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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

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

Features:

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

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Items Vault 1.7.6

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Items Vault 1.7.6

Ignore Race/Class Locks 1.7.0

Ignore Race/Class Locks 1.7.0

Allow Full Respec Anywhere 1.2.3

Allows characters to fully respec anywhere in game, not just in towns.

Allow Full Respec Anywhere 1.2.3

Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

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

Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

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


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

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


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

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


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

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceSkeleton
ClassArcher
Level / Exp12 / 10%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Bill the Stone Troll at level 12 on the 16th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 02:50
Killed by Bill the Stone Troll at level 12 on the 16th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 03:05
Killed by Bill the Stone Troll at level 12 on the 16th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 04:02
Killed by Skelly McArcher at level 12 on the 16th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 04:07
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Primary Stats

Strength41 (base 15)
Dexterity61 (base 37)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic20 (base 15)
Willpower16 (base 10)
Cunning20 (base 18)

Resources

Life300/300
Stamina171/171
Healing Factor1.0000003099961
Regeneration2.2500006974912

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite3
See Stealth10
See Invisible10

Offense: Mainhand

Damage74
Accuracy44
Crit Chance4%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower13
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower28
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Acid+3%
Fire+12%
Cold+3%

Offense: Damage Penetration

Mind+10%
Cold+20%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)21.317011280365 (72.903125182002%)
Defense30
Ranged Defense30
Fatigue20
Physical Save21
Spell Save18
Mental Save18

Defense: Resistances

Fire+ 31%( 70%)
Nature+ 8%( 70%)
Blight+ 10%( 70%)
Physical+ 4%( 70%)
Cold+ 12%( 70%)
All+ 3%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Disarm Resistance20%
Bleed Resistance100%
Fear Resistance100%
Instadeath Resistance100%
Poison Resistance100%
Knockback Resistance10%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 17
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 173 damage for 4 turns.
Its effects scale with your Strength stat.
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: 4
Cooldown: 18
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport up to 4 spaces within line of sight. Afterwards you stay out of phase for 3 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 10%, your defense is increased by 10 and all your resistances by 10%.
Rune: Blink

