Amazon Apocalypse 5: Carter's abilities cheat sheet (as of chapter 5)

Here's Carter's cheat sheet, as promised.

Note, he won't actually have the new skills listed here until he reaches B-Grade, but that's coming up soon.

Anyway, I gotta make one of these for the whole main cast, though the girls' will be shorter since I haven't gone into too much detail about most of their abilities.

After that, a bit of worldbuilding documents, some tax stuff, and then finalizing my outline for the second half of this book. I pretty much know what's going to happen in the first half, but I haven't decided how long to make the second part.

Utility

Lifeforce Tether (Epic)

• Bind your lifeforce to another allowing you to share health points. This teather will only function with individuals deeply bound to you through powerful soul magic.

Mana Siphon (Epic)

• Draw mana from unconventional sources, like stable enchantments or living entities. This may damage enchantments or kill mana-dependent lifeforms.

Ethereal Wings (Epic)

• Conjure glowing wings made of mana, granting the power of flight.

Elemental Step (Rare)

• Utilize the elemental planes of magic to teleport a short step. The mana cost and cooldown increase exponentially with the distance traveled.

Iron Will (Common) 

• Exert stats all the way to their thresholds without suffering the debilitating effects normally associated with doing so.

Mind Over Flesh (Uncommon) 

• Grants the ability to convert mana into health points.

Share Curse (Rare) 

• Share any negative status effects with others. Carter uses this to share his Death Curse, which prevents him from gaining experience from killing monsters, with his companions so they can level up faster.

Lightsculptor’s Brush (Rare)

• Paint the air with a brush of multicolored light. The detail of the illusion depends on the user’s artistic skill and talent for mana manipulation.

Mana Overload (Mythic)

• Supercharge your enchantments, talismans, and equipment with a sudden surge of power, allowing you to use them to greater effect at the cost of damaging the item.

Multipurpose Glyphs (Epic)

• With preparation, you may store enchanted items and talismans within the extremities of your soul as glyphs. These glyphs will appear as markings on your skin, which will be destroyed on use of the corresponding item.

Machine Spirit Awakening (Rare)

• Stir the will of unborn steel elementals, allowing for the easier manipulation of complex mechanical components. Complex machines will function better and longer in your presence, and basic repairs will occur spontaneously.

Lifesteal (Common)

• A small portion of damage is returned as health.

Machine Spirit Awakening (Rare)

• This ability allows Carter to awaken the spirits within machines, potentially allowing the machines to self-repair.

Charisma Scaling

Commanding Aura (Rare)

• Your presence inspires fear or respect. This passive ability increases your persuasiveness to those you hold legitimate command over. Even in the face of mutiny or overwhelming foes, the thought of disobeying your orders will rarely cross the minds of your subordinates.

Diplomat's Charm (Rare)

• This passive dramatically enhances opportunity for dialogue with opposing and neutral factions, giving you the chance to sway them in favor of your cause.

Direct Order (Epic)

• You may give a soldier under your command a direct order. Their ability to disobey is dependent upon the difference in your relative Charisma stats.

Pacify (Epic)

• When you hold overwhelming power in a given social scenario, you can attempt to pacify your enemy, causing them to instantly accept the futility of their situation and surrender.

Conversion (Mythic)

• Enemies who are defeated by you will be more open-minded to hearing your perspective. If sufficiently charmed by your words, they may switch sides and join your cause as allies.

Luck Scaling

Curse of Ill-Fortune (Rare)

• Decrease the luck of your opponent. This effect scales off the difference between your luck and theirs.

Fortune's Favor (Epic)

• You and your allies have a better instinct for finding hidden treasure or loot.

Fate's Blessing (Epic)

• Negative effects or debuffs will frequently fail to apply to you or your allies. Attacks dealt to you will be much less likely to be critical.

Slippery Foe (Epic)

• When your health is below 25%, your luck stat gains a 50% boost.

Critical Strike (Mythic)

• Once per minute, guarantee a critical strike, dealing greatly increased damage effect. If the attack would have already been a critical strike, it is enhanced to being a super-critical strike, with exponentially increased damage and effect.

