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The map of Wraeclast on the world screen.

The history of Wraeclast[a] begins with the emergence of Kalandra, who found herself trapped within her namesake lake and the Titans, who inhabited volcanoes before they were felled by a "rising darkness". Ahn, the Clayshaper, and Aul, the Crystal King were prominent figures within a primeval civilization, before they were wiped out by the Lightless. The Azmeri and Maraketh cultures were devastated by the Winter of the World, with the Viridian Wildwood being created for the former. The Order of the Djinn was founded by Ahkeli and a dekhara of surviving Maraketh, eventually defeating the Lightless. The latter's ambition resulted in the ascension to godhood of Sin and Innocence, with Innocence worshipped as a saviour and Sin vilified. Saved by Garukhan, Sin went on to plant the Dark Ember in the depths of Highgate to create the Beast, the source of all thaumaturgy. The Beast initiated the Slumber of the Gods, putting them all to sleep.

Virtue gems were soon discovered under Mount Veruso by the Vaal, who used them to gain great power. Under the direction of Queen Atziri, Doryani initiated the Vaal Cataclysm In pursuit of eternal life, which destroyed their civilization. In its wake, the Kalguur sent expeditions to colonize Wraeclast, but their encampments were destroyed by its ensuing horrors.

Led by Tarcus Veruso, the Azmeri descended from their namesake ranges and founded Sarn, the capital of their Eternal Empire and marking the year as 1 IC. In 1317 IC, impotent from decades of inbreeding, Emperor Izaro opened the Lord's Labyrinth to determine his successor. It was won with the help of his uncle Cadiro by Chitus, a member of the wealthy Perandus merchant family. As emperor, Chitus was advised by Malachai, a thaumaturgist who sought to follow in Doryani's footsteps. He and Chitus were overthrown by the Purity Rebellion, an uprising led by High Templar Voll and the poet Victario with the support of King Kaom of the Karui, Sekhema Deshret of the Maraketh, and Thane Rigwald of the Ezomytes, all ethnicities enslaved and persecuted by the Eternals. However, Malachai tricked Voll into letting him build the Rapture Device and access the Beast at Highgate, an opportunity he used to initiate the Cataclysm. The Eternal Empire collapsed and Wraeclast was sent into another dark period, but not before the entrance to the Highgate Mines was sealed by Deshret.

From the island of Oriath, where Innocence set up his religion after being exiled from the Azmerians, High Templar Dominus and his thaumaturge Piety returned to Wraeclast to once again study thaumaturgy. They were defeated by an Oriathan exile, the protaganist of Path of Exile. At Highgate, the exile killed a reanimated Voll, broke the seal to the mines, defeated Malachai, and slayed the Beast. Moving on to Oriath, the exile defeated High Templar Avarius and Innocence, leading to the release of Kitava, Karui God of Hunger. Kitava ravaged Oriath and nearly killed the exile before they were rescued by Sin and brought back to Lioneye's Watch. En route to Oriath, the exile once again defeated Malachai's apprentices, the Godless Three: Maligaro, Shavronne, and Doedre. The exile absorbed the powers of awoken gods defeated along the way before they reached Oriath and finally defeated Kitava with the help of Sin, Innocence, and The Staff of PurityThe Staff of Purity"Worry not for the heathens. They are devoid of soul.
Made vessels of wrath, they are damned by holy design."
- High Templar Avarius
.

Prehistory

Very little is known about the early history of Wraeclast. However, Navali's dialogue suggests that the first event in the history of Wraeclast was the formation of the stars.[b] The Trialmaster suggests that the Titans, specifically the Molten One, and Kalandra are all knowledgeable about the "Beginning of Time".[c]

The Lake of Kalandra

A Mirror of Kalandra.
Main page: Kalandra

When Wraeclast was a primordial molten world of ooze and magma, Kalandra arrived to this land, and there she discovered, against all logic, a boundless lake existing within it full of basalt pillars. Finding herself back at the lake every time she tried to leave with no memory of her escape attempt, Kalandra would remain trapped in the lake, observing the outside world from within in isolation.[d]

Over the years, Kalandra would receive many guests, many of which were ambitious mortals seeking fortune. Known visitors include The Clayshaper, Krillson, Master Fisherman, and Einhar.[e] She was visited by the Order of the Djinn, who swore to free her, but, upon discovering "the truth of [the Lake]", she was forsaken and abandoned.[f][g] Kalandra's newest etchings suggest that she has devised a new plan to escape.[h]

The Titans

El'Abin's Visage.
Main page: Warbands

In this realm of primordial magma, a race of titans walked the earth. Humans eventually began to populate the volcanoes of the titans, though the titans were mostly indifferent to their existence.[i] At one point, a human outpost belonging to El'Abin, Bloodeater was destroyed and subsumed into the caldera by a titan.[j] The ancestors of the humans from the volcanoes, known as the Redblades, regularly worship and ritualistically sacrifice humans in the name of the Molten One, possibly due to this event, the destruction of their "home".[k][l]

At some point, titans and humans alike were attacked by a "rising darkness". The last remaining titans allied with the humans to fight this threat by forging powerful weapons for them, as well as "unearthing" and controlling the first virtue gem.[m][n] While the humans largely survived, the titans were almost entirely wiped out,[o] with the Molten One being their only surviving member. This "rising darkness" is speculated to have been the Lightless, possibly in conjunction with the Winter of the World.[p] It can be determined from the presence of the virtue gem that either this event occurred after the creation of the Beast or that there exists another source for them.

Primeval civilization

Evidence for a primeval civilization that existed at some point can be found buried beneath the Vaal and Lightless civilizations while delving in the Azurite Mines. Very little is known about this civilization. The only physical evidence of this civilization remaining can be While the primeval civilization is often referred to as the "Proto-Vaal", owing to this term appearing consistently in game files regarding this civilization, this term has never been recorded in-game.[q]

The research of the Crimson Scribe may indicate that The Golden IbisThe Golden Ibis"It is said that the Golden Ibis was forged before time itself, before writing, or even
oral history. That's nonsense, of course, but it's still very old, and therefore noteworthy."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
, the Staff of the First Sin EaterStaff of the First Sin Eater"The history of the order of Sin Eaters is shrouded in secrecy and shame.
Nevertheless, history demands truth, even if it takes centuries to be revealed."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
, and the Ez Myrae TomeEz Myrae Tome"A true curiosity. Matches no known language, yet its illustrations hint at knowledge
only rediscovered hundreds of years after the death of its unknown author."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
may have originated from the primeval civilization or another contemporaneous civilization.[r]

The First King

A Primeval Ruins mural.
Main page: The First King

The First King, possibly the founder of this civilization, led the rest of his people on a journey (possibly a migration) to the later site of his civilization during a cold winter. He is referred to by the three Uzaza's rings: Uzaza's MeadowUzaza's Meadow
Sapphire Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance+20 to Dexterity
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
Cold winds blasted what little grew on the icy surface.
The gifts of the land lay hidden deeper,
and only patience and persistence would free them.
This item can be combined with a Mountain and Valley ring at a Vendor.
, Uzaza's MountainUzaza's Mountain
Sapphire Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance+20 to Dexterity
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
The narrow path turned to rough rocks that led towards the sky.
One last obstacle in a life-long journey
to find a land they could call home.
This item can be combined with a Meadow and Valley ring at a Vendor.
, and Uzaza's ValleyUzaza's Valley
Sapphire Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance+20 to Dexterity
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
Sheltered beneath thick ice, the river ferried fat fish towards the sea.
But the First King knew the river's secret, and the fish were not the only ones who grew fat.
This item can be combined with a Meadow and Mountain ring at a Vendor.
. His name is unknown; it may be "Uzaza", judging from the associated rings, or "Ahn", a figure referred to by Ahn's HeritageAhn's Heritage
Colossal Tower Shield
Chance to Block: 29%
Armour: (783-1202)
Movement Speed: -3%
Requires Level 67, 159 Str+(10-20) to maximum Life(50-100)% increased Armour
+(60-80) to maximum Life
-1 to Maximum Endurance Charges
-10% to maximum Chance to Block Attack Damage
+6% Chance to Block
+2% to all maximum Resistances while you have no Endurance Charges
You have Onslaught while at maximum Endurance Charges
"It's not Karui, Azmeri or even Vaal in origin,
but one thing is certain. It is very, very old."
- Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Item 46
, Ahn's ContemptAhn's Contempt
Praetor Crown
Armour: (257-444)
Energy Shield: (81-139)
Requires Level 68, 62 Str, 91 Int+(15-20) to all Attributes
(60-140)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
+(60-70) to maximum Life
-1 to Maximum Power Charges
Gain (8-12)% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage while at maximum Power Charges
You take 50% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes while you have no Power Charges
"To touch it is to be overwhelmed with the need to carve your name into history.
A face no one remembers, yet once you have seen it, you will never forget."
- Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Item 48
, and Ahn's MightAhn's Might
Midnight Blade
One Handed Sword
Physical Damage: (115-150) to (249-304)
Critical Strike Chance: (5.75-6.25)%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
Requires Level 68, 213 Str, 113 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy RatingAdds (80-115) to (150-205) Physical Damage
(15-25)% increased Critical Strike Chance
-1 to Maximum Frenzy Charges
10% increased Area of Effect
+100 Strength Requirement
+50% Global Critical Strike Multiplier while you have no Frenzy Charges
+(400-500) to Accuracy Rating while at Maximum Frenzy Charges
"Impossibly heavy, yet the ancient edge is keen as any modern blade.
A reminder that, in the end, when we lie in the bellies of worms,
it is what we make that makes us."
- Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Item 47
and depicted in a Primeval Ruins mural.

Aul, the Crystal King

Aul, the Crystal King was once a slave under an unidentified king who worked to quarry stone, possibly to construct the pyramidal structure depicted in one of the murals. Through predominately his leadership,[s] Aul earned the respect of his people and led an uprising possibly to overthrow the king that had enslaved them, rising to power and becoming "the Crystal King".[t] Aul is likely the last king of the primeval civilization, as he can be encountered as a boss in the Azurite Mines. His position below the Lightless suggests that his civilization may have been buried in a cataclysmic event involving the Lightless, possibly the Winter of the World. At some point, Aul was visited by Tangmazu, who showed him a vision of a future where Aul and his civilization were forgotten and destroyed.[u]

Ahkeli, the Clayshaper

Main page: The Clayshaper

Ahkeli, the Clayshaper was a member of the primeval civilization referred to by Ahkeli's rings: Ahkeli's MeadowAhkeli's Meadow
Ruby Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance+20 to Strength
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
Where once had stood a village, lay naught but splinters.
Some had once been her home.
Some had once been her creations.
Some had once been her family.
This item can be combined with a Mountain and Valley ring at a Vendor.
, Ahkeli's MountainAhkeli's Mountain
Ruby Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance+20 to Strength
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
Fleeing the destruction set upon her home,
the Clayshaper sought safety in the clouds of ash above.
This item can be combined with a Meadow and Valley ring at a Vendor.
, and Ahkeli's ValleyAhkeli's Valley
Ruby Ring
Requires Level 49+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance+20 to Strength
5% increased maximum Energy Shield
5% increased maximum Life
The river, once fertile and fresh,
and flowing briskly to the sea,
now stood, stained, at a standstill.
Dammed by the coagulating dead.
This item can be combined with a Meadow and Mountain ring at a Vendor.
) and the Abyss Scarabs whose home and family were destroyed in a cataclysmic event speculated to be the Winter of the World. After seeking refuge in the "clouds of ash above", Ahkeli joined forces with an akhara of Maraketh to found the Order of the Djinn, eventually defeating the Lightless.

Gods

Main page: Gods

Gods in Wraeclast were all once ordinary mortals. Through the power of Divinity, which comes from the power of "believers and faith", certain mortals were able to "transcend" and achieve godhood, often sacrificing their humanity.[v][w] The gods were not perfect and still retained human flaws.[x]

The Azmeri

Main page: The Azmeri

The Azmeri originate from the Azmerian ranges and are one of the oldest races identified on Wraeclast.

Prospero, Lord of the Underworld

Main page: Prospero

Prospero is the ancient Azmerian god of the underworld and all that it holds - gems, precious metals, coal, lost and buried treasures.[y] Miners, who worked in his domain, gave him tributes in hopes of protecting themselves from incidents like cave-ins, explosions, and toxic gasses.[z]

The Draiocht

The "Warring" Sisters.

The Draíocht was once a goddess that protected the Azmeri on Wraeclast. The goddess was divided into three aspects, known as the "Three Sisters": the Mhacha, the Catha, and the Mórrigan. The Mhacha represented nature - the land, trees, animals, and people. The Catha represented the "eternal battlefield betwixt good and evil", essentially the balance of opposing forces.[aa] The Mórrigan represented the "guiding crow", the call to battle for the Maji. The crow flew high, showing the Maji their way.[ab] Persuaded by the Mhacha, the sisters three "gave of themselves", imbuing every part of nature with their essence, forming the Draíocht.[ac] The original name of the goddess that once comprised the Three Sisters is now lost, even to the Warden of Eaves.[ad] While the Warden claims that the Azmeri on Wraeclast still worship this original Goddess, it is not clear to whom she is referring to.[ae] When asked about the statue of the Warring Sisters, the Warden identifies the figures as the Mórrigan and the Catha, and explains that they are not really fighting, but "merely representations of battle and bravery".[af]

Solaris, Lunaris, and Viridi

Further information: Solaris, Lunaris, Viridi

Solaris, Lunaris, and Viridi were three sisters. Solaris and Lunaris ruled the two of the populous and powerful of the ancient Azmerian tribes.[ag] One day, Lunaris drowned her sickly son in the cold waters of the ocean.[ah] Brought to trial, her sister tried to defend her in vain, but Lunaris refused to admit wrongdoing.[ai][aj] Solaris ascended to become goddess of the Sun while Lunaris to become goddess of the moon, while Viridi's ascension is more indeterminate, but clearly linked with nature and fertility.[ak]

At some point, the trickster god Tangmazu tricked Solaris into thinking that Lunaris had somehow betrayed her, triggering a war that is implied to continue to the very day.[al][am][an][ao] More information regarding this conflict was written for Version 3.0.0, but never released ingame.[ap]

According to the research of the Crimson Scribe, the sisters Solaris and Lunaris of Azmeri legend and the twin sekhema Solerai and Lunerai may be one and the same.[aq] The story of divine sisters fighting between each other bears similarities to the conflict between that of Sione and Lani Hua, as well as the one depicted by the Warring Sisters.

Ryslatha, the Puppet Mistress

Main page: Ryslatha

Ryslatha, the Puppet Mistress was the Azmerian Goddess of Motherhood.[ar] Her tribe was prolific and peaceful, until it was slaughtered by Tukohama and his warriors.[as] In despair, she resolved to make "everyone's children, her children", possibly through parasites.[at][au]

Sin and Innocence

Main pages: Sin and Innocence

Sin and Innocence were gods who originated from the Azmeri.

Stained glass windows

The "Triumph" of Innocence.

The Chamber of Innocence contains a series of environmental lore objects in the form of stained glass windows, detailing the origin and early life of Sin and his brother Innocence. The story told by the windows is summarized below:

The Mother of Two gave birth to two twin boys - Innocence with eyes of "burning red", Sin with eyes of "clearest blue". Innocence lived honestly and was pure of heart, while Sin was deceitful and indulgent - deafening his ears to his mother's "pleas". When bread was broken, Innocence was rewarded for his virtues, eating to his heart's content, while Sin was punished and left to pick up the scraps. One day, Innocence witnessed Sin stealing a fish from the market and lying to the watchmen who caught him. Sin then beat Innocence until he promised that he wouldn't tell. However, Innocence bore witness to the Mother of Two. Mother and son decided that the only way to purify his corruption was to burn him at the stake. As he burned, Sin was turned to ash, and the ash entered into the "minds", "lungs", and "hearts" of the townsfolk. With the ash of Sin within them, the townsfolk began turning on each other. Their flesh began to merge, bonding, until a single "writhing giant" was formed, forged of "strife and hatred". This giant too, Innocence condemned to flame. Innocence swore to himself that, "no matter where the ashes of Sin fell, his purifying flames would rise to meet them."

Lycia, the Heretic

Main page: Lycia
The descry behind the Searing Exarch.

A set of unique relics introduced with The Forbidden Sanctum recount the discoveries made by Lycia, a former Templar who became disillusioned with Templar doctrines, leading her to uncover the true history of Sin and Innocence. Her findings are summarized below:

  • Innocence wanted to become a god because of his personal ambition. However, his initial attempts were failures as his follower base was too small to spark divinity. Innocence turned his followers onto his brother Sin, vilifying him and using their power of hatred to fuel his ascension to godhood,[av] for both Sin and himself.[aw] This was the Original SinOriginal Sin
    Amethyst Ring
    Requires Level 52+(17-23)% to Chaos ResistanceAll Elemental Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
    Nearby Enemies' Chaos Resistance is 0
    Innocence rose to godhood not on inspired faith,
    but on the vilification and hatred of another.
    . While Innocence became "lauded" and "golden", Sin became "black as coal".
  • In order to start his religion, Innocence tried to use many symbols and proverbs; however, none of them were effective,[ax] until he met the "newcomers". One day, newcomers "emerged from the shrine", who prayed to symbol of the the Cleansing Fire, not out of adulation, but of fear.[ay] He took this symbol, the descry, and appropriated it as its own. The newcomers were terrified of fire; he manipulated this fear, telling them that only his god could save them.[az] He told them that unbelievers would be sent to an eternity of flames.[ba] Finally, they flocked to him, and he had the followers and power he desired.[bb]
  • Sin was chained to a cliff, where he was heckled and attacked by Innocence's supporters.[bc] After being rescued by Garukhan, they were pursued by Innocence, until she wounded him in a sandstorm, whereafter they made their escape.[bd]
  • Innocence took existing Azmeri traditions and "gilded them", resulting in their rejection and banishment from the mountains.[be] Exiled, they founded Oriath and established a theocracy, ruled by a succession of High Templars. The very first High Templar, Maxarius, was not Innocence's chosen, as was told, but Innocence himself.[bf]

The stories told by the relics and Lycia's notes indicate that the story told by the stained glass windows was propaganda, possibly originating from Innocence himself.

The Beast

At an unknown point in time, Sin planted a seed - the Dark Ember, into the rich soil beneath Highgate. He nurtured it until it grew in into the Beast. The Beast's initial ability, and Sin's purpose in creating it, was to lull the gods to sleep - driving them into a "slumbering darkness", dreaming away for "eternity".[bg] Additionally, the creation of the Beast made it no longer possible for mere mortals to ascend to the status of godhood.[bh] The Beast is also the source of all thaumaturgy,[bi], as well as the only known source of virtue gems.[1]

There is a possibility Sin had encountered Kalandra in her lake and that Kalandra may have helped Sin with the creation of the Beast. Kalandra writes a recent conversion she had regarding the problem of image created by faith and belief and refers to a "little thief".[bj] Kalandra has a disdain for gods, calling them "thieves of virtue".[bk] Sin, in particular, is also known as the "Thief of Virtue".[bl]

Sin had never intended for The Beast to have a will of its own - never wanting to "destroy", "corrupt", or "terrorize". simply existing "to exist". However, this made it susceptible to being manipulated by others - namely Doryani, Atziri, Chitus, Malachai, and "others" even before them.[bm]

The Caaltu

Main page: The Caaltu

The Caaltu were a civilization that existed during Kahuturoa's time and a memory by the time of Maata.[bn][bo] During that time, the Vastiri Plains was still a forest, the Vaal were still extant, Oriath had been recently established, and Ezomyr had not yet been wiped out by a plague.

The Maraketh

Main page: The Maraketh

The most important commandment in our people's tradition is this: Honour the Mother, Honour the Life.

Irasha, "Maraketh Tradition"

The Maraketh are an ancient race of people that inhabited the vastness of the present-day Vastiri Desert.[2] During the time of Kahuturoa, The Maraketh inhabited a lush and verdant region of forest and rivers.[bp] However, either by environmental processes or an unnatural process inadverdently brought on by the actions of the Maraketh,[bq] it became what is now know as the Vastiri Desert. For this reason, the Vastiri Desert is sometimes referred to as a "plains", despite not having been such for thousands of years.[br] Now a semi-nomadic people, the Maraketh live in moving caravans.[bs] Their capital, Maraketh, is located to the north of the desert.

A matriarchal society, the Maraketh are led by female leaders known as sekhema.[bt] Upon reaching their first "flower of blood" (likely a euphemism for period), young Maraketh women would enter a ritual of womenhood. The women were tasked to use a spear to catch a black Maraketh Scorpion. Wounds inflicted with their poison were immediately fatal. Passing this trial deemed a woman worthy of carring the dekhara's spear.[bu] The Maraketh Coronation Ritual for sekhema involves anointment by a feather of the Great RocSekhema Feather"And how shall we know a sekhema worthy of rule?
By the anointing of the Great Roc, under whose wings we grow and soar."
- Maraketh Coronation Ritual
, an animal with significant cultural significance for the Maraketh.

In Maraketh tradition, tattoos are marks of shame or criminality.[bv] Proverbs and legends are ubiquitous in Maraketh culture.[bw] A "sky burial" is traditional for respected Maraketh.[bx] The Maraketh have an expansive mythology.[by] The Goddess of WaterThe Goddess of Water"The relief depicts some sort of forgotten Maraketh goddess. I have no idea what
the context is. The important thing is that you steal it before Bazira does."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
depicts a forgotten Maraketh goddess.

Keth

Main page: Keth

Keth was an ancient city with a trade empire described as the "glory of the world". Items like Dekhara's ResolveDekhara's Resolve"A simple ornament from the days when Keth's trade empire was the
glory of the world. Protectors at the massive toll gates wore these."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
were worn by protectors at Keth's massive toll gates.[bz] Sap of the Aturi tree, known only to grow at the "meeting point of the seven waters" was used to make the Incense of KethIncense of Keth"Sap of the Aturi tree, known only to grow at the meeting point of the seven waters.
Nothing since its disappearance has smelled as wondrous."
Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
. Tangmazu's dialogue around Garukhan may suggest that they were both present in god form during Keth's glory days.[ca] No trace of Keth exists in present day.

The Faridun

Main page: The Faridun

The Faridun are those who have been cast out into the desert by the Maraketh for being "unworthy or flawed". The Faridun worship no gods.[cb] Resources released for Version 3.12.0 exist for an additional unique contract involving Nenet, one of the Faridun, that was never available in-game.[cc] The Faridun cannot "earn" the Maraketh "sky burial", instead choosing to cremate their dead and store their ashes in urns.[cd]

Garukhan, Queen of the Wind

Garukhan is the ancient Maraketh goddess of the wind and sky. As a traveller, she encountered Sin, who had been chained to a cliff by Innocence and his followers, where he was being mocked and derided by the crowd gathered around him. In a single blow, she "cracked the mountainside", freeing him.[ce] After weeks of being pursued, she made a stand in a sandstorm; Innocence was wounded, and the pair made their escape.[cf] She and Sin became lovers, and she soon married him. However, her vanity, pride, and above all ambition pulled her away.[cg] Before their eventual separation, they produced Shakari.[ch] When Sin planted the Dark Ember in Highgate, he did so "for Garukhan".[ci] Garukhan sought knowledge in the skies, and so, it "divulged unto her eldritch secrets of its tumultuous past."[cj] However, as "winds erode the sandstone", Garukhan herself slowly lost her mind and descended into madness.[ck]

Shakari, Queen of the Sands

Shakari is the goddess of the Sands and the black Maraketh Scorpions that rise from it.[cl] The daughter of Sin and Garukhan, she sought the power her mother had found the sky. She found it in the sands, but her pursuit transformed her into a half-scorpion form. Driven by "agony and shame", she went deep into the Vastiri Desert and begun to construct a great army that would have conquered "the very sky" had she not been put to sleep by the Beast.[cm][cn]

The Ezomytes

Main page: The Ezomytes

The Ezomytes are a race of people who originate from Ezomyr, located to the west of the Wraeclastian mainland. At some point, most of Ezomyr was wiped out by a plague.[co] Sayings and proverbs are ubitiqous in Ezomyte culture.[cp]

The First Ones

Main page: The First Ones

The First Ones are a race of god-like immortal beings worshipped by the Ezomytes.[cq] At some point, they seem to have attacked Ezomyr itself.[cr] The Ezomytes believe that the First Ones's "ravaging hunt" will eventually bring them to Wraeclast, bringing forth the end of time, with the survivors being brought with them to the "Great Grove". The First Ones that are currently named are Craiceann, First of the Deep, Farrul, First of the Plains, Fenumus, First of the Night, Saqawal, First of the Sky, and the Greatwolf. Tukohama once fought a war against the First Ones, the conclusion of which is unclear.[cs]

The Great Fire

The Great Fire was a cataclysmic event in the history of the Ezomytes. The Ezomyte's ancestors failed to honour the First Ones for their "gifts".[ct] As a consequence, the First Ones caused fires to spill "out of a mountain". As it did so, Fenumus wove a net and carried itself into the sky, floating on the hot winds.[cu] Once the flames had "spread across the land", Saqawal used its wings to bring the fires to a "standstill".[cv]

The Ezomyte leaders were "turned to ash where they stood"[cw], and the land was laid barren. Those who survived grew weak,[cx] but were taken "pity" on by Mother Gull, who gave them grain and water. However, the grain and water was tainted, and caused those who consumed it to "[feed] on each other"[cy] (i.e. canniballism).

If Rolling FlamesRolling Flames
Cobalt Jewel
Limited to: 1
Radius: Medium
(10-15)% increased Fire Damage
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Fireball cannot ignite
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Fireball has +(30-50)% chance to inflict scorch
From north to south the sea of fire swept,
Rolling waves of gorging flame,
Growing taller and hungrier,
With every land they consumed.
Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
, which was introduced alongside the Talisman Challenge League, refers to the Great Fire, it would indicate that the fires spread from "north to south". The similarities regarding fire spewing from a mountain may suggest that this was the same event as the Winter of World, or connected in some way.

