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The Flayer Lord
Character Information
The Flayer Lord hails from the swampy jungle hell of Kurast. Hardly seen outside of their homelands, Flayer Lords are rarely even seen in the jungles themselves. These bizarre, twisted individuals are the focus of tribal and shamanic power among the inhuman, pygmy-like Rat Men, Fetishes and Soul Flayers. Flayer Lords only stir on the most momentous of dark occasions, generally in order to lead their kinfolk during such black events. Flayer Lords tend to lead their tribes from a rearward position, relying on the hordes of blowpipe and blade wielding that accompany them to fight their foes in close combat. They are also accompanied by Shamans, powerful individuals able to cast a variety of spells in order to aid their underlings, as well as the Lord they serve. Other than being able to command legions of twisted, miniscule demons, Flayer Lords are adept at casting a variety of Curses on their foes. They are also able to bestow numerous Aura effects on their minions, as well as having sufficient mastery of various fire magics so as to be capable of enspelling their foes with searing flames.
Basic Information
Skill Tree
Skill Information
Summon Fetish
Required Level: 1
Required Skills: None
Description: This skill allows the Flayer Lord to summon a Fetish warrior armed with a spear or blade to fight for him. Fetishes have no real special abilities, other than their great movement speed. They are not particularly powerful melee fighters, overwhelming their foes by strength or numbers rather than actual skill. A maximum of 10 Fetishes can be summoned and will co-exist with any other summoned creatures. The mana cost for the summoning of a Fetish is relatively small. Additional points increase the maximum number of Fetishes summonable, up to 6, and improve the characteristics of each Fetish. Mana cost remains low, although each point does increase it marginally...
Curse of Pain
Required Level: 1
Required Skills: None
Description: This simple yet powerful curse greatly increases the amount of damage the cursed foes recieve from melee and ranged attacks, although the effects of elemental damage attacks are not increased. This spell has a relatively low mana cost in addition to its other features. Addtional points increase the radius and duration of the effect, at the cost of greater mana usage, but the damage amplification value remains fixed at +75% extra damage.
Fireball
Required Level: 1
Required Skills: None
Description: This skill allows the Flayer Lord to fling balls of fire at his foes. These fireballs do only a small amount of damage, but are equally cheap and fast to cast. Additional points increase the amount of damage dealt greatly, although the mana cost for each fireball rises equally greatly.
Summon Flayer
Required Level: 8
Required Skills: Summon Fetish
Description: Similar to Summon Fetish, this skill enables the Flayed Lord to summon Flayed warriors to his aid. This diminuitive demons wield oversized blades or short spears and are relatively competent warriors, for their size. However, as with Fetishes, Flayers rely on their numbers rather than their skill to dispatch foes and a maximum of 6 Flayers can be summon. These Flayers co-exist with whatever other creatures have been summoned at the time, allowing for the creation of large forces of pygmy-sized monsters. The mana cost of summoning a Flayer remains relatively fixed, even with the addition of further points. Additional points increase the number summonable, eventually to the maximum of 6, and complement the abilities of each Flayer.
Summon Flayer Darter
Required Level: 8
Required Skills: Summon Flayer
Descrption: With this skill the summoning of Flayer warriors armed with blowpipes is possible. These creatures provide useful ranged support for their spear and blade wielding brethren with their quick-firing blowpipes. However, they do less damage than their melee counterparts and are a great deal more cowardly. The mana cost for summoning Flayer Darters is a little higher than that of Flayers and the maximum number summonable caps at 4. Nevertheless, they are useful allies and additional points make them only more useful. Mana cost increases only slightly with additional points.
Fireblast
Required Level: 8
Required Skills: Fireball
Description: This skill enables the Flayed Lord to fling explosive balls of fire at his foes. These flaming missiles move slightly slower than Fireballs, but explode on impact, dealing area damage to those nearby. The amount of damage dealt is greater than that of Fireball and improves appreciably with the addition of points. However, the mana cost of using this skill also increases with the improvement of the skill.
Summon Flayer Shaman
Required Level: 16
Required Skills: Summon Flayer
Description: This powerful skill enables the player to summon a maximum of 2 Flayer Shamans to aid him. These bizarre spellcasters are able to cast a number of spells, including an Inferno-like spell, a Blaze-like spell and an Enchant-like spell that adds fire damage to the weapons of allies. Flayer Shamans are also able to cast the Fireball spell, enabling them to attack their foes at range. The mana cost of summoning Shamans, however, is a great deal higher. Additional points increase the number summonable(To a maximum of 2) and improve the individual capabilties and skills of each Shaman. These improvements come at the cost of added mana usage, however.
