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| Find and fight Abominations, claim the three Void powers, and follow your results.
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| == Contents ==
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| * [[#Abominations|Abominations]]
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| * [[#Find and Fight Abominations|Find and Fight Abominations]]
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| * [[#Void Powers|Void Powers]]
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| * [[#Website and Records|Website and Records]]
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| * [[#Help and FAQ|Help and FAQ]]
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| == Abominations ==
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| Abominations are rare, corrupted human targets that you can discover, scan, and fight through the DoD HUD. They carry larger blood stores than ordinary humans, an individual Essence reward, and an echo describing their corruption. The player who delivers the killing blow receives the Essence reward, and the kill becomes part of their permanent record.
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| The three '''Creatures of the Void''' are Abominations with distinct names: '''Riftstalker''', '''The Writhing One''', and '''Hollowmaw'''. Each offers a different temporary power. Holding any of these powers gives you the '''Dread Champion''' title; one player can hold more than one power.
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| === Start your first encounter ===
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| # Wear your DoD HUD and make sure your character is alive and awake. You need the ordinary combat controls to fight.
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| # Scan a nearby human or Abomination with the HUD. Read the creature's name, current blood, '''Reward''', and '''Echo''' before attacking.
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| # If you want a Void power, check the scan for a power offer or a cooldown message. The offer can change if another player claims the power first.
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| # Fight through your usual species attack control. The killing blow awards the creature's Essence; a Void power is awarded only when that power is available and you are eligible for it.
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| Follow [[#Find and Fight Abominations|Find and Fight Abominations]] for targeting, scanning, and rewards. Read [[#Void Powers|Void Powers]] before trying to become or defeat a Dread Champion.
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| === What to look for ===
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| ! Creature !! Power
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| | Riftstalker || Riftstalker's Reach
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| | The Writhing One || The Writhing One's Coil
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| | Hollowmaw || Hollowmaw's Hunger
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| An encounter identified simply as '''Abomination''' still awards its normal Essence. The three named Void creatures are the sources of the powers above.
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| === Find encounters and follow your results ===
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| The website's Abomination list helps you look for living targets, while kill rankings and records show your results. See [[#Website and Records|Website and Records]] for what those views show.
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| Hunter Protection and Witch Resurrection do not apply to Abominations. A fallen Abomination can instead be cleansed with a suitable human revival elixir. For returning creatures, missing rewards, and cleansing, see [[#Help and FAQ|Help and FAQ]].
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| == Find and Fight Abominations ==
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| Wear your DoD HUD and use its ordinary scan and attack controls. You must be alive and awake to attack. Safe Zones block combat, and the target must be within your current attack range.
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| === Scan a nearby target ===
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| # Click '''Scan Others''' on your main HUD. It searches for nearby avatars within your scanning range.
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| # Read the target list and choose the letter beside the avatar you want to scan. The scan appears in your chat.
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| # Read the creature name and its '''Status''', '''Blood''', '''Reward''', and '''Echo'''. The blood amount tells you whether it is still alive; the reward tells you the Essence offered for its killing blow.
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| # For a named Void creature, read any power offer or cooldown line. See [[#Void Powers|Void Powers]] for what that line means.
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| A creature's status or your combat display may still use the word '''Abomination'''. Use the name in its scan to distinguish '''Riftstalker''', '''The Writhing One''', and '''Hollowmaw'''.
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| Abomination scans omit Hunter Protection progress, Witch Resurrection progress, and ordinary human revival schedules. Those abilities do not apply to these targets. For the wider scan controls, see [https://descendantsofdarkness.com/wiki/Scan_Others Scan Others].
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| === Attack the creature ===
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| # Move within your attack range. Face the target when using a directional attack; The Writhing One's Coil allows attacks behind you as well.
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| # Click your species' main attack control on the HUD. If there are several nearby targets, choose the letter beside the creature's avatar in the target list.
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| # Choose a damaging attack from the intensity menu. Hunters use '''Focused''' or '''Relentless'''; Witches use '''Ethereal''' or '''Celestial'''. '''Protection''' and '''Resurrection''' are human abilities and cannot be used against Abominations.
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| # Stay within range while the attack runs. Watch your HUD's combat display and chat for progress and the result.
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| Click the main attack control again during an active attack if you want to stop. See [https://descendantsofdarkness.com/wiki/Attack_and_Feed_Button Attack and Feed Button] for the general controls and [https://descendantsofdarkness.com/wiki/Combat Combat] for ordinary combat restrictions.
