Game Manual

Coven & Crown is a dark fantasy BBS-style RPG set in the crumbling city of Crownfall. It features text-heavy, atmospheric gameplay with turn-based combat, character progression, a player-driven economy, and optional PvP.

The Gameplay Loop

1. Create an account and confirm your email, or use Sign in with Google to create or access an account in one step.
2. Create a character — pick a class, allocate stats, and receive starter gear.
3. Explore — move between zones and search for encounters.
4. Fight — defeat enemies for XP, gold, and loot.
5. Upgrade — buy better gear, bank your gold, level up.
6. Manage your Nerve — stamina pool that regenerates over time and modifies rewards.
7. Survive — death is punishing. Bank your gold. Salvage unwanted gear.

Character Name Rules

• 3–24 characters long.
• Letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, and underscores only.
• Must be unique and pass the profanity filter.

Account Settings

Password-based accounts can use Settings in the top bar to change their password. You will need to enter your current password first; then Coven & Crown sends a secure link to your account email where you can choose a new one. Google-created accounts do not have a local password and should continue using Sign in with Google. Changing a password signs out other browser sessions. Sessions expire after 12 hours, and Log Out securely closes the current session.

Email-confirmation links expire after 24 hours. Sign in with Google verifies the account through Google and automatically confirms the matching Coven & Crown email. Administrators first submit their email and password (or Google sign-in) normally, then enter a six-digit authenticator code on a separate verification screen that expires after five minutes.

Your Character Sheet

Click your character name beside Logged in as in the top bar to open your complete character sheet. It summarizes progression, resources, base and effective attributes, abilities, possessions, ailments, PvP status, and Blackwood and Crownvault progress. Use Manage Inventory on the sheet when you want to equip, store, or use items.

Leaderboard & Private Messages

Select Leaderboard in the top bar to see characters ranked by level and then experience. Select another player's name to open a private-message composer; the resulting whisper is visible only to you and its recipient in the chat panel. Your own leaderboard name opens your character sheet.

Help & Feedback

Use User Manual in the top bar to open this guide in a new tab. Logged-in players can use Feedback to report problems; the report includes your account, character, page, and browser details so issues are easier to investigate. Contact, feedback, login, registration, and chat submissions are rate- and size-limited; if you receive a “Too many requests” response, wait for the displayed window before retrying.

Starting Gold

Every new character starts with a random amount of gold: 2–9 gold.

There are five classes. Each determines your combat style, stat bonuses, starter gear, and HP/MP growth per level.

Starting Stats (Level 1, Default Allocation)

Starter Gear

Five Core Stats

Effective Stat Calculation

Your effective stat = base stat + equipment bonuses − injury penalties (minimum 1).

Stat Modifier

The stat modifier formula is: (effective_stat − 10) ÷ 2 (rounded down). For example: stat 8 → −1, stat 10 → 0, stat 12 → +1, stat 14 → +2.

Point-Buy System

At character creation, you have 3 bonus points to spend. Stats range from 6 to 15 (before class bonuses). Your final stat = point-buy value + class bonus.

Combat is turn-based. Each round you take one action, then the enemy acts.

Combat-log narration varies by enemy, progression tier, class ability, defense, intent, and status effect. Mechanical results remain explicit and color-coded: damage is red, healing and recovery green, MP costs violet, defense and shields parchment, and status effects gold. Labels such as Deals, Costs, and Applies ensure color is never the only cue.

Actions

Enemy Intent (Telegraphing)

Enemies in combat do not act randomly; they plan their moves in advance:

• Telegraphed Actions: Before you make your move, the enemy's next planned action is displayed in the combat interface. If the enemy survives your turn, it will execute exactly that action.
• Varying Intents: Enemy intents can include normal Attacks, Heavy Attacks, Guarding, Healing, Debuffs, Siphons (lifesteal), or unique Boss moves.
• Strategic Response: Use this telegraphed information to plan your round. For example, if you see the enemy preparing a devastating Heavy Attack, it is an excellent time to use the Defend action or apply a shield. If they are planning to Heal or Guard, you might want to launch your strongest attack to break through.