Heal
Required Level: 16
Required Skills: None
Description: This beneficial spell allows the caster to Heal his allies and minions. The ally or minion to be healed must be within sight and can then be healed an amount of its original hitpoints between a certain minimum and maximum percent. The mana cost of this skill is not particularly great, but does increase a fair amount with the addition of more points. The addition of further points also increase the minimum and maximum percentage healed, ultimately allowing for near total healing with a single click.
Flame Wave
Required Level: 16
Required Skills: Fireblast
Description: This powerful skill enables the Flayed Lord to fling a number of waves of fire at his foes. These V-shaped wedges of fire travel a fair distance before dissipating and deal a considerable amount of damage. However, their is a noticeable casting delay between the conjuring of additional waves and the mana cost for this skill is not minor. Added points increase the damage of this skill greatly and at a relatively minor increase in mana cost per use.
Defiant Song
Required Level: 20
Required Skills: None
Description: This powerful aura effect increases the defence rating, chance to block and elemental resistances of all affected allies. It also provides those affected with minor life regeneration capabilities. However, these bonuses come at a cost and usage of this aura can consume a great deal of mana. Additional points further increase the potency of this aura, as well as increasing its mana usage.
Summon Soul Killer
Required Level: 24
Required Skills: Summon Flayer
Description: This skill allows the Flayer Lord to summon vicious Soul Killers to his aid. Soul Killers are armed with short spears or blade-like daggers and are capable warriors. Nevertheless, they prefer to assault their foes in large numbers and remain cowardly creatures, even when in large groups. A maximum of 6 Soul Killers can be summoned at any time and will co-exist with any other creatures summoned at the same time. The mana cost of summoning Soul Killers remains relatively fixed and is not particularly high anyway. Additional points increase the number summonable, to the maximum of 6, and improve the capabilities of each individual Soul Killer.
Summon Soul Killer Darter
Required Level: 24
Required Skills: Summon Soul Killer
Description: This skill enables the player to summon a number of Soul Killers armed with blowpipes. These Soul Killers provide useful ranged firepower and can deal a great amount of damage over time, as the darts that they fire are coated with poisonous ichor. A maximum of 4 Soul Killer Darters can be summoned and their summoning cost is slightly higher than that of normal Soul Killers. Additional points increase the summonable number(To a maximum of 4) and improve the capabilities of each individual Soul Killer Darter. However, the mana cost for summoning these Darters also increase slightly with the addition of further points.
Vengeful Curse
Required Level: 28
Required Skills: Curse of Pain
Description: This powerful curse affects a group of enemies in a number of ways. Primarily, it provides a Thorns-type effect, causing a percentage all damage the affected individuals deal to be dealt back to them. This skill also drains the life and mana of those affected, although at a fairly marginal rate. Usage of this skill does not require a great deal of mana initially, but can do so at higher skill levels. The addition of skill points increase the percentage of damage returned as well as increasing the severity of the drain effect. These points also increase the duration of the curse greatly and improve the radius of the effect to some extent.
Molten Boulder
Required Level: 28
Required Skills: Flame Wave
Description: This powerful spell enables the Flayer Lord to launch a flaming boulder at his foes. This chunk of flaming rock rolls forward in the direction chosen at ever increasing speed. As it moves the boulder leaves a trail of flames that sear any who step into their path. Upon colliding with an object the boulder explodes in a hail of fiery rock, causing both heavy physical and fire damage. This skill requires a fair amount of mana to use and the casting delay is initially quite noticeable. However, added points reduce this delay, as well as improving the damage dealt by the boulder. These improvements come at the cost of increased mana usage.
Curse of Blackest Night
Required Level: 32
Required Skills: Vengeful Curse
Description: This powerful curse greatly reduces the vision and defence of affected enemies. It also provides a major Lifetap-like effect, causing those who damage the afflicted to be healed an amount of life proportional to the amount of damage they deal. This spell, however, costs a fair amount of mana to use, although its duration is quite long. Further points increase the duration, radius of effect and the degree to which vision is affected. They also increase the amount by which defence is reduced and improve the amount of life gained. However, these improvements come at a significant mana cost with the addition of further points.
