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Time of India
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Latest Clash Royale leaks hint at new Spirit Empress Champion, Card Evolution, and more - Everything you need to know
Spirit Empress Champion in Clash Royale (Image via Supercell) Clash Royale's vibrant community has received a fresh crate of leaks: the arrival of a new champion, the Spirit Empress, and a potential evolution for the iconic Golem card. Here's a detailed look at what's surfaced so far, what's credible, and what these additions could mean for the game. Clash Royale community speculates on the Spirit Empress: The New Champion The Spirit Empress is rumored to be the next champion card, with multiple leaks and creator previews pointing toward an imminent release. Here's what is currently known: - Elixir Cost and Role: The Spirit Empress is expected to be a 6-elixir champion, which positions her as one of the more expensive champions, potentially rivaling the Monk and Mighty Miner in terms of cost and battlefield impact. Some are even speculating that this card might cost three elixir. - Alternate Name: Some leaks refer to her as the Dragon Rider, though it's unclear if this is a working title or a separate mechanic. - Mechanics and Rarity: There is speculation that the Spirit Empress may introduce a new card rank or mechanic, possibly even a new "Hero" rarity above champions, though most community voices hope she remains a traditional champion to avoid power creep and complexity. New Hero Card: Spirit Empress - Official Hints: Content creators with ties to Supercell have showcased previews of the proposed Champion on a shirt that the received with a gift box from the devs, reinforcing the legitimacy of the leak. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 5 Books Warren Buffett Wants You to Read In 2025 Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo Some users claim to have seen official posts on Clash Royale's Instagram, lending further credibility to the rumors. - Community Reaction: The community is excited but cautious, especially given the balance implications of a high-cost champion. There is hope that her introduction will help diversify the meta and potentially counter dominant decks like Boss Bandit. Is the Golem Evolution coming to Clash Royale? While the Spirit Empress has taken center stage, there is also mounting speculation about an evolution for the Golem card: - Evolution Teasers: Recent teasers on the official Clash Royale X account suggest that Golem may soon receive an evolution, following the trend of other classic cards receiving powerful upgrades. Evolutions typically grant cards new abilities or stats, shaking up established strategies. They posted a picture of a Canon with a 'Sneaky Golem' inside. This could either be hinting at a Golem Evo or the devs could be pklaying along the recently trending 'Sneaky Golem' memes. - Gameplay Impact: Evolved cards have historically had a significant impact on the meta. For example, evolved skeletons and bats have made it much harder to defend against certain pushes, and a Golem evolution could similarly redefine beatdown strategies. - Meta Implications: If Golem receives an evolution, expect a surge in Golem-based decks and new counterplay dynamics, especially if the evolution grants it additional effects on death or while attacking. Summary Table: Spirit Empress vs. Golem Evolution Feature Spirit Empress (Leaked) Golem Evolution (Speculated) Card Type Champion Evolution of existing card Elixir Cost 6 8 (base Golem cost) Mechanic Possible new ability/rarity Enhanced stats/abilities Status Multiple credible leaks Strong community speculation Meta Impact High (if released as champion) High (could revitalize beatdown) Also read: Best Clash Royale Decks for the Magical Trio Event The leaks surrounding the Spirit Empress and a possible Golem evolution signal a major shake-up for Clash Royale in the near future. While the Spirit Empress appears to be on the verge of official release, with credible leaks and creator previews supporting her arrival, the Golem evolution remains speculative but highly anticipated. Both additions have the potential to significantly alter the game's meta, offering fresh strategies and challenges for players at all levels. Game On Season 1 kicks off with Sakshi Malik's inspiring story. Watch Episode 1 here
Time of India
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How to complete The Word is Silent quest in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon
(Image via Awaken Realms) Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon transfers the players into the grim world, where the dark secrets fester. Amidst the quests, The Word is Silent stands out as crucial yet easily missed. Found quite early in the game, the mission tasks you to expose the atrocities of the Red Priest, beginning with the single damned letter that's discovered on the desolate shore. Here is how you can find evidence, track the right person, and ensure that the truth does not remain buried. Find Whistleblower evidence in The Word is Silent quest The Word is Silent Quest Guide In Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon Your journey begins during the prologue of the game on Asylum Island. Once you defeat Golem boss and get back to the beach, head north right along the shoreline. Ensure to keep a sharp eye out for any wreckage of the small boat that sits in shallow water. It is your key landmark. From the wreck, look carefully to your right. Tucked right within the narrow rocky alcove is the body of the Red Priest, almost hidden from view. At his feet rests an important Letter to the Prior. Interact with the letter and read it to officially begin The Word is Silent quest. Missing the alcove would mean you miss the quest completely (there is no way back to the island) before you leave the island. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Our one of a kind Patented Cold Water Extraction Process Superior Ginseng Undo So, be sharp. Deliver evidence to Brother Riagan As you progress in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon through the main story, reach a fortress called The Horns of the South, the stronghold of the Keeper. As you get inside the Keep, ascend the stairs ahead of the main entrance. The destination is a garden located on the east. Here, during the daylight hours, you can find Brother Riagan, who is seated on the bench. Once you reach them, initiate the conversation with him. Make sure you select the dialogue options—Thank you, I've already been blessed. With tongs, pincers, fire.../You're a Red Priest. You know what I mean/Here's your proof. Is this enough? These dialogue choices challenge the Red Priests' actions. They hint at atrocities committed on the Asylum Island. When you are promoted, present Brother Riagan's Letter to the Prior as proof of corruption in the church. To hand him the letter is the core action for the stage. Lead a final confrontation to complete the quest Just handing over the letter to Brother Riagan will not be enough. He needs time to process the damning evidence. Once you hand him the letter, wait for an entire day before you talk to him again. Your final conversation will conclude The Word is Silent quest. With it, Brother Riagan will finally denounce the church and will reward you 75 XP for exposing the truth. If you possess Father Vaughan's Notes from Unforgettable Quest (a related quest), give them to Riagan when you have a final talk with him. It will offer you some additional experience bonus and a deeper narrative resolution. Though the quest is short, it does expose some dark secrets of the game, only if you know where to look. So, stay sharp and do not let the lies of the priest go unchallenged.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Opinion - A modern golem: The ‘antisemitism' charge has run amok
According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish superhero in the attic of what has become known as the Old-New Synagogue. The story goes that the rabbi received a divine order in a dream: 'You shall create [a] Golem from clay and may the malicious anti-Semitic mob be destroyed.' So he fashioned a powerful giant creature called a golem 'out of clay from the banks of the Vltava River and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations,' per Kayla Green's 'The Golem in the Attic.' At first, the Golem defended the ghetto's Jews, but, through the rabbi's oversight, the powerful creature ran amok and had to be destroyed. Responding to the horrific Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, large Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America have unintentionally created a similar monster — which has similarly run amok. Within the North American Jewish community, leaders such as ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt and the Zionist Organization for America's Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — of Israel's Gaza and West Bank policy with antisemitism. Through creative bookkeeping (as I have written previously) in calculating yearly totals of antisemitic incidents, the ADL counts as equal a trivial event — such as a social media slight — and the Tree of Life synagogue killings in Pittsburgh. The result is ginned up hysteria among American Jews and congressional opportunists. Serious, worldwide antisemitism is real but is in 'sharp decline' according to a recent Tel Aviv University study, even including criticism of Israel. By contrast, the ADL recently reported 9,354 U.S. antisemitic incidents in 2024, a 5 percent increase. The group attributed this to an 84 percent rise in campus incidents — but only by counting all pro-Palestinian protests in their tally. Some Jewish leaders have attempted to tap the brakes on this dynamic of weaponizing antisemitism. Last month, a murderous arsonist attacked Pennsylvania's governor's residence on the first night of Passover. But Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), likely sensing that those weaponizing antisemitism were about to pounce, tried to apply some much-needed perspective. In a New York Times opinion piece, Shapiro, who is Jewish, wrote that as the police investigation continued, 'people began to ascribe their own beliefs onto what they thought happened — and why.' Efforts to stifle campus free speech have now become overreach, where any support for the Palestinian people — even peaceful, nondisruptive student protest among those who reject Hamas — is considered antisemitic. In what some have termed 'the Palestinian exception,' universities have knuckled under to threats, banning peaceful, nonobstructive encampments. Such encampments had previously been permitted for protests against the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the treatment of Soviet Jews, climate change and, yes, antisemitism. 