Skills & Spells

Every class and race has a full path of growth ahead of it - some abilities come early, some are earned over months of real play. The rarest and most powerful are reserved for those who reach the very top: level 90 and beyond.

Novice
Level 1+

Adept
Level 15+

Veteran
Level 35+

Master
Level 60+

Critical hits: a landed strike with any weapon, or bare fists, can be a critical hit for extra damage - light blades and bows fairly often for double, spears, axes and mauls rarely for triple, and a high Agilitas helps. Glory always crits. Monsters don't. Warrior effects: many damage skills can also leave Bleeding (any healing stops it), Sunder one piece of armor for the rest of the fight, Disarm, Grapple (no fleeing), Stun or Blind. A wound or a knockout is shrugged off with Vigor; dirt, a grab or a disarm is slipped with Agilitas; mind effects like sleep, fear and confusion are resisted with Ingenium.

Mythic tier (Level 90+) abilities are marked in gold below - the single most powerful ability each class or race will ever learn.

Dual wield: a Speculator fighting with a dagger or gladius in each hand (see 'help offhand') gets a second, lighter strike on every basic attack that lands - the game's only class that can fight two-handed without a two-handed weapon.

Augur — Light, Support Caster

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Magic Arrow	2 MP	A glowing arrow of pure force that never misses. Small at first, but it grows with your level like every damaging spell.
5	Auspice	4 MP	Grants the caster a temporary defense boost.
8	Favour of the Sky	4 MP	Grants an ally a temporary accuracy boost.
10	Sleep	5 MP	Puts an enemy to sleep and ends their fight. A concentration spell - you hold it, draining MP. The sleeper can't speak, cast or move, and any damage wakes them.
15	Divine Judgment	5 MP	A bolt of heavenly light - Augur's basic offensive spell.
20	See Invisibility	6 MP	Opens the target's eyes to the unseen for a few minutes. The only way for a player to see an invisible caster.
25	Blessing of Fortune	5 MP	Grants an ally a temporary damage boost.
30	Fly	8 MP	Lifts you into the air: moving between rooms costs a quarter of the stamina. A concentration spell (Harpies fly free, without it).
30	Birdsight	3 MP	Reveals who is present in an adjacent room, through a named exit, without entering it.
35	Illusory Duplicate	5 MP	Confuses enemies with illusory copies, making the caster harder to hit for a short time.
40	Veil of Night	6 MP	Turns the caster nearly invisible, making them much harder to hit for a short time.
42	Invisibility	10 MP	Truly unseen: nobody who can't see through it can see or target you, and wilderness ambushes pass you by. A concentration spell; it breaks the instant you attack, and cast mid-fight it ends the fight for you.
45	Enchant Weapon	6 MP	Traces a rune of power across the caster's own weapon, sharpening both its edge and its aim.
50	Prophetic Ward	8 MP	Fully absorbs the next hit against the warded target.
50	Summon Familiar	10 MP	Calls a divine bird to fight at the caster's side - owl, eagle, hawk, or phoenix, depending on level.
55	Haste	9 MP	Quickens the target with unnatural speed, granting an extra action for a short time.
60	Conjure Weapon	6 MP	Conjures a staff into the caster's hands, its power scaling with the caster's level. Fades after 10 minutes.
65	Confusion	14 MP	Scatters an enemy's wits for three to five minutes: they wander off through random rooms and lash out at whoever's nearby. Cast mid-fight it ends the fight for them.
80	Gate	8 MP	Teleports the caster to one of a small set of known safe locations.
85	Petrify	12 MP	Turns a target's flesh to stone for a single, unbroken moment - they cannot act.
90	Wrath of Olympus	15 MP	Calls down the fury of the sky itself, striking up to three enemies at once.

