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Nyko the level 5 Cornac Demonologist by Player_Emerald

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

Official Expansion!

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

Features:

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

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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 Adventure
      SexMale
      RaceCornac
      ClassDemonologist
      Level / Exp5 / 78%
      Sizemedium
      Lifes / Deaths
      Killed by Nyko at level 5 on the 77th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 12:21
      Killed by sick giant venus flytrap at level 5 on the 78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 01:46
      Killed by Nyko at level 5 on the 78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 01:50
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      Primary Stats

      Strength15 (base 15)
      Dexterity10 (base 10)
      Constitution12 (base 12)
      Magic30 (base 27)
      Willpower10 (base 10)
      Cunning10 (base 10)

      Resources

      Life175/175
      Stamina112/112
      Vim234/234
      Healing Factor1.0191526171258
      Regeneration0.25478815428145

      Speed

      Mental0%
      Attack0%
      Movement-58.333333333333%
      Spell0%
      Global+100%

      Vision

      Sight10
      Lite3

      Offense: Mainhand

      Damage22
      Accuracy25
      Crit Chance2%
      APR2
      Speed1.00

      Offense: Offhand

      Damage
      Accuracy
      Crit Chance
      APR
      Speed

      Offense: Spell

      Spellpower26
      Crit Chance4%
      Speed1

      Offense: Mind

      Mindpower11
      Crit Chance1%
      Speed1

      Offense: Damage Bonus

      Temporal+8%
      Darkness+8%

      Offense: Damage Penetration

      Temporal+10%
      Darkness+10%

      Defense: Base

      Armour (hardiness)13.118138619369 (56.297102139833%)
      Defense2
      Ranged Defense2
      Fatigue17
      Physical Save14
      Spell Save14
      Mental Save7

      Defense: Resistances

      Darkness+ 8%( 70%)
      Temporal+ 8%( 70%)
      All 0%( 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

      Corruption / Demonic pact1.30
      • Effective talent level: 1.3
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 9.4
        Vim cost: 5
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 8
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Strike a blow with your weapon for 111% blight damage.
        If the attack hits a demonic seed tries to take hold inside your foe and you follow up with a shield strike dealing 101% damage and dazing your target for 2 turns.

        The seed requires a powerful host to nourish it and can only take hold in creatures that are worth experience and that are not summoned demons.
        The chance for the seed to take hold is based on the creatures rank:
        Normal: 5%
        Elite: 20%
        Rare or Unique: 50%
        Boss: 100%
        When the host dies the seed fills with the vim of the dying creature and turns into a specific demon seed that can be used to summon that demon.
        If you already have a seed of the same time in your inventory or equipment it will instead increase its level if the host was of higher level than the seed and the demon inside will regenerate 12% health and resurrect if it was dead.

        Higher talent levels allow for more powerful demon types.
        Implanting a seed into unique demons, if successful, will always try to grant a seed of that type, if available.
        Demon Seed
      		1/5
      • Effective talent level: 2.6
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 25
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Your knowledge of demonic forces grows, allowing you to bind more seeds to you and to summon demons.
        You channel your arcane corruption through a demon seed to temporarily summon the corresponding demon for 8 turns.
        Summoned demons can regen their life and resummoning them keeps the life they had when they were last used.
        If the demon dies it will not be available for summoning anymore until resurrected.
        This spell can summon demons from any seeds available in either your equipment or inventory.

