Thunderblood Essence

Thunderblood Essence
Unstable, erratic and...alive?
Type	Material
Found In	Deep North
Location	Fallen Warrior
Weight	0.5
Stack	50
Teleport	Yes
Crafting Station	-
Crafting Materials	Cannot be crafted
Spawn ID	spawn OrbThunderBlood

Thunderblood Essence is unstable, erratic and, as its description wonders, alive. It turns a Nord weapon into its Thunderblood version. That adds a little to the weapon's main damage, adds lightning, gives every hit a one in four chance to set off chain lightning, and grants 0.2% more damage for every point of health you are missing. Those last two effects resemble the Iolite and Bloodstone upgrades from the Ashlands, carried on one weapon. The essence also goes into the Lightning Strike staff. It weighs half a unit and stacks to 50.

How to Get It

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Both essences drop from the same fight. To call up a Fallen Warrior, lay three Memorial Coal on the ancient altar of a Memorial Site. These fields of headstones sit between 2 and 1,000 metres up in the Deep North, with up to fifteen in a world. The Fallen Warrior is undead, carries a random name and has 750 health, and it comes armed as one of these builds: a bronze-armoured axeman, a knife fighter with Skoll and Hati, a lightning mage with Dundr, a crystal battleaxe, a sword and shield, an archer with a knife, or a fire mage with a Staff of Embers. It is weak to spirit, resists blunt, slash, pierce and fire, and ignores poison.

Each essence has a one in two drop chance, and the two rolls are separate, so a warrior can drop both, one or neither. On average, one essence of a given kind costs you two fights and six Memorial Coal.

Notes

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• Reforging resets the weapon to quality 1, so add the essence before you pay for any upgrades.
• A Thunderblood Sword deals 225 damage in all against the Frostfire Sword's 238, but more of its total is the weapon's own slash.

Thunderblood Essence Crafting Recipes

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Crafting a Thunderblood weapon takes one essence, along with the Nord weapon and twenty Bloodgold, at a level 4 Black Forge. The upgrades take one more and then two more, so a Thunderblood weapon uses four in all by quality 3, the most a level 6 Black Forge allows. The Lightning Strike also costs four at quality 3, which is the Galdr Table's limit.

Barka and Kall Fimbulbringer resist lightning. The missing-health bonus rewards fighting while hurt, so the Thunderblood weapons suit a player who trusts their healing. At half of a 200-health pool, the bonus is already +20%.

Item	Image	Kind	Amount Used	Crafting Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Cast: Lightning Strike		Material	1	10x Bloodgold 5x Nornathread 1x Thunderblood Essence 1x Mould: Lightning Strike	Galdr Table	spawn StaffThunderbloodUncooked
Thunderblood Atgeir		Weapon	1	1x Nord Atgeir 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn AtgeirGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Axe		Weapon	1	1x Nord Axe 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn AxeGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Bow		Weapon	1	1x Nord Bow 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn BowGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Crossbow		Weapon	1	1x Nord Crossbow 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn CrossbowGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Dagger		Weapon	1	1x Nord Dagger 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn KnifeGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Greataxe		Weapon	1	1x Nord Greataxe 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn BattleaxeGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Greatsword		Weapon	1	1x Nord Greatsword 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn THSwordGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Knucklechains		Weapon	1	1x Nord Knucklechains 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn FistGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Mace		Weapon	1	1x Nord Mace 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn MaceGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Sledge		Weapon	1	1x Nord Sledge 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn SledgeGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Spear		Weapon	1	1x Nord Spear 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn SpearGold_BloodLightning
Thunderblood Sword		Weapon	1	1x Nord Sword 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	spawn SwordGold_BloodLightning

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Name	Image	Weight	Stack	Teleport	Location	Crafting Materials	Spawn ID
Asksvin Bladder		0.5	50	Yes	Asksvin Asksvin Hatchling	-	spawn AskBladder
Bear Paw		0.5	50	Yes	Bear	-	spawn BjornPaw
Bilebag		0.5	50	Yes	Gjall	-	spawn Bilebag
Blood Clot		0.5	50	Yes	Ticks	-	spawn GiantBloodSack
Bloodbag		0.5	50	Yes	Leeches	-	spawn Bloodbag
Charcoal Resin		0.3	50	Yes	Scorched Trees	-	spawn CharcoalResin
Dead Pulp		0.5	50	Yes	Pulps	-	spawn OozeMork
Ectoplasm		2	50	Yes	Ghost	-	spawn Ectoplasm
Entrails		0.5	50	Yes	Draugr Draugr elite Meat piles	-	spawn Entrails
Freeze Gland		0.5	50	Yes	Drake	-	spawn FreezeGland
Frostfire Essence		0.5	50	Yes	Fallen Warrior	-	spawn OrbFrostFire
Frozen Branch		0.5	50	Yes	Barka	-	spawn BarkaBranch
Greydwarf Eye		0.2	50	Yes	Greydwarf Greydwarf brute Greydwarf shaman	-	spawn GreydwarfEye
Guck		0.5	50	Yes	Abomination Gucksack	-	spawn Guck
Long Claws		0.5	50	Yes	Eyeless One	-	spawn MoleClaws
Needle		0.5	50	Yes	Deathsquito	-	spawn Needle
Nornathread		0.5	50	Yes	Hexen	-	spawn NornThread
Ooze		0.5	50	Yes	Blob Oozer	-	spawn Ooze
Queen Bee		0.2	20	Yes	Bee Nests	-	spawn QueenBee
Resin		0.3	50	Yes	Trees & Plants (Birch, Beech, Fir, Pine, Oak, Yggdrasil shoots) Creatures (Greyling, Greydwarf, Greydwarf shaman, Greydwarf brute, Kvastur) As Loot (Chest in Meadows, Barrel next to Greydwarf building spawns in Black Forest)	-	spawn Resin
Root		0.3	50	Yes	Abomination	-	spawn Root
Thunderblood Essence		0.5	50	Yes	Fallen Warrior	-	spawn OrbThunderBlood
Torn Spirit		1	30	Yes	Yagluth	-	spawn YagluthDrop
Writhan Roots		0.5	50	Yes	Dropped by the writhan, a rare swamp creature found between 5,000 and 8,000 m from the centre of the world: one root at base level, two at o	-	spawn WrithanRoots

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