'Finding a Palestinian flag or keffiyeh innately antisemitic makes no more sense than regarding an Israeli flag or Jewish star as innately Islamophobic,' Lucinda Rosenfeld wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward. Yet Jewish student and faculty support for Israel's far-right Likud government and the Israeli military are not subject to such new campus restraints. Thus, a debate over disciplining disruptive campus conduct has devolved into the issue of speech content, clearly violating the First Amendment. And the intended chilling effect has emerged. On May 14, New York University withheld the diploma of Logan Rozas, a student commencement speaker, for denouncing 'atrocities currently happening in Palestine.' 'In general, protest activity is way down this year as compared to last year,' Hillel International CEO Adam Lehman told Jewish Insider. In a significant downside, this has emboldened the Trump administration to attack universities for reasons well beyond antisemitism. But in the wake of Harvard's rebuke to Trump's threats, the tide seems to be turning. On April 23, addressing a Holocaust remembrance observance in Washington, Abe Foxman, who ran the ADL for decades, said, 'As a [Holocaust] survivor, my antenna quivers when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.' On April 25, Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Trump administration's assault on campus antisemitism has 'gone way too far.' Also on April 25, five Jewish U.S. senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, signed a joint letter to Trump that states, 'We are extremely troubled and disturbed by your broad and extra-legal attacks against universities and higher education institutions as well as members of their communities, which seem to go far beyond combating antisemitism, using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you.' On April 28, more than 550 North American rabbis and cantors published a joint letter, accusing the Trump administration of 'abusing' antisemitism 'to divide Jewish Americans.' On May 1, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), speaking at a Jewish Democratic Council of America summit, said the antisemitism issue 'is being very cynically exploited as the administration seeks to erode civil liberties in the United States.' Even the ADL's Greenblatt, who initially praised the government's attack on Harvard, now seems to be distancing himself from the monster he helped create. In a Times of Israel column, he wrote, 'Any actions taken to address campus antisemitism — including the potential withholding of federal funding — must be grounded in clear evidence and conducted in a manner consistent with Title VI procedures and other laws.' Following Greenblatt's column, the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace, whose chapters have been targets of university discipline for exercising their free speech, wondered, in an editorial, whether the ADL has really 'turned over a new leaf.' Reliable figures are hard to obtain, but I estimate that about one-third of North American Jews, including many young people, support Palestinian rights, while opposing Hamas; support the existence of a Jewish State in Israel; but also oppose massive civilian casualties in Gaza and settler terrorism on the West Bank. I include myself in this cohort. However, until now, the roar of a modern golem has drowned out their voices. This monster should be returned to the nation's attic. Mark I. Pinsky is a Durham, N.C.-based journalist and author. He served as a civilian volunteer attached to the Israeli military in Sinai in 1967. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
18-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
A modern golem: The ‘antisemitism' charge has run amok
According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish superhero in the attic of what has become known as the Old-New Synagogue. The story goes that the rabbi received a divine order in a dream: 'You shall create [a] Golem from clay and may the malicious anti-Semitic mob be destroyed.' So he fashioned a powerful giant creature called a golem 'out of clay from the banks of the Vltava River and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations,' per Kayla Green's 'The Golem in the Attic.' At first, the Golem defended the ghetto's Jews, but, through the rabbi's oversight, the powerful creature ran amok and had to be destroyed. Responding to the horrific Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, large Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America have unintentionally created a similar monster — which has similarly run amok. Within the North American Jewish community, leaders such as ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt and the Zionist Organization for America's Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — of Israel's Gaza and West Bank policy with antisemitism. Through creative bookkeeping (as I have written previously) in calculating yearly totals of antisemitic incidents, the ADL counts as equal a