Mechanics

A hit is counted from the striker’s ⚔ attack against the target’s 🛡 defence: defence does not cancel damage, it shaves off a share of it.

Your party crits in 14 cases out of a hundred (the “Strength of the Blow” talent adds five), enemies in six. A crit multiplies damage by 1.8.

Energy builds from actions: the hero’s strike gives 25, a companion’s 10, damage taken by the party 15, and a crit adds on top.

Bosses do not strike at random: they pick whoever has gathered the most threat, and a fighter’s role multiplies their threat.

Poison and bleeding take ❤ at the start of a turn; stun and petrification take the turn itself; weakening cuts damage.

Beasts, undead, spirits, golems, Echoes and bosses differ by more than the picture: each kind has its own stats and its own habits in a fight.

Every land has its elite — a beast stronger than the rank and file, weaker than a boss. A mark on it is issued once a day.

A boss is no bag of ❤: it strikes by threat, heals, calls for help or mows down the party at once, and each has its own mechanic.

The Blight is not decoration: corrupted creatures are stronger than their clean kin and drop different loot.

Days in Orunthys run their own course: at night the world holds creatures you will not see by day, and their loot is nocturnal.

There are six gear slots: weapon, shield, armour, amulet, ring and relic — each with its own main stat.

Parts of one set pay in steps: a bonus for two parts and a second one for the full set of four.

A gem goes into an item’s socket: it adds its own stat, and three identical ones are fused by the jeweller into one of a higher grade.

Reforging swaps one stat of an item for another for gold and materials: it does not make the item stronger, it makes it yours.

A rune adds no numbers but changes a rule: “Spring” returns energy for a block, “Thorn” gives part of the blocked damage back to whoever struck.

A legendary is either knocked out of a lair lord or assembled at the forge from parts: the parts drop in labyrinths, from bosses and in the Spiral.

A spare legendary is dissolved into relic ash, and that ash raises the tier of the one you wear: five tiers give up to eighteen per cent to the slot’s OWN stat, and each next tier adds less than the last.

The filter salvages junk right in the fight and puts the materials into your pouch: the salvage summary is shown after the battle.

Experience from fights raises your level, and a level gives stats and talent points. A point is spent into one of the branches — and it stays there.

A facet is a choice instead of a choice: the Warden takes the hit, the Berserker pays health for damage, the Weaver lives on the energy of the Source.

The rite resets your level and returns Shoots — permanent bonuses that apply to every future hero.

An item you find records its look in the Codex forever: that look can be worn over any item of the same slot.

A season runs its own weeks and resets only seasonal counts: levels, items and the Codex it does not touch.

Achievements are goals across every system at once; some of them turn into plates on the trophy wall at home.

The login calendar pays not for the visit itself but for the LENGTH of the run of visits: the chain stretches across four weeks of the season, and every seventh link is a milestone with shards.

A second Keeper on the account grows faster: the experience bonus measures the gap to the elder one and melts as it closes. The last fifth of the road the new hero walks on their own.

The lands run in order of strength: from the first clearings to the Heart of the Blight. Entry to each next one is held by a level threshold.

The map shows not just the land but what waits on it: hunt marks, gathering nodes, anomalies and locked gates.

Morning, day, evening and night change on their own; weather comes in its own turn and is visible on the map.

Gathering nodes give herbs, ore and shards — what you pay the forge and the jeweller with. A node recovers over time.

Contracts refresh by day and by week and pay in emblems: this is steady income for what you are doing anyway.

An anomaly is a short event in the world: a rift, a wanderer or a trace of the Blight. It finds you on the road itself.

A caravan leaves the yard for hours and returns with resources: income that runs while the game is closed. But it pays LESS than playing: a day of caravans is under a third of your day in the game, and the yard cannot catch up with farming.

The Spiral is an endless stair of tiers with no healing between them: it ends where your party ends.

Labyrinths are run against the clock: the best sweep of all four is its own line in the global ladders.

The sixth land is the funnel beyond the Titan: ordinary creatures here hit like the elites of earlier lands.

The funnel’s board holds three repeatable orders and changes them every six hours. The same order may be turned in any number of times — only what is done in the Heart and under open sky counts.

Up to eight players against three lords: the Gatekeeper shackles an ally, the Choir sings in three voices, the Overlord demands silence.

The Devourer has a single pool of ❤ for the whole server and a week to live: everyone brings it down together, each with their own fights.

The Arena counts a seasonal Elo: an opponent is matched by rating, and your fighters run the fight without you.

A duel is a challenge to a live player right there in the world. Both sides put a stake of gold into escrow: the winner takes the pot.

The Blight comes to your home in waves: the defence is a short fight of endurance, where the order of turns matters more than the force of a blow.

An Order is a standing company: shared weekly tasks, a treasury and a vault of items for everyone.

Once a week Orders are paired against each other: points come from members’ ordinary activity, not from a separate battle mode.

Two live players can run one fight: the server synchronises the turns, and the land’s threshold is checked for both.

Friends are found by world code; the list shows who is in the game right now, and from there you can call them into a party, a raid or a duel.

An underground hub: its dwellers, showcases of the season’s tops, a training dummy that measures damage, and the way into the shared leaderboards.

The Tree grows on sap brought by every player on the server: milestones passed give a bonus to EVERYONE, not only to those who gave.

The market trades what does not drop, the auction trades players’ items, the exchange trades orders on shards and gems.

Rewards from seasons, tournaments and expeditions, and any compensations, arrive in your box and are claimed in one tap.

The Vault gathers seven counts into one book: the arena, labyrinths, the Spiral, the Citadel, the Devourer, the Tree and the champions.