Class-Specific Defend Effects

Defending in combat activates a special preparation for the next round based on your class:

• Knight (Counterstance): Prepares a defensive stance. If the enemy uses an attack action on you this turn, you counter-attack to deal damage.
• Witch (Gather Malice): Focuses dark energy. Increases the duration of the next curse (debuff) you cast by 1 turn, or increases the damage of the next spell you cast by 20%.
• Thief (Vanish in Place): Steps into the shadows. Grants +25% dodge chance against the next incoming attack, +20% disengage chance, and restores 1 additional MP after a successful dodge.
• Necromancer (Grave Ward): Conjures a bone shield. Prepares a ward that converts 35% of damage prevented by Defend into a temporary shield, capped at 20% of maximum HP.
• Alchemist (Prepare Compound): Readies reagents. Infuses your next ability, granting +15% damage, +20% healing, +20% shield strength, or +10% siphon damage and healing.

Damage Formulas

Player attack: Random(weapon_min, weapon_max) + stat_modifier − enemy_defense (minimum 0). Unarmed: 1–2 damage before defense.

Enemy attack: Random(1, enemy_dmg_max) − your Grit modifier (minimum 1).

Player Evasion

You have a 5% + (Guile × 1%) chance to dodge any enemy attack entirely.

Poison and Corroded

• Poison: At the start of each affected turn, deals 5% of maximum HP (rounded up, minimum 1) for 2 triggers. It bypasses defense and shields but cannot reduce the target below 1 HP.
• Minor Poison: Uses the same rules but deals 3% of maximum HP (rounded up, minimum 1).
• Corroded: Reduces defense by 3 for the next 2 incoming damage attempts, before normal mitigation. Defense cannot fall below 0.
• Minor Corroded: Uses the same rules but reduces defense by 1.
• Reapplying the same effect refreshes it to its full duration instead of stacking. A major version replaces its minor version; a minor version cannot replace an active major version.

Other Combat Effects

• Dazed: Prevents the affected participant's next action.
• Blind: Reduces accuracy by 25% per affected attack attempt. Tonic Blind applies a 10% penalty. Bad Luck applies a 35% penalty and gives each miss a 25% self-damage chance.
• Cursed: Reduces outgoing damage by 15% for each affected damaging action. Hex Curse reduces it by 10%.
• Exposed: The applying character's next damaging action against that target deals +25% damage.
• Marked: The marker deals +15% damage to the target for 2 attacks, while the marked target deals +10% damage to the marker.
• Grave Decay: Deals 4% maximum HP at turn start for 3 triggers, bypassing defense and shields without reducing HP below 1.
• Braced: Reduces damage reaching the shield by 25% for the next incoming attack. Mirror Curse reflects 35% of damage actually taken from the next incoming attack and cannot deliver a killing blow.
• Field Test: Randomly grants +20% damage, +15% evasion, +2 defense, or 2 MP recovery for 2 relevant triggers.

Victory Rewards

Defeated enemies in PvE battles award XP and Gold, scaled by your current Nerve state and the level delta between you and the enemy. Fighting enemies far below your level yields drastically reduced rewards. Blackwood Expedition combat uses its own compressed XP schedule instead of the level-delta XP penalty; Gold still uses normal level-delta scaling.

Additionally, successful PvE victories restore 5% of your maximum MP (with a minimum of 1 MP). This MP recovery does not apply to disengaging, defeat, or PvP battles. The victory screen lists each XP, MP, and Gold gain on its own line.

Loot Drops

Two independent rolls on victory:

• Enemy-specific drop: Some enemies have unique drops at a fixed chance. Disabled for repeated boss kills.
• Rare gear drop: 5% base chance (modified by Nerve) to find a random weapon or armor within ±2 levels.

Combat Resume

If you refresh or lose connection during combat, the session persists. You'll be redirected back to the fight when you return.

Each class has unique abilities unlocked at specific levels. You can equip up to 3 active abilities at a time. Newly learned abilities are auto-slotted if you have room. Open BOOK on the dashboard to manage the combat loadout; the book remains open after equipping or unequipping an ability so you can make several changes in sequence. Its main information button explains the system, while the information button beside each ability shows its full effect, MP cost, unlock level, and current slot status.

