Call Of Eternity

Touch of eternity spell can evoke victim's greatest fears. But one fear generally trumps all others: Death. With Call of Eternity the nightblade can emphasize this specific aspect but with a mischievous twist. The spell no longer brings forward the terror of the moment, it rather emphasizes what follows: the eternity after death, the time when all the problems are gone and nothing would trouble the victim anymore. The touch of eternity spell now takes on a somewhat different meaning, making defeat no longer such a bad thing. Perhaps even a thing to be welcomed. Because the spell now presents such a contrast between what is and what could be, should one simply stop resisting and welcome eternity, it gains much more power from dejection, despondence or depression, just as it gets amplified much more with sadness, despair, apathy or hopelessness. Furthermore, the idea of eternity lingers in the victim's mind for a short time (2 rounds), distracting them and thus causing penalty to magical resilience. Additionally, while victim is affected by call of eternity, most effects that allow reflecting or avoiding the spell do not activate for afterlife spells as the victim is, on some deep level, willing to get hit by such spells. Also, victim is 90% less likely to retaliate to afterlife enchantments. Finally, while under the effect of call of eternity the victim doesn't respond so aggressively to afterlife enchantments. Also, the victim doesn't notice failed casting of afterlife spells to use the opportunity to hit the caster.

Improved Call Of Eternity

Increases bonus damage of touch of eternity from the mental spelldowns by extra 10%

Extended Call Of Eternity

The duration of call of eternity effect is increased by 50%

Enhanced Call Of Eternity

Increases bonus damage of touch of eternity from the mental spelldowns by extra 15%

Advanced Call Of Eternity

Increases bonus damage of touch of eternity from the mental spelldowns by extra 20%

Heavenly Attraction

Induces the feeling that heaven is almost within reach and the attraction is overwhelming. As this attracts the victim's very essence, its body rots and decays from this dissociation and takes body damage. While this attack goes after body integrity of the victim, it does so by essentially persuading the body to destroy itself so it mainly utilizes mental enchantments: dejection, despondence, depression, sadness, despair, apathy, hopelessness and also from fooled eyes because that can change victim's perception of reality. There can be only one of dejecetion/despondence/depression and one of sadness/despair/apathy/hopelessness, so we are talking about three main spelldowns (other spelldowns also provide boost but tiny compared to the mental ones). Additionally, the spell also receives extra bonus if victim is currently affected by sweet afterlife, heavenly attraction and especially from call of eternity. While the victim is distracted by the heavenly attraction they cannot focus so well on execution of their special attacks so they suffer penalty to precision. The victim is also more willing to accept the defeat if they feel the heavenly attraction so they cross the threshold to afterlife 0.5% hitpoints earlier than normal for each afterlife effect, as long as call of eternity is one of them. Furthermore, the call of eternity is also much more alluring when the victim is feeling the heavenly attraction.

Improved Heavenly Attraction

Increases damage of heavenly attraction by 10%

Extended Heavenly Attraction

Increases the duration of heavenly attraction afteraffect by 50%

Enhanced Heavenly Attraction

Increases damage of heavenly attraction by 15%

Advanced Heavenly Attraction

Increases damage of heavenly attraction by 20%

Stairway To Heaven

This spell brings the victim's mind to contemplate the stairway to heaven, the idea of ascending to one's final resting place. While climbing those stairs is quite a feat it has a joyous reward so it is worth the effort. And as the spell makes it so desirable, the victim becomes less interested in life, putting less effort in combat, manifesting as a penalty to physical power. While the victim is thinking about climbing the stairway to heaven the effect of calling of eternity is more powerful on them. The victim is preoccupied with the idea of stairway to heaven for a few moments only (2 rounds) and after that time they would feel more ready to experience it for real, manifesting as mind damage as the effect wears off. If the victim also suffers the effect of sweet afterlife and heavenly attraction, the nightblade can draw power from the damage burst and use it to cast spells much cheaper for a short time. The nightblade can also cast her spells in a way that they resonate with eternity. This way stairway to heaven doesn't wait until its affect wears off by itself but triggers the moment the victim gets affected both by sweet afterlife and heavenly attraction. This is enabled with eternity resonance castmode.

