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

Howdy, this is Kamani.
Nekarcos made this incredible addon, but was inactive for quite a bit, only having recently returned (recently as of 5/29/2023). I just wanted to play on the most recent version of ToME when I played it, so this is just a port of OotS to ToME 1.7.4. I will NOT be adding new content, and all credit goes to Nekarcos, who actually made this. If you find any bugs, please report them to me.

The current page for OotS content is: https://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?p=247326#p247326
And the original TE4 page for older OotS is here: https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/neka_therianthropy_summoner

I mostly tested OotS with EoR, Cults, and Ashes enabled, but it should work fine without them.
Anyways, here is the original description:
This is a highly extensive "unofficial DLC" that takes the summonable creatures from the Summoner class and turns them into fully-talented, highly-comprehensive classes with their story and unique events.
This pack features the ranged summons: Hydra, Fire Drake, and Flamespitter Ritch.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a full release. There WILL be errors and unpredictable behavior. I am patching things out actively, so play with discretion and send as much feedback as possible to the forum thread to accelerate the completion process!
Details:
This modifies the "Age of Ascendency" story, as you are no longer human, but rather, a natural, spiritual being. This means several conversations and services may become unavailable or even change to behave in new ways.
The plot's progression is mostly unchanged, but now you are operating under the command of an ominous individual known only as "The Summoner". He sends you off to do tasks-- But in the end, it is up to you to decide whether you will work cooperatively with him or not.
This was a labour of love, and I would want nothing more than for you to enjoy a new flavor of experience-- And a new type of challenge and difficulty in Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Please, enjoy!

Expanded Details:
"Hydra is a nigh-indestructible damage sponge that doles out as much as it takes, capable of attacking several times and several targets per turn. It possesses Feral, Glare, and Drool heads, each respectively associated with its Physical, Mental, and Magical wellbeing. You can choose whether you want to bite, stare, or spew your enemies to death-- Or maybe even some combination of such!"
"Fire Drake is a dedicated pet general, leading a batch of child fire dragons called 'Drakelings'. They are capable of growing and learning many of your talents-- But you must choose whether you will dedicate yourself to nurturing them, or making yourself powerful enough to protect them from the dangers of Eyal. Cooperation and good education is the key to success!"
"Ritch is a fullblown assassin, possessing a variety of techniques that want nothing more than for its victims to bleed, burn, and die to death-- And not necessarily in that order. Most significantly, they can craft and engraft bladed weapons to replace their claws, making them the most efficient Avatar class that can utilize human weaponry. Killing is a skill, and you're good at it!"
"War Hound is an agile skirmisher that sacrifices little to attain maximum damage. Performing a large number of attacks per turn, as well as having a variety of mobility talents, there is no distance that can keep this fighter out of combat. Alternatively, use your powerful tracking skills to always be aware of your enemies. Run circles around them, hunt them down-- Either way, your bite hurts!"
"Minotaur is a powerhouse with many humanoid qualities, invoking both nature and craftsmanship to annihilate anything in its way. Using its rugged strength to crush enemies, utilizing its cunning of the civilized world, or even tapping into its mystical gifts, this fighter can always find a way to put its hoof into your behind. Brute force is ALWAYS the answer!"

Adds the Deathknight class. See forum thread for details.

Adds the Spellweaver, a Mage subclass who creates custom spells with Spellweaving components.
For example, a Spellweaver might make a spell using the Fire element, the Beam shape, and the Damage Over Time effect to make a simple Damage over Time Fire Beam. However, spells can get vastly more complicated, with things like a "Grand Checkerboard of Eclipsing and Feverish Wallweaving and Prismatic and Radiat Lingering Harm" if you want to be way over the top.
Additionally, Spellweavers can make shielding and teleportation spells with components too, although all three types of spells use the same slots.
Spellweavers who are Humans, Elves, Dwarves or Undeads will also begin in Wovenhome in the East and have a special dungeon to start the game.

Note: If you need to make a bug report, please use the forum thread: https://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=53519
I will not reliably respond to any messages here in any reasonable amount of time. The ToME Discord is also a good method.

A combination of all my celestial addons; Firmamancer, Primal Chosen, Trench Strider, Radiant, the Empyreal fork, and the newly added Bloodtide Cultist.

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!

This adds three new classes, two of which are loosely based on the Headless Horror, plus a mini-adventurer that gets talents from all three.
All are considered Demented, but use a new resource instead of insanity and do *not* require Forbidden Cults.
Their talents do not appear on enemies.