The Winter of the World

Evidence of volcanic activity on Wraeclast is refered to by Sonja, who describes a hidden layer of "volanic soils" and a "thick band of ash" beneath the surface of the land, indicating an ancient, massive volcanic eruption, large enough to threaten the landmass with exctinction.[cz] The fallout of this event was likely the Winter of the World, an event during which the ash rose into the sky and blocked the sun, allowing the Lightless to surface and attack.

The Viridian Wildwood

The Viridian Wildwood was created by the Draíocht to act as a safe haven from the cataclysmic effects of The Winter of the World.[da] The Maji were chosen at that point to serve as a "vanguard" for the rest of their people, who still resided in the mainland, while they waited for the Wildwood to be "purged of evil".[db] However, during its creation, a malevolent force entered as well, described only as "the unseen reflection opposite the mortal world", which can be identified as the Nameless.[dc] Chief among these "shadowy creatures" was The King in the Mists, against whom the Maji would wage a war still ongoing in the present day.[dd] Notably the Maji are forbidden from using virtue gems, or "Tears of the Maji".[de] As a workaround, some Maji use geomancy to placed gems within geomantic sockets in their armour, without ever allowing it to touch their skin.[df][dg] However, this Maji reject this method.[dh]

The concept of Time works very differently in the Wildwood. There are no days and nights, only "the seasons, a cycle that loops back on itself without marching forward." Although its denizens do age, what is "believed and pictured" has far more sway than any other force. As a result, the Warden of Eaves cannot remember anyone who has died of old age, only injury and illness.[di]

The Wildwood is host to four "humors", which are produced by the natural world and from human beings,[dj] materialized as Wisps: the Primal humor, which flows from life's struggle for supremacy and change;[dk] the Vivid humor, which flows from the cooperation of living beings;[dl] the Wild humor, which flows from the cycle of life and death;[dm] and the Sacred humor, which are least understood, but seem to flow from one in equal measure to their ambitions. Sacred Humours are harvested by the ritual altars of the King in the Mists.[dn]

Gruthkul, Mother of Despair

Gruthkul, Mother of Despair was a Nameless carelessly named into existence by a young traveller passing through the Wildwood. She is referred to as the Porcelain Queen by those who do not wish to use her True Name.[do] She made her way to Wraeclast along with her countless children and established a kingdom.

On Wraeclast, Gruthkul's children plotted against the Vaal god Arakaali, fearing that she could threaten their legacy.[dp] At this time, Arakaali recieved visions of the children of Gruthkul atop her throne, her empire shattered. Three times, she slaughtered Gruthkul's followers.[dq] After the deaths of her children, Gruthkul fled north in grief, followed by her innermost retainers. They nutured her pain in an attempt to use her as a tool for vengeance, but underestimated the depths of her despair. In anger, she slaughtered her followers down the last woman and child, transforming into a bearlike form and ascending into divinity.[dr]

Gruthkul and her children rose again, and her "horde stampeded across the realm of Arakaali, crushing her subjects" into earth. On the brink of ruin, Arakaali, feigning injury, lured Gruthkul into the depths of a great cavern and brought its very stones upon Gruthkul's head, whom she had bound with her strings.[ds] Eventually, Gruthkul ended up in the Den of Despair, a subarea of The Dread Thicket. Some of what remained of her children made their way back to the Viridian Wildwood and multiplied.[dt]

The Order of the Djinn

The Order of the Djinn was founded by a coalition of Ahkeli, the Clayshaper and surviving Maraketh, after an attack that wiped out the primeval civilization and the rest of the Maraketh akhara.[du] Although never definitively stated, this attacking force is extremely likely to be the Lightless.[dv] Abetted by her golems, as well as the "relics of power" (one of which may have been Solerai's SpearSolerai's Spear"When hope was but a memory, the twin sister Sekhemas Solerai and Lundara arose to unite the Maraketh.
They wielded the essence of gold and silver. The Spear is one of the two weapons that forged us."
) she directed the Order in recovering, they were able to push back the attacking force and save the Vastiri Plains from "oblivion".[dw] The legendary Maraketh sekhema Solerai and Lundara arose, uniting the Maraketh and finally ending the Winter of the World, but not before Ahkeli's death.[dx][dy] Solerai and Lundara may have been the same as Solaris and Lunaris of Azmerian and Eternal myth.[dz] Note that while the Gilded Abyss Scarab mentions "Three Sisters", indicating Viridi or an equivalent, the heist contract only mentions the two.

The Karui

Main page: The Karui

Tukohama's axe is called Anger, his spear is called Greed, and their victims are the minds and hearts of all Karui.

Sin, "Tukohama"

The Karui is a term commonly used to describe a race of nomadic people that originate from Ngamakanui, an archipelago of islands to the South of Wraeclast. However, to the Karui, the term "Karui" is actually an informal name for "anyone of the blood, whether a chieftain, a child, or a kaivana."[ea] To them, Ngamakanui is really a composite term, formed with Nga ("from" or "of") and Makanui ("the Karui Way") that can refer to anywhere roamed by the Karui, instead of to a fixed set of islands.[eb]

The Karui Way, or 'makanui', also refered to as the Way of the Warrior",[ec] is a term that generally describes the code of honour and set of traditions followed by modern-day Karui. Before the adoption of the Karui Way, "The King's Feast" was an ancient tradition where a conquered tribe would prepare a great feast for the triumphant "King". Through this process, the two tribes would "become one".[ed]

The Karui worship a vast pantheon of ever-changing gods. Not all Karui tribes share the same gods - geographically isolated groups, like those in Western Ngamakanui beyond Ezomyr, worship gods largely unbeknownst to those of Wraeclast.[ee] Nor are the gods worshipped by a given tribe set in stone - they may change their gods, depending on whether their god has brought them prosperity.[ef] All the Karui tribes have very differing ideas on how the world will end.[eg] However, according to Akoya, all these ideas are not be taken literally; they do not conflict, and all tell different sides of the same story.[eh]

Tukohama and Ngamahu

The Karui were once a "peaceful culture of farmers and fishermen", before Tukohama arrived. Tukohama put axes in the hands the Karui, and gave them the impetus to fight and conquer. Ngamahu, the Mother of Fire, is credited with gifting fire to mortals.[ei][ej][ek]

For years, the Tukohama tribe was in continual conflict with that of Ngamahu. The constant raids and attacks set both tribes back, exposing the danger of other tribes surpassing them both. To end it, Tukohama and Ngamahu "went through the traditions together". Tukohama aided her in the forging of a legendary axe, Ngamahu's FlameNgamahu's Flame
Abyssal Axe
Two Handed Axe
Physical Damage: (218.7-234.9) to (326.7-350.9)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: (1.35-1.40)
Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
Requires Level 55, 128 Str, 60 Dex20% chance to Trigger Level 16 Molten Burst on Melee Hit
(170-190)% increased Physical Damage
(8-12)% increased Attack Speed
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Damage Penetrates 20% Fire Resistance
"The Karui savages claim the weapon was forged by their fire god.
I'm rather inclined to believe them."
- Fairgraves, Renowned Explorer
while Ngahamu gave him her ring, Ngamahu's SignNgamahu's Sign
Ruby Ring
Requires Level 28+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance+(15-25) to Strength
Adds (20-25) to (30-35) Fire Damage to Spells and Attacks
15% increased Ignite Duration on Enemies
10% chance to Ignite
Recover (20-30) Life when you Ignite an Enemy
A gift from Ngamahu,
a sign to the Karui to spread like fire.
Given to Akoya, but inherited by Kaom with the swing of his axe.
.[el]

Tukohama once fought a war against the First Ones, the conclusion of which is unclear.[em]

Sione and Lani Hua

Thousands of years ago, a figure that may have been Ramako, Father of the Sun visited Sione, Mother of the Sun under the cover of darkness granted by Rongokurai, Father of the Night. After many of these visits, Arohongui, Daugher of the Moon was born.[en] Ramako claimed that it wasn't him, and that he had been impersonated, evidenced by the fact that Arohongui lacked any of the light and warmth that would have been passed down to her.[eo] The impersonator may have been a "deceiver", long ago locked away for this crime.[ep] This deceiver may have been the Raven Trickster referred to in the Viridian Wildwood, Tangmazu, or both.[eq] The Karui in the Halls of the Dead have very differing outlooks on this event depending on the tribe from which they come.[er]

Regardless, Sione was furious, and the two sisters went out into the night sky to wage was against each other. However, when they got there, they found another threat, something that "drives even the strongest warrior to madness and panic".[es] Since then, they have been absent from the Karui, fighting a war amongst the stars against this newfound threat. While their warriors were sworn to silence, "the feverish ones" let out the information that is known today.[et]

Kitava, Father of Chaos

Main page: Kitava

Kitava is a "primal deity" that originated from the human desire of Hunger.[eu]

Kitava's Hunger

The three items retrieved by the exile in the Act 5 quest Kitava's Torments are related to events in Kitava's past when he was punished by his fellow Karui gods for his greed and hunger.

One day, Kitava consumed the entirely of a feast of birds he had offered to keep watch over. When he was found out, Tukohama pulled out the sharpest tooth in his mouth (Tukohama's ToothTukohama's Tooth"The belly cannot hunger for what the eyes cannot see."
- Karui Proverb
), and slashed Kitava's face twice, forming a diagonal X on his face. This blinded him so that he could never again offer to keep watch over a feast he intended to consume.[ev]

To replace the birds, Tukohama and Valako went fishing. Although he was blind, Kitava was taken along as he could still cast his line. However, while Tukohama and Valako fished, Kitava secretly ate all their bait of grub and worms. Angered, Valako pulled out his jawbone (Valako's JawValako's Jaw"One day you eat the fish. One day you feed the fish."
- Karui Proverb
) and impaled Kitava with it, using Kitava's body as the new bait. However, instead of the fish eating Kitava, Kitava ate them all. When the fat-bellied Kitava was pulled back up, they knew that Kitava had to be punished one more time.[ew]

Kitava was taken to Hinekora, Mother of Death. They asked her to kill the greedy Kitava, for the tribe would surely starve if his eating continued. Instead, she whipped him with a lock of her own hair (Hinekora's HairHinekora's Hair"What we steal in life we repay in death."
- Karui Proverb
), driving him into the darkest corner of the underworld, without water and food, for the rest of eternity. There he remained and suffered bound to a rock he could not lift with all his might. Kitava vowed that when he broke free, he would devour every soul in Hinekora's domain.[ex][ey]

Hinekora, Mother of Death

Main page: Hinekora

Hinekora, Mother of Death is the Karui goddess of death and prophecy. Awoken by the exile's slaying of the Beast after thousands of years of slumber, she seems only partially conscious, falling in and out of dreams, unable to discern between reality and illusion. In this state of half-lucidity,her mutterings get increasingly cryptic. They seem to indicate that she has set some sort of plan into motion,[ez], as well as that some important event will occur at the "fulcrum of destiny", where many key figures will be present to determine the fate of Wraeclast.[fa] She also gives a set of twenty-one prophecies, each one more cryptic than the last, encompassing both events that will happened and have happened.

However, Hinekora's visions are not really prophecies of the future, but rather memories of the past. In this way, she serves the Impulse of Order, fundamentally in opposition to that of Chaos, who can see the infinite possibilites of what can happen but has not. Thus, when her dreams mention possibilities where Wraeclast was destroyed, they literally did happen - they were the past iterations of the world where she was unable to save it.[fb][fc][fd] This is the same principle as the "future-past" of the Kalguuran Druids of the Broken Circle,[fe] who also looked into the past to ascertain the future.[ff][fg] However, their ability to do so was notably ended after Olroth began using gems.[fh] They had also noted that "scrying pools" in Wraeclast were "tainted" by a "red mist", while she mentions that "corruption clouds [her] sight".[fi][fj]

The Halls of the Dead

The Halls of the Dead is the Karui afterlife created by Hinekora in anticipation of being put to sleep by the Beast. Without it, the Karui that died during her slumber would have been "lost forever".[fk] To pass the time, the Trial of the Ancestors was devised to prevent the dead from suffering in boredom.[fl] Warriors determined to be unskilled were sent the Chambers of the Dishonoured, where they pass their time with eating, drinking, and generally doing whatever they want.[fm]

The Pale Council

Main page: The Pale Council

The Pale Council is a group comprising of Yriel, the Feral Lord, Eber, the Plaguemaw, Volkuur, the Unbreathing Queen, and Inya, the Unbearable Whispers. They were the rulers of an unidenfied peoples, likely the Karui, whose poor governance resulted in famine and death. Yriel fed his crops the blood of beasts and children, Eber resorted to cannabalism, Volkuur became a necromancer, and Inya lost her mind in an infinite pursuit of knowledge.[fn][fo] Sensing that Hinekora intended to take their lives soon, Inya uncovered a "dark tome" outlining "forbidden techniques" to attain immortality. At the cost of the sacrifice of the lives of their subjects, they would enter a pact wherein they would all be immortal unless they were all killed at once.[fp] Through these intrigues the Pale Council were beyond the reach of Hinekora, but not beyond her sight.[fq]

Rakiata

Main page: Rakiata

Rakiata is a member of the Tasalio tribe, sent to the Halls after she was killed by Kaom during his conquest of the Karui tribes. At thirteen, her tribe was attacked by an Eternal force in pursuit of a "fabled spear" from Karui myth, of which they possesed a single part. After their chieftan and her father were felled in their sleep, Rakiata tool up the weapons, felled the invaders, and, knowing that reinforcements would be to come, entrusted the fragment to the safekeeping of the sea. Although they only held the fragment for a moment, it left a permanent scar on their hand, as if from an unseen and unfelt flame. The tribe tried to put her in charge, but she refused.[fr] One day, walking along the shore, she encountered Tasalio's SignTasalio's Sign
Sapphire Ring
Requires Level 20+(20-30)% to Cold ResistanceAdds (7-10) to (15-20) Cold Damage to Spells and Attacks
+(200-300) to Evasion Rating
50% chance to Avoid being Chilled
10% chance to Freeze
Adds 40 to 60 Cold Damage against Chilled Enemies
A gift from Tasalio, God of Water,
to the chieftain Rakiata.
Kaom took Rakiata's head and hand
so that his warriors' axes might rise and fall like the waves.
, given to her by the sea, which she held until it was taken by Kaom.[fs]

When she first arrived in the Halls, she was rejected for her unconventional fighting style, which resembled more of a dance than it did the traditional Karui fight, emulating the ebb and flow of Tasalio's tide. However, Ikiaho vouched for her, and she eventually integrated into the society. Rakiata also discovered a hidden passage, a "narrow but lengthy crack in the earth" that leads out into the world of the living.[ft] Although the dead can only leave for a few minutes, she describes the time above as "glorious".[fu]

The Vaal

Main page: The Vaal

The Vaal are the oldest identified race in Wraeclast,[fv] almost completely forgotten in modern times.[fw] At the height of its prosperity, it was the most powerful nation in the known world.[fx]

The Vaal were the first known users of virtue gems.[fy][fz][ga] Vaal bloodpriests discovered that the souls of those recently killed would, for a short moment, search for any other source of life. In this moment, they could be captured in a vaal skill gem. Then, the abilities of the gem would be empowered by these souls.

Human sacrifice and blood sacrifice were extremely prolific in Vaal society. Human sacrifice were used to empower their constructs, and through them their civilization.[gb] The Vaal were a slave-owning society, many of which were used as sacrifices.[gc]

Origins of the Vaal

Due to their antiquity, very little is known about the origin of the Vaal. It is highly unclear if the cryptic Vaal origin story about Xibaqua told by Demon StitcherDemon Stitcher
Satin Gloves
Energy Shield: (128-153)Requires Level 41, 60 Int(15-20)% increased Cast Speed
+(100-120) to maximum Energy Shield
+(100-120) to maximum Life
Sacrifice (5-25)% of Life to gain that much Energy Shield when you Cast a Spell
Xibaqua's treachery was met with divine fury.
One by one, the gods reclaimed their flesh, until all that remained was a droplet of pure light:
The first Vaal.
and Mask of the Stitched DemonMask of the Stitched Demon
Magistrate Crown
Armour: (160-189)
Energy Shield: (193-219)
Requires Level 58, 64 Str, 64 Int+(40-50) to Intelligence
+(160-180) to maximum Energy Shield
Strength provides no bonus to Maximum Life
Intelligence provides no inherent bonus to Maximum Mana
+1 to Maximum Life per 2 Intelligence
Your Energy Shield starts at zero
Cannot gain Energy Shield
Regenerate 1% of Life per second per 500 Maximum Energy Shield
From the flesh of the gods, Xibaqua was born.
From the carnage of Xibaqua, we were born.
It is our duty to return to the gods what was once theirs.
is mythology or history, or a combination of the two. Xibaqua's naming in a variant of Glorious VanityGlorious Vanity
Timeless Jewel
Limited to: 1 Historic
Radius: Large
Bathed in the blood of (100-8000) sacrificed in the name of (Ahuana-Doryani-Xibaqua)
Passives in radius are Conquered by the Vaal
Historic
They believed themselves the pinnacle of civilisation, but that height toppled their empire.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
suggests that they and the story were well-known in Vaalish society.

Despite the name "Proto-Vaal" often given to the primeval civilization, no other connection between the two peoples has been identified.

On Oriath

Although traditionally confined to the Wraeclastian mainland, spanning the majority of the regions later conquered by the Eternal Empire, it is known that Vaal culture had once extended to the shores of the island of Oriath.[gd] Queen Atziri also used Oriath as a "vault" to keep valuable goods. One such good was the Elixir of AllureElixir of AllureFamous for her many lovers, those that did not
come willing to Atziri, came by liquid persuasion.
, a famed love potion said to have been kept in the skulls of Atziri's favourite lovers.[ge]

Contacting the Azmeri

Around 1200 BC,[gf] the Vaal first made contact with the Azmeri living in the Azmerian ranges. At the time, the Azmeri were still composed of primitive tribes. The Vaal introduced agriculture and literacy to the Azmeri, assisting them in the creation of the first Azmerian written language. While the Vaal were generous with sharing their knowledge in many areas, they never divulged any information about the virtue gems with which their skin was adorned.[gg]

Yaomac

Main page: Yaomac

Yaomac is an ancient Vaal god, known as the shepherd of Vaal souls.[gh] Yaomac is referred to as possessing three serpentine heads and was worhsipped by Vaalish priests.[gi][gj]

Ralakesh

Main page: Ralakesh

The god Ralakesh, "Master of a Million Faces", was a Vaal god who rose to prominence at some point before the reign of Atziri. He was obsessed with the control of humanity through their "animal instincts", and came under the control of a certain Vaal city. His experiments drove his citizens to the brink of extinction, and he was forced to enslave many of the primitive Azmeri to repopulate his domain.[gk]

Yugul

Main page: Yugul

Yugul, "Reflection of Terror", was a Vaal scholar obsessed with the study of fear, which he believed to be an idea upon which the "bedrock" of the "great cosmos" was formed.[gl] He would induce terror in children and capture their reactions in "eldritch mirrors" designs of his own creation that could "petrify fear" for further study.[gm] He used this understanding of human nature and control over fear to enter the halls of Vaal leadership, and eventually scare enough Vaal into worshipping him, allowing him to ascend to godhood.[gn]

Arakaali

Main page: Arakaali

Arakaali, "Spinner of Shadows" said to crawled up from the "blackest pits" during the creation of the world, was really a mortal temptress and seductress whose "lust for loin" transformed her into an arachnid.[go] She became a Vaal goddess of fertility, who would often assume a human form and, after copulating with her victims (the genders of whom were unclear), would satiate her "divine thirst" by draining them of their bodily fluid. Her acolytes would collect the husk and give it a place in her temple, the modern day Temple of Decay.[gp] Despite primarily being known as a Vaal goddess, she was first worshipped by the Azmeri.[gq][gr]

Reign of Queen Tetzlapokal

Queen Tetzlapokal, described by scholars as a "waif of disturbing proclivities", was a devotee of the goddess Arakaali who lived at some point before the reign of Atziri. According to literature, she had a deep fascination with mortality and the "inert human form". Her subjects were requested to deposit the bodies of their deceased loved ones on the steps of her palace, upon which the bodies would be taken inside.[gs] Eramir is unable to describe exactly what was done with the bodies taken inside, but his dialogue suggests some form of necrophilia. The Vaal City rose to prominence during her reign.

Reign of Queen Atziri

Main page: Atziri (lore)

Queen Atziri was the last Queen of the Vaal, as the actions of her and her thaumaturge, Doryani, led to the Vaal Cataclysm and the fall of the Vaal.

Early reign

Atziri was a vain, narcissistic, and beautiful ruler, obsessed with eternal beauty and youth.[gt][gu] Although dissenters in her court were usually sacrificed, she sometimes took matters into her own hands.[gv][gw]

Atziri held court naked in a "throne room of mirrors", demanding the same of anyone wishing an audience with her.[3] Scholars believe that she used her "striking physical appearance" to solicit "courtly engagements in her favour", especially from men.[gx]

"When you have nothing to hide,

you have nothing to fear."

— Atziri, Queen of the Vaal[gy]

Kishara

Kishara, a Vaal explorer from Atziri's time from travelled "every coast, cove and bay" with the help of her thaumaturgical guide, Kishara's StarKishara's StarTo the wily Kishara's eye, a star brighter than the sun., fell out of Atziri's favour for an unknown reason.[gz] Atziri took Kishara's ship and made sacrifices out of her crew, forcing Kishara to escape and go into hiding. However, before she left, she hid Kishara's Star near the Causeway.[ha][hb]

Zerphi

During Atziri's reign, a Vaalish noble named Zerphi caught her attention for having lived to 168. He was a serial killer; over a period of 128 years, Zerphi had abducted, tortured, and murdered thirteen victims, all Gemlings of noble descent at their twentieth year of life. Post-mortem revealed that each victim had been tortured and mutilated slowly, all while they were still alive. When Zerphi himself was found dead next to his thirteenth victim, whose body appeared untouched, instead of that of a centenarian, it was discovered that his body resembled that of a twenty year-old.[hc]

Atziri tasked her premier thaumaturgist, Doryani, with the task of researching Zerphi's methods of achieving his longevity and vitality, ordering him to "make any effort within the realms of possibility, and to act without fear of question or consequence". The source of Zerphi's longevity may have been his devotion to an unidentified "god of death".[hd] Doryani's methods were brutal - countless Vaal between the ages of 16-26 were sent to him, yet none survived and his experiments proved unsuccessful.[he]

The Temple of Atzoatl

The Temple of Atzoatl's construction is said to have began in the final years of Atziri's reign, with it being completed shortly before the Vaal Cataclysm. Its exact location has been lost to time and, for the denizens of Wraeclast, its existence and purpose now lie within the realm of mythology.

At the peak of Atzoatl's influence, evidence suggests that Atziri herself moved her seat of power to there. This may be why she can be encountered in the Throne of Atziri area of The Temple of Atzoatl.[hf]

While little is known about the temple's true purpose, it was used, among other purposes, for the storing of riches acquired from trade with the Karui and Maraketh; the development of mechanical technology; worship of Corruption; Doryani's experiments with gems; playing host to the Cult of Purple Flame, which worshipped Chayula; the study of cold, fire, and lightning; the study of the control of the weather; the pursuit of immortality; sacrifice; the study of Legion monoliths; the crafting of weapons and armour; and the study of maps.[hg]

The temple was filled with ambushes and traps to deter potential plunderers. According to myth, the heart of the temple, the Temple Nexus, "imbued its denizens with vigour".[hh]

At The Temple of Atzoatl, the Vaal were repeatedly attacked by a certain "horrifying murderous entity". To defend, the Vaal stationed a "great many warriors" and bred "a great many creatures" to defend against the attacks.[hi] Little is known about this entity; its origins, motivations, and ultimate fate are up for speculation.

Fall of the Vaal

Despite Doryani's failures to replicate Zerphi's success, Atziri never lost her desire for immortal life. Under her reign, she began demanding life and blood sacrifice from her subjects. As Atziri grew more desperate and the blood of the empire began to run dry, more and more Vaal were sent to the altar every day - from the common thief to the most devoted thaumaturge or most trusted advisor, none were exempt. However, it was the lower classes that suffered the most.[hj] [hk][hl] The Vaal used these souls of those sacrifice to power their Vaal gems.[hm][hn][4]

For their sacrifice, Atziri promised immortality not just for herself, but for the entire Vaal population.[ho]However, due to her history of vanity and narcissism, it is questionable whether she had ever intended to save the other Vaal as opposed to keeping immortality only to herself.[hp]

Some of the Vaal were fully accepting of Atziri's sacrifices and rituals,[hq] but others expressed disillusionment and dissent[hr]Any such protestors were quickly arrested and at her altars.[hs]

Atziri became obsessed with gems as well as sacrifice. Soon, they were too ubiquitous in Vaal society. Historical recountings of the Vaal describe their bodies as were glittering, adorned with gems all over.[ht][hu]

Signs of the Vaal civilization's decline began showing even before The Fall.[hv][hw]

The Vaal Cataclysm

The Vaal Cataclysm, also known as The Fall, was a historical event that brought an end to the Vaal Empire, from which only 3,126 Vaal survived. The fate of Atziri, Doryani, and the rest of Vaal is unknown and up for speculation, even to Wraeclastian scholars.

