Remnant of Corruption

Remnant of Corruption is an essence.

Mechanics

Essences can be corrupted by using a Remnant of Corruption on a monster trapped by essence before releasing it.

This will result in one of the following outcomes chosen at random:

• Mobs are broken free with empowered stats.

• All contained essences have their tiers increased by 1 (e.g. 'Screaming' upgraded to 'Shrieking'). Note that the base essence type won't change, and this can't occur with "Deafening" essences.

• Monster may gain one additional essence.

• Transform essence types to random ones from the next type group. E.g., 'of Fear' transformed to 'of Wrath'.

  • Note that this can also increase the tier of the essence if the original is at a lower tier than the minimum for the next tier.

  • Essence of Hysteria, Essence of Insanity, Essence of Horror and Essence of Delirium can only be obtained by corrupting monsters with an essence of tier 5 (MEDS: Misery, Envy, Dread, Scorn).

The "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster has a monster aura that deals physical damage over time as well as slow the player character.

The player character cannot leech life from the "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster.

On slaying the "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster, the remnant is dropped just like normal Essences. Additionally two Fleshmonsters spawn on the drop location.

These possessing effects were in fact due to the essence adding the mods RemnantOfCorruptionMonsterAura, Remnant of Corruption to the monster.