Essences
Essences are special perks that are not in the normal perk rotation, and instead only spawn in specific locations on the map, held within ??? rooms. They play part in several quests, including the Moon and Uusi Aurinko.
Unlike other perks, essences can be removed by destroying the Essence Eater found either in the Desert or in the Snowy Wasteland. This can be done multiple times per game as the Eaters appear in Parallel Worlds and in New Game Plus.
Seeking and handling essences can be quite dangerous, so be well equipped with protective Perks and healing.
Essence of Earth
The Essence of Earth is found in a ??? room along the map's east wall, inside a grey diamond composed of Brickwork.
When collected, every few seconds 8 explosive Magic Bolt projectiles are fired in an octagonal pattern around you, destroying terrain and setting off explosives. The small explosions from these projectiles can damage you unless you have obtained Explosion Immunity.
Essence of Air
The Essence of Air is found in ??? room in the center of the Cloudscape, inside a grey brickwork diamond floating amidst the clouds.
When collected, it regularly shoots 16 Burst of Air projectiles in a fairly tight circle around you, pushing away powders, enemies, and objects.
It is generally a fairly safe Essence, but can easily result in many broken Potions and the occasional explosion from fragile explosive props.
Essence of Fire
The Essence of Fire is found in a small pocket of Water in the center of the island on the Lake, underground near the wooden effigy.
When collected, it periodically emits a large fiery explosion from you. The explosion isn't directly harmful to you, but frequently will cause you to catch on fire, as well as being very hazardous around any kind of explosive containers or Materials such as Gunpowder. Its effect will also constantly prevent the Invisibility perk from activating. Additionally, picking up this essence will permanently multiply your projectile and explosion damage multipliers by 1.3 (i.e., 30% more damage taken); these modifications are not reversed when the essence is removed.
Essence of Water
The Essence of Water is found in a ??? room in the Westernmost reaches of The Work (Hell), inside a grey Brickwork diamond.
When collected, it periodically shoots a small red projectile from you in a random direction, which turns a small radius of material around its point of impact into Lava. Unlike the Touch of spells, which have similar effects, it does not transmute you or normal enemies, only the surrounding terrain and any rigid-body props. Explosive props will also detonate, releasing their contents, when afflicted by the transmutation effect from this Essence.
The projectile will home in on nearby enemies, quickly killing rigid-body enemies such as Kirottu kristalli.
The Freeze Field perk makes this Essence significantly safer to you, although becoming stuck in newly-solidified Rock does tend to become common.
Essence of Spirits
The Essence of Spirits is found in a ??? room in the deepest depths of the Lake in a grey Brickwork diamond
When collected, it adds a Whiskey trail to all spells fired from a wand. This often causes significant amounts of Fire as well, as Whiskey vapour is very flammable. Having Fire Immunity or Freeze Field, as well as Breathless, is needed to avoid being harmed by the excessive amounts of the flammable liquid especially for rapid-fire wand builds. The constant Whiskey stain will also increase the spread of all casts, as well, making it significantly more difficult to aim.
It has been known to cause a fair amount of lag when using very rapidly-firing wands due to the sheer amount of excess liquid it can generate, and the large amounts of fire that can result from it being ignited.
History
- Nov 5 2019: Moved the Essence of Air from the Moon to the Western Cloudscape.
- Oct 23 2019:
- The description of Essence of Water was changed from "The earth flows around your being!" to "The earth flows around you!"
- The material created by Essence of Water changed from Acid to Lava.
- Oct 11 2019:
- Renamed Essence of Explosion to Essence of Fire.
- Renamed Essence of Light to Essence of Earth.
- Added Essence of Air.
- Added Essence of Water.
- Added Essence of Spirits.
- Changed the explosion size for Essence of Fire from medium to large, doubling its radius.
- Decreased the damage of Essence of Fire's explosion from 68.75to
43.75.
- Sep 25 2019:
- Added Essence of Explosion.
- Added Essence of Light.