ASCENSION - Vaelorn & Soulreaver

# ASCENSION - Vaelorn & Soulreaver

**Vaelorn & Soulreaver** adds a cinematic, high-difficulty boss encounter built for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1.

Face **Vaelorn, Queen of the Eternal Court**, and her telekinetically controlled scythe, **Soulreaver**, through a multi-phase battle designed for both solo play and cooperative groups.

## Features

- A complete custom boss: **Vaelorn**
- A separately animated weapon entity: **Soulreaver**
- Three escalating combat phases with phase transitions
- Telekinetic slashes, heavy strikes, circular sweeps and summoned skulls
- Reinforcement waves and multiplayer difficulty scaling
- A dedicated dimension: **The Eternal Court**
- Dynamic boss bar, dialogue, lighting, particles and cinematic music transitions
- Arena-only PvP protection for participating players
- Personal ending choices and unique rewards
- Custom quest and progression items used by *ASCENSION: The Last Miracle*
- A 30-second return sequence after victory

## Requirements

- Minecraft **1.20.1**
- **Forge 47.4.x**
- **GeckoLib 4.8.4 or newer within the 4.x series**

GeckoLib must be installed on both the client and server.

## Important server arena information

This public mod includes the Eternal Court dimension, Vaelorn, Soulreaver and the full encounter logic, but it does **not** include or redistribute any third-party arena schematic, world or region data.

A server owner must build or privately install an arena in:

`ascension_vaelorn:eternal_court`

The combat floor should be centered around:

`X 0, Y 80, Z 0`

When the arena is ready, an operator must place the readiness marker with:

`/execute in ascension_vaelorn:eternal_court run setblock 190 80 190 minecraft:bedrock`

Without this marker, the encounter refuses to start instead of generating or pasting an arena automatically.

## ASCENSION integration

This mod was created as the final boss module for **ASCENSION: The Last Miracle**. The mod registers the Vaelorn-related entities, rewards and quest items, while the full quest book and wider progression remain part of the ASCENSION modpack.

## Credits and third-party licenses

- **Vespera RPG Boss** by **helove** — source model distributed under the BuiltByBit Free EULA and heavily adapted into Vaelorn. Existing Axis Studio attribution retained.
- **Daydream of a Deity** by **Fablefly Music** — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
- **Battle Theme 1** by **Alexandr Zhelanov** — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Full source links, license references and modification notices are included in `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt` inside the JAR.

## Distribution

The original ASCENSION code and original assets are All Rights Reserved. Third-party components remain governed by their respective licenses.