Improved Stairway To Heaven

Increases damage of stairway to heaven by 10%

Extended Stairway To Heaven

Increases the duration of stairway to heaven enchant 50%

Enhanced Stairway To Heaven

Increases damage of stairway to heaven by 15%

Advanced Stairway To Heaven

Increases damage of stairway to heaven by 20%

Sweet Afterlife

This spell floods the victim's mind with powerful images of afterlife. The time after death when nothing hurts anymore, when one can fully enjoy the sweet joys that were denied during hard life. This causes the victim to be more inclined to just give up, accept defeat and move on to the sweet afterlife that the spell so vividly presents. This is fully a psychical attack so it mainly utilizes mental negative enchantments: dejection, despondence, depression, sadness, despair, apathy, hopelessness and also from fooled eyes because that can change victim's perception of reality. There can be only one of dejecetion/despondence/depression and one of sadness/despair/apathy/hopelessness, so we are talking about three main spelldowns (other spelldowns also provide boost but tiny compared to the mental ones). Additionally, the spell also receives extra bonus if victim is currently affected by stairway to heaven, heavenly attraction and especially from call of eternity. The images of sweet afterlife do not disappear instantly (lasts 2 rounds), the victim contemplates the afterlife where violence is not a threat and therefore suffers a penalty to physical resilience. The victim is also more willing to accept the defeat if they think about the sweet afterlife so they cross the threshold to afterlife 0.5% hitpoints earlier than normal for each short-term effect from spells from Call of Eternity branch, as long as call of eternity is one of them. Furthermore, the call of eternity is also much more alluring when the victim is thinking about the sweet afterlife.

Improved Sweet Afterlife

Increases damage of sweet afterlife by 10%

Extended Sweet Afterlife

Increases the duration of sweet afterlife aftereffect by 50%

Enhanced Sweet Afterlife

Increases damage of sweet afterlife by 15%

Advanced Sweet Afterlife

Increases damage of sweet afterlife by 20%

Afterlife Gift

When nightblade sends an opponent to their afterlife, she can also draw the lifeforce the enemy leaves behind for herself. This lifeforce then protects her when she would die. Each time she receives damage that would kill her she is left with single hitpoint and the extra damage is taken from this lifeforce shield until it is exhausted and nightblade finally succumbs, too. This protection is also granted when the opponent is killed by non-afterlife spell or even by someone else in the group but the bonus is only 1/4 as good.

Improved Afterlife Gift

Increases the amount of hitpoints drawn from enemy when they cross to afterlife.

Extended Afterlife Gift

Doubles the duration of afterlife gift.

Enhanced Afterlife Gift

Increases the amount of hitpoints drawn from enemy when they cross to afterlife.

Advanced Afterlife Gift

Increases the amount of hitpoints drawn from enemy when they cross to afterlife.

Shared Afterlife Gift

When nightblade has afterlife gift active, she can use it to empower her spells that persuade victim to pass to the afterlife with the emotional imprint of the next life. The victim becomes more willing to let go, not waiting for getting the last spark of life beaten out of them, and they let go when they have 0.5% hitpoints more than necessary for dying when hit by attacks from Call of Eternity branch. In other words, the amount of hitpoint the victim needs to survive after being hit by an afterlife spell is computed not from 0hp but from 0.5% hitpoints.

Improved Shared Afterlife Gift

Moves the threshold for letting go of life further 0.5% up

Extended Shared Afterlife Gift

Moves the threshold for letting go of life further 0.5% up

Enhanced Shared Afterlife Gift

Moves the threshold for letting go of life further 0.5% up

Advanced Shared Afterlife Gift

Moves the threshold for letting go of life further 0.5% up (for a total of 2.5% for all shared afterlife gift skills).

Rush To Pearly Gates

The different spells needed to entice the victim to let go, cross the threshold and enter the next chapter of their existence, they all take time to cast. And their aftereffects strengthen the other spells but do not last that long which makes it hard to fully benefit from all of them. The nightblade doesn't want to stop the victim from making the leap to eternity so they can rush them to the pearly gates. They can cast the afterlife-based spells 6% faster, getting the reinforcement effect for more spells in a row.