Buffing

Dragonsouled Mage (Mythic)

• A penultimate spell of the Dragon Lodge. Allows the user to take on the soul of a dragon, massively increasing mana pool, resistance to mental and soul attack, mana regeneration, vitality regeneration, and the effects of other dragon enhancement. Once learned and activated for the first time, this spell remains active continuously. Warning: Overexerting yourself while using too many dragon-derived spells may result in a draconic transformation.

Awakening the Inner Beast (Rare)

• Awakens the monster that dwells within all mortal souls. Both the user and nearby allies become more aggressive and eager for battle. Weakens nearby enemies, sometimes causing them to flee in terror.

Sanctified Grounds (Epic)

• This combination of magical and divine processes sanctify an area to a user's divine alignment, enhancing their magic and the effects of any divine blessings they might wield.

Dragonscaled Mage (Epic)

• Absorb elemental magic through your skin, creating a natural resistance to hostile spells. One of the signature spells of the Dragon Lodge.

Dragoneyed Mage (Epic)

• See elemental mana as clearly as a dragon, significantly enhancing the ease of manipulating magical energies in ways not restricted to formal skills and spells. One of the signature spells of the Dragon Lodge.

Dragonblooded Mage (Epic)

• Transform your blood into that of a dragon, dramatically enhancing your toughness and overall mana capacity. One of the signature spells of the Dragon Lodge.

Dragonblooded Mage (Epic)

• Transform your blood into that of a dragon, dramatically enhancing your toughness and overall mana capacity. One of the signature spells of the Dragon Lodge.

Life-Saving Emergency Abilities

Living Paradox (Mythic)

• Upon taking fatal damage, swap fates with an alternate version of yourself that successfully survived the lethal attack. Can activate once per day.

Hand of Fate (Epic)

• Passive ability that shields you from incoming attacks, especially projectiles. Attacks not under conscious control will be caught in spatial distortions that throw them off course. Melee opponents will perceive a slightly distorted sense of you, causing some attacks to miss or otherwise critical strikes to hit non-lethal areas. This ability can be overwhelmed by excessively powerful or frequent attacks but will constantly regenerate.

Time Stutter (Mythic)

• This ability dilates time around the user's mind, granting them additional opportunities to make use of cognitive abilities or perform the mental component of spell casting.

Intelligence Scaling (Offensive)

Mana Barrage (Epic)

• Conjure mana bolts ahead of time and release them rapidly. The amount of bolts that can be sustained depends on his mana reserves. These mana bolts can take on different elemental aspects. The effect of this spell is enhanced by other users of the spell, as Carter is the spell’s inventor.

Arcane Blade (Common)

• This ability allows Carter to envelop a weapon in arcane energy. The weapon deals additional damage based on the user's mana pool. Myrina's Theory Crafter specifically recommends this skill.

Elemental Phalanx (Epic)

• Conjures a defensive formation of crystalized mana. Different elements will express themselves in different ways. This phalanx can intercept incoming attacks or be launched offensively.

Firescourge Breath (Rare)

• Breathe fire like dragon that scours all before you in magical flame. A creation of the Dragon Lodge.

Sunlight Spear (Epic)

• Conjure a bolt of plasma, thrown from the hand. Extremely quick to cast.

Starlight Beam (Mythic)

• Channel your power into a highly destructive beam of magical power. This beam continues to deal damage so long as it is channeled, and will drain your mana as it is cast.

Intelligence Scaling (Defensive)

Mage Armor (Rare)

• Encase yourself in an interwoven mantle of mana plates that repels projectiles and most melee attacks.

Elemental Phalanx (Epic)

• Conjures a defensive formation of crystalized mana. Different elements will express themselves in different ways. This phalanx can intercept incoming attacks or be launched offensively.

Wisdom / Sage of Forbidden Knowledge unique stat scaling abilities.

Corrupting Mark (Epic)

• All attacks leave a mark upon the target, infecting them with corrupting energy that deals poison damage over time. Each subsequent affliction of Corrupting Mark increases this passive damage. These enhanced Corrupting Marks create visible wounds on the target. Striking these wounds deals significant damage and enhances the associated Corrupting Mark to a Greater Corrupting Mark, which has the effect of five regular marks. Attacks to these wounds also count as critical hits. These marks can be detonated to deal a significant amount of damage all at once, at the cost of removing them from their target.

