Stellar Gauntlet

# Stellar Gauntlet 0.8.0: Runes and Convergences

## ✧ Stone Passives
While the gauntlet is in either hand, every socketed stone also works on its own, stronger at each tier (I / II / III):
| Stone | Passive |
|---|---|
| Power | +1.5 / +3 / +4.5 melee damage |
| Space | -50% / -80% / -100% fall damage |
| Reality | +1 / +2 / +3 luck |
| Soul | Your blows heal 8% / 12% / 18% of their damage |
| Time | Heal 1 health every 5 / 3.5 / 2.25 seconds |
| Mind | Hostile minds show as golden eyes through walls, within 16 / 24 / 32 blocks |

## ᚱ Runes of the Elder Futhark
Carve **runestones** and inscribe them on the gauntlet at the Stellar Forge.
- **Sockets**: three in all. The first is always open; the second opens when your stones' tiers add up to 10, the third at 14.
- Each inscription costs 3 levels. Runes can be taken back out and swapped.

| Rune | Effect |
|---|---|
| ᚨ **Ansuz** | Cooldowns -25% |
| ᚦ **Thurisaz** | Powers 25% stronger |
| ᛞ **Dagaz** | One cast in four leaves no cooldown |
| ᚺ **Hagalaz** | Powers cost life instead of cooldowns |
| ᛚ **Laguz** | Each cast heals you |
| ᛉ **Algiz** | Each cast raises a shield of absorption |
| ᛁ **Isa** | Creatures hurt by your powers freeze and slow |
| ᛊ **Sowilo** | Creatures hurt by your powers burn and glow |

- **Runes and the Snap**: Ansuz and Hagalaz don't apply to it.
- **Where to get them**: blank runestones are crafted, then carved with offerings. Runes also appear in the chests of the Cosmos structures.

## 🌌 Nine new Convergences: fifteen in all, one for every pair of stones
- **Dimensional Impact** (Power + Space): a shockwave that flings everything it hits far away.
- **Big Bang** (Power + Time): time stops while a star is born where you look, then it explodes.
- **Psychic Scream** (Power + Mind): every mind around is hurt, weakened and stunned.
- **Wrath of Souls** (Power + Soul): your captured souls become screaming bolts that hunt your foes.
- **Spirit Passage** (Space + Soul): walk through a wall to the open ground beyond.
- **Remote Vision** (Space + Mind): your mind flies out as an eye you steer by looking. It passes through stone and reveals creatures. Sneak to return.
- **Resurrection** (Reality + Soul): your last fallen pet returns from death.
- **Total Illusion** (Reality + Mind): foes turn on each other and none can find you.
- **Reaper of Ages** (Time + Soul): the weak crumble to dust and their souls are kept; the strong wither.

## 🎨 Runic art
- **Gauntlet menu**:
  - redesigned for all fifteen convergences;
  - a ring of the Elder Futhark turns around it, and your inscribed runes blaze in their colors.
- **Stellar Forge**:
  - a new runic column with the three sockets;
  - runes run along its frame and are carved into the block itself.

## 🎵 And more
- 8 new sounds and 2 new advancements.