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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.4
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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

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Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.
 

Features:

  • Explore a whole new campaign from level 1 to 50, one year after the events of the original Tales of Maj'Eyal campaign. Liberate the Orcs (or die trying) by rising up against the Sunwall, the Steam Giants of Atmos, and other dangers that may lie in wait...
  • Play as one of three new races: the battle-hardened Orcs, the brutal Yetis, and the unstoppable Whitehooves. Discover their stories, their pains, their hopes... and their awesome racial powers!
  • Risk your life in over 20 unique zones! Explore the ruins of a lost city, lay siege to the Sunwall forces at the Gates of Morning, and raid the Steam Giants' mining quarry - each has its own unique foes and hazards, leading each to feel and play different from the others.
  • Play as one of the four new tinker classes: Gunslingers, Sawbutchers, Psyshots and Annihilators! Plus a class evolution: Technomancers! Crush and rend your foes with heavy metal, electrocute and immolate them with your gadgets, charge across the battlefield or nimbly strafe in style - each plays differently, and none provide any shortage of ways to slay your foes.
  • Master steam technology to build powerful tinkers to augment your equipment. Need to close in a bit quicker? Turn your boots into rocket boots! Having a hard time deciding whether to shoot someone or stab them? Build a Hand Cannon into your gloves, or deploy a Weapon Automaton to do the stabbing for you! If you have a problem, steamtech has a solution, usually involving explosions; with over 80 different powerful contraptions to craft, enjoy unparalleled versatility and trying something different with every playthrough.
  • Master the tactical uses of over 140 talents! Fire bouncing trick-shots and psychic-infused shots, use your steamsaws as shields or wheels, terrify your foes with long mechanical arms - there are no "boring" talents here, everything has its own special applications and properties!
  • Use advanced technology in the world of Eyal! Burrow through sand, plant bombs to destroy tunnels, and discover that you aren't alone in using it...
  • Infusions and runes are for puny humans; implant new medical injectors to pump an array of experimental chemicals into your body! Injectors can use any (infinitely reusable) salve in your inventory as long as they're off their cooldown, giving you versatility you've wished you could get with a couple of inscriptions.
  • Loot over 70 new and powerful artifacts. Pump lead into foes with big guns, quick guns, and explosive guns! Shred them with saws that maim, saws that thirst for blood, and saws that aren't really saws! Violate common sense by strapping a rocket to your back and calling it a jetpack!
  • Enjoy dying in horrible and exotic ways at the hands (or claws, jaws, guns...) of over 140 new creatures! Not mere piles of stats and chain-stuns, these foes will provide unique challenges - suffer the Sunwall's newest cosmic spells, the new breeds of ritches that infest and multiply, the Steam Giants' elaborate defense systems, and find new strategies to adapt to each!
  • Earn a trunkload of achievements! Have your accomplishments recognized for liberating the Orcish people, displaying exceptional mercy or cruelty, or showing your prowess with impressive feats! Give a boss a fate worse than death, show Sunwall forces how frustrating it is to fight a Radiant Horror as a paladin, come out on top against impossible odds, display a suicidal lack of situational awareness, and wear a badge of pride or shame for each!
  • Read roughly 27,000 words of new lore to immerse yourself in the world! Learn how things have changed since the Scourge's campaign, feel hatred and/or pity for your foes, uncover grand schemes and sinister plots, and notice the elaborate connections between Var'Eyal's numerous factions. Every zone has a story behind it, and every story ties into a bigger picture; enjoy a tale of horror and humor, of intrigue and glory, of despair and hope.
  • Earn the right to use the classic (and Ashes of Urh'Rok) classes in Embers of Rage, and the new tinker classes in Maj'Eyal! Play a Brawler in the East to fulfill your life-long dream of suplexing an entire nation of giants, or play a Sawbutcher in Maj'Eyal to shred through Dreadfell in a whirlwind of sawblades and steam!
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Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