Summon Soul Kill Shaman
Required Level: 36
Required Skills: Summon Soul Killer
Description: This skill enables the Flayer Lord to summon up to 2 powerful Soul Killer Shamans. These twisted individuals are able to cast a number of spells to aid their summoner's allies, including an Inferno-like spell, a Blaze-like spell and an Enchant-like spell. They are also able to attack their foes at range using the Fireblast skill and can cast the Curse of Pain skill on those they choose. However, the cost of summoning these vicious demons is quite high, although it doesn't increase a great deal more with the addition of points. More points improve the capabilities and skills of the individual Shamans, as well as increase the number summonable, to the maximum of 2.
Wyrd Chant
Required Level: 36
Required Skills: Defiant Song
Description: Another powerful aura skill, Wyrd Chant provides a Thorns-type effect on all those affected, as well as increasing their maximum life and improving their regeneration capabilities. Use of this skill also provides those affected with life and mana leech effects. However, use of Wyrd Chant requires a great deal of mana and mainting this aura for long periods of time can easily drain one's mana cup. Additional points increase the effects of all the listed bonuses the skill provides and at only a marginal increase in mana usage per skill point.
Shamanic Mastery
Required Level: 40
Required Skills: FlameStrike?
Description: This powerful passive skill represents the great mastery over fire that the Flayer Lord and his Shamans can attain. It enhances the fire damage of his spells greatly, as well as providing them with a minor resistance piercing effect. Additionally, the skill also improves mana regenaration rates and provides a degree of elemental resistance to summoned or raised creatures.
FlameStrike?
Required Level: 40
Required Skills: Molten Boulder
Description: This powerful skill allows the Flayer Lord to launch a flaming chunk of rock high into the air which then returns to the ground once more at high speed. The impact and resulting explosion deal a great deal of physical and fire damage and leave the surrounding area aflame for a fair amount of time. However, this spell is somewhat difficult to aim and requires precision to use. As a result, their is very little in the way of a casting delay on this spell, although it does consume a great deal of mana with each missile launched. The addition of further points improves the damage dealt at an only marginal increase in mana cost.
Flayer Mastery
Required Level: 44
Required Skills: Summon Soul Killer Shaman, Summon Flayer Shaman and Summon Fetish Shaman
Description: This passive skill greatly enhances the capabilities of all summoned creatures, although raised creatures are not affected. It provides significant bonuses to the AR, life, damage and defence of those affected.
Summon Stygian Doll
Required Level: 48
Required Skills: Summon Soul Killer
Description: This skill allows for the summoning of dangerous Stygian Dolls. These evil little demons are armed with oversized Blades or short spears and are skillful warriors for their size. They revel in swarming their foes, sweeping over them in a tide of stabbing blades and jabbing spears and quickly overwhelming them. Stygian Dolls make use of poisoned weapons that deal a fair amount of damage over time. A maximum of 6 Stygian Dolls can be summoned and will co-exist with other summoned creatures. The mana cost of summing a Stygian Doll, while far greater than that of summoning a Soul Killer, is still quite affordable and increases only marginally with the addition of points. Additional points increase the number summonable(To a maximum of 6) and improve the abilities of the individual Dolls.
Summon Stygian Doll Darter
Required Level: 48
Required Skills: Summon Stygian Doll
Description: With this skill the Flayer Lord can obtain the aid of a number of dangerous Stygian Dolls armed with blowpipes. These Stygian Dolls make use of powerful poisons and venoms that enable their ranged attacks to not only poison, but also reduce vision and weaken those hit. A maximum of 4 Stygian Dolls armed with Blowpipes can be summoned, although the mana cost for each Darter is quite high. However, this cost does not increase much with the further addition of points, while their abilities increase noticeably. Extra points also increase the number summonable, to a maximum of 4.
Volcanic Fury
Required Level: 52
Required Skills: FlameStrike?
Description: This powerful spell sunders the earth at the chosen spot, allowing a stream of boiling hot magma to burst forth in an explosion of fire. This eruption lasts for a fair amount of time, spewing forth flaming rocks and molten lava all the while. The radius of effect of this eruption is quite large and the amount of fire and physical damage dealt by this spell is great. However, usage requires a great amount of mana, and their is a fair cooldown delay before the spell can be cast again. The addition of points increases the duration, mana cost and damage dealt by the spell. It also reduces the cooldown delay slightly.
Summon Stygian Doll Shaman
Required Level: 56
Required Skills: Summon Stygian Doll
Description: This skill allows the Flayer Lord to summon up to 2 powerful Stygian Doll Shamans. These warped individuals are able use a variety of powerful spells and skills to aid their master's allies and minions. As with all Shamans, Doll Shamans can cast an Inferno-like spell, a Blaze-like spell and an Enchant-like skills. Stygian Doll Shamans can also cast Flame Wave, Molten Boulder, Heal, Vengeful Curse and Curse of Pain. Thus, Doll Shamans are powerful allies, capable of complementing their master's ranged damage potential greatly. However, the mana cost of summing each Shaman is great and increases noticeably with each skill level. The benefits of extra points, however, are great, enhancing the capabilities and skills of the Shamans greatly. Further points also increase the number summonable, to a maximum of 2.
Tribal Supremacy
Required Level: 60
Required Skills: Summon Stygian Doll Shaman, Flayer Mastery and Shamanic Mastery
Description: This powerful passive skill increases the number of creatures summonable by the Flayer Lord. Each point in the skill increases the maximum number of creatures summonable for certain summoning skills. Certain summoning spells may require multiple points to be allocated to this skill before the summon maxmimum increases by 1, while others might increase at a 1 to 1 ratio. Additionally, there may be a much lower skill point maximum for this skill.
Raise Undead Stygian Doll
Required Level: 64
Required Skills: Summon Stygian Doll, Summon Stygian Doll Shaman and Shamanic Mastery
Description: This powerful spell allows for the fashioning of deadly Undead Stygian Dolls from the bodies of slain enemies. These Dolls are armed with blades and short spears and are extremely dangerous enemies. Their diminuitive size makes it easy for them to avoid blows and slip under their enemies' guard, often with deadly results. The blades and spears used by these undead constructs are enchanted with powerful magics and can damage most foes to some extent. Finally, when killed in combat Stygian Dolls explode in a hail of bone shards that damage nearby enemies a great deal. A maximum of 4 Undead Stygian Dolls can be summoned and only then at incredible mana cost. These Dolls will eventually fall apart after a number of minutes if not killed, as the powerful magics sustaining them drain away and dissipate. The addition of points increase the cost of summoning each Undead Doll, as well as improving the capabilties of each individual Doll. Further points also increase the length of time that the Dolls will remain in existence for.
Raise Undead Stygian Doll Darter
Required Level: 64
Required Skills: Raise Undead Stygian Doll
Description: Further harnessing of the powerful tribal magics used to raise Undead Stygian Dolls allows for the raising of Dolls armed with magical blowpipes. These constructus are powerful adversaries capable of dispatching the most powerful of foes with their deadly weapons. These blowpipes are used to fire slivers of magically attuned bone that unerringly home in on their designated targets. These slivers tend to seek their victims' most vulnerable regions, making the chance of a crippling blow of some kind quite likely. Additionally, slivers of bone have been known to pierce their foes completely on occasion, although such occurences are not common. The killing of a Doll results in an explosion of bone that damages nearby foes greatly. If not killed Undead Dolls will eventually collapse as the magic animating them loses power. The mana cost of summoning Undead Darters is great and increase significantly with the addition of further points. Extra points, however, improve the capabilities of these Darters even further, making them extremely powerful foes. A maximum of 2 Darters can be summoned, although the addition of skill points is required before a 2nd Darter can be summoned. Skill points also increase the duration of this skill's magic.
Stygian Mastery
Required Level: 68
Required Skills: Raise Undead Stygian Doll and Raise Undead Stygian Doll Darter
Description: This powerful passive skill greatly improves the Flayer Lord's skill's of reanmation and construct creation. Thus, all Stygian Dolls recieve numerous bonuses for each point placed in this skill. As well as greatly enhancing the amount of damage dealt by exploding dolls, each point also improves the AR, damage, life and defence totals of Undead Stygian Doll constructs.
Foul Curse
Required Level: 68
Required Skills: Curse of Blackest Night
Description: This incredibly powerfil curse can make life hell for the Flayer Lord's foes. This skill greatly slow and weakens enemies, as well as reducing their resistances and confusing them. This skill also amplifies the amount of damage they recieve from attacks. This skill requires a great deal of mana to use, however, and its duration is not incredible. Extra skill points grealty improve the powers of this curse, as well as increasing its duration and area of effect. However, extra points also increase the mana cost of this skill a great deal.
War Chant
Required Level: 68
Required Skills: Wyrd Chant
Description: This spell, the ultimate aura effect that the Flayer Lord is capable of conjuring, greatly benefits the Lord's allies and minions. All those affected gain massive bonuses to the AR, damage, attack speed and move speed. Additionally, this aura also provides them with power life stealing capabilities, enabling them to survive in even the most vicious of combats. However, use of this skill can quickly drain the caster's mana and the addition of points only increases mana usage. Nevetheless, the bonuses provided by this skill improve greatly with the addition of further points, making such an investment very useful.
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