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Abad-Shai
Shadowspawn Sun Elf Warlock of the Mask
Level XV
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Sun Elf
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Fey Senses II] (Passive/Active, Reserve ?): Elves possess heightened perception, blending their superior physical senses with an innate connection to magic. You can see in the dark, hear acutely, and use mana to detect magic around you if you dedicate mana to this ability. At rank II, your physical and magical senses are more honed and precise.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Elven Grace]: Elven heritage gifts you with heightened reflexes, allowing you to react faster than most mortals. This talent provides a boost to speed, agility, and reaction time, particularly in combat and hazardous situations, you are sure-footed in all manner of environments, and your footsteps are nearly silent.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Scion of Lost Light]: The remnants of a forgotten brilliance burn within you, a beacon of hope and defiance against the encroaching darkness. You and all allies within your aura gain increased resistance to shadow and necrotic damage, and your fire and light spells are infused with the Lost Light of Reial.</li>
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The Mask
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Illusion Magic] (Passive): You have the ability to weave subtle deceptions, clouding perception and bending reality to your will. You can learn spells that create illusions, deceive the senses, and manipulate perceptions of the world around you.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Mask of Many Faces] (2nd Circle, Active, Reserve ??): Due to being born under the sign of the Mask, you can dedicate a portion of your mana to change subtle elements of your appearance.</li>
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Shadowspawn
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Dark One''s Shadow] (Passive): As an inheritor of the Dark One’s essence, you are immortal and do not age past your prime. You also require less food, water, and air to survive, but you bear the marks of corruption upon your body.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Devour the Weak] (Passive): Damage you inflict heals a small amount of your life force. Your magic is particularly potent against beings that share your dark heritage.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Embrace of the Abyss] (Passive): Darkness and shadows strengthen you. When in darkness or shadow, you gain an increase to your physical abilities equal to one rank of any physical enhancement, and existing enhancements grow one rank stronger. You also gain the become difficult to detect with both physical and magical senses as long as you’re in darkness, stacking with ranks of the [Stealth] enhancement.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Nightmare Aspect] (Passive): By channeling your inner rage, you can transform into a shadow beast, gaining unnatural strength, agility, resilience, and an aura of terror. Your appearance alone can break the spirits of weak enemies, and all damage you inflict drains your foes and restores you.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Dominion]: By infusing your words with your essence, you gain the ability to alter reality itself. Creatures, environments, and objects must adhere to your whims, provided your mana and essence reserves can sustain the change. The strength of your influence scales with your intent, the scope of the alteration, and the resistance of the target. The world bends, reshaped not by steel or spell, but by the simple utterance of your will. Dominion is yours to claim.</li>
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Warlock
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Summoning]: (Passive): You can call forth entities from other realms, who lend you their strength and skills. You can learn spells that summon, bind, and empower creatures and objects to serve and protect you.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Blood Magic II] (Passive): Your life force fuels your magic, allowing you to cast additional spells at the cost of health. You can learn spells that draw on blood and life energy to strengthen your casting. At Rank II, your mastery over blood magic deepens, allowing you to draw on your life force with greater efficiency, casting blood-fueled spells at a reduced health cost. This level of skill also enables you to learn more advanced Blood Magic spells, expanding your arsenal in exchange for careful management of your own vitality.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Essence Transfer] (1st Circle, Active, Cost ?+?/?): The user can transfer a small amount of health or mana to or from a willing target.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Sanguine Gift] (2nd Circle, Active, Cost ?+?): Sacrifice a portion of your life force to briefly grant yourself or an ally enhanced reflexes, strength, and stamina, amplifying their physical abilities in a burst of vitality.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Devour Essence] (2nd Circle, Active, Cost ??): Target an enemy or recently deceased creature within range. Drain a portion of their essence, dealing moderate damage to a living target or consuming a fragment of their energy. The drained essence replenishes a portion of your health and mana.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Fire Magic] (Passive): You wield the essence of flame, strengthening your power over physical and spiritual fires and increasing your resistance to them. You can learn spells that summon, control, and unleash fire in its many forms.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Burn the Weak] (1st Circle, Active, Cost ?): You conjure a small, searing flame that can be thrown at creatures within sight, igniting and inflicting fire damage. This spell is especially effective against vulnerable or injured enemies, dealing additional damage to those already weakened.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Candlelight] (1st Circle, Active, Cost ?): You conjure a small flame that can be used to ignite inanimate objects and inflict small amounts of fire damage on a target.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Eclipse] (5th Circle, Active, Cost ?????◇◇◇◇◇): When cast, a massive explosion erupts around the caster, engulfing the area in a swirling inferno light-infused flame.</li>
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<li>[Black Magic] (Passive): You possess an affinity for dark, potent forces that lie beyond the mortal realm. Shadows and negative energies respond to your call, enabling subtle manipulation of fear, weakness, and despair in others. You may now learn Black Magic spells, tapping into powers that corrupt the living, obscure perception, and invoke primal dread.