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

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


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

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


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

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


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

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


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

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexFemale
RaceOgre
ClassWrithing One
Level / Exp7 / 76%
Sizebig
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard at level 7 on the 10th Dusk 122nd year of Ascendancy at 02:41
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Primary Stats

Strength16 (base 13)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution20 (base 13)
Magic33 (base 29)
Willpower8 (base 10)
Cunning12 (base 10)

Resources

Life-21/266
Insanity99/100
Healing Factor1.0870588855781
Regeneration0.27176472139452

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement+11.09386761032%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3
Infravision5
See Stealth18.532340182512
See Invisible18.532340182512

Offense: Mainhand

Damage12
Accuracy24
Crit Chance1%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower31
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower10
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Light+3%
All0%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)9 (30%)
Defense5
Ranged Defense5
Fatigue4
Physical Save18
Spell Save14
Mental Save7

Defense: Resistances

Physical+ 15%( 70%)
All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

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 100 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: 3
Cooldown: 16
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport up to 3 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 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
Rune: Blink

Class Talents

Demented / Horrific body1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You shed the outer layer of your mutated skin and empower it to act as a damage shield for 7 turns.
    The shield can absorb up to 117 damage before it crumbles.
    Shed Skin
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Each time your shed skin looses 45% of its max power or you take damage over 15% of your maximum life a black putrescent pustule grows on your body for 5 turns.
    Each pustule increases all your resistances by 1%. You can have up to 3 pustules at once.
    Resistance scales with your Spellpower.
    Pustulent Growth
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You make all your putrescent pustules explode at once, splashing all creatures in radius 0 with black fluids that deal 2.73 darkness damage per pustule and healing you for 2.2 per pustule.
    Pustulent Fulmination
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you make your pustules explode you leave a pool of defiled blood on the ground for 5 turns.
    Foes caught inside get assaulted by black tentacles every turn, dealing 10% darkness tentacle damage and covering them in your black blood for 2 turns.
    Creatures that hit you while covered in your blood heal you for 1% of the damage done.
    The healing received increases with your Spellpower.
    Defiled Blood
0/5
Demented / Controlled horrors1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 20
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You use your bond with horrors to summon three decaying devourers for 1 turns.
    The decaying horrors cannot move and will attack all hostile creatures around them. They possess the talents Bloodbath, Gnashing Teeth and Frenzied Bite.
    All its primary stats will be set to 33 (based on your Magic stat), life rating increased by 0, and all talent levels set to 0. Many other stats will scale with level.
    Your increased damage, damage penetration, critical strike chance, and critical strike multiplier stats will all be inherited.
    Decayed Devourers
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 20
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You use your bond with horrors to summon a decaying bloated horror for 1 turns.
    The decaying horror cannot move and will attack all hostile creatures in range of it. It possesses the talents Mind Disruption and Mind Sear.
    All its primary stats will be set to 33 (based on your Magic stat), life rating increased by 0, and all talent levels set to 0. Many other stats will scale with level.
    Your increased damage, damage penetration, critical strike chance, and critical strike multiplier stats will all be inherited.
    Decayed Bloated Horror
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 10
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You forcefully try to turn a creature into an horror.
    If the target fails a magical save against your Spellpower, its appearance turns into that of a horror for 2 turns, making all other creatures hostile to it.
    Enemies near the target will have their target cleared on application.
    This spell does not work on horrors.
    Horrific Display
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: You attune your horrors to the dead god Amakthel, increasing your summoned horrors damage by 2%.
    At talent level 3, your Decaying Devourers spell will summon 4 additional Devourers adjacent to random enemies nearby and your Bloated Horror will learn the Agony talent.
    At talent level 5, victims of your Horrific Display spell will pull enemies in radius 10 1 space towards them each turn.
    The damage increase is based on your Spellpower.
    Call of Amakthel
0/5
Demented / Tentacles1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your left hand mutates into a disgusting mass of tentacles.
    When you have your offhand empty you automatically hit your target and those on the side whenever you hit with a basic attack.
    Also increases Physical Power by 30, and increases weapon damage by 59% for your tentacles attacks.
    Each time you make an attack with your tentacle you gain 10 insanity.
    You generate a low power psionic field around you when around     'civilized people' that prevents them from seeing you for the horror you are.