Class Talents

Technique / Archery prowess1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a precise shot dealing 216% weapon damage, with 100 increased accuracy. This shot will bypass other enemies between you and your target.
    Only usable against marked targets, and consumes the mark on hit.
    Headshot
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 19.2
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: You fire countless shots into the sky to rain down around your target, inflicting 60% weapon damage to all within radius 0.
    If the primary target is marked, you consume the mark to fire a second volley of arrows for 45% damage at no ammo cost.
    Volley
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: You fire a disabling shot at a target's throat (or equivalent), dealing 40% weapon damage and silencing them for 0 turns.
    If the target is marked, you consume the mark to fire two secondary shots at their arms and legs (or other appendages) dealing 10% damage, reducing their movement speed by 50% and disarming them for the duration.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Called Shots
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each time you consume a mark, you gain 0% increased attack speed for 2 turns and the cooldown of -2 random techniques are reduced by -1 turns.
    Bullseye
0/5
Technique / Combat techniques1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.4
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 46
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Rush toward a target enemy with incredible speed and perform a melee attack for 120% weapon damage that can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
    You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
    Rush
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 1%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +19 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next 1 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 0% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
0/5
Technique / Combat veteran1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate stamina faster (+0.0 stamina/turn).
    Quick Recovery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate life faster (+1.4 life/turn).
    Fast Metabolism
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Rigorous training allows you to be more resistant to some spell effects (+0 spell save).
    Spell Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You revel in the death of your foes, regaining 0.0 stamina with each death you cause.
    Unending Frenzy
0/5
Technique / Archery training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 6.5
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a steady shot, doing 191% damage with a 32% chance to mark the target.
    If Steady Shot is not on cooldown, this talent will automatically replace your normal attacks (and trigger the cooldown).
    Steady Shot
5/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 9
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: You fire a shot for 120% damage that attempts to pin your target to the ground for 2 turns, as well as giving your next Steady Shot or Shoot 100% increased chance to critically hit and mark (regardless of whether the pin succeeds).
    This shot has a 20% chance to mark the target.
    The chance to pin increases with your Accuracy.
    Pin Down
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 14.4
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: Fires a shot that explodes into a radius 2 ball of razor sharp fragments on impact, dealing 144% weapon damage and leaving targets crippled for 6 turns, reducing their attack, spell and mind speed by 33%.
    Each target struck has a 20% chance to be marked.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Fragmentation Shot
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 18
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (100% of a turn)
    Description: Fires a wave of projectiles in a radius 4 cone, dealing 70% weapon damage. All targets struck by this will be knocked back to the maximum range of the cone and stunned for 2 turns.
    Each target struck has a 20% chance to be marked.
    The chance to knockback and stun increases with your Accuracy.
    Scatter Shot
0/5
Technique / Reflexes1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 9.6
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your reflexes are lightning-fast, if you spot a projectile (arrow, shot, spell, ...) you can instantly shoot at it without taking a turn to take it down.
    You can shoot down up to 1 projectiles.
    In addition, your heightened senses also reduce the speed of incoming projectiles by 0%, and prevents your own projectiles from striking you.
    Shoot Down
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Activating this talent enhances your reflexes to incredible levels. Each time you are attacked in melee, you have a 4% chance to fire off a defensive shot off in time to intercept the attack, evading it and dealing 20% archery damage.
    This cannot damage the same target more than once per turn.
    Intuitive Shots
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Fixed Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You take close notice of the target for the next 5 turns. If they attempt to use a non-instant talent you react with incredible speed, firing a shot dealing 25% damage that causes the talent to fail and go on cooldown.
    This shot is instant, cannot miss, and puts 0 other talents on cooldown for 0 turns.
    Sentinel
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You put all your focus into escaping combat for 4 turns. While under this effect you gain 16% increased resistance to all damage, 2.2 increased stamina regeneration, immunity to stun, pin, daze and slowing effects and 39% increased movement speed.
    Any action other than movement will cancel this effect.
    Escape
0/5
Technique / Marksmanship1.30
  • Effective talent level: 6.5
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 76% and physical power by 30 when using bows or slings, as well as your reload rate by 3.
    In addition, your Shoot has a 15% chance to mark targets on hit.
    The mark lasts for 5 turns, grants you visibility of the target (even through walls and other concealment), and causes them to become vulnerable to Headshot, Volley and Called Shots.
    Master Marksman
5/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You take advantage of unwary foes (those at or above 90% life). Against these targets, Shoot, Steady Shot and Headshot bleed targets for 38% additional damage over 5 turns and have a 50% increased chance to mark (if capable of marking).
    In addition, your Steady Shot, Shoot and Headshot now restore 1.8 stamina on hit.
    First Blood
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 4.8
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 7
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a shot at the target tile that blinds enemies for 0 turns, marks them for 2 turns and illuminates the area within radius 2 for 2 turns. Enemies within the illuminated area lose 3 defence and stealth power and cannot benefit from concealment.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy, and the defense reduction with your Dexterity.
    Flare
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 36
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Enter a state of heightened focus for 2 turns. While in this state your ranged attack speed is increased by 3%, your shots do not consume ammo, and all shots capable of marking have their chance to mark increased by 12%.
    Trueshot
0/5

