance to evade weapon attacks. If hit in melee, the shield will deal 1 light damage to the attacker.
        The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
        Phantasmal Shield
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain mana cost: 150
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: The caster fades from sight, granting 1 bonus to invisibility.
        Beware -- you should take off your light, or you will still be easily spotted.
        As you become invisible, you fade out of phase with reality. All your damage is reduced by 70%.
        This powerful spell constantly drains your mana (2 per turn) while active.
        The invisibility bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
        Invisibility
      		0/5
      Cunning / Dirty fighting1.00
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 12.7
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: You make a low blow against a sensitive point on the target, dealing 150% unarmed damage. If your attack hits, the target is left reeling and vulnerable, reducing their physical save by 0 and their stun, blind, confusion and pin immunities to 50% of normal for 4 turns.
        This effect bypasses saves.
        Dirty Fighting
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Your quick wit gives you a big advantage against disabled targets, increasing your damage by 1% for each disabling effect the target is under, to a maximum of 2%.
        For this purpose, disabling effects are stun, blind, daze, confuse, pin, disarm, cripple and silence.
        In addition, for each disabling effect the target is under, your melee attacks have a 0% (to a maximum of 0%) chance to inflict a new effect on them (that they do not already have): either disarm, cripple (25% power) or pin for 2 turns.
        The chance to further disable the target increases with your Accuracy.
        Backstab
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 19.1
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 12
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
        Description: Throw a cloud of blinding dust in a radius 0 cone. Enemies within will be blinded, as well as having their accuracy reduced by 3 and movement speed decreased by 11% for 1 turns.
        The chance to inflict these effects increase with your Accuracy.
        Blinding Powder
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 21.2
        Range: melee/personal
        Fixed Cooldown: 15
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Make a painful strike dealing 100% weapon damage that increases the duration of up to 1 negative effect(s) on the target by 2 turns. For each negative effect extended this way, the duration of a beneficial effect is reduced by the same amount, possibly canceling it.
        Twist the Knife
      		0/5

      Generic Talents

      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 -1%.
        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)
        Won't Break Stealth: 100%
        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').
        Attacks against you have a 0.0% reduced chance to be critical hits, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 6%.
        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
      Race / Higher1.00
      • 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 power of the Highborn, increasing all damage by 12% and reducing all damage taken by 12% for 5 turns.
        The bonus will increase with your Magic.
        Wrath of the Highborn
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: While Highers are not meant to rule other humans - and show no particular will to do so - they are frequently called to higher duties.
        Their nature grants them better senses than other humans.
        Increase blindness immunity by -1%, maximum sight range by 1, and increases existing infravision, and heightened senses range by 1.
        At talent level 5, each time you hit a target you gain telepathy to all similar creatures in radius 15 for 5 turns.
        Overseer of Nations
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Cooldown: 52
        Description: Highers were originally created during the Age of Allure by the human Conclave. They are imbued with magic at the very core of their being.
        Increase spell save by 0 and arcane resistance by 0%.
        Also, when you cast a spell dealing damage, you gain a 20% bonus to the damage type for 5 turns. (This effect has a cooldown.)
        Born into Magic
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 53
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: Activate some of your inner magic, using it to power your abilities. For the next -1 turns all active talents will be used without resource cost.
        Your resources must still be high enough to initially power the talent and failure rates (etc.) still apply.
        Highborn's Bloom
      		0/5
      Technique / Mobility1.30
      • Effective talent level: 1.3
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 8.5
        Range: 7
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Jump back up to 3 grids from your target, springing over any creatures in your way.
        You must disengage in a nearly straight line directly away from your target (which you must be able to see).
        After moving, you gain 104% increased movement speed for 3 turns (which ends if you take any actions other than movement), and you may reload your ammo (if any).
        The extra speed and maximum distance you can move are reduced by your Fatigue level.
        Disengage
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 26.5
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 54
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: Your quick wit and reflexes allow you to anticipate attacks against you, granting you a 6% chance to evade melee and ranged attacks and 0 increased defense for 4 turns.
        The chance to evade and defense bonus increase with your Dexterity.
        Evasion
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 21.2
        Range: 2
        Cooldown: -16
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: In an extreme feat of agility, you move to a spot you can see within range, bounding around, over, or through any enemies in the way.
        This talent cannot be used while wearing heavy armor, and leaves you exhausted. The exhaustion increases the cost of your activated Mobility talents by 130% (stacking), but fades over 32 turns.
        Tumble
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 10
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 5
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: You have trained to be very light on your feet and have conditioned your reflexes to react faster than thought to damage you take.
        While this talent is active, you instantly react to any direct damage (not from status effects, etc.) that would hit you for at least 72% of your maximum life.
        This requires 2.1 stamina and reduces the damage by 3%.
        Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
        The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
        Trained Reactions
      		0/5
      Spell / Conveyance1.00
      • Effective talent level: 1.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Mana cost: 33.6
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 12
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Teleports you randomly within a small range of up to 6 grids.
        At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
        At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 6).
        If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will partially fail and teleport the target randomly.
        The range will increase with your Spellpower.
        Phase Door
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Mana cost: 22.4
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Teleports you randomly within a large range (115).
        At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
        At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 21).
        If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will partially fail and teleport the target randomly.
        Random teleports have a minimum range of 15.
        The range will increase with your Spellpower.
        Teleport
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Mana cost: 44.8
        Range: 8
        Cooldown: 35
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: This intricate spell erects a space distortion around the caster that is linked to another distortion, placed around a target.
        Any time the caster should take damage, there is a 40% chance that it will instead be warped by the shield and hit the designated target.
        Once the maximum damage (63) is absorbed, the time runs out (10 turns), or the target dies, the shield will crumble.
        The max damage the shield can absorb will increase with your Spellpower.
        Displacement Shield
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain mana cost: 200
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 40
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: When you hit a solid surface, this spell tears down the laws of probability to make you instantly appear on the other side.
        Teleports up to 4 grids.
        After a successful probability travel you are left unstable, unable to do it again for a number of turns equal to 450% of the number of tiles you blinked through.
        The range will improve with your Spellpower.
        Probability Travel
      		0/5
      Cunning / Lethality1.30
      • Effective talent level: 2.6
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You have learned to find and hit weak spots. All your strikes have a 5.3% greater chance to be critical hits, and your critical hits do 14.7% more damage.
        Also, when using knives and throwing knives, you now use your Cunning instead of your Strength for bonus damage.
        Lethality
      		2/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 21.2
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 6
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Focus on a single target and perform a probing attack to find flaws in its defences, striking with your melee weapon(s) for 80% damage.
        For 3 turns thereafter, you gain 4 armor penetration, 4 accuracy, and 30% all damage peneration.
        Learning this technique allows you to permanently gain 1 armour penetration with all melee and archery attacks.
        The temporary armor penetration and accuracy bonuses increase with Cunning.
        Expose Weakness
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 30
        Drains stamina: 4
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Description: Become a whirling storm of blades, increasing attack speed by 3% and causing melee attacks to strike an additional adjacent target other than your primary target for 100% weapon damage.
        This talent is exhausting to use, draining 4 stamina each turn.
        Blade Flurry
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 26.5
        Range: melee/personal
        Fixed Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
        Description: Your quick wits allow you to reset the cooldown of up to 2 of your combat talents (cunning or technique) of tier 1 or less.
        Snap
      		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 0.1%.
        Thick Skin
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
        (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
        At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
        At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
        At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
        (Note that wearing mail or plate armour will interfere with stealth.)
        Heavy Armour Training
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing 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: 1.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
        Combat Accuracy
      		1/5
      • 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

