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Troll Smoke Mantle
Smoke Mantle
Carl's smoke screen, dropped to break line of sight from the gale tower — helpful only nominally.
Story so far
With the Gale Strike Tower walking its fire toward him across the upper level of Larracos, Carl dropped a smoke mantle, scrambled up the side of a barracks building, ran across the roof and jumped clear into Shanty Town.
The smoke bought only a moment: the tower resumed its slow turn the instant Carl appeared above the cloud. He notes that against Inexorable-locked towers, invisibility potions don't work at all and smoke only helps nominally.
Appearance
A dropped cloud of concealing smoke.
Role
Stopgap concealment during Carl's escape from the gale tower.
Relationships
Carl — Drops it to break the tower's line of sight.
Gale Strike Tower — Only nominally hindered by it.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 31
- Deployable smoke screen Carl throws to re-obscure his squad's advance after the diffusion spell clears the field.
Chapter 39
- Thrown smoke-screen consumable Carl switched to after grenades proved useless against the enemy shields.
Chapter 44
- Thrown smoke item Carl uses to blind the charging enemy army while looting King Rust's corpse.
Chapter 63
- Smoke-generating item dropped by a fleeing cousin to cover their retreat down the tunnel.
Chapter 83
- Carl's smoke screen, dropped to break line of sight from the gale tower — helpful only nominally.