Generic Talents

Undead / Skeleton1.10
  • Effective talent level: 5.5
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your skeletal condition, increasing Strength and Dexterity by 17.
    Skeleton
5/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.2
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 21
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Creates a shield of bones, absorbing 450 damage. Lasts for 10 turns.
    The total damage the shield can absorb increases with your Dexterity.
    Bone Armour
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.1
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your undead bones are very resilient, reducing the duration of all detrimental effects on you by up to 10%.
    Resilient Bones
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.1
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Reposition some of your bones, healing yourself for 119.
    At level 5, you will gain the ability to completely re-assemble your body should it be destroyed (can only be used once).
    Re-assemble
1/5
Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 8, Armour hardiness by 43%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 11% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    Heavy Armour Training
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 18.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5
Technique / Mobility1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 9.6
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Jump back up to 2 grids from your target, springing over any creatures in your way.
    You must disengage in a nearly straight line directly away from your target (which you must be able to see).
    After moving, you gain 71% increased movement speed for 3 turns (which ends if you take any actions other than movement), and you may reload your ammo (if any).
    The extra speed and maximum distance you can move are reduced by your Fatigue level.
    Disengage
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 31
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wit and reflexes allow you to anticipate attacks against you, granting you a 26% chance to evade melee and ranged attacks and 11 increased defense for 4 turns.
    The chance to evade and defense bonus increase with your Dexterity.
    Evasion
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 24
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 17
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: In an extreme feat of agility, you move to a spot you can see within range, bounding around, over, or through any enemies in the way.
    This talent cannot be used while wearing heavy armor, and leaves you exhausted. The exhaustion increases the cost of your activated Mobility talents by 97% (stacking), but fades over 30 turns.
    Tumble
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have trained to be very light on your feet and have conditioned your reflexes to react faster than thought to damage you take.
    While this talent is active, you instantly react to any direct damage (not from status effects, etc.) that would hit you for at least 44% of your maximum life.
    This requires 2.4 stamina and reduces the damage by 5%.
    Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
    The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
    Trained Reactions
0/5

Effects

Quests

You met a novice mage who was tasked to collect an arcane powered artifact.
He asked for your help, should you collect some that you do not need.
* Collect an artifact arcane powered item.
An apprentice task		done
You successfully escorted the lone alchemist to the recall portal on level 2 of Scintillating Caves.
As a reward you improved Magic by +5.
Escort: lone alchemist (level 2 of Scintillating Caves)		done
You successfully escorted the lost sun paladin to the recall portal on level 1 of Ruins of Kor'Pul.
As a reward you improved talent Chant of Fortress (+1 level(s)).
Escort: lost sun paladin (level 1 of Ruins of Kor'Pul)		done
You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
Hidden treasure		active
It is time to explore some new places -- dark, forgotten and dangerous ones.
The Old Forest is just south-east of the town of Derth.
The Maze is west of Derth.
The Sandworm Lair is to the far west of Derth, near the sea.
The Daikara is on the eastern borders of the Thaloren forest.
* You must explore the Old Forest and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Maze and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Sandworm Lair and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Daikara and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Into the darkness		active
You were asked to prove your worth as a fighter by a rogue, in order to participate in the arena
The agent of the arena		done
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		done

Equipment

On feet
scholar's pair of iron boots of tirelessness (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +2%
Stamina each turn: +0.30
Maximum stamina: +13.00
Spellpower: +3 (+1 eff.)


Heavy boots, with metal strips at the toes, heels and other vulnerable parts, to better protect the wearer's feet from harm.
scholar's pair of iron boots of tirelessness (0 def, 3 armour)
Quiver
quiver of elm arrows (14/21, 16-22 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: ammo / arrow ; tier 1

Base power: 15.5 - 21.7
Uses stats: 50% Str, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Master Marksman
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Capacity: 21


Arrows are used with bows to pierce your foes to death.
quiver of elm arrows (14/21, 16-22 power, 5 apr)
Light source
Balyroddablek the brass lantern
Infused by arcane disrupting forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Changes resistances: +1% physical / +3% all
Spell save: +6 (+4 eff.)
Disarm immunity: +20%
Knockback immunity: +10%
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.
Balyroddablek the brass lantern
On head
iron helm of strength (+3) (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +5%
Changes stats: +3 Str


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
iron helm of strength (+3) (0 def, 3 armour)
Tool
focusing iron torque of psionic shield [power 25] (25 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 1

It can be used to setup a psionic shield, reducing all damage taken by 25 for 5 turns

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 25 turns.
When used:
* Reduce 1 talent cooldowns by 2.


Torques are made by powerful psionics to store psionic powers.
focusing iron torque of psionic shield [power 25] (25 cooldown)
On fingers
rogue's copper ring of power
Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+2 eff.)
Defense: +4 (+2 eff.)
Changes stats: +2 Cun
Spellpower: +5 (+2 eff.)
Mindpower: +6 (+3 eff.)


