"Silence" is a status effect that is triggered by


EQUIPMENT ON A SPECIFIC UNIT



or a living "Deafening Herald" on the same floor as your units.




You can avoid units being silenced by killing the Herald or removing the equipment that is silencing your unit by replacing it with another piece of equipment.

Silence is explained in-game as a status effect that "Disables Triggers and Abilities", and that is 100% correct.



It's simple.







As you can see here, Fenix has a passive ability called "Conjure" that whenever his active ability is used.

If Fenix were silenced, this Conjure would not happen.




is anything marked with a "thunderbolt" and has a cooldown, that you press under a character, also known as their active ability.



therefore, if Fenix were silenced, he couldn't use his Fenix fire.

(this means he wouldnt be able to use his active OR conjure, from the previous image)

This is incredibly useful against some enemies, such as the "Enthralled Ardent", that increases the damage of enemies whenever you play a spell.



It doesn't mention it here, but it would if you were fighting them and hovered over them with your mouse.
So if you SILENCE or MUTE this enemy, their trigger is disabled.

With this knowledge, SILENCE is scary, but not too bad.

If you have a multistrike unit, or a sweep unit, etc, they don't lose these abilities when silenced. If you have a unit with a lot of stacks of a status effect like valor, they dont lose this when silenced.


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EDIT: The "Stoic Platemail" armor can not be equipped on enemies. It's supposed to be a tradeoff-- you lose a unit's trigger in exchange for +30 HP and 60 Armor.