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II Updates II The Reaper II The Infested Marine II The High Templar II The Story II High templar are veteran Templar who forgo the rage and traditional forms of combat common to zealots in order to better develop their psionic powers into potent tools and weapons through the Khala. Although they are equipped with light armor suits and sometimes through them, psionic blades, this is not their standard form of attack.

High Templar use the archives to directly commune with their ancient ancestors and thereby gain knowledge inaccessible to ordinary warriors. They may also wear amulets carved from khaydarin crystals to improve their connection with the Khala and thus channel their psionic abilities with greater efficiency.

Those treading the path of the Khala are taught to close their minds to the outside world. For powerful psychics like the protoss this may produce psychic ripples that are harmful to other life forms. High templar are trained to focus these ripples into terrible storms of psychic energy that destroy the minds of other living creatures.

At one time, high templar merged with another high templar to form an archon, thus sacrificing themselves to complete the Warrior Path and attain legendary status within the archives. After the Brood War, high templar could achieve this by sacrificing themselves, merging with another high templar, or with a Dark Templar.

Another change brought on by the Brood War was the role of high templar politically. Previously, political decisions had been left to the Judicator Caste. With the destruction of the Conclave however and the disbanding of the Judicator, high templar have been able to take on the role of teachers and leaders of their people.

Utilizing the Void and Khala simultaneously grants protoss incredible power, but can result in the protoss burning out like a star. Protoss who can utilize both sets of power simultaneously are exceedingly rare. Since the near extinction of most Templar, they have learned to become one with both and revert back to Templar without the need to fuse with another Templar.

High Templar focus their Psionic powers to unleash devastating elemental AOE damage, to bend the minds of their enemies and to boilster their own defenses.

Skill Trees & Abilities

Khala

• PSI Storm
• Hydra (summons photon cannon, 5 max)
• Firebolt (aoe explode on contact)
• Frostbolt (aoe cold damage + Slow units)
• Nova
• Frozen Nova
• FireWall (blocks pathing)
• Inferno: burst of fire in cone in front of player
• Archon Form: Reduces casting time and mana cost of all Khala spells. Lasts 20 seconds (then transform back to templar)

Void

• Drain Life: AoE dot, drains life and returns health to caster
• Life Tap: Sacrifice life to gain energy
• Enchant Blade: Imbue's weapon with elemental damage
• Dark Templar Form: Transform into dark templar. Increases health, melee damage,movement speed, armor and health regeneration. Drains energy over time. Last till canceled or mana depletion.
• Void Aura: Enemies in a 5 yard radius take damage and energy is gained.
• PSI Void Blade: Hurls a PSI blade at enemy target
• Flurry: Melee speed increased
• Swirl: Spin around dealing damage with weapon (almost ww)
• Mind Blast: Ranged nuke, stuns for 10 seconds