Rings make your fingers look great!
rogue's copper ring of power
On fingers
Mygafang
Infused by nature
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

[Random Unique]
Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +6 Wil
Changes resistances: +7% blight / +24% fire / +5% nature
Changes resistances penetration: +10% mind
Changes damage: +12% fire
Mental save: +6 (+4 eff.)
Poison immunity: +13%
Disease immunity: +10%
Hate when firing a critical mind attack: +1.00


Rings make your fingers look great!
Mygafang
Around waist
insulating rough leather belt of transcendence
Crafted by a master
Infused by psionic forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +5% fire / +6% cold
Physical save: +5 (+2 eff.)
Mindpower: +2 (+1 eff.)


A belt that goes around your waist.
insulating rough leather belt of transcendence
In main hand
ranger's elm longbow
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot

Crafted by a master
4.00 Encumbrance.

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

Mastery: Master Marksman
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +7
When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Dex


Longbows are used to shoot arrows at your foes.
ranger's elm longbow
On hands
restful iron gauntlets of strength (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
Infused by psionic forces
1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+2 eff.)
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Changes stats: +3 Str
Life regen: +2.00
Stamina each turn: +0.50
Maximum stamina: +10.00
Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
restful iron gauntlets of strength (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
Main armor
Salawe the Tidestreak (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training
- Strength 14

Infused by nature
14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%
Effects on melee hit:
* 10% chance to reduce all saves and defense by 19
Damage when hit (Melee): 2 cold
Changes resistances: +3% cold
Changes resistances penetration: +20% cold
Changes damage: +3% acid / +3% cold
Maximum life: +22.00


A suit of armour made of mail.
Salawe the Tidestreak (2 def, 4 armour)
Cloak
Cloak of Deception
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: armor / cloak

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+2 eff.)
Spellpower: +5 (+2 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)


A black cloak, with subtle illusion enchantments woven into its very fabric.
Cloak of Deception
Around neck
Withering Orbs
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Damage (Melee): 5 mind
Damage (Ranged): 5 mind
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)
See stealth: +10
See invisible: +10
Blind-Fight: This item allows the wearer to attack unseen targets without any penalties.


These opalescent orbs stare at you with deathly knowledge, undeceived by your vanities and pretences. They have lived and died through horrors you could never imagine, and now they lie strung in black chords watching every twitch of the shadows.
If you close your eyes a moment, you can almost imagine what dread sights they see...
Withering Orbs

Inventory

polar hardened leather gloves of dexterity (+2) (0 def, 2 armour)
Infused by nature
Crafted by a master
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +10 (+4 eff.)
Armour: +2
Damage (Melee): 6 cold
Changes stats: +2 Dex
Changes resistances: +5% cold
Changes damage: +4% cold
Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.


Light gloves which do not seriously hinder finger movements, while still protecting the hands somewhat.
polar hardened leather gloves of dexterity (+2) (0 def, 2 armour)
4 agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
When used to imbue an object:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
Latent Damage Type: Acid


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
4 agate
79 alchemist agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: alchemist-gem / black ; tier 1

When used as an alchemist bomb:
Bomb damage +5%


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
79 alchemist agate
6 spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

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


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
6 spinel
Summertide Phial
Infused by nature
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Damage (Melee): 15 Lite Light Burst (radius 1)
Changes resistances: +30% light
Changes damage: +10% light
Light radius: +5
Healing mod.: +10%
When attacking in melee, deals 15 light damage and lights tiles in radius 1.
It can be used to call light, dispelling darkness and lighting tiles in radius 20.(62 power, based on Willpower)

Activation costs 10 power out of 15/15.