Improved Rush To Pearly Gates

Adds additional 6% speedup to afterlife spells.

Extended Rush To Pearly Gates

Adds additional 6% speedup to afterlife spells.

Enhanced Rush To Pearly Gates

Adds additional 6% speedup to afterlife spells.

Advanced Rush To Pearly Gates

Adds additional 6% speedup to afterlife spells.

Afterlife Link

Having sent so many enemies over to the other side, the nightblade now has an almost instinctual link to the afterlife. This allows her to make the suggestions her spells impart even more powerful. All afterlife spells deal extra 4% damage.

Improved Afterlife Link

Adds 4% more damage.

Extended Afterlife Link

Adds 5% more damage.

Enhanced Afterlife Link

Adds 5% more damage.

Advanced Afterlife Link

Adds 7% more damage.

Celestial Light

Even though nightblade usually works with shadows, her ability to summon the images of the joyful afterlife allows her to partially step out of shadows and persuade light-dwellers that the next life is much more attractive that the current one and current one should be abandoned. To get there the nightblade needs to be able to utilize her magic even during the day, and with celestial light this is exactly what she can do. All afterlife-based spells become 15% cheaper during the day.

Improved Celestial Light

All afterlife spells become further 15% cheaper. It is multiplicative reduction so 15% reduction from the result of 15% reduction from basic celestial light.

Extended Celestial Light

All afterlife spells become further 15% cheaper (also multiplicative)

Enhanced Celestial Light

All afterlife spells become further 15% cheaper

Advanced Celestial Light

All afterlife spells become extra 15% cheaper

Power From Afterlife

As the nightblade led their opponents to defeat, they realized that the passing over from life to afterlife is a powerful event. It is a boundary between two realities and as such it has incredible tension. And tension means energy, or power. With this skill the nightblade can keep in contact with the opponent for a brief moment and draw power from the other side. This effectively gives the nightblade significant amount of mana (based on the opponent's level) each time nb delivers the finishing blow with afterlife spell. This protection is also granted when the opponent is killed by non-afterlife spell or even by someone else in the group but the bonus is only 1/3 as good.

Improved Power From Afterlife

Increases the amount of mana gained when delivering finishing blow by 20%

Extended Power From Afterlife

Increases the amount of mana gained when delivering finishing blow by 50%

Enhanced Power From Afterlife

Increases the amount of mana gained when delivering finishing blow to 50% of maxmana (or the amount from extended, whichever is higher).

Advanced Power From Afterlife

Recovers mana to full after finishing blow.

Feeling Of Eternal Bliss

This spell gives the victim a sample of the feeling of eternal bliss that is to be had once they pass the threshold to the afterlife. The feeling lasts only a short time (2 rounds) and after it fades away the victim is more ready to experience it for real. The readiness to pass to the afterlife manifests as mind damage when the affect wears off. While the victim is experiencing the feeling of eternal bliss they do not focus on battle as much, suffering a penalty to hitroll. The victim is also more willing to accept the defeat if they feel the eternal bliss so they cross the threshold to afterlife 0.5% hitpoints earlier than normal for each short-term effect from spells from Call of Eternity branch, as long as call of eternity is one of them. Furthermore, the call of eternity is also much more alluring when victim is feeling the eternal bliss. Finally, once the feeling of eternal bliss wears off, if the victim is hearing the calling of paradise and feeling heavenly attraction, the nightblade can draw power from that impulse in the form of fast manaregen that provides a short but massive boost for her mana. Just like stairway to heaven, feeling of eternal bliss can be triggered prematurely with eternity resonance castmode using the same mechanism.

Improved Feeling Of Eternal Bliss

Increases the damage of feeling of eternal bliss by 10%

Extended Feeling Of Eternal Bliss

Increases the duration of feeling of eternal bliss by 50%

Enhanced Feeling Of Eternal Bliss

Increases the damage of feeling of eternal bliss by further 15%

Advanced Feeling Of Eternal Bliss

Increases the damage of feeling of eternal bliss by additional 20%.