Very little is known about the cause the Vaal Cataclysm. Under Atziri, Doryani's attempts to reach immortality grew in size and scope, until he began work on his final project. At the time of or in preparation for this project, Atziri took her treasures and moved them to Vaults of AtziriVaults of Atziri
Vaal Pyramid Map
Map Level: 71
Map Tier: 4
Guild Character: g
Chests have (2500-3500)% increased Item Rarity
Area contains no monsters
Chest drop scaling is disabled. (Hidden)
Found Items have (20-40)% chance to drop Corrupted in Area
"Should I depart this mortal coil,
so shall all of my treasures."
- Atziri, Queen of the Vaal
Travel to this Map by using it in a personal Map Device. Maps can only be used once.
.

The result of the catalytic reaction would be either immortality for all,

or death for all. It was a risk Doryani was willing to take.

Doryani's CatalystDoryani's Catalyst
Vaal Sceptre
Sceptre
Physical Damage: (102-122) to (170-230)
Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
Attacks per Second: (1.55-1.61)
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
Requires Level 75, 113 Str, 113 Int32% increased Elemental DamageSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Elemental Proliferation
Adds (65-85) to (100-160) Physical Damage
(11-15)% increased Attack Speed
(6-10)% increased Cast Speed
(30-40)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
0.2% of Elemental Damage Leeched as Life
(80-100)% increased Elemental Damage
The result of the catalytic reaction would be either immortality for all,
or death for all. It was a risk Doryani was willing to take.

The exact details of his experiments and its fallout are extremely nebulous due to lack of documentation. However, it involved manipulating the powers of the Beast, its thaumaturgy, corruption, gems, sacrifice, "communion", the "harvest moon", "sleep", "nightmare", maps, and possibly The Elder.[hx][hy][hz][ia][ib]

Doryani did not appear to be successful. Due to the cataclysmic nature of the event, little is known about what truly happened to the Vaal. However it is known that only 3,126 survived, to seek refuge with the nearby Azmeri. When asked about the Fall, none of the survivors could say what had happened. Over time, they assimilated into the Azmeri population until no Vaal remained. Despite the ubiquity of gems in the Vaal civilization, none of these survivors had any; when the Kalguur showed them an image of one, a "great panic arose" and the Kalguur were banished from the Azmerian mountains.[ic]

"... tattered, shambling survivors, bereft of their families, their wealth, and in many cases, their sanity."

— Trinian, "The Ancients", Book 5: The Fall

As for Atziri, she managed to preserve her beauty into as the cost of sacrificing her humanity,[id] relegated to a "nightmare realm" and unable to return to Wraeclast. Doryani's fate is unclear. In Atziri's "crimson nightmare" realm, she is joined by other Vaal who continue to sacrifice themselves to her over and over, only to rise again each time.[ie]The Trialmaster describes Atziri's realm of "crimson madness and nightmare" as being beyond the reach of his master, Chaos.

The Kalguur

Further information: Kalguur

The Kalguur are a race of people who originate from Middengard, a distant continent far east of Wraeclast. Little is known about their civilization or culture. The Kalguur do not use virtue gems - they are unable to get them to work for unknown reasons[if] - nor do they worship gods the way Wraeclastians do. Instead, Kalguuran runesmiths craft runes on Kalguuran armour to capture and shape starlight, giving power to their armour and weapons.[ig] Kalguuran runes on related item bases may be the source of the Ward defence mechanic.

"The priests of the Kalguur worshipped knowledge, not gods."

FaithguardFaithguard
Runic Helm
Ward: (51-63)Requires Level 25, 30 Str, 30 Dex, 30 Int+(20-30) to Intelligence
(25-35)% increased Ward
(40-60)% faster Restoration of Ward
(15-25)% increased Light Radius
Increases and Reductions to Maximum Energy Shield instead apply to Ward
The priests of the Kalguur worshipped knowledge, not gods.

Expedition to Wraeclast

The Vaal Cataclysm did not go unnoticed by the Kalguur. They experienced the shaking of the land, the appearance of a "crimson sun", and stars falling to the land like meteors, which they interpreted as an "Omen". In response, their king Cadigan the Third commissioned an "expedition" to that land, which would carry the Triskelion Flame for protection.[ih] The trip was led by Olroth, leader of the Knights of the Sun; Uhtred, High Priest of the Order of the Chalice; Vorana, Mercenary leader of the Black Scythes; and Medved, of the Druids of the Broken Circle.

Arrival

The journey was beset by "black clouds and red lightning" and lasted almost "two seasons". The rain and fish were poisoned and had to be cleansed by the Triskelion Flame.[ii][ij] Upon arriving to Wraeclast, the Kalguurans were attacked by "horrors" on all sides.[ik]

"On the seventh night", the clouds parted, revealing the stars. Olroth staked the Triskelion Flame and the group began building fortifications. After competing the "barrier rites", the Flame projected a "starlight barrier" with which they could withstand attacks.[il]

Discovery of the Vaal

The Knights of the Sun soon encountered the ruins of the destroyed Vaal Empire. In it, its former residents either "lay charred", dead, or rose again as undead, "glittering" and adorned with gems. Upon seeing this, Uhtred declared the gems "unclean".[im][in] Most of the Vaal had died in the streets while trying to flee. However, the richest nobles and priests locked barricaded themselves into their temples to guard their riches.[io] In the city of Utzaal, they had gone as far to open the waterways, drowning themselves to spite future looters. They were successful, as the Knights were unable to drain its waters to reach the treasure. However, they were successful with many of the other cities, establishing Wraeclast as a source of "wealth beyond imagination".[ip]

Colonisation

Recognizing the potential bounty of the land, more and more settlers began arriving to the landmass. First craftsmen, then merchants, freemen, followed by women and children. By the third year, a village charter was established. However, the influx of arrivals soon meant that the Triskelion Flame's starlight barrier would not be enough to protect them all.[iq] Vorana and her Black Scythe mercenaries learned to keep their distance, fighting the horrors with crossbows atop constructed walls. Ten more villages were soon established.[ir]

Trade with "island-men" (the Karui) and "mountain-men" (the Azmeri) soon began, despite the fact that they couldn't understand each other's languages. The Prime Remembrancer recorded some Karui songs for later deciphering and met surviving Vaal living with the Azmeri.[is] When he drew the shape of gem into the ground in the presence of the Azmeri, a "great panic" arose and the Kalguur were banished from the Azmerian ranges. Hearing this, King Cadigan the Third banned all gems and forbid them from being shipped to their homeland.[it]

The Kalguuran outposts became increasingly populated by "dissidents", "pariahs", "religious fanatics" and "lost-men", all seeking "new lives in a new land".[iu] However, while the Triskelion Flame could hold it at bay, it couldn't prevent the fallout of the Vaal Cataclysm, known to the Kalguur as the "curse of the land", from reanimating those who fell on "the fringes" as "shambling creature[s] in the night".[iv]

Medved's "nature-mystics" discovered that if there were any gems nearby upon a human's death, a "breath or a vapour" could be observed leaving the corpse and moving towards the gem. This likely refers to the mechanics of vaal souls previously documented by the Vaal. Upon seeing this, Medved declared that all humans possessed "some essence" not yet understood. For this, Uhtred declared him a blasphemer, who ordered for Medved to be banished to the fringes. Medved paid a "great sum" to avoid this fate and the matter was concluded.[iw]

Caravans and runners sent to "the fringes" did not return, and Olroth arrived to discover that they had "lost a great many of their number" by "horrors never before seen".[ix] Olroth and his Knights ordered an evacuation of the fringes, and set fire to the forests in an act that led to a "vast line of flame" burning from "the southern rivers to the northern sands". The reason for this drastic action was unclear. Upon returning, Olroth expanded the influence of the Starlight Barrier, increasing its range but severely weakening its strength. Olroth the Gallant soon instead became known as "Olroth the Grim".[iy]

The Broken Circle

Olroth encountered a new entity known as the "Empty-Eyed Fiend", whom he recorded slaying a young woman slated to begin warrior training upon her "Second Passage".[iz] Observing the capability of the horrors to evolve and adapt to the Kalguuran tactics, Medved and his nature developed a new tactic previously forbidden by their beliefs: the systematic culling out of a species of horror.[ja] Olroth and his knights used this strategy to completely wipe out the "Vorniculia". However, Olroth's efforts were continually frustrated by his inability to defeated the Empty-Eyed Fiend.[jb] Seeing that the Fiend could be damaged by neither "mortal blade" nor "mortal flame", Olroth resolved to use "the gems of power", despite the Azmeri's warnings.[jc]

Journeying into the night along, Olroth set out to defeat the Fiend alone, with a gem socketed the pommel of his sword. When he encountered the Fiend, his gem cast forth a "beam of starlight" that turned a missed slice into a "cutting lethal blow". He returned to town with the Fiend's head.[jd] The summer that the Knights of the Sun began affixing the gems to their weapons and armour, Medved of the Druids of the Circle went among the people: "The future-past has become clouded. Scrying pools in this land often remain tainted with crimson fog, but this is something new. The night that Olroth departed alone, I could no longer see the past. Thus, the future is unknown." His order became known as the Druids of the Broken Circle.[je]

Vorana, leader of the Black Scythes, approached Medved in the town square that held the head of the Empty-Eyed Fiend on a pike. She offered a gift of two axes with gem affixed along the handles, and the two began training with gems.[jf] Empowered by the use of gems, the Knights of the Sun held the horrors to a "stalemate". Many great heroes rose to prominence during this period. Annest, daughter of Medved and Corona, was sent back to the homeland to be raised in safety. Olroth's son, nearing his First Passage, went with her as guardian.[jg]

Priesthood conspiracy

A leader arose among horrors, capable of "intelligent deeds and direction". The horrors began striking where the barrier was weakest, or where the patrols did not cross. Medved sent a messenger in the dark, who was allowed to return alive. His fears apparently confirmed, Medved travelled into the night challenge the new leader, and did not return.[jh] Gwennen has "no doubt" that Medved had sought to challenge the leader of the horrors in a one-on one battle.[ji] High Priest Uhtred suspected treachery, and kept eyes and ears everywhere. They found that, every night, after fighting to exhaustion in the day, Olroth the Grim would steal into the dark, his eyes closed, as if he were asleep.[jj] Uhtred made many "devious" plans, in preparation for which he sent his son Owen back to the homeland to "avoid retribution". A week after the harvest, a dozen priests waited for Olroth outside his keep. They used "daggers of sacrament" to stab Olroth in his sleeping state. He was wounded seventy-one times, and fell. Vorana entered and killed all twelve in "in a single stroke".[jk]

Olroth was laid upon a bier and attended with medicine, bandages, and herbs. The people roared for the blood of the priesthood, but Uhtred claim to have no knowledge of the attack. On the verge of death, Olroth was encased in glass to "prevent his breath from escaping".[jl] In the town square, Vorana confronted Uhtred, asking him why his priests had killed Olroth. He admitted to the crime, responding that he had suspected Olroth of stealing into the night to fight for the horrors. With a scythe to his throat, Olroth promised that, within one week, the enemy would become "disorganized and listless", vindicating the priesthood. Vorana promised to execute him if he was wrong. Within a week, the enemy did not become disorganized and listless, and Olroth went into hiding in an "ancient site of power".[jm]

Medved's challenge

That week, a new leader arose among the horrors. It wielded two axes, and challenged any heroes that had a name for themselves to single combat. In forty-two days, it slew forty-two challenges. Vorana recognized that it was her "beloved" Medved, but ordered a full retreat and refused to accept its challenge. Two villages were destroyed.[jn]

Understanding that Uhtred had has reason, Vorana sent a messenger to speak with him, bearing a plan to draw back the starlight barrier. The Triskelion Flame would be able to completely protect a few villages safely, instead of the entire region weakly. Th survivors were evacuated to "the core lands", and Vorana found the proper rites to adjust the flame in Olroth's journal, which she sent to Uhtred by messenger.[jo] As the Kalguuran forces drew back, instead of retreating, the starlight barrier entirely vanished. She rushed to the Triskelion Flame's altar, only to find it empty. All of the ships in the harbour had been burned and sunk, save one, which had departed. Seeing this Vorana declared to the people that Uhtred was a traitor. The core villages became a "fortress tomb", defended by wall and iron, but inescapable. Upon retreating to Olroth's final resting place, his glass case was found shattered and empty. He was assumed to have arisen to fight the horrors.[jp]

Messengers were sent to the Karui and Azmeri, but never returned. New food could not be purified without the flame, and famine set in. Vorana knew that waiting was certain death. She performed the forbidden rites to insert gems into her own flesh, and left the walls.

The Shrine

"There is still one way out, one we dared not risk before, hidden under the earth and older than the oldest men... "
— The Prime Remembrancer

The survivors knew that Vorana was unlikely to return. However, one hope remained - an "ancient artifact" that had been found by the Order of the Chalice. Apparently, even the "oldest of men" had recognized its power and built a shrine around it. It was to that shrine Uhtred had fled to escape Vorana's wrath, where the survivors expected to meet him. However, the Kalguuran recounting ends just before reaching the destination.[jq]

They built a temple... around the mirror...
Under the earth... to hide from the night sky...
— Medved, on his death

The exact nature of the shrine is shrouded in mystery. Environmental clues suggest that the "oldest of men" were in fact members of the primeval civilization.[jr] The Prime Remembrancer's writings describe the shrine as an escape route, which could suggest that it is the same shrine referenced by the flavour text of Forbidden TomeForbidden TomeArea Level: (68-83)Mundus noster cecidit. Daemones ubique sunt. Librum
hunc in sacrarium conicio, ut forte alius viam inveniat...
Take this item to the Relic Altar in the Forbidden Sanctum to enter.
s.[js] The significance of the mirror is also unknown - no connection has yet been proven to either Kalandra or the Mirror of KalandraMirror of KalandraStack Size: 10Creates a mirrored copy of an itemRight click this item then left click an equipable non-unique item to apply it. Mirrored copies cannot be modified..

Aftermath

Vorana was eventually corrupted, and can be encountered as Vorana, Last to Fall. During her last stand, she was followed by a novice Remembrancer.[jt] Her voice lines suggest that part of her original consciousness is still present - however, she still attacks the exile. Medved can be encountered as Medved, Feller of Heroes, and summons cultists to aid him during the fight. he claims to still possess abilities of premonition. Olroth can be encountered as Olroth, Origin of the Fall in the Runic Stronghold subarea, next to the Triskelion Flame. Upon the exile's approach, the Triskelion Flame rises and reanimated him to attack the exile. During the encounter, the exile uses explosives to damage and eventually destroy the flame, defeating Olroth in the process. Uhtred can be encountered as Uhtred, Covetous Traitor in the Precursor Shrine subarea, emerging out of a giant mirror the attack the exile. Tujen concludes that Uhtred must have fallen too to the "corrupting madness", and slain all the survivors at the threshold of the shrine. However, he is unable to explain why Uhtred, who had never touched gems, had gone mad.[ju] Uhtred's dialogue may suggest that he underwent an experience similar to when Sirus when he was trapped with the Elder.[jv]

While Vorana and the rest of the Kalguur present assumed that Uhtred had taken the flame and sailed away, while Olroth was still fighting the horrors faithfully, the inverse appears to be true. Uhtred evidently did not sail away and burn the remaining ships, as he is at at the Precursor Shrine where he had been hiding from Vorana's wrath, and Olroth is instead the one next to the Triskelion Flame. The significance of this is uncertain, and it is unknown who really sabotaged the port.

The Eternal Empire

The Eternal Empire, or the Sarn Empire, is a faction of Wraeclast founded by the Azmeri, ruled by Emperors from its capital, Sarn. People who originate from this empire are known as "Eternals". Led by General Marceus Lioneye, is one of the factions that can be fought within the Domain of Timeless Conflict. The fallout of the Cataclysm resulted in the fall of the Eternal Empire. It was largely survived by the island of Oriath.[jw]

Imperialis Conceptus (1 IC)

Imperialis Conceptus, or the founding of the Eternal Empire, marks the first year of the Eternal calendar, 1 IC.

Tarcus Veruso led "eighty thousand tribesmen and women" of the Azmeri and descended the Azmerian ranges, heading down into the lands left behind by the Vaal Empire after the Vaal Cataclysm. However, although the majority did, not all Azmeri followed Veruso. The Azmeri of The Forest Encampment are the descendants of "their original culture", those who stayed behind.[1] To reach "the promised land", Veruso and his followers first had to traverse "the doomlands", lands ravaged by the fallout of the Cataclysm. Hunger set in, and the tribesmen may have resorted to cannibalism.[jx]

"Plant[ing] his banner" upon Azala Vaal, the former capital of the Vaal Empire, Tarcus Veruso founded the capital city of Sarn, and along with it, the Eternal Empire. According to Cadiro Perandus, the first Perandus market stall, later known as the Perandus Markets, was built on this day.[jy]

"The Vaal closed their eyes to flesh and stone, to blood and bronze. We are not Vaal. We are Azmeri. For now and forever, our eyes are open."

— Tarcus Veruso, on founding of Sarn

Reign of Tarcus Veruso

As Emperor, Veruso ruled as a "ruthless despot".[jz] He sealed and quarantined the "ancient Vaalish centres of power and knowledge", outlawing thaumaturgy in an effort to prevent a second Vaal Cataclysm. Those that "stained themselves" with "Vaalish folly" were burned for their sin. The "Tears of Maji", gems, were collected up and taken, buried under the mountains of Highgate. The caverns there were "sealed and forgotten".

He introduced the system of Legions and legionnaires, conquering many "lands beneath the Mantle" and clearing them of the "mindless constructs" and "fierce abominations" left after the Vaal Cataclysm.

The Ankh of Eternity

The Ankh of Eternity.

When Veruso's wife Chiara died during childbirth, he turned to the Ankh of EternityAnkh of Eternity"The amulet, it... whispers to me. Horrible things..." to try to bring her back.[ka] Paired with a specific "Azmerian ritual", the Ankh was said to have been a source of "true resurrection".[kb] The origin of the ankh is unknown, but the Azmeri likely already had it in their possession when Tarcus Veruso led them down into their new land. "Inscriptions" upon the ankh suggest that the Ankh was a gift to Veruso from the Vaal, more likely from one of the 3,126 survivors of the Fall.[1][kc]

Clarissa's dialogue suggests that the ritual resulted in Chiara becoming a monster, similar to what happened later to Tolman, but the Eternal records of the event were rewritten to describe a success in an effort to "cover up the truth [of the failure]".[kd] Afterwards, Veruso took the ankh himself and hid it "to the east", tucked away in a "shrine in the Quay".

Reign of Caspiro

Emperor Caspiro.

After Veruso's death, his successor was decided by the "Lord's Trial", an Azmerian tradition that had brought Veruso to power and would go on to inspire Izaro to build The Lord's Labyrinth. Caspiro, a "low-born legionnaire", was the only survivor of a "labyrinth" that had killed Veruso's only son, and was soon crowned Emperor Caspiro.[ke]

Caspiro's reign was cut short, just 5 years after Veruso's death. He was "dismembered" by an unidentified entity known only as "a dark being".[kf]

Azmerian writers of the time were "unified" in their description of a "portion of [their] Empire [being] cast into perpetual night", a "pervasive darkness" that enveloped what "would become the imperial heartlands". Wraeclastian historians are uncertain of the cause of these events", suggesting alternatives such as "peculiar weather patterns" or "thaumaturgical residue".[kg]

The "pervasive darkness" that Alano Phrecia drove away is "likely" the same darkness that the exile releases in the Vaal Ruins near the Forest Encampment. The Vaal Oversoul was merely a construct built to house that darkness, like a massive totem. The exile breaks that seal in the Vaal Ruins near the Forest Encampment. Later, the Apex is used in a Vaal temple to summon the darkness into the Vaal Oversoul's mechanical body so that it can be destroyed.[1]

Reign of Alano Phrecia

General Alano Phrecia avenged the death of the emperor, defeating the "dark being", dispelling the darkness and returning "the gaze of Solaris" to the "lands stretching from the foot of the Mantle to the Axiom Ranges". For this victory, the "Imperial heartlands" were named in his honour - land that translates the historical Phrecia Cathedral and the modern-day Fellshrine Ruins.

"... our legions drove the dark being deep into the recesses of its lair and sealed it away for eternity"

— Alano Phrecia, first Sacrato of Lurici, 35 I.C., on defeating the "dark being".

In the absence of a clear Veruso succession, Alano Phrecia was crowned emperor, beginning an "unbroken line of Phrecia emperors" that ended with Izaro.

Reign of Romira Phrecian

The Empress, Emperor Romira's wife, gave birth to two sons, whose father was Romira's brother. In "an act of vengeance", Romira held a banquet in which he fed her two sons back to her.[kh]

Night of a Thousand Ribbons

The cannibalism and incest of Romira and his family brought great shame onto his subjects.[ki][kj]

In protest of the Emperor's activities, Sarn was burned to the ground[kk] and Romira was desposed.[kl] This event is known as the Night of a Thousand Ribbons; after Sarn's reconstruction, royals of the Eternal Empire would continue to hold festivities celebrating this event on the same day.[km] This event is notable for being the celebration during which Emperor Chitus was betrayed and murdered by Mayor Ondar during the Purity Rebellion.

Reign of Izaro

Emperor Izaro Phrecius was the last Phrecian emperor of the Eternal Empire. Decades of incest and inbreeding had rendered him impotent. Unable to produce an heir, he turned to a "forgotten tome on a forgotten shelf" of the Sarn Library to decide his successor - a tome entitled 'Ancient Traditions of Azmerian Ascendancy'.[kn]

Izaro was inspired by the "Lord's Trial", a "rough-hewn maze festooned with wild animals and brutal traps" created by the Azmeri to determine their "chieftans". Tarcus Veruso himself, the "Prima Imperialus", was tested by one of these "trials" to a become the leader of the Azmeri. [ko].

Izaro saw himself not as a man, but as a divine saviour trapped in a man's body.

Izaro's DilemmaIzaro's Dilemma
Imperial Claw
Claw
Physical Damage: (81-90) to (207-230)
Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
Attacks per Second: (1.76-1.84)
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
Requires Level 68, 131 Dex, 95 IntGrants 46 Life per Enemy Hit(80-100)% increased Physical Damage
Adds 20 to 50 Physical Damage
(10-15)% increased Attack Speed
+(300-400) to Accuracy Rating
100% increased Global Physical Damage while Frozen
Izaro saw himself not as a man,
but as a divine saviour trapped in a man's body.

Inspired by the Lord's Trial, Izaro built The Lord's Labyrinth as a way to allow The Goddess of Justice to choose his successor. Izaro's labyrinth involved traps such as lava and "boobytrapped decoys", the latter of which killed a trapbuilder, Xirgil, in an accident during its construction.[kp][kq]

The High Gardens of Sarn were built by Izaro as a "test run" for the labyrinth, filling it with all sorts of "traps" and "nasty beasties". Convicted criminals were given a choice: Death, or going through the Garden. If they survived, they would be granted an imperial pardon. According to Hargan, no criminals ever made it through.[kr]

Perandus conspiracy

Unbeknownst to Izaro, treachery was already growing in his own court,[ks] primarily in the Perandus family. The Perandus family, especially Chitus Perandus, son of Julius Perandus, and his uncle Cadiro Perandus, resented Izaro and his Phrecian bloodline for having blocked their family's claims to the throne on the basis of their bloodlines. Cadiro saw the labyrinth as his family's "only clear shot" at "sovereignty".[kt]

Perandus gold has filled the imperial coffers.

Perandus minds have crafted this Empire into the marvel it is today.

And has a single Perandus ever sat upon the imperial throne? No.

— Chitus Perandus, Letters from Chitus, Letter 1

Three letters, sent by Chitus to his uncle, Cadiro, on the 3rd Kaso of Vitali, 1316 I.C., 1st Lunaro of Verusi 1317, I.C., 3rd Solaro of Divini, 1318 I.C., are known as the Letters from Chitus. These letters detail Chitus' plans to sabotage Izaro's plans for the Labyrinth and take the throne for himself.

In the first letter, Chitus expresses his dissatisfaction with Izaro's plans for the Labyrinth, believing that the Perandus family deserved the imperial throne far more than any "peasant or peon" emboldened by the opportunity.

In the second letter, Chitus describes three failed assassination attempts on Izaro's life, each time "astutely thwarted" by Izaro's men. Cousin Elano, an illegitimate member of the Perandus family, was executed as part of the failed assassination attempts to prevent any "inconvenient disclosure". Giving up the plans for assassination, Chitus turned to winning the Labyrinth for himself. Using the vast resources of the Perandus family, Chitus "purchased" several of Izaro's overseers, familiarizing himself with the Labyrinth's architectural plans.

In the third letter, Chitus describes training heavily with the duelist Kre Faarblood, a great swordsman of Sarn, only to have Faarblood tried and executed after Faarblood revealed that he was not the "noble blood" that he had claimed to be. He describes Izaro's various "hazards and living horrors", describing spikes that "pop out of the floor", spin on "shifting wheels", and roam about like "predators in search of prey", revealed to him by his bought overseers. Chitus arranged "hirelings" to place "discrete caches of supplies" scattered throughout the Labyrinth to support him during the trial, and concluded with a list of their names to Cadiro to have them executed.

In these plans, Chitus was "aided immeasurably" by his uncle, Cadiro.[5]

The Lord's Labyrinth

On the second Galvano of Azmeri, 1317 IC, Izaro opened The Lord's Labyrinth. To commemorate the occasion, Izaro had the remains of the first claimant", "the first to challenge its treacherous traps", gilded in gold.[ku] Among the first challengers were "The Son of Sarn", Chitus Perandus, and Weylin, an Ezomyte slave, "The Son of Ezomyr". Their journey through the labyrinth is recounted by poem environmental lore objects encountered in the labyrinth.