Medicus — Light, Healer/Support

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Cure Wounds	5 MP	Heals a single ally a moderate amount.
5	Field Dressing	4 MP	A fast, smaller heal usable mid-combat.
8	Antidote's Grace	4 MP	Cures poison and a few other harmful conditions on a single target.
10	Spear of Faith	4 MP	A spear of pure faith, hurled at an enemy - Medicus's first real offensive option.
12	Healing Word	3 MP	A murmured word of mending that costs no action - a small heal that scales with the target's health.
15	Aid	6 MP	Shields up to three allies with temporary hit points that soak damage before real HP, fading after ten minutes.
20	Guardian Spirit	6 MP	Grants an ally a temporary defense boost.
25	Renew Spirit	8 MP	Restores MP to a target - one of the only ways to recover spent MP outside of resting.
28	Sacred Chant	8 MP	Grants up to five allies a heal-over-time effect - a steady trickle of health for a few turns.
30	Purify	6 MP	Cures poison and several other harmful conditions from a single target.
35	Flame of Vesta	10 MP	Kindles hearth-fire about you. A heavy-drain concentration spell: every few seconds it scorches every enemy in your fight until you release it.
40	Mass Cure Wounds	10 MP	Heals up to five allies at once.
45	Cleanse	10 MP	Cures poison and several harmful conditions from up to five allies at once.
50	Ward Against Death	10 MP	The next fatal blow against the warded target instead leaves them at 1 HP.
55	Cancellation	14 MP	A true dispelling - cures every harmful condition known, up to five allies at once.
60	Greater Restoration	12 MP	Heals a single ally for half their maximum HP.
65	Smite the Unclean	10 MP	A lance of holy light - Medicus's mid-tier offensive spell.
80	Blessing of Asclepius	18 MP	Resurrects a dead ally, wherever they are - and waives the half-XP death penalty, restoring the progress they lost in dying.
90	Sanctuary	20 MP	Equal-or-lower-level characters cannot drag the target into a fight at all. Higher-level attackers can try to break through, at a real cost to their own damage if they succeed. Lasts a full hour.
95	Panacea	18 MP	A wave of pure divine grace washes over up to five allies, restoring them to full health at once.

Haruspex — Light, Offense Caster

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Mark of Decay	4 MP	A damage-over-time curse that saps enemy strength.
5	Grave Chill	4 MP	Lowers a target's accuracy for a short time.
8	Weaken Flesh	4 MP	Lowers a target's defense for a short time.
10	Inflict Wounds	3 MP	A withering touch of necrotic force - your first damage spell.
12	False Life	5 MP	Wraps you in temporary hit points - a fifth of your maximum - that soak damage before real HP.
15	Rite of the Entrails	5 MP	Curses a target to take extra damage from all sources for a short time.
20	Ritual Flame	3 MP	A jet of ritual fire - reliable single-target damage.
25	Ill Fortune	5 MP	Lowers a target's outgoing damage for a short time.
28	Armor of Agathys	8 MP	A ward of killing cold: temporary hit points, and anyone who strikes you in melee while it holds is lashed with cold damage.
30	Vampiric Touch	8 MP	Damages a target and heals the caster for half of it.
35	Curse of Silence	8 MP	Prevents a target from casting any spells for a short time.
40	Blood Sacrament	6 MP + HP	Converts a portion of the caster's own health into a devastating burst of damage.
45	Slow	9 MP	Drags an enemy's movements to a crawl - they lose every other turn for a short time. A body effect - resisted with Vigor.
45	Doom	7 MP	A heavy bolt of black doom - strong single-target damage.
50	Omen of Ruin	10 MP	Frightens up to three enemies - they lose two turns in terror - and leaves each with lowered accuracy and damage that outlasts the fear.
50	Summon Lemures	10 MP	Calls a restless spirit of the dead to fight at the caster's side, its strength scaling with level.
60	Soul Rot	9 MP	A spreading poison curse that can strike up to three enemies at once.
70	Finger of Death	11 MP	A genuine execute - only usable against a target already close to falling, with a real chance of a severe, final blow.
80	Necrotic Storm	12 MP	A wave of necrotic force striking up to three enemies at once.
85	Summon Fury	16 MP	Tears open a rift to the underworld and calls forth a vengeful mythic horror to fight at the caster's side - a real late-game upgrade over Summon Lemures.
90	Wail of the Damned	16 MP	A wail from the underworld striking up to five enemies at once.

