Skill announcements

This has been the heart of the mod since the very first version: every skill you acquire is announced out loud, in Japanese, by name, the way the Great Sage does it for Rimuru. Not a jingle per rank — the actual name of the skill, spoken, while the Sage's core opens on screen and the name slams into place on the exact syllable it is said. Tensura's chat messages are untouched: the announcement comes on top.

How an announcement unfolds

The core — a wireframe icosahedron computed in 3D, surrounded by three orbital rings, rays and a central star — breathes with the voice: it swells on peaks, its edges brighten, its rays stretch. It is not a loop: every clip's amplitude envelope is measured when the mod is built and read back at the right offset while it plays.

Burst grouping

An evolution often unlocks a dozen skills within a few ticks. Rather than stacking ten announcements, the Sage collects them:

• each new skill pushes back a 10-tick window (batchWindowTicks); when the burst stops, one sentence is built, grouped by rank;
• an ordinary announcement then stays open while skills keep coming, and waits 2 seconds of silence (ceremonyHoldTicks, 40 ticks) before saying its closing words. This is what fixes Predator, which hands out skills in waves a few seconds apart: latecomers join the announcement in progress instead of starting a new one;
• adding a skill moves nothing that has already been said: the announcement grows without ever replaying a clip;
• an announcement too long for the screen is paginated: the block clears and starts again from the top, following the voice;
• up to 4 announcements can wait their turn (maxQueued).

The order of ranks in the sentence is configurable (tierOrder):

What gets announced, and what does not

• Only what is actually acquired: a skill that merely becomes learnable triggers nothing, and neither does a latent skill (negative mastery, such as a resistance still being built).
• Only skills: magic spells from Tensura or its addons are not skills, and the Sage does not announce them.
• All six ranks: resistance, intrinsic, common, extra, unique, ultimate — all announced by default, configurable with announcedTiers.
• Not on login: for 5 seconds after you join or respawn (joinGraceTicks), the Sage stays silent — Tensura re-grants your whole racial kit at that moment.
• Not what you silenced: a right-click on a skill, in the Records or the analysis constellation, adds it to the blacklist (skillBlacklist); a second right-click restores it.
• A finished analysis is announced too: 告, the name, then the end-of-analysis line ("Understood. Analysis complete. Skill mastery has improved."). In the menu the Sage simply says it; outside, you get the full announcement. See Skill analysis.
• A fusion (skills lost, then a Unique or Ultimate learned within 3 seconds) has its own scene: Skill fusion.

Quiet mode

Off by default (compactSkillAnnounce). Instead of taking the whole screen, the Sage slides in from the bottom right corner and speaks in a small bubble: nothing is darkened, you keep playing. Same voice, same timing; at the end of an analysis, the bubble writes the whole sentence.

compactTiers picks which ranks go to the corner — the "not all or nothing" setting: a resistance picked up mid-fight does not need the same scene as an Ultimate skill. Ceremonies and evolutions always keep the full staging.

Subtitles

Everything the Sage says is subtitled in your game language (see Languages). The timing is not written anywhere: it is derived from the silences in the audio, exactly where the Sage draws breath. Skill names are shown in large type the moment they are spoken.

Interrupting an announcement

The Panic stop key — Delete by default, rebindable in Controls — clears everything, right away: the announcement queue, the voice, the Sage's bubble, the remarks, the microphone. It needs neither the skill nor a closed screen. Handy the day you give yourself every skill at once.

By default the announcement hides with the HUD when you press F1; showWithHiddenHud = true keeps it visible, handy to record without the health bar.

The Sage's five markers

As in the source material, the Sage opens its sentences with a one-syllable marker that tells you what kind of sentence follows. They are recorded separately and placed in front of the sentence automatically.

Recurring vocabulary

Related settings

And server side: joinGraceTicks (100, i.e. 5 s) and the needGreatSage gamerule, which reserves announcements for Great Sage holders. Full details: Configuration and Gamerules.