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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
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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

Items Vault 1.7.6

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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!
Embers of Rage 1.7.4

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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
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceHigher
ClassArcane Blade
Level / Exp7 / 17%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
4 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength20 (base 19)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution13 (base 10)
Magic20 (base 19)
Willpower18 (base 10)
Cunning22 (base 19)

Resources

Life248/248
Mana176/176
Stamina118/118
Healing Factor1.0283363011315
Regeneration0.25708407528288

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement+25%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage39
Accuracy19
Crit Chance5%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower25
Crit Chance5%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower25
Crit Chance5%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Nature+11%
All0%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)9.5 (43.579428603723%)
Defense24
Ranged Defense24
Fatigue0
Physical Save16
Spell Save13
Mental Save24

Defense: Resistances

Nature+ 22%( 70%)
Cold+ 6%( 70%)
Fire+ 5%( 70%)
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)
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)
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 / Magical combat1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Allows you to use melee weapons to focus your spells, granting a 37% chance per melee attack to cast an offensive spell as a free action on the target.
    Delivering the spell this way will not trigger a spell cooldown.
    You may select an allowed spell to trigger this way, or choose to have one randomly selected for each attack.
    While dual wielding or using a shield the chance is halved.
    The chance increases with your Cunning.

    Allowed spells: Earthen Missiles, Flame, Lightning
    Currently selected spell: Random
    Arcane Combat
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: The user gains a bonus to Spellpower equal to 13% of your Cunning (Current bonus: 3).
    Arcane Cunning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Regenerates 0.00 mana per turn, and increases physical and spell critical chance by 0% while active.
    Arcane Feed
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Raw magical damage channels through the caster's weapon, increasing raw Physical Power by 0% of your Magic (current bonus: 0).
    Each time you crit with a melee blow, you will unleash a radius 1 ball of arcane damage, doing 2.69.
    The bonus scales with your Spellpower and talent level.
    If you are using a shield this will only occur 50% of the time.
    If you are dual wielding this will only occur 50% of the time.
    At level 5 the ball becomes radius 2.
    Arcane Destruction
0/5
Spell / Earth1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 15
    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 9.46 physical damage to them.
    If any walls are dug, you gain 6% physical damage bonus for 6 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Pulverizing Auger
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    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 1 bonus to Armour.
    Each time you are hit in melee, you have a 8% 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
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures a mudslide, dealing 8.69 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: 50
    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 10.31 physical damage.
    Duration and damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Stone Wall
0/5
Spell / Fire1.30
  • Effective talent level: 6.5
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire, setting the target ablaze and doing 158.73 fire damage over 3 turns.
    At level 5, it will create a beam of flames.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flame
5/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a cone of flame with radius 4. Any targets caught in the area will suffer Burning Shock, stunning them and dealing 51.77 fire damage over 3 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flameshock
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: 400% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire that moves toward the target and explodes into a flash of fire, doing 15.26 fire damage in a radius of 0.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Fireflash
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Raging flames burn foes and allies alike, doing 2.92 fire damage in a radius of 5 each turn for 3 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Inferno
0/5
Cunning / Dirty fighting1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    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 1% (to a maximum of 2%) 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: 18
    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 15% 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: 20
    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 0 negative effect(s) on the target by 0 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
Spell / Enhancement1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Strike twice with your mainhand weapon dealing 89% Arcane damage.
    If either of these attacks hit you gain 16 mana.
    The mana gain will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Strike
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Engulfs your hands (and weapons) in a sheath of fire, dealing 1.16 fire damage per melee attack and increasing all fire damage dealt by 0%.
    Each hit will also regenerate 0.00 stamina.
    The effects will increase with your Spellpower.
    Fiery Hands
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Engulfs your hands (and weapons) in a sheath of lightning, dealing 1 lightning damage with a chance to daze (25%) per melee attack and increasing all lightning damage dealt by 0%.
    Each hit will also regenerate 0.00 mana.
    The effects will increase with your Spellpower.
    Shock Hands
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 10
    Is: a spell
    Description: You concentrate on your inner self, increasing your Strength, Dexterity, Magic, and Cunning by 0.
    Additionally, you gain a shield absorbing 10 damage before you take damage every 10 turns.
    The stat increase and shield will improve with your Spellpower.
    Inner Power
0/5
Spell / Air1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up mana into a powerful beam of lightning, doing 4.88 to 14.63 damage (9.76 average)
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Lightning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Invokes an arc of lightning doing 5.09 to 15.26 damage (10.17 average) and chaining to another target.
    The arc can jump to 4 targets at most, up to 10 grids apart, and will never jump to the same target twice, or to the caster. The arc will also strike all creatures between each target.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Chain Lightning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A gentle wind circles around the caster, increasing carrying capacity by 3, defense against projectiles by 1, pin immunity by 0% and stun immunity by 0%.
    At level 4 it also makes you levitate slightly above the ground, allowing you to ignore some traps.
    At level 5 it also grants 0% movement speed and removes 0 fatigue.
    Feather Wind
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures a furious, raging lightning storm with a radius of 6 that follows you as long as this spell is active.
    Each turn, a random lightning bolt will hit up to 0 of your foes for 1.00 to 2.92 damage (1.46 average) in a radius of 1.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Thunderstorm
0/5
Technique / Combat techniques1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 22
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 39
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Rush toward a target enemy with incredible speed and perform a melee attack for 120% weapon damage that can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
    You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
    Rush
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 3%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +19 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next 1 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 0% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
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 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
Spell / Aegis1.00
  • Effective talent level: 3.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Imbues your body with arcane forces, reconstructing it to a default state, healing for 200 life.
    The life healed will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Reconstruction
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Surround yourself with strengthening arcane forces.
    Every damage shield, time shield, displacement shield, and disruption shield affecting you has its power increased by 21%.
    At level 5, it also increases the duration of all shields by 1 turn.
    The shield value will increase with your Spellpower.
    Shielding
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Surround yourself with protective arcane forces.
    Each time you receive a direct heal (not a life regeneration effect), you automatically gain a damage shield equal to 24% of the heal value for 3 turns.
    This will replace an existing damage shield if the new shield value and duration would be greater than or equal to the old.
    The shield value will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Release arcane energies into most magical shields currently protecting you.
    It will affect at most 3 shield effects.
    Damage Shield, Time Shield, Displacement Shield: Increase the damage absorption value by 42%.
    Disruption Shield: Tap into the stored energies to restore the shield (at a rate of 2 energy per 1 shield power). Any leftover energy is converted back into mana at a rate of 4.75 energy per mana.
    The charging will increase with your Spellpower.
    Aegis
0/5
Spell / Conveyance1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    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 8 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 7).
    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: 20
    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 (125).
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 22).
    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: 40
    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 (67) 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: 100
    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
Race / Higher1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 48
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Call upon the power of the Highborn, increasing all damage by 14% and reducing all damage taken by 14% 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 4%, 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: 20
    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: 52
    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 / 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: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 2, Armour hardiness by 14%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 2% 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
1/5
  • 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: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 30% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • 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