Speculator — Medium, Rogue/Assassin

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Sneak	4 SP	Turn nearly invisible for 15 minutes, and move and act unnoticed for the same stretch - room arrivals/departures go unnamed, and a wilderness ambush won't notice you. Doesn't hide you from someone already looking at your room. Usable only outside a fight - see Vanish for mid-fight.
5	Ambush	5 SP	Starts a fight with a burst from hiding, guaranteeing a bonus on your first successful attack. Only you and the target are drawn in.
8	Poisoned Blade	4 SP	Coats your weapon, applying a poison curse to the target's next hit.
15	Backstab	6 SP	Bonus damage against a target who hasn't yet acted in the fight. It can open a fight itself. May leave a bleeding wound. Reaches a back-row target directly - not a front-row target with an ally covering their back.
20	Field Report	3 SP	Calls out a real weak point in the target's guard: for a few turns they take extra damage from every source, not just your own blows - the whole party benefits.
20	Hamstring	6 SP	A cut across the tendon: a real strike that may leave the target unable to flee and easier to hit for a few turns. Resisted with Agilitas.
25	Precision Strike	5 SP	A precise cut at the weapon hand: a real strike that may knock the target's weapon from their grip for two turns.
30	Slip Away	6 SP	The Rogue's Cunning Action: a guaranteed escape from a fight - no roll and none of the experience an ordinary disengage costs. Impossible while grappled.
30	Circle Stab	6 SP	Circles wide and strikes from the flank: reaches a target in the back row directly, no reach weapon needed.
35	Crippling Strike	6 SP	A strike at the gaps in a foe's armor: a real strike that may cleave through one piece of it for the rest of the fight.
40	Fast Hands	5 SP	For a few turns, using an item - a potion, a scroll, a meal - costs you no action.
45	Smoke and Shadow	6 SP	A burst of evasion, making you much harder to hit for a short time.
50	Pilfer	5 SP	Lifts gold from an NPC or another player, out of combat. A contest of your Agilitas against theirs; you can be caught. A player loses at most a tenth of their purse, never more than a level-scaled amount. One try per target every half hour.
55	Uncanny Dodge	Passive	Passive: every few turns a physical blow that would hit you is halved automatically, with no action spent.
60	Vanish	8 SP	Melts out of an active fight entirely - ends your part in it, like Slip Away - and leaves you nearly invisible and moving unnoticed for a couple of minutes. Usable only mid-fight.
65	Elusive Footwork	Passive	Passive: damage from area attacks is halved against you.
70	Assassinate	12 SP	A strike from hiding. Use Sneak or Vanish first, then Assassinate cannot miss, is a guaranteed critical hit, and hits two and a half times your normal blow. The hiding ends.
90	Deathmark	10 SP	A blade meant for one throat alone - your next attack against the marked target cannot miss and deals heavy bonus damage.

Venator — Medium, Ranger/Scout

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Quarry	4 SP	Marks one enemy as your quarry: for the rest of the fight your own blows against it deal 20% more damage. One quarry at a time.
5	Keen Eye	4 SP	A hunter's focus - grants yourself a temporary accuracy boost.
10	Entangle	5 SP	A thrown cord, a snare line, a well-placed trip: the target is Grappled for a few turns and can't break away from the fight. Slipped with Agilitas.
15	Track	3 SP	Reveals who's present in an adjacent room, through a named exit, without entering it.
20	Piercing Shot	6 SP	An armor-ignoring ranged strike.
25	Forager's Eye	5 SP	For about ten minutes, timber and herbs in the wilderness are much easier to spot.
30	Rapid Volley	8 SP	A quick volley of shots, striking up to three targets at once. Arrows may leave bleeding wounds.
40	Snare	6 SP	Lays a hidden trap in the room. The next enemy who wanders through - never an ally or a pacifist - is held fast and can't leave for a few minutes, unless their Agilitas frees them first. You're alerted the moment it springs. Fades after 3 hours unsprung.
45	Aimed Shot	6 SP	Needs a ranged weapon. Spend the turn taking careful aim; your next attack cannot be avoided and hits two and a half times as hard.
50	Call of the Wild	10 SP	Calls a beast companion to fight at your side - wolf, boar, or something greater, depending on your level.
55	Pathfinder	6 SP	For about ten minutes, every other step you walk costs no stamina.
70	Pack Tactics	6 SP	A damage boost, but only while an active beast companion is out fighting alongside you.
75	Bestial Fury	9 SP	Spend your action to send your companion into a savage frenzy: for three turns it attacks twice each turn - three extra attacks for the one you gave up.
90	Bane of the Wild Hunt	12 SP	A hunt Artemis herself would envy - a devastating volley striking up to five targets at once.