        As you learn to bind more easily you can also use more seeds:
        At level 2 it lets you bind a seed to your first ring.
        At level 3 it lets you bind a seed to your shield.
        At level 4 it lets you bind a seed to your second ring.
        At level 5 it lets you bind a seed to your main body armour.
        Bind Demon
      		2/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 15
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 9
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Teleports you randomly within a small range of up to 5 grids with 9 precision.
        In the spot you left you will summon a random demon from your seeds for 1 turns.
        If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will fizzle.
        This spell requires an unsummoned, alive, demon seed equiped in a worn equipment to work.
        The range will increase with your Spellpower.
        Twisted Portal
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Is: a spell
        Description: You use your demon seeds to the fullest of their potential.
        Each time you enter combat you automatically summon a random demon from your worn seeds for 1 turns. Demons are only summoned if their life is over 70% and only if not other summoned demon is from Doom Concordat.
        Each time you kill a creature a random worn demon seed with less than 100% life will be healed for 0% life and resurrected if it was dead and the target was an elite or more.
        In addition you feed of the arrival, departure or death of your demons, each time healing yourself for 20 life.
        The healing is based on your Spellpower.
        Doom Concordat
      		0/5
      Technique / Combat veteran1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate stamina faster (+0.0 stamina/turn).
        Quick Recovery
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate life faster (+1.4 life/turn).
        Fast Metabolism
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Rigorous training allows you to be more resistant to some spell effects (+0 spell save).
        Spell Shield
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You revel in the death of your foes, regaining 0.0 stamina with each death you cause.
        Unending Frenzy
      		0/5
      Corruption / Shadowflame1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 12
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Turn into a wraith, allowing you to walk through walls and removing the need to breath for 0 turns.
        Also increases your defense and armour by 0 and 0, respectively.
        If you are still in a wall when the effect ends you will randomly teleport.
        Wraithform
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 15
        Range: 6
        Cooldown: 8
        Travel Speed: 400% of base
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Conjures up a bolt of shadowflame that moves toward the target and explodes into a flash of darkness and fire, doing 5.10 fire damage and 5.51 darkness damage in a radius of 0.
        The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
        Darkfire
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain vim cost: 90
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Call upon the essence of the supreme demon overlord Urh'Rok to turn into a demon.
        While in demon form, you gain 1% fire resistance, 1% darkness resistance, and your global speed is increased by 0%.
        The flames of the Fearscape will heal you while in demon form.
        The resistances and heal will increase with your Spellpower.
        Flame of Urh'Rok
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain vim cost: 5
        Drains vim: 5
        Range: 5
        Cooldown: 60
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Summon a part of the Fearscape to intersect with the current level.
        You and your target are taken to the Fearscape, trapped there until you end the spell or until your target dies.
        While inside, a constant aura of flames will burn both of you for 5.08 fire damage (demons are healed instead) each turn.
        When the spell ends, only you and the target (if still alive) plus any loose objects are taken back to your home plane; all summons are left in the Fearscape.
        This powerful spell drains 5 vim per turn initially, increasing by +1 for each turn it has been active, and ends when your vim is depleted.
        It has no effect if cast from within the Fearscape.
        The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
        Fearscape
      		0/5
      Corruption / Infernal combat1.30
      • Effective talent level: 6.5
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 9.4
        Vim cost: 5
        Range: 6
        Cooldown: 8
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Tendrils of flame fire from your hands in a narrow cone. Any foes caught inside will be pulled in towards you and have its movement speed reduced by 40% for 4 turns.
        Each tendril will leave a trail of fire in its path dealing 28.94 fire damage for 4 turns.
        The damage increases with spellpower.
        Flame Leash
      		5/5
      • Effective talent level: 2.6
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 17.5
