At the heart of the sunken city, the Ember Heart floats above a sea of fire. The soul of Vorath has fused with it until neither can be told from the other.
Guardian: Vorath, the Ashen King
A king so afraid of death that he burned his whole kingdom. Now he is both warden and prisoner of the Ember Heart.
Vorath did not fear pain, nor war. He feared only one thing: the day his body would betray him. When his miners found the Ember Heart beneath the capital, he believed it was the answer. A shard of a star that had burned since before time could never go out, and if he became one with it, neither would he.
On the night of the ritual he laid his hand on the Ember Heart. His soul was torn from the body sitting on the throne and plunged into the flame, and the Heart forged him a new body of ash and obsidian: black armour split by veins of lava, a crown of black iron burning at its points, a sword turned to a blade of fire, and the Ember Heart beating in an open cage of ribs in his chest. The whole capital collapsed to feed that ritual.
Vorath won the immortality he wanted, at the price of being bound to the Heart forever: both its jailer and its prisoner. The fire in his chest is the power that wakes the dead across the drowned city, and the reason the Ember-touched rise again after death. Only the hand of one whose soul the fire has touched can put it out.
I burned an entire kingdom for immortality. You think you can stop me?Vorath, the Ashen King
Abilities
Fought in 3 phases, changing at 66% and 33% life; later phases cast and move faster. Every ability is marked on the ground before it lands.
| Ability | Element | Damage | Cooldown | Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wide cleave in front (reach 6.5) | Fire | ×1.8 | 5 s | all |
| 2 embers fall around every player | Fire | ×2 | 9 s | all |
| Charges 15 units along a line at its target | Fire | ×2 | 11 s | all |
| A ring of 12 bolts in every direction | Fire | ×0.7 | 8 s | 2+ |
| A big blast around it (radius 8) | Fire | ×1.8 | 12 s | 2+ |
| 3 embers fall around every player | Fire | ×2 | 6 s | 3+ |
Ember Heart… give me all your power!Vorath, the Ashen King (phase change)
If I must burn, you will burn with me!Vorath, the Ashen King (phase change)
Guardian relics
35% chance per kill to drop one of these; its echoes in the Ember Depths drop them 25% of the time.
Heartfire
- Adds 14 to 26 Physical Damage
- Adds 10 to 20 Fire Damage to Attacks and Spells
- 50% increased Damage
- Gain 12 Life per Enemy Killed
Emberfall Arbalest
- Adds 12 to 24 Physical Damage
- Adds 8 to 16 Fire Damage to Attacks and Spells
- 50% increased Critical Strike Chance
- 10% increased Attack Speed
The Ashen Crown
- +80 to maximum Life
- 25% increased Damage
- 25% increased Spell Damage
- +20% to all Elemental Resistances
When it falls
Vorath screams as the flame is torn from his soul. The Ember Heart dims, but does not go out. Deep beneath it, something is answering…Narrator
Monsters here
| Monster | Kind | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Warden | Bone · melee | 22% |
| Ash Necromancer | Bone · ranged | 18% |
| Cinder Imp | Beast · melee | 27% |
| Pit Fiend | Beast · melee | 22% |
| Drowned Fiend | Beast · melee | 11% |