Heretic: Difference between revisions

===Lore and Paths===

There are different aspects of the arcane to which you can devote yourself. While all rituals and spells can be learned, your first and most important choice will decide how your weapon [[file:heretic_blade.png]] and grasp [[file:mansus_grasp.gif]] will evolve, and how your final ascension will transform you.

! style="background-color:green" width="140px" |Path

! style="background-color:green" width="140px" |Name

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!Path of Ash

|Nightwatcher's Secret

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!Path of Flesh

|Precipice Of Enlightenment

|Mind is the principle of knowing, a path aimed at confusion and deceit. The ranged grasp allows for a much easier time, and is less punishing as the other paths. Your Mansus grasp will work at a range, only able to hit living targets, blurring their vision and knocking them down. Once upgraded, it will blind them in addition. Your blade once upgraded will inject mute toxin into it's victims, not allowing any organic to speak until it has left their system. Your ascension grants you immunity to all projectiles, along with near total immunity to space. Additionally, you will gain 9 points of knowledge to spend.

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===Abilities===

Below is a table with all your abilities. Each Lore-specific upgrade will be available after gaining three research of the previous tier. This means you need three tier one abilities before you can claim your Grasp Mark, then three tier two abilities before you can claim your Blade Upgrade. As it follows, three tier three abilities are required before you unlock your Ascension Rite.

You can NEVER gain the Lore, Path Grasp, Grasp Mark, Blade Upgrade, or Ascension Rite of a path different from the one you have chosen.

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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 5px 3px 5px" |<span style="font-size:larger">'''Progression'''</span>

! scope="col" style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 5px 3px 5px" |<span style="font-size:larger">'''Path of Ash'''</span>

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''LORE'''

| style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''Nightwatcher's Secret'''

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 0px 2px" |[[File:Heretic_forbidden_book.png]]

| style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 0px 2px" |[[File:ash_blade.png]] <br>Pledge yourself to Ash.<br> Transmute a knife with a pile of ash for an ashen blade. Gain 40% heat resistance.

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''PATH GRASP'''

| style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''Grasp of Ash'''

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[File:mansus_grasp.gif]]

| style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[File:mansus_grasp.gif]] <br>Empowers your Mansus grasp to throw enemies away from you.

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''TIER ONE'''

| style="background-color:#c1c1c1;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Ashen Shift'''

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |

| style="background-color:#c1c1c1;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |[[file:ashen_shift.gif]] <br>A very short-range jaunt that can help you escape from bad situations or navigate past obstacles.

Range is about 5-6 tiles.

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''GRASP MARK'''

| style="background-color:#a1a1a1; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''Touch of the Spark'''

| style="background-color:#e34363; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''Lover's Exsanguination'''

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[File:mansus_grasp.gif]]

| style="background-color:#e34363; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[File:flesh_blade.png]] <br>Your Mansus grasp now applies a mark on hit. Use your flesh blade to detonate the mark, which causes significant bleeding on the target.

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''TIER TWO'''

| style="background-color:#f58da2;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Raw Ritual'''

| style="background-color:#eb7541;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Aggressive Spread'''

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |

| style="background-color:#eb7541;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |[[File:corrode.gif]]<br>An instant spell that spreads rust onto nearby tiles, destroying any already rusted.

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''BLADE UPGRADE'''

| style="background-color:#c5673e; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''Memento of Decay'''

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[file:heretic_blade.png]]

| style="background-color:#c5673e; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |[[File:rust_blade.png]] <br>Your rusted blade now injects eldritch essence on hit.

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''TIER THREE'''

| style="background-color:#eb7541;      border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Entropic Plume'''

| style="border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Cleave'''

| style="border-right:dashed 2px;" |'''Ashen Ritual'''

| style="border-right:solid 2px;" |'''Rusted Ritual'''

|- style="background-color:#6EE270;"

| style="border-left:solid 10px #eb7541; border-right:dashed 2px;" |

| style="border-right:dashed 2px;" |[[file:cleave.png]] <br>A powerful ranged spell that causes heavy bleeding and blood loss in an area around your target.

| style="border-right:dashed 2px;" |[[file:ashman.png]] <br>You can now summon an Ashman by transmuting a pile of ash, a head, and a book. Ashmen have powerful offensive abilities and access to the Ashen Shift spell.

| style="border-right:solid 2px;" |[[file:rust_walker.png]] <br>You can now summon a Rustwalker transmuting a vomit pool and a book. Rustwalkers are capable of spreading rust and have a strong, short-ranged projectile attack.

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''The Sanguine Horde'''

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''The Owl'''

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px" |'''The Harbringer'''

|- style="background-color:#2aab2a;"

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |''A pact of demons and marauders from a world forgotten. Very few yet roam the planes. The secrets to their final defeat have been lost. We offer wardings to ensure they do not cross our path.''

| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 2px" |''One of the oldest and sanest Sworn. Ebis, like the Lover, we believe to be a being of the Mansus itself. They commonly offer generous aid, but only if we succeed in one of their puzzling challenges.''

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===Tips===

*If your transmutations are failing, make sure your codex is on your person!

*Even after ascension, you aren't completely invincible. Don't get too hasty and end up eating a barrage of deadly lasers to the face.

*As mentioned before, no matter which heretic blade you choose, each one will have an option to destroy it. Afterwards, it will teleport you to a random spot on the Z level. This provides a very good last ditch option for escaping the authorities. As it takes two uninterrupted seconds, make sure you're clear before you use it.

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