talent
Arcane Combat

Quests

You failed to protect the temporal explorer from death by Arcane.
Escort: temporal explorer (level 2 of Trollmire)		failed
You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
You have slain Bill. His treasure is yours for the taking.
Hidden treasure		done
Explore the caves below the ruins of Kor'Pul and the Trollmire in search of treasure and glory!

* You have explored the Trollmire and vanquished Prox the Troll.
* 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

On feet
scholar's pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Spellpower: +3 (+2 eff.)


A pair of boots made of leather.
scholar's pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
Light source
brass lantern of health
Infused by nature
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Maximum life: +41.00
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 of health
On head
insulating iron helm of constitution (+3) (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +5%
Changes stats: +3 Con
Changes resistances: +5% fire / +6% cold


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
insulating iron helm of constitution (+3) (0 def, 3 armour)
Tool
Eye of the Dreaming One
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +5 Wil
Mental save: +10 (+5 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)
The wearer is asleep.
Lucid Dreamer: This item allows the wearer to act while sleeping.
It can be used to activate talent Sleep (costing 20 power out of 25/25) :
Effective talent level: 3.0
Power cost: 20 out of 25/25.
Range: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a mind power
Description: Puts targets in a radius of 1 to sleep for 3 turns, rendering them unable to act. Every 7 points of damage the target suffers will reduce the effect duration by one turn.
When Sleep ends, the target will suffer from Insomnia for a number of turns equal to the amount of time it was asleep (up to ten turns max), granting it 20% sleep immunity for each turn of the Insomnia effect.
At talent level 5 Sleep will become contagious and has a 25% chance to spread to nearby targets each turn.
The damage threshold will scale with your Mindpower.

