    Essence Spoiler for ToME 2.2.0
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    Essences are the tools of the trade for Alchemists, and unfortunately are
    useless for any other class. Alchemists use essences to create magical
    items for them to use.

    They can be either found on the floor while exploring the dungeon, or
    extracted from other magical items the alchemist finds during their
    adventures.

    To create an artifact, the alchemist will have to have first learnt the
    Artifact Creation ability. This ability costs 70 skill points (yes, 70,
    it's a very powerful ability!). And you need an alchemy skill of at least
    40, plus INT and WIS at 35 (thats 18/170 in non-linear form).
    To create the artifact, the alchemist will have to sacrifice 10 hit points,
    and an amount of magic essence similar to his skill in alchemy. The
    alchemist then allows the artifact to gain experience, and when it has
    enough, uses that experience to add abilities to the artifact. The
    alchemist can allow the artifact to continue to gain experience, thus
    keeping open the option to add more abilities later. This requires a
    similar amount of magic essence, but does not require the sacrifice of
    other hit points.

    Note that the experience you gain is divided among the artifacts that you
    have as well as going to yourself, so you will gain levels more slowly when
    empowering artifacts. Also, the artifact only gets 60% of the experience.
    So killing a creature worth 20xp would gain 10 for you, and 6 for the
    artifact.

    You can also modify existing artifacts when you attain skill level 50. Also
    at skill level 50 you will gain the ability to make temporary artifacts,
    which don't require the complex empowerments that regular items require,
    but also vanish after awhile.

    You cannot give an artifact an ability unless you have *Identified* an
    artifact which has that ability.

    For every four levels gained in the alchemy skill, the alchemist learns
    about objects of level (skill level)/4, starting by learning about level 1
    objects at skill level 0. (actually 1, but who's counting?)

    At skill level 5 you gain the ability to make ego items - but watch it!
    Your base failure rate will be 90%, and won't be 0% until you reach skill
    level 50. Adding gold will increase the chances of success in direct
    proportion to the value of the item you are trying to create. Note that
    this results in automatic success when the item you are trying to create
    happens to pick up a curse in the process.

    At skill level 5 you also gain knowledge of some basic ego item recipes.
    These are: Acidic, Shocking, Fiery, Frozen, Venomous, and Chaotic weapons,
    Resist Fire armour, and light sources of Fearlessness.

    At skill level 10 you will gain knowledge of digging ego items, if you have
    selected the option 'always  generate very unusual rooms' (ironman_rooms).

    At skill level 15 you can create ego wands, staves, rings, etc.

    At skill level 25 you gain the ability to empower double ego items.

    At skill level 50 you gain the ability to create temporary artifacts, which
    don't require any exotic ingredients beyond a single corpse of any type.

    Between skill levels 25 and 50, you will steadily gain the ability to set
    more and more flags.

    To finalise an artifact, you 'P'ower it, and select the powers you want.
    Powers are divided into the following six categories:
    Stats, Sustains, Luck, Speed, Vision, etc.
    Misc. (Auras, Light, See Invisibility, etc.)
    Weapon Brands
    Resistances and Immunities
    ESP and Curses
    Artifact Activations

    Stats, Sustains, Luck, Speed, Vision, etc.
    lvl     xp   Power
    40     5000  Add to Strength          Ring of Strength
    43     5000  Add to Intelligence      Ring of Intelligence
    46     5000  Add to Wisdom            Amulet of Wisdom
    46     5000  Add to Dexterity         Ring of Dexterity
    42     5000  Add to Constitution      Ring of Constitution
    30     5000  Add to Charisma          Amulet of Adornment
    32     1000  Sustain Strength         Ring of Sustain Strength
    34     1000  Sustain Intelligence     Ring of Sustain Intelligence
    28     1000  Sustain Wisdom           Ring of Sustain Wisdom
    36     1000  Sustain Dexterity        Ring of Sustain Dexterity
    36     1000  Sustain Constitution     Ring of Sustain Constitution
    25     1000  Sustain Charisma         Ring of Sustain Charisma
    40    50000  Speed                    Ring of Speed
    38   150000  Extra Attacks            Ring of Extra Attacks
    32     5000  Stealthy                 Left Insole from an Used Soft Boot
    29     2000  Adds to Searching        Filthy Rag
     6     1000  Helps Infravision        Brass Lantern
    30     1000  Lucky                    Rabbit's Left Forefoot
    25    30000  Aids in digging          Pick
    40    50000  Multiplies Life          Troll's Heart

