====== Venomancy ======

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Venomancy is a magic [[skills|skill tree]] focused on the sacrificial school of magic: drain life from your enemies, inflict devastating bleeds, and grow stronger while standing in the blood of the fallen.

===== List of Skills =====

^ __Skill__ ^ __Prerequisites__ ^ __SP Cost__ ^ __Levels?__ ^ __Description__ ^
| **[[Venomancy]]** | [[tree_trace_magick|TRACE Magick]] | 20 SP | None | You have learned to draw power from blood itself. Venomancy is a sacrificial school of magic: drain life from your enemies, inflict devastating bleeds, and grow stronger while standing in the blood of the fallen. |
| <sub>(Upper Branch)</sub> |
| **[[Sanguine Blade]]** | Venomancy | 3 SP | None | Cut into your own arm and draw out a weapon of living blood that lasts for 8 turns. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Subjugation]]** | Sanguine Blade | 3 SP | 4 | Expand your grasp over others. "Bound Control" now causes immense percentile damage to your target. |
| **[[Blood Rush]]** | Subjugation | 5 SP | 4 |5 Range: Utilize profane energy to instantly relocate yourself to a nearby blood puddle. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Unto Death]]** | Blood Rush | 3 SP | 4 | You are a harbinger of torment and pain. When standing in blood, it swirls around you defensively, reducing physical damage per level. |
| <sub>(Middle Branch)</sub> |
| **[[Hemorrhage]]** | Venomancy | 4 SP | 3 |4 Range: Curse a target, dealing pure magical damage based on a percentage of their max health. | **Deals reduced damage to boses. Cannot be clashed. Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Vampiric Touch]]** | Hemorrhage | 3 SP | 4 |1 Range: Strike an adjacent enemy for pure magical damage equal to a percentage of their max health, and heal yourself for the full amount dealt. | **Scales per rank. Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Leech]]** | Vampiric Touch | 10 SP | None | You are capable of passively healing from the lifeforce from any blood you are standing in. | **There is a 50% chance of not consuming the blood puddle.** |
| **[[Unholy Feast]]** | Leech | 5 SP | None |4 Range: Target an area nearby, detonating an enormous volume of energy. All enemies caught in the blast suffer immense bleed damage. All damage inflicted is returned to the caster as health. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| <sub>(Bottom Branch)</sub> |
| **[[Bound Control]]** | Venomancy | 4 SP | None |4 Range: Grasp at an enemy's own blood, binding them to your control. The target is stunned and forced to skip their next turn. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Demonic Power]]** | Bound Control | 4 SP | 5 | Channel demonic energy to bolster your body's resilience. While active, your Venomancy skills deal increased damage. | Effects: +X Vitality  +X Max HP (4 Turns) **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Soulstrike]]** | Demonic Power | 3 SP | 3 |1 Range: Strike a nearby enemy with insidious energy, draining their life force. You heal for half of the damage dealt. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Curse of Pain]]** | Soulstrike | 6 SP | None |4 Range: Curse a nearby target with a horrific affliction. This infects them, causing them to take damage at the start of each round. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| **[[Call of the Dying]]** | Curse of Pain | 3 SP | None |5 Range: Target a nearby corpse and detonate it in a devastating explosion, leaving the ground ablaze. Be careful: the blast hits you too. | Effects: Spawns fire for 3 turns that deal X DMG when stepped on. **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |
| <sub>(Capstone Skill)</sub> |
| **[[Venomaster]]** | Unto Death, Call of the Undying, Unholy Feast | 15 SP | None | As a master of Venomancy, your maximum Health is increased by 10%. |
| **[[Abyssal Gaze]]** | Venomaster | 25 SP | None |6 Range: Look into the abyss long enough, and the abyss gazes back unto you. Target a nearby ALTER and bind it to your will. This ALTER will act as your thrall, bound to your commands. | **Dark Magic: Using this forbidden magic will lower your Humanity.** |

<sup>Where possible, skill lists will try to emulate the shape and flow of the in-game skill tree to ensure optimal readability, however this will not always be possible due to the shapes or interconnectivity possessed by some trees.</sup>

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