Chapter Twelve (Magicka)

## Checklists

These are listed in order of game appearance.

For visual support, refer to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrbG95DoM8

### Achievements

*Defeat Assatur.*
*Acquire all Magicks in adventure mode.*
*Find all the moose.*
* 12/12 - Once Assatur has been defeated and the credits scroll, the last moose will eventually drop down onto your plateau.

### Magicks

*Acquire all Magicks in adventure mode.*
* 21/21 - Vortex - Obtained automatically on defeating Assatur.

### Monsters and Bosses

* Vlad, the Vampire (Boss)
* Grimnir, The Dark Lord (Boss)
* Assatur, The King in Yellow (Boss)

## Chapter Story

**Chapter 12 - At the Mountains of Madness**

*Still incapable of forming sentences in stressful situations, the wizards did battle with Fafnir -- and nearly killed him! Luckily I... ehm... Future Vlad intervened just in time. Now equipped with the power to draw Assatur into the corporeal realm, the wizards were finally ready to do battle with the mighty daemon himself!*

## Area 1

### Vlad the Vampire

Fafnir sends you to the rock plateau just before you go up to combat Grimnir. Future Vlad will share some words with you about when to use the Corporealize Magick but he is interrupted by Present Vlad saying "Imposters! Didn't I take care of you once already?!" (remember Chapter Six Area 3?).

The Vlad you fight hasn't changed from before in Chapter Nine Area 7 when you defeated him in his castle. The only change is the battlefield, in which all weather effects can be called upon, including Thunder Bolts. This means you have some *additional* ways to defeat Vlad:

1. Use two Thunder Bolts. Don't bother with wetting him, he has a water shield up remember?
2. Fear him off the island platform.
3. Damage him so that his health percentage is lower than yours, then Summon Death.
4. Position some mines to knock him off-screen, winning the fight in one or two attacks.

After being defeated again, he retreats and prepares to send your past self (from the first Grimnir battle) back to Castle Aldrheim.

### Grimnir, the Dark Lord

Proceed up the pathway to confront Grimnir again. You will arrive just in time to see future vlad teleport the player away from Grimnir.This time, he is very confused that you just disappeared, yet there you are. The incorporeal image of Assatur proceeds to heal Grimnir back to full health and disappears from sight. Grimnir will continue to fight you as before. Little has changed from the first time you fought him in Chapter Six Area 5, so deal with him however you did so before. The only difference is that he now makes two copies of himself rather than one. Which makes absolutely no difference since you are going to Nullify it anyway.

This battle though, you have access to the Corporealize Magick. When you get Grimnir down to low health, Assatur will show up behind him again just like in Chapter Six. Future Vlad will show up and wave his hands wildly and tell you "This is the signal!". Quickly cast Corporealize to draw Assatur into Midgård (press Escape, go into the Magicks menu and find the element combination for it if you really have to and didn't have it memorized). Do this quickly because Assatur will heal Grimnir back to full again and disappear if you do not do this fast enough. You will have to repeat the fight *ad infinitum* until you do it right.

If you do it right, Assatur will materialize into the corporeal plane in full color. He will prattle on about how you cannot possibly comprehend what you have just done, kills off Grimnir and proceeds to rip apart World's End to prepare for the final duel between you and him.

### Assatur, the King in Yellow

You will find yourself on a narrow platform, with Assatur floating in front of you, preparing to cast his first spell (typically an energy barrage coming from two sides). If he does cast that spell, put up a bubble shield around you but do not boost it: his energy barrage will destroy the shield, but none will actually hit you. Move about 10 feet to the right, because one of his spells is the deadly Vortex, which he will only cast on the spot that you come in on (roughly in the middle of the island). Vortex will instantly suck you in and kill you if you don't move away from the spawn location.

In terms of strategy for defeating Assatur, he follows the conventions of most enemies. The battlefield allows for weather effect and Thunder Bolts. If you can wet him down, Thunder Bolts will make very short work of his health. If he uses any weather effects, typically Blizzard, Nullify them immediately, because he will either use the time to cast a new spell, or to heal himself. He can heal himself at 1,999-5,999 health per tick, quickly ruining any progress you made on him if you don't attack him belligerently. You will know he is using Vortex because he will put his staff in front of him as if he were using his energy barrage, but a white symbol will appear in front as well (it is similar to the one that appears over your wizard's head when you cast a weather effect). Immediately vacate the initial spawn area to avoid Vortex which is always cast there. Otherwise, chip away at his health, use a bubble shield to counter his energy barrage, and don't let up your offense when he's not actually attacking. If he uses Meteor Shower, you can either Nullify it, or use shield bubbles (recast them as they get destroyed).

