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Shard the level 1 Shalore Shadowblade by Zeph

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.2.5
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexMale
RaceShalore
ClassShadowblade
Level / Exp1 / 12%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by skeleton warrior at level 1 on the 74th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 11:13
0 / 1

Primary Stats

Strength10 (base 12)
Dexterity15 (base 14)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic15 (base 13)
Willpower13 (base 10)
Cunning14 (base 13)

Resources

Life100/100
Mana115/115
Stamina108/108
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement-66.666666666667%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage14
Accuracy20
Crit Chance9%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage10
Accuracy20
Crit Chance9%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower15
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower14.7
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)2 (30%)
Defense2.75
Ranged Defense2.75
Fatigue6
Physical Save7
Spell Save9.8
Mental Save9.45

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: 1 turn
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport randomly in a range of 10.
Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
Rune: Phase Door
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: instant
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 100 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 25
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: 1 turn
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 620% over 10 turns and instantly restoring 31 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
Rune: Manasurge

Class Talents

Cunning / Shadow magic1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Mana cost: 0
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Channel raw magical energy into your melee attacks; each blow you land will do an additional 6.96 darkness damage and cost 2.00 mana.
    The damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Shadow Combat
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your preparations give you greater magical capabilities. You gain a bonus to Spellpower equal to 11% of your Cunning.
    Shadow Cunning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 40
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: You draw energy from the depths of the shadows.
    While sustained, you regenerate 0.00 mana per turn, and your physical and spell attack speed increases by 0.0%.
    Shadow Feed
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 31.8
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Step through the shadows to your target, dazing it for 2 turns and hitting it with all your weapons for 120% darkness weapon damage.
    Dazed targets are significantly impaired, but any damage will free them.
    To Shadowstep, you need to be able to see the target.
    Shadowstep
0/5
Technique / Combat techniques1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 23.3
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Rushes toward your target with incredible speed. If the target is reached, you get a free attack doing 120% weapon damage.
    If the attack hits, the target is dazed for 3 turns.
    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: 1 turn
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 2%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +14 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next 0 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 1% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
0/5
Technique / Dual techniques1.20
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15.9
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Attack with your offhand weapon for 109% damage. If the attack hits, the target is stunned for 3 turns, and you hit it with your mainhand weapon doing 109% damage.
    The stun chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Dual Strike
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15.9
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Lashes out with a flurry of blows, hitting your target three times with each weapon for 40% damage.
    Flurry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 31.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Attack your foes in a frontal arc, doing 100% weapon damage and making your targets bleed for 8 each turn for 0 turns.
    The bleed damage increases with your main hand weapon damage and Dexterity.
    Sweep
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 31.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Spin around, damaging all targets around you with both weapons for 120% weapon damage.
    Whirlwind
0/5
Technique / Dual weapons1.20
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the damage of your off-hand weapon to 67%.
    Dual Weapon Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to block incoming blows with your weapons. When dual wielding, your defense is increased by 4.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity. At talent levels higher than 5, you may parry melee attacks with your offhand weapon (except mindstars).
    (You currently have a 0% chance to deflect up to 0 damage (0% of your offhand weapon damage) from approximately 0.2 melee attacks (based on your Cunning) each turn.)
    Dual Weapon Defense
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: You have learned to hit the right spot, increasing your armor penetration by 4 when dual wielding.
    The Armour penetration bonus will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precision
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: When dual wielding, increases attack speed by 0%, but drains stamina quickly (-6 stamina/turn).
    Momentum
0/5
Spell / Phantasm1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Creates a globe of pure light within a radius of 2 that illuminates the area.
    At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.
    At level 4, it also deals 6.54 light damage.
    Illuminate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster's image blurs, granting a 0 bonus to Defense.
    The bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blur Sight
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster is surrounded by a phantasmal shield. If hit in melee, the shield will deal 4 light damage to the attacker.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phantasmal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 150
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster fades from sight, granting 1 bonus to invisibility.
    Beware -- you should take off your light, or you will still be easily spotted.
    As you become invisible, you fade out of phase with reality. All your damage is reduced by 70%.
    This powerful spell constantly drains your mana (2 per turn) while active.
    The invisibility bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Invisibility
0/5
Cunning / Dirty fighting1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: You hit your target doing 45% damage, trying to stun it instead of damaging it. If your attack hits, the target is stunned for 4 turns.
    Stun chance increase with your Accuracy.
    If you fail to stun the target (or if it shrugs off the effect), you quickly recover; the use of the skill does not take a turn.
    Dirty Fighting
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your quick wit gives you a big advantage against stunned targets; all your hits will have a 0% greater chance of being critical.
    Also, your melee critical strikes have -1% chance to stun the target for 3 turns.
    Backstab
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15.9
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Using a series of tricks and maneuvers, you switch places with your target.
    Switching places will confuse your foes, granting you Evasion (50%) for 0 turns.
    While switching places, your weapon(s) will connect with the target; this will not do weapon damage, but on hit effects of the weapons can trigger.
    Switch Place
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 21.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: You hit your target, doing 100% damage. If your attack connects, the target is crippled for 0 turns, losing 22% melee, spellcasting and mind speed.
    The chance to land the status improves with Accuracy, and the status power improves with Cunning.
    Cripple
0/5
Cunning / Lethality1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to find and hit weak spots. All your strikes have a 2.78% greater chance to be critical hits, and your critical hits do 9.1% more damage.
    Also, when using knives, you now use your Cunning instead of your Strength for bonus damage.
    Lethality
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15.9
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: You hit your target, doing 80% damage. If your attack hits, you gain 1 armour penetration for 0 turns.
    The APR will increase with your Cunning.
    Deadly Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 60
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: For 3 turns, you put all your will into your blows, adding 12 physical power to each strike.
    The effect will improve with your Cunning and Willpower stats.
    Willful Combat
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 53
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 50
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Your quick wits allow you to reset the cooldown of up to 2 of your combat talents (cunning or technique) of tier 0 or less.
    Snap
0/5

