The Apostate
Smert is a high-risk Shell who stops time, fights unarmed, and marks enemies with Chaos before time resumes. He spends health to create concentrated attack windows and gains additional Resolve from melee hits while at critical health.
Miracle halts time and places Smert in Fight Stance. During that window his unarmed attacks apply Chaos, allowing him to build delayed pressure before time resumes and the accumulated effect resolves.
Extending Miracle through Overtime consumes additional health, while Deadly Revelation rewards operating at 10% health or less with extra Resolve from melee hits. Smert can create powerful controlled windows, but his strongest state leaves little room for a positioning error.
Travel to the Outskirts of Nochte Beacon in Fainweald.
Head uphill toward Prophet’s Rest and the cultist ritual site.
Locate the three circular blood pools around the area.
Lure or fight enemies inside each inactive pool and kill them there.
Confirm that all three pools are active, even if one was already filled when you arrived.
Clear the remaining immediate threat and approach the central altar.
Interact with Smert’s remains to enter The Convert memory.
Complete the memory sequence, including the Hierarch encounter, to unlock Smert permanently.
Miracle stops time and places Smert in Fight Stance. During the window he attacks unarmed and applies Chaos, which resolves when time resumes. Overtime can extend the window by consuming additional health.
Use it to create a controlled burst window against a chosen target, then prepare to reposition when normal time resumes.
At 10% health or less, Smert gains Faith. While Faith is active, melee hits restore additional Resolve.
It helps Smert rebuild ability resources at critical health, reinforcing his high-risk combat loop.
Activate Miracle from a controlled position with a clear priority target. During Fight Stance, apply repeated Chaos with Smert’s unarmed attacks, then be ready for the accumulated effect to resolve when time resumes. Extending the window with Overtime can add pressure, but every extension reduces Smert’s safety margin.
Deadly Revelation turns critical health into additional Resolve generation, but it should be treated as a recovery opportunity rather than permission to ignore danger. Groups remain the main practical risk because several attack angles can become active together when the stopped-time window ends.
Miracle prevents enemies from acting normally while Smert applies Chaos.
Repeated Fight Stance hits build Chaos before time resumes.
Stopped time lets Smert concentrate on a chosen enemy.
Deadly Revelation grants additional Resolve from melee hits at very low health.
Miracle and Overtime spend health to create or extend the attack window.
Critical-health play leaves little room for a positioning or timing error.
Several enemies can resume attacking together when stopped time ends.
Smert is at the ritual altar in Prophet’s Rest, near the Outskirts of Nochte Beacon in Fainweald.
Activate all three blood pools by killing enemies inside the inactive circles, interact with Smert at the central altar, and complete The Convert memory.
There are three pools in total, but one may already be active. Activate every remaining inactive pool before approaching the central altar.
Miracle stops time, places Smert in an unarmed Fight Stance, and lets his attacks apply Chaos before time resumes.
Smert is a high-risk burst Shell who spends health to control time and gains additional Resolve from melee attacks at critical health.
Launch-build information reviewed 2026-08-24.