    Your tentacle hand currently has these stats:
    Base power: 33.7 - 47.1
    Uses stat: 100% Mag
    Damage type:     Darkness
    Mastery:     Mutated Hand
    Crit. chance:     +8.6%
    Attack speed:     100%
    Mutated Hand
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Spin around, extending your weapon and damaging all targets around you for 176% weapon damage while your tentacle hand extends and hits all targets in radius 3 for 156% tentacle damage.

    If the mainhand attack hits at least one enemy you gain 15 insanity.
    If the tentacle attack hits at least one enemy you gain 5 insanity.

    When constricting: Your tentacle attack is centered around your constricted target (but not your weapon attack) and only in radius 1 but it also dazes anything hit for 5 turns.
    Lash Out
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You plant your tentacle hand in the ground where it splits up and extends to a target zone of radius 3.
    The zone will erupt with many black tendrils to hit all foes caught inside dealing 180% tentacle damage.
    Any creature hit by the tentacle must save against spell or be numbed by the attack, reducing its damage by 17% for 5 turns.

    If at least one enemy is hit you gain 20 insanity.

    When constricting:The tendrils pummel your constricted target for 270% tentacle damage and if adjacent you make an additional mainhand weapon attack. Talent cooldown reduced to 10.
    Tendrils Eruption
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Insanity cost: 10
    Drains insanity: 3
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 7
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You extend your tentacle to grab a distant target, pulling it to you.
    As long as Constrict stays active the target is bound by your tentacle, it can try to move away but each turn you pull it back in 1 tile.
    While constricting you cannot use your tentacle to enhance your normal attacks but you deal 100% tentacle damage each turn to your target.
    Enemies can resist the attempt to pull them but Constrict will always work for purposes of modifying your talents.
    Your other tentacle talents may act differently when used while constricting (check their descriptions).
    Constrict
0/5
Demented / Path of horror1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity gain: 10
    Range: 5
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your feet start to continuously produce carrion worms that are constantly crushed as you walk, passively increasing movement speed by 11%.
    You can also activate this talent to instantly destroy more worms, letting you jump in range 5 to visible terrain.
    Upon landing you crush more worms, creating a radius 2 cone of gore; any creatures caught inside deals 70% less damage for one turn.
    If at least 1 enemy is effected by the cone you gain an additional 20 insanity.
    Carrion Feet
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your mutations have enhanced your offense even farther.
    You gain 9 Accuracy and 9 Spellpower.
    The effects will increase with your Magic stat.
    Horrific Evolution
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 35
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You trigger a cascade of rapidly mutating cells in your body for -1 turns.
    Your body grows much bigger, gaining 2 size categories, making you able to walk through walls and increasing all your damage by 0% and all your resistances by 0%.
    Each time you take a step your monstrous form causes a small quake destroying and rearranging nearby terrain.
    Overgrowth
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: At last you unlock the true power of your mutated body!
    You gain 8% stun immunity, 0% chances to ignore critical strikes and your darkness and blight damage are increased by 0%.
    Writhing One
0/5
Demented / Disfigured face1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your tongue turns into a diseased tentacle that you use to lick enemies in a cone.
    Licked creatures take 100% tentacle damage that ignores armor and get sick, gaining a random disease for 6 turns that deals 13.36 blight damage per turn and reduces strength, dexterity or constitution by 8.

    If at least one enemy is hit you gain 10 insanity.