Chitus and Weylin helped each other through the labyrinth. Chitus was as the "Guide", directing them through dangerous traps and mazes, using his bought knowledge of shortcuts, tricks, and cached supplies to give them an unfair advantage. Weylin was the "Warrior", using his superior combat abilities to slay "beast and fiend". Weylin had entered the labyrinth with hopes of becoming emperor and freeing his people, the Ezomytes, of their subjugation under the Eternal Empire. To gain his trust, Chitus told him that he had similar plans, despite having no such intentions whatsoever. At one point, Weylin was badly injured and near death, and Chitus used one of his secrets to save Weylin's life. At another, Chitus was cornered by "slavering beasts", but was saved when Weylin "struck [them] down".

Near the end of the Labyrinth, Chitus betrayed Weylin by offering him a poisoned "flask". Weylin drank of it and died, allowing Chitus to exit the Labyrinth and "ascend" as the next Eternal Emperor.

"The Lord's Labyrinth: A Path of Exile Gamebook" was a supplementary product that told the story of the Labyrinth through the perspective of Weylin.[6] However, due to repeated inconsistencies with in-game sources, this narrative is generally not considered canon.[7][kv]

Reign of Chitus

On the first Kaso of Verusi, 1319 IC, Chitus was crowned Emperor of the Eternal Empire.[8]As emperor, his first action was to seal Izaro into the Lord's Labyrinth, trapping him in his own creation, in which he stayed until his death.[kw] The exile can still encounter Izaro as an enemy in The Lord's Labyrinth.

Emperor Chitus was a brutal and charismatic leader[kx] as vain as Atziri,[ky] who expanded his empire into neighbouring nations "at a great human cost".[kz] Chitus' rule was heavily influenced by his "Laureate Thaumaturge", the "Father of Dreams", Malachai.[la] In a Letter to Chitus, Malachai campaigned for the the formation of a "Thaumatocracy", or the integration of virtue gems and thaumaturgy into Eternal society.

Slave trade

During Chitus' reign, the Eternal Empire enslaved the Karui, Ezomyte, and Maraketh.[lb] Prominent members of the slave trade included Captain Sigmund Fairgraves, who shipped "Karui children" across the seas; Marceus Lioneye, who launched campaigns against the Karui and enslaved those he conquered; and brutal Ezomyte slavemaster Gaius Sentari.[lc][ld][le] The Marketplace was used a market for the Karui slave trade.[lf]

The bulk of slaves were to sent to "civilization camps" run by Gaius Sentari near Highgate. There, Malachai tasked them with the job of mining for and excavating the virtue gems that had been buried there by Tarcus Veruso. To further facilitate their ability to mine for gems, Malachai used them as test subjects on which he experimented with bodily transfiguration. Limbs were "stretched, contorted, double and triple jointed", and their eyes were "injected with gloom", which, in exchange for better night vision, forced them to squint and cower in the sun.[lg] The workers were severely underpaid relative to the value of the gems they uncovered. However, when they demanded higher wages, many were sealed shut in the mines by their overseers, never to escape. [lh]

The slaves also mined for Voltaxic Sulphite and Thaumetic Sulphite.[li] The exile can Delve for Voltaxic Sulphite in the Azurite Mines, also located under the mountains of Highgate. Some of the mined Thaumetic Sulphite, a hazardous substance that "fevered the blood" and "scorched the mind" of its slave handlers,[lj] was carried to a refinery near The Docks

Besides working in the mines, after being sold and auctioned off in markets, slaves were sent to work in mills and into the streets of Sarn, where they were regularly flogged and overworked to their deaths. Those who resisted were subject to being skinned and butchered.[lk]

Malachai

Malachai drew upon the work of Lazhwar, an old archbishop of the Eternal Faith, who had experimented with thaumaturgy and discovered maps to create the Eternal Laboratory.[ll][lm] He called Icius Perandus to his laboratory to help translate some "artefacts", possibly the Golden Pages, which described the events of the Vaal Cataclysm.[ln] Inspired, he built the Reverie Device, a precursor to the Map Device. He began inserting maps into it travelling into the "Nightmare".[lo]

After touching and interacting with gems, Malachai began having thaumaturgy-related dreams. In them, the Beast spoke to him, and began teaching him "lessons cloaked in Nightmare". He began working in a similar to purpose to Doryani of the Vaal, who Malachai described as one who "knew the truth". The truth to what, is uncertain.[lp]

Malachai began on the quest to create "the ideal gemling", a synthesis of human flesh and virtue gems.[lq] Volunteers were called forward to become the subjects of Malachai's experiments, where he attempted to "unlock the raw power hidden within Virtue Gems".[lr]

Seeking "otherworldly inspiration", Malachai was known to consume a substance known as 'Ghost Wine'. For that purpose, he created the Decanter SpiritusDecanter Spiritus"Man is blinded by the mud of his corporeal self. Only
through the transformation of the material into the
spiritual can we hope to taste the full body of life."
- Malachai the Soulless
, later found by Captain Fairgraves and left by him in The Marketplace.

Malachai created the institution of Gemling legionnaires, armies of the Eternal Empire led by a Captain and composed of men infused with virtue gems, not unlike the exile themselves.[ls] Gemlings, empowered by gems, were far more powerful than any contemporary human opponents and gave the Eternal Empire militaristic dominance over its enemies. As a failsafe, to prevent the gemlings from turning on him, Chitus received a large gem embedded into his chest, connecting the beating of his own heart to that of each legionnaire. If Chitus was to die, the gemlings would die also.[lt]

Dialla was originally a concubine of Malachai's, among many others in the Sceptre of God.[lu] She talked too much, "asked too many difficult questions", and was given to Malachai.[lv] They fell in love, and Malachai promised Dialla that she would become his Gemling Queen.[lw]

Maligaro

Maligaro was one of the The Godless Three, a group of thaumaturgists who studied under Malachai: Shavronne, himself, and Doedre. Shavronne devoted herself to the "study of transfiguration", and, obsessed with eternal beauty, was notorious for her vanity.[lx][ly] Doedre, known as Doedre Darktongue, was obsessed with "the meat" (human flesh) and is heavily associated with hexes and curses.[lz][ma] Maligaro, known as Inquisitor Maligaro, was a creative; however, he worked with flesh and blood instead of canvas and ink.[mb]

The Chamber of Sins, so named by Archbishop Geofri to express his contempt for it and its master, was built by Emperor Chitus as a laboratory in which Maligaro conducted his experiments.[mc] The unholiness of the Chamber of Sins was opposed by the nearby Phrecia Cathedral, modern day Fellshrine Ruins.[md]

Maligaro studied virtue gems, working in parallel with Malachai. A room of random support gems can be encountered in the Chamber of Sins (Level 2). For this purpose, he built Maligaro's SpikeMaligaro's SpikeMaligaro loved his tools, and took great
pains to keep them excruciatingly sharp.
. The Spike's purpose was to inject "Calibric Extantia", or the "corrupt energies locked within virtue gems", into human flesh. Malachai gifted the Transmutia Device to Maligaro in an effort to support his experiments.[me]

Besides humans, Maligaro also experimented with rhoas.[mf] While many of the subjects were not willing, one was: Raulo. Raulo was an assistant who offered himself up as a willing test subject to be injected with "Calibric Extantia" by Maligaro's SpikeMaligaro's SpikeMaligaro loved his tools, and took great
pains to keep them excruciatingly sharp.
. He and Maligaro entered a romantic, and possibly abusive homosexual relationship.[mg][mh] Maligaro injected Raulo using Maligaro's Spike, granting him "endless life and horrific deformity". In honour of his sacrifice, Maligaro renamed him Fidelitas, Latin for faithfulness or fidelity.[mi]

The Baleful GemBaleful GemThe withering glare of corruption, made
corporeal and pellucid in crystal.
was created by Maligaro as a byproduct of his efforts to "enhance" the abilities of virtue gems. By taking it and combining it with the venom, Black VenomBlack Venom"The spider is not defined by how
it lives, but by how it kills."
- Inquisitor Maligaro
, extracted from the Weaver, Maligaro created a substance known as "Black Elixir", proclaiming it to be "the most potent poison in existence".[mj]

The Purity Rebellion

The Purity Rebellion was an uprising led by High Templar Voll, who believed that gems and thaumaturgy were a "perversion" to the Empire.[mk]. He sought to overthrow Chitus, execute Malachai, outlaw thaumaturgy, and "purify" his empire. He was supported by Sarn poet and art critic, Victario Nevalius, who had grown disillusioned with Chitus' reign and thaumaturgy as a whole.

Ezomyte campaign

Bloody Flowers Rebellion (Derevi, 1333 IC)

Thane Rigwald of the Ezomytes killed reigning King Skothe and became the new king.[ml] He criticized Skothe for his complacency and indulgence in his kingship while the common Ezomyte people were being oppressed and enslaved by the Eternals, and not moving to rebel against or fight them.[mm][mn]

To enlist Rigwald's help in the rebellion, Voll tasked Victario to write him letters, hoping that the poet's words would be more effective than any politician.[mo][mp] He was right, and Rigwald began planning a rebellion. Not permitted to possess weapons, the Ezomytes had been training in secret for years.[mq]

On the 3rd Fiero of Dirivi 1333 IC, the Ezomytes rose to rebellion against Governor Gaius Sentari in the fields of Glarryn. So colourful were the thousand tartans and banners raised that the uprising became known as "The Bloody Flowers Rebellion". Though Sentari's Gemlings killed three Ezomytes for each one of their own that fell, the "Bloody Flowers" reached victory through "sheer fury-driven courage". The clans of Ezomyr, before divided, were brought together by the common enemy of the Empire after the victory at Glarryn.[mr]

"Today, clansmen, my sword is my voice!"

— Rigwald, at the Battle of Glarryn[ms]

After the defeat, Sentari fled to Sarn,[mt] only to return in Astrali with reinforcements drawn from the capital, Vastiri and southern garrisons. The weakening of forces in those areas was part of Voll's plan, as they set up the future attack on Lioneye's Watch in the south, the Maraketh ambush in the Vastiri Desert, and the final siege of Sarn.

Karui campaign

Karui unification

The Karui tribes were a scattered and unorganized peoples before Kaom arrived.[mu] Kaom went through each tribe, challenging their chieftans and slaying them, until the weaker leaders joined him voluntarily.[mv] One by one, he defeated and absorbed the tribes of Kiloava of the Valako tribe,[mw][mx] Akoya of the Ngamahu tribe,[my][mz] and Rakiata of the Tasalio tribe, among others.[na] Through sheer strength and ability of conquest, he unified the Karui under one name and one banner - his.[nb][nc]

Lioneye's Watch

Marceus Lioneye.

Accompanied by Victario, Voll visited King Kaom of the Karui in Ngamakanui, hoping to secure his assistance for the Purity Rebellion. On their arrival, they observed Kaom defeat Akoya in ritualistic combat for leadership of the Karui. With Kaom was his advisor Lavianga and his niece Hyrri. Despite viewing the Karui Way as "savagery",[nd] Voll needed the Karui to attack the southernmost Eternal Legion, stationed at Lioneye's Watch and commanded by General Marceus Lioneye.[ne] In exchange for his support, Voll promised Kaom sovereignty over his conquered lands on Wraeclast's south shore and freedom for the existing Karui slaves.[nf][ng] Lioneye, an archer who had one of his eyes replaced with a "golden-hued" gem, would be a formidable foe for Kaom.[nh][ni] At the feast table, Voll warned Kaom of the archery ability of Lioneye and his Gemling soldiers, suggesting to him that he too adopt archers. Enraged, Kaom responded that archers were forbidden by Karui tavukai, which forbade men from using long-ranged attacks like bows. That night, Voll set sail to meet Sekhema Deshret to negotiate the return of the Vastiri Plains in exchange for the support of the Maraketh.[nj]

"When eye meets eye, axe meets axe,

the remembered will walk the way unto the ancestors."

King Kaom, to Emperor Voll[nk]

Sailing under the cover of night on Wraeclast's South Shore,[nl] Kaom planned to use the element of surprise to defeat Lioneye. Landing on the Coast, Kaom's men were quickly detected by camps of legionnaires, who lit signal fires and alerted Lioneye of the attack.[nm] Lioneye fired volleys of incendiary arrows onto the Karui and their canoes, removing their element of surprise[nn], and cutting off their escape. As the Karui retreated, Lioneye ordered his men forwards, trying to catch them before their escape. Cognizant of Karui tradition forbidding men from weapons like bows, Lioneye and his men discarded their shields, believing them to be unnecessary and hindering their movement.[no] Lioneye and his Gemling Legion, empowered by virtue gems, would have slaughtered Kaom's men like "pigs in a pen" in a man-to-man fight on open ground.[np]However, Lioneye and his men were surprised by a battalion of female archers, among them Hyrri,[nq] who appeared over a cliff and hailed arrows over the defenceless Eternals. They had travelled to Thebrus and learnt archery with Voll's "finest military tutors".[nr]Enraged, Kaom attacked Victario, the originator of the archery plan, who rebutted that the archers were all women, and not men, satisfying tradition.

"... the final thoughts of Marceus Lioneye were naught but lament for his pride."

"It is dishonour for a man to kill another man from a distance."

Victario, to King Kaom, citing Karui tradition[ns]

Gaining the upper hand, Kaom attacked Lioneye and severed his arm. Lioneye pleaded to Kaom that he spare the women and children,[nt] but Kaom refused, executing Lioneye and slaughtering all of the Eternals present at the camp.[nu][nv] Upon killing Lioneye, Kaom "honoured" him by placing his decapitated head on his belt, HeadhunterHeadhunter
Leather Belt
Requires Level 40+(25-40) to maximum Life+(40-55) to Strength
+(40-55) to Dexterity
+(50-60) to maximum Life
(20-30)% increased Damage with Hits against Rare monsters
When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds
"A man's soul rules from a cavern of bone, learns and
judges through flesh-born windows. The heart is meat.
The head is where the Man is."
- Lavianga, Advisor to Kaom
.[nw] The discarding of their shields was the primary factor that led to the downfall of Lioneye and his men.[nx][ny] After the battle, Victario gave Hyrri a copy of "O' Eternal""O' Eternal""A symbolic piece of history,
from a time when people of all backgrounds
united against a common enemy."
, one of his books, with a dedication inside written for her.[nz] A legion monolith guarnteed to contain the Karui and Eternal factions encountered near Lioneye's Standard eternalizes this conflict, suggesting that the fighting may have begun at or eventually reached the Climb.[oa]

Axiom Prison

Kaom's victory at Lioneye's Watch secured a safe harbour for landing reinforcements and established the first ever Karui settlement on the Wraeclastian mainland.[ob][oc] He set his sights up north, and began advancing towards Sarn.

The next Eternal outpost in his path was the Axiom Prison, currently inhabited by its warden, Brutus; Shavronne of Umbra,[od] resident thaumaturge; and Kadavrus, assistant to Shavronne. Brutus and Shavronne prepared themselves for the Karui attack.[oe][of] Brutus allowed Shavronne to use him as a test subject" for her thaumaturgy to "transform" Brutus, in a "mad attempt at immortality".[og][oh] Brutus, turning mad, killed Shavronne and the other residents of the prison.[oi] The Karui, despite never having defeated Brutus, were able to reach as far as the Ship Graveyard, possibly through going around the coast by canoe.[oj] In the area past the Axiom Prison, Prisoner's Gate, Shavronne created a thaumaturgical "barricade" to cut off the pass to the Western Forest.[ok] Although it is unknown if Shavronne herself ever activated it, Piety actives this barrier in Act 1 when the exile approaches it in Prisoner's Gate to cut them off.

At an unknown point in time, the Karui settlements at Lioneye's Watch had been plagued by a "black spirit", resulting in social unrest[ol], raising of undead[om], and twising of the wildlife.[on] Taking his 500 "mightiest warriors", Kaom marched onto Highgate, led on by what he though was the voice of Tukohama, Karui god of War, but was really the voice of Malachai. He sought to lead the Karui "back to glory" and "wage war on Kitava, whom he blamed for the Karui's troubles on Wraeclast.[oo] The remaining Karui were led back to Ngamakanui by Hyrri on canoe.[op] Reaching Highgate without losing a single man, he was deceived by the Beast into slaughtering each of the 500 Karui he had brought with him, believing them to be "corrupted" by Kitava and the soil of Wraeclast.[oq][or][9] The Beast "devour[ed] his very life force", consuming him and making him a part of itself.[2] The timeline for these events are unclear, but he reached Highgate about twenty years before Deshret created Deshret's Seal and sealed the entrance to the Mines.[os] He ended up trapped in The Caldera of the King arena in Kaom's Stronghold.[ot]

Maraketh campaign

Defeat of Titucius (Vitali, 1333 IC)

Hector Titucius.

General Hector Titucius, Ezomyte by birth, was an Eternal commander who had his joints replaced with virtue gems.[ou][ov] Known as the "Scourge of the Maraketh", he had previous killed Sekhema Asenath of the Maraketh and taken their highest symbol of office, the Wings of VastiriWings of VastiriAnd mounting her mighty Roc, Garukhan, holy queen of the sky,
descended upon her enemies and their armies of darkness.
.[ow]

The information from the following military sequence is taken from Garivaldi's "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 4: The Red Sekhema's Saddle".[ox]

In exchange for her military support in the rebellion, Voll promised Sekhema Deshret, the Red Sekhema, the return of the Vastiri Plains to the Maraketh. She agreed on the condition that she have Hector Titucius' skin with which to fashion a rhoa's saddle. He agreed.

To this end, Deshret and her akhara (Maraketh for tribe) set a trap for Titucius and his Vastiri Legion using their knowledge of their environment. They had long been recording the comings and goings of "viscous" dust storms that ravaged the Vastiri Plains, and could predict one such storm within a day's march from Titucius' camp. To lure them there, Voll identified a number of Eternal spies within the Maraketh and fed them false information regarding a potential "tribal uprising".

On the third Galvano of Vitali 1333 IC, the desert storm and Deshret's akhara descended upon and completely destroyed Titucius and his Legion. Deshret claimed her prize, and it was said that there was "no more comfortable saddle in all of Vastiri than Deshret's".

Eternal campaign

Death of Geofri

In 1332 IC, Victario arrived at The Chamber of Sins in a carriage with Lady Dialla and Malachai. After being greeted by Maligaro, whom Victario remarked had gems implanted in his head, and his slave and assistant Raulo, they entered and observed the young Black Death, its venom, and the Baleful GemBaleful GemThe withering glare of corruption, made
corporeal and pellucid in crystal.
. Raulo mentioned that combining the venom with the gem would create the "Black Elixir", a poison "strong enough to kill even the most powerful gemling".[oy][oz] The guests observed Maligaro transform Raulo into Fidelitas with Maligaro's SpikeMaligaro's SpikeMaligaro loved his tools, and took great
pains to keep them excruciatingly sharp.
. Malachai told Maligaro that he would soon give him the Transmutia Device, which he claimed would allow him to "directly manipulate the intelligence that dwells within virtue gems."[pa]

Later that night, Victario snuck out to Phrecia Cathedral, using the code phrase "Death to Sin" and the sign of a templar descry on his palm to enter, indicating that he was a member of the Purity Rebellion. He came to Geofri, Archbishop of the Cathedral with warnings of the experiments occurring at the Chamber of Sins and of Maligaro's possession of the Transmutia Device. Sent by Geofri, Victario, along with a squadron of templars, returned to the Chamber of Sins and began demolishing Maligaro's documents and equipment,[10] making sure to pick up the Black Elixir for later. However, they were ambushed by Maligaro, his allies and his creations, who revealed to Victario that he had been under "thaumaturgical observation"[pb] since his arrival and began massacring the templars. Taking Victario prisoner, they moved on to Phrecia Cathedral. Geofri was slain at the foot of Corutino's shrine, a shrine dedicated to Saint Corutino the Golden Hand, with Maligaro's Etcher. Archbishop Geofri later reanimated as an undead guardian, who is later encountered by the exile guarding the Golden HandGolden HandAn open palm raised in peace,
cut down by the slaves of war.
in the Act 2 quest Through Sacred Ground.[1] In the chaos of the battle, Dialla, sympathetic to Victario's cause, freed him, asking him to cut her with a shard to broken glass to make it appear that he had overpowered her and escaped. Escaping through the Phrecian Forest, Victario left on boat for Sarn.

Siege of Sarn (Divini, 1334 IC)

On the way to lay siege to Sarn, Voll and his Army of Purity burned Maligaro and Doedre at the stake for, among other crimes, hereticy, torture, murder, and enslavement.[pc][pd][pe] Before his death, Maligaro created Maligaro's MapMaligaro's Map"Certain maps can only be rendered in the most vivid of viscera."
- Inquisitor Maligaro
, formed out of his own "viscera", which served to transfer his spirit into an "existential safe house" in Maligaro's Sanctum. Upon finding it, Geofri tried to destroy it, but failed and locked it away in the ruins of Phrecia Cathedral, modern day the Crypt under the Fellshrine Ruins (Act 7).[pf]

On the last day of Divini 1334 IC, High Templar Voll laid siege to Sarn, with the support of Ezomyte, Karui and Maraketh rebels under the respective leaderships of Thane Rigwald, Hyrri of Ngamakanui and Sekhema Deshret.[pg]

Battle at the Grain Gate

Returned to Sarn, Victario began work inciting the populace in rebellion. He began creating the Ancient Graffiti later encountered by the exile in The City of Sarn, The Slums, The Battlefront, The Docks, and The Ebony Barracks. Using the phrases "Monkey King" to refer to Emperor Chitus and "The Blackest Monkey" to refer to Malachai, the graffiti conveyed a highly critical view of the two and urged the Sarn population to revolt and "throw off" the Monkey King off of their "backs".[ph] Caught in the act of writing one of these graffiti by Sarn guards, Victario was saved by Marylene and a gang of rebels, who brought him to the underground Sarn rebel base hidden in the Sarn Sewers, where they attended to a romantic affair. The underground hideout was also where Victario kept his three stolen Platinum Busts.

At the Sarn Arena, Malachai demonstrated the power of Gemling legionnaires to Lord Mayor Ondar. He watched with horror as a single Gemling defeated four Ezomyte slaves,[pi] convicted for having conspired in the Bloody Flowers Rebellion despite there being no evidence to back up such a claim.[pj] At the Warehouse District with Victario, Mayor Ondar recounted this story. After learning from Ondar of Chitus' plan to create an entire army of said Gemling legionnaires, Victario resolved to lead an uprising and dethrone Chitus. Ondar begged Victario to promise to spare Chitus' life, but Victario was unable to give him his word.

Victario's rebellion began. First, they spread information about secret storehouses of food that Chitus had been stashing away for his legionnaires. Starving families started riots and caused Chitus to send his legionnaires to defend the storehouses, diverting troops away from the rebels' true target - the Grain Gate Garrion, a place Victario had identified as the most weakened by the diversions. The Templars, under Voll, Ezomytes, under Thane Rigwald, Maraketh, under Sekhema Deshret, and Karui, under Hyrri marched upon the Grain Gate.[pk]

Upon blasting open the Grain Gate, Victario's forces were met by a squadron of Gemling legionnaires, led by Emperor Chitus. Dialla, whom Malachai had adorned all over with gems, going so far as to implant them into her spine,[pl][pm] grabbed Victario and threw him against a wall, preparing to fire a blast and kill him. Marylene jumped inbetween them, saving Victario but sacrificing her life in the process. The forces of the Purity Rebellion were eventually pushed back by the Gemlings, Victario escaped, injured, and the attack on the Grain Gate was unsuccessful.[pn][po]

Assassination of Chitus

In the Sarn Slums, Victario grieved over Marylene's grave. Ondar approached him, offering condolences and discussed Chitus's role in abetting Malachai. Victario became convinced that Chitus had to be killed for the rebellion to be successful. He led Ondar into the rebel sewers and showed him the Black Elixir he had took from The Chamber of Sins, a poison he claimed to be potent enough to kill even Chitus. He demonstrated its effects on a captive Gemling, killing him.[pp]

Soon later, Ondar met with Dialla, Malachai, and Chitus on the Sceptre of God, where he raised concerns to Chitus about the Gemling legionnaires rising up and betraying him. In response, Chitus revealed that he had had a master gem implanted in his chest that connected the heartbeats of every Gemling legionnaire to that of his own. Thus, if he were killed, they would fall too. In anticipation of an assassination of Chitus, Malachai sent Official Orders to Captain Alsarus and his legion, requesting that they gather at "the warehouse"[pq] to that they would be "beyond the perimeter of his heart gem's influence".

"The heart of each soldier beats in time to the heart of his emperor."

Emperor Chitus [pr]

During the celebration of the Night of a Thousand Ribbons, Victario ambushed the event, crying out "Death to Sin!"[ps]. The waiters tore off their masks, revealing themselves to be undercover rebels and drew arms. Ondar, who had had gems implanted in him for this event,[pt] betrayed Chitus and killed him, impaling him[pu] with a claw infused with the Black Elixir.[pv] Mortally wounded but kept alive with the power of thaumaturgy, Chitus, enraged, cut down Ondar with an axe, splitting him in half.[pw] With the death of Chitus, the Gemling leonnaires fell, and Dialla and Malachai were captured.[px] After Chitus' death, grieving legionnaires buried him in the Imperial Gardens and a plum tree was planted over his grave.[py] The plums from that tree grew to be extremely poisonous.