Calling Of Paradise

The victim hears the paradise calling to them. And when paradise is calling, what point is there in remaining in this life when the next one beckons so clearly? Listening to the calling of paradise causes the victim to gradually give up the will to live (in the form of mental damage). This is fully a psychical attack so it mainly utilizes mental negative enchantments: dejection, despondence, depression, sadness, despair, apathy, hopelessness and also from fooled eyes because that can change victim's perception of reality. There can be only one of dejecetion/despondence/depression and one of sadness/despair/apathy/hopelessness, so we are talking about three main spelldowns (other spelldowns also provide boost but tiny compared to the mental ones). Additionally, the spell also receives extra bonus if victim is currently affected by aftereffects from spells of Call of Eternity branch, especially from the call of eternity. The calling of paradise does not get silenced instantly (lasts 2 rounds), the victim listens to it when they should be focusing on their own magic, causing penalty to magical power while calling of paradise sounds in their mind. The victim is also more willing to accept the defeat if they hear the calling of paradise so they cross the threshold to afterlife 0.5% hitpoints earlier than normal for each afterlife effect, as long as call of eternity is one of them. Furthermore, the call of eternity is also much more alluring when victim is hearing the calling of paradise.

Improved Calling Of Paradise

Increases damage of calling of paradise by 10%

Extended Calling Of Paradise

Increases duration of calling of paradise aftereffect by 50%

Enhanced Calling Of Paradise

Increases damage of calling of paradise by 15%

Advanced Calling Of Paradise

Increases damage of calling of paradise by 20%

Escape From Mortal Coil

With this spell the nightblade makes the victim contemplate an escape from mortal coil, from all the pain, from the hurt, from all the bad things that happen. As the idea of escape lingers in the victim's mind, they become more susceptible to other spells that push them towards the afterlife. The effect of this spell wears off very quickly (2 rounds) and when it does, the victim is a little more sold on this idea and becomes a little more detached from their body. This disconnect between body and spirit manifests as body damage. While the victim is distracted by the thoughts of escaping the mortal coil they do not focus so much on defense and they take penalty to armor class. The victim is also more willing to accept the defeat if they are thinking about escaping the mortal coil so they are willing to escape it at 0.5% hitpoints earlier than normal for each short-term effect from spells from Call of Eternity branch, as long as call of eternity is one of them. When the tension between body and spirit is released, if the victim hears the calling of paradise and tastes the sweet afterlife, the nightblade can tap into that power and recover some mana from it. The amount of recovered mana depends on the victim's level. Just like stairway to heaven, escape from mortal coil can be triggered prematurely with eternity resonance castmode using the same mechanism.

Improved Escape From Mortal Coil

Increases the damage of escape from mortal coil by 10%

Extended Escape From Mortal Coil

Increases the duration of escape from mortal coil effect by 50%.

Enhanced Escape From Mortal Coil

Increases the damage of escape from mortal coil by 15%

Advanced Escape From Mortal Coil

Increases the damage of escape from mortal coil by 20%

Release Of Earthly Bond

Each time the nightblade helps the opponent to release the earthly bonds and cross to the next world, she can draw more power from this event. Capturing the energies released by the crossing to afterlife allows the nightblade to temporarily increase her mana reserves based on victim's level. This protection is also granted when the opponent is killed by non-afterlife spell or even by someone else in the group but the bonus is only half as good.

Improved Release Of Earthly Bond

Additional 2xlevel maxmana bonus.

Extended Release Of Earthly Bond

The maxmana bonus lasts 50% longer.

Enhanced Release Of Earthly Bond

Additional 2xlevel maxmana bonus.

Advanced Release Of Earthly Bond

Additional 3xlevel maxmana bonus

Tithe Of The Ferryman

When nightblade's spell is the blow that finally allows the opponent to admit defeat and cross the path to the next world, the nightblade gets a reward for helping with the crossing. The reward takes a form of short-term massive increase to mana regeneration rate, based on victim's level. This protection is also granted when the opponent is killed by non-afterlife spell or even by someone else in the group but the bonus is only half as good.