Abilities execute a variety of effects, such as dealing damage, healing HP, siphoning health, or applying shields. Each ability scales off its primary stat (Might, Wits, Guile, or Grit). Physical abilities use your equipped weapon's damage and fall back to unarmed damage if the weapon is missing. Damaging Witch, Necromancer, and Alchemist spells also gain weapon-derived spell power based on the equipped weapon's average damage; casting unarmed provides no weapon-derived bonus. Recasting a shield replaces its remaining strength instead of stacking it.

⚔️ Knight

🔮 Witch

🗡️ Thief

💀 Necromancer

⚗️ Alchemist

Ability Damage Multipliers

Each damaging ability uses the percentage written in its description. For caster spells, the spell base includes the ability's base roll, Wits modifier, and its weapon-derived spell-power contribution. The listed ability multiplier is applied next; status modifiers, defense (minimum 0 damage), damage reduction, and shields then resolve in that order. Physical abilities do not receive the spell-power contribution.

The level cap is 25. Reaching an XP threshold makes you eligible for the next level but does not advance you automatically. Use Preview Level on the dashboard to review exact maximum HP and MP gains, ability unlocks, automatic ability-slot behavior, restoration, and whether the level grants attributes or items. Confirm advancement from that preview when ready for stronger encounters. Advancement processes only one level at a time and extra XP remains banked.

XP Table

Milestone HP/MP Bonuses

In addition to per-level HP/MP gains, you receive bonus HP and MP at milestone levels:

Progression Arcs

Nerve acts as a stamina pool that limits sustained grinding without blocking you from playing. Every character has the same maximum Nerve capacity of 30, regardless of level. Your Nerve pool regenerates automatically over real elapsed time (1 point every 30 minutes, online or offline) and fully refills at 4:00 AM Eastern Time.

Nerve States

Nerve Costs

• Begin Blackwood Expedition / Crownvault run: 1 Nerve at entry. Each Crownvault floor descent costs another 1 Nerve.
• Combat victory / Disengage / Defeat: 0 additional Nerve. The exploration entry already paid the cost.
• Boss encounters during exploration: The entry cost covers the encounter; the result adds nothing extra.
• When Nerve is Spent, you can still explore and fight normally, but rewards are reduced to 25% until it recovers.

Boss Repeat Protection

Killing the same boss again on the same day yields only 20% XP/Gold and disables all drops entirely.

Item Types

Inventory Limits

• Carried inventory: 30 unequipped stacks maximum. Equipped items do not consume carried inventory slots.
• Tavern storage: 100 stacks maximum. Safe from death.
• Stack size: 99 per stack (consumables, materials, and treasures).
• Multi-Item Transfers: Deposit and withdraw stackable items in custom quantities, or move all items at once using bulk transfer buttons ("Deposit All" / "Withdraw All"). Scroll position is preserved automatically during transfers.

Equipment Requirements

Every carried equipment card shows the level and class or classes required to equip it. These requirements also apply to rare equipment recovered as loot.

Rarity Tiers

Item cards identify rarity with the written tier, a diamond marker, a colored name, and a slim left border. Common uses muted parchment, Uncommon uses poison green, and Rare uses Coven violet, so rarity remains readable without relying on color alone.

Consumables

How You Earn Gold

How You Spend Gold

Blacksmith

• Buy weapons and armor (level-gated — you can't buy gear above your level).
• Shop listings are grouped as Available, Requires Higher Level, and Already Owned. Owned items appear last with subdued styling.
• Sell eligible unequipped gear for 40% of its base cost (minimum 1 gold).
• Salvage unwanted unequipped weapons and armor into crafting and progression materials.
• Option to "Buy & Equip" for immediate use.

Healer

• Clinical Restoration: Restores missing HP (1g per 5 HP), missing MP (1g per 5 MP), and cures afflictions (15g each). Free for levels 1–2.
• Sell Supplies: Sell one unit or all carried stacks of the same consumable, material, or treasure to the Healer at 40% of cost. Each button shows the total Gold payment, and supplies are listed alphabetically by name.

Bank

• Deposit/Withdraw gold freely.
• Banked gold is safe from death — you cannot lose it.
• Interest: 1% every 24 hours (minimum 1 gold). Collected manually via button.

Player Market

• List items for sale at your chosen price. Suggested price shown (Blacksmith sell × 1.2).
• Buyers pay full price. Sellers receive price minus 5% tax.
• Listings expire after 24 hours — items return to your storage.
• You can cancel listings to get items back.