        Vim cost: 20
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Imbue your weapon with fire for 5 turns. During this time all your melee hits will trigger a ball of fire of radius 1 dealing 32.87 fire damage.
        This effect can only happen once per turn.
        The damage increases with spellpower.
        Demon Blade
      		2/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 11.7
        Vim cost: 15
        Range: 7
        Cooldown: 5
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Using demonic forces you create a link of pain from a source creature to a victim for 1 turns.
        Each time the source creature takes damage the victim takes 15% of the damage.
        If the victim dies from the effect you gain a burst of energy, reducing all remaining cooldowns by 1.
        Link of Pain
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 17.5
        Vim cost: 12
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 14
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Demon horns temporarily grow on your shield as you bash a foe with it for 100% damage.
        If the attack hits the creature is impaled by the horns, causing it to bleed black blood for 50% of the damage done as darkness over 5 turns.
        Any time you damage this foe in melee while it bleeds you get healed for 15 (this can only happen once per turn).
        The healing power increases with your spellpower.
        Demon Horns
      		0/5
      Corruption / Doom shield1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 20
        Sustain vim cost: 5
        Drains vim: 3
        Range: 10
        Cooldown: 15
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: You infuse your shield with the energies of Urh'Rok, bringing about a magical shield that heals you for the first points of all damage you receive (based on your shield's block value) over 3 turns. This effect stacks.
        Amount is 5 + -1% of your shield block value (currently 5).
        At level 3 if a damage dealt is at least twice as high you have -8% chance to also remove a physical detrimental effect. This effect can only happen once per turn.
        This spell disabled automatically on rest or run.
        Activating the shield takes no time but de-activating it does.
        The damage increases with spellpower.
        Osmosis Shield
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 18
        Sustain vim cost: 18
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Taking example from Mal'Rok, the demon's homeworld you harden yourself.
        Increases total armour by -17% + 10 and spellpower by 13.
        Hardened Core
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 17.5
        Vim cost: 12
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 9
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: You spin around madly with your shield, bashing all those around you for 120% shield damage as darkness, confusing your foes for 0 turns.
        At level 4 you also automatically block at the end.
        Demonic Madness
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Is: a spell
        Description: Your shield is infused with a powerful blight. Anytime you block and apply a counterstrike effect the target is also afflicted by a curse of impotence.
        Cursed creatures have all their damage decreased by 2% for 5 turns.
        The effects will improve with your Spellpower.
        Blighted Shield
      		0/5
      Technique / Shield offense1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 9.4
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 6
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Shield (100% of a turn)
        Description: Hits the target with two shield strikes, doing 100% and 120% shield damage. If it hits a second time, it stuns the target for 1 turns.
        The stun chance increases with your Accuracy and your Strength.
        Shield Pummel
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        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 0.
        Increases the crit chance of counterstrikes by 10%. This increase scales with your Dexterity.
        Riposte
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 14
        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: 18.7
        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 techniques1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 25.7
        Range: 3
        Cooldown: 46
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: Rush toward a target enemy with incredible speed and perform a melee attack for 120% weapon damage that can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
        You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
        Rush
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain stamina cost: 30
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 30
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
        Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 4%.
        The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
        Precise Strikes
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Stamina cost: 29.3
        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: 29.3
        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

