# Death gems

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-gems/79775
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-gems/79775 "2023-05-01T16:26:35Z")
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### Author: ![mitamata](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitamata/32/10313_2.png) [@mitamata](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mitamata)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/death-gems/79775/7 "2023-05-01T17:48:52Z")

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> [@esabreen](#):
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> Well it’s not lycanthropy, they just transform out of nowhere.

It can’t be out of nowhere. What troop transformed and into what other troop?

Most likely culprit is lycantrophy, which is inflicted by lycantrophy gems and some traits, spells, most notably by EoE - lycantrophy is a negative status effect, EoE inflicts _all_ negative status effects. It has a chance to transform the enemy into a random Beast troop. If you’re using EoE, my guess would be that’s what’s happening, you might not even notice that the enemy has lycantrophy because of how many overlapping status effects are on them.

Some troops also have spells that transform them, but those will be obviously listed in the spell description (Werewoods troops, Baby Dragon, Bat Swarm, Werewolf etc).

> [@esabreen](#):
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> what ARE the sickle things

Death Mark Gems

> [@Campaign Begins: Aravatar's Skull](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-aravatars-skull/79743/1):
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> **New Heroic Gem: Death Mark Gem**
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> During this Campaign, we have a new Heroic Gem that players may encounter in puzzle battles – the Death Mark Gem.
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> ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/f/3/f3df67fa46accf4fa577889b746b61e46d1b283d.png)
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> Death Mark Gems are colorless Gems that when destroyed, will inflict Death Mark to a random Enemy. Death Mark Gems will occasionally (but rarely) drop like regular Gems during the Aravatar’s Skull Campaign. Some Troops and Weapons will also be able to create them. Once the Campaign is over, they will no longer fall randomly, though the Troops and Weapons that create them, will continue to function.

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