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Ryniwel the level 2 Higher Archmage by xiltarus

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
Addons

Grey Out Unusable Items 1.7.2

This addon shows inventory items in dark grey if they have a power source incompatible with your character.

Arcane items are greyed out for antimagic characters, and arcane disrupting items are greyed out for characters with arcane abilities. Never accidentally break your spells again!

Grey Out Unusable Items 1.7.2

Escorts Enhanced 1.7.0

Various enhancements to escort quest NPCs:
- Escorts now follow the player when not close to the portal.
- Escorts occasionally say useful things.
- Escorts heal 5% of their maximum health per turn.

Escorts Enhanced 1.7.0

Combat Turn Separators 1.7.6

Combat Turn Separators (non-intrusive)

This addon provides a compact, non-intrusive display of combat turn information in the game log. It helps you follow fights by showing turn counts and recent turn activity.

The display is intentionally lightweight and lives in the log area so it complements existing UI and other addons.

tome-combat-turn-separators.png

Notes

  • Combat turns refer to player turns, i.e., each time the player gets to act.
  • Combat state is determined by the player’s internal in_combat status which lasts a few additional turns after the last enemy is defeated.
  • This addon removes blank lines from the log.

Contributions, bug reports, and improvements are welcome at https://github.com/cmtjk/tome-combat-turn-separators.

Version history


1.0.0
- Initial release of 'tome-combat-turn-separators'.

Combat Turn Separators 1.7.6

Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Clean UI 1.7.2

Replaces default interface styles with cleaner versions to enhance readability.

First release focuses primarily on replacing everything related to the default interface styles in the base game.

Future releases will enhance individual styles and take care of minor tweaks.

Content consists of only graphic assets to try and have the highest possible compatibility with future patches.

Clean UI 1.7.2

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

Chat/Quest Tweaks 1.7.0

Changes the quest log descriptions of a few quests to provide useful information or fix missing information, tweaks a few chat dialogs for stylistic improvement, and adds NPC portrait images to some chat dialogs that were missing them. Quests currently affected:

  • A mysterious staff
  • There and back again
  • Trapped!
  • The Orbs of Command
  • The Brotherhood of Alchemists

Chat dialogs currently affected:

  • Stire the Alchemist in Derth
  • The Sher'tul fortress butler
  • Aeryn in Gates of Morning

Chats with NPC portraits added:

  • Aeryn giving the "Important news" quest.
  • Both chats with the Temporal Warden in the "Back and Back and Back to the Future" quest.
  • For the Worldly Knowledge prodigy, the chat to select your gained talent tree.
  • Completion chat for the "Agent of the the arena" quest.
  • From the Arena campaign:
    • The initial chat, where you select the number of rounds to compete.
    • The chats for starting and winning a boss fight, and for starting and winning the final fight against the arena master.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Chat/Quest Tweaks 1.7.0

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

EquipDoll - Clean Item Names 1.7.2

Makes clearer view of EuipDoll by replacing item egos list with actual name, and tuning a font a bit
Because 'Ichorqueen' tells me much more than 'steel,hate,psyport,super.c,telekinetic', and looks definetly better :)

EquipDoll - Clean Item Names 1.7.2

Sandworm Lair Tweaks 1.5.10

Sandworm lair terrain is automatically revealed.

Hope that makes it less annoying.

Binds the Zone:create hook. This addon is safe to enable and disable on existing save files, though doing so will not have any effects for characters who have visited the sandworm lair already.

Sandworm Lair Tweaks 1.5.10

Items Vault 1.7.6

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Items Vault 1.7.6

Fix water flood rendering error 1.5.10

Temporarily fix the water rendering error on some GPU, that will caused map with water being flooded.
It will disable water shader (data/gfx/shaders/water.frag), without the need to turn off all advanced OpenGL shaders.
I don't know about OpenGL shader programming, so it will just be a temporary treatment.

Fix water flood rendering error 1.5.10

Post Effects fixes 1.7.2

The addon improves gamefield view during different post effects
For example, it's hard enough to see anything around you while having invisibility and confusion/sleep statuses at the same time

Here is details about what been changed:
- Invisibility status no longer cause whole screen to go blue. The character outline-only effect still applies and it's enough to check your status on a glance
- Invisibility status no longer cause whole screen blur effect.
- Lightning Speed status no longer cause whole screen to go blue. Blur effect still applies though
- Lightning Speed status will no longer apply blur if you have Confused/Sleep statuses (which also make things blurried)
- Unstoppable status now makes whole screen a bit more brighter-red so it's easier to see stuff
- Unstoppable shader now have higher priority over Stealth, so if you activate Unstoppable while being stealthed - you'll see visual change
- Frozen state no longer causes whole screen to become greenish. This effect was caused by no_healing state, but in the frozen state last thing you going to care about is no_healing, and it's not even obvious

Post Effects fixes 1.7.2

Faster Run/Rest/Explore 1.0.6

Important: this addon will have no effect if left unconfigured! Please read the description!