Hemorrhage (Epic)

• Critical strikes build up bloodloss damage. When bloodless reaches a certain threshold, the hemorrhage effect is triggered, dealing immense damage to all foes that bleed.

Eldritch Augmentation (Rare)

• Temporarily boost physical abilities by reinforcing his body with otherworldly energies and concepts. Abberation and Arcana are combined, and their stat effects are added to Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Dexterity. This ability is extremely painful to use and leaves the user unable to cast spells while it is active.

Void Cannon (Epic)

• Condense a sphere of void energy that explodes on impact, causing extensive damage to magical shields by causing them to detonate explosively.

Exploit Weakness (Rare)

• Analyze an enemy and identify vulnerabilities, increasing damage and bypassing defenses. This ability usually highlights anatomical weak points and weaknesses to damage types.

Shadowrealm Stride (Epic)

• Travel through a shadowy dimension adjacent to the real world, where otherworldly souls make their impression on the realm. Powerful beings can have powerful shadows that are dangerous to encounter. Time moves more slowly in the Shadow Realm, and minutes can feel like days. This realm has a negative effect on your mental state.

Summon Void Leviathan (Epic)

• Summon the void Leviathan Sharky. He can evolve over time, given care and feeding.

• He possesses the following abilities/attributes:

  • All-Devouring Hunger. The Void Leviathan desires to consume all life and emanates a terrifying aura that drains vitality from nearby enemies who display fear in its presence. Creatures without sufficient willpower will fall victim to Sharky's aura.

  • Soul Eater. The Void Leviathan craves mortal souls. Upon consumption, the souls of its victims are scoured of their fears, traumas, and resentment.

  • Create Voidling. The last lingering fragments of the Leviathan's victims will manifest as minor voidlings, which seek to attack and grow stronger. Voidlings are innately hostile but will follow Sharky's commands.

Soulchain Nexus (Epic)

• Tethers the user’s soul to and between targets, spreading afflictions and allowing the user to absorb some of their stat points upon death. Synergizes with Corrupting Mark.

Voidling Embrace (Rare)

• Restraining ability that summons a shadowy appendage from another dimension, which traps enemies for a short period of time.

Eldrich Blight (Rare)

• Area of effect spell that opens a spatial tear in reality and allows unnatural energies to leak into the world. This effect applies Corrupting Marks.

Unspeakable World (Rare)

• This word, when spoken, causes mass confusion and madness to all those who hear it.

Destined Death (Mythic)

• Enemies who have recently taken damage from you take increased damage. This effect scales with damage done. This ability is passive.

Aegis of the Void (Mythic)

• Cast a portal to a localized spatial anomaly known as an event horizon. This momentary defensive spell can swallow all incoming offensive attacks so long as they do not destroy the portal.

Vitality Scaling

Blood Sacrifice (Rare)

• Sacrifice health to deal direct and unblockable damage to an enemy. This ability can be dramatically enhanced by Mania.

Abilities granted by titles and classes

Scepter of the Supreme Patriarch (Legendary)

• Drain levels from lovers. Grants lovers a stacking 10% stat bonus to all stats Carter has more of. Additional bonus stats based on the highest stat of other members of the harem.

• Can grant a smaller bonus to harem members upon thinking about Carter.

Study (Rare)

• This is an upgraded form of the Perception skill Analyze, allowing Carter to study items and corpses to understand their uses and functions.

Enlightenment (Epic)

• When activated, Enlightenment increases the potency of Carter's class skills, but also increases the strain on his mind.

Disassemble (Rare)

• This ability allows Carter to break down items, objects, or corpses into their component parts, which he can use to craft new items or to learn more about how things work.

Examine (Common)

• Identify the level and class of the targeted individual. Considered rude in some circumstances.

Notable items and equipment:

Sticky Slime of Amazonian Subjugation, Lasso of Amazonian Binding, Doomblade Power Armor (Legendary / Masterwork), Mana Bombs, Reluna's Talismans, Stylish Sunglasses, Spellsniper's Bangle