Winterblight Castle

Azalea Shrine

Winterblight Cavern

Winterblight Castle

## Road to the Winterblight Castle

Can be entered from multiple passages from starting zone. Main area contains multiple types of mobs, but key enemies are Tombstones, which unlock graves in northern part with three mini-bosses to defeat.

Upon defeating all three mini-bosses one by one, and then once again, grouped up just before entrance, Castle will open.

## Winterblight Castle

Team has to pick a fate by pulling one of Tarot cards of Diviner Horus, or by directly using a Tarot Card near the Diviner. The moment after, opens an exclusive variant of Castle with unique additional mobs, rooms order and drops. Horus then leaves a Scryer stone for each player. This can be used to find a way to the next opened room in the castle. The Scyer Stone may or may not give additional effect depending on which fate is selected, and can vary from friendly buffs to bad encounter.

There is one treasure room that is filled with Golden Skullbone ( Permanent and unbreakable Spell Immune enemies) and some other minor enemies. Completing the room will spawn 3 treasure chests. Normally you can only pick 1 chest, some fate allows you to get all 3. The chest gives random immortal items or glyphs. It also has a chance to reward Ring of Mysteries. This room does not always present, some fate do not have it. So it's a saving grace for builds/heroes that are vulnerable to Golden Skullbone.

There are also 2 Slime rooms, Green Slime (thick pool that silence you when you swim in) and Blue Slime (Slowing attack speed and movespeed). In some fate, these 2 rooms appear together. When that occurs, there will be a hidden plate appears after completing Blue Slime room. Pressing that plate will change the Slime in Green Slime room to Blue - now dealing damage over time to you when you swim in it. A miniboss also appear there, dropping Horn of the Triumphant on death.

Final boss is Lich King Cruxys. Has several unique mechanics.

1.) To damage Lich King's HP, player need to kill shadow copies of himself that float around the room.

2.) Lich King has 2 spells. One is an AOE spell that's thrown randomly around the room. The other is Chain Frost which he casts when you get near his shadow copies, bounces many times among you, the copies and your allies. Both of these spells slow movespeed significantly.

3.) Every time Lich King's HP drops below certain threshold(s), he will summon 1 (or more) white skull that also spin along his direction. Anything that touch the skull will trigger an instant death script (much like Shadow Bahamut's Power Word ability). The speed of the skull is also affected by how fast Lich King is spinning.

4.) The lower his HP is, the faster he spins as well as casting spells more frequently.

5.) Although attacking the main Lich King body does no harm to him as mentioned, that does reduce his rotation speed. Reducing his skulls speed and the rate which he casts spells at you.

6.) Along with shadow copies of boss himself, several types of mobs previously seen in castle will spawn as well.

7.) Some fate does extra modification to the environment of this fight.

## Tarot Cards

Tarot Cards can be obtained from:

1. Treasure chests during The High Priestess fate, or Treasure Room 1/24 chance; Wheel of Fortune fate has lower chance since chests have 50% to be trapped, but there are more chests to make a possibility to spawn one.
2. Hierophant fate - High Priest Xelethar has guaranteed drop of tarot card.
3. Any enemy in castle - (20+5xPremiumPass)/100000 chance on death (1/5000 to 1/2500)
4. Lich King Cruxys death - (10+5xPremiumPass)/100 chance (1/10 to 3/10)

## Extra

You can synthesize 2 Tarot Cards to get a new random card.

Combining Empress' Jewel and Emperor's Band through synthesis vessel will give you Ring of the Monarch.

There are several units that can drop Winterblight Dragon Scale. Those are all the units with a dragon or wyvern model, and the Phoenix units in The Sun fate. Synthesis these scales 20 times will give you Dinath body Arcana: Frost Wyrm Carapace.

And aside from all that, there are 4 random drops that can be found from enemies in the Winterblight 3 area (Gravewalkers, Zombiegrip Gauntlet, Shadowguard Helm, Musty Crypt Armor), and 1 unique drops from Lich King Cruxys himself (Lich King's Gaze).

Lich King Cruxys can also drop one of Ekkan's W arcanas. Which are:

-Wretched Grasp of Cruxys (Poison)

-Wretched Grasp of Cruxys (Ice)

-Wretched Grasp of Cruxys (Fire)