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!

Creates a setting under Game Options/Gameplay for selecting the
first escort that will spawn.

This is intended to allow players to make characters that rely on a certain
escort reward without having to reroll repeatedly or savescum to get what they
need, but not gain the advantage of selecting ALL the escorts to get the best
possible reward every time. With this addon, only the first escort to spawn
will be of the selected type; all others will be randomly selected.

An advantage of this over addons that allow selecting the escort type when it
spawns is that it is less likely to cause bugs. This addon does not create a
new in-game menu, but rather handles selection through the settings menu.
Escorts are generated using the standard quest code.

An addon compiling various fixes to bugs in ToME4.

===== Bugs fixed by this addon =====

= Band of Protection =
Getting a Damage Shield or Psionic Damage Shield effect while Band of Protection's Steam Shield effect is active causes game-breaking errors. This addon fixes this and makes Steam Shield behave like the other two damage shield effects (gets overwritten by new damage shields).

= Quake hitting multiple times =
Quake performs knockback during projection, which can cause the same actor to be hit multiple times, depending on the order that squares are iterated over. This addon fixes Quake so that it can only hit each actor once.

= Proc bonuses/penalties with nested attacks =
Weapon attacks that happen during other weapon attacks (such as Flexible Combat and weapons with talents on hit or talents on crit) can result in proc damage bonuses from staves being applied to the wrong weapon's procs, and the proc penalty for ogres applying multiple times to a weapon's procs and failing to apply at all to other procs. This addon fixes this so that the proc bonus from staves/shields only applies to the staff/shield's procs, and so that the ogre proc penalty always applies once.

= Real-time Anomaly Meteors =
Actors can dodge meteors from Anomaly Meteor by moving out of the way within 1/6th of a second, real-time. This addon removes this real-time behaviour, making the game properly turn-based once again.

= Wild Speed, Step Up, etc. resource leak =
An engine bug causes timed effects like Wild Speed and Step Up (ones that stop when you use a talent or attack) to constantly increase the size of a table on the actor using them. On characters that use these talents heavily, this can bloat savegames. This addon fixes this bug.

= Snapshotting for many talents =
Many sustains and passives do not update their values after being activated, allowing you to "snapshot" values with high power and then continue to use those high values even after changing to e.g. equipment that gives less spellpower or mastery. This addon currently fixes snapshotting for the following talents:
- Abyssal Shield
- Acid Infusion
- Acidic Skin
- Acidic Soil
- Aim
- Antimagic Shield
- Arcane Feed
- Arcane Power
- Arcane Shield
- Augmentation
- Automated Cloak Tessellation
- Berserker
- Berserker Rage
- Blade Flurry
- Blood Fury
- Blur Sight
- Body of Fire
- Burning Wake
- Corrosive Nature
- Corrosive Slashes
- Crystalline Focus
- Dark Ritual
- Defensive Posture
- Deflect Projectiles
- Eldritch Infusion
- Elemental Harmony
- Essence of Speed
- Eternal Night
- Fiery Hands
- Flame Infusion
- Flame of Urh'Rok
- Forge Shield
- Frost Hands
- Frost Infusion
- Furnace
- Golden Age of Necromancy
- Gravity Locus
- Grim Shadow
- Grinding Shield
- Ice Core
- Infestation
- Keen Senses
- Lightning Infusion
- Living Lightning
- Lucid Dreamer
- Mitosis
- Molten Iron Blood
- Momentum
- Natural Acid
- Nature's Defiance
- Onslaught
- Overheat Saws
- Pace Yourself
- Precise Strikes
- Precision
- Psiblades
- Rapid Shot
- Reflective Skin
- Resilient Body
- Righteous Strength
- Rocket Boots
- Secrets of the Eternals
- Shadow Feed
- Shielding
- Shield Wall
- Shattering Impact
- Shock Hands
- Slow Motion
- Spellcraft
- Steam Powered Armour
- Stone Skin
- Striking Stance
- Tempest
- Tempest of Metal
- Total Thuggery
- Unstoppable Nature
- Uttercold
- Weapon of Light
- Weapon of Wrath
- Wildfire

Unfortunately, this is not all of the snapshottable talents in the game, but it's a start.
This addon also fixes the ability to snapshot tons of passives and sustains by using items with "Talent category bonus".

===== Compatibility =====
This addon overwrites the following functions:
- mod.class.Actor's removeModifierList
- Anomaly Meteor's action
- Aim's activate
- Aim's deactivate
- Antimagic Shield's on_damage
- Arcane Power's activate
- Blood Fury's activate
- Blood Fury's deactivate
- Blur Sight's activate
- Blur Sight's deactivate
- Defensive Posture's activate
- Defensive Posture's deactivate
- Keen Senses's activate
- Keen Senses's deactivate
- Precise Strikes's activate
- Precise Strikes's deactivate
- Quake's action
- Stone Skin's activate
- Stone Skin's deactivate

It should otherwise not be destructive.

===== Changelog =====
1.2.2:
- Updated for ToME version 1.7.3; removed fixes that are no longer needed (Reckless Strike)

1.2.1:
- Updated for ToME version 1.7.2; fixed Spellcraft

1.2.0:
- Updated for ToME version 1.7.0; removed fixes that are no longer needed
- Fixed snapshotting for Eternal Night, Golden Age of Necromancy, Grim Shadow, and Pace Yourself
- Disabled Body of Stone snapshotting fix, due to it being unclear how the talent is intended to behave

1.1.9:
- Now works with Infinite Dungeon again
- Fixed Quake being able to hit the same target multiple times
- Fixed Form and Function not affecting weapon damage

1.1.8:
- Bug fix: the new implementations of Blood Fury and Keen Senses now work with Arcane Might
- Fixed Band of Protection causing errors and havoc if a talent granting a regular damage shield or psionic damage shield (such as Improved Gestalt) is used while it is active.
- Fixed ActorTemporaryEffects:removeEffect() failing to remove effect list entries from the actor; this fixes useless crap piling up in your savegame when you (and NPCs) use movement infusions and similar effects.
- Fixed Gardanion's prodigy point being stolen by the Sher-Tul High Priest putting it on
- Fixed proc bonuses/penalties with nested attacks

1.1.7:
- Fixed yet another Eyal's Will snapshotting bug

1.1.6:
- Fixed cloneCustom() breaking Corpathus and Wintertide (see http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=50960 )
- Fixed Annihilator's flamethrower talents causing an error when used with double weapons such as The Long-Arm
- Made Psychic Crush work more like Forgery of Haze/Shadow Simulacrum/etc., only removing remove_on_clone timed effects and such. This fixes various issues with timed effects like Mucus and Corrosive Worm.

1.1.5:
- Fixed Eyal's Will Psiblades error

1.1.4:
- Generalized Possess aura/shield fix for other talents and timed effects

1.1.3:
- Fixed possessing creatures with Mindslayer auras and shields

1.1.2:
- Fixed 1.6 Possessor resource leaks and performance regressions
- Fixed Meteoric Crash mind crits

