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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.2
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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.0

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 1.7.0

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Embers of Rage 1.7.0

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 1.7.0

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Forbidden Cults 1.7.0

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 1.7.0
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexMale
RaceGhoul
ClassNecromancer
Level / Exp1 / 11%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
1 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength16 (base 10)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution18 (base 10)
Magic15 (base 15)
Willpower11 (base 13)
Cunning9 (base 11)

Resources

Life45/45
Mana105/105
Soul12/12
Healing Factor1.0711363549267
Regeneration0.26778408873168

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+80%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage9
Accuracy5
Crit Chance2%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower18
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower11
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Lightning+10%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)0 (30%)
Defense0
Ranged Defense0
Fatigue0
Physical Save11
Spell Save9
Mental Save7

Defense: Resistances

All+ 7%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Stun Resistance50%
Bleed Resistance100%
Fear Resistance100%
Poison Resistance80%
Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
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 spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 130 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 18
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to instantly dissipate the energy of your ailments, cleansing all cross tier effects and 1 physical, mental, and magical effect.
You use the dissipated energy to create a shield lasting 3 turns and blocking 50 damage per debuff cleansed (not counting cross-tier ones).
If there were only cross-tier effects to cleanse, no shield is created and the rune goes on a 75% reduced cooldown.
Rune: Shatter Afflictions
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 / Animus1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Each time you or your undead minions deal damage to a creature you apply Soul Leech to them.
    If a creature dies with this effect active, you steal its soul.
    Strong creatures and bosses are so overflowing with soul power that you steal a fragment of their soul every few turns:
    - rare: at most every 30 turns
    - unique: at most every 22 turns
    - boss: at most every 13 turns
    - elite boss: at most every 10 turns

    Also increases your maximum souls capacity by 2 .
    Soul Leech
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Consume a soul whole to rebuild your body, healing you for 41 and generating 18 mana.
    If used below 1 life the surge increases your spellpower by 0 for 10 turns.
    The heal and mana increases with your Spellpower.
    Consume Soul
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Unleash dark forces to all foes in sight that are afflicted by Soul Leech, dealing 12.27 frostdusk damage to them and tearing apart their souls.
    This returns up to 0 souls to you (one for each foe hit).
    The damage increases with your Spellpower.
    Torture Souls
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: You draw constant power from the souls you hold within your grasp.
    If you hold at least 2, your mana regeneration is increased by 0.0 per turn.
    If you hold at least 5, your spellpower is increased by 0.
    If you hold at least 8, all your resistances are increased by 3.
    Reaping
0/5
Spell / Master of bones1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Call upon the battlefields of old, collecting bones, fusing them with souls, and forging them into skeletal minions.
    Up to 1 skeleton warriors of level 1 are summoned, and up to 1 skeletons can be controlled at once.
    At level 3 the summons become armoured skeletons warriors.
    At level 5, for every 3 skeleton warriors, a skeleton mage or archer will also be created without costing any souls. If this makes you go over your skeleton limit, a normal skeleton will be removed and its soul refunded.