Apothecary (NPC Shop)

Located on the Market page. Its canonical inventory includes Healing Tonic and Mana Tonic at level 1, their + tiers at level 8, their ++ tiers at level 18, plus Smoke Bombs and Lockpicks. The server enforces every displayed level requirement. Fungible carried supplies appear as one alphabetically sorted sell option with their combined quantity, even when crafting provenance keeps separate internal records.

Tavern

• Atmosphere & Rumors: Draw from more than 40 mechanical hints and pieces of local gossip covering Crownfall's major activities and destinations.
• Storage: Store items safely (up to 100 stacks). Storage items are never lost on death.
• The Tavern has its own local chat channel.

Office of Corrections

• Respec Stats: Reallocate your point-buy stats for 100 gold.
• Change Class: Switch to a new class for 500 gold. Resets abilities and recalculates HP/MP.
• Amend Name: Change your public character name for 75 gold, subject to the same availability and content rules as character creation.
• Public Record: Successful attribute, class, and name corrections are announced on the Notice Board in the Registrar's customary bureaucratic style.
• Corpse Recovery: Pay the Registrar to retrieve a corpse from anywhere: 20 + (level × 5) gold, doubled for Crownvault. Inflicts a random injury.

Municipal Rat Confirmation (Emergency Work)

• Emergency Payout: Destitute adventurers level 3 and above can perform emergency work for the municipality by counting rats in the City Square.
• Level Requirement: You must be level 3 or higher. Levels 1–2 are covered by Crownfall's newcomer protections (free healing, protected death).
• Gold Eligibility: Available only when both your carried gold and banked gold are strictly below 10 gold.
• Combat Lock: Blocked during active combat sessions.
• Daily Limit: Limited to exactly one claim per game day (resets at 4:00 AM Eastern time rollover).
• Reward: Awards exactly 25 gold added directly to your carried gold.

The game world is a connected graph of locations. Select Location on the dashboard to open the full-screen travel map, or use the local navigation buttons. Major districts use restrained accent colors and background washes as orientation cues, while their written names and descriptions remain the authoritative location indicators.

World Map

City Square ─── Tavern
     │
     ├── Blackwood Gate [Expeditions]
     │
     └── Streets
           ├── Arena Lobby ─── Arena Pit
           ├── Witch Market Alleys (Witch only)
           ├── Crownfall Graveyard (Necromancer only)
           ├── Gutter Court (Thief only)
           ├── Knights Keep (Knight only)
           ├── Alchemists Sanctum (Alchemist only)
           └── Crownvault Gate ─── The Tax Crypts (Level 5+)

Combat Zones

Blackwood Expedition System

The Blackwood now uses a multi-depth expedition system instead of the old Search/Hunt actions.

Starting an Expedition

• Travel to Blackwood Gate from City Square.
• Click Begin Expedition to spend 1 Nerve and enter the forest.
• If you already have an active expedition, click Resume Expedition instead.
• Closing an expedition combat result returns you directly to the expedition interface.

Expedition Flow

• Choose from three paths. Each path has unique properties that affect encounters, alert gain, retreat difficulty, landmark discovery, and elite spawn rates.
• Paths form a branching network. The routes available after your first choice depend on what you chose — choosing Old Ranger Trail leads to different follow-up paths than choosing Briar Patch.
• If the forest cannot offer three connected routes forward, one or more choices may appear as a Detour — a collapsed side trail that still leads deeper but was not the intended path.
• Some paths favour certain character classes. When your class has an affinity for the current path, class-specific stat challenges become easier.
• Each path advances your depth by 1 and triggers an encounter (combat, clue, obstacle, resource, NPC, or strange).
• During clue, obstacle, strange, and some NPC encounters, choices show the effective stat used and its current value. When the normal and class-specific approaches use the same stat, only the stronger class option is shown. A successful class approach states the exact effect prepared for the next battle, including its strength and duration.
• Passing a stat challenge grants a small Nerve-scaled XP reward immediately. Resource and trade encounters instead provide items or other concrete benefits.
• Hover over a stat-check choice to see a short explanation of the approach that choice represents.
• Newcomer expeditions always culminate in a level-appropriate final combat, where advantages prepared by earlier class choices take effect.
• After resolving an encounter, choose to Push Deeper, Camp, or Retreat.
• After resolving the encounter at your maximum depth, choose Complete Expedition to return safely to the gate with your results.
• Before choosing the first path, use ← Return at the top of the expedition screen. It refunds the entry Nerve and creates no expedition result. After progressing, Abandon Expedition returns you to the gate and destroys pending loot.

