Talebound - Standalone Game Mode Guide

Wear a crown of moonlight and speak forgotten names. Nature ends to those who dance the crooked path.

The Witch is a spellcaster character that uses a combination of lightning, poison, brews, and creature summons to compel the darkness and fight alongside it. Here's a preview of the abilities the Witch can use:

• Brewing Storm: A sequence of 3 attacks that damage enemies in front of the player and root the player in place. The final attack inflicts higher damage and a longer stun.
  "A witch's ire begins with a scouring wind and ends in a flash of lightning."
• Thorn: Launches thorns that erupt beneath the nearest 2 enemies. A weak attack that can be cast while moving.
  "Water the soil with fonts of blood leaked from the wounds of fallen foes."
• Moonlight Ravens: Summons a flock of ravens every second against enemies in front of you. Each raven inflicts damage in a small area around its target. You may channel while moving.
  "How sweetly mother moon kisses the wings of death's favored herald."
• Bubbling Cauldron: Summons a bubbling cauldron to unleash a plague of frogs for 9 sec. Frogs leap to a random enemy within 30 yards and explode, inflicting damage in a small area.
  "Sweet are poison's fumes, when turned upon one's enemy."
• Winter Spiders: Call forth a swarm of spiders that skitters forward 25 yards. The brood mother explodes after encountering an enemy, inflicting high damage in a small area.
  "Winter encroaches, chittering and patient, to spin with filaments of ice."
• Feline Communion: You step through moonlight, reappearing 15 yards forward, and transform into a cat for 10 sec. While you are a cat, a shower of stars inflicts damage against all enemies within 20 yards, and you are able to cast Crooked Path and Full Moon.
  • Crooked Path: Step through moonlight, reappearing 15 yards forward.
  • Full Moon: The moon crashes down on your nearest foe within 20 yards, inflicting high damage in a small area around your target and ending your transformation.
  "The clever cat dances in moonlight, prances on stars, to arrive at Midwinter."
• Coven: Summons a coven of witches to assail your enemies for 15 sec. When you strike enemies with Bubbling Cauldron, Winter Spiders, or Moonlight Ravens, your Coven will attack those enemies with a similar spell.
  

Take up your rifle, your pistol, your blades. As the poets say: a hunter must hunt.

The Slayer is a skilled brawler with the knowledge of martial might and weapons to combat the beasts of folklore. Slayers use combined sword and gun techniques to succeed in Talebound. Here's a preview of the abilities the Slayer can use:

• Slash: A sequence of 3 attacks that damage enemies in front of the player and root the player in place. The final attack inflicts higher damage and a longer stagger.
  "A savior's blade tempered in the blood of nightmares."
• Throwing Knives: A weak attack that moves the player quickly and strikes nearby enemies. This attack can be used to cancel a different player attack in progress.
  "If one blade mayn't serve, pierce the monster's hide with a surfeit of steel."
• Shrapnel Round: Fires 4 rounds at enemies within 25 yards. Each round explodes inflicting damage to enemies within 3 yards.
  "Pull the trigger, that the bullet might execute its contract."
• Explosive Shot: Fires a shotgun blast at enemies in front of you. Empower this ability for longer to deal greater damage. Nearer enemies suffer damage from multiple shots. Castable while moving.
  "Gird your courage while the fuse burns, and your art will crack earth and rend flesh."
• Minefield: You leap backwards and hurl an arc of mines in front of you for 5 sec. Mines inflict damage and reduce enemy movement speed for 3 sec.
  "The clever slayer stole sulfur from hell to manifest inventions most destructive."
• Silver Bolt: You leap into the air, becoming immune to damage for 3 sec. You immediately fire a silver bolt inflicting high damage at the enemy with the highest health in range. You fire another bolt when this ability is cast again or the leap fades. When this effect ends, you reappear on the ground in your direction of movement.
  "Drive a stake, wreathed in silver, into the heart of evil."
• Danse Macabre: Wreathe yourself in smoke for 15 sec, increasing movement speed by 40%, reducing incoming damage 50%, and gaining a set of empowered abilities.
  

Wield your words like weapons, and keep the cleansing fires tended. They will be needed in the dark.

The Inquisitor is a holy zealot whose words light every corner and burns the face of evil, no matter what illusions it uses to hide. Here's a preview of the abilities the Inquisitor can use:

• Purify: A sequence of 3 attacks that damage enemies in front of the player and root the player in place. The final attack inflicts higher damage and a longer stun.
  "A barrage of holy fire and righteous anger offers no quarter to the wicked."
• Radiant Burst: Hurls fire at an enemy that explodes on impact, damaging all nearby enemies. A weak attack that can be cast while moving.
  "Let your faith burn like a beacon, that it might set others alight."
• Light's Wrath: Conjures a wrathful sun above an enemy within 20 yards that burns up to 3 nearby enemies for 6.5 sec.
  "The unholy vanish like mist before the Sun's radiance."
• Rapture: Wreathes enemies within 25 yards in righteous flames for 2 sec, then detonates the flames to inflict greater damage. Roots you in place, but inflicts high damage. You can activate this ability again to end it early.
  "The day of reckoning comes cruel to make the realm of sin a desolation."
• Condemn: Condemn enemies in an 18 yard cone, inflicting damage and reducing movement speed for 4 sec. Castable while moving.
  "Unto the perpetrators of vileness, may their hearts be rent to ash."
• Denounce: Denounces the nearest enemy in front of you. The longer you empower this ability the more damage you will inflict. Roots you in place, but inflicts high damage.
  "The abominations shall cry their torment, consumed by righteous fire."
• Divine Punishment: Channels Divine Punishment against the nearest enemy for 6 sec, becoming immune to damage, and inflicting damage every 0.3 sec. When the duration ends, you leap at the targeted enemy and inflict high damage against all enemies within 12 yards.