This hostile environment, blood-red and battered by harsh winds, is rendered even crueler by the scorched and smoking remains of a Covenant freighter, blasted out of the sky by Forerunner defenses. The impact trench created by the crash leads down into a deep crater, where the force of the collision has destroyed the top layer of the refugia, revealing the proto-Forerunner substructure running underneath.
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Scorched cracks and violent crystal protrusions scar and pock this rocky amber terrain, torn by eruptions from the explosive molten fluid energy that bubbles and smolders beneath the surface. Pressure forces up huge bursts of the liquid, quickly solidifying into huge crystals and trapping invaluable volatile raw power inside. Nearby, an elegant Forerunner structure stretches out over the precipice overlooking endless desert dunes, housing a lift that drops deep to the solemn Archive below.
Atriox sees little value in simulation training, preferring to blood his warriors in actual combat. Pain and fear are the best teachers, for what price is there to failure in the sterile realm of simulations and shadow-enemies? However, there are occasions when monitoring and screening are useful in identifying recruits that have the talent needed to lead Banished forces, and what better test for a new Banished lieutenant than a Stronghold on a chaotic front line?
Modified to fit the Brutes' warlike aesthetic, the Wraith serves the Banished as both a mainline tank and artillery piece. Armed with its distinctive plasma mortar the Wraith can shatter heavily reinforced defenses from long distances or engage closer targets with devastating barrages. Despite the Wraith's large size, its boosted gravity drive allows for impressive bursts of speed and surprisingly agile maneuvers over most terrain.
Few weapon platforms strike as much fear into an opponent as Scarabs. Massive and armored with nearly impenetrable battleplate, most battles end soon after a Scarab appears. Banished Scarabs are armed with an unstable plasma beam that deals incredible ground-target damage and Thrasher missiles for air defense. The Scarab is slow but very mobile and can easily travel up cliffs and across rough terrain.
Marines are the UNSC's expeditionary force-in-readiness, and after decades in cryo-sleep they are old school both figuratively and literally. The Spirit of Fire's veteran Marines are experienced at fighting in exotic environments and have received training by Anders to operate Forerunner systems well enough to avoid triggering defense wards and immolating themselves [most of the time].
Rammed through boot camp during the height of the insurrection, Vaughan had no time to regret his decision before shipping off to war against terrorists and separatist movements in the Outer Colonies. His first duty station as a green recruit was the Spirit of Fire, an old ship retasked with transporting UNSC military and police forces to colonies it once established. Few appreciated the irony more than Vaughan, given the role his own family played in exacerbating colonial tensions.
The Spawner lurks at the rear of Flood assaults, spawning waves of infection forms. Spawners must be quickly dealt with, or they will continue to create Flood attack forces just outside the range of base defenses.
Tyrdda Bright-Axe, bold and bloodied, took her tribe from placid plains, Tribes with blades by farming blunted chased and fought, their parting pains. To the mountains, shorn of shelter, snow-slicked peaks gave wind its bite, Found a cave to save her tribe, but dragonfire lit the night. Beast no blade could break came roaring, mountains slipped their winter gown, Tyrdda shouts to leaf-eared lover, "You I chose above a crown!" Lightning split the spitting rains, Sundered over prideful heights, Dragon fell in rubble down, Crashed and crushed in earth's mad shaking.
The Grey Warden base at Soldier's Peak was built in the middle of the Glory Age, several decades after the second Blight was ended. Before then, Grey Wardens in Ferelden would take up residence in castles and forts that belonged to generous nobles. Warden-Commander Gaspar Asturian desired a fortified headquarters where his forces could train and live. He planned that Soldier's Peak would be a city unto itself. The defeat of the archdemon Zazikel was fresh in the minds of the Fereldan people, and many were willing to donate gold to build Commander Asturian's fortress.
King Calenhad Theirin once famously declared, "The fate of Redcliffe is the fate of all Ferelden." Certainly, the castle is the first and last defense for the sole land route into Ferelden, and the country has never fallen to any force that did not first capture Redcliffe.
The Tevinter Imperium once spent vast fortunes of gold, lyrium, and human slaves in an effort to map the terrain of the Fade, an ultimately futile endeavor. Although portions of it belong to powerful spirits, all of the Fade is in constant flux. The Imperium succeeded in finding the disparate and ever-shifting realms of a dozen demon lords, as well as cataloging a few hundred types of spirits, before they were forced to abandon the project.