      Generic Talents

      Corruption / Black-magic1.30
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain vim cost: 15
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 10
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Your actions foreshadow a bleak outcome for your foes.
        Each time you deal darkness, fire, blight or acid damage you curse your foe with an effect that stacks up to 0 times (this can happen only once per creature per turn).
        The vim you get for killing the creature is increased by 100% for every stack of Bleak Outcome.
        The vim's worth of a creature depends on your Willpower.
        Bleak Outcome
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Is: a spell
        Description: For each stack of Bleak Outcome up to 0 the afflicted creatures are weakened, reducing their resistances by 2%.
        Weakened Soul
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 8
        Range: 7
        Cooldown: 15
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: The future looks grim indeed... for your foes.
        You can target a creature affected by Bleak Outcome to consume up to 0 stacks, dealing 5.38 darkness damage to it for every stack and increasing your Spellpower by 4 per stacks for 6 turns.
        While powered-up you can not apply new Bleak Outcome stacks.
        Damage is based on your Spellpower.
        Grim Future
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 10
        Range: 7
        Cooldown: 15
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: By gorging yourself on up to 0 stacks of Bleak Outcome from a creature, you turn into an Ominous Shadow for one turn per stack.
        While transformed you are invisible (power 2), convert 100% of all damage done to darkness and gain darkness resistance penetration and damage increase equal to your highest.
        While transformed you can not apply new Bleak Outcome stacks.
        Ominous Shadow
      		0/5
      Cunning / Survival1.00
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
        This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
        Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
        The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
        Heightened Senses
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
        In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
        Device Mastery
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 20
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
        Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
        The radius will increase with your Cunning.
        Track
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
        Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
        Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
        You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
        The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
        Danger Sense
      		0/5
      Corruption / Torment1.30
      • Effective talent level: 6.5
        Use mode: Passive
        Is: a spell
        Description: You set your mind toward a single goal: the destruction of all your foes.
        Increases the maximum amount of vim you can store by 118.
        Willful Tormenter
      		5/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Activated
        Vim cost: 12
        Range: 10
        Cooldown: 16
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: Reach out and touch the blood and health of your foes. Any creatures caught in the radius 2 ball will be unable to heal above their current life value (at the time of the casting) for 0 turns.
        Blood Lock
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain vim cost: 18
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 20
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: When you kill a creature, the remainder of the damage done will not be lost. Instead, 27% of it will splash in a radius 2 as blight damage.
        The splash damage will increase with your Spellpower.
        Overkill
      		0/5
      • Effective talent level: 0.0
        Use mode: Sustained
        Sustain vim cost: 22
        Range: melee/personal
        Cooldown: 20
        Travel Speed: instantaneous
        Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
        Is: a spell
        Description: When you are dealt a blow that reduces your life by at least 19%, you have a 24% chance to reduce the remaining cooldown of all your talents by 1.
        Temporary life from Sanguine Infusion will not count against the damage threshold.
        The chance will increase with your Spellpower.
        Blood Vengeance
      		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: 2.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 4, Armour hardiness by 26%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 6% 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
      		2/5
      • 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: 2.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 27.
        Combat Accuracy
      		2/5
      • Effective talent level: 1.0
        Use mode: Passive
        Description: Increases weapon damage by 30% 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

      You do not remember much of your life before you were on this burning continent, floating in the void between worlds. You have been helping demons, happily participating in their experiments to shatter some sort of shield preventing them from taking their righteous revenge on Eyal.

      You are being taken by your handler to the torture-pits to help them figure out how to cause the most pain to those on Eyal, when you hear a roaring above you; you look up and see a burning meteor, flying closer, and the demons' spells failing to divert its course! It lands near you, knocking you off your feet with its shockwave and killing your handler instantly.

      As you recover, and your platform of searing earth splits from the main continent, your old memories flood your mind and you come to your senses - the demons are out to destroy your home! You must escape... but not without destroying the crystal they've used to keep track of you.

      * You have destroyed the controlling crystal. The demons can no track you down anymore.
      * You have destroyed the Planar Controller. Flee now!
      Ashes in the Wind      		done
      You failed to protect the repented thief from death by sick giant venus flytrap.
      Escort: repented thief (level 2 of Heart of the Gloom)      		failed
      Explore the caves below the ruins of Kor'Pul and the Trollmire in search of treasure and glory!

      * You must explore the Trollmire and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
      * You must explore the ruins of Kor'Pul and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
      Of trolls and damp caves      		active

      Equipment

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

      Powered by       arcane forces
      Crafted by       a master
      3.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

      When wielded/worn:
      Armour:       +3
      Fatigue:       -3%
      Maximum encumbrance:       +20
      Physical save:       +5 (+5 eff.)
      Movement speed:       +25%


      Heavy boots, with metal strips at the toes, heels and other vulnerable parts, to better protect the wearer's feet from harm.
      traveler's pair of iron boots of speed (0 def, 3 armour)
      Main armor
      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)
      On hands
      Crystle's Astral Bindings (0 def, 0 armour)
      Powered by       arcane forces
      Crafted by       a master
      1.00 Encumbrance.