trivial event — such as a social media slight — and the Tree of Life synagogue killings in Pittsburgh. The result is ginned up hysteria among American Jews and congressional opportunists. Serious, worldwide antisemitism is real but is in 'sharp decline' according to a recent Tel Aviv University study, even including criticism of Israel. By contrast, the ADL recently reported 9,354 U.S. antisemitic incidents in 2024, a 5 percent increase. The group attributed this to an 84 percent rise in campus incidents — but only by counting all pro-Palestinian protests in their tally. Some Jewish leaders have attempted to tap the brakes on this dynamic of weaponizing antisemitism. Last month, a murderous arsonist attacked Pennsylvania's governor's residence on the first night of Passover. But Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), likely sensing that those weaponizing antisemitism were about to pounce, tried to apply some much-needed perspective. In a New York Times opinion piece, Shapiro, who is Jewish, wrote that as the police investigation continued, 'people began to ascribe their own beliefs onto what they thought happened — and why.' Efforts to stifle campus free speech have now become overreach, where any support for the Palestinian people — even peaceful, nondisruptive student protest among those who reject Hamas — is considered antisemitic. In what some have termed 'the Palestinian exception,' universities have knuckled under to threats, banning peaceful, nonobstructive encampments. Such encampments had previously been permitted for protests against the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the treatment of Soviet Jews, climate change and, yes, antisemitism. 'Finding a Palestinian flag or keffiyeh innately antisemitic makes no more sense than regarding an Israeli flag or Jewish star as innately Islamophobic,' Lucinda Rosenfeld wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward. Yet Jewish student and faculty support for Israel's far-right Likud government and the Israeli military are not subject to such new campus restraints. Thus, a debate over disciplining disruptive campus conduct has devolved into the issue of speech content, clearly violating the First Amendment. And the intended chilling effect has emerged. On May 14, New York University withheld the diploma of Logan Rozas, a student commencement speaker, for denouncing 'atrocities currently happening in Palestine.' 'In general, protest activity is way down this year as compared to last year,' Hillel International CEO Adam Lehman told Jewish Insider. In a significant downside, this has emboldened the Trump administration to attack universities for reasons well beyond antisemitism. But in the wake of Harvard's rebuke to Trump's threats, the tide seems to be turning. On April 23, addressing a Holocaust remembrance observance in Washington, Abe Foxman, who ran the ADL for decades, said, 'As a [Holocaust] survivor, my antenna quivers when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.' On April 25, Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Trump administration's assault on campus antisemitism has 'gone way too far.' Also on April 25, five Jewish U.S. senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, signed a joint letter to Trump that states, 'We are extremely troubled and disturbed by your broad and extra-legal attacks against universities and higher education institutions as well as members of their communities, which seem to go far beyond combating antisemitism, using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you.' On April 28, more than 550 North American rabbis and cantors published a joint letter, accusing the Trump administration of 'abusing' antisemitism 'to divide Jewish Americans.' On May 1, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), speaking at a Jewish Democratic Council of America summit, said the antisemitism issue 'is being very cynically exploited as the administration seeks to erode civil liberties in the United States.' Even the ADL's Greenblatt, who initially praised the government's attack on Harvard, now seems to be distancing himself from the monster he helped create. In a Times of Israel column, he wrote, 'Any actions taken to address campus antisemitism — including the potential withholding of federal funding — must be grounded in clear evidence and conducted in a manner consistent with Title VI procedures and other laws.' Following Greenblatt's column, the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace, whose chapters have been targets of university discipline for exercising their free speech, wondered, in an editorial, whether the ADL has really 'turned over a new leaf.' Reliable figures are hard to obtain, but I estimate that about one-third of North American Jews, including many young people, support Palestinian rights, while opposing Hamas; support the existence of a Jewish State in Israel; but also oppose massive civilian casualties in Gaza and settler terrorism on the West Bank. I include myself in this cohort. However, until now, the roar of a modern golem has drowned out their voices. This monster should be returned to the nation's attic. Mark I. Pinsky is a Durham, N.C.-based journalist and author. He served as a civilian volunteer attached to the Israeli military in Sinai in 1967.