Generic Talents

Race / Shalore1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 46
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: Call upon the grace of the Eternals to increase your general speed by 13% for 8 turns.
    The speed bonus will increase with your Dexterity or Magic (whichever is higher).
    Grace of the Eternals
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Reality bends slightly in the presence of a Shaloren, due to their inherent magical nature.
    Increases critical chance by 0% and critical strike power by 0%.
    Magic of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 52
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: As the only immortal race of Eyal, Shaloren have learnt, over the long years, to use their innate inner magic to protect themselves.
    11% chance to become invisible (power 9) for 5 turns, when hit by a blow doing at least 10% of their total life.
    Secrets of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 54
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: The world grows old as you stand through the ages. To you, time is different.
    Reduces the time remaining on detrimental effects by 2, cooling down talents by 1, and increases the time remaining on beneficial effects by 1 (up to 2 times the current duration).
    Timeless
0/5
Cunning / Survival1.10
  • 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 1 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 allows you to detect traps around you (0 detection 'power').
    At level 3, you learn to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power').
    The trap detection and disarming ability improves with your Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allows you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns by 0%.
    Charm Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You look at your surroundings with more intensity than most people, allowing you to see stealthed or invisible creatures.
    Increases stealth detection by 5 and invisibility detection by 5.
    The detection power increases with your Cunning.
    Piercing Sight
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Description: Your quick wit allows you to see attacks before they land, granting you a 6% chance to completely evade them and granting you 0 defense for 6 turns.
    Duration increases with Willpower, and chance to evade and defense with Cunning and Dexterity.
    Evasion
0/5
Spell / Conveyance1.00
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 11.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a small range of up to 7 grids.
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 4). If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will fizzle.
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phase Door
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 22.4
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a large range (115), with a minimum range of 15.
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 21).
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Teleport
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 44.8
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 35
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: This intricate spell erects a space distortion around the caster that is linked to another distortion, placed around a target.
    Any time the caster should take damage, there is a 40% chance that it will instead be warped by the shield and hit the designated target.
    Once the maximum damage (63) is absorbed, the time runs out (10 turns), or the target dies, the shield will crumble.
    The max damage the shield can absorb will increase with your Spellpower.
    Displacement Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 200
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you hit a solid surface, this spell tears down the laws of probability to make you instantly appear on the other side.
    Teleports up to 4 grids.
    After a successful probability travel you are left unstable, unable to do it again for a number of turns equal to 450% of the number of tiles you blinked through.
    The range will improve with your Spellpower.
    Probability Travel
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.20
  • 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: 0.0
    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 chance to be critically hit 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.
    Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 13.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 12, and increases weapon damage by 24% when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
1/5

Effects

detrimental effect
There is no gravity here; you float in the air. Movement is three times as slow, and any melee or archery blows have a chance to knockback. Maximum encumbrance is greatly increased.
Zero Gravity

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a regenade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active

Equipment

Main armor
rough leather armour (1 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +1
Fatigue: +6%


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (1 def, 2 armour)
In off hand
iron dagger (11-14.3 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

1.00 Encumbrance.
0.80 Ego Multiplier.

Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

Base power: 11.0 - 14.3
Uses stats: 45% Str, 45% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Dagger Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.5% APR / acc
Armour Penetration: +5
Physical crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (11-14.3 power, 5 apr)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


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
In main hand
iron dagger (9-11.7 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

1.00 Encumbrance.
0.80 Ego Multiplier.

Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

Base power: 9.0 - 11.7
Uses stats: 45% Str, 45% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Dagger Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.5% APR / acc
Armour Penetration: +5
Physical crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (9-11.7 power, 5 apr)

Inventory

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), costing 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

Achievements

Log

Your shield crumbles under the damage!
The shield around Shard crumbles.
Shard is not stunned anymore.
Skeleton warrior hits Shard for (28 absorbed), 6 physical, 9 mind (15 total damage).

You collect a new ingredient: red crystal shard.
Shard hits Red crystal for 16 physical damage.
Shard killed Red crystal!
Shard resists the mind attack!
Talent Rune: Phase Door is ready to use.
Talent Phase Door is ready to use.
Talent Dual Strike is ready to use.
Skeleton warrior hits Shard for 30 physical, 4 mind (35 total damage).

Dirty Fighting is still on cooldown for 10 turns.
Shard uses Dual Strike.
Skeleton warrior is stunned!
Shard misses Skeleton warrior.
Shard hits Skeleton warrior for 12 physical, 7 darkness (19 total damage).
Shard resists the mind attack!
Skeleton warrior hits Shard for 9 physical, 2 mind (11 total damage).
Shard the level 1 shalore shadowblade was psyched to death by a skeleton warrior (yet again) on level 1 of Scintillating Caves.
You have no more lives left.
Shard deactivates Shadow Combat.
Shard slows down.
You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
Saving game...
Skeleton warrior killed Shard!
Saving done.