Keywords

Keywords are the highlighted words in item and enemy descriptions, such as ExposedExposed: Triggers when you lose all of your armor for the first time. or PoisonPoison: Take damage equal to poison at turn start and remove 1 poison. Having armor prevents the damage.. In the game you can hover over one to read what it does; on this wiki the same explanation appears when you hover over a keyword in an item's effect.

There are two kinds:

• Triggers say when an effect happens (Battle Start, Exposed, Wounded ...).
• Status effects are stacks that you or the enemy carry during a battle (Poison, Stun, Thorns ...). Most of them lose stacks over time.

All keywords

Keyword	Type	What it does
Battle Start	Trigger	Triggers at the very beginning of combat, before any actions are taken.
Turn Start	Trigger	Triggers at the beginning of your turn, before strikes and other on-turn effects resolve.
First Turn	Trigger	Triggers at the start of your first turn to give a temporary effect.
On Hit	Trigger	Triggers when your strike hits.
Exposed	Trigger	Triggers when you lose all of your armor for the first time.
Wounded	Trigger	Triggers the first time your health drops to 50% or lower.
Countdown	Trigger	Triggers when the countdown reaches 0. Decreases by 1 at turn start.
Symphony	Trigger	Trigger the effect of another random instrument item.
Acid	Status effect	Lose armor equal to acid at turn start.
Freeze	Status effect	Freeze halves attack. Remove 1 freeze at turn end.
Poison	Status effect	Take damage equal to poison at turn start and remove 1 poison. Having armor prevents the damage.
Purity	Status effect	When removed, purity restores 3 health and gives 1 attack.
Regeneration	Status effect	Restore health equal to regeneration at turn end, then remove 1 regeneration.
Riptide	Status effect	Take 5 damage at turn end, then remove 1 riptide.
Stun	Status effect	Stun prevents striking. Remove 1 stun for each strike.
Thorns	Status effect	Deal damage equal to thorns when struck. Then remove those thorns at turn end.

Enemy descriptions use the same keywords, written from the enemy's point of view: an enemy's Exposed triggers when it loses all of its armor for the first time.

Using tooltips on other pages

Item effects in infoboxes and item lists show these tooltips on their own. To add one to any other text, use Template:Keyword:

• {{Keyword|Wounded}} → WoundedWounded: Triggers the first time your health drops to 50% or lower.
• {{Keyword|Thorns|thorns}} → thornsThorns: Deal damage equal to thorns when struck. Then remove those thorns at turn end.

See also

• Tags: all trigger and status effect pages, with the items that use them
• Stats: health, attack, armor and speed