Improved Tithe Of The Ferryman

Extra 10x victim level fast manaregen

Extended Tithe Of The Ferryman

The fast manaregen lasts 50% longer.

Enhanced Tithe Of The Ferryman

Extra 10x victim level fast manaregen

Advanced Tithe Of The Ferryman

Extra 20x victim level fast manaregen

Power Of The Threshold

After the nightblade experienced so many opponents passing the threshold to the afterlife she developed a deeper understanding of this mechanism and she can draw additional power from it. Each time nightblade's opponent crosses the threshold to the next world from her afterlife spell she gains a power-up in the form of bonus to her magical power, based on victim's level. This protection is also granted when the opponent is killed by non-afterlife spell or even by someone else in the group but the bonus is only half as good.

Improved Power Of The Threshold

Increases magical power bonus by extra 2x level.

Extended Power Of The Threshold

The bonus from power of the threshold now lasts 50% longer.

Enhanced Power Of The Threshold

Increases magical power bonus by extra 2x level.

Advanced Power Of The Threshold

Increases magical power bonus by extra 4x level.

Eternity Within Reach

The nightblade has learned how to make her suggestions much more powerful if she invests more mana in them. With this castmode she can use double the amount of mana to make each afterlife spell feel to the victim like the eternity is pretty much within reach. This makes the victim more willing to give up, effectively increasing damage by 20%.

Improved Eternity Within Reach

Increases damage bonus to 28%

Extended Eternity Within Reach

Increases damage bonus to 40%

Enhanced Eternity Within Reach

Increases damage bonus to 55%

Advanced Eternity Within Reach

Increases damage bonus to 75%.

Nirvana Within Sight

When the victim is hit by one of nightblade's powerful suggestions about crossing to the next world, they can almost see the nirvana that awaits. They are more willing to just accept defeat instead of fighting on. This in effect means that the amount of hitpoints left after the damage is done needs to be 10% higher than before for the victim to keep fighting. In other words, if nightblade deals X damage then normally the victim would succumb if they have less than X hitpoints left, with this skill they need to have 10% more. Here "remains" means however much is left above the level when the victim would die anyway.

Improved Nirvana Within Sight

Adds extra 10% to the required remaining hitpoints.

Extended Nirvana Within Sight

Enhanced Nirvana Within Sight

Increases the required remaining hitpoints by additional 20%

Advanced Nirvana Within Sight

Increases the required remaining hitpoints by further 25%.

Image Of Final Reward

This enchantment imprints the image of the final reward to be received by the victim after they leave the mortal world and cross to the next one. As long as the victim has this image burned into their mind, they are willing to just let go and leave their life behind. They would now die at 1% higher than normal, from any damage (this doesn't influence specific finisher skills like lethal blow or disintegration). In other words, if enemy would normally die at -10%, with image of final reward they would die at -9%. If they would die at 0%, with image of final reward they would die at 1% of maximum hitpoints.

Improved Image Of Final Reward

Increases death threshold by extra percentage point

Extended Image Of Final Reward

Increases death threshold by extra percentage point

Enhanced Image Of Final Reward

Increases death threshold by extra percentage point

Advanced Image Of Final Reward

Increases death threshold by extra percentage point

Duality Of Mind And Body

With all the magic at her disposal to persuade both the mind and body of the victim to accept defeat and just give up, the nightblade has learned how to use the mind-body duality to attack one but affect the other and vice versa. When casting her afterlife combat spells, as long as the victim hears the call of eternity, the nightblade can convert up to 10% of the damage from mind to body or vice versa, whichever is more beneficial. She doesn't even need to devote extra capacity to it because she is attacking the underlying essence of the victim and she uses the duality of mind and body to attack in the best way possible.

Improved Duality Of Mind And Body

Can move additional 10% of damage to more beneficial resist.

Extended Duality Of Mind And Body

Can move further 10% of damage to more beneficial resist.

