Empowered essence

Empowered essence is created by casting the spell Empower Essence on the Empowering Obelisk.

When a rune is created from empowered essence, it becomes an "Empowered rune". This means that they may be used to greater effect. For example, enchanting a ring of duelling using Empowered runes would result in one with 16 charges, rather than 8. Also, attack spells do more damage, so a lucky shot with Fire Strike using Empowered runes might be 16 or even 18 instead of 8 or 9.

Here is a full list of effects:


 * Combat spells do twice as much damage.
 * Binding spells (i.e. Bind, Entangle) bind for twice as long.
 * Curse spells (i.e. Weaken) weaken the opponent twice as much.
 * Enchant spells' products have twice as many charges and twice as good bonuses.
 * Healing spells cure twice as much damage.
 * All other spells, such as Teleother Camelot or Bake Pie, are unaffected and are therefore a waste of Empowered runes.