Hollow Choir

The runes, in order

Hush → Gall, in sockets 1 to 2 of one item with exactly 2 sockets: a normal or magic weapon, off-hand, helm, chest, gloves and boots. The deepest of them, Hush, first drops on floor 10.

• 1. Hushtier 3, from floor 10 · weapon +6% swing speed · other +30 life
• 2. Galltier 3, from floor 10 · weapon +10% damage · other -4% cooldowns

The power

You can raise 2 more Bone Thralls, and your servants take 20% of the damage meant for you. With servants up, a hit of 50 meant for you costs you 40 life and them the other 10. It works for the Bonecaller; any other hero wearing the item gets the runes’ stats and nothing more.

Cut into a weapon, the runes add

+6% swing speed, +10% damage

Cut into other gear

+30 life, -4% cooldowns

Smith’s price to empty every socket

120 gold

An inscription is cut when an item has exactly as many sockets as the inscription has runes, every socket filled, in the inscription’s order. A 3-socket chest with Brine and Quill in its first two sockets spells nothing: the count must match too. The inscription’s power works only for the hero it is cut for; on anyone else the item keeps its rune stats and the power sleeps. Emptying one socket breaks the inscription at once, and the rune in it is destroyed, so set the runes in order and only into the item you mean to keep.

Other inscriptions

• Cinderwake (Wick → Soot → Flint, for the Mage)
• Rimecount (Brine → Quill, for the Mage)
• Marrowtithe (Loam → Marrow → Wick, for the Bonecaller)
• Anvilsong (Flint → Tallow, for the Warrior)
• Last Light (Sedge → Hush → Thrum, for the Warrior)
• Lantern Debt (Tallow → Soot, for any hero)
• The Long Road (Sedge → Brine → Umber, for any hero)
• Graveglass (Sallow → Gall → Quill, for the Mage and the Bonecaller)