Abilities

Characters can use abilities to turn the tide of combat or utility. books or scrolls and recharge after a certain number of beats or rooms. The potency of effects can be increased by the Ability stat.

Ultimate

Ultimate abilities are represented by books.

Ability	Cooldown	Effects
Elli's Touch	64 beats	Heals 25 HP.
Jarnbjorn	1 room	Explosive orb.
The Quest	12 rooms	Permanently increases all stats by 1. Grants health regen until the next floor.
Odin's Blessing	1 room	Heals 50 HP over time.
Celestial Drumroll	3 rooms	Many explosions over a few seconds dealing massive damage, often clearing an entire room or around 50% of boss health.
Barter	4 rooms	Halves the price, rounding down, of all items in shop you use it in. Has no effect outside a shop. Does not discount weaponry in Muninn's armory. Can be used multiple times on the same shop, essentially turning all items into free upgrades. This is most easily achievable with the Battle Lion Shield and finding said room early in each stage.
Cursed Luck	None	Deals 25 damage to you and permanently increases your Luck by 1.
Hermóðr's Enchantment	None	Greatly increases your speed for 8 beats (~5 seconds).
Njord's Riches	2 rooms	Spawns 3 coins, and an additional coin for each Ability point.
Valkyrie's Call	20 kills	Summon a floating angel who will attack enemies with projectile damage until the room is clear.
Mjolnir	1 room	Fires burst of strong projectiles in a somewhat wide spread that lasts 1 beat.
Freyr's Blessing	5 rooms	Grants 25 shields.
Sigyn's Blessing	16 kills	Spawns a random chest("quality" grows with ability level). Can be a normal end-of-room chest, a key chest, a weapon chest, or a pain chest.
Banking	1 half-beat	You get 1 coin, but you lose 1 coin from your bank account.
Geri's Audit	2 rooms	Turns items in the room into coins. Coins created from Damocles' Swords, or unbought shop items are free.

Secondary

Secondary abilities are represented by scrolls.

Ability	Cooldown	Effects
Fire Bolt	9 half beats	Projectile that lights an enemy on fire, dealing damage over time.
Mortal Curse	2 beats	Marked enemies take damage over time until death (1 damage per beat). Can stack multiple times on the same target. If used on another target, curse also stays on the previous target.
Broken Burst	1 beat	Fires 10 projectiles in a wide spread, dealing ~1 damage each.
Valkyrie's Veil	10 kills	Absorbs 1 enemy attack
Celestial Wave	8 beats	Hits everything on the screen for minor damage.
Thunderclap	2 beats	AoE Explosion centered on you
Frost Bolt	1 beat	Freeze enemies for 3 half beats The short cooldown makes it possible to use instead of a weapon, like a freezing version of Njord's Hands.
Block	4 beats	Blocks all damage from all directions for a three half beats + one half beat per ability point. All damage includes lava, AoE attacks, falling off the edge, and all sources of damage.
Steal Life	1 beat	Steals a small amount (~4 HP) of health from target. Does exceedingly low damage to enemies.
Teleport	1 beat	Instantly teleport to where your cursor is aimed. Can be damaged by using teleport if the teleport's path would have you take damage along that line (e.g. chest room's damage doors).
Sacred Sapper	1 beat	Spawns an explosive barrel. Can have up to 10 barrels spawned at once.
Undying Strength	8 beats.	Prevents death, leaving the player with 1 HP instead. Lasts 3 beats. Currently does not prevent death on Odr.
Rhythm Burst	4 beats	Fires X flame projectiles over Y beats. Each projectile deals damage over time (similar damage to Fire Bolt). Number of projectiles = ability stat + 1 Projectiles always fire at the same rate, so more projectiles = longer firing time Damage over time from each projectile stacks.
Snipe	8 beats	Fast projectile that deals 15 damage.
Burning Coin	1 beat	Lose 1 coin to throw projectile that deals ~15 Damage. Small rocket-jump.

Movement

Movement ability can't be changed once in-game. All except Odr's work the same.

Ability	Cooldown	Effect
Dash	1 beat	Move Quickly
Dash (Odr Only)	1 beat	Move Quickly/Fly
Dash (Full Auto Challenge Only)	1 half beat	Move Quickly
Dash (Retro Mode Challenge Only)	1 beat	Move Quickly
Dash (Supertime Challenge Only)	1 beat	Move Quickly