Voodoo

The fol­low­ers of Voo­doo are a rebel­li­ous, aggress­ive people. Not want­ing to sub­mit to West­ern Xia, they live north of the great wall and rely on their own ten­a­cious spirit to sur­vive away from main­stream society.

Though they are not often the strongest, they are often the most feared war­ri­ors in battle. Their impec­cable spirit defence makes them tough adversar­ies, and their nat­ur­ally aggress­ive nature makes them more than will­ing to try and prove them­selves in battle against other classes.

‘Time is a pred­ator that stalks us all our lives.’

Voo­doo Philosophy

For a rebel­li­ous people, the war­ri­ors of Voo­doo are remark­ably devout. They wor­ship their leader Mas­ter Ting as a god, and for all their mys­ter­i­ous prac­tices have an extremely close con­nec­tion with the Spirit world, for through it they are able to gain greater power.

As befits their close asso­ci­ation with nature and the Spirit world, the war­ri­ors of Voo­doo take their philo­sophy very ser­i­ously. The five divine creatures — snakes, scor­pi­ons, clams, centi­pedes and geckos — are all cent­ral parts of the Voo­doo belief sys­tem, and though to out­siders their goals may seem eldritch and mys­ti­fy­ing, those who know Voo­doo well can attest to the holy aspir­a­tions of this most inter­est­ing of classes.

Voo­doo Sea

The gloomy lands south of Dun Huang are notori­ously hos­tile, ren­der­ing them almost inhab­it­able to nor­mal human beings. Here, amidst the dan­ger­ous flora and fauna of the rich and var­ied oasis, the Voo­doo class has made its home. With its abund­ance of venom­ous creatures, and its calm, mys­tical serenity, the Voo­doo Sea is the per­fect loc­a­tion for Voo­doo war­ri­ors to prac­tice their arcane arts of poison-​craft safe from the influ­ence of the out­side world.

Class Char­ac­ter­ist­ics

With their home set deep in the heart of the inhos­pit­able Voo­doo Sea, it is no won­der that the war­ri­ors of Voo­doo should seek to make use of the abund­ant resources their home has to offer. From the earli­est days of their ini­ti­ation, every Voo­doo war­rior trains in the art of poison mak­ing until they are mas­ters of their art. It is this intense ded­ic­a­tion to their art-​form that means the fol­low­ers of Voo­doo have an unsur­passed level of poison-​craft that not even the Beg­gars’ Alli­ance can hope to match.

Com­bat Characteristics

The fol­low­ers of Voo­doo may not neces­sar­ily be the strongest war­ri­ors in a battle, but they are often the most fright­en­ing. As befits a class that spends much of its time craft­ing pois­ons, the Voo­doo style of mar­tial arts focuses heav­ily on the use of poison attacks. When com­bined with their nat­ur­ally high magical defence, this makes war­ri­ors of Voo­doo very tough opponents.

Like their com­bat style, their magic is also equally power­ful. The Voo­doo practitioner’s intense con­nec­tion to the Spirit world allows them to inflict dam­age through their ghostly min­ions, and cast power­ful curses on their enemies which drain health over time. Blood is required to speak with the Voo­doo gods, so they ride a Yak which can be sac­ri­ficed if there are no enemies nearby.

Class Over­view

• Highest HP of all the magical classes
• Skills are dif­fi­cult to learn
• Skills con­tain many dif­fer­ent side effects, such as drain­ing and blinding
• Even if no skill is used, oppon­ents who comes in con­tact with a Voo­doo war­rior are often poisoned naturally
• Can sac­ri­fice HP in order to recover MP

To learn more about the Voo­doo class, please see our guide to Voo­doo Class Skills.