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Corruption] (1st Circle, Active, Cost ?): Draw on the shadows to infuse a target with negative energy, weakening their defenses and dulling their senses. This spell saps the target’s physical and mental resilience, leaving them vulnerable to further attacks and susceptible to effects that prey on fear and confusion.</li>
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Enhancements
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Evasion I] (Perk XII): Your reflexes improve to match those of a wild predator, such as a lynx or cheetah. You gain an increase in reaction speed and agility, allowing you to better dodge attacks and move fluidly.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Focus I] (Perk XIV): Your mental clarity improves, enhancing your ability to concentrate and reducing the likelihood of spell disruptions. This heightened focus increases your casting precision and slightly boosts your resistance to mental effects.</li>
<li>[Life I] (Perk X): Fortifies your life force slightly, making you sturdier and harder to wear down in combat.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Mana I] (Perk II): Increase your mana reserves by a small amount, allowing you to cast more spells.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Mana II] (Perk VIII): Increases your mana reserves by a sizeable amount, allowing for greater spell-casting endurance and more complex incantations.</li>
<li>[Pack Bond] (Oath to Zethari): Grants an increase to your ability to work seamlessly with allies, enhancing cooperative efforts and tactics. Additionally, you gain a boost to perception when near companions.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Potence I] (Perk IV): Increase the potency of your spells, increasing their range, power, and duration by a small amount.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Potence II] (Perk VI): Further amplifies the strength of your spells, making each cast more impactful and destructive. This enhancement also slightly reduces resistance to your spells, increasing the chance of bypassing defenses.</li>
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Titles
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<li style="font-weight: 400">[Master of the Vault]: Bestowed upon you by the mighty Grimoire, the last creation of the Archmage Aughra, this title marks you as a true keeper of lost knowledge and forgotten relics. You will always know in what direction your vault lies and the best path to get there, and you have a second sense for finding valuable items and equipment.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Eater]: Bestowed by the troll Graul, this title marks you as one who consumes what others would discard, taking strength from the remnants. When you consume the essence of an enemy, you gain a brief but potent surge of energy, temporarily enhancing your body, mind, and spirit, and sometimes catching glimpses of their final memories or emotions.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">[Nightstalker]: With the silence of a stalking predator, you move without sound. When following an unaware target, your perception sharpens, revealing even the slightest movements of your prey.
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Quests
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Equipment
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<li>[Invisibility Scroll]: Causes the caster to go invisible until they attack or cast another spell.</li>
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Achievements
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<li>[If You Only Had a Heart]: Through the ashes of your former glory, you have found a new source of power: compassion. By opening yourself to another''s suffering, you gain the ability to both give and take the essence that binds all living things.</li>
<li>[Consume the Pain]: You have found the remnants of a tortured soul—its body chained to a bed, its empty eyes seeming to plead for release. The corpse''s suffering lingers, trapped in the essence that lingers in its old bones. By consuming it, you grow stronger.</li>
<li>[Make the Impossible Possible]: Only the daring reject common sense and drill their way to a greater tomorrow. For successfully casting a spell you were certain you wouldn''t survive casting, you grow stronger.</li>
<li>[Shards of the Dark Lord]: You have found and consumed a fragment of your progenitor''s power. Through his dark might, you grow stronger</li>
<li>[The Hunted]: By using your senses to hunt those who would hunt you and your allies, you have your perception to a greater degree. You have honed your elven senses to a greater degree.</li>
<li>[You Are Strongest]: By dredging up forgotten abilities from your past life, you were able to defeat Graul the troll, a creature far stronger than you and absorbed his dark essence. In being willing to sacrifice everything, you have grown stronger.</li>
<li>[A New Friend in Need]: Through an unexpected act of compassion, you healed a person in need while expecting nothing in return. This selfless gesture stirs something deep within you, awakening a new spell.</li>
<li>[Secrets of the Wall]: By reading the last words of one destined to die, you have regained a portion of your former strength. Though only a small kernel of knowledge, these words unlock further understanding.</li>
<li>[[A Dark Lord''s Rise]: Though you sought freedom from the shadows of your past, fate—and the schemes of others—have bound you anew to a mantle you did not seek. The cycle continues anew...</li>
<li>[Breaking the Chains of Fate]: When faced with the mantle of the Dark Lord, you choose freedom over power, rejecting your fate and forging your own destiny. The cycle is broken.</li>
<li>[The Thing You Refused to Lose]: There comes a moment when even the most resolute must face a choice that defines their very soul. You have sacrificed great power for the sake of what you cherish most, proving that your heart is not for sale, even to the allure of ultimate power. For this, you are rewarded not with strength but with the return of what you hold most dear. </li>
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