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| === Read your reward ===
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| The player who delivers the killing blow receives the creature's individual Essence reward. Damaging or discovering it first does not reserve that reward.
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| Every Abomination kill is permanently recorded, adds to your Abomination kill total, and also counts as a human kill. Qualifying combat against Abominations can restore Hunter Energy. Website period rankings and Chronicles count encounters differently from a lifetime total; see [[#Website and Records|Website and Records]].
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| A named Void creature can award its matching power as well as Essence. An ordinary '''Abomination''' does not award a Void power. If you received Essence but no power, check [[#Help and FAQ|Help and FAQ]].
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| === Discover creatures through normal play ===
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| A rare transformation can occur when an eligible living ordinary human is scanned or genuinely damaged. Humans with active or partial Hunter Protection or Witch Resurrection are not eligible.
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| If an eligible human does not transform, repeated scans or attacks do not provide another chance for 30 days. After that wait, a later eligible encounter can provide another chance. No particular scan guarantees a transformation.
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| Return to [[#Abominations|Abominations]] or use [[#Website and Records|Website and Records]] to follow your results.
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| == Void Powers ==
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| Each Creature of the Void offers its own temporary power. Holding any of them makes you a '''Dread Champion'''. There is one holder of each power across the whole game, so up to three players can hold different powers, or one player can hold all three.
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| === Choose the power you want ===
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| ! Creature !! Power !! Benefit while held
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| | Riftstalker || Riftstalker's Reach || Normal attack reach is at least 5 metres.
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| | The Writhing One || The Writhing One's Coil || Attacks can reach targets all around you.
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| | Hollowmaw || Hollowmaw's Hunger || Maximum Blood or Energy capacity increases by 2.
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| Reach raises a shorter normal attack range to 5 metres; it does not reduce a range that is already longer. Coil lets your attacks reach behind you as well as in front, within the range of the attack. You still choose one target for an attack; Coil does not attack everyone around you. Hunger increases capacity without automatically filling it.
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| The powers can be combined. Receiving one does not give you the other two.
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| === Claim a creature's power ===
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| # Find and scan the named creature that offers the power you want. If the power is available to you, the scan includes a line naming it.
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| # Check for a cooldown message. It gives the time when you can hold that particular power again.
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| # Deliver the killing blow while the power is available and you are off cooldown. You receive the creature's Essence and a HUD notice naming the power you claimed.
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| # Use '''Self Scan''' to check your '''Dread Champion''' title, held powers, and expiry time.
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| Scanning or finding a creature does not reserve its power. Another player can claim the same power by killing another creature of that type first. If someone else holds it when you finish your kill, you receive the normal Essence reward without taking their power.
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| === Steal powers from a Dread Champion ===
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| # Scan the player to see which powers they hold. Held powers are shown beneath the '''Dread Champion''' title on player scans.
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| # Defeat that player through ordinary player combat. Your killing blow takes each held power for which you are off cooldown.
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| # Read your HUD notices and scan yourself to check what you received. Each stolen power keeps its original midnight SLT expiry.
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| An ally's kill can steal powers too, and a repeat kill can transfer them. This does not remove the cooldown. If you are on cooldown for one of the victim's powers, they still lose it, but you do not receive it; it becomes available from its creature again. Any other eligible powers can still transfer to you.
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| === Know when you can claim again ===
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| Each power has its own '''five-day cooldown''', measured from the most recent time you received it, whether from a creature kill or a theft. Five days means 120 hours. Losing it, logging out, or reaching midnight does not shorten that wait.
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| Being on cooldown for Reach does not prevent you from claiming Coil or Hunger if you are eligible for them.
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| === Keep or lose your powers ===
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| All powers expire at the next '''midnight SLT''', using Second Life's Pacific time rather than your local midnight. Stealing a power does not extend its duration.
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| Keep your HUD worn and connected. If it remains unreachable for two hours, you can lose your powers. You do not need to keep attacking to retain them.
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| | You die by another means || Your powers end and become available again.
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| | Your HUD remains disconnected for two hours || Your powers are released.
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| | Midnight SLT arrives || Your powers expire.
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| A death in a 1v1 challenge ends your powers instead of transferring them. Once a power is lost, an eligible player can claim it by killing the matching creature; they do not have to wait for another day.
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| Return to [[#Abominations|Abominations]] or see [[#Help and FAQ|Help and FAQ]].
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| == Website and Records ==
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| The website lets you browse living Abominations and follow kill rankings and recorded events. Sign in with your DoD website account to use the leaderboard pages.
