Environment

Environmental Dangers

There are various environmental threats throughout the Exiled Kingdoms which may harm the unwary and unprotected adventurer. The table below provides an overview on the different types of dangers. Note that the given damage is valid for Casual and Normal difficulty. On Hard or Ironman the damage is increased by 25%.

	Name	Damage per Second	Description
	Flames	6-64	Probably the most common elemental danger. Flames occur in many places, sometimes in abundance (e.g. in Gorx Lair, The Deep Cauldron, Hellish Cave, Lambar Cave, the Dragoon section of Mausoleum, and Elemental Plane of Fire), and may have very different intensities. You need high Fire resistance for protection.
	Blizzard	25	Floating clouds of ice and snow meandering on the map in an apparently random fashion. They only occur in the northern part of Varannar, in the Kingdom of Thuram, in the Frozen Depths within the Tower of Tremadan, and Temple of the Sleepers. You need high Cold resistance for protection.
	Toxic Fumes	9-22	A popular element for torturing adventurers caught in cage traps (e.g. in Irazur Tomb, Azagul Tomb, or Kurgua Cave). Other areas where toxic fumes occur in abundance are the Wyverntail Complex and the Sewer of Horrors. Also exhaled by some enemies (those with Toxic Aura), such as Ancient Mummies and the Zombie Dragon. You need high Toxic resistance for protection.
	Fumes of Death	60-100	It's not clear what exactly these fumes consist of, but they deal a lot of death damage. They are prominently encountered in the Imperial Fortress, but also in Temple of the Sleepers and Sewer of Horrors. You need high Death resistance for protection.
	Glowing Ashes	120	Remnants of a long forgotten catastrophe, floating through the Ashen Wastes and Ashen Cape (and Ark of Lothasan (Reactor)). You need to wear special equipment - Strange Hood or Goggled Helmet - to protect from these deadly glowing balls.
	Energy Beam	400	Highly sophisticated protective measures encountered in the Ark of Lothasan. You need high Shock resistance for protection.

Traps

Apart from the environmental dangers above, which deal damage over time, there are also different kinds of traps waiting for the inobservant adventurer. They deal one-time damage when stepped into, scaling with the level of the trap. Note that the given damage is valid for Casual and Normal difficulty. On Hard or Ironman the damage is increased by 25%.

	Name	Damage per Level	Description
	Bear Trap	4	Often encountered in the wilderness, in rare cases also in dungeons. It deals moderate damage and slows your character for the next couple of seconds.
	Spike Trap	8	The deadly standard trap encountered in most dungeons. It may easily kill a character when low on health, so make good use of health potions while exploring.

• The Mage skill Mage Armor, if active when the character steps on a trap, will prevent all damage from that trap, but in so doing will be dispelled by it (and then you can re-cast it). So it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for unseen, poorly-navigated, or improperly disarmed traps, if you're a Mage.
• Detecting hidden traps is based on Perception.
• Disarming traps is based on Disarm Devices.