Hekatonkhieres are spell-using melee combatants who mix armed and unarmed attacks while accompanied by their eldritch Wandering Eyes.

New Talents
Spell / Shambler: This tree defines your combat style: stomp up to your target and wind up to a single devastating blow.
Spell / Headless Horror: Extract your own eyes from your head and empower them into monstrous minions for both attack and defense.
Technique / Titanic Blows: Heavy attacks with your weapons, which gain space-warping powers later on.
Technique / Helping Hands: Use your other 98 hands to block, steal, distract, and heal.
Technique / Harming Hands: Use your other 98 hands to grab, crush, drag, and batter.

Advanced Talents
Spell / Mountainshaper: Locked but available at level 0, your eldritch presence spills out into the world and warps the ground.
Technique / Splintered Lord: Time your attacks to take advantage of your extra-dimensional nature - or just chop enemies in half
Spell / Eyesight: Improve and direct your Wandering Eyes to better protect you and afflict your enemies.

Old Talents:
Cunning / Survival
Technique / Conditioning

By special request:
Argosines are summoners who are heavily dependent on their Wandering Eyes to fight, but get more and better eyes than the Hekatonkhiere.

New Talents
Spell / Sybarite: You can never hide behind corners, but you can walk through walls.
Spell / Headless Horror
Spell / Watcher: Banish enemies, empower your eyes with elemental magic, and keep up a swarm of them.
Spell / Veiled Shepherd: Actively command your eyes with extra beams, whirls, and energy.
Spell / Hale Hands: Use your other 98 hands to block, steal, defend, and overcome.

Advanced Talents
Spell / Oubliette: Locked but available at level 0, your eldritch presence spills out into the world and brings endless woe.
Spell / Eyebite: Teach your eyes to taunt, slow, and petrify, or rip out an enemy's eyes to serve you.
Spell / Eyesight

Old Talents:
Cunning / Survival
Spell / Divination

Kharybdians are ocean mages who mix attack spells, summons, and a precise sense of timing.

New Talents
Spell / Bloodtide: Cast your spells at the right time for extra effects, and always take one turn per turn.
Spell / Oceansong: Add destructive and distracting music to your talents.
Spell / Intrusion: Conjure your alien anatomy into the real world to destroy your enemies with claw, eyeball, and tentacle.
Spell / Polyps: Summon carnivorous coral into enemies, then sacrifice it to protect yourself.
Spell / Chronorium: Teleport back and forth, and deal with today's damage tomorrow.

Advanced Talents
Spell / Marching Sea: Locked but available at level 0, channel the myths of the other place to disable your enemies and rain down blood.
Spell / Null Vizier: Control the light to hide, attack, and defend.
Spell / Moon Wurm: You've finally realized, you aren't just you, you're someone else too. The Moon Wurm provides random support and a powerful summon.

Generic Talents

Old Talents:
Cunning / Survival
Otherness
Other Page: Use your many many limbs to achieve mastery of magic and items.

Significantly increases the number of items available for purchase in all shops, and allows some higher-quality items.

Players can set the number of items with the new option appearing in the 'Game Options/Gameplay' tab.

Aadd-on that expands on the available Egos and Semi-Random Artifacts available. Introduces all sorts of new Effects and Talents used with both! For example:

Spellslinger - A Passive that increases Spellpower per visible enemy in a range of 2 - Rolls on Hats

Nether Resonance - A Passive found on the Semi-Random Artifact 'Netheric Diadem' that increases Light resist by half of Magic stat and Nature resist by half of Willpower stat.

Combust - Found on 'Pyrophage' items, if you hit a burning enemy, cause an aoe of fire damage and gain a temporary life-regen buff.

Mystical Recovery - Found on shields, when blocking, 20% chance to lower the cooldown of a random spell-type talent based on item level.

All That Glitters - Activated talent found on Rings, gives you a temporary buff to Spellpower based on how much money you have.

This is only a small sampling of new additions among the 10 semi-random Artifacts and 100+ Egos. There are still many more of both to come and I will be posting a full breakdown of all the new components soon. At this time, many of the added Egos are Greater, so they will only appear on blue or purple items. Designed to be compatible with other addons, please report any possible collision issues.

In the meantime, please check it out and post any questions, concerns, or tuning feedback.