    Misc. (Auras, Light, See Invisibility, etc.)
    lvl     xp   Power
    20    15000  Invisibility             Potion of Invisibility
    20     4000  See Invisible            Potion of Invisibility
    20    30000  Free Action              Iron Spike
    38    90000  Reflection               Large Metal Shield
    20    30000  Aura of Fire             Lungs from an Ancient Red Dragon
    25    30000  Aura of Lightning        Lungs from an Ancient Blue Dragon
     8     1000  Light                    Everburning Torch
    20    10000  Bright Light             Dwarven Lantern
    40   100000  Sunlight                 Feanorian Lamp
    40   200000  Flight                   Suit of Dragon Armour (any colour)
    50 10000000  Automatically IDs        Morgoth's Testicles
    29     2000  Anti-Teleportation       Teleport Inhibiting Amulet
    34     2000  Anti-Magic               Magic Inhibiting Amulet
    50   100000  Wraith Form              Potion of Invulnerability
    15     1000  Levitation               Potion of Berserk Strength
    20    10000  Slow Digestion           Lembas Wafer
    32    20000  Regenerate               Mushroom of Unhealth
    12    20000  Teleport                 Mushroom of Confusion

    Weapon Brands
    lvl     xp   Power
    30    20000  Extra Critical Hits      Whip
    30    30000  Wounds Monsters          Blade of Chaos
    26     6000  Vampiric                 Rod Tip of Drain Life
    16     2000  Slay Animal              Dead Animal's Body
    25     2000  Slay Evil                Evil Dead Thing's Remains
    30     2000  Slay Undead              Remains of Undead Monster
    40     1500  Slay Demon               Demon's Corpse
    10      700  Slay Orc                 Dead Orc
    16      700  Slay Troll               Dead Troll
    25      900  Slay Giant               Dead Giant
    33     2000  Slay Dragon              Dead Dragon (any size will do)
    41     5000  *Slay* Dragon            Mature Multi-Hued Dragon's Remains
    41    90000  *Slay* Undead            Dead Summoner of Greater Undead
    41    90000  *Slay* Demon             Lesser Balrog's Corpse
    36    20000  Vorpal
    40    90000  Earthquakes
     3     2000  Poison Brand
    12     2000  Acid Brand
    10     2000  Lightning Brand
     6     2000  Fire Brand
     8     2000  Frost Brand
    30     3000  Extra Might (Bows Only)
    35     3000  Extra Shots (Bows Only)

    Resistances and Immunities
    lvl     xp   Power
    49   500000  Immune to Acid           Ancient Black Dragon's Foreskin
    50   500000  Immune to Lightning      Ancient Blue Dragon's Foreskin
    49   500000  Immune to Fire           Ancient Red Dragon's Foreskin
    50   500000  Immune to Cold           Ancient White Dragon's Foreskin
    30    30000  Hold Life                Amulet of the Magi
    12    10000  Resist Acid              Ring of Acid
    15    10000  Resist Lightning         Ring of Lightning
    13    10000  Resist Fire              Potion of Resist Heat
    14    10000  Resist Cold              Potion of Resist Cold
    25    30000  Resist Poison            Potion of Cure Poison
    26    10000  Resist Fear              Ring of Fear Resistance
    31    60000  Resist Light             Ring of Light and Darkness Resistance
    31    60000  Resist Darkness          Ring of Light and Darkness Resistance
    30    30000  Resist Blindness         Ring of Blindness Resistance
    30    30000  Resist Confusion         Ring of Confusion Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Sound             Ring of Sound Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Shards            Ring of Shard Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Nether            Ring of Nether Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Nexus             Ring of Nexus Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Chaos             Ring of Chaos Resistance
    30    60000  Resist Disenchantment    Ring of Disenchantment Resistance

    ESP and Curses
    lvl     xp   Power
    50  -100000  Temporary Item           Corpse, any corpse
    10    -2000  Self-Cursing             Filthy Rag
    45   -10000  Causes the Black Breath  Sprig of Athelas
    40    -5000  Ancient Curse            Scroll of *Remove Curse*
    40    -5000  Drains your Experience
    30    -5000  Aggravates Monsters
    30     -500  Curse                    Scroll of Remove Curse
    50    -5000  Permanently Cursed
    35    -2000  Can't be Dropped
    45    -5000  Drains your Hit Points
    20   -50000  Wielder Can't Move
    40    20000  Telepathy                Formerly Floating Eye
    25     3000  Sense Orcs
    25     3000  Sense Trolls
    25     5000  Sense Dragons
    25     5000  Sense Giants
    25     5000  Sense Demons
    25     5000  Sense Undead
    25     5000  Sense Evil
    25     5000  Sense Animals
    25     5000  Sense Thunderlords
    25     5000  Sense Good
    25     5000  Sense Nonliving
    25     5000  Sense Unique Monsters
    25     2000  Sense Spiders

    Artifact Activations
    lvl     xp   Power
    40    40000  Sunlight                 Brass Lantern
    20     4000  Magic Missile (1)
    30   300000  Magic Missile (2)
    40   400000  Ball of Missiles
    30   300000  Bolt of Lightning
    30   300000  Ball of Lightning
    35   350000  Ball of Lightning(2)
    40   400000  Ball of Lightning(3)
    40   400000  Ball of Lightning(4)
    45   450000  Breath Lightning
    50    40000  Fire a Rocket