Community Update #3 — Necromancy Update Part 2

Thanks to your feedback and our ongoing Early Access development, CODEX MORTIS is evolving fast. Community Update #3 brings two more new spells forged from your suggestions, plus balancing improvements to the Soul Nexus boss gauntlet. The necromancy arsenal keeps growing — and we're just getting started.

New Spell: Corpse Flail

Corpse Flail is a passive Necromancy spell that drags a heavy corpse mass on a chain behind you. The harder you move, the harder it hits.

• Base Damage: 120 per tick · Tick Rate: 0.3s · Tether Length: 150px

• Always active. Standing still deals zero damage. Moving scales damage with mass velocity — stopping after movement triggers a slam (2× damage AoE burst).

• Longer tether = more springy swings = bigger impact radius.

• Synergizes with Soul Burn, Hemorrhage, Weaken, Slow, Terror, Confusion, Spirit Walk, Bone Armor, and Bone Trail.

New Spell: Tentacle Lash

Tentacle Lash whips a necrotic tentacle horizontally, alternating left and right sweeps in a wide arc across the battlefield.

• Base Damage: 300 · Cooldown: 1.2s · Reach: 450px per side · Sweeps: 1 per cast (upgradeable)

• Each cast alternates direction (left → right → left). Multi-sweep upgrades chain alternating sides.

• Works on heroes and shadow clones.

• Synergizes with Soul Burn, Hemorrhage, Weaken, Slow, Terror, and Confusion.

Soul Nexus Boss Timing Balance

We've extended telegraph windows across all 5 Soul Nexus bosses — giving you more time to read and react to attacks:

• All Soul Nexus bosses affected: Cradle of Echoes, Judge Eidolon, Nexus Seraph, Revenant Architect, Soul Reaper

• Tiers 1–3: +0.25s extra telegraph time

• Tiers 4–6: now grant a small telegraph bonus (0.125–0.5s) instead of zero

• Tier 7: unchanged

Your feedback is directly shaping the game — keep it coming in our Discord and on Steam! 💀