Once these wastes were a land of plenty. Can you believe it? The rain came north over the Gamordan Peaks, turning the plains green and verdant for three months of the year. Eight hundred years ago, that changed. During the Second Blight, darkspawn spilled out of an enormous crack in the earth, corrupting it with their foul blood... and it never recovered, even after they were driven back underground. The Grey Wardens built Adamant Fortress to stand watch over that chasm, but eventually even they abandoned it to the wind and the biting sand.
Mario appears as one of the titular characters in the Mario & Luigi]] series, alongside his brother, Luigi. Throughout the series, the brothers embark on various adventures across the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond, often tasked with defeating threats not native to the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario is shown to be headstrong when given a task, eager to help those who asked for it, and usually drags Luigi along with him, be it by accident or by force. In terms of battle statistics, Mario is almost always portrayed as a powerful character with high power and speed stats, but he trails behind in his defense and HP when compared to Luigi.
Healing, Purification (Type 3; Refresh/Smooch heals Mario and removes status effects), Sleep Manipulation (Lullaby can be used to put enemies to sleep via singing), Curtain Fire (Star Storm sends out many stars from the sky), Statistics Reduction (Chill Out reduces enemy defense), Time Stop (Time Out freezes time), Transmutation and BFR (Up & Away turns enemies into stars and sends them flying to space), Power Nullification & Invulnerability Negation (Star Beam/Peach Beam can nullify the wishes made from the Star Rod, including Bowser's invulnerability). With the Star Rod, Mario gains the following: Wish Granting (The Star Rod is used to grant wishes. Its power is claimed to be able to grant "all" wishes), Mind Manipulation (Can force someone to love. Mallow was wishing to stop being a crybaby), Existence Erasure (Before Bowser was interrupted, he wished to erase the Bros), Transmutation (King Olly was going to reduce all Toads to blank pieces of paper, which Bowser says they can't even come back from), Reality Warping (Reversed all of the damage Olly caused to the world to its original self), Healing (Can heal damage), Accelerated Development (Luigi wishes to be a great plumber like Mario. Toadofsky wished to be better at making melodies. Chef Torte wishes to be a world class baker. Some Dryite wishes to create a ripping tune), Fate Manipulation (Mario wishes to always be able to save Peach. Nimbus Land King and Queen wish to be reunited with Mallow. Belome wishes for food. Frogfucius wishes for crickets. Punchinello wishes to become famous. If the world was rid of wishes, Smithy thinks he could easily conquer it), Plot Manipulation (Type 2; The Star Rod was used by Bowser to change the story of Paper Mario), Conceptual Manipulation (The Star Rod turns wishes into physical embodiments of said wishes in the form of Wish Stars), Statistics Amplification (Yoshi wishes to be faster. Bowser made wishes to become all-powerful. Stars get their power from ordinary people's wishes), Invulnerability (Bowser wished to become invincible), Power Bestowal (Can grant both powers and resistances to Tubba Blubba), Light Manipulation (Bowser's attacks), Creation (Bowser wished for a castle, can create enemies and ships. Creates food to heal), Forcefield Creation (Bowser wished for a forcefield), Dimensional Travel & Portal Creation (Antasma wished to create dream portals), Telekinesis (Seen here), Duplication (Can create clones), Size Manipulation (Can increase the user's size), Resurrection (Brought back Kersti). Resistance to Durability Negation (Can nullify piercing damage, which bypasses durability), Status Effect Inducement, Ice Manipulation, Time Stop, Poison Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Sleep Manipulation, Size Manipulation (Can resist every attack and status effect Mario uses. This includes Frozen, Immobilized, Poison, POW-Down, Sleep, Tiny), Explosion Manipulation (Unaffected by Bombette's explosions), Vibration Manipulation (Unaffected by Mario's Quake Hammer), Fire Manipulation (Unaffected by Kooper's Fire Shell), Fear Manipulation (Unaffected by the Fright Jar and Lady Bow's Spook), Electricity Manipulation (Unaffected by Watt's electrical attacks), Paralysis Inducement (Unaffected by Watt's Power Shock), Water Manipulation (Unaffected by Sushie's Squirt), Air Manipulation (Unaffected by Lakilester's Hurricane attack), Transmutation (Unaffected by Up & Away) 2ff7e9595c
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