Recommended settings:

hit escape -> video options
  • Requested FPS: 30
  • Resting divider: 10
  • Running divider: 5

Description:

Enables faster run/resting by use of FPS dividers.

These dividers simply divide the game's requested FPS by their respective values while resting or running. After starting a new game or loading a saved character, configure this addon by hitting escape -> video options. Setting these dividers to something greater than one can substantially reduce the amount of time required to finish resting/running on older computers.

Just be careful when resting on an escort mission...

Changelog:

See the forum discussion for the changelog.

Faster Run/Rest/Explore 1.0.6

Better Item Description 1.7.4

This addon makes items description easier to read and determine on a glance it's usefulness
- sorts all stats by category - DPS/DEF/MISC
- item's passive power always the same blue color (not a random blue-yellow-pink-green)
- item's usable power - always yellow
- all rarity categories are displayed
- encumbrance value moved to the right under item name
- "on hit" powers always green
- "Stats" have an ornage highlight and placed before others because it's most important one
- Removed many extra-explain details, which any veteran player would not want to read each time
for example, stat "S.pwr/crit" shorten from "Spellpower on spell critical (stacks up to 3 times)"
means you do remember that it can stack only 3 times, and is not so super important anyway
- DLC supported - Orcs/Ashes
- few bug-fixes along the way

Most important thing to remember
- Requirements only shown for those you don't meet. If you want to see all reqs - hold CTRL
- "Phasing" stat means - "Damage Shield penetration", the name was taken from the source and looks good to me, and short enough
- The "-" minus sign at the end of stat mean immunity or reduction of some sort, for example "Blind-" = "Blindness immunity",
- "Max.summ" = Max wilder summons
- "Summ.HP.reg" = Life regen bonus (wilder-summons)
- "Def/telep" = Defense after a teleport
- "Res/telep" = Resist all after a teleport
- "Dur/telep" = New effects duration reduction after a teleport

it's not recommended to use this mod if you'r new to the game

Better Item Description 1.7.4

Showing Items Tier in Inventory 1.7.2

This addon add a column to inventory which show items Tier and allows sorting to show higher Tier first
Useful when in late game you interested only in Tier 5 items

There is an option under "Game Setting"->UI->Sort Items by Tier by default
which is if enabled makes sorting by Tier default when opening Inventory
Otherwise click on 'T' to sort items by Tier

items which is going to be transmo- and of type scroll (rune,infusion..), tinker or other without Tier specified will be placed at the top of the inventory to avoid occasional transmo of valuables

This mod is safe to use without starting new game

Showing Items Tier in Inventory 1.7.2

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
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexMale
RaceHigher
ClassArchmage
Level / Exp2 / 65%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Spacial Disturbance at level 2 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 19:25
Killed by Ryniwel at level 2 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 19:30
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Primary Stats

Strength11 (base 10)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic19 (base 18)
Willpower14 (base 13)
Cunning11 (base 11)

Resources

Life98/98
Mana127/127
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage8
Accuracy5
Crit Chance3%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower21
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower14
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Lightning+10%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)0 (30%)
Defense0
Ranged Defense0
Fatigue0
Physical Save7
Spell Save11
Mental Save8

Defense: Resistances

All+ 7%( 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 (41 total) and instantly restoring 41 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
Rune: Manasurge

Class Talents

Spell / Arcane1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Conjures up mana into a powerful bolt doing 51.12 arcane damage.
    At level 3, it becomes a beam.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Manathrust
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Your mastery of magic allows you to enter a state of deep concentration, increasing your Spellpower by 0 and arcane resistance by 6%.
    Arcane Power
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Creates a vortex of arcane energies on the target for 6 turns. Each turn the vortex will look for another foe in sight and fire a manathrust doing 2.15 arcane damage to all foes in line.
    If no foes are found, the target will take 50% more arcane damage.
    If the target dies, the vortex explodes, releasing all remaining damage in a radius 2 ball of arcane force.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Vortex
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Surround yourself with arcane forces, disrupting any attempts to harm you by creating a shield of pure aether which can absorb 24 damage.
    In combat, the mental focus required to maintain and monitor the shield is too much and you let it run on its own. In this state once the shield power is depleted it will start using your mana to absorb hits, at a ratio of 1.43 mana per damage.
    Whenever mana is used by the shield it stores a remnant of this energy (up to -50 max). When the shield is deactivated any stored energy is released in a radius 5 arcane storm that lasts 5 turns, dealing 20% of the total stored damage each turn.
    Outside of combat the shield regenerates 10% of its power each turn and stored energy quickly dissipates.
    Dropping below 50% mana or reaching max energy storage will automatically deactivate this talent.
    The shield power improves with your Spellpower.
    The maximum energy storage is based on your total mana (ignoring sustained spells), with a limit at -25 effective mana.