Forest Alert

The forest grows more hostile as your Alert meter fills. Higher alert means tougher encounters, elite enemies, camp ambushes, and harder retreats. Alert rises with each action and can be lowered by successfully resolving clues.

Camping

Each expedition grants 1 camp use. Camping recovers HP and MP but may trigger an ambush at high alert levels. Newcomers (Level 1–2) are guaranteed a safe first camp.

Retreat & Loot

• All normal and rare loot collected during the expedition is pending until you retreat successfully and claim it at the gate.
• Retreat success depends on depth, alert, and level. Failed retreats may lose some pending loot or deal damage.
• Death destroys all pending loot.
• Abandoning the expedition destroys all pending loot.
• Claiming the final pending item automatically closes the results panel. Dismiss Results appears only when an expedition ended with no loot to claim.

Forest Knowledge (FK)

Discovering landmarks, solving clues, and defeating elites awards Forest Knowledge (FK), a persistent stat that tracks your experience with the Blackwood. Accumulating FK unlocks structural gameplay benefits:

• 10 FK (Clue Preview): Displays the exact Difficulty Class (DC) next to choices that perform stat checks (e.g., Apply your Wits · DC 10).
• 20 FK (Path Danger Labels): Displays the path's actual danger rating (Low, Medium, High). Below 20 FK, all paths are masked as Danger: Unknown.
• 50 FK (Improved Camp Choices): Unlocks custom camping styles:
  • Concealed Camp: Recovers 60% of base camp healing, with half the normal ambush risk.
  • Standard Camp: Recovers 100% of base camp healing, with normal ambush risk.
  • Comfortable Camp: Recovers 140% of base camp healing, but increases ambush risk by 20% (1.2x).
• 80 FK (Boss Tracking): Displays the numerical forest alert value and current tier. In addition, when Alert reaches 70 or higher, it displays a warning indicating that the boss may intercept the expedition at 85 Alert.

Depth Caps

Your maximum depth depends on your level: Level 1 reaches depth 2, Level 2 reaches depth 3, Level 3–4 reaches depth 4, and Level 5+ reaches the full depth of 5. A full level-1 completion awards 3 XP and 12 Gold, with encounter and combat rewards earned in addition. Blackwood is early-game content: it remains available after level 5, but its XP and Gold become progressively less competitive as you outlevel its enemies.

Morality and Standing

Every character has a persistent Moral Standing reflecting their choices in Blackwood and the Crownvault. Actions of cruelty, greed, theft, or betrayal decrease your morality score, while acts of compassion, honesty, or assistance increase it. Your Moral Standing determines how the world perceives you (ranging from Saintly to Monstrous) and has persistent, character-level narrative consequences that survive completed expeditions and runs. Morality is independent from Heat: Morality reflects choice quality, whereas Heat reflects legal exposure and official notoriety.

• Saintly: Score ≥ 75
• Honorable: Score 30 to 74
• Decent: Score 10 to 29
• Unremarkable: Score -9 to 9
• Self-Serving: Score -10 to -29
• Corrupt: Score -30 to -74
• Monstrous: Score ≤ -75

Difficulty Class (DC) and Checks

Stat checks determine the outcome of risky actions during exploration. You can view an explanation of the audited Difficulty Class mechanics by clicking the focusable (?) information button next to checks. The system resolves all checks with the formula d20 + stat modifier ≥ DC, where stat modifier = (effective stat - 10) // 2 using floor division. Success triggers positive results, while failure can deal damage, raise alert, or alter narrative paths.

Crownvault Dungeon

At Level 5+, enter the persistent 25-floor Crownvault through its Gatehouse. Each five-floor wing has branching rooms, fog of war, hazards, treasures, combat rooms, and a fixed wing boss.

