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Bastlor the level 7 Dwarf Bulwark by cosmiclamb

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexMale
RaceDwarf
ClassBulwark
Level / Exp7 / 82%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by slaver at level 7 on the 23rd Profit 122nd year of Ascendancy at 16:08
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Primary Stats

Strength29 (base 25)
Dexterity10 (base 12)
Constitution26 (base 23)
Magic11 (base 10)
Willpower13 (base 10)
Cunning10 (base 10)

Resources

Life-10/378
Stamina32/126
Healing Factor1.1316586254954
Regeneration4.1504111703492

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement+40%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage36
Accuracy29
Crit Chance2%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage
Accuracy
Crit Chance
APR
Speed

Offense: Spell

Spellpower16
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower13
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Cold+10%
Arcane+3%

Offense: Damage Penetration

Cold+8%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)9.0000000000002 (30%)
Defense21
Ranged Defense21
Fatigue10
Physical Save25
Spell Save14
Mental Save14

Defense: Resistances

Cold+ 24%( 70%)
All+ 10%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 100 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Infusions
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 nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Infusion: Wild
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to instantly heal yourself for 50 then cleanse 1 wound, poison, and disease effect.
Infusion: Healing

Class Talents

Technique / Combat techniques1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 24.2
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 35
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Rush toward a target enemy with incredible speed and perform a melee attack for 120% weapon damage that can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
    You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
    Rush
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 4%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 27.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +19 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next 1 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 27.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 0% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
0/5
Technique / Shield defense1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
    Description: Enter a protective battle stance allowing you to defend yourself more proficiently while using a shield.
    Increases Armour by 7, Block value by 22, and reduces Block cooldown by 2.
    Increases stun and knockback resistance by 20%.
    The Armor and Block bonuses increase equally with your Dexterity and Strength.
    Shield Wall
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 22
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
    Description: Smash your shield into the face of all adjacent foes dealing 176% shield damage and knocking them back 3 grids.
    In addition, all creatures knocked back will also be dazed for 6 turns.
    If known, activating this talent will refresh your Rush cooldown if the attack hits.
    The distance increases with your talent level, and the Daze duration with your Strength.
    Repulsion
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your damage with shield-based skills, and increases your Spell (+1) and Physical (+0) Saves.
    Shield Expertise
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You brace yourself for the final stand, increasing Defense and Armor by 0, maximum and current life by 14, but making you unable to move.
    Your stand lets you concentrate on every blow, allowing you to avoid death from normally fatal wounds. You can only die when reaching -14 life.
    If your life is below 0 when Last Stand ends it will be set to 1.
    The increase in Defense and Armor is based on your Dexterity, and the increase in life is based on your Constitution and normal maximum life.
    Last Stand
0/5
Technique / Shield offense1.30
  • Effective talent level: 6.5
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
    Description: Hits the target with two shield strikes, doing 180% and 223% shield damage. If it hits a second time, it stuns the target for 5 turns.
    The stun chance increases with your Accuracy and your Strength.
    Shield Pummel
5/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your ability to perform counterstrikes after blocks in the following ways:
    Allows counterstrikes after incomplete blocks.
    Increases the number of counterstrikes you can perform on a target while they're vulnerable by 1.
    Increases the crit chance of counterstrikes by 13%. This increase scales with your Dexterity.
    Riposte
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 13.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
    Description: Hit your target with your shield 3 times for 30% damage then quickly return to a blocking position. The bonus block will not check or trigger Block cooldown.
    Shield Slam
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 17.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
    Description: Hits the target with your shield, doing 80% damage. If it hits, you follow up with two automatic critical hits with your weapon, doing 80% base damage each.
    Assault
0/5
Technique / Combat veteran1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate stamina faster (+0.8 stamina/turn).
    Quick Recovery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate life faster (+3.4 life/turn).
    Fast Metabolism
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Rigorous training allows you to be more resistant to some spell effects (+0 spell save).
    Spell Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You revel in the death of your foes, regaining 0.0 stamina with each death you cause.
    Unending Frenzy
0/5

Generic Talents

Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Race / Dwarf1.00
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 37
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Call upon the legendary resilience of the Dwarven race to increase armour (+12), armour hardiness (+27%), spell (+16) and physical (+16) saves for 8 turns.
    The bonuses will increase with your Constitution.
    Resilience of the Dwarves
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Dwarf skin is a complex structure; it can automatically react to physical blows and harden itself.
    When you are hit in melee, you have a 15% chance to increase your armour total by 0 for 5 turns and fully ignore the attack triggering it.
    There is no cooldown to this effect; it can happen while already active.
    Stoneskin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Money is the heart of the Dwarven Empire; it rules over all other considerations.
    Increases Physical, Mental and Spell Saves based on the amount of gold you possess.
    +1 save every 95 gold, up to +0. (currently +0)
    Power is Money
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: While the origins of the dwarves remain clouded in mystery to the other races, it is obvious that they share strong ties to the stone.
    You can target any wall and immediately enter it, appearing on the other side.
    This can pass through up to 1 tiles (increases with Constitution and talent level).
    Stone Walking
0/5
Technique / Conditioning1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 15
    Description: You recover faster from poisons, diseases and wounds, reducing the duration of all such effects by 43%.
    Whenever your life falls below 50%, your life regeneration increases by 34.3 for 8 turns (274 total). This effect can only happen once every 15 turns.
    The regeneration scales with your Constitution.
    Vitality
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You've learned to recover quickly from effects that would disable you. Each turn, you have a 11% chance to recover from a single stun effect.
    At talent level 2 you may also recover from Blindness, at level 3 Confusion and Pins, and level 4 Disarms and Slows.
    Effects will be cleansed with the priority order Stun > Blind > Confusion > Pin > Disarm > Slow.
    Only one effect may be recovered from each turn, and the chance to recover from an effect scales with your Constitution.
    Unflinching Resolve
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Enemies are intimidated by your very presence.
    Enemies within radius 6 have their Physical Power, Mindpower, and Spellpower reduced by 2.
    The power of the intimidation effect improves with your Physical power
    Daunting Presence
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 24
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You release a surge of adrenaline that increases your Physical Power by 1 for 2 turns. While the effect is active, you may continue to fight beyond the point of exhaustion.
    You may continue to use stamina based talents while at zero stamina at the cost of life.
    The Physical Power increase will scale with your Constitution.
    Using this talent does not take a turn.
    Adrenaline Surge
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 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
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 34.
    Combat Accuracy
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 34% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • 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

Your escape from Reknor got your heart pounding and your desire for wealth and power increased tenfold.
Maybe it is time for you to start an adventurer's career. Deep below the Iron Throne mountains lies the Deep Bellow.
It has been long sealed away but still, from time to time adventurers go there looking for wealth.
None that you know of has come back yet, but you did survive Reknor. You are great.
From bellow, it devours		done
It is time to explore some new places -- dark, forgotten and dangerous ones.
The Old Forest is just south-east of the town of Derth.
The Maze is west of Derth.
The Sandworm Lair is to the far west of Derth, near the sea.
The Daikara is on the eastern borders of the Thaloren forest.
* You must explore the Old Forest and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Maze and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Sandworm Lair and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Daikara and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Into the darkness		active
You were part of a group of dwarves sent to investigate the situation of the kingdom of Reknor.
When you arrived there you found nothing but orcs, well organized and very powerful.
Most of your team was killed there and now you and Norgan (the sole survivor besides you) must hurry back to the Iron Council to bring the news.
Let nothing stop you.
Reknor is lost!		done
You have found a slavers' compound and entered it.
Till the Blood Runs Clear		active

Equipment

On feet
pair of rough leather boots of speed (0 def, 1 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Movement speed: +25%


A pair of boots made of leather.
pair of rough leather boots of speed (0 def, 1 armour)
On hands
iron gauntlets of magic (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Powered by arcane forces
1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Changes stats: +3 Mag
Changes damage: +3% arcane
Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
iron gauntlets of magic (+3) (0 def, 1 armour)
On head
defender's rough leather cap (4 def, 5 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +5
Defense: +4 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +1%
Changes resistances: +3% all
Physical save: +6 (+3 eff.)


A cap made of leather.
defender's rough leather cap (4 def, 5 armour)
Tool
iron torque of gale force [power 100] (8/15 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 1

It can be used to project a gust of wind in a cone knocking all creatures back 7 spaces and dealing 100 physical damage

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 15 turns.

Torques are made by powerful psionics to store psionic powers.
iron torque of gale force [power 100] (8/15 cooldown)
Around waist
rough leather belt
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1



A belt that goes around your waist.
rough leather belt
Main armor
Silk Current (12 def, 0 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +12 (+6 eff.)
Damage when hit (Melee): 10 cold
Changes resistances: +7% all / +15% cold
Changes resistances penetration: +8% cold
Changes damage: +10% cold
Talent masteries: +0.30 Spell / Glacial waste +0.30 Spell / Rime wraith +0.30 Spell / Water +0.30 Spell / Frost alchemy +0.30 Spell / Grave +0.30 Spell / Ice
Spellpower: +5 (+4 eff.)
Movement speed: +15%
Talent on hit(spell): Water Jet (5% chance level 1).


This deep blue robe flows and ripples as if pushed by an invisible tide.
Silk Current (12 def, 0 armour)
Light source
brass lantern of health
Infused by nature
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Maximum life: +48.00
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 of health
In off hand
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 9-11 power, 20.5 block)
Requires:
- Shield usage training
- Strength 11

7.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

When used to attack (with talents):
Base power: 9.0 - 10.8
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Block value: +20
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Fatigue: +8%
Talent granted: +1 Block


Handheld deflection devices.
iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 9-11 power, 20.5 block)
Cloak
enveloping linen cloak of protection (6 def, 0 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +6 (+3 eff.)
Physical save: +6 (+3 eff.)
Spell save: +6 (+6 eff.)
Mental save: +6 (+6 eff.)


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
enveloping linen cloak of protection (6 def, 0 armour)
In main hand
iron longsword of massacre (18-24 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longsword ; tier 1

Base power: 17.5 - 24.5
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, long, and deadly.
iron longsword of massacre (18-24 power, 2 apr)

Inventory

Newly picked up
copper amulet
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 1



Amulets make your neck look great!
copper amulet
Newly picked up
ranger's cured leather sling
Requires:
- Dexterity 16
- Talent Shoot

Crafted by a master
4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / sling ; tier 2

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +8
When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +2 Dex


Slings are used to hurl stones or metal shots at your foes.
ranger's cured leather sling
Tooth of the Mouth (dig speed 12 turns)
Powered by unknown forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / digger ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour penetration: +15
Damage when hit (Melee): 10 draining blight
Changes damage: +5% blight
When carried:
Talent granted: +1 Dig


A huge tooth taken from the Mouth, in the Deep Bellow.
Tooth of the Mouth (dig speed 12 turns)
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)

Achievements

Squadmate (Roguelike) Escaped from Reknor alive with your squadmate Norgan.
By Bastlor the Dwarf Bulwark level 5
19th Voratun 122nd year of Ascendancy at 01:04 see stats

Log

Bastlor feels pain again.
Crippling Poison from Enthralled slave hits Bastlor for 29 nature damage.
Burning from Slaver hits Bastlor for 14 fire damage.

Bastlor fails to use Block.
Enthralled slave hits Bastlor for 15 physical, 6 nature (21 total damage).
Melee retaliation hits Enthralled slave for (11 flat reduction), 0 cold (0 total damage).
Slaver casts Flame.
Slaver's spell attains critical power!
Bastlor stops regenerating health quickly.
Crippling Poison from Enthralled slave hits Bastlor for 34 nature damage.
Slaver's Flame hits Bastlor for 73 fire damage.
Burning from Slaver hits Bastlor for 45 fire damage.
Enthralled slave uses Clinch.
Bastlor is grappled!
Enthralled slave is engaged in a grapple!
Enthralled slave hits Bastlor for 13 physical damage.
Melee retaliation hits Enthralled slave for (11 flat reduction), 0 cold (0 total damage).

Bastlor uses Repulsion.
Enthralled slave is dazed!
Slaver resists the knockback!
Enthralled slave resists the knockback!
Bastlor hits Enthralled slave for (12 flat reduction), 15 physical (15 total damage).
Bastlor hits Slaver for 21 physical damage.
Bastlor hits Enthralled slave for (12 flat reduction), 12 physical (12 total damage).
Grappling hits Bastlor for 2 physical damage.
Slaver casts Manathrust.
Slaver hits Bastlor for 72 arcane damage.
Bastlor the level 7 dwarf bulwark was blasted to death by a slaver on level 1 of Ring of Blood.