Google Doc Summary at - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VBu4F1tmKSRLjLqZl2Eu2lvp4wFZfdILJc-jAW5lttI/edit?usp=sharing

----Icons are edited versions from the existing game or from https://game-icons.net/---
---sounds edited from those freely available on https://bigsoundbank.com/ and https://freesound.org/--

Allows you to choose which escorts you will encounter at the start of the game.
You may change the future encounters in the game menu (Esc).

There is an option to choose a random escort in case you just wanted to guarantee some unlocks before continuing with the base game's behavior.

Note: You're only supposed to be able to choose the lost tinker once. (Must have the Embers of Rage DLC and unlocked by playing in the Orcs campaign)
Note: Unfortunately the only time that addons can get the possible escort types is after the random escort quest is assigned.
This means escorts added by other addons will not be available for selection, but will still be possible to find using the random selection.

To reach me faster, please leave a message on the Steam Workshop page. I don't get notifications on te4.org so I may take longer to reply.

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!

Adds the Incantor of Flame, a mage subclass.

The Incantor of Flame is a Fire-focused caster and melee shield fighter. Their primary stats are Magic and Strength.
Incantor of Flame combines a few base game spell and technique trees with a pair of new trees, one class and one generic.

Generic:
Combat Training
Survival
Conditioning
-New-
Tempered: Passive defenses and utility focused around utilizing and improving Block.
-Locked-
Divination
Conveyance

Class:

Combat Techniques
Combat Veteran
Shield Defense
Fire
-New-
Forge: melee fire attacks with weapon and shield which interact with your other talents

-Locked-
Wildfire
Meta
Battle Tactics

Talent icons from https://game-icons.net

Combines several smaller utility addons, both for convenience and potentially reduced resource usage on smaller machines.

Includes the following addons:

• Notes to Self
• Timed Rest
• Talent Point Planner
• Opt-in Adventurers Parties
• Inventory Show All Tabs By Default (thru v12d)
• Tier-1 Short Circuit Option
• "Save" Talent/Stat Points
• Use Item Shortcuts (as of v5)
• Auto-Transmo Gems (as of v5)
• Online Indicator (v6a thru v13d.3)
• Inventory Sort Order (as of v7)
• Store Wish List (as of v8)
• Inventory Keys (as of v8)
• Alternate Zones Option (as of v10)
• Go to Landmark (as of v11)
• Enhanced Object Compare (as of v12)
• Enhanced Wield Replace (as of v14)
• Pragmatic Heroism (as of v14b)
• Prodigious Progress (as of v14c)
• Savefile Notes (as of v15)
• Item Notes (as of v15)
• Passive Cooldowns (as of v15)
• Low Health Popup (as of v15)
• Restart Sustains (as of v15)
• Effects Under Actors (as of v16)
• Juggle Hotkeys on Unwield (as of v16)
• Longer Character Names (as of v16)
• Das BLinkenlights (as of v16)
• Wall Clock (as of v16)
• Curse Levels (as of v17)
• Displacement Tracking (as of v17)
• Examine Floor Stack (as of v17)
• Verbose Crystal Resonance (as of v17)
• Golem Gender (as of v17)
• Self-Portrait Over Grass (as of v17)
• Semi-Roguelike Mode (as of v17)
• Menu Keys (as of v17)
• Reflected Golem (as of v17)
• Roguelike Keybindings (as of v17)
• Tooltip Cleanup (as of v17)
• Time Shield Tracking (as of v17)
• Alchemist Notifications (as of v17)
• Don't Summon While Meditating (as of v17)
• Herald of the Herald (as of v17)
• Roguelike Chat Guard (as of v17)
• Sword-n-Boardin' (as of v17)
• Plot Disarming (as of v17)

A superset of ZOmnibus Lite.

Frequently Asked Questions:

• What's the difference between ZOmnibus and ZOmnibus Lite? Can I use them both together?
• What game options does ZOmnibus provide to configure its behavior? (updated for v16)

License note: This addon uses images (or modified versions thereof) from Game-icons.net, pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. In particular, we use images from the following authors:

• Delapouite
• Lorc

Summoner rework!
Removed useless summons. Now there are only 4 kinds of basic summons available.
Added 3 categories, one for a melee summoner, one for a ranged weapon summoner, one for a pure summoner.
Reworked advanced summoning and augmentation tree. And many more.

1.1.8
- Reduced resistance gain from 'Bear Roar'
- Reduced equilibrium gain from 'Commune with Nature'
- Reduced the amount of damage share from 'Damage Resonance'
- Now 'Detonate' will target every summons regardless of range.