Gladiator — Medium, Arena Fighter

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Feint	4 SP	A theatrical feint that opens the target's guard: a real weapon strike that may leave a bleeding wound.
5	Weapon Mastery	5 SP	Channels years of arena training into your next few strikes - a temporary damage boost.
10	Weapon Flourish	4 SP	A flashy display of weapon control that finds the weak points - your critical-hit chance is 15 points higher for a few turns.
15	Disarming Strike	6 SP	A precise strike aimed at the weapon hand: a real blow that will often knock the target's weapon from their grip for two turns.
20	Second Wind	6 SP	The crowd's roar carries you through the pain - a short heal-over-time.
25	Dirt Kick	5 SP	An arena dirty trick: sand in the eyes. The target is Blinded for a few turns - a big drop to their accuracy, twice an ordinary Accuracy Down. Dodged with Agilitas.
30	Gory Finish	8 SP	A finishing strike - usable only on a target below 20% health. It cannot miss and hits for twice your weapon damage, but it is not an instant kill.
35	Parry	6 SP	A duelist's stance that lasts the whole fight - no cooldown. Each blow aimed at you has a chance to be turned aside completely: 15%, plus 2% for every point of your Agilitas above the attacker's (minus 2% for every point below), never under 5% or over 45%. A nimbler foe beats your parry more often. Needs a weapon in hand.
40	Riposte	7 SP	The next hit you take triggers an immediate counter-attack against whoever landed it.
45	Double Strike	Passive	Landing a normal attack has a real chance to immediately follow up with a second, lighter strike. Nothing to activate - it triggers on its own.
50	Finishing Blow	8 SP	A heavy, direct strike aimed to end a fight quickly. May grapple the target so they can't break away for a few turns.
70	Crowd's Surge	10 SP	The crowd rises and you surge with it: one extra action this turn, on top of your normal one - a free second attack. Costs no action itself.
90	Glory	12 SP	A strike worthy of a legend retold for generations - a massive damage finisher. Always a critical hit.
95	Triple Strike	Passive	Builds on Double Strike - if that follow-up strike also lands, there's a real chance of a third, lighter strike still.

Legionary — Heavy, Tank

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Hold the Line	4 SP	Plants your feet and draws every eye - a temporary defense boost.
5	Shield Bash	5 SP	A heavy shield strike, driving a target back. May knock the target's weapon from their hand for two turns.
10	Goad	5 SP	Taunts an enemy into fixating on you. For a few turns a monster can attack no one but you, and a player who strikes anyone else suffers a big accuracy penalty. The tank's way of protecting the party. Resisted with Ingenium.
15	Gladius Cleave	7 SP	A close-range cleave, striking up to three enemies in front of you at once - the Legionary's area attack.
30	Shield Block	6 SP	A shield stance that lasts the whole fight - no cooldown. Each blow aimed at you has a chance to be caught on the shield entirely: 15%, plus 2% for every point of your Virtus above the attacker's, never under 5% or over 45%. Only works while you wear a shield; a shield cleaved through by a Sunder stops blocking.
35	Testudo	8 SP, group	Forms a shield wall, granting up to five allies - your party, picked automatically - a temporary defense boost.
45	Sentinel	8 SP	A guardian's stance: for a few turns, any enemy who attacks one of your allies takes a free strike from you, once per turn, at no cost to your action. Works against basic attacks and physical skills, not spells.
45	Rally	8 SP, group	Steadies the whole unit, granting up to five allies - your party, picked automatically - a heal-over-time.
50	Fighting Retreat	10 SP, group	The Legionary's orderly withdrawal: with no target named, up to five members of your party in the fight break away at once - guaranteed, and without the experience an ordinary disengage costs. Name specific allies to keep yourself in the fight. Anyone grappled, stunned or asleep can't be pulled out.
60	Unbreakable	10 SP	For a few turns, nothing can knock you down - immune outright to Stunned, Grappled, Disarmed and Blinded.
65	Barbed Guard	9 SP	Turns your guard into a wall of spikes: for a few turns a quarter of every physical blow you take is thrown back at whoever struck you. Spells are not reflected.
75	Shattering Blow	9 SP	A heavy strike that breaks through even the sturdiest guard: a landed blow always cleaves through the target's body armor and their shield, leaving both useless for the rest of the fight.
90	Last Stand	Passive	Mythic tier. The line that will not break: once per fight, a blow that would fell you instead leaves you at 1 HP with a heavy shield of temporary HP.

Barbarian — Heavy, Berserker

Level	Ability	Cost	Effect
1	Rage of the North	5 SP	A berserker's rage - a damage boost, at the cost of your own defense for the same duration.
5	Reckless Swing	5 SP	A wild, heavy swing with little regard for form. A landed hit may open a bleeding wound that costs HP each turn until it runs out or the target is healed.
15	War Cry	7 SP	A roar that bellows challenge at up to three enemies at once: for two turns a monster can attack no one but you, and a player who strikes anyone else suffers a big accuracy penalty. Resisted with Ingenium.
20	Thundering Maul	8 SP	A heavy two-handed strike. Requires an actual two-handed weapon in hand. May cleave through one piece of the target's armor, leaving it useless for the rest of the fight.
30	Intimidating Roar	6 SP	A roar that leaves a single enemy too frightened to act for a short time.
35	Headbutt	9 SP	A vicious headbutt that knocks the target senseless - they lose their next two turns and can't act, cast, use skills, speak or move. Unlike Sleep, damage does not wake them. Resisted with Vigor; a stunned target is then immune to stuns for a few turns.
40	Ferocity	8 SP	A stronger, purer rage than Rage of the North - a bigger damage boost, without the defense cost, and a hard hide: while it lasts you shrug off over a third of every physical blow.
50	Reckless Abandon	9 SP	A huge damage strike that leaves your own defense down afterward - real risk for real reward.
65	Unstoppable	10 SP	A powerful, sustained defensive resolve that nothing seems able to shake.
80	Whirlwind	11 SP	A spinning sweep of the weapon, striking up to three enemies at once.
90	Fury of the Frontier	14 SP	A storm of axe and fury the legions still tell campfire stories about - a massive multi-hit rage attack striking up to five enemies at once. Hits may leave bleeding wounds.