A small crystal phial that captured Sunlight during the Summertide.
Summertide Phial
Eye of the Dreaming One
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +5 Wil
Mental save: +10 (+6 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)
The wearer is asleep.
Lucid Dreamer: This item allows the wearer to act while sleeping.
It can be used to activate talent Sleep (costing 20 power out of 25/25) :
Effective talent level: 3.0
Power cost: 20 out of 25/25.
Range: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a mind power
Description: Puts targets in a radius of 1 to sleep for 3 turns, rendering them unable to act. Every 7 points of damage the target suffers will reduce the effect duration by one turn.
When Sleep ends, the target will suffer from Insomnia for a number of turns equal to the amount of time it was asleep (up to ten turns max), granting it 20% sleep immunity for each turn of the Insomnia effect.
At talent level 5 Sleep will become contagious and has a 25% chance to spread to nearby targets each turn.
The damage threshold will scale with your Mindpower.

This ethereal eye stares eternally, as if seeing things that do not truly exist.
Eye of the Dreaming One
Imp Claw
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +1
See stealth: +10
It can be used to activate talent Flame (costing 9 power out of 9/9) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 9 out of 9/9.
Range: 10
Travel Speed: 2000% of base
Is: a spell
Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire, setting the target ablaze and doing 77.81 fire damage over 3 turns.
At level 5, it will create a beam of flames.
The damage will increase with your Spellpower.

The battered remains of a flame imp's hand. It still burns with that unnatural flame.
Imp Claw
Rod of Annulment (1/1)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: charm / rod ; tier 2

It can be used to put up to 3 of the target's runes, infusions or talents on cooldown for 3-5 turns (range 5)

Activation costs 30 power out of 30/30.

You can feel magic draining out around this rod. Even nature itself seems affected.
Rod of Annulment (1/1)
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns

Activation costs 202 power out of 400/400.

This rod is made entirely of voratun, infused with raw magical energies that can bend space itself.
You have heard of such items before. They are very useful to adventurers, allowing faster travel.
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

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

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
Glisekira the Lightningslice [power 100] (15 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +3% blight
Changes resistances penetration: +5% blight / +10% lightning
Changes damage: +9% light / +3% blight
It can be used to project a gust of wind in a cone knocking all creatures back 7 spaces and dealing 100 physical damage

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 15 turns.
When used:
* Gain a 10% chance to evade weapon attacks for 2 turns.


Torques are made by powerful psionics to store psionic powers.
Glisekira the Lightningslice [power 100] (15 cooldown)
3 ametrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

Achievements

Level 10 Got a character to level 10.
By Skelly McArcher the Skeleton Archer level 10
5th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 08:54 see stats
The Arena Unlocked Arena mode.
By Skelly McArcher the Skeleton Archer level 7
6th Flare 122nd year of Ascendancy at 04:48 see stats
The secret city Discovered the truth about mages.
By Skelly McArcher the Skeleton Archer level 10
11st Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 01:42 see stats
Utterly Destroyed Died on the Eidolon Plane.
By Skelly McArcher the Skeleton Archer level 12
16th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 04:07 see stats

Log

Skelly McArcher's Shoot hits Bill the Stone Troll for 66 physical, 1 mind (67 total damage).
Bill the Stone Troll uses Infusion: Wild.
Bill the Stone Troll lessens the pain.

Skelly McArcher shoots!
Skelly McArcher is not dazed anymore.
Your shield crumbles under the damage!
The shield around Skelly McArcher crumbles.
Skelly McArcher is dazed!
Bill the Stone Troll hits Skelly McArcher for (86 absorbed), 12 physical (12 total damage).
Melee retaliation hits Bill the Stone Troll for 1 cold damage.
Skelly McArcher's Shoot hits Bill the Stone Troll for 23 physical, 2 mind (24 total damage).
Bill the Stone Troll no longer revels in blood quite so much.

Skelly McArcher shoots!
Skelly McArcher is not dazed anymore.
Bill the Stone Troll hits Skelly McArcher for 79 physical damage.
Melee retaliation hits Bill the Stone Troll for 1 cold damage.
Skelly McArcher the level 12 skeleton archer was smashed to death by Bill the Stone Troll and clobbered into soup on level 4 of Trollmire.
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.
Bill the Stone Troll killed Skelly McArcher!
Saving game...
Talent Steady Shot is ready to use.
Talent Chant of Fortress is ready to use.
Skelly McArcher activates Chant of Fortress.

Saving done.
Personal New Achievement: Utterly Destroyed!