1.1.7
- Removed accuracy bonus on 'Together Stronger'
- If you learn 'Together Stronger', weapon damage calculation will use Willpower in place of Strength.
- Changed 'Bite Them' to use Willpower instead of Cunning in calculation of arrow damage.
- Minor bug fix

1.1.6
- Artifact 'Great Caller' now has proper mastery bonus.
- 'Strengthened Bond' now does not able to select 'Dragon' talent.
- Added accuracy bonus on 'Together Stronger'

1.1.5
-'Wild Senses' also provides 'see invisible' stat. And it also let your summon inherit your 'see invisible', 'see stealth'.
- Added damage on 'Mother Nature' talent. Knockback and damage from 'The World Tree' moved to 'Mother Nature' talent.
- Increased damage of 'The World Tree', 'Poison Ivy', 'Wasp Swarm'

1.1.4
- Now 'Bear' summoned with 'Strike Form' sustained.
- Resistance of 'Bear' reduced.
- Now summons does not have same resistance as a summoner, but they do have same resistance when a summoner has 'Blessing of Nature' sustain.
- Minor bug fix.

1.1.3
- Buffed 'Damage Resonance' a bit.
- Now Summons have same resistance as a summoner.
- Nerfed 'Bear' to match summons resistance buff.
- Fixed talent radius indication on several talents to match real radius.

1.1.0
- Added a new category - Force of Nature.

   -Innervate: Reset cooldown of summons' talent.
   -Blessing of Nature: Buff to surrounding summons.
   -Wasp Swarm: debilitating enemies & halving poison resistance
   -Force of Nature: Automatically refill dead summons.

1.0.9
- Now detonation does not cost any resources, and also get double charges from Blood and Iron
- Nerfed equilibrium gain from Blood and Iron to adjust the change
- The World Tree now gives 1 equilibrium regeneration
- Adjust some equilibrium cost of summons

1.0.8
- Detonation now also grants Meat shield at Raw talent level 5.
- Summons from 'Mark Target' are always summoned right next to the target.
- Minor bug fix.

1.0.7

- Arrow rain now summons ivy right next to the enemies (ignore range)
- Attack order does not ignore range now.
- Dragons now have light radius of 5
- Commune with Nature now counts allies correctly when Wild Senses is active.

1.0.6

- You can now move Dragons with Attack Order
- Minor bug fix

1.0.5

- Minor bug fix

1.0.4

- Summoner and SummonerR merged.
- Minor stat changes of summons
- Removed Recycle and added Attack Order.
- Damage of Detonate now depends on summons' stats.
- Nerfed Gardener of Eyal's cooldown.
- Some damage dealing talents are now dealt by summons not by summoner (to get benefit from Mark Target)

1.0.3

- Changed few particles (for performance)
- Removed companion hound.
- Nerfed The World Tree a bit. The World Tree now does not summon other animals and plants.
- Added new talent on Summon - animal tree, Wild Senses.
- Mark target now summons all animals and plants that are not on cooldown (Like the world tree did before)
- Meat shield can be used with other barriers.

Full remake of Alchemist and gems:
Changes for alchemist:
You may equip gems instead of alchemist gems.
Buff Golemancy & Advanced-Golemancy tree, to make your golem toucher and git harder.
Replace Fire/Acid/Frost/Energy Alchemy tree with Element Alchemy tree.
New Alchemy Potion tree that allows you to prepare potions before combat, you can even see your potions below the resource bars.
New Gem Spell tree that can trigger the special bomb effect of gems.
New Explosion Control tree that allows you to throw bomb in special ways.
Cunning/Survival is now unlocked at birth.

Changes for gems:
Adjust the potential damage type and tier of normal gems.
Buff the stats of normal gems.
Most normal gems gain new bomb effect.

Remake of Golem:
Increased Golem life.
A new generic tree for golem, and golem level up with a few generic trees
Plan to replace current golem talents with more fancy skills (which I have no idea now).

A fix for the creep skill not working in the current version 1.7.4

original description:

NOTE: use this one instead, not both

Contains some new hybrid classes: Ascetic, Blood Mage, Creep, Flenser, Striker, Gravitic Infantry, Storm Warden, Transcendent Fist, Vector, and a few others.

Details & discussion here:
http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=38670

This revision is mostly about removing incompatible bits which changed between 1.4 and 1.5, so the classes are rather bare at the moment. I'm registering it so I can play online. I'll post when the additional content is ready.

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!