    Current shield power: 0
    Current stored energy: 0
    Disruption Shield
0/5
Spell / Phantasm1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    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 and deals 8.79 damage to all creatures.
    At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.
    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: Surround yourself with a phantasmal shield of pure light.
    Whenever you would take damage there is 5% chance to become ethereal for an instant and fully ignore it.
    If you do get hit, the shield glows brightly, sending triggering a flash of light on the attacker, dealing 9.56 light damage in radius 0 around it and dazzling any affected creature (deal 10% less damage) for 5 turns. This can only happen every 18 turns.
    The damage and ignore chance will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phantasmal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 35
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Weave a net of arcane disturbances around your body, removing yourself from the sight of all, granting 2 bonus to invisibility for 7 turns.
    While invisible all damage you deal against blinded or dazzled foes is increased by 0% (additive with other damage increases).
    The invisibility bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Invisibility
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Create a perfect lookalike of your own form made out of pure light near a creature.
    This image has 2 life and can never take more than 1 damage per creature per turn and is immune to any non direct damage (ground effects, damage over time, ...).
    Whenever you cast a spell your mirror image will try to duplicate it at the same target for 66% less damage, if possible. If it can, it will lose 1 life, if not it will instead taunt a creature to focus its attention on itself.
    While the image exists you receive the damage bonus from the Invisibility spell as if you were invisible.
    This spell can not be cast while a Mirror Image already exists and only in combat. It will disappear after a few turn when outside of combat.
    Mirror Image
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 8.58 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 7.66 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 9.36 physical damage.
    Duration and damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Stone Wall
0/5
Spell / Fire1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    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 11.80 fire damage over 3 turns.
    At level 5, it will create a beam of flames.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flame
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    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 1. Any targets caught in the area will suffer Burning Shock, stunning them and dealing 7.66 fire damage over 1 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flameshock
0/5
  • 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 14.06 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 2.61 fire damage in a radius of 5 each turn for 3 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Inferno
0/5
Spell / Temporal1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: 500% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Project a bolt of time distortion, decreasing the target's global speed by 10% and all projectiles it fires by 17% for 7 turns.
    Congeal Time
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: This intricate spell instantly erects a time shield around the caster, preventing any incoming damage and sending it forward in time.
    Once either the maximum damage (24) is absorbed, or the time runs out (5 turns), the stored damage will return as a temporal restoration field over time (5 turns).
    Each turn the restoration field is active, you get healed for 10% of the absorbed damage (Aegis Shielding talent affects the percentage).
    The shield's max absorption will increase with your Spellpower.
    Temporal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 100
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Removes the target from the flow of time for 4 turns. In this state, the target can neither act nor be harmed.
    Time does not pass at all for the target, no talents will cooldown, no resources will regen, and so forth.
    The duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Time Prison
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 120
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
    Description: Increases the caster's global speed by 0%.
    Essence of Speed
0/5
Spell / Air1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    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 39.32 to 117.96 damage (78.64 average)
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Lightning
2/5
  • 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 5.16 to 15.47 damage (10.31 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 2.87 damage (1.44 average) in a radius of 1.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Thunderstorm
0/5
Spell / Water1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: 800% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hurl ice shards at the targets in the selected area. Each shard travels slowly and does 7.17 ice damage, hitting all adjacent targets on impact with 25% chance to freeze them.
    If the target resists being frozen, it instead get wet.
    If the target is wet the damage increases by 30% and the ice freeze chance increases to 50%.
    This spell will never hit the caster.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Ice Shards
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Glacial fumes rise from the ground, doing 2.27 cold damage in a radius of 3 each turn for 8 turns.
    Creatures that are wet will take 30% more damage and have 15% chance to get frozen.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Glacial Vapour
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A wall of water rushes out from the caster with an initial radius of 1, increasing by 1 per turn to a maximum radius of 3, doing 1.16 cold damage and 1.16 physical damage to all inside, as well as knocking back targets each turn.
    The tidal wave lasts for 3 turns.
    All creatures hit gain the wet effect, which reduces their stun/freeze immunity by half and interacts with other cold spells.
    The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Tidal Wave
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You absorb latent cold around you, turning into an ice elemental - a shivgoroth - for 4 turns.
    While transformed, you do not need to breathe, gain access to the Ice Storm talent at level 0, gain 15% resistance to cuts and stuns, gain 7% cold resistance, and all cold damage heals you for 65% of the damage done.
    The power will increase with your Spellpower.