      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

      Explore the caves below the ruins of Kor'Pul and the Trollmire in search of treasure and glory!

      * You must explore the Trollmire and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
      * You must explore the ruins of Kor'Pul and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
      Of trolls and damp caves      		active

      Equipment

      Main armor
      rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
      Requires:
      - Strength 10

      9.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: armor / light ; tier 1

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


      A suit of armour made of leather.
      rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
      In off hand
      iron dagger (102% power, 5 apr)
      Requires:
      - Dexterity 11

      1.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

      Power: 102% Range: 1.3x
      Uses stats: 45% Cun, 45% Dex
      Damage type:       Physical
      Accuracy bonus:       +0.3% crit chance (max 25%)
      Armour Penetration:       +5
      Crit. chance:       +4.0%
      Attack speed:       100%


      Sharp, short and deadly.
      iron dagger (102% power, 5 apr)
      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
      In main hand
      iron dagger (98% power, 5 apr)
      Requires:
      - Dexterity 11

      1.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

      Power: 99% Range: 1.3x
      Uses stats: 45% Cun, 45% Dex
      Damage type:       Physical
      Accuracy bonus:       +0.3% crit chance (max 25%)
      Armour Penetration:       +5
      Crit. chance:       +4.0%
      Attack speed:       100%


      Sharp, short and deadly.
      iron dagger (98% power, 5 apr)

      Inventory

      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)

      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
      ametrine
      0.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

      Achievements

      Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty) Died on the Eidolon Plane.
      By Hal the Higher Shadowblade level 2
      75th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 14:44       see stats

      Log

      Ran for 24 turns (stop reason: hostile spotted to the southeast (giant spider)).

      Saving done.

      Giant spider uses       Infusion: Healing.
      Giant spider receives       58 healing from Infusion: Healing.
      Giant spider performs a melee critical strike against Hal!
      Giant spider hits Hal for 36 nature damage.

      Giant spider hits Hal for 22 nature damage.

      Giant spider uses       Infusion: Movement.
      Giant spider is moving at extreme speed!
      Giant spider slows down.
      Giant spider hits Hal for 22 nature damage.

      Giant spider hits Hal for 23 nature damage.

      Giant spider hits Hal for 24 nature damage.
      Hal the level 2 higher shadowblade was treehugged to death by a giant spider on level 1 of Trollmire.
      You have no more lives left.
      Hal deactivates       Stealth.
      Hal deactivates       Shadow Combat.
      You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
      From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
      Giant spider killed Hal!
      Saving game...

      Saving done.
      New Achievement: Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty)!