    Skeleton minions come in fewer numbers than ghoul minions but are generally more durable.
    Call of the Crypt
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Any time one of your skeleton or bone giant dies, it shatters in radius 0, making any foe bleed for 8.05 physical damage over 5 turns.
    If any other skeleton or bone giant minion is in the radius it will pickup some of the bones to enhance itself, increasing maximum and current life by 0, armour by 1 and gain 0.00 physical melee retaliation for 20 turns.
    This talent never works when you kill your own minions.
    Shattered Remains
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: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Every army of undead minions needs its spearhead. To that end you combine 3 skeleton minions into a bone giant of level 1.
    The minions used are selected from the weakest first, and a Lord of Skulls will never be used.
    At level 3 an eternal bone giant is created instead.
    At level 6 a heavy bone giant is created instead.
    Only one bone giant may be active, and casting this spell while one already exists will destroy it and create a new one.
    Assemble
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 50
    Souls cost: 2
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Consume a soul to empower one of your skeleton, making it into a Lord of Skulls.
    The Lord of Skulls gains 2 more life and is instantly healed to full.
    There can be only one active Lord of Skulls, casting this spell on another skeleton removes the effect from the current one.
    It also gains a new talent if high enough:
    At level 2 Warriors learn Giant Leap, a powerful jump attack that deals damage and dazes on impact and frees the skeleton from any stun, daze and pin effects they may have
    At level 3 Archers learn Vital Shot, a devastating attack that can stun and cripple their foes
    At level 5 Mages learn Meteoric Crash, a destructive spell that crushes and burns foes in a big radius for multiple turns and stuns them
    At level 6 Bone Giants learn You Shall Be My Weapon!, a massive attack that deals high damage, knockbacks foes and stuns them
    Lord of Skulls
0/5
Spell / Nightfall1.30
  • 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: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Conjures up a beam of darkness, doing 40.85 darkness damage.
    At level 5, the beam widens to hit foes on each side.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Invoke Darkness
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Dark fumes erupt from the ground in radius 2 for 5 turns. Any creature entering the circle will receive either a bane of confusion or a bane of blindness.
    Only one bane can affect a creature.
    Banes last for 3 turns, and also deal 1.77 darkness damage.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Night Sphere
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Shadows engulf your foes, anytime you deal darkness damage to a creature affected by a bane, the bane's duration is increased by 1 turn and the shadows erupt, dealing an additional 2.03 darkness damage.
    The damage can only happen once per turn per creature, the turn increase however always happens.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Erupting Shadows
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: You summon a river of tortured souls to launch an onslaught of darkness against your foes.
    Every turn for 5 turns you launch a projectile towards the designated area that explodes in radius 2, dealing 7.57 darkness damage.
    Each projectile consumes a soul and the spell ends when it has sent 5 projectiles or when you have no more souls to use.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    River of Souls
0/5
Spell / Dreadmaster1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Souls cost: 4
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Summon a Dread of level 1 that will annoyingly blink around, hexing your foes.
    It knows the following spells:
    - Burning Hex at level 0
    - Empathic Hex at level 0
    - Pacification Hex at level 0
    - Blur Sight at level 2
    - Phase Door at level 0
    Dread
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Any time one of your minions dies or expires, and even if it is resurrected by a boneyard, the dread feeds on it.
    Each time it feeds it gets healed for 18 and reduces remaining cooldown of its spells by 0.
    Every 10 minion deaths it casts a random hex on up to 0 foes at once, instantly and without triggering a cooldown.
    Souleater
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: In an effort to make your dread more annoying you focus a shell of darkness around it, rendering it fully invincible for 0 turns.
    Neverending Peril
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: You now summon a Dreadmaster instead of a Dread.
    Dreadmasters learn to cast silence, disperse magic and mind disruption, making them the ultimate annoyance tool.
    It learns them at talent level 0.
    Dreadmaster
0/5
Spell / Death1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Souls cost: 2
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Press your advantage when your foes are starting to crumble.
    For every detrimental effect on the target you deals 12.27 frostdusk damage (with diminishing returns) and reduce its global speed by 25% for one turn per effect (up to a maximum of 0).
    The diminishing returns on damage bonus works this way:
    - 2 effects: 17.81
    - 5 effects: 25.13
    - 10 effects: 30.67
    - 15 effects: 33.91
    And so on...
    Damage increases with your Spellpower.
    Rigor Mortis
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 15
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Every time you or one of your minions kill a creature you create a temporary link to the place of death.
    For 0 turns afterwards you can instantly and accurately teleport to it (if it is in sight).
    Drawn To Death
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 35
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Your body starts to radiate shadows, increasing your darkness resistance by 1%, armour by 0 and defence by 0.
    Any time you absorb a soul the shadows pulse outward, dealing 4.90 frostdusk damage to all foes in range 0 and knocking them back 3 tiles.
    This can only happen once per turn.
    The damage increases with your Spellpower.
    Grim Shadow
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Whenever a creature is killed by yourself or a minion you feast on its essence, gaining 0.0 mana.
    At level 3 the thrill of the death invigorates you, granting a movement speed bonus of 50% for 0 turns.
    Utterly Destroyed
0/5
Spell / Grave1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 7
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Summon an icy spike directly on a foe, impaling it for 8.65 cold damage.
    At level 5 it hits all foes in range 1 around the target.
    Any creature hit will take 0% more damage from your necrotic minions for 3 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Black Ice
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: 400% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Conjures up a bolt of cold that moves toward the target and explodes into a chilly circle of death, doing 11.10 cold damage in a radius of 0.
    Necrotic minions caught in the blast do not take damage but are instead coated with a thin layer of ice, reducing all damage they take by 0 for 4 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Chill of the Tomb
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: You summon a corpselight that radiates cold for 7 turns in radius 3.
    Every turn all foes inside take 2.36 cold damage.
    Anytime you cast a spell while standing inside your corpselight's area it grows by one stack, each stack giving +1 radius and +10% damage.
    The corpselight can gain at most 0 stacks and the radius will never extend beyond 10.
    If cast while under 1 life it spawns with 3 stacks.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Corpselight
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Upon expiring the corpselight implodes, pulling in all foes towards its center and dealing 11.44 cold damage.
    The damage is increased by +10% per stack.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.