      [Unique]
      Type: armor / hands ; tier 2

      When wielded/worn:
      Changes stats:       +3 Mag
      Changes resistances:       +8% darkness / +8% temporal
      Changes resistances penetration:       +10% darkness / +10% temporal
      Changes damage:       +8% darkness / +8% temporal
      N.Energy each turn:       +0.20
      Spellpower on spell critical (stacks up to 3 times):       +4
      Spellpower:       +2 (+1 eff.)
      Spell crit. chance:       +3%
      Learn an unarmed attack talent or enable 'Always show glove combat' to see combat stats.
      Talent on hit(spell): Dust to Dust (10% chance level 2).


      Said to have belonged to a lost Anorithil, stars are reflected in the myriad surfaces of these otherworldly bindings.
      Crystle's Astral Bindings (0 def, 0 armour)
      In off hand
      iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 10-11 power, 19 block)
      Requires:
      - Shield usage training
      - Strength 11

      7.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: armor / shield ; tier 1

      When used to attack (with talents):
      Base power: 9.5 - 11.4
      Uses stat: 100% Str
      Damage type:       Physical
      Accuracy bonus:       +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
      Crit. chance:       +2.5%
      Block value:       +19
      When wielded/worn:
      Armour:       +2
      Fatigue:       +8%
      Talent granted:       +1 Block


      Handheld deflection devices.
      iron shield (0 def, 2 armour, 10-11 power, 19 block)
      In main hand
      iron longsword (13-18 power, 2 apr)
      Requires:
      - Strength 11

      3.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: weapon / longsword ; tier 1

      Base power: 13.0 - 18.2
      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%
      When wielded/worn:
      Talent granted:       +1 Flame Bolts


      Sharp, long, and deadly.
      iron longsword (13-18 power, 2 apr)
      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

      Inventory

      Tirakai's Maul (32-42 power, 6 apr)
      Powered by       arcane forces
      5.00 Encumbrance.

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

      Base power: 32.0 - 41.6
      Uses stats: 10% Mag, 120% Str
      Damage type:       Physical
      Mastery:       Weapons Mastery
      Accuracy bonus:       +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
      Armour Penetration:       +6
      Crit. chance:       +8.0%
      Attack speed:       100%
      When wielded/worn:
      No gem
      It can be used to imbue the hammer with a gem of your choice

      Activation costs 10 power out of 10/10.

      This massive hammer is formed from a thick mass of strange crystalline growths. In the side of the hammer itself you see an empty slot; it looks like a gem of your own could easily fit inside it.
      Tirakai's Maul (32-42 power, 6 apr)
      This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
      balanced iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
      Requires:
      - Dexterity 11

      Crafted by       a master
      1.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

      Base power: 10.0 - 13.0
      Uses stats: 50% Str, 50% Dex
      Damage type:       Physical
      Accuracy bonus:       +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
      Armour Penetration:       +5
      Crit. chance:       +4.0%
      Attack speed:       100%
      When wielded/worn:
      Accuracy:       +6 (+3 eff.)
      Defense:       +6 (+6 eff.)
      Disarm immunity:       +20%


      Sharp, short and deadly.
      balanced iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
      This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
      gifted mossy mindstar (3-3 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
      Requires:
      - Willpower 11

      Infused by       nature
      3.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

      Base power: 3.0 - 3.3
      Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
      Damage type:       Nature
      Mastery:       Psiblades
      Accuracy bonus:       +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
      Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
      Armour Penetration:       +12
      Crit. chance:       +2.5%
      Attack speed:       100%
      When wielded/worn:
      Talent granted:       +1 Attune Mindstar
      Mindpower:       +4 (+4 eff.)
      Mental crit. chance:       +1%


      Mindstars are natural products. Natural gems covered in living matter, they are used to focus the mental powers of all nature defenders and psionics.
      Using mindstars in the offhand does not incur the normal offhand damage penalty.
      gifted mossy mindstar (3-3 power, 12 apr, nature damage)
      This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
      steady elm longbow
      Requires:
      - Dexterity 11
      - Talent Shoot

      Crafted by       a master
      4.00 Encumbrance.

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

      Accuracy bonus:       +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
      Attack speed:       100%
      Firing range:       +6
      When wielded/worn:
      Accuracy:       +8 (+4 eff.)
      Physical crit. chance:       +2.0%


      Longbows are used to shoot arrows at your foes.
      steady elm longbow
      This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
      rough leather armour of temporal resistance (3 def, 2 armour)
      Requires:
      - Strength 10

      Powered by       arcane forces
      9.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: armor / light ; tier 1

      When wielded/worn:
      Armour:       +2
      Defense:       +3 (+3 eff.)
      Fatigue:       +6%
      Changes resistances:       +16% temporal


      A suit of armour made of leather.
      rough leather armour of temporal resistance (3 def, 2 armour)
      3 citrine
      0.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

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


      Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
      3 citrine
      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
      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
      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)
      This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
      elm totem of thorny skin [power 15] (20 cooldown)
      Infused by       nature
      2.00 Encumbrance.

      Type: charm / totem ; tier 1

      It can be used to harden the skin for 7 turns increasing armour by 15 and armour hardiness by 30%

      Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 20 turns.

      Natural totems are made by powerful wilders to store nature power.
      elm totem of thorny skin [power 15] (20 cooldown)
      demon seed [wretchling] (3, finger)
      Powered by       arcane forces
      0.00 Encumbrance.

      [Unique]
      Type: seed / demon ; tier 1

      When attach to an other item:
      Vim when hit:       +2.00
      Demon status: alive (100% life).


      The seed of a demon.
      demon seed [wretchling] (3, finger)
      demon seed [wretchling] (4, mainhand)
      Powered by       arcane forces
      0.00 Encumbrance.

      [Unique]
      Type: seed / demon ; tier 1

      When attach to an other item:
      Talent granted:       +1 Corrosive Slashes
      Demon status: alive (100% life).


      The seed of a demon.
      demon seed [wretchling] (4, mainhand)
      demon seed [Planar Controller] (7, offhand)
      Powered by       arcane forces
      0.00 Encumbrance.

      [Unique]
      Type: seed / demon ; tier 1

      When attach to an other item:
      Talent granted:       +3 Fearscape Shift
      Demon status: alive (100% life).


      The seed of a demon.
      demon seed [Planar Controller] (7, offhand)

      Achievements

      Hell has no fury like a demon scorned! Escaped the Searing Halls.
      By Nyko the Cornac Demonologist level 5
      78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 00:20       see stats
      Utterly Destroyed Died on the Eidolon Plane.
      By Nyko the Cornac Demonologist level 5
      78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 01:50       see stats

      Log


      Agony from Deformed poison ivy hits       Nyko for 7 mind damage.

      Agony from Deformed poison ivy hits       Nyko for 9 mind damage.

      Nyko is no longer writhing in agony.

      Sick giant venus flytrap uses       Blindside.
      Sick giant venus flytrap hits Nyko for 11 physical damage.

      Nyko hits Sick giant venus flytrap for 26 physical damage.
      Sick giant venus flytrap uses       Blindside.
      Sick giant venus flytrap hits Nyko for 9 physical damage.

      Sick giant venus flytrap uses       Spit Poison.
      Nyko is poisoned!
      Sick giant venus flytrap hits Nyko for 17 nature damage.

      Poison from Sick giant venus flytrap hits       Nyko for 17 nature damage.
      Sick giant venus flytrap hits Nyko for 9 physical damage.
      Nyko the level 5 cornac demonologist was crushed to death by a sick giant venus flytrap on level 2 of Heart of the Gloom.
      You have 1 life(s) left.
      You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
      From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
      Sick giant venus flytrap killed Nyko!
      Saving game...
      Ran for 2 turns (stop reason: interesting character).

      Saving done.
      Personal New Achievement: Utterly Destroyed!