1.1.1:
- Fixed Godfeaster fix

1.1.0:
- This version is not compatible with savegames from older versions!
- Updated all bug fixes for ToME4 version 1.6.7
- Added a warning popup if addon version doesn't match ToME4 version
- Fixed Fearscape and Godfeaster boss death portals
- Fixed Tentacled Wings hitting multiple times
- Fixed Hammer Toss serialization
- Fixed Lock On working on out-of-range and out-of-sight targets
- Fixed "of mastery" and "of perfection" amulet egos from overwriting existing mastery
- No longer fixes early equilibrium failures for targeted talents (too destructive to compatibility). Sorry.
- No longer alters talents that had their bugs fixed in mainline ToME4: Bone Shield, Overkill, Willful Tormenter, Wing Buffet knockback
- Abyssal Shield melee retaliation restored (and no longer snapshottable)
- Flame of Urh'Rok original resistance formula restored (and no longer shapshottable)
- on_mastery_change functions added by other addons will no longer be stomped
- All original talent function environments are now preserved (improves compatibility with other addons)
- Fixed Reckless Strike so that it actually ignores resistances (instead of just giving 70% penetration)
- Restored Reckless Strike's "25% of damage dealt" alternative backlash, but made this amount of backlash damage actually correct (in mainline ToME4 it almost always inflicts less backlash than it should)
- Fixed snapshotting for more talents: Acid Infusion, Acidic Skin, Acidic Soil, Arcane Feed, Arcane Power, Arcane Shield, Augmentation, Automated Cloak Tessellation, Berserker, Berserker Rage, Blur Sight, Body of Fire, Body of Stone, Burning Wake, Corrosive Nature, Crystalline Focus, Deflect Projectiles, Eldritch Infusion, Elemental Harmony, Essence of Speed, Fiery Hands, Flame Infusion, Forge Shield, Frost Hands, Frost Infusion, Frostdusk, Furnace, Gravity Locus, Grinding Shield, Ice Core, Keen Senses, Lightning Infusion, Living Lightning, Lucid Dreamer, Mitosis, Molten Iron Blood, Momentum, Natural Acid, Nature's Defiance, Onslaught, Pace Yourself, Phantasmal Shield, Precision, Psiblades, Rapid Shot, Reflective Skin, Resilient Body, Righteous Strength, Rocket Boots, Secrets of the Eternals, Shadow Feed, Shattering Impact, Shielding, Shield Wall, Shock Hands, Slow Motion, Spellcraft, Steam Powered Armour, Stone Skin, Tempest, Tempest of Metal, Total Thuggery, Unstoppable Nature, Uttercold, Weapon of Light, Weapon of Wrath, Wildfire
- Fixed snapshotting via talents_mastery_bonus (e.g. the Radiance artifact cloak, the Adept prodigy)

1.0.6:
- Fixed sustainbug for Aim, Antimagic Shield, Striking Stance
- Fixed Antimagic Shield's retaliation
- Fixed Blast and Wing Buffet hitting multiple times
- Preserved original fenv for more replaced functions, to reduce the chances of addon conflicts

1.0.5:
- Gave the Spider talent's action its original fenv back (fixes some artifacts)

1.0.4:
- Remove Catalepsy fix as it is fixed in vanilla in 1.5.8

1.0.3:
- Fixed Catalepsy

1.0.2:
- Fixed equilibrium failure happening before targeting instead of after.

1.0.1:
- Shifted to a generalized bugfix addon instead of just "Meteor Fix".
- Fixed sustainbug for Abyssal Shield, Blood Fury, Bone Shield, Corrosive Slashes, Dark Ritual, Defensive Posture, Flame of Urh'Rok, Infestation, Overkill, Precise Strikes, Willful Tormenter
- Fixed Reckless Strike self-kills
- Fixed Reckless Strike damage shield interaction
- Reckless Strike now always damages you for 30% of your current HP after the attack
- Overkill now correctly attributes its damage to the talent
- Overkill now ignores the source's inc_damage instead of the victim's
- Overkill now projects its damage in an onTickEnd()
- Overkill no longer has an overzealous recursion guard, just a regular recursion guard

1.0.0:
- Initial release

Weight: 61428967

Add Embers Races To Main Campaign, and they start in Last Hope. This includes classes with unique starts (Archmage, Ashes classes, etc).

Big thanks to Zeranamu for their addon "Embers Races for Maj'eyal Campaign"(https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/embersraces), and Mex for their addon "Mex's Start in Last Hope"(https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/mex-lasthopestart). All I did was look at Mex's addon to see what they did to make characters start in Last Hope, and made that change to Zeranamu's addon.

Be sure to use only this addon, or Zeranamu's original version. You will probably be fine with both, just when testing and both active I had two entries for each Embers race on character creation.

Adds useful information to various Possessor-related dialogs and talent tooltips.

Frequently Asked Questions:

• What's the difference between Proper Possession and Possessor Tweaks? Can I use both?
• What extra information does this addon provide?