    Ice storm:
    Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A furious ice storm rages around the caster, doing 2.31 cold damage in a radius of 3 each turn for 6 turns.
    It has a 25% chance to freeze damaged targets.
    If the target is wet the damage increases by 30% and the freeze chance increases to 50%.
    The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Shivgoroth Form
0/5

Generic Talents

Spell / Aegis1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    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 138 life.
    The life healed will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Reconstruction
1/5
  • 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 41%.
    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 4.79 energy per mana.
    The charging will increase with your Spellpower.
    Aegis
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 13% and reducing all damage taken by 13% 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
Spell / Divination1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Summons an ethereal magical eye at the designated location that lasts for 10 turns.
    The eye cannot be seen or attacked by other creatures, and possesses magical vision that allows it to see any creature in a 2 range around it.
    It does not require light to do so, but it cannot see through walls.
    Casting the eye does not take a turn.
    Only one arcane eye can exist at any given time.
    At level 4, if cast on a creature it will follow it until it expires, or until the creature dies.
    At level 5, it will place a magical marker on the creatures, negating invisibility and stealth effects.
    Arcane Eye
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You focus your senses, getting information from moments in the future.
    Improves your capacity to see invisible foes by +1, to see through stealth by +0, and to perform a critical spell cast by +0%.
    The effects will improve with your Spellpower.
    Keen Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Form a map of your surroundings in your mind in a radius of 5
    Vision
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 120
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Echoes of the future flash before your eyes, allowing you to sense some incoming attacks.
    If the attack is not physical, you will erect a temporary shield that reduces all damage of this type by 11% for 5 turns.
    This effect can only happen once every 5 turns, and happens before damage is taken.
    The bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Premonition
0/5
Spell / Conveyance1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    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 5).
    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 (121).
    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 (65) 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

Effects

Quests

The Abashed Expanse is a part of Eyal torn apart by the Spellblaze and thrown into the void between the stars.

It has recently begun to destabilize, threatening to crash onto Eyal, destroying everything in its path.

You have entered it and must now stabilize three wormholes by firing any spell at them.

Remember, the floating islands are not stable and might teleport randomly. However, the disturbances also help you: your Phase Door spell is fully controllable even if not of high level yet.

* You have closed 2 wormhole(s).
Spellblaze Fallouts		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
 2.0
T1 lite
[Normal]

While equipped:
---------- misc
Light +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
Main armor
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
 2.0
T1 cloth armor
[Normal]

While equipped:
----- def -----
Resists +7% all

A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
In main hand
elm magestaff (100% power, 2 apr, lightning element)
 5.0
T1 staff 2H weapon
[Normal]

Power 100% Range: 1.2x
Uses 80% Mag
Dmg Physical
Mastery Staff Mastery
Acc+ +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Apr +2
Crit +2.5%
Atk.spd 100%
While equipped:
dps ----------
Spell.crit +1%
Spell.pwr +3 (+1 eff.)
Dmg.mod +10% lightning
---------- misc
Talents +1 Command Staff

Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
elm magestaff (100% power, 2 apr, lightning element)

Inventory

Scrying Orb
 1.0
orb
[Plot Item]
Unknown

While carried:

This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Transmogrification Chest
 2.0
sher'tul chest
[Plot Item]
Unknown

While carried:
Transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level).
Uses 0 power out of 1000/1000

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

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest

Achievements

Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty) Died on the Eidolon Plane.
By Ryniwel the Higher Archmage level 2
74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 19:30 see stats

Log

---------- Turn 11 ----------
---------- Turn 12 ----------
Talent Lightning is ready to use.
---------- Turn 13 ----------
---------- Turn 14 ----------
Ryniwel casts Phase Door.
Select a teleport location...
Spacial Disturbance casts Manathrust.
---------- Turn 15 ----------
Ryniwel casts Lightning.
Ryniwel hits Spacial Disturbance for 72 lightning damage.
Spacial Disturbance's Manathrust hits Ryniwel for 67 arcane damage.
Spacial Disturbance casts Void Blast.
---------- Turn 16 ----------
Ryniwel uses Infusion: Regeneration.
Ryniwel starts regenerating health quickly.
Spacial Disturbance casts Phase Door.
Spacial Disturbance's Void Blast hits Ryniwel for 66 arcane damage.
Ryniwel the level 2 higher archmage was energised to death by Spacial Disturbance and folded out of existence on level 3 of Abashed Expanse.
---------- Turn 17 ----------
You have 1 life(s) left.
You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
Spacial Disturbance's Void Blast killed Ryniwel!
Saving game...
Saving done.
Talent Phase Door is ready to use.
Talent Lightning is ready to use.
---------- Turn 18 ----------
Personal New Achievement: Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty)!