    Learning this spell will make Corpselight cost two souls to use instead of one.
    Grave Mistake
0/5
Spell / Master of flesh1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: You control dead matter around you, lyring in the ground, decaying.
    When you enter combat and every 50 turns thereafter a ghoul of level 1 automatically raises to fight for you.
    At level 3 you can forcefully activate this spell to summon up to 1 ghasts around you.
    At level 5 every 4 summoned ghouls or ghasts a ghoulking is summoned for free.
    Ghouls, ghasts and ghoulkings last for 2 turns.

    Ghoul minions come in larger numbers than skeleton minions but are generally more frail and disposable.
    Call of the Mausoleum
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: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Ghouls are nothing but mere tools to you, for 0 turns you render them bloated with dark forces.
    Anytime a ghoul or ghast is hit it will explode in a messy splash of gore, dealing 9.07 frostdusk damage to all foes in radius 2 of it.
    Any creature caught in the blast also receives a random disease that deals 9.07 blight damage over 6 turns and reduces one attribute by 1.
    Only one ghoul may explode per turn. The one with the least time left to live is always the first to do so.
    The damage and disease power is increased by your Spellpower.
    Corpse Explosion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Mana cost: 20
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Shattering up to 1 ghouls or ghasts you create a putrescent swirling cloud of radius 1 that follows you around for 3 turns per dead ghoul plus one turn. Oldest ghouls are prioritized for destruction.
    Any ghoul or ghast dying or expiring within this cloud increases its duration by 0 turn and every two absorbed ghoul/ghast your gain back one soul.
    The cloud deals 3.73 frostdusk damage to any foes caught inside.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Putrescent Liquefaction
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Mana cost: 40
    Souls cost: 1
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Whenever you would be affected by a detrimental physical effect you instead transfer it instantly to one of your ghouls.
    The ghoul dies from the process.
    While under 1 life it also affects magical and mental effects.
    At most 0 effects can be affected per turn.
    Cross-tier effects are never affected.
    Discarded Refuse
0/5
Spell / Glacial waste1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Mana cost: 30
    Souls cost: 1
    Sustain souls cost: 1
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Conjure a shield of ice around you that can absorb a total of 13 damage.
    Anytime it does it retaliates by sending a bolt of ice at the attacker, dealing 1.56 cold damage (this can only happen once per turn per creature).
    When you are above 1 life it only affects 66.6% of the damage, letting through the rest.
    When you are under 1 life it affects 100% of the damage and also reduces the damage of critical hits by 0%.
    10 turns after leaving combat the shield will consume its mana and soul cost again to fully regenerate if needed. if that cost can not be matched, it unsustains.
    The shield strength will increase with your Spellpower.
    Hiemal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Every time your shield loses 25% of its original value a circle of desolate waste will spawn under you, lasting 6 turns, and dealing 1.02 cold damage per turn to foes within radius 1.
    If a creature is hit by your hiemal shield's retribution bolt while on the waste, the shield feeds of the wasteland to regenerate 0.3% of its original value.
    No more than 4 desolate wastes can trigger per shield activation.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Desolate Waste
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Your desolate wastes are now rapidly crumbling.
    Any foe moving through them is likely to get cut, taking 4.73 cold damage and bleeding over 4 turns (stacking) while reducing its movement speed by 15%.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Crumbling Earth
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Your hiemal shield is stronger, taking 4% less damage from all attacks.
    When under 1 life this effect is increased to 5%.
    Bleak Guard
0/5

Generic Talents

Spell / Spectre1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Taking on a spectral form, you teleport to the target tile within range 3.
    For 3 turns after using this spell, you gain the ability to instantly teleport back to your original tile as long as you are within range of it.
    Ghost Walk
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: While in your spectral form from Ghost Walk and for 1 turns afterwards, you gain vision of all enemies within radius 7.
    In addition, at all times you gain the ability to sense undead within 10 tiles, and can perceive any foe within 0 tiles of your necrotic minions.
    Spectral Sight
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: While in your spectral form from Ghost Walk and for 1 turns afterwards, damage and detrimental effects have a 5% chance to harmlessly pass through you.
    Intangibility
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: On using Ghost Walk - Return, you create a portal that summons 0 spirits around you for 2 turns. The spirits do very little damage, but taunt all enemies in radius 3 into attacking them.
    Path to Beyond
0/5
Undead / Ghoul1.10
  • Effective talent level: 1.1
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your ghoulish body, increasing Strength and Constitution by 3.
    Your body also becomes incredibly resilient to damage; you can never take a blow that deals more than 50% of your maximum life.
    Ghoul
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 3
    Fixed Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Leap toward your target.
    When you land your global speed is increased by 15% for 4 turns.
    Ghoulish Leap
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: Vomit on the ground around you, healing any undead in the area and damaging anyone else.
    Lasts 10 turns and deals 11 blight damage or heals 17 life.
    Creatures standing in the retch also have 3% chance to remove a physical effect each turn; undeads will be stripped from a detrimental effect while others will be stripped from a beneficial effect.
    When you stand in your own retch your racial -20% global speed is cancelled.
    Retch
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Gnaw your target for 67% damage. If your attack hits, the target may be infected with Ghoul Rot for 1 turns.
    Each turn, Ghoul Rot inflicts 1.65 blight damage.
    Targets suffering from Ghoul Rot rise as friendly ghouls when slain.
    Ghouls last for 1 turns and can use Gnaw, Ghoulish Leap, Stun, and Rotting Disease.
    The blight damage scales with your Constitution.
    Gnaw
0/5
Spell / Necrosis1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: The line between life and death blurs for you.
    You can only die when you reach -129 life but your maximum life is reduced by 65.
    When you are below 1 life you gain 7% to all resistances.
    The life amount is based on your Constitution attribute.
    Blurred Mortality
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: As you learn to tiptoe across the veil of death you learn to master the dark forces.
    Each time you cross the 1 life threshold you automatically unleash a blast of 10.57 frostdusk damage in radius 0.
    For each creature that takes damage from the blast one of your talent's cooldown is reduced by -1 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Across the Veil
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: As you continue to attune your body to undeath you reject nature as a whole.
    As long as you have no natural infusion on your skin, each rune on it increases your minimum negative life by -0 and your spells critical chance by 0.6%.

