Venomancy
Venomancy is a magic 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 | 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. | |
| (Upper Branch) | |||||
| 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. | |
| (Middle Branch) | |||||
| 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. |
| (Bottom Branch) | |||||
| 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. |
| (Capstone Skill) | |||||
| 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. |
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.