    Disease damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Diseased Tongue
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 10
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your face melts, exploding in a targeted gush of blood and gore dealing 3.56 darkness damage (17.80 total) in a cone over 5 turns.
    Each turn the target will be dealt an additional 2.49 blight damage per disease.
    Damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Dissolved Face
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 10
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: For a brief moment horrific hairs grow on your head, each of them ending with a creepy eye.
    You use those eyes to gaze upon a target area, creatures caught inside partially turn to stone reducing their movement speed by -47% and making them brittle for 7 turns.
    Brittle targets have a 35% chance for any damage they take to be increased by 13%.
    This cannot be saved against.
    Writhing Hairs
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Whenever you use a disfigured face power you show a glimpse of what True Horror is.
    If the affected targets fail a spell save they become frightened for 2 turns, giving them a 1% chances to fail using talents.
    When a target becomes afraid it bolsters you to see their anguish, increasing your darkness and blight damage penetration by 2% for 2 turns.
    The values will increase with your Spellpower.
    Glimpse of True Horror
0/5

Generic Talents

Cunning / Survival1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 5 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 19, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+10 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
1/5
  • 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
Race / Ogre1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You enter an ogric wrath for 5 turns, increasing your stun and pinning resistances by 20% and all damage done by 10%.
    In addition, whenever you use an infusion or rune, miss a melee attack, or any damage you deal is reduced by a damage shield (or similar effect) you gain a charge of Ogre Fury (up to 5 charges total, each lasting 7 turns).
    Each charge grants 20% critical damage power and 5% critical strike chance.
    You lose a charge each time you deal a critical strike.
    The duration will increase with your Strength.
    Ogric Wrath
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: An ogre's body is acclimated to spells and inscriptions.
    Increases spell save by 0 and improves the contribution of primary stats on infusions and runes by 7%.
    At level 5 your body is so strong you can use a two handed weapon in your main hand while still using an offhand item.
    When using a two handed weapon this way you suffer a 20% accuracy, physical power, spellpower and mindpower penalty, decreasing by 5% per size category above     big; further, all damage procs from your weapons are reduced by 50%.
    Grisly Constitution
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you crit you have a 17% chance to reduce by 1 the remaining cooldown of one of your inscriptions and of any saturations effects.
    This effect can only happen once per turn.
    Scar-Scripted Flesh
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Instantly removes runic and infusion saturations.
    For 3 turns your inscriptions cool down twice as fast.
    At level 5 your command over inscriptions is so good that you can use one more (you still need a category point to unlock it; you need to exit the levelup screen to validate it).
    Writ Large
0/5
Demented / Beyond sanity1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You harness the chaos created by high insanity.
    Each time you trigger an insanity chaotic effect with a power higher than 17 or lower than -17 you gain a chaos orb for 10 turns (this effect can only happen once per turn).
    Each orb increases your damage by 3% and can stack up to 3.
    Chaos Orbs
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You consume the chaotic forces of 2 chaos orbs, randomly teleporting you in a general direction up to 8 tiles away.
    You will always travel at least -1 tiles away if possible.
    Anarchic Walk
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Insanity cost: 15
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You trigger an explosion of your chaos orbs on a target.
    The orbs do no damage but confuse it for 3 turns with a confusion power of 10% per orb.
    Your effective spellpower used to overcome the target's mental save is also increased by 10% per orb.
    All your orbs are always spent.
    Disjointed Mind
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You lean to alter chaotic forces to your advantage.
    Your maximum negative insanity effect is reduced from 50% to 54%.
    You may activate this talent to consume any Chaos Orbs you have, gaining 10 insanity per orb.
    Controlled Chaos
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    Heavy Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a renegade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active
You failed to protect the lost warrior from death by Prox the Mighty.
Escort: lost warrior (level 3 of Trollmire)		failed
You failed to protect the repented thief from death by hornet swarm.
Escort: repented thief (level 2 of Trollmire)		failed
You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
Hidden treasure		active
A huge mindless and corrupted worm is heading toward Kroshkkur!
It has to be stopped or the Sanctuary will fall, digested in the bowels of giant worm, its forbidden knowledge lost forever.
* You have destroyed the Worm's neural spine, preventing the doom of the Sanctuary.
The Worm That Devours		done

Equipment

Tool
evasive iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (15/15 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 1

It can be used to blast the opponent's mind dealing 100 mind damage and silencing them for 4 turns

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.
evasive iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (15/15 cooldown)
On fingers
titan's copper ring
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Con
Physical save: +6 (+4 eff.)