Innate Racial Abilities

Every race carries its own natural gifts, available no matter which class you choose - fewer in number than a class's kit, but yours from birth rather than trained.

Human

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Command Presence	Rally yourself and up to three party members for a short accuracy boost.
1	Civic Access	Always active: merchants take 5% off their prices for you.

Minotaur

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Bull Rush	A bone-jarring charge that leaves the target unable to act for a turn.
1	Gore	A horn strike that often opens a bleeding wound.

Centaur

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Galloping Charge	A powerful charging strike.
1	Forest Tracker	Learn who stands in the next room, through an exit you name, without going there. Out of combat only.

Harpy

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Innate Flight	Take to the air at will with `fly`, for free - no spell, no MP drain. While airborne, moving between rooms costs a quarter of the usual stamina. `land` brings you down.
1	Aerial Assault	A diving strike from above that is hard to avoid.
1	Skyward Scout	For a few minutes, see through sneaking and invisibility alike.

Nymph

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Boon of the Wilds	A small heal for yourself or an ally that grows mildly with your level.
1	Ward of the Wilds	Wards yourself against harm for a short time, boosting your defense.

Cyclops

Level	Ability	Effect
1	Crushing Blow	A single, titanic melee strike on a short cooldown.
1	Forge Mastery	Always active: a better chance of success when crafting weapons and armor at the forge.
1	Intimidating Presence	A fearsome glare that lowers a target's accuracy and defense for a few turns.

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Faction Abilities

Beyond race and class, joining one of the city's eight factions (level 10+, by induction only, one at a time) grants a small set of abilities unique to that faction - on top of whatever your race and class already give you.

Imperial Legion

Ability	Cost	Effect
Muster	6 SP	Steadies your strikes through disciplined drilling - a temporary accuracy boost.
Forced March	5 SP	Cross several connected rooms in a single command.
Requisition	Once/day	Demand supply - gold, rations - from a Legion-aligned contact, no questions asked.

Praetorian Order

Ability	Cost	Effect
Coerce	8 SP	Freezes a target with sheer authority - they skip their turn entirely.
Censure	7 SP	Formally silences a target, denying them their spells for a time.
Interrogate	5 SP	Extract real information from someone who wouldn't otherwise talk.

Hellenic Resistance

Ability	Cost	Effect
Raid	6 SP	One hard guerrilla strike.
Safehouse	Once/day	A sympathizer hides you away and patches you up fully, out of combat.

Cult of Mithras

Ability	Cost	Effect
Vow	6 SP	An oath of protection - harder to hit while it holds.
Aegis	7 SP	The brotherhood protects its own - negates the next hit against an ally.
Oath Sworn	Free	Swear a binding pact with another player - fight at their side and both of you strike truer, but betray the oath and both suffer for it.

Orphic Mysteries

Ability	Cost	Effect
Dirge	7 SP	A funeral lament turned weapon, badly unsettling a target.
Rebirth	8 SP	The next fatal hit instead leaves the target at 1 HP.
Speak with Dead	6 SP	Ask the dead one question, and receive a genuine, if cryptic, answer.

Cult of Hecate

Ability	Cost	Effect
Hex	7 SP	A classic witch's curse - damage over time.
Curse	8 SP	Marks a target for doom - the next hit against them can't miss, plus bonus damage.
Scrying	5 SP	Inspect an item's true properties before you buy it.

Cult of Bacchus

Ability	Cost	Effect
Frenzy	7 SP	Reckless ecstatic power - a real damage boost, with a real accuracy drawback.
Wild Rite	10 SP	A shared ritual granting up to five allies a damage boost at once.
Libation	6 SP	A ritual wine-offering that cures a harmful condition on an ally, in or out of combat.

Collegium Umbrae

Ability	Cost	Effect
Evasion	6 SP	Harder to hit for a short time.
Wither	7 SP	A corrupted apothecary's touch - the target hits softer.
Cloak	8 SP	A longer-lasting Evasion, castable before a fight even starts.

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