Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy artwork

Monk Ascendancy

Acolyte of Chayula

Acolyte of Chayula uses Darkness, Chaos Resistance, Chaos Leech, Volatility, Flames of Chayula, and granted Chayula skills.
The truth of your faith threatens to break your very soul... but in that struggle lies power beyond belief.
Character class
Monk
Path type
Regular
Introduced
0.1.0
Maximum points
8
Ascendancy treeOfficial export 0.5.2
Wiki reviewGame 0.5.4d

Tree identities, effects, connections, and icons come from the official 0.5.2 export. The class corpus was checked 2026-07-30 for game version 0.5.4d.

Gameplay identity

Current official tree

Core mechanics

  • Embrace the Darkness replaces Spirit with Darkness, which reserves incoming damage before Life or Energy Shield.
  • Choice of Life, Mana, or Power changes the colour of manifested Flames of Chayula and improves Remnant collection and effect.

Important tradeoff

Embrace the Darkness removes Spirit, and reserved Darkness remains unavailable for five seconds after absorbing damage.

How to unlock or change

Regular path

Complete an eligible Ascension Trial and use its Ascension device to choose this Ascendancy. To change to another regular Ascendancy for the same character class, complete the required trial tier and refund every allocated Ascendancy passive before using the device again.

Ascendancy passive tree

Official export 0.5.2 | Plan this Ascendancy
10notables
10minor passives
3choice options
3granted skills

Notables and choices

Build-defining passives, choice parents, and their selectable options.

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PassiveExact effectRequiresUnlocks
Chaos DamageEnd of branch
  • +10% to Maximum Chaos Resistance
  • Chaos Resistance is doubled
Chaos ResistanceChaos Damage
Choice optionChoice of Life
  • Remnants you create have 50% increased effect
  • Remnants can be collected from 50% further away
  • All Flames of Chayula that you manifest are Red
Lucid DreamingEnd of branch
Choice optionChoice of Mana
  • Remnants you create have 50% increased effect
  • Remnants can be collected from 50% further away
  • All Flames of Chayula that you manifest are Blue
Lucid DreamingEnd of branch
Choice optionChoice of Power
  • Remnants you create have 50% increased effect
  • Remnants can be collected from 50% further away
  • All Flames of Chayula that you manifest are Purple
Lucid DreamingEnd of branch
  • 1% increased maximum Darkness per 1% Chaos Resistance
DarknessEnd of branch
  • You have no Spirit Base Maximum Darkness is 100 Damage taken is Reserved from Darkness before being taken from Life or Energy Shield
  • Darkness Reservation lasts for 5 seconds
  • +10 to Maximum Darkness per Level
DarknessDarkness
Damage as ChaosEnd of branch
  • Gain 1 Volatility on inflicting an Elemental Ailment
  • Take no Damage from Volatility
VolatilityChaos Damage
Choose one connected option.Skill SpeedChoice of Life, Choice of Mana, Choice of Power
  • Leech recovers based on Chaos Damage as well as Physical Damage
LeechEnd of branch
  • Grants Unravelling
Chaos DamageEnd of branch
Skill SpeedSkill Speed

Minor passives

Every connecting passive in the current official tree export.

10
PassiveExact effectRequiresUnlocks
MinorChaos Damage
  • 11% increased Chaos Damage
Inner TurmoilUnravelling
MinorChaos Damage
  • 11% increased Chaos Damage
Chayula's GiftArchon of Chayula
MinorChaos Resistance
  • +7% to Chaos Resistance
Ascendancy startChayula's Gift
MinorDamage as Chaos
  • Gain 4% of Damage as Extra Chaos Damage
Ascendancy startGrasp of the Void
MinorDarkness
  • 10% increased maximum Darkness
Ascendancy startEmbrace the Darkness
MinorDarkness
  • 10% increased maximum Darkness
Embrace the DarknessDeepening Shadows
MinorLeech
  • 11% increased amount of Life Leeched
  • 11% increased amount of Mana Leeched
Ascendancy startSap of Nightmares
MinorSkill Speed
  • 4% increased Skill Speed
Ascendancy startWaking Dream
MinorSkill Speed
  • 4% increased Skill Speed
Waking DreamLucid Dreaming
MinorVolatility
  • 10% chance to gain Volatility on Kill
Ascendancy startInner Turmoil

Granted skills

3

While active, creates a short-lived illusory copy of yourself whenever you dodge roll. The copy can be damaged by enemies, and copies that are destroyed by an enemy will cause damaging explosions. Copies created this way have 1 Life.

Attack, Buff, Persistent, AoE, Trigger, Duration
Applies
Level
1
Requirement
Any Martial Weapon, Unarmed
  • Explosion radius is 3 metres
  • Illusion duration is 2 seconds

Build Glory by dealing Chaos damage to enemies. When you have maximum Glory, you can entreat the Dreamer to inhabit you, briefly becoming his Archon.

Buff, Attack, AoE, Trigger, Physical, Chaos, Duration, Conditional, Storm
Applies
Level
1
Requirement
Any Martial Weapon
  • Requires 100 Glory to use
  • Generates 100% of Monster Power as Glory for this Skill on dealing Chaos Hit damage to an enemy or inflicting a Chaos damage over time Debuff on an enemy
  • Grants 20% more Physical and Chaos damage
  • Grants 25% chance to Wither enemies for 4 seconds on Hit
  • Trigger Chayula's Will every 3 seconds
  • Converts 70% of Physical damage to Chaos damage
  • Tornado radius is 2.8 metres
  • Tornado duration is 8 seconds

Create a Breach around you, allowing you to see nearby Flames of Chayula. You are considered to be in a Breach while this skill is active.

Buff, Persistent, Remnant
Applies
Level
1
  • A Flame of Chayula manifests within 8.5m of you every 1.4 seconds
  • Flame of Chayula within 5m of you are revealed
  • Flames of Chayula fade after 25 seconds if not picked up

Other Monk Ascendancies

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