Rings make your fingers look great!
titan's copper ring
Main armor
Spinal Cage (5 def, 8 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
Infused by nature
9.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: armor / light ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +8
Defense: +5 (+5 eff.)
Fatigue: +3%
Changes stats: +2 Dex
Changes resistances: +15% physical
It can be used to activate talent Bone Grab (costing 20 power out of 30/30) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 20 out of 30/30.
Range: 5
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a spell
Description: Grab a target and teleport it to your side or if adjacent up to 6 spaces away from you, pinning it there with a bone rising from the ground for 5 turns.
The bone will also deal 36.92 physical damage.
The damage will increase with your Spellpower.

A gross mass of spinal matter hastily assembled into armour.
Spinal Cage (5 def, 8 armour)
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
On head
Blindwing the rough leather cap (0 def, 1 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Changes stats: +2 Mag / +4 Con
Changes damage: +3% light


A cap made of leather.
Blindwing the rough leather cap (0 def, 1 armour)
In main hand
iron mace of massacre (18-24 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mace ; tier 1

Base power: 17.5 - 24.5
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +0.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Blunt and deadly.
iron mace of massacre (18-24 power, 2 apr)

Inventory

regeneration infusion of the titan (heal 140; 14 cd)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / infusion

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 140 life over 5 turns.
Its effects scale with your Constitution stat.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the infusion.

Natural infusions may be grafted onto your body, granting you an on-demand nature talent.
regeneration infusion of the titan (heal 140; 14 cd)
wild infusion of the duelist (res 17%; mental; dur 3; cd 11)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / infusion

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 11
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random mental effect and reduce all damage taken by 17% for 3 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Its effects scale with your Dexterity stat.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the infusion.

Natural infusions may be grafted onto your body, granting you an on-demand nature talent.
wild infusion of the duelist (res 17%; mental; dur 3; cd 11)
wild infusion of the psychic (res 18%; physical; dur 3; cd 13)
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / infusion

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 13
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 18% for 3 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Its effects scale with your Willpower stat.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the infusion.

Natural infusions may be grafted onto your body, granting you an on-demand nature talent.
wild infusion of the psychic (res 18%; physical; dur 3; cd 13)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
Blood of Life
Infused by nature
0.40 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: potion / potion

It can be used to quaff the Blood of Life to grant an extra life.

This vial of blood was drawn from an ancient race in the Age of Haze. Some of the power and vitality of those early days of the world still flows through it. "Drink me, mortal," the red liquid seems to whisper in your thoughts. "I will bring you light beyond darkness. Those who taste my essence fear not the death of flesh. Drink me, mortal, if you value your life..."
Blood of Life
iron longsword (12-16 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longsword ; tier 1

Base power: 11.5 - 16.1
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, long, and deadly.
iron longsword (12-16 power, 2 apr)
Ravensquall (15-18 power, 3 apr, fire element)
Requires:
- Magic 16

Powered by arcane forces
5.00 Encumbrance.

[Random Unique]
Type: weapon / staff ; tier 2
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 15.0 - 18.0
Uses stat: 80% Mag
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Crit. chance: +3.0%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +6% darkness / +15% fire
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Physical save: +7 (+4 eff.)
Spell save: +5 (+5 eff.)
Mental save: +7 (+7 eff.)
Spellpower on spell critical (stacks up to 3 times): +2
Spellpower: +6 (+3 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +11%


Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
Ravensquall (15-18 power, 3 apr, fire element)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
cruel elm magestaff of illumination (10-12 power, 2 apr, cold element)
Requires:
- Magic 11

Infused by nature
Crafted by a master
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:
Defense: +6 (+6 eff.)
Changes damage: +10% cold
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Critical mult.: +11.00%
Spellpower: +3 (+1 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +7%
Light radius: +2
It can be used to activate talent Illuminate, placing all other charms into a 6 cooldown :
Effective talent level: 1.0
Power cost: 6 out of 6/6.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a spell
Description: Creates a globe of pure light within a radius of 6 that illuminates the area and deals 58.56 damage to all creatures.
At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.

Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
cruel elm magestaff of illumination (10-12 power, 2 apr, cold element)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
grounding rough leather belt
Infused by nature
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +6% lightning / +5% temporal


A belt that goes around your waist.
grounding rough leather belt
mindwoven Robe of the Worm of nature (+18%) (0 def, 0 armour)
Infused by nature
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Cosmetic Item]
Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +18% nature / +7% all
Changes damage: +12% nature
Mental save: +16 (+14 eff.)
Mindpower: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +2%


A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
mindwoven Robe of the Worm of nature (+18%) (0 def, 0 armour)
miner's iron helm (0 def, 5 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +5
Fatigue: +5%
Infravision radius: +1


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
miner's iron helm (0 def, 5 armour)
impenetrable iron mail armour of temporal resistance (2 def, 11 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training
- Strength 14

Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +11
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%
Changes resistances: +16% temporal


A suit of armour made of mail.
impenetrable iron mail armour of temporal resistance (2 def, 11 armour)
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training
- Strength 14

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

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


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
iron plate armour of fire resistance (0 def, 7 armour)
Requires:
- Massive armour training
- Strength 22

Crafted by a master
17.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / massive ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +7
Fatigue: +22%
Changes resistances: +17% fire


A suit of armour made of metal plates.
iron plate armour of fire resistance (0 def, 7 armour)
agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

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


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
agate
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
Prox's Lucky Halfling Foot
Infused by nature
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +5 (+5 eff.)
Changes stats: +5 Lck
Trap disarming bonus: +5
Detects traps.
Removes (25% chance) up to three stuns, pins, or dazes each turn


A large hairy foot, very recognizably a halfling's, is strung on a piece of thick twine. In its decomposed state it's hard to tell how long ago it parted with its owner, but from what look like teeth marks around the ankle you get the impression that it wasn't given willingly.
It has been kept somewhat intact with layers of salt and clay, but in spite of this it's clear that nature is beginning to take its toll on the dead flesh. Some say the foot of a halfling brings luck to its bearer - right now the only thing you can be sure of is that it stinks.
Prox's Lucky Halfling Foot
Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

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

Activation costs 202 power out of 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
2 ametrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


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

Achievements

Log

Bee swarm misses Still Writhin.
Bee swarm hits Still Writhin for 4 physical damage.
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard reflects damage back to Still Writhin!
Rotting Disease from Still Writhin hits Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard for (20 absorbed), 0 blight (0 total damage).
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard hits Still Writhin for 20 reflected damage.
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard hits Still Writhin for 3 physical damage.
LIFE LOST WARNING!

Bee swarm hits Still Writhin for 4 physical damage.
Dire wolf hits Still Writhin for 7 physical damage.
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Still Writhin casts Ogric Wrath.
Still Writhin enters an ogric frenzy.
Still Writhin casts Rune: Shielding.
A shield forms around Still Writhin.
Still Writhin performs a melee critical strike against Dire wolf!
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard reflects damage back to Still Writhin!
Still Writhin hits Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard for (16 absorbed), 0 physical, (50 absorbed), 0 darkness (0 total damage).
Still Writhin hits Dire wolf for 148 darkness damage.
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard hits Still Writhin for (16 absorbed), 16 reflected, (50 absorbed), 50 reflected (66 total damage).
Still Writhin killed Dire wolf!
Bee swarm hits Still Writhin for (4 absorbed), 0 physical (0 total damage).
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard is free from the rotting disease.
Bee swarm hits Still Writhin for (4 absorbed), 0 physical (0 total damage).

Still Writhin activates her evasive iron torque of mindblast!
Your shield crumbles under the damage!
The shield around Still Writhin crumbles.
Forest Troll Hedge-Wizard is silenced!