Enhanced Duality Of Mind And Body

Can move additional 10% of damage to more beneficial resist

Advanced Duality Of Mind And Body

Can move additional 10% of damage to more beneficial resist, for a total of 50%

Prepare For Unending Joy

With this enchantment the nightblade can prepare the victim for the unending joy that awaits, all they need is to just accept defeat and give up and all the problems will be resolved, all that will remain will be perpetual, unending joy. Just accept defeat. With this enchantment the victim is more willing to enter the door to eternity before they would normally do so. The victim would cross the threshold when having 0.5% hitpoints more than normally needed to die (usually at 0hp).

Improved Prepare For Unending Joy

Increases the death threshold to 1%.

Extended Prepare For Unending Joy

Increases the death threshold to 1.5%

Enhanced Prepare For Unending Joy

Increases the death threshold to 2%

Advanced Prepare For Unending Joy

Increases the death threshold to 2.5%

Hasten To Transcendence

The more the victim can imagine themselves in the afterlife (i.e. the more afterlife-based aftereffects of it has, as long as call of eternity is among them), the more eager they are to transcend. And the nightblade is at hand to help with that. She can cast afterli branch spells faster, the more aftereffects the victim has, allowing the victim to transcend to afterlife sooner. The spell delay is reduced by 1.3% per aftereffect.

Improved Hasten To Transcendence

Extra 1.3% delay reduction per aftereffect.

Extended Hasten To Transcendence

Extra 1.3% delay reduction per aftereffect.

Enhanced Hasten To Transcendence

Extra 1.3% delay reduction per aftereffect.

Advanced Hasten To Transcendence

Extra 1.3% delay reduction per aftereffect, for a total of 6.5% per aftereffect, totalling 45.5% if all aftereffects are active. Note that getting all aftereffects active at the same time requires very high bonus to casting speed.

Echo Of Eternity

Just as the nightblade can rely on power of the night to power up her spells, she can also induce an echo of eternity within the victim. When echo of eternity triggers, it can increase power of nightblade's spell from Call of Eternity branch by 50%-100%. The chance for triggering depends on the number of afterlife effects (1.5% per effect).

Improved Echo Of Eternity

Increases bonus from echo of eternity to 100%-200%

Extended Echo Of Eternity

Chance to trigger increases by 50%.

Enhanced Echo Of Eternity

Increases bonus from echo of eternity to 200%-300%.

Advanced Echo Of Eternity

Increases bonus from echo of eternity to 200%-500%

Graceful Dash Towards Eternity

Each time the nightblade delivers her suggestion about eternal joy in the next life, the victim feels compelled to take an extra step towards it. This manifests as an 3% additional damage from those spells as the victim subconsciously dashes towards the threshold to cross to afterlife.

Improved Graceful Dash Towards Eternity

Additional 4% damage

Extended Graceful Dash Towards Eternity

Additional 5% damage

Enhanced Graceful Dash Towards Eternity

Additional 6% damage

Advanced Graceful Dash Towards Eternity

Additional 7% damage

Futility Of Life

The nightblade has become extremely skilled at persuading her enemies that this life is no good and they should just give up and move on to the next one. This spell is epitome of that, it packages despondence and despair in one cast, together with image of final reward and prepare for unending joy to both show the victim how futile it is now and how great it would be, should they give up and move on.

Crowds Of Souls

Having assisted literally crowds of souls with their passing to afterlife, the nightblade has learned how to put her suggestions into an overdrive. By increasing mana expenditure for her afterlife-based spells she can cast those spells 20% faster, allowing her to keep more afterlife effects on the enemy which in turn makes many of her effects more powerful. While this castmode is extremely powerful, it is also extremely expensive as the castmode not only increases cost but also allows casting more spells in the same time, draining mana reserves that much faster. Therefore it works best if nightblade can rely on additional support. Crowds of souls can only provide the power during combat as there is no connection to the afterlife when one is not fighting.

Improved Crowds Of Souls

Increases speed bonus of this castmode to 25%

Extended Crowds Of Souls

Increases speed bonus of this castmode to 30%

Enhanced Crowds Of Souls

Increases speed bonus of this castmode to 40%

Advanced Crowds Of Souls

Increases speed bonus of this castmode to 50%