 Weaknesses
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Assatur is a yellow robed figure with only the upper half of his body corporealized into the world. Little is known about him save that he is not from this world and that he is only currently only at a fraction of his powers. Assatur doesn't move, nor does he need to. He performs the following attacks:
1. A blue energy barrage from his hands. If you are standing in front of him, both hands will emit them and hit you. If you are standing significantly to his left or right, only the hand nearer to you does it. So be standing about 10 feet to the right of your spawn point (next to the thing where Grimnir was chained to) and throw up a shield bubble (+shift right click) but don't boost it. The energy barrage does just enough damage to kill the shield and little else.
2. Casts Vortex on your spawn point. It's a black hole. Stay away from that spot. Or Nullify (+spacebar) it. *(Note: Patch 1.3.5.1 (25 February 2011) stealth nerfed Nullify to no longer work on Vortex.)*
3. Casts Rain and Blizzard to change the weather. You can cast Nullify to stop it if you wish. Note that you will be wet and need to dry yourself with fire to use any lightning spells.
4. Heal himself over time for 1,999-5,999 health per tick. Doing any damage on him will stop this.
5. Casts Meteor Shower which rains down random rocks of fire. Nullify it or use a shield bubble. Whenever a meteor hits the bubble and destroys it, recast a new one immediately. You can queue up the next shield while waiting in the shield.
6. Attacks you with purple lightning from both hands. Deals moderate damage. You can ignore this and just heal up or continue your attacks.
7. Casts Nullify removing your shields and any weather effects.

As you can see, the key to defeating him is:
1. Stand to the left of the rocks to the left of him to avoid the blue energy barrage.
2. Use Nullify whenever he uses a Magick, other than Vortex.
3. Use a shield every time he raises his hands to energy barrage. It's very obvious.
4. Attack whenever he is healing.
5. Attack whenever he is casting a weather effect (Rain or Blizzard) rather than Nullify it, since the casting time is fairly long and the spell doesn't actually do much to you.
6. Use your favorite high damage spell on Assatur. This can be Thunder Bolt, or perhaps .

Killing Assatur will complete the "I think Magicka is a pretty cool guy" achievement.

### The aftermath

Upon the defeat of Assatur, the ghostly figures of Vlad, a hooded mage, and Behold the Watcher will appear. Vlad will congratulate you on saving Midgård, and will tell you they are hosting a "Saved the World Party" back at Castle Aldrheim, and suggests you use the "Town Portal" Magick to come back. There is no Town Portal Magick, so let the credits roll.

Note, after the conversation with Vlad after defeating Assatur, you will automatically learn Vortex (completing "I put on my robe and wizard hat" achievement if you've acquired all the Magicks before here) and it will be available to you while you wait for the credits to finish. Very shortly into the credits, the last moose (Moose 12) will fall from the sky and land just to the left of where you initially spawned. Examine it to finish the "King's Quest" achievement.

You will return to the Adventure mode menu thereafter. with the character selection at Chapter 1. If you choose to start the adventure again from this same save slot, you will begin the entire adventure again from Chapter 1, but with all the Magicks you have discovered thus far along with your equipped weapons. The second playthrough has an increased number of enemies but not by much.

## Overall Story Review

By now, you must be pretty confused at the whole story and wondering whether Vlad is a good or bad guy. Here's a nice diagram:

```
             Chapter 1
         (Castle Aldrheim)
                 v
    Vlad sends you to help the King
                 v
/----> You hear an explosion ------------------->  Chapter 7
\----------------/       |                     to full and disappears  <---\
         7 to Chapter 12 by showing up           Assatur appears ----------/
                         \----------> Vlad gives signal to cast Corporealize
            Vlad returns to Castle <----/     Heroes defeat Assatur
                         \------------------> Image of Vlad appears
                                              and congratulates you

```

Also, note that the narrator for the entire Magicka saga is Vlad, as evidenced in the Chapter 12 audio narration at the start of the chapter:

*Still incapable of forming sentences in stressful situations, the wizards did battle with Fafnir -- and nearly killed him! Luckily I... ehm... Future Vlad intervened just in time. Now equipped with the power to draw Assatur into the corporeal realm, the wizards were finally ready to do battle with the mighty daemon himself!*
The Magicka game manual (download link can be found on the Steam store page, just a bit under the metacritic score (direct link)) is also wholly written from Vlad's point of view, where he tries to hide the fact that he is drinking bloo... errr tomato juice.