Ilse

Her kilns melted the offerings into vault gold. Stacks burn fast. Dies fast too.

Skill: Fireball

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Deal 120% of power + arcana as fire and apply 3 burn.

120% of your power plus arcana as fire, ignoring armor, then 3 burn. Like every skill it costs mana only: it has no cooldown and does not end your turn.

Passive: Stoke

Each strike on a burning enemy adds 1 burn, up to 6.

Stoke only feeds a burn that is already there, and stops adding at 6 stacks; other sources of burn can push past that.

Specialization: Quench

Skills apply 2 chill. Burning enemies that are chilled or frozen take +25% damage.

Every skill puts 2 chill on its target, on every enemy for a skill that hits all. Three chill freeze, and a burning enemy that is chilled or frozen takes the extra 25%.

A specialization replaces the passive; you play one or the other. Ilse's opens when Ilse's own best floor is 20 or deeper, and you switch it in the hero's details at hero select. The Daily Descent and the Season Descent always use the base passive.

Base stats

Ilse starts every run with +16 health, +2 armor, +1 power, +4 arcana, +5% crit chance, +50% crit damage, +4 mana, a Rusty Shortsword and 30 gold (more with the Endurance trial or the Pilfered Crown). Everything else comes from gear. What each number does is on the stats page.

Good with

Hero select names three sets that suit Ilse. Any hero can wear any set; these are a starting point.

Emberforged Burn everything.

2Strikes apply 1 burn.
3+30% power. Burn deals double.
5Kills spread their burn to every enemy.

Rimeglass Freeze them solid.

2Strikes apply 1 chill. 3 chill freezes: the enemy skips its turn.
3+40% armor. +50% damage to frozen enemies.
5Frozen enemies below 25% health shatter.

Starwrought Spells, twice.

2+2 mana.
3Gain 1 extra mana each turn.
5Skills cost 1 less (never free) and cast twice.

What the bosses say

Each boss has one line kept for Ilse, said once, at the start of a fight.

Boss	The line
The Tallyman	The kiln-girl. Every bar you poured is in my books. So is the soot.
Mother Brine	Such warm hands. The water down here would love to hold them.
Avarax	You poured my crown, kiln-girl. Come and see how it fits.

Unlocking Ilse

While locked, hero select says: "Break the curse to unlock." Win a run with any hero: beat Avarax on floor 30. That needs the full game. The check runs when a run ends, and a Daily Descent or a seed-code run does not count.

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Written from the game's own rules, version 2.9.4. Spotted something wrong? Tell us on Discord.