This ethereal eye stares eternally, as if seeing things that do not truly exist.
Eye of the Dreaming One
On fingers
psionicist's steel ring of power
Powered by arcane forces
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +6 (+2 eff.)
Changes stats: +2 Wil
Mental save: +4 (+2 eff.)
Spellpower: +8 (+4 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)


Rings make your fingers look great!
psionicist's steel ring of power
On fingers
rogue's copper ring of nature (+22%)
Infused by nature
Crafted by a master
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +6 (+3 eff.)
Changes stats: +3 Cun
Changes resistances: +22% nature
Changes damage: +11% nature


Rings make your fingers look great!
rogue's copper ring of nature (+22%)
Around neck
Feathersteel Amulet
Crafted by a master
0.10 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +15 (+8 eff.)
Fatigue: -20%
Maximum encumbrance: +20
Movement speed: +25%
Slows Projectiles: +15%
Avoid Pressure Traps: The wearer never triggers traps that require pressure.


The weight of the world seems a little lighter with this amulet around your neck.
Feathersteel Amulet
In main hand
arcing steel greatmaul of massacre (32-49 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 16

Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / greatmaul ; tier 2
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 32.5 - 48.8
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Attack speed: 100%
On weapon hit:
* 25% chance for lightning to strike from the target to a second target dealing 41 damage


Massive two-handed mauls.
arcing steel greatmaul of massacre (32-49 power, 2 apr)
Cloak
enveloping linen cloak (6 def, 0 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +6 (+3 eff.)
Physical save: +5 (+4 eff.)


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
enveloping linen cloak (6 def, 0 armour)
Main armor
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training
- Strength 14

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)

Inventory

hateful iron battleaxe of massacre (24-37 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

Crafted by a master
Infused by psionic forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 24.5 - 36.8
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage (Melee): +7 darkness
Damage against: +9% Living


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
hateful iron battleaxe of massacre (24-37 power, 1 apr)
balanced steel greatmaul of erosion (25-38 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 16

Infused by nature
Crafted by a master
5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / greatmaul ; tier 2
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 25.0 - 37.5
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage (Melee): +10 nature
When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +7 (+3 eff.)
Defense: +7 (+4 eff.)
Disarm immunity: +28%


Massive two-handed mauls.
balanced steel greatmaul of erosion (25-38 power, 2 apr)
iron greatsword (16-26 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 16.0 - 25.6
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Massive two-handed swords.
iron greatsword (16-26 power, 1 apr)
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 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
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.
agate
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
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 239/400.

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
2 ametrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +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.
2 citrine
4 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.
4 zircon

Achievements

Log

Arcane picks up (l.): iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (15 cooldown).
Arcane picks up (f.): gifted mossy mindstar (2-3 power, 12 apr, mind damage).
Arcane picks up (g.): resilient linen cloak of battle (1 def, 0 armour).
You pickup 0.45 gold pieces.
You pickup 0.60 gold pieces.
You pickup 0.60 gold pieces.
You pickup 0.90 gold pieces.
You pickup 1.00 gold pieces.
You pickup 0.70 gold pieces.
Arcane picks up (p.): zircon.
Arcane picks up (o.): ametrine.
Arcane picks up (j.): agate.
Arcane picks up (p.): ametrine.
Arcane picks up (r.): zircon.
There is a way to the previous level here (press '' or right click to use).
Ran for 23 turns (stop reason: at exit).

You gain 5.00 gold from the transmogrification of iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (15 cooldown).
You gain 3.00 gold from the transmogrification of Coral Spray (8 def, 8 armour, 48 block).
You gain 1.72 gold from the transmogrification of resilient linen cloak of battle (1 def, 0 armour).
You gain 0.65 gold from the transmogrification of gifted mossy mindstar (2-3 power, 12 apr, mind damage).
You gain 1.17 gold from the transmogrification of iron longsword of erosion (12-16 power, 2 apr).
You gain 3.17 gold from the transmogrification of balanced iron battleaxe of massacre (24-35 power, 1 apr).
There is a way to the next level here (press '' or right click to use).
You feel very confident walking into this place.
Space around you starts to dissolve...

You are yanked out of this place!
There is a Passageway into the Trollmire here (press '' or right click to use).
You stride into this area without a second thought, while stifling a yawn. You feel your time might be better spent elsewhere.