    Currently: 3 runes active
    Runeskin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 10
    Sustain souls cost: 2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: necromancy and a spell
    Description: Each turn you unleash dark powers through your runeskin.
    For each rune you have a random foe in sight will be hit by a spike of decrepitude, dealing 1.57 frostdusk damage.
    A foe can only be hit by one spike per turn.
    If your life is below 1, the spikes also reduce all damage done by the targets by 1%.
    Spikes of Decrepitude
0/5
Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5

Effects

Quests

You have been resurrected as an undead by some dark powers.
However, the ritual failed in some way and you retain your own mind. You need to get out of this dark place and try to carve a place for yourself in the world.
You have found a very special cloak that will help you walk among the living without trouble.
The rotting stench of the dead		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Main armor
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +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 (10-12 power, 2 apr, lightning element)
Requires:
- Magic 11

5.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 10.0 - 12.0
Uses stat: 80% Mag
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +10% lightning
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Spellpower: +3 (+2 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +1%


Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
elm magestaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, lightning element)

Inventory

Cloak of Deception
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: armor / cloak

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+4 eff.)
Spellpower: +5 (+3 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+5 eff.)


A black cloak, with subtle illusion enchantments woven into its very fabric.
Cloak of Deception
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
It Which Writhes
Powered by unknown forces
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Legendary]
Type: weird / tentacle ; tier 3

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Str / +3 Dex / +3 Mag / -3 Wil / +3 Con
Fully Charged!
Activating this item is instant.
It can be used to reduce the duration of all detrimental effects

Activation costs 10 power out of 10/10.

A tiny tentacle. It is rather cute and squishy.

Each time you are afflicted with a detrimental effect you instinctively squish the tentacle a little, powering it up. (once per turn)
When at full charge (10 effects applied) you can activate the tentacle to release its internal fluids all over you, halfing the remaining duration of any detrimental effects on you.
It Which Writhes

Achievements

Log

Connection to online server established.
Accepted quest 'The rotting stench of the dead'! (Press 'j' to see the quest log)
Showing small healthbars and tactical borders.
Saving done.
Gouhly casts Call of the Crypt.
Necromancer casts Soul Rot.
Today is the 74th Pyre of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 11:01.
Necromancer's Soul Rot hits Skeleton warrior for 60 blight damage.

Gouhly casts Invoke Darkness.
Gouhly hits Necromancer for 41 darkness damage.
Skeleton warrior uses Stunning Blow.
Necromancer is stunned!
Skeleton warrior hits Necromancer for 44 physical, 7 cold (51 total damage).

Necromancer says: 'ARRGGggg... You are alone! You will be destroyed!'

Talent Command Staff is ready to use.
Talent Invoke Darkness is ready to use.

Quest 'The rotting stench of the dead' status updated! (Press 'j' to see the quest log)
Gouhly picks up (a.): Cloak of Deception.
Lore found: Cloak of Deception
You can read all your collected lore in the game menu, by pressing Escape.

Talent Call of the Crypt is ready to use.

Connection to online server lost, trying to reconnect.
Connection to online server established.
To celebrate the release's anniversary, I am happy to say I've slipped up
a little present in your inventory!

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, the third expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal, offers a deep dive into the less savory (and more tentacly) parts of Eyal's lore to play in, along with two new classes, two new races, many new zones, horrors, artifacts and so on!