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| === Browse living Abominations ===
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| # Open [https://descendantsofdarkness.com/leaderboards/abomination-kills Abomination Kills].
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| # Select '''View Abominations'''. This opens the list of living Abominations.
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| # Enter an avatar name in '''Search abominations...''' and select '''Find''' to narrow the list. Use '''Clear''' to remove your search.
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| # Read the listed blood amount, Essence reward, and '''Echo''', when one is available. Use '''Back to Kills''' to return to the rankings.
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| The list is shared information, rather than your personal target history. It does not provide a location or a teleport control. Use the HUD to identify and scan an avatar when you encounter them in-world.
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| Treat a website entry as a lead rather than a reservation. Another player may defeat the creature before you reach it. The HUD scan is also where you check whether a Void power is available to you; the website list does not show that power's availability or your cooldown.
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| === Find your kill ranking ===
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| # Return to '''Abomination Kills'''.
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| # Choose '''All Time''', '''This Month''', '''This Week''', or '''Today'''. The selected period changes which kills contribute to the ranking.
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| # Use the species filter to compare everyone or a particular species. Search for a player, or use '''Find me''' to locate your own entry.
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| '''All Time''' uses your lifetime Abomination kill total. The shorter periods count each different Abomination avatar once within that period. Defeating the same returning creature several times can increase your lifetime total without increasing a period ranking by the same amount. Riftstalker, The Writhing One, and Hollowmaw count as Abominations in these records.
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| The calendar periods use '''SLT''', rather than your local date. Check the selected period and species filter when comparing a ranking with your lifetime total.
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| === Read other records ===
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| Player profiles can show '''Abomination Kills''' alongside other statistics. In [https://descendantsofdarkness.com/chronicles Chronicles], choose '''Abomination Kills''' to read recorded kill events.
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| Chronicles is a shared feed of recent events from the last '''30 days'''. Hidden events and events withheld through a player's Chronicles visibility choice are omitted. It is not a complete list of every repeated death of the same returning creature. A lifetime total, a period ranking, and the event feed can therefore show different counts without describing the same thing.
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| The website can lag behind your HUD. If a recent result has not appeared, allow the website to refresh and check again. See [[#Help and FAQ|Help and FAQ]] or return to [[#Abominations|Abominations]].
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| == Help and FAQ ==
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| === Why did I receive Essence without a power? ===
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| You may have defeated a plain '''Abomination''', another player may already hold that creature type's power, or you may be on cooldown for it. You also receive no extra copy of a power you already hold.
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| When someone else holds the power, the creature scan shows no power offer. If you are on cooldown while the power is available, the scan gives your next eligible time, and the kill does not give a separate power notice. See [[#Void Powers|Void Powers]].
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| === Why does my attack fail? ===
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| Check that you are alive, awake, outside a Safe Zone, and within attack range. Choose a damaging attack: Hunter '''Protection''' and Witch '''Resurrection''' cannot target Abominations. Scan again if the creature may already have died. Follow [[#Find and Fight Abominations|Find and Fight Abominations]] for the controls.
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| === Can a creature return after death? ===
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| Some Abominations can return as the same creature after being defeated. A later kill still receives its normal reward, but a Void power always follows its own availability and your cooldown. Killing a returning creature does not bypass those rules.
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| Repeated kills can affect lifetime totals differently from period rankings or Chronicles. See [[#Website and Records|Website and Records]].
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| === How is a fallen Abomination cleansed? ===
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| A '''Breath of Vitality Elixir''' can revive a fallen Abomination as an ordinary human. Cleansing removes the Abomination identity, restores 5 litres of blood, and prevents another transformation for 30 days.
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| The elixir must be unused and belong to the person using it. Witch Resurrection cannot cleanse or revive an Abomination, and Hunter Protection cannot protect one.
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| === Why did my Blood or Energy fall when Hunger ended? ===
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| '''Hollowmaw's Hunger''' raises your maximum capacity without filling it. When the power ends, your ordinary maximum returns; any resource above that maximum is reduced to fit it. This can happen when the power expires or is otherwise lost.
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| === Do I have to wait until tomorrow after a power is lost? ===
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| An available power can be claimed again that day by an eligible player who kills its matching creature. Your own five-day cooldown still applies. Midnight ends held powers and does not reset anyone's cooldown.
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| Return to [[#Abominations|Abominations]] or browse [[Abominations/Guides|All Guides]].
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