• On wider screens, the Gatehouse divides progression from run results and places its Return control prominently in the header, while every dungeon room keeps its active room and paths beside the floor map and scrollable ledger. Current floor, run progress, Nerve state, Audit Pressure, camp uses, HP, and MP remain together in the dungeon header. Smaller screens stack the main panels into one column.
• Discovered rooms directly connected to your current position can be selected on the floor map to move there. Current, unknown, non-adjacent, locked, and sealed rooms remain non-clickable. Entering an unresolved hostile room blocks its exits until you fight or flee.
• Room actions appear as equal-height buttons in the order Descend, Camp, then Retreat. Camp shows its remaining uses beneath its label, and Retreat shows the number of items it will secure. Moving between rooms, camping, retreating, and Crownvault combat cost no additional Nerve. A new floor costs 1 Nerve but reward multipliers stay locked at whatever your Nerve state was when the run began.
• Every normal floor places a hostile checkpoint somewhere on the route to the stairs, and every floor contains at least one decision event. Decision events display their available choices as equal-size cards and offer concrete tradeoffs rather than a d20 check, including choices involving healing, Gold, Audit Pressure, Unfiled Assets, or a service key. Locked treasure rooms are optional branches. If one exists and you have no key, an earlier A Key Without an Owner event offers a one-use brass service key. Taking or carrying a key reveals and highlights an available sealed treasury on the map, while the header tracks your run-wide key count. Using a key opens one locked room automatically; without one, you may still risk that room's stat check.
• Restorative items (such as Healing Tonics, Mana Tonics, Elixirs, and Restoratives) can be used directly from your carried supplies outside combat during active Crownvault runs and Blackwood expeditions. Items cannot be used if your resource is already full, and combat-only items (such as Smoke Bombs and offensive flasks) remain restricted to active combat.
• Audit Pressure increases during exploration, camping (+2), and combat (+3). Higher pressure tiers active consequences: Under Review (+2 DC, 10% camp penalty, +10% elite chance), Formal Audit (+3 DC, 25% camp penalty, +20% elite chance), Seizure Warning (+4 DC, 35% camp penalty, +35% elite chance), and Final Notice (+5 DC, 50% camp penalty, 100% guaranteed elite enemies). The active pressure level, tier name, current penalty summary, and next tier threshold are visible in the dungeon header status banner.
• When an enemy thief or trickster flees from battle, the encounter resolves cleanly and the dungeon room is marked resolved. You receive 25% partial escape XP (modified by Nerve state and level delta), but no gold or loot. Returning to the room does not create a replacement enemy.
• Camping is available in any room outside active combat and restores base 50% of maximum HP and 50% of maximum MP, reduced by your current Audit Pressure tier penalty (up to 50% reduction at Final Notice). Each camp adds 2 Audit Pressure and consumes one of the run's two camp uses. Camping remains unavailable throughout a run that was started with Spent Nerve.
• Special drops and room treasure remain Unfiled Assets until you retreat or secure a safe exit after defeating a wing boss. Repeat boss victories reward 50% XP (guaranteed to exceed highest regular and miniboss enemy XP in the same wing) and 20% gold.
• After Crownvault combat ends, its victory, defeat, or escape results remain on screen until you choose Continue; active runs then return directly to the resolved dungeon room.
• Characters within a wing's recommended level range receive full XP and Gold from its randomly assigned enemies without weak-enemy penalties. Overleveled characters revisiting an earlier wing still receive normal level-difference reductions. Nerve and repeat-boss modifiers continue to apply.
• At a cleared wing boundary, either secure your assets and complete the run or spend 1 Nerve to continue into the next wing.
• Death moves Unfiled Assets to the Crownvault corpse record for recovery.
• While a run is active, city services, travel, training, Arena, PvP, and unrelated combat are unavailable. Crownvault actions, its bound combat, chat, presence, and logout remain available.
• Boss victories permanently record the boss and unlock the next wing checkpoint. Terminal run history remains at the Gatehouse after results are acknowledged.

Fast Travel

Use the Location button on your dashboard to fast-travel directly to available districts and city services. Expedition interiors such as the Blackwood Forest are entered only through their gate activity.

Under Level 3 (Protected)

• 10% of carried gold lost permanently.
• HP set to 50% of max. Teleported to City Square.
• No corpse dropped. All items retained.

Level 3+ (Full Penalties)

• 10% of carried gold lost permanently (destroyed).
• 25% of carried gold placed on your corpse.
• All carried and equipped items placed on your corpse.
• Items in Tavern storage are safe.
• HP set to 50% