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!

Presentation overhaul.

1. GOLD#Options#LAST# - everything below is tunable from a "Modern Immersion" tab in the game's own Options dialog. Changes apply immediately and are remembered between sessions.

1. GOLD#Bloom#LAST# - a full-screen bloom pass so fire, magic, lava and glowing artifacts actually radiate light. Built as a real three-octave pyramid - bright pass, downsample, separable blur at each scale - in the addon's own framebuffers, which is both smoother and cheaper than gathering it in one pass over the whole screen. Replaces the main framebuffer shader; all original screen effects (low HP, drowning, solipsism, and the colorize/intensify tints) are preserved.

1. GOLD#Dynamic lighting#LAST# - your torch, anything else carrying a light, emissive terrain like lava, and every spell in the game now light the actual tiles, per pixel, instead of tinting the whole screen. A fireball lights the corridor as it flies, an explosion flashes the walls, a lightning bolt strobes them - and because the element is read from the effect itself rather than from the talent, it covers damage-over-time clouds, traps, and anything DLC or other addons add using the game's own effects. It runs as the map's default shader, so it reaches every tile, actor and object at once. The light modulates the artwork rather than being painted over it, so the shadows and highlights the tiles are drawn with survive - by default nothing is ever darker than the stock game, and lighting only ever adds. There is a knob for making the dark actually dark if you want it.

1. GOLD#Colour grading#LAST# - a second post-processing pass: film-style grading, halo-free edge sharpening, a soft vignette, subtle lens colour fringing toward the corners and fine animated grain. This is what makes the picture read as a modern render rather than a flat tile grid. The grain and the fringing scale themselves to your resolution, so they stay a lens effect instead of eating fine detail on a high-DPI screen.

1. GOLD#UI skin#LAST# - a flat, dark, modern interface skin, selectable as "Modern Immersion" under Interface Style in the game's own options. Dialog frames, buttons, list selectors, headings, textboxes and tooltips, with a gold accent on whatever is selected or focused. Everything it does not replace falls back to the stock Dark theme, so the two sit together deliberately. Takes effect on restart, like the stock interface options. The UI click sound is replaced too.

1. GOLD#Talent and spell audio#LAST# - casting makes a sound. The base game is silent here: eleven of its 1372 talents carry one. Twelve schools - fire, ice, lightning, earth, arcane, darkness, light, blight, nature, mind, temporal, physical - picked from the talent's own tree. Other creatures' casts are placed at their tile, so a caster winding up across the room is something you hear rather than something you read in the log.

1. GOLD#Footsteps#LAST# - surface-aware footstep audio. The sound is picked from the terrain you are standing on (grass, dirt, stone, wood, water, sand, snow, lava, slime), and volume and pitch scale with how fast you are moving.

1. GOLD#Item pickup#LAST# - picking something up off the floor makes a short, soft tick. The base game gives one of the most frequent actions in it a log line and no sound at all. Only your own pickups, and a pile of loot taken in one turn collapses into a single tick rather than a burst.

1. GOLD#Ambience#LAST# - the game's own nature/town beds (birds, wind, crickets) rebalanced up toward the other effects and pulled closer to the listener, so they're clearly audible instead of near-silent.

1. GOLD#Music crossfade#LAST# - music fades between tracks when it changes, instead of being cut off mid-phrase and snapped over. Layers a new zone shares with the old one keep playing untouched.

1. GOLD#Spell visuals#LAST# - travelling projectiles fly slower so you can follow the magic, and common impact/cast effects linger longer. Note: the slower projectile speed is the one part that lightly touches gameplay (it runs on the energy system); set proj_scale = 1 in hooks/features/config.lua to disable it while keeping everything else.

1. GOLD#Walk there, then do the thing#LAST# - right-clicking a staircase or exit gets a combined "Move to and change level" option, and a tile with an item on it gets "Move here and pick up item", both at the top of the context menu. Stock offers a bare "Move to" and hides its own "Change level" and "Pickup item" unless you are already standing on the tile, so today both mean walking there and then pressing a second key.

1. GOLD#Key bindings#LAST# - "talk on channel" moves from Spacebar to "/", and Spacebar becomes a second way to pick up whatever you're standing on (the stock "g" key still works too). A default, not a forced change - your own keybind customisations are never overwritten, and the game's own Keybindings dialog is still the one place to change or revert it.

1. GOLD#Mouse gestures#LAST# - right-click on the map is dual purpose in the stock game: a clean click opens the use menu, but a few pixels of drift during the click - completely ordinary for a mouse or trackpad - gets misread as an attempted gesture instead: a coloured trail flashes and the click silently does nothing. The stock game ships with no gestures bound, so for most players that misfire is the only thing the system ever does - it now stays fully asleep until you actually bind a gesture in the Keybindings dialog, at which point it works exactly as stock, and swipes also need to be more deliberate before they count as one.

1. GOLD#Zone ambience#LAST# - a continuous drift of mood-appropriate specks over the visible area: dust in caves, embers over lava, snow on frozen ground, fog in crypts, spores in swamps. The mood is picked from the zone, falling back to the level's own terrain so it covers DLC and other addons' zones too. Runs through the game's own weather system, and respects the game's "weather effects" option.

1. GOLD#Combat feedback#LAST# - hits, crits and kills get a screen shake, a brief screen flash and an impact stinger, with damage you take reading heavier and redder than damage you deal. Crits and kills set off an expanding ring that warps the screen behind it - the game's own distortion effect, centred on the tile the blow landed on - and anything that dies leaves a dark mark on the floor that fades over a few seconds. Combat sounds are positioned in 3D, so a hit to your left is heard on your left and a distant fight is quieter than one in your face; levelling up gets its own flash and fanfare. A low-HP heartbeat starts once your health crosses the same threshold that reddens the screen. All generated audio, all tunable/disableable in hooks/features/config.lua's JUICE table.

1. GOLD#Waking up refreshed#LAST# - finishing a full rest is met with a soft warm glow, a quiet chime and a gentle drift of rising light motes - a subtle "you're rested" moment. Only fires on an uninterrupted, fully-rested finish, never when rest is broken by an enemy or damage. Part of the JUICE table (wake_enable).

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!

Replaces default interface styles with cleaner versions to enhance readability.

First release focuses primarily on replacing everything related to the default interface styles in the base game.

Future releases will enhance individual styles and take care of minor tweaks.

Content consists of only graphic assets to try and have the highest possible compatibility with future patches.

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!