Faced with the siege of Sarn and uprisings led by Victario in the Slums, Docks, and Warehouse districts,[pz] Lord Cadiro Perandus met with Voll on the 1st Sacrato of Phreci, 1334 and negotiated Sarn's unconditional surrender. A week later, Voll of Thebrus was crowned Emperor of the Eternal Empire.[qa]

In the months leading up to the revolt, Cadiro organised "steady stream" of "unremarkable carts and wagons" leading out of the capital. By the time House Perandus fell, he had stolen the entirety of the kingdom's treasury and hidden it in "caches throughout the land". The outstanding debtors of the Perandus family, of which there were more than that of any other family in the Empire, were trapped by the power of Prospero in eternal servitude to Cadiro after their deaths to defend these stolen troves.[5][qb] In return for his service, Cadiro signed a contract around this time with Prospero to prolong his existence.[qc]

Reign of Voll (1334 - 1339 IC)

Crowned Emperor of the Eternal Empire, Voll, the "Emperor of Purity", set to destroying the Empire's virtue gems, executing its thaumaturgists, cleansing it of thaumaturgy, and destroying its "signature extravagances".[qd]

Although he was initially sentenced to death by "living conflagration" in the Crematorium, Malachai saved himself by promising Voll a permanent "end to thaumaturgy" in exchange for his life.[qe] Voll's decision to trust Malachai would become known as a fatal mistake that led to the Cataclysm, an event that brought an end to the Eternal Empire.[qf] For over a year, in the Solaris Temple, Malachai worked on the Rapture Device, a device he claimed would able kill the Beast, the origin of all thaumaturgy.[qg][qh] He completed the Rapture Device on the first Fiero of Eterni 1336 IC.[qi]

The following day, Malachai and Lady Dialla, accompagnied by Voll and his Highgate Legion, arrived at the mountains of Highgate.[qj] They set up the Rapture Device in its current location in the Crystal Veins. First, to power it, they used The Eye of FuryThe Eye of Fury"Fear becomes Hatred.
Hatred becomes Fury.
Thus is Man transformed
from Martyr to Maker."
- Malachai
and the The Eye of DesireThe Eye of Desire"It is a cruel joke that
Man was born with more
Intent than Life."
- Malachai
, taken from King Kaom and Daresso respectively.[qk] Kaom had been lured to Highgate by the Beast/Malachai's voice disguised as Tukohama, but how or why Daresso reached Highgate is subject to speculation, even to Wraeclastian scholars.[ql] However, it is known that Daresso had left Sarn in search for a cure for Merveil's transformation into a siren at the hands of the Star of WraeclastStar of Wraeclast
Ruby Amulet
Requires Level 28+(20-30)% to Fire ResistanceGrants Level 10 Frostblink Skill
(30-50)% increased Cold Damage
+(10-15)% to all Elemental Resistances
60% increased Area of Effect of Hex Skills
You cannot be Cursed with Silence
Frostblink has 50% increased Duration
Corrupted"I offer to you an eternal oath
that binds your heart to mine;
a bond that not even death will break.
Will you accept?"
- Daresso, to his beloved
.[qm]

Malachai's true purpose was to use the Rapture Device to tear a hole in the Belly of the Beast, allowing him to enter the Black Core and take control, giving himself absolute power over thaumaturgy and the ability to trigger the Cataclysm.[qn] Malachai planned to betray Dialla, and "break her heart" by telling her that she had to sacrifice herself to "fuel" the device.[qo] Before activating the Rapture Device, he wrote Malachai's Dedication, dedicating it to his deceased pupils Maligaro, Doedre, and Shavronne. At some point, he revived the three, and tasked them with guarding three vital organs he had left behind, Malachai's HeartMalachai's HeartMy heart forces blood through my veins.
But one who may bleed may die, and
death is no fitting end to genius.
, Malachai's LungsMalachai's LungsMy lungs breathe the same air as
the foolish and the weak. May I be
yet another step removed from them.
, and Malachai's EntrailsMalachai's EntrailsMy organs tether me to mortality
like a chain. This chain holds me
from my true potential.
.[qp] These organs were the only objects that tethered Malachai to mortality.

However, Dialla was too "selfish", and, despite Malachai's begging, she did not sacrifice her life and only a small rupture was created.[qq] Without apparent cause for her longevity, Dialla would remain alive for centuries in the Solaris Temple.

The Cataclysm (~1339 IC)

The Cataclysm brought an end to Voll's reign and the Eternal Empire as a whole. Due to the devasting nature of the event, first-person recollections and general sources discussing this event are scarce. For reasons unknown even to Wraeclastian scholars, the effects of the Cataclysm were mostly confined to the Wraeclastian landmass, notably not affecting the island of Oriath.[qr] While Wraeclast's flora and wildlife were spared from the worst effects of the Cataclysm, the animals and soil have experienced mutations and corruption.[qs][qt][qu] The appearance of water elementals and rock elementals may have been caused by the Cataclysm.[qv]

Humans experienced the rotting of living flesh, nightmarish visions, tentacles growing from one's body, and general madness.[qw][qx][qy][qz] Gemlings seemed to have been especially affected.[ra] In Sarn, the sun turned in to an "orb of blood", and the sky was thrown into darkness by a tempest that had descended from the Highgate. Within an hour, the capital had fallen. Victario was killed.[rb][rc] In Ngamakanui, they experienced the moon "turning crimson", fire raining from the sky, and the boiling of the sea.[rd] Tempests and plagues were also observed, although they eventually passed.[re] The dead were reanimated.[rf] Gemlings and citizens of Sarn were transformed into the Undying, mindless monsters that could live for hundreds of years.[rg][rh][ri]

During the first moments of the Cataclysm, General Adus and his elite legionnaires sought refuge in the Highgate Refinery.[rj]

Voll, horrified by his failure, escaped to the Dried Lake and wrote Voll's Confession, apologizing to his "Empire of Purity" for his folly and begging it to survive him. He and his undead legion stayed there for centuries, harassing and attacking the nearby Maraketh at Highgate.[rk]

The year after the Cataclysm, Wraeclast suffered an especially harsh winter, killing many of its few survivors.[rl][rm]

Deshret's Seal

Twenty years after Kaom and his warriors descended into Highgate, Sekhema Deshret and her 'akhara', the Kiyato, seeking to end the source of the corruption.[rn] However, reaching the entrance to the Mines, she "faltered", and instead chose to seal the entrance shut.[ro] The entrance was sealed before all of the miners inside could evacuate, resulting in many having been trapped below.[rp] The humanoid monsters encountered by the exile in The Mines Level 1, The Mines Level 2, and The Crystal Vein, such as Pocked Miner, Pocked Goliath, and Tunneler may be those same miners, kept alive by the thaumaturgy of the Cataclysm.

At one point, Voll killed Deshret herself and took from her the key to opening the seal, Deshret's BannerDeshret's BannerWhen the sun sets, the plains should be red..[rq] Deshret's soul was later captured by the Godless Three and trapped in The Mines Level 2.

Oriath

Main page: Oriath

Oriath is a small island off the south-east coast of Wraeclast founded by the followers of Innocence banished from the Azmeri.[rr][rs] Notably unaffected by the fallout of the Cataclysm, Oriath largely served as the successor to the Eternal Empire.[rt][ru] Oriath is governed by a theocratic dictatorship from its capital of Theopolis by the Order of the Templar, led by the High Templar.[rv] Building its wealth off of the back of Karui slaves, the Oriathans built their empire on naval mobility.[rw][rx]

Daresso and Merveil

Further reading: Daresso, Merveil

Daresso grew up fighting in the Grand Arena of Theopolis. At thirteen, he fought beasts and animals, and at fifteen, he fought and defeated Barkhul.[ry]

During a fight in the Grand Arena, Daresso was near death. However, he looked up and suddenly locked eyes with Merveil, who was watching. He fell in love, and defeated his opponent with newfound purpose.[rz] Daresso soon challenged the reigning King of Swords, champion of the Grand Arena. A giant of a man, faster and stronger than Daresso, it took over an hour before Daresso finally defeated him, pushed on by his love for Merveil. As he slew his opponent and became the King of Swords, Daresso knelt in the sand, and asked Merveil's hand in marriage.[sa]

When Daresso and Merveil were wed, a "most elaborate ceremony" was held. Walking down the Basilica aisle, Merveil's wedding dress was so long that it took six people to carry its train.[sb]Merveil's Wedding DressMerveil's Wedding Dress"Let's just hope she wasn't wearing it when she wandered into the sea!" can now be encountered by the exile as a Heist target. As a present, Daresso gave Merveil the Star of WraeclastStar of Wraeclast
Ruby Amulet
Requires Level 28+(20-30)% to Fire ResistanceGrants Level 10 Frostblink Skill
(30-50)% increased Cold Damage
+(10-15)% to all Elemental Resistances
60% increased Area of Effect of Hex Skills
You cannot be Cursed with Silence
Frostblink has 50% increased Duration
Corrupted"I offer to you an eternal oath
that binds your heart to mine;
a bond that not even death will break.
Will you accept?"
- Daresso, to his beloved
, a necklace implanted with a virtue gem once found in the throat of Kalisa Maas, a renowned opera singer. The necklace gave her a great singing voice, which she used to perform in the largest concert halls of Oriath.

However, the amulet slowly transformed her. She began hearing Kalisa's voice in her dreams, and she slowly transformed into a siren. Around 1450 IC, Daresso left Oriath in search of a cure. Inexplicably, despite having been dead for a hundred years,[sc] his spirit found itself trapped by Malachai in Daresso's Dream at Highgate, where he was exploited for his spirit of desire.[sd]

Merveil found her way to Siren's Coast, at this point entirely transformed as a siren. She would establish herself there, creating a monstrous brood of her daughters as she awaited Daresso to return. Legendary pirate Weylam Roth, in an attempt to prove he was still virile even his old age, attempted to kill Merveil. He was eaten alive by Merveil after the Black Crest was wrecked upon the rocks.[se] Some part of her human consciousness survived, but was overpowered by the siren corruption.[sf]

On Wraeclast

Path of Exile 1

The dates on the Letters of Exile range from 1597 IC to 1599 IC and the Incursion trailer starts to count down from 1600 IC. This allows an estimate of some point during the campaign or endgame taking place during 1600 IC.

While the exile's backstory depends on the class chosen, they are always an Oriathan exiled for various crimes to Wraeclast on High Templar Dominus' orders.[sg] The Marauder is a Karui warrior exiled for rebellion after three years of enslavement. The Witch was exiled for killing the children of a mob that had burned her home, likely in protest of her black magic. The Scion was the heir apparent to a wealthy family, exiled for murdering her suitor in an arranged marriage her family had tried to force her into. The Ranger was exiled for poaching and hunting on the lands of wealthy landowners. The Duelist was a gladiator of the Grand Arena exiled for murdering a noble on the spot when they had insulted them. The Shadow was an assassin exiled to clean up a loose end after a job. The Templar was a member of the order, exiled for questioning the templar beliefs and leadership.

Act 1

The exile washes ashore onto The Twilight Strand after the ship carrying them to Wraeclast was shipwrecked. In the quest Enemy at the Gate, the exile defeats Hillock and earns access to the Lioneye's Watch, the historical site of Lioneye's last stand against Kaom. The exile retrieves the Medicine ChestMedicine ChestDoctor "Shaky Hands" Opden travelled with only the
finest medicines and antidotes... and a curiously
generous supply of opiates.
from The Tidal Island for Nessa in Mercy Mission and clears The Fetid Pool for Tarkleigh, killing Kadavrus the Defiler, Shavronne's historical surgeon in the process. The exile collects the Ammonite GlyphAmmonite GlyphWhen put to the ear it whispers not of
the sea, but long dead incantations.
, Haliotis GlyphHaliotis GlyphIts corrugated surface brings a strange tingle
to the fingertips. This is no mere decoration.
, and Roseus GlyphRoseus GlyphIts pleasing sheen remains even in shadow,
as if it were somehow lit from within.
in The Mud Flats to gain access to The Submerged Passage. In the Submerged Passage, they enter The Flooded Depths to defeat The Dweller of the Deep. They exit to the The Ledge, continue to the The Ledge, and enter The Lower Prison.

After ascending to The Upper Prison, the exile is taunted by Piety before they encounter and defeat Brutus, Lord Encarcerator in The Warden's Quarters to gain access to Prisoner's Gate. At Prisoner's Gate, Piety activates an ancient thaumaturgical barrier once created by Shavronne as a safeguard against the Karui invasion. Forced to take an indirect route, the exile enters The Ship Graveyard. In The Marooned Mariner, the exile enters The Ship Graveyard Cave and retrieves the AllflameAllflameDistilled from naked ambition and unfettered obsession,
the Allflame emanates a silvern warmth like no other,
and engulfs those moths fool enough to embrace it.
for Fairgraves before defeating them. The exile continues into The Cavern of Wrath and The Cavern of Anger to defeat Merveil, the Siren in Merveil's Lair and enter Act 2.

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5

Act 6

Act 7

Act 8

Act 9

Irasha

Irasha is a warrior who seeks to uphold traditional Maraketh values and ways.[sh] She believes very strongly in female leadership, to the point of misandry.[si] During her ritual of womanhood, she lost her sister to the Maraketh Scorpion.[sj] At twelve, she was sexually assaulted by a group of three men who came out of the Vastiri Desert; when they were finally caught, she saw to the executions herself.[sk]

Irasha contests Tasuni for the succession of Oyun as sekhema. While Vanja considers her a "stuck-up elitist", Petarus prefers her for being "strong, stable and traditional".[sl]

Act 10

League content

Heist

In Path of Exile: Heist, the exile is tasked by the rogues of the Rogue Harbour to work with them to complete heists and grand heists.

Expedition

Main page: Expedition

In Path of Exile: Expedition, the exile meets Gwennen, Tujen, Rog, and Dannig, Kaalguurans who have returned to Wraeclast to unearth the secrets of their pasts. Rog claims descent from Owen, son of Uhtred, and Gwennen & Tujen from Annest, daughter of Vorana and Medved.[sm][sn][so]

The King

There is an ongoing civil war between the King and his Royalists and those who oppose him. When asked about the King, the Kalguur on Wraeclast are apprehensive to speak about him, lest the King hear about it and punish them. Their desire to travel to Wraeclast may be partialy motivated to escape from his reign.

Failed Rebellion

When asked about Luck, Gwennen's dialogue refers to a failed rebellion, during which she was saved from an incoming arrow by another that deflected it in its path. However, if the exile asks again about the rebellion, she will pretend that she never talked about it. When asked again, she will substitute the failed rebellion for "an unspecified war".[sp]

Sanctum

In Path of Exile: Sanctum, the exile meets Divinia, an archivist of the Templar order returning to Wraeclast in an effort to investigate ancient Templar in the Forbidden Sanctum found under the Fellshrine Ruins.[sq][sr] Divinia comments that the "newcomers" that "emerged from the shrine" (referred to by Crystallised OmniscienceCrystallised Omniscience
Onyx Amulet
Requires Level 61+(10-16) to all AttributesModifiers to Attributes instead apply to Omniscience
+1% to all Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience
Penetrate 1% Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience
Attribute Requirements can be satisfied by (15-25)% of Omniscience
That winter, scorched refugees emerged from the shrine,
speaking only in strange tongues. They prayed to a new
symbol of power, not out of love, but out of fear.
, The Gilded ChaliceThe Gilded Chalice
Processional Relic
Requires Level 64Duplicates up to 4 random Offer Rewards upon defeating the Herald of the Scourge
Cannot recover Resolve
Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 75
This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
Unmodifiable"He took the newcomers' symbol and made it his own. Finally, they flocked to him.
Finally, he had the power and wealth he so desired." - Lycia, the Heretic
Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
, The Night LampThe Night Lamp
Urn Relic
Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops an additional Forbidden Tome
No Resolve Mitigation, chance to Avoid Resolve loss or Resolve Aegis
This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
Unmodifiable"The newcomers were terrified of fire. He used their fear to control them, to lay the
seeds of unquestioning faith. He claimed only his god could protect them." - Lycia, the Heretic
Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
) spoke a completely unknown language of completely different grammatical structure that had since, unfortunately, been lost to history. She expresses frustration over not having been able to locate said "elusive shrine".[ss]

In the sanctum, the exile encounters Lycia, a former templar who had become disillusioned with the faith an investigated the history of Sin and Innocence, leading to the revelations described in the sanctum's unique relics.

Necropolis

Main page: Necropolis

In Path of Exile: Necropolis, the exile meets Arimor, an undertaker, who tasks the exile with using the Lantern of Arimor to reveal monsters haunted by ghosts from the Eternal Empire, defeating them, and bringing their corpses to The Necropolis.

Arimor

Main page: Arimor

Arimor describes himself as "the last true citizen of the Eternal Empire".[st] He claims descent from Balabus Arimor, a preacher from Chitus' time who worked to achieved eternal life from sacrifice.[su] Arimor comments to the exile that their name is very strange.[sv] It may be notable that "Arimor" is "Romira" spelt backwards.

Arimor claims to have worked with several exiles before the player's, among them Torr Olgosso and Igna Phoenix, with the latter having previously set his lab on fire.[sw] Mastermind Catarina was also once his apprentice, although she betrayed and left him. After her death, Arimor found and retrieved her body, commenting that he would not use it for his "rites".[sx]

Arimor tasks the exile with defeating monsters all over Wraeclast that have been haunted by various spirits. Among these spirits are those that belong to historical families from the Eternal Empire, among them the Grattus, Veruso, Phrecia, Perandus, and Nevalius families.[sy] While exocising the spirits to create items, Arimor refers to several gods, notably among them "Thruldana", a god that has never been mentioned before.[sz]

When asked about his job's purpose, Arimor refuses to explain to the exile. However, his admiration of Chitus, his work with Catarina, Master of Undeath, and mention of continuing his bloodline's work[ta] make it extremely likely that his work involves achieving eternal life from sacrifice.

The Allflame

Main page: Allflame

When AllflameAllflameDistilled from naked ambition and unfettered obsession,
the Allflame emanates a silvern warmth like no other,
and engulfs those moths fool enough to embrace it.
is brought to Arimor, he exclaims that the item has a "long and storied history of tragedy and misery", and warns the exile to keep its light away from the graves, but refuses to tell the exile its true nature. He also alludes to a certain "little disaster" that it caused in the path, apparently infamous, likely caused by its light falling on corpses.[tb]

See also

Notes

  1. The information on this page is primarily aggregated from ingame sources like NPC dialogue, flavour text on unique items, and environmental lore. However, GGG forum posts, Q&As, interviews, and physical merchandise may also be consulted, as long as they remain congruous with what has been established ingame.
  2. Navali, on "The Future-Past"
  3. The Trialmaster, "The Beginning of Time"
  4. Kalandra, Ancient Etchings I-III
  5. Kalandra, on Abyss encounter start, Fishing encounter start, and Bestiary encounter end respectively.
  6. Kalandra, Ancient Etchings V, VI
  7. Order of the Djinn, Reliquary Scarabs
  8. Kalandra, Ancient Etchings VIII
  9. "The Redblade Caldera"
  10. El'Abin's VisageEl'Abin's Visage
    Fencer Helm
    Armour: (210-294)
    Evasion: (210-294)
    Requires Level 43, 49 Str, 49 Dex+(20-30) to Strength
    +(20-30) to Dexterity
    (80-120)% increased Armour and Evasion
    (15-25)% increased Rarity of Items found
    Has a Crucible Passive Skill Tree
    Crucible Passive Skill Tree is removed if this Modifier is removed
    As the fire remnants of our outpost were subsumed into the caldera,
    a thunderous voice echoed across the barren landscape,
    "Your fragility is your folly. May others rise where you have fallen."
    - El'Abin, Bloodeater
  11. Catarina, to Korell Goya on his death
  12. Redblade TramplersRedblade Tramplers
    Ancient Greaves
    Armour: (377-522)Requires Level 46, 82 StrAdds (2-5) to (7-10) Physical Damage to Attacks
    (5-10)% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
    (150-200)% increased Armour
    +(50-70) to maximum Life
    +(20-30)% to Fire Resistance
    25% increased Movement Speed
    Unaffected by Burning Ground
    Our home was swallowed beneath
    the great mountain for our complacency.
    Now we must prove our value to the Molten One
    by sating his hunger for life.
  13. The RedbladeThe Redblade
    Gladius
    One Handed Sword
    Physical Damage: (185-221.2) to (295-358.4)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.30
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
    Requires Level 60, 113 Str, 113 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy RatingAdds (20-25) to (40-50) Physical Damage
    (150-180)% increased Physical Damage
    Gain 100 Life per Enemy Killed
    +(400-500) to Accuracy Rating
    Has a Two Handed Sword Crucible Passive Skill Tree
    Crucible Passive Skill Tree is removed if this Modifier is removed
    Its forging marked the melding of man
    and Titan against the rising darkness.
  14. The Geomantic GyreThe Geomantic Gyre
    Highborn Staff
    Staff
    Physical Damage: 48-145
    Critical Strike Chance: 8.25%
    Attacks per Second: 1.15
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 52, 89 Str, 89 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a StaffHas 1 Socket
    (150-200)% increased Spell Damage
    (80-120)% increased Spell Critical Strike Chance
    +(150-200) to maximum Mana
    Gain 150 Life per Enemy Killed
    Has a Crucible Passive Skill Tree with only Support Passive Skills
    Crucible Passive Skill Tree is removed if this Modifier is removed
    For their mortal allies, the last Titans forged a mighty staff,
    one that could safely hold the first unearthed virtue gem.
  15. Primeval Remnant
  16. The darkness theme fits well, and Titans falling to the "innermost depths of the world" makes sense as the Lightless are known to inhabit that place.
  17. "Proto-Vaal" is the internal name for Delve's Primeval Chamber and The Crystal King's Throne nodes, one of the tags on Aul ("delve_protovaal_boss"), prefixes all of Aul's skills, is used in his name for his dialogue (DelveProtoVaalCityBoss), is the internal name for High Lithomancer (ProtoVaalMapBoss), a related map boss. However, the term "Proto-Vaal" has never been encountered in-game.
  18. The Crimson Scribe is a Heist client of the Ring whose targets of the Seal of SolarisSeal of Solaris"It is my belief that Solerai, from the Maraketh legend, is Solaris herself in another system of
    myths. If I can prove that, I can begin piecing together a true history of the Winter of the World."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
    and Seal of LunarisSeal of Lunaris"I have a suspicion that the Maraketh Sekhema of legend, Lundara, is the same historical
    figure as the Azmeri and Eternal goddess Lunaris. The Seal may prove that."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
    indicate an interest in the Winter of the World
  19. Aul's UprisingAul's Uprising
    Onyx Amulet
    Requires Level 55+(10-16) to all Attributes+(20-30) to Intelligence
    (15-20)% increased maximum Energy Shield
    +(50-70) to maximum Life
    Hits against Nearby Enemies have 50% increased Critical Strike Chance
    <Random Intelligence aura> has no Reservation
    It was not his fearlessness or ferocity, nor his tactical genius,
    it was his leadership that earned Aul, the Last King, his crown.
  20. Cadiro, on Aul's UprisingAul's Uprising
    Onyx Amulet
    Requires Level 55+(10-16) to all Attributes+(20-30) to Intelligence
    (15-20)% increased maximum Energy Shield
    +(50-70) to maximum Life
    Hits against Nearby Enemies have 50% increased Critical Strike Chance
    <Random Intelligence aura> has no Reservation
    It was not his fearlessness or ferocity, nor his tactical genius,
    it was his leadership that earned Aul, the Last King, his crown.
  21. The Price of PrescienceThe Price of Prescience5Vaal Temple Map
    Map Tier: 16
    Delirium: 100%
    Corrupted
    The strange voice showed Aul a future where his legacy was forgotten, where new cultures broke themselves upon Aul's ruined world.
  22. Sin, "The Origins of the Gods"
  23. Sin, "Shavronne's Soul"
  24. Petarus and Vanja, "The Old Gods"
  25. Cadiro, "Prospero"
  26. Niko the Mad, "Prospero"
  27. The Warden of Eaves, "The Catha"
  28. The Warden of Eaves, "The Mórrigan"
  29. The Warden of Eaves, "The Draíocht"
  30. The Warden of Eaves, "The Goddess"
  31. The Warden of Eaves, the Statue of the Goddess
  32. The Warden of Eaves, on the Warring Sisters Statue
  33. Sin, "Lunaris"
  34. Captured soul (Lunaris upgrade 1 of 3)
  35. Captured soul (Lunaris upgrade 2 of 3)
  36. Captured soul (Lunaris upgrade 3 of 3)
  37. Viridi's FingerViridi's Finger"It supposedly causes enormous plants to grow from almost any soil. The myth claims we
    need to sacrifice a baby to make it function, but that's a bit grotesque, even for me."
  38. Tangmazu, The Solaris Temple Level 2 (Act 8)
  39. Tangmazu, The Lunaris Temple Level 2 (Act 8)
  40. Sin, "Lunaris"
  41. Sin, "Solaris"
  42. The summarized storyline goes as follows: Solaris woke up one day bound and tortured by shapened steel. After many days during which the sun did not rise, she was saved by a faithful priest, Kulric. After escaping, she was furious, and not knowing her true captor was Tangmazu, blamed her sister. She set a trap for her, imprisoned her within the earth, and slaughtered her followers. Solaris tortured her sister in search of confession, who did not speak a word. Eventually, Lunaris was rescued by her last follower Kulina. After escape, she prepared for war; the sisters are implied to be fighting to the very day.
  43. Seal of SolarisSeal of Solaris"It is my belief that Solerai, from the Maraketh legend, is Solaris herself in another system of
    myths. If I can prove that, I can begin piecing together a true history of the Winter of the World."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
    , Seal of LunarisSeal of Lunaris"I have a suspicion that the Maraketh Sekhema of legend, Lundara, is the same historical
    figure as the Azmeri and Eternal goddess Lunaris. The Seal may prove that."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  44. Scion, "Ryslatha"
  45. Sin, on The Puppet Mistress
  46. Note her appearance in Act 7 as well as her title.
  47. Sin, "Ryslatha's Origin"
  48. The Broken CenserThe Broken Censer
    Tome Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops 2 additional Forbidden Tomes
    Rooms are unknown on the Sanctum Map
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 75
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"His followers were too small in number to spark divinity, so he turned to a greater
    power: hatred. He vilified his brother, sparking zealotry, and the change finally began."
    - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  49. The Hour of DivinityThe Hour of Divinity
    Censer Relic
    Requires Level 64Duplicates up to 2 random Offer Rewards upon defeating the Herald of the Scourge
    Cannot have Boons
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"They ascended together, one unwillingly. The vilified became black as coal, and the
    lauded, golden. After a lifetime of ambition, he finally had his heart's desire. It only
    cost him his brother." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  50. The First CrestThe First Crest
    Coffer Relic
    Requires Level 64This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Aureus Coins are converted to <3 variants> upon defeating the Herald of the Scourge
    Unmodifiable"In pursuit of divinity, he tried many times to found a religion. Few followed his
    initial symbols and proverbs. He needed something greater. A symbol none could
    deny." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  51. Crystallised OmniscienceCrystallised Omniscience
    Onyx Amulet
    Requires Level 61+(10-16) to all AttributesModifiers to Attributes instead apply to Omniscience
    +1% to all Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience
    Penetrate 1% Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience
    Attribute Requirements can be satisfied by (15-25)% of Omniscience
    That winter, scorched refugees emerged from the shrine,
    speaking only in strange tongues. They prayed to a new
    symbol of power, not out of love, but out of fear.
  52. The Night LampThe Night Lamp
    Urn Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops an additional Forbidden Tome
    No Resolve Mitigation, chance to Avoid Resolve loss or Resolve Aegis
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"The newcomers were terrified of fire. He used their fear to control them, to lay the
    seeds of unquestioning faith. He claimed only his god could protect them." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  53. The Power and the PromiseThe Power and the Promise
    Tome Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops Eternal Damnation
    Cannot have Inspiration
    Cannot recover Resolve
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 80
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"Building on the fear and hatred that deified him, Innocence threatened an eternity of flames for nonbelievers. The newcomers wailed and threw themselves at his feet in the thousands." - Lycia, the HereticPlace this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  54. The Gilded ChaliceThe Gilded Chalice
    Processional Relic
    Requires Level 64Duplicates up to 4 random Offer Rewards upon defeating the Herald of the Scourge
    Cannot recover Resolve
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 75
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"He took the newcomers' symbol and made it his own. Finally, they flocked to him.
    Finally, he had the power and wealth he so desired." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  55. The Chains of CastigationThe Chains of Castigation
    Processional Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops Sandstorm Visage
    Rooms are unknown on the Sanctum Map
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 75
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"The mysterious traveller saw the vilified brother chained to a cliff, where all could point and shout and deride him. In one fell swing, she cracked the mountainside, freeing him." - Lycia, the HereticPlace this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  56. The Blood of InnocenceThe Blood of Innocence
    Censer Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge deals 50% more Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge takes 50% less Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge drops the Balance of Terror
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"After weeks of being pursued, the veiled traveller made her stand in a sandstorm.
    Somehow, she wounded a god. Innocence relented; his brother and the traveller made
    good their escape." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  57. The Second SacramentThe Second Sacrament
    Candlestick Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge deals 100% more Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge takes 70% less Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge drops the Winds of Fate
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 83
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"He took many of his people's traditions and gilded them, hollowed them. They
    rejected his new religion, and he and his followers were forced to depart the
    mountains for lands unknown." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  58. The Original ScriptureThe Original Scripture
    Papyrus Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops the Original Sin
    Cannot have Inspiration
    Maximum Resolve is 1
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 83
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"It's all here. The lie at the core of my faith. Maxarius was not the first chosen of
    Innocence. Maxarius was Innocence himself. A charlatan, a liar, and a power-seeker."
    - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  59. Sin, "The Rise of the Gods"
  60. Sin, "The Origin of the Gods"
  61. Piety, "Malachai"
  62. Kalandra, Ancient Etchings V
  63. Kalandra, Ancient Etchings IV
  64. See Oshabi on Sin, Sin on The Father of War reward, and Navali on Tukohama's death.
  65. Sin, "The Beast"
  66. Kahuturoa, "The Ezomytes"
  67. Maata, "The Caaltu"
  68. Kahuturoa, "Oriath's Destruction
  69. Brutal RestraintBrutal Restraint
    Timeless Jewel
    Limited to: 1 Historic
    Radius: Large
    Denoted service of (500-8000) dekhara in the akhara of (Asenath-Balbala-Nasima)
    Passives in radius are Conquered by the Maraketh
    Historic
    They believed themselves the most ordered, but that tradition turned their forests to salt.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  70. Nenet, "The Plains of Vastiri"
  71. Adiyah, "Home"
  72. Irasha, "Maraketh Tradition"
  73. Irasha, "Shakari"
  74. Whakano & Adiyah, "Banter"
  75. See White WindWhite Wind
    Imperial Skean
    Rune Dagger
    Physical Damage: 18-73
    Elemental Damage: (160-190) to (280-320)
    Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%
    Attacks per Second: (1.65-1.72)
    Weapon Range: 1.0 metres
    Requires Level 66, 95 Dex, 131 Int30% increased Global Critical Strike ChanceAdds (160-190) to (280-320) Cold Damage
    (10-15)% increased Attack Speed
    +(1000-1500) to Evasion Rating
    +(30-40)% chance to Suppress Spell Damage while your Off Hand is empty
    (100-200)% increased Cold Damage while your Off Hand is empty
    The Maraketh fear very little,
    but they dare not whisper the name
    of the demon that flies on Winter's gales.
    , Fertile MindFertile Mind
    Cobalt Jewel
    Radius: Large+(16-24) to Intelligence
    Dexterity from Passives in Radius is Transformed to Intelligence
    Corrupted"The swallow flew fast and took many turns,
    spilling a seed where no plant had grown before.
    This seed grew and grew until the desert became fertile and abundant.
    Your mind is like this seed."
    - Maraketh Proverb
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    , One With NothingOne With Nothing
    Small Cluster Jewel
    Adds Hollow Palm TechniqueOnce you begin to rely on your weapons,
    You ensure you can't live without them.
    Place into an allocated Small, Medium or Large Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Added passives do not interact with jewel radiuses. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    , Primordial EminencePrimordial Eminence
    Viridian Jewel
    Golems have (16-20)% increased Attack and Cast Speed
    30% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems
    Golems have +(800-1000) to Armour
    Primordial
    "Kings fall, empires crumble, mortals perish.
    All turn to earth and sand."
    - Maraketh proverb
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    , Al DhihAl Dhih
    Timeworn Claw
    Claw
    Physical Damage: (32-35.2) to (86-94.6)
    Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.30
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
    Requires Level 26, 39 Dex, 56 IntGrants 19 Life per Enemy Hit(100-120)% increased Physical Damage
    3% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life
    Enemies Taunted by your Warcries Explode on death, dealing 8% of their maximum Life as Chaos Damage
    25% increased Warcry Buff Effect
    Warcry Skills' Cooldown Time is 4 seconds
    "When the hyena howls thrice
    death is sure to follow."
    -Maraketh Wisdom
    , Ornament of the EastOrnament of the East
    Gut Ripper
    Claw
    Physical Damage: (52-56) to (137.8-148.4)
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.50%
    Attacks per Second: (1.65-1.72)
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
    Requires Level 46, 80 Dex, 80 IntGrants 44 Life per Enemy Hit+1 to Level of Socketed Dexterity Gems
    Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Faster Attacks
    (160-180)% increased Physical Damage
    (10-15)% increased Attack Speed
    25% increased Stun and Block Recovery
    Hits can't be Evaded
    To the Maraketh, death is as intimate as love.
    , Calendar of FortuneCalendar of FortuneThe King looked upon images swirling atop the ancient stone dial.
    "You look peaceful" he told his bride-to-be, "So peaceful, asleep in our wedding bed."
    But in phantasm, she did not slumber, and what he saw was not a place for dreams,
    rather, a wooden box... about to be closed and lowered into earthy depths.
    - Maraketh Legend
    , and Kira's introduction to the Scion.
  76. Sin, "Garukhan"
  77. Petarus and Vanja, "The Maraketh Calendar"
  78. Dekhara's ResolveDekhara's Resolve"A simple ornament from the days when Keth's trade empire was the
    glory of the world. Protectors at the massive toll gates wore these."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  79. Strange Voice, The Quarry
  80. Niles & Nenet, "Banter"
  81. In the quest, Nenet tasked the exile with finding the Book of Jamanra, which documented the tale of Jamanra, a Faridun figure who sought to the unite the Faridun as a cohesive nation in an effort to prove his existence. Upon receiving the retrieved book, an outraged Nenet discovered that Jamanra had been real, and that he had been invited to negotiations with the Maraketh only to be tricked, poisoned, and killed by them.
  82. Urn of FarudUrn of Farud"The Faridun cannot earn burial in the sky.
    They have other ways of keeping the dead."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  83. The Chains of CastigationThe Chains of Castigation
    Processional Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge drops Sandstorm Visage
    Rooms are unknown on the Sanctum Map
    Cannot be used with Forbidden Tomes below level 75
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"The mysterious traveller saw the vilified brother chained to a cliff, where all could point and shout and deride him. In one fell swing, she cracked the mountainside, freeing him." - Lycia, the HereticPlace this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  84. The Blood of InnocenceThe Blood of Innocence
    Censer Relic
    Requires Level 64The Herald of the Scourge deals 50% more Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge takes 50% less Damage
    The Herald of the Scourge drops the Balance of Terror
    This item is destroyed when applied to a Sanctum
    Unmodifiable"After weeks of being pursued, the veiled traveller made her stand in a sandstorm.
    Somehow, she wounded a god. Innocence relented; his brother and the traveller made
    good their escape." - Lycia, the Heretic
    Place this item on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run
  85. Sin, "Garukhan"
  86. Sin, on The Ruler of Highgate reward
  87. Sin, "Garukhan"
  88. Storm BladeStorm BladeGarukhan sought madness and knowledge amongst the billowing clouds of a
    blackened sky. A vulture of pride, she would not be refused, and so the
    stratosphere divulged unto her eldritch secrets of its tumultuous past.
  89. Sin, on The Ruler of Highgate
  90. Irasha, on Queen of the Sands
  91. Sin, on Queen of the Sands
  92. Sin, on Queen of the Sands reward
  93. Kahuturoa, "The Ezomytes"
  94. See Primordial HarmonyPrimordial Harmony
    Cobalt Jewel
    Golem Skills have (20-30)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
    Summoned Golems have (30-45)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
    (16-20)% increased Golem Damage for each Type of Golem you have Summoned
    Summoned Golems Regenerate 2% of their Life per second
    Primordial
    "A stone is not a stone,
    It is but one part of a fortress."
    - Ezomyte proverb
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    , The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
    - Ezomyte Proverb
    , FencoilFencoil
    Gnarled Branch
    Staff
    Physical Damage: 9-19
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.50%
    Attacks per Second: 1.30
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    +20% Chance to Block Spell Damage while wielding a StaffSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 8 Trap
    (40-50)% increased Global Damage
    (10-20)% increased maximum Life
    (10-20)% increased maximum Mana
    You've no reason for fear when you're a root in a fen
    - Old Ezomyte saying.
    , MireboughMirebough
    Gnarled Branch
    Staff
    Physical Damage: 9-19
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.50%
    Attacks per Second: 1.30
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 32+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a StaffSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 16 Trap
    Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 16 Cluster Trap
    Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 16 Trap And Mine Damage
    (40-50)% increased Global Damage
    (10-20)% increased maximum Life
    (10-20)% increased maximum Mana
    "Cut down the tallest tree,
    and another becomes the tallest."
    - Old Ezomyte saying
    , and Coated ShrapnelCoated Shrapnel
    Crimson Jewel
    Radius: SmallTraps and Mines have a 25% chance to Poison on Hit
    Passive Skills in Radius also grant: Traps and Mines deal (2-3) to (4-6) added Physical Damage
    The Ezomytes have a saying:
    Take everything and waste nothing.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  95. Fangjaw TalismanFangjaw TalismanTalisman Tier: 2(8-12)% increased maximum LifeCorruptedThe First Ones are the forever ones.
    There is no dust of the hourglass in their blood.
    No fissures of weariness in their faces.
    To drink of their blood is to drink of time itself.
    - The Wolven King
  96. Lone Antler TalismanLone Antler TalismanTalisman Tier: 1(20-30)% increased Lightning DamageCorruptedThe First Ones thundered over Ezomyr
    upon hooves of grey and black.
    The people felt their stamping rage
    and cowered as the fury rained down.
    - The Wolven King
  97. Irwen of Theopolis, Kitava's Hunger I
  98. FeastbindFeastbind
    Rustic Sash
    Requires Level 11(12-24)% increased Global Physical DamageAdds 5 to 10 Physical Damage to Attacks
    +(20-40) to maximum Life
    0.2% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life
    50% increased Flask Charges gained during any Flask Effect
    50% increased Mana Regeneration Rate during any Flask Effect
    Our forefathers danced and drank and ate their fill
    and did not honour the First Ones for their gifts.
    So the First Ones filled the sky with fire.
  99. Fenumus' SpinneretsFenumus' Spinnerets
    Assassin's Boots
    Evasion: (314-417)
    Energy Shield: (65-84)
    Requires Level 63, 62 Dex, 62 Int(160-200)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
    +(20-30)% to Lightning Resistance
    +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance
    25% increased Movement Speed
    Aspect of the Spider can inflict Spider's Web on Enemies an additional time
    Gain (15-20) Energy Shield for each Enemy you Hit which is affected by a Spider's Web
    (40-50)% increased Aspect of the Spider Debuff Duration
    When the fires spilled out of the mountain, The First of the Night wove a net and was carried into the night on its hot winds.
    Though we cannot live without danger, we can learn to live with it.
  100. Saqawal's WindsSaqawal's Winds
    Soldier Gloves
    Armour: (220-288)
    Energy Shield: (45-58)
    Requires Level 64, 40 Str, 40 Int(140-180)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
    +(30-60) to maximum Life
    +(20-25)% to Cold and Lightning Resistances
    +(-2.00-2.00) seconds to Avian's Might Duration
    Adds (20-25) to (37-40) Cold Damage while you have Avian's Might
    Adds (1-3) to (55-62) Lightning Damage while you have Avian's Might
    When the inferno spread across the land, it was the First of the Skies who singed his feathers as he brought the flames to a standstill.
  101. Urn of the Original AshesUrn of the Original Ashes"A great fire once swept the land, and our leaders were turned to ash where they stood.
    The urn contains exactly what you think it does, and serves as proof of our long lineage."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  102. FaminebindFaminebind
    Rustic Sash
    Requires Level 18(12-24)% increased Global Physical Damage+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance
    20% increased Projectile Damage
    30% reduced Flask Charges gained
    60% increased Flask Effect Duration
    Deals 50 Chaos Damage per second to nearby Enemies
    After the Great Fire, the land lay barren
    and our forefathers grew weak.
    Mother Gull took pity on them
    and gave them grain and water.
  103. The RetchThe Retch
    Rustic Sash
    Requires Level 44(12-24)% increased Global Physical Damage+(60-80) to maximum Life
    +(30-40)% to Cold Resistance
    0.4% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life
    60% increased Flask Effect Duration
    30% reduced Flask Charges gained during any Flask Effect
    200% of Life Leech applies to Enemies as Chaos Damage
    15% increased Movement Speed during any Flask Effect
    But the grain grew twisted and the water turned dark
    and those who partook of Mother Gull's gift
    birthed monsters that fed
    on the flesh of one another.
  104. Sonja, on the Soil
  105. The Flawed RefugeThe Flawed Refuge
    Maple Round Shield
    Chance to Block: 39%
    Armour: (176-247)
    Evasion: (176-247)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 39, 52 Str, 52 Dex180% increased Block Recovery(100-150)% increased Armour and Evasion
    +15% Chance to Block
    You take 100% of Elemental Damage from Blocked Hits
    40% of Elemental Damage from Hits taken as Physical Damage
    The Wildwood was a gift, meant as a haven
    against the Winter of the World.
  106. The Warden of Eaves, "The Maji"
  107. The King in the Mists, The Exquisite Light of Meaning & Determination (environmental lore)
  108. The Warden of Eaves, "The Wildwood"
  109. Forbidden ShakoForbidden Shako
    Great Crown
    Armour: (143-161)
    Energy Shield: (29-33)
    Requires Level 68, 59 Str, 59 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level (1-10) <random Support Gem>
    Socketed Gems are Supported by Level (25-35) <random Support Gem>
    +(25-30) to all Attributes
    The Azmeri must never touch the Tears of Maji, lest Viridi weep.
  110. PragmatismPragmatism
    Colosseum Plate
    Armour: (883-1295)
    Movement Speed: -5%
    Requires Level 49, 134 Str+12 to Level of Socketed Skill Gems
    (80-120)% increased Armour
    +(60-100) to maximum Mana
    -2 to level of Socketed Skill Gems per Socketed Gem
    The Maji were forbidden from touching virtue gems...
    so their practical warriors employed geomancy instead.
  111. Warden of Eaves, "Virtue Gems"
  112. The Untouched SoulThe Untouched Soul
    Gold Amulet
    Requires Level 48(12-20)% increased Rarity of Items found+40 to maximum Life for each Empty Red Socket on any Equipped Item
    +225 to Accuracy Rating for each Empty Green Socket on any Equipped Item
    +40 to maximum Mana for each Empty Blue Socket on any Equipped Item
    +18% to all Elemental Resistances for each Empty White Socket on any Equipped Item
    Geomancy offered a safer way to use the Tears...
    but the Maji rejected that temptation as well.
  113. The Warden of Eaves, "The Seasons"
  114. The Breaker of Oaths, "The Four Humours"
  115. The Breaker of Oaths, "Primal Humours"
  116. The Breaker of Oaths, "Vivid Humours"
  117. The Breaker of Oaths, "Wild Humours"
  118. The Breaker of Oaths, "Sacred Humours"
  119. The Primal Huntress, "The Nameless"
  120. Sin, on Gruthkul's Origin
  121. Shrine to Arakaali III
  122. Eramir, on Gruthkul
  123. Shrine to Arakaali IV
  124. The Primal Huntress, "The Nameless"
  125. Order of the Djinn, Rusted Abyss Scarab
  126. The Order of the Djinn lore is all on Abyss scarabs; the Abyss Challenge League announcement's "Before Solaris graced Wraeclast," heavily suggests Solaris defeated the Lightless (makes sense owing to their fear of light); Development Stories, Timelines, and Recons mentioning "What do Abyssal monsters have to do with ancient Maraketh culture?" as a "burning question"; the Lightless' position above the primeval in the Azurite Mines, among many others.
  127. Order of the Djinn, Polish Abyss Scarab
  128. Order of the Djinn, Gilded Abyss Scarab
  129. Solerai's SpearSolerai's Spear"When hope was but a memory, the twin sister Sekhemas Solerai and Lundara arose to unite the Maraketh.
    They wielded the essence of gold and silver. The Spear is one of the two weapons that forged us."
  130. Seal of SolarisSeal of Solaris"It is my belief that Solerai, from the Maraketh legend, is Solaris herself in another system of
    myths. If I can prove that, I can begin piecing together a true history of the Winter of the World."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
    & Seal of LunarisSeal of Lunaris"I have a suspicion that the Maraketh Sekhema of legend, Lundara, is the same historical
    figure as the Azmeri and Eternal goddess Lunaris. The Seal may prove that."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  131. Akoya, "Ngakuramakoi"
  132. Kahuturoa, "Ngamakanui"
  133. Clarissa, "Maramoa"
  134. Lani, "The King's Feast"
  135. Kahuturoa, "Kitava's Defeat"
  136. Kiloava, "Tribes"
  137. See all ToTA Karui on "The End of Time"
  138. Akoya, "The End of Time"
  139. Tawhanuku, on the player purchasing a Kaom item
  140. AshcallerAshcaller
    Carved Wand
    Wand
    Physical Damage: 9-16
    Elemental Damage: (20-24) to (38-46)
    Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.60
    Requires Level 12, 47 Int(11-15)% increased Spell Damage25% chance to Trigger Level 10 Summon Raging Spirit on Kill
    Adds (20-24) to (38-46) Fire Damage
    Adds (20-24) to (38-46) Fire Damage to Spells
    10% chance to Cover Enemies in Ash on Hit
    "We do not command fire.
    Ngamahu lends it, and Hinekora returns it."
    - Lavianga, advisor to Kaom
  141. Navali, "Karui Gods"
  142. Akoya, "Ngamahu"
  143. Irwen of Theopolis, Kitava's Hunger I
  144. Kahuturoa, "Ramako"
  145. Ikiaho, "The Deceiver"
  146. Ahuana, "Lani Hua"
  147. The Warden of Eaves, "The Raven Trickster" draws a very convincing parallel of a trickster long ago punished. Tangmazu was known for tricking the Azmeri sisters of the Sun and Moon Lunaris and Solaris into fighting each other.
  148. Ikiaho, loyal to Aronhongui and Ahuana of the Ramako Tribe believe that Ramako was impersonated. Kahuturoa of the Ramako Tribe does not. Ikiaho knows that the sisters are not really fighting each other, most Karui do not.
  149. This may be the same threat as the Expedition "the stars betray us!"
  150. Ikiaho, "Lani Hua"
  151. Vilenta, "Kitava"
  152. Irwen of Theopolis, Kitava's Hunger I
  153. Irwen of Theopolis, Kitava's Hunger II
  154. Irwen of Theopolis, Kitava's Hunger III
  155. Kitava's FeastKitava's Feast
    Void Axe
    Two Handed Axe
    Physical Damage: (288-326.4) to (432-489.6)
    Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.25
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 68, 149 Str, 76 DexSocketed Gems are supported by Level 30 Melee Splash
    (200-240)% increased Physical Damage
    1% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life
    1% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana
    Recover 5% of Life on Kill
    Enemies Killed by your Hits are destroyed
    Hinekora bound Kitava to a rock
    that Kitava could not lift with all his might.
    Kitava vowed that when he broke free,
    he would devour every soul in Hinekora's domain.
  156. Hinekora, dreams #2, #8
  157. Hinekora, dreams #4, #5
  158. Navali, "Chaos"
  159. The Trialmaster, "Hinekora"
  160. Replica Hinekora's SightReplica Hinekora's Sight
    Onyx Amulet
    Requires Level 44+(10-16) to all Attributes+(600-1000) to Accuracy Rating
    +(600-1000) to Armour
    +1% to all maximum Elemental Resistances
    You cannot be Maimed
    "I touched #2993, and I saw... how blind we've been. The visions weren't the future. They were the past! Our 'unforeseen consequences' have already been happening!"
    - Researcher Graven
  161. Hinekora, dream #2
  162. Dannig, on a Druids of the Broken Circle logbook with a Vaalish destination
  163. Gwennen, "The Druids of the Broken Circle"
  164. Gwennen, after Medved's story is found
  165. Hinekora]], dream #11
  166. "Th eBrokenCircle I" Logbook lore
  167. Navali, "The Beast"
  168. Navali, on the Trials
  169. Kahuturoa, "The Halls of the Dead"
  170. Navali, on Yriel, Eber, Volkuur, and Inya
  171. Yriel's KeyYriel's KeyStack Size: 10Lord of the Wild, of the feral and frenzied,
    of the uncivilized, the untamed, the untouched.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device.
    , Eber's KeyEber's KeyStack Size: 10Mouth of the Masses, whose greatness spreads by our breath and touch,
    who feeds the starving with the starved, the strong with the weak.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device.
    , Volkuur's KeyVolkuur's KeyStack Size: 10She of Many Bodies, whose very flesh unites all,
    whose dark whispers draw forth our souls, unfettered.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device.
    , Inya's KeyInya's KeyStack Size: 10The Infinite Mind, unbound by the tethers of sanity,
    whose thirst for knowledge is all-consuming,
    whose every word stands our hair on end.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device.
  172. Inya, "Dark Tome"
  173. Navali, on the Pale Council
  174. Rakiata, "First Battle"
  175. Tasalio's SignTasalio's Sign
    Sapphire Ring
    Requires Level 20+(20-30)% to Cold ResistanceAdds (7-10) to (15-20) Cold Damage to Spells and Attacks
    +(200-300) to Evasion Rating
    50% chance to Avoid being Chilled
    10% chance to Freeze
    Adds 40 to 60 Cold Damage against Chilled Enemies
    A gift from Tasalio, God of Water,
    to the chieftain Rakiata.
    Kaom took Rakiata's head and hand
    so that his warriors' axes might rise and fall like the waves.
  176. This may suggest that the Halls of the Dead are located in the center of the Earth, assuming a spherical planet.
  177. Rakiata, "Sneaking Out"
  178. The primeval civilization predates the Vaal, but very little is known about them.
  179. Eramir, "Ancient Gateway"
  180. Maata, "The Vaal"
  181. Help Panel glossary, "Vaal"
  182. Eramir, "Ancient Gateway"
  183. Icius Perandus, on Golden Page (1 of 4)Golden Page"The Vaal were even more steeped in gem culture than
    our Emperor and his 'Gemlings'. It's an obsession
    as old as civilisation itself."
    - Icius Perandus
  184. Sacrificial HarvestSacrificial Harvest
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 1(20-30)% chance to gain an additional Vaal Soul on KillCorruptedThe Vaal used human sacrifice to power their empire.
    They, too, eventually sought means to
    make their machines run more efficiently.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  185. String of ServitudeString of Servitude
    Heavy Belt
    Requires Level 1<(1-2) Random corrupted implicit modifiers>Implicit Modifier magnitudes are tripled
    Level Requirement reduced by 100 (Hidden)
    CorruptedFor the Vaal, the relationship between slave and master was as intimate and volatile as that of lovers.
    , Temptation StepTemptation Step
    Shagreen Boots
    Evasion: (486-756)Requires Level 55, 97 Dex(170-250)% increased Evasion Rating
    +(19-29)% to Chaos Resistance
    15% increased Damage for each Poison on you up to a maximum of 75%
    10% increased Movement Speed for each Poison on you up to a maximum of 50%
    Poison you inflict with Travel Skills is Reflected to you if you
    have fewer than 5 Poisons on you
    The High Priests ensured the loyalty of their slaves by habituating them to narcotic stimulants with lethal withdrawals.
    , Bloodsoaked MedallionBloodsoaked Medallion
    Amber Amulet
    Requires Level 49+(20-30) to Strength(30-50)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
    +(50-70) to maximum Life
    +(17-29)% to Chaos Resistance
    Every 10 seconds:
    Gain 2% of Life per Enemy Hit with Attacks for 5 seconds
    Gain 5% of Life per Enemy Killed for 5 seconds
    "Atziri ordained that we exploit the weaknesses inherent in our slaves.
    With relish, we did exactly as she instructed."
    - Guatelitzi, Architect of Flesh
    , Rathpith GlobeRathpith Globe
    Titanium Spirit Shield
    Chance to Block: 25%
    Energy Shield: (147-200)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 68, 159 Int(10-15)% Chance to Block Spell Damage
    (120-160)% increased Energy Shield
    10% increased maximum Life
    Sacrifice 10% of your Life when you Use or Trigger a Spell Skill
    5% increased Spell Critical Strike Chance per 100 Player Maximum Life
    5% increased Spell Damage per 100 Player Maximum Life
    The Vaal emptied their slaves of beating hearts,
    and left a mountain of twitching dead.
  186. Davaro, "Research Journal"
  187. Weylam Roth, "Elixir of Allure"
  188. Trinian lived during Chitus' reign, around 1333 IC. In Book 4 of The Ancients, he mentions that the Vaal first contacted the Azmeri some 2500 years prior.
  189. Trinian, "The Ancients", "Book 4: Raising the Azmeri"
  190. Cadiro, on Triumvirate AuthorityTriumvirate Authority
    Unset Ring
    Requires Level 64Has 1 Socket+2 to Level of Socketed Vaal Gems
    <Three random Socketed Vaal Skill modifiers>
    The priest that carried Yaomac's sigil was granted one boon by each serpentine head.
  191. The Trialmaster, on the player winning five or more times
  192. Yaomac's AccordYaomac's Accord
    Vaal Sceptre
    Sceptre
    Physical Damage: 37-70
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.40
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
    Requires Level 64, 113 Str, 113 Int32% increased Elemental Damage(80-120)% increased Damage with Vaal Skills
    (8-6)% reduced Soul Gain Prevention Duration
    Gain an Endurance Charge, Frenzy Charge, and Power Charge when you use a Vaal Skill
    Shepherd of Souls
    Their three serpentine heads found unity in balance.
    , Offering to the SerpentOffering to the Serpent
    Legion Gloves
    Armour: (257-363)
    Energy Shield: (52-75)
    Requires Level 57, 44 Str, 44 Int<One to three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(15-25) to all Attributes
    (150-200)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
    50% reduced Maximum Recovery per Life Leech
    (6-10)% increased Attack and Cast Speed
    (15-25)% increased Damage while Leeching
    Life Leech effects are not removed when Unreserved Life is Filled
    "You covet the strength of your peers, mortal?
    Perhaps it can be yours, if you are willing to make an offering of their blood..."
    - Vaal Myth of the Third Snake
  193. Eramir, "Ralakesh"
  194. Captured soul (Yugul upgrade)
  195. Sin, "Yugul"
  196. Hargan, "Yugul"
  197. Sin, "Arakaali"
  198. Eramir, "Arakaali"
  199. Cadiro, on Arakaali's FangArakaali's Fang
    Fiend Dagger
    Rune Dagger
    Physical Damage: (81-105) to (288.9-351)
    Chaos Damage: 1-59
    Critical Strike Chance: 8.50%
    Attacks per Second: 1.20
    Weapon Range: 1.0 metres
    Requires Level 53, 58 Dex, 123 Int40% increased Global Critical Strike Chance100% chance to Trigger Level 1 Raise Spiders on Kill
    (170-200)% increased Physical Damage
    Adds (8-13) to (20-30) Physical Damage
    Adds 1 to 59 Chaos Damage
    15% chance to Poison on Hit
    All children must eat.
  200. Sin, "Arakaali"
  201. Eramir, "The Vaal City"
  202. Atziri's ReflectionAtziri's Reflection
    Golden Buckler
    Chance to Block: 25%
    Evasion: (991-1221)
    Energy Shield: (180-200)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 68, 130 Dex6% increased Movement Speed+(40-60) to Intelligence
    (180-200)% increased Evasion Rating
    +(180-200) to maximum Energy Shield
    +(20-30)% to all Elemental Resistances
    Hex Reflection
    Unaffected by Curses
    (15-20)% increased Effect of your Curses
    "At last, my beauty is beyond reproach."
    - Atziri, Queen of the Vaal
  203. Atziri's ReignAtziri's Reign
    Crimson Jewel
    Limited to: 1(15-20)% increased Vaal Skill Effect Duration
    Vaal Skills have (15-20)% chance to regain consumed Souls when used
    CorruptedAtziri went to great lengths to ensure her immortality,
    but nothing is eternal.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  204. Atziri's DisfavourAtziri's Disfavour
    Vaal Axe
    Two Handed Axe
    Physical Damage: (414-434) to (544-564)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Attacks per Second: (1.29-1.33)
    Weapon Range: 2.3 metres
    Requires Level 64, 158 Str, 76 Dex25% chance to Maim on Hit+30% to Quality of Socketed Support Gems
    Adds (310-330) to (370-390) Physical Damage
    (12-16)% increased Attack Speed
    25% chance to cause Bleeding on Hit
    +1 metres to Weapon Range
    "I do not believe in disguising my disappointment."
    - Atziri, Queen of the Vaal
  205. Atziri's AcuityAtziri's Acuity
    Vaal Gauntlets
    Armour: (696-851)Requires Level 63, 100 Str+(60-80) to Intelligence
    (40-60)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
    (200-220)% increased Armour
    +(60-75) to maximum Life
    You have Vaal Pact if you've dealt a Critical Strike Recently
    "The heart is the herald.
    It will tell me when it is best to strike."
    - Atziri, Queen of the Vaal
  206. Trinian, "The Ancients", "Book 1: Last of the Vaal Queens"
  207. Atziri's Splendour
  208. Weylam Roth, "Kishara"
  209. Kishara's StarKishara's StarTo the wily Kishara's eye, a star brighter than the sun.
  210. Weylam Roth, "Kishara's Star"
  211. Trinian, "The Ancients", Book 2: Zerphi the Murderer
  212. Icius Perandus, Zerphi's Last BreathZerphi's Last Breath
    Grand Mana Flask
    Recovers 170 Mana over 4.50 Seconds
    Consumes 10 of 30 Charges on use
    Requires Level 1850% increased Charges per use
    Grants Last Breath when you Use a Skill during Effect, for (450-600)% of Mana Cost
    "Proof that if you devote yourself to a god of death,
    you may be spared from its wrath."
    - Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Item 408
    Right click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters.
  213. Trinian, "The Ancients", Book 3: The Queen's Thaumaturgist
  214. Icius Perandus, Chronicle of Atzoatl#Flavour text, Throne of Atziri
  215. Icius Perandus, Chronicle of AtzoatlChronicle of Atzoatl"Grand plans were laid for a place called Atzoatl, though fierce bickering between its Architects is said to have stifled its development." - Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Research ReportRight click this item to view the Temple of Atzoatl.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device to open portals to the Temple of Atzoatl in the present day.
    containing Apex of Ascension, Chamber of Iron, Glittering Halls, Sanctum of Immortality, Factory, Hall of Legends, Locus of Corruption, Crucible of Flame, Storm of Corruption, Atlas of Worlds, Conduit of Lightning, Doryani's Institute, House of the Others.
  216. Icius Perandus, Chronicle of Atzoatl#Flavour text: Defense Research Lab, Court of Sealed Death
  217. Icius Perandus, Chronicle of Atzoatl#Flavour text: Hybridisation Chamber, Hall of War
  218. Vaal SentencingVaal Sentencing
    Cobalt Jewel
    (80-120)% increased Vaal Skill Critical Strike ChanceCorruptedIn their final days, every crime was punishable by death.
    Atziri's empire ran on blood, but the blood was running dry.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  219. Unknown authors, Vaal Letter III, IX
  220. The Price of DevotionThe Price of Devotion7Mageblood
    Quality: +20%
    Two-Implicit
    Corrupted
    Unbeknown to Atziri's finest thaumaturgists, their loyalty would require far greater devotion than mere research.
  221. Soul CatcherSoul Catcher
    Quartz Flask
    Lasts 6.00 Seconds
    Consumes 30 of 60 Charges on use
    Phasing
    +10% chance to Suppress Spell Damage
    Requires Level 27Cannot gain Mana during effect
    (60-80)% increased Critical Strike Chance with Vaal Skills during effect
    (60-80)% increased Damage with Vaal Skills during effect
    Vaal Skills used during effect have 10% reduced Soul Gain Prevention Duration
    Freedom is for the privileged, even in death.

    This item can be transformed on the Altar of Sacrifice along with Vial of the Ghost
    Right click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters.
  222. Soul RipperSoul Ripper
    Quartz Flask
    Lasts 6.00 Seconds
    Consumes 30 of (20-150) Charges on use
    Phasing
    +10% chance to Suppress Spell Damage
    Requires Level 27+(-40-90) to Maximum Charges
    Loses all Charges when you enter a new area
    Consumes Maximum Charges to use
    Gain Vaal Souls equal to Charges Consumed when used
    "What care have I for their pain? They're already dead."
    - Atalui, Vaal Priestess
    Right click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters.
  223. Unknown authors, Vaal Letter III, XI, XII
  224. Last HopeLast Hope3Mortal HopeAs their civilisation crumbled, the Vaal looked to their queen. In her, they saw a way out. In them, she saw a burden she was happy to free herself from.
  225. Unknown authors, Vaal Letters III, IV, XI
  226. Unknown authors, Vaal Letters II, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII
  227. Siosa, "Page Two Translation"
  228. Dannig, "Arrival III"
  229. Trinian, "The Ancients", Book 4: Raising the Azmeri
  230. Last HopeLast Hope3Mortal HopeAs their civilisation crumbled, the Vaal looked to their queen. In her, they saw a way out. In them, she saw a burden she was happy to free herself from.
  231. Vaal SentencingVaal Sentencing
    Cobalt Jewel
    (80-120)% increased Vaal Skill Critical Strike ChanceCorruptedIn their final days, every crime was punishable by death.
    Atziri's empire ran on blood, but the blood was running dry.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  232. Sin, "The Beast"
  233. Siosa, "Page Two Translation"
  234. Dream FragmentsDream Fragments
    Sapphire Ring
    Requires Level 24+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance20% increased maximum Mana
    50% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
    +(30-40)% to Cold Resistance
    Cannot be Chilled
    Cannot be Frozen
    Doryani stumbled into a realm of madness
    And awoke its Master.
  235. Icius Perandus, on Chronicle of AtzoatlChronicle of Atzoatl"Grand plans were laid for a place called Atzoatl, though fierce bickering between its Architects is said to have stifled its development." - Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Research ReportRight click this item to view the Temple of Atzoatl.
    Can be used in a personal Map Device to open portals to the Temple of Atzoatl in the present day.
    with Doryani's Institute
  236. Siosa, "Page Three Translation"
  237. Dannig, "Arrival III"
  238. Beauty Through DeathBeauty Through Death5Atziri's ReflectionHer beauty did not fade
    her humanity did not survive.
  239. The Queen's HungerThe Queen's Hunger
    Vaal Regalia
    Energy Shield: (342-453)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 68, 194 IntTrigger Level 20 Bone Offering, Flesh Offering or Spirit Offering every 5 seconds
    Offering Skills Triggered this way also affect you
    (5-10)% increased Cast Speed
    (100-130)% increased Energy Shield
    (6-10)% increased maximum Life
    Veiled Prefix
    Veiled Suffix
    <veiled mod pool>
    In their crimson nightmare, the Vaal are still sacrificing themselves to her glory and beauty.
    They stab their own hearts and cry out in ecstasy, only to rise again.
    Take this item to Jun Ortoi to have her Unveil it.
  240. Dannig, "Gems"
  241. Dannig, "Runes"
  242. "The Omen I" & "The Journey I" Logbook lore
  243. The Ancient AnglerThe Ancient Angler
    Emberstone Apex Sentinel
    Duration: 30 seconds
    Empowers: 3 enemies
    Empowerment: 45
    Charge: 10 uses
    Requires Level 58Can only empower Rare or Unique enemiesCleanses Corrupted Fish
    Purifies Corrupted Water
    UnmodifiableUnder clouds of black beset by crimson lightning, we sailed stormy seas of poison and disease. Only one light shone in that darkness; only one Flame to keep hope alive.
  244. "The Journey II" Logbook lore
  245. "The Arrival I" Logbook lore
  246. "The Arrival II" Logbook lore
  247. "The Arrival III" Logbook lore
  248. Dannig, on a Knights of the Sun Vaal logbook
  249. "The Arrival IV" Logbook lore
  250. "The Arrival V" Logbook lore
  251. "The Colonisation I" Logbook lore
  252. "The Colonisation II" Logbook lore
  253. "The Colonisation III" Logbook lore
  254. "The Colonisation IV" Logbook lore
  255. Prime Remembrancer, "Darkness Descends I" Logbook lore
  256. Prime Remembrancer, "Darkness Descends II" Logbook lore
  257. Prime Remembrancer, "Darkness Descends III" Logbook lore
  258. Prime Remembrancer, "Darkness Descends IV" Logbook lore
  259. Prime Remembrancer, "Darkness Descends V" Logbook lore
  260. Olroth, "Olroth's Journal I", as read by Dannig
  261. Olroth, "Olroth's Journal II", as read by Dannig
  262. Olroth, "Olroth's Journal III", as read by Dannig
  263. Olroth, "Olroth's Journal IV", as read by Dannig
  264. Olroth, "Olroth's Journal V", as read by Dannig
  265. Prime Remembrancer, "The Broken Circle I", Logbook lore
  266. Prime Remembrancer, "The Broken Circle II", Logbook lore
  267. Prime Remembrancer, "The Broken Circle III", Logbook lore
  268. Prime Remembrancer, "The Broken Circle IV", Logbook lore
  269. Gwennen, "Medved"
  270. Prime Remembrancer, "The Priesthood I", Logbook lore
  271. Prime Remembrancer, "The Priesthood II", Logbook lore
  272. Prime Remembrancer, "The Priesthood III", Logbook lore
  273. Prime Remembrancer, "The Priesthood IV", Logbook lore
  274. Prime Remembrancer, "The Last to Fall I", Logbook lore
  275. Prime Remembrancer, "The Last to Fall II", Logbook lore
  276. Prime Remembrancer, "The Last to Fall III", Logbook lore
  277. Dannig, on a Logbook with a guaranteed Uhtred boss encounter
  278. Uhtred's subarea is named "Precursor Shrine", a strong connection to the Precursor's Emblem rings. At the floor of the arena a mural can be found, identical in design to the ones encountered in Primeval Ruins Delve area.
  279. Translated from Latin as "Our world has fallen. Demons are everywhere. I throw this book in the shrine, so that maybe someone else will find a way..."
  280. Dannig, on a Logbook with a guaranteed Vorana boss encounter
  281. Tujen, "Uhtred's Defeat"
  282. Both Uhtred and Sirus share the dialogue lines "I have seen beyond!". Uhtred's other lines like "Death is... no escape...", "Fear the cosmos!", "The stars betray us!" and "We are nothing." express similar themes of cosmic nihilism. Finally, Tujen directly states that Uhtred witnessed someting that "broke his mind".
  283. Help panel glossary, "Oriath"
  284. Mud Pit Memory
  285. Cadiro Perandus, "The Perandus Family"
  286. Clarissa, "Emperor Veruso"
  287. Clarissa, "Emperor Veruso"
  288. Clarissa, "The Ankh of Eternity"
  289. Clarissa, "The Ankh of Eternity"
  290. Clarissa, on Tolman's second death
  291. Izaro Phrecius, "Bronze Inscription", IV
  292. Trinian, "The Ancients", "Book 7: The Light of Phrecia"
  293. Trinian, "The Ancients", "Book 7: The Light of Phrecia"
  294. Cadiro, on Romira's BanquetRomira's Banquet
    Diamond Ring
    Requires Level 60(20-30)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance+333 to Accuracy Rating
    +(15-25)% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
    +(40-60) to maximum Mana
    0.4% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana
    Gain a Power Charge on Non-Critical Strike
    Lose all Power Charges on Critical Strike
    The Empress gave Romira two sons
    Born of his brother's seed
    Romira threw her a banquet
    A perfidious meal indeed.
  295. Izaro Phrecius, Bronze Monograph, The Crematorium
  296. Izaro Phrecius, "Bronze Inscription", IV
  297. Thousand RibbonsThousand Ribbons
    Simple Robe
    Evasion: (30-60)
    Energy Shield: (44-80)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires 17 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 5 Elemental Proliferation
    Adds (2-4) to (5-9) Fire Damage to Spells and Attacks
    Adds (2-4) to (5-9) Cold Damage to Spells and Attacks
    Adds 1 to (4-12) Lightning Damage to Spells and Attacks
    +(30-60) to Evasion Rating
    +(30-60) to maximum Energy Shield
    +(25-50) to maximum Life
    +(25-50) to maximum Mana
    +(15-30)% to Fire Resistance
    +(15-30)% to Cold Resistance
    +(15-30)% to Lightning Resistance
    The night of a thousand ribbons
    To remember the day of a thousand flames
    When Sarn burned
    And was born again
  298. Izaro Phrecius, "Bronze Monograph", The Crematorium
  299. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 5: The Emperor is dead. Long live the Emperor!"
  300. Izaro, Bronze Inscription, I
  301. Izaro, Bronze Inscription, II
  302. Xirgil's CrankXirgil's Crank
    Coiled Staff
    Warstaff
    Physical Damage: 27-57
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.70%
    Attacks per Second: 1.30
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 28, 43 Str, 43 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff+15% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff
    (60-80)% increased Spell Damage
    +(70-100) to maximum Energy Shield
    +1 to Level of all Spell Skill Gems
    Reflects 1 to 150 Lightning Damage to Melee Attackers
    20% chance for Energy Shield Recharge to start when you Block
    "Since one with knowledge of machines
    might be able to bring the labyrinth to a standstill,
    Izaro had us place many boobytrapped decoys.
    But I know which switch brings the monster down."
    - Xirgil, Trapbuilder's final words.
  303. GlitterdiscGlitterdisc
    Burnished Spiked Shield
    Chance to Block: 26%
    Evasion: (136-175)
    Energy Shield: (72-110)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 27, 37 Dex, 37 Int+5% chance to Suppress Spell Damage(120-140)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
    +(20-30) to maximum Energy Shield
    +(30-50) to maximum Life
    10% increased Rarity of Items found
    25% chance to Avoid Fire Damage from Hits
    You always Ignite while Burning
    Izaro's insistence on using lava
    resulted in some surprising material discoveries.
  304. Hargan, "The High Gardens"
  305. Winds of ChangeWinds of Change
    Ancient Gauntlets
    Armour: (154-173)Requires Level 47, 68 Str+(30-60) to maximum Life
    30% increased Projectile Speed
    (10-5)% reduced Movement Speed
    10% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit
    (30-50)% increased Projectile Damage
    Izaro was slow to see the treachery growing in his own court
    and powerless to stop it once he had;
    a captain sailing his own ship into rocks.
  306. Cadiro Perandus, "Izaro"
  307. Spine of the First ClaimantSpine of the First Claimant
    Iron Sceptre
    Sceptre
    Physical Damage: (54-64.8) to (80-96)
    Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
    Attacks per Second: (1.16-1.21)
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metres
    Requires Level 20, 38 Str, 38 Int14% increased Elemental Damage(100-140)% increased Physical Damage
    40% increased Damage with Hits against Frozen Enemies
    +(25-35)% to Cold Damage over Time Multiplier
    (30-50)% increased Cold Damage
    (5-10)% increased Attack Speed
    (4-8)% increased Cast Speed
    5% chance to Freeze
    Thousands gazed upon the doors of the great labyrinth,
    at an Eternal Champion in steel and gold,
    The first to challenge its treacherous traps.
    To mark the occasion, Izaro had the Champion's remains gilded.
  308. The book claims that Romira was Izaro's "great grand-uncle", despite them having lived a thousand years apart. Weylin's characterization is very different, as the book makes no mention of his "warrior-poet" traits demonstrated in-game.
  309. Izaro's TurmoilIzaro's Turmoil
    Crimson Jewel
    (18-25)% increased Fire Damage
    (18-25)% increased Cold Damage
    2% chance to Ignite
    2% chance to Freeze
    The once-glorious emperor spent his final days
    imprisoned in his greatest creation;
    a tool to filter out the unworthy
    that pushed a monster to power.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  310. Might and InfluenceMight and Influence
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 1
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Attack Damage
    <Two random modifiers>
    Emperor Chitus could offer you a gift with one hand,
    and drive a blade into your back with the other.
    His blend of brutality and charisma cultured a potent
    mixture of fear and admiration among the masses.
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  311. Siosa, "Malachai"
  312. Rapid ExpansionRapid Expansion
    Crimson Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (8-12)% increased Global Physical Damage
    With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Ground Slam has a 35% chance
    to grant an Endurance Charge when you Stun an Enemy
    With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Ground Slam
    has a 50% increased angle
    Chitus began to aggressively expand his empire
    into neighbouring nations at great human cost.
    But for absolute power, there is no price
    that a Perandus won't pay.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  313. Plaque (Sceptre of God)
  314. Dialla, "Thaumetic Sulphite"
  315. Victario, Victario's Writings, Volume 3: Slaves of Virtue
  316. Utula, "Slave Pens"
  317. Marauder, on killing Fairgraves
  318. Marauder, on The Marketplace
  319. Victario, Victario's Writings, Volume 3: Slaves of Virtue
  320. Abandoned Shaft Memory
  321. Limestone Hollow Memory
  322. Dialla uses the phrase "fevered the blood", which may refer to the "blood fever" suffered by the Karui when they come into contact with corruption, as described in HateforgeHateforge
    Ancient Gauntlets
    Armour: (338-432)Requires Level 72, 68 StrSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 30 Rage
    (120-150)% increased Armour
    (25-10)% reduced Rage Cost of Skills
    Vaal Attack Skills you Use yourself Cost Rage instead of requiring Souls
    You cannot gain Rage during Soul Gain Prevention
    The first Karui born on the fringes of the Vaal empire developed a blood fever born of corruption.
    .
  323. Rigwald, "Inscription II"
  324. Cadiro, on Stone of LazhwarStone of Lazhwar
    Lapis Amulet
    Requires Level 5+(20-30) to Intelligence(12-15)% Chance to Block Spell Damage
    (15-20)% increased Cast Speed
    +(40-70) to maximum Mana
    You are slow, foolish and ignorant.
    I am not.
  325. Carl, "Supporter newsletter 4"
  326. Siosa, Golden Page (4 of 4)Golden Page"Siosa, your Slavery will cause them to overlook you.
    Your Karui Way will guide you.
    Your Humanity will shame us all."
    - Icius Perandus
    translation
  327. Malachai, "Reverie Device"
  328. Malachai, Malachai's Journal
  329. Collateral DamageCollateral Damage
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Global Physical Damage
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Galvanic Arrow deals 50% increased Area Damage
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Galvanic Arrow has 25% increased Area of Effect
    Malachai ran roughshod over every ethical boundary in pursuit of creating the ideal gemling.
    For him, there was no doubt that the end would justify the means.
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  330. Eternal Residence Memory
  331. Maramoa, "The Gemling Legion
  332. Path of Exile: Origins, Issue #4: The Black Heart, pg. 11
  333. Cadiro, on Dialla's MalefactionDialla's Malefaction
    Sage's Robe
    Energy Shield: (79-90)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 37Gems can be Socketed in this Item ignoring Socket Colour
    Gems Socketed in Red Sockets have +2 to Level
    Gems Socketed in Green Sockets have +30% to Quality
    Gems Socketed in Blue Sockets gain 100% increased Experience
    Has no Attribute Requirements
    He took me by my hand, promised me power beyond compare.
    But i did not do it for power.
    I did it for love.
    And I'd do it again in an instant.
  334. Lady Dialla, "Malachai"
  335. Malachai, Journal Entry
  336. Helena, "Prisoner's Gate"
  337. The OfferingThe Offering8Shavronne's WrappingsEternal beauty has a cost, one which Shavronne was happy to pay with the lives of others.
  338. Doedre, Doedre's Manifesto
  339. Doedre's DamningDoedre's Damning
    Paua Ring
    +(20-30) to maximum Mana+(5-20) to Intelligence
    +(5-20)% to all Elemental Resistances
    Gain (5-20) Mana per Enemy Killed
    You can apply an additional Curse
    Where her mouth should have been there was only a whirling, black void.
    , Doedre's TongueDoedre's Tongue
    Lapis Amulet
    Requires Level 24+(20-30) to Intelligence+(20-25)% to all Elemental Resistances
    (20-25)% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite
    Cursed Enemies cannot inflict Elemental Ailments on You
    Maligaro did the cutting... at her request.
    In the new void, a malevolent power emerged.
    , Doedre's ScornDoedre's Scorn
    Lunaris Circlet
    Energy Shield: (141-168)Requires Level 39, 83 Int+2 to Level of Socketed Curse Gems
    +(20-30) to Intelligence
    +(100-120) to maximum Energy Shield
    Adds 37 to 71 Chaos Damage for each Curse on the Enemy
    Curse Skills have (30-50)% increased Skill Effect Duration
    A scar of the flesh you'll never forget,
    A scar of the mind you'll never remember.
    , and Doedre's SkinDoedre's Skin
    Widowsilk Robe
    Energy Shield: (361-452)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 65, 187 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Blasphemy
    Grants Level 20 Summon Doedre's Effigy Skill
    Socketed Hex Curse Skills are Triggered by Doedre's Effigy when Summoned
    Hexes from Socketed Skills can apply 5 additional Curses
    +(30-40) to Intelligence
    (130-150)% increased Energy Shield
    20% less Effect of your Curses
    As she was sentenced to death, Doedre was silent.
    As she was tied to the stake, Doedre was silent.
    As the flames licked away her life, Doedre was silent.
    But Wraeclast had not heard the last of her.
    are examples.
  340. The ArtistThe Artist11Level 4 Enhance
    Corrupted
    "Paint, metal, flesh... A true artist does not limit himself." - Malachai the Soulless
  341. Eramir, "The Chamber of Sins"
  342. The Balance of TerrorThe Balance of Terror
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 1+(10-15)% to all Elemental Resistances
    <2 random curse modifiers>
    Fellshrine stood as a holy bastion opposite the
    Chamber of Sins, and all that it represented.
    For one to rise, the other must fall.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  343. Malachai, "Transmutia Device"
  344. The Rabid RhoaThe Rabid Rhoa4Malicious Gemini Claw
    Item Level: 83
    "Experiment 22A: Rhoas, when deprived of water, secrete a most delightfully potent toxin."
    - Maligaro
  345. Fidelitas' SpikeFidelitas' Spike
    Jagged Foil
    One Handed Sword
    Elemental Damage: 1 to (40-50)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.50%
    Attacks per Second: (2.00-2.08)
    Weapon Range: 1.4 metres
    Requires Level 22, 77 Dex+25% to Global Critical Strike MultiplierNo Physical Damage
    Adds 1 to (40-50) Lightning Damage
    (25-30)% increased Attack Speed
    Grants 2 Life per Enemy Hit
    (15-20)% chance to Shock
    Herald of Thunder has 50% increased Buff Effect
    Maligaro was transformed by Raulo's love.
    Thaumaturgy allowed Maligaro to return the favour.
  346. Echoes of MutationEchoes of MutationPerverse loyalty, blind love, the abuser and the abused reunited in sin.You will find the Echo of Maligaro in the Chamber of Sins and destroy it.Right-click to add this prophecy to your character.
  347. Helena, "Fidelitas"
  348. Helena, "The Baleful Gem"
  349. Clarissa, "The Purity Rebellion"
  350. Rigwald, "Inscription I"
  351. Rigwald, "Deadhand TalismanDeadhand TalismanTalisman Tier: 1(19-31)% increased Chaos DamageCorruptedThe Empire poisons our blood with sweet wine.
    Poisons our flesh with silk.
    Poisons our minds with civil lies.
    Poisons our children with servitude.
    - The Wolven King
    "
  352. Rigwald, "Spinefuse TalismanSpinefuse TalismanTalisman Tier: 3+(12-18)% to Damage over Time MultiplierCorruptedWe Ezomytes are beasts of burden
    bearing wealth of an empire on our backs,
    growing lean and strong
    while our masters grow fat and weak.
    - The Wolven King
    "
  353. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 2: Bloody Flowers"
  354. Grigor, "Victario"
  355. "The enslaved Ezomyte clans were not permitted to own weapons. For years, they trained in secret, watching and waiting for the perfect moment to reveal the true depth of the Empire's folly." - "Divide and Conquer", before it was renamed Seething FurySeething Fury
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 1(10-15)% increased Attack Damage while holding a Shield
    +0.15% to Off Hand Critical Strike Chance per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield
    +4% to Off Hand Critical Strike Multiplier per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield
    CorruptedIt took the Bloody Flowers Rebellion to show the clans of Ezomyr the truth;
    What kept them apart was just a fabrication.
    Conjured rivalries from men who grew fat from the discord they sowed.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    .
  356. Seething FurySeething Fury
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 1(10-15)% increased Attack Damage while holding a Shield
    +0.15% to Off Hand Critical Strike Chance per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield
    +4% to Off Hand Critical Strike Multiplier per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield
    CorruptedIt took the Bloody Flowers Rebellion to show the clans of Ezomyr the truth;
    What kept them apart was just a fabrication.
    Conjured rivalries from men who grew fat from the discord they sowed.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  357. Rigwald's ChargeRigwald's Charge
    Highland Blade
    Two Hand Sword
    Physical Damage: (99-112.5) to (184.8-210)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.62
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 44, 77 Str, 77 Dex+305 to Accuracy Rating(120-150)% increased Physical Damage
    20% increased Attack Speed
    10% increased Movement Speed
    +(300-350) to Accuracy Rating
    15% increased Movement Speed if you've Killed Recently
    "Today, clansmen, my sword is my voice!"
    - Rigwald, at the Battle of Glarryn
  358. Inscription III claims that Rigwald tracked down and killed Sentari with the aid of the Greatwolf. However, this contradicts Book 2 of the Purity Chronicles.
  359. Utula, on the exile losing to Kaom
  360. Kaom's PrimacyKaom's Primacy
    Karui Chopper
    Two Handed Axe
    Physical Damage: (242-290.4) to (378-453.6)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Attacks per Second: 1.05
    Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
    Requires Level 58, 151 Str, 43 Dex(100-140)% increased Physical Damage
    Gain 20 Life per Enemy Killed
    +(150-250) to Accuracy Rating
    Culling Strike
    Gain 5 Rage on Melee Hit
    Every Rage also grants 1% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
    One by one, Kaom slaughtered the weakest tribe
    leaders until the others leapt to join his cause.
  361. Valako's SignValako's Sign
    Topaz Ring
    Requires Level 38+(20-30)% to Lightning Resistance40% increased Damage with Hits against Shocked Enemies
    20% increased Lightning Damage
    +(20-40) to maximum Mana
    1% of Damage Leeched as Life against Shocked Enemies
    25% chance to Shock
    A gift from Valako,
    appointing Kiloava as the Herald of War.
    A title Kaom claimed when he ended Kiloava's bloodline.
  362. Kiloava, "Souls"
  363. Ngamahu's SignNgamahu's Sign
    Ruby Ring
    Requires Level 28+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance+(15-25) to Strength
    Adds (20-25) to (30-35) Fire Damage to Spells and Attacks
    15% increased Ignite Duration on Enemies
    10% chance to Ignite
    Recover (20-30) Life when you Ignite an Enemy
    A gift from Ngamahu,
    a sign to the Karui to spread like fire.
    Given to Akoya, but inherited by Kaom with the swing of his axe.
  364. Akoya, "Death"
  365. Tasalio's SignTasalio's Sign
    Sapphire Ring
    Requires Level 20+(20-30)% to Cold ResistanceAdds (7-10) to (15-20) Cold Damage to Spells and Attacks
    +(200-300) to Evasion Rating
    50% chance to Avoid being Chilled
    10% chance to Freeze
    Adds 40 to 60 Cold Damage against Chilled Enemies
    A gift from Tasalio, God of Water,
    to the chieftain Rakiata.
    Kaom took Rakiata's head and hand
    so that his warriors' axes might rise and fall like the waves.
  366. Kaom, "The Karui Way"
  367. Maata, "Lessons"
  368. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 4
  369. Bestel, "Marceus Lioneye"
  370. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 9
  371. Maramoa, "The Purity Rebellion"
  372. See Lioneye's bow-related items, like Lioneye's GlareLioneye's Glare
    Imperial Bow
    Bow
    Physical Damage: (100.8-129) to (394.8-453)
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Attacks per Second: (1.59-1.74)
    Requires Level 66, 212 Dex(20-24)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills(180-200)% increased Physical Damage
    Adds (7-14) to (24-34) Physical Damage
    (10-20)% increased Attack Speed
    +(80-100) to maximum Mana
    Hits can't be Evaded
    Far Shot
    "See without doubt, slay without hesitation."
    - Marceus Lioneye of Sarn
    and Lioneye's PawsLioneye's Paws
    Bronzescale Boots
    Armour: (55-63)
    Evasion: (55-63)
    Requires Level 30, 30 Str, 30 DexTrigger Level 5 Rain of Arrows when you Attack with a Bow
    +(40-60) to Strength
    +(40-60) to Dexterity
    Adds 12 to 24 Fire Damage to Attacks
    20% increased Movement Speed
    40% reduced Movement Speed when on Low Life
    Stand and lead the righteous pride,
    Fight till death, never hide.
    .
  373. Bestel, "Marceus Lioneye"
  374. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 11
  375. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 10
  376. The date of this event is unknown. Origins #1 pg. 1 claims that this occured 4 years before the Cataclysm. However, this is contradicted by in-game accounts that state that Voll's reign lasted around 5 years. This event is placed first in the chronology because it is the first event mentioned in the Purity Chronicles.
  377. Lavianga, Weathered Carving, The Coast (Act 1)
  378. Volley FireVolley Fire
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 1
    Radius: Medium
    (7-10)% increased Projectile Damage
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Barrage fires an additional 6 projectiles simultaneously on the first and final attacks
    Lioneye's men stood at the walls,
    eyeing the savages that walked the beach below.
    With a single word,
    a thousand bodies, and ten thousand arrows,
    would litter the sands.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  379. BroadstrokeBroadstroke
    Heavy Quiver
    Requires Level 5Adds 1 to 4 Physical Damage to Attacks30% increased Global Physical Damage
    (10-15)% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
    (20-30)% increased Stun Duration on Enemies
    Seeing only foot soldiers, the Sarn Knights cast aside
    their heavy shields... and paid dearly for their mistake.
  380. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 3: Fall of a Jade Axe"
  381. Hyrri's IreHyrri's Ire
    Zodiac Leather
    Evasion: (2049-3142)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 65, 197 Dex+(40-50) to Dexterity
    (140-220)% increased Evasion Rating
    25% increased Chill Duration on Enemies
    (105-145) to (160-200) Added Cold Damage with Bow Attacks
    +30% chance to Suppress Spell Damage
    Hyrri loosed a barrage of arrows,
    tipped with a poisoned hatred
    only oppression can ferment.
  382. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 3: Fall of a Jade Axe"
  383. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 17
  384. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Karui Way", pg. 21
  385. Overwhelming OddsOverwhelming Odds
    Crimson Jewel
    Limited to: 1
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Global Physical Damage
    With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Hits with Cleave Fortify
    With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Cleave has +0.1 metres to Radius per Nearby
    Enemy, up to a maximum of +1 metre
    Even as the tide turned, and victory swiftly became impossible,
    The legionnaires of Lioneye's Watch stood their ground and fought on,
    Every last man dying a brutal but honourable death.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  386. Lush Crater Memory
  387. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Coast (Act 1)
  388. Lioneye's FallLioneye's Fall
    Viridian Jewel
    Radius: MediumMelee and Melee Weapon Type modifiers in Radius are Transformed to Bow ModifiersThe shield crab does not leave his shell unless it is forced to,
    and even then, it knows to keep its distance.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  389. Lioneye's RemorseLioneye's Remorse
    Pinnacle Tower Shield
    Chance to Block: 30%
    Armour: (1307-1718)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 70, 159 Str+(20-30) to maximum Life(180-220)% increased Armour
    20% increased Stun and Block Recovery
    +(160-180) to maximum Life
    5% reduced Movement Speed
    -25 Physical Damage taken from Projectile Attacks
    +5% Chance to Block
    Marceus' unblemished shield is a testament
    to his arrogance... and his fate.
  390. Kurai, "KuraiContractOne"
  391. This would contradict Origins, which depicts the battle as occuring at a location at or very near Lioneye's Watch, such as the Coast (Act 1).
  392. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 3: Fall of a Jade Axe"
  393. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Tidal Island (Act 1)
  394. Shavronne is referred to as "of Umbra", she is sometimes referred to simply as "the Umbra" and Kadavrus is referred to as "Surgeon to the Umbra". However it is unclear what Umbra is or means. Umbra generally means "shadow", so the use of the term may simply refer to their dark magic.
  395. Shavronne, "Shavronne's Journal"
  396. Shavronne's PaceShavronne's Pace
    Scholar Boots
    Energy Shield: (46-60)Requires Level 32, 59 Int+(20-30) to Intelligence
    (100-140)% increased Energy Shield
    (150-200)% increased Stun and Block Recovery
    15% increased Movement Speed
    20% increased Movement Speed when on Full Life
    Shavronne raced to Brutus' side,
    her last hope against the Karui tide.
  397. Nessa, "Brutus"
  398. Shavronne's RevelationShavronne's Revelation
    Moonstone Ring
    Requires Level 30+(15-25) to maximum Energy Shield+(60-75) to Intelligence
    Right ring slot: You cannot Regenerate Mana
    Right ring slot: Regenerate 6% of Energy Shield per second
    Right ring slot: +250 to maximum Mana
    Left ring slot: You cannot Recharge or Regenerate Energy Shield
    Left ring slot: Regenerate 40 Mana per Second
    Left ring slot: +250 to maximum Energy Shield
    "Shavronne held Sanity in her right
    hand and Revelation in her left.
    Brutus chose the left hand."
    - Kadavrus, Surgeon to the Umbra
  399. Piety, "The Godless Three"
  400. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Ship Graveyard
  401. Eramir, "Blocked Passage"
  402. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Mud Flats (Act 1)
  403. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Ledge
  404. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Climb
  405. Kaom, "Weathered Carving", Kaom's Stronghold I
  406. Lavianga, "Weathered Carving", The Ship Graveyard II
  407. The King's HeartThe King's Heart8Kaom's Heart500 times Kaom's axe fell, 500 times Kaom's Heart splintered. Finally, all that remained was a terrible, heartless Fury.
  408. Kaom, "Weathered Carving", Kaom's Dream II
  409. Oyun, "Kaom"
  410. While the rising of the dead seems to suggest that these events occurred post-Cataclysm, Kaom is clearly still present during all of these events. Malachai's Notebook refers to "Fury and Desire", which may suggest that he needed Kaom to be there before activating the Cataclysm.
  411. Leo, "Hector Titucius"
  412. Hargan, "Hector Titucius"
  413. Hargan, "The Wings of Vastiri"
  414. Frozen TrailFrozen Trail
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (7-10)% increased Projectile Damage
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Frostbolt Projectiles gain 40% increased Projectile Speed per second
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Frostbolt fires 2 additional Projectiles
    The Maraketh knew that a mountain path
    free of vegetation was cut by regular avalanches,
    and so the advancing Eternals were unwittingly drawn into a deathtrap.
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    and Careful PlanningCareful Planning
    Viridian Jewel
    Radius: Large+(16-24) to Dexterity
    Intelligence from Passives in Radius is Transformed to Dexterity
    Corrupted"Greatly outnumbered, Deshret dressed her personal guard in identical garb. When the Empire rode north, Deshret and her guard took turns revealing themselves, creating the illusion of speed beyond the capabilities of even the Virtue Gems."
    - History of the Maraketh
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
    may describe this battle or similar, possibly contemporaneous Maraketh victories over Eternals. However, they have not been included as their depicted events are not backed up by any other sources.
  415. Path of Exile: Origins, "Sons of Virtue", pg. 7
  416. Helena, "The Baleful Gem"
  417. Path of Exile: Origins, "Sons of Virtue", pg. 10
  418. Path of Exile: Origins, "Sons of Virtue", pg. 21
  419. Piety, "The Godless Three"
  420. Voll, "Proclamation"
  421. Widowsilk RobeWidowsilk RobeEnergy Shield: (157-181)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 65, 187 Int
  422. Helena, "Maligaro"
  423. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 5: The Emperor is dead. Long live the Emperor!"
  424. Path of Exile: Origins, "Death to Sin", pg. 5
  425. Leo, "Sarn Arena" may be referring to this event.
  426. Path of Exile: Origins, "Death to Sin", pg. 10
  427. Combat Focus (Cobalt Jewel)Combat Focus
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Elemental Damage
    With 40 total Intelligence and Dexterity in Radius, Prismatic Skills cannot choose Fire
    With 40 total Intelligence and Dexterity in Radius, Prismatic Skills deal 50% less Fire Damage
    Voll stood at the gates of Sarn, and a nation stood behind him.
    He thought of the righteousness of his cause,
    and of the glory he would bring to the empire he would soon lead.
    But as Chitus and his gemlings advanced, he thought only of the fight.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  428. Dialla, "Introduction"
  429. Dialla, "Malachai"
  430. Victario's FlightVictario's Flight
    Goathide Boots
    Evasion: (84-135)Requires Level 12, 26 Dex+15 to Dexterity
    +15 to Intelligence
    (100-150)% increased Evasion Rating
    (10-20)% increased Movement Speed
    (10-20)% increased Movement Speed when on Low Life
    Quicksilver Flasks you Use also apply to nearby Allies
    Alive but not unscathed, Victario fled
    as slaughter blossomed at the gates.
  431. Rigwald, "Inscription" IV
  432. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Black Heart", pg 8
  433. While the orders refer to a "warehouse", the legion is later encountered in the Grain Gate. This is because they were previously encountered in the removed Warehouse District area.
  434. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Black Heart", pg 11
  435. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Black Heart", pg 14
  436. Path of Exile: Origins, "The Black Heart", pg 12
  437. While Origins depicts Chitus being impaled through the chest, Fairgraves claims that he was stabbed through the "posterior".
  438. The weapon that dealt the killing blow is up for debate. Ondar, the Betrayer's model shows him wielding a claw, and a claw is depicted in Origins. However, Ondar's ClaspOndar's Clasp
    Wrapped Mitts
    Evasion: (11-15)
    Energy Shield: (3-5)
    Requires Level 530% increased Attack Speed when on Full Life
    Adds (1-4) to (30-50) Lightning Damage to Attacks
    +(100-200) to Accuracy Rating
    20% increased Movement Speed when on Low Life
    A single lightning strike fells a man.
    A single knife stroke fells an empire.
    refers to a knife.
  439. Pristine Palace Memory
  440. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 5: The Emperor is dead. Long live the Emperor!"
  441. Captain Fairgraves, "Chitus' Plum"
  442. "Warehouse" refers to the removed areas The Warehouse Sewers and The Warehouse District
  443. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 5: The Emperor is dead. Long live the Emperor!"
  444. Perandus BlazonPerandus Blazon
    Cloth Belt
    Requires Level 16(15-25)% increased Stun and Block Recovery+(20-30) to all Attributes
    (10-12)% increased Rarity of Items found
    +20% to Fire Resistance
    20% increased Flask Effect Duration
    -2 Physical Damage taken from Attack Hits
    A large enough debt turns even a friend
    into an enemy, and the Perandus family
    had more debtors than anyone.
  445. Cadiro (as Hideout NPC), on Prospero
  446. Emperor of PurityEmperor of Purity7Six-Link Holy Chainmail
    Item Level: 60
    True to his title,
    Voll, newly crowned,
    had many of the
    Eternal Empire's signature
    extravagances destroyed.
  447. Siosa, "Malachai"
  448. Victario, The Brittle EmperorThe Brittle Emperor8Voll's Devotion
    Corrupted
    "When Voll spared Malachai, accepting his aid in pursuit of Purity, the strongest faith was infected by Corruption and made brittle as glass."
    - Victario, the People's Poet
  449. Piety, "Malachai
  450. Dialla, "Malachai
  451. Garivaldi, "The Purity Chronicles", "Book 6: The Rapture Device"
  452. Omen on the WindsOmen on the Winds
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (15-20)% increased Damage with Hits against Chilled Enemies
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Ice Shot has 25% increased Area of Effect
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Ice Shot Pierces 3 additional Targets
    As Malachai stepped into the Highgate mines,
    cold winds billowed from the mountain above.
    One final, feeble attempt to save what was meant to be eternal.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  453. Malachai, "Malachai's Notebook"
  454. Petarus and Vanja, "Daresso"
  455. Merveil, "Damp Diary"
  456. Piety, "Malachai"
  457. Malachai, "Malachai's Notebook"
  458. Piety, "The Godless Three"
  459. Lady Dialla, "Malachai"
  460. Scion, on the Slums
  461. Divinia, "The Bridge Encampment"
  462. Divinia, "Wildlife
  463. Yeena, "Blood Apes"
  464. Yeena, "Elementals"
  465. Spreading RotSpreading Rot
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 1
    Radius: Medium
    (7-13)% increased Chaos Damage
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight inflicts Withered for 2 seconds
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight has 30% reduced Cast Speed
    The Cataclysm was but the first act in a play of horrors.
    The dead lingered, and the living began to rot.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  466. Victario, "Ancient Notebook"
  467. Tentacles can be observed growing out of the body of Voll, Emperor of Purity
  468. Siosa, "Cataclysm"
  469. Siosa, "Cataclysm" specifically mentioning Trinian "englufed by the radiance" of his gem, Victario, "Ancient Notebook" specifically mention gems "flar[ing] in unholy lustre"
  470. Victario, "Ancient Notebook"
  471. Siosa, "Cataclysm"
  472. Ahuana, "Cataclysm"
  473. Oyun, "Deshret"
  474. Spreading RotSpreading Rot
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 1
    Radius: Medium
    (7-13)% increased Chaos Damage
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight inflicts Withered for 2 seconds
    With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight has 30% reduced Cast Speed
    The Cataclysm was but the first act in a play of horrors.
    The dead lingered, and the living began to rot.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  475. Maramoa, "Gemling Legionaires"
  476. Captain Fairgraves, "The Undying"
  477. Maramoa, "The Undying"
  478. Sin, "Trarthan Powder"
  479. Oyun, "Voll"
  480. Fight for SurvivalFight for Survival
    Viridian Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Cold Damage
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Melee Damage
    dealt by Frost Blades Penetrates 15% Cold Resistance
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Frost Blades has 25% increased Projectile Speed
    The winter that followed the Cataclysm was especially harsh.
    Wraeclast's few survivors fought to the death for the last scraps of bread.
    Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  481. The Long WinterThe Long Winter
    Cobalt Jewel
    Limited to: 2
    Radius: Medium
    (10-15)% increased Cold Damage
    With 40 Intelligence in Radius, Glacial Cascade has an additional Burst
    With 40 Intelligence in Radius, 20% of Glacial Cascade Physical Damage
    Converted to Cold Damage
    In the years that followed the twisted sky,
    cold winds cloaked Wraeclast in snow.
    The pure-white blanket masked a black heart
    that lay dormant deep beneath the earth.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  482. Steel SpiritSteel Spirit
    Viridian Jewel
    Radius: Medium(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage
    With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, each Spectral Throw Projectile gains 5% increased Damage each time it Hits
    The Sekhema rode to the mountain,
    With her tribe, devoted and strong.
    And sewed shut the mouth of nightmare,
    So that it would not consume her world.
    Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
  483. Oyun, "Deshret"
  484. Deep Dig Memory
  485. Oyun, "The Red Banner"
  486. Kahuturoa, "The Cataclysm"
  487. [:File:Waypoint_map_act_1.jpg
  488. Help panel glossary, "Oriath"
  489. Scion, on the Slums
  490. Eramir, "Ralakesh"
  491. Utula, "Slave Pens"
  492. The AdmiralThe Admiral
    Varnished Coat
    Evasion: (774-1041)
    Energy Shield: (158-213)
    Movement Speed: -3%
    Requires Level 62, 96 Dex, 96 Int+(30-40) to Intelligence
    (100-140)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
    +(10-20)% to all Elemental Resistances
    (5-10)% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite
    Elemental Damage you Deal with Hits is Resisted by lowest Elemental Resistance instead
    The Oriathans built their empire on naval mobility, which allowed them to wage war wherever their enemy was weakest.
  493. Bloodsoaked Arena Memory
  494. Daresso, Plaque (Grand Arena), Plaque II
  495. Daresso, Plaque (Grand Arena), Plaque III
  496. Tullina, "The Wedding Dress"
  497. Oyun, on Daresso
  498. Petarus and Vanja, on Daresso
  499. Weylam Roth, "Merveil"
  500. Merveil, Eroded Chamber Memory
  501. See Dominus' sentence and their respective introductions during the character selection screen.
  502. Petarus and Vanja, on Irasha
  503. Irasha, on Tasuni
  504. Irasha, IrashaShakariReward
  505. Irasha, on Maraketh Justice
  506. Petarus and Vanja, PetarusVanjaOnOyunDead
  507. Tujen, "Vorana"
  508. Gwennen, "Medved's Defeat"
  509. Rog, "Uhtred"
  510. Gwennen, "Luck" & "Failed Rebellion"
  511. Divinia, "Introduction"
  512. Divinia, "Fellshrine Ruins"
  513. Divinia, "The Newcomers"
  514. Arimor, "The Life of an Undertaker"
  515. Hand of ArimorHand of Arimor"Balabus Arimor was a little-known preacher during the days of Emperor Chitus,
    who believed eternal life could be achieved through ritual sacrifice.
    We shall see whether he was a prophet - or a charlatan."
    Can be exchanged with Faustus, the Fence in The Rogue Harbour
  516. Arimor, "The Life of an Undertaker"
  517. Arimor, "Other Exiles"
  518. Arimor, "Former Apprentice", "Catarina"
  519. Members of the Grattus familiy, specifically Asinia Grattus and Draven Grattus, are bosses encountered in Act 1 betas of PoE2.
  520. Arimor, "UndertakerChantGeneric_12" & "UndertakerChantGeneric_13"
  521. Arimor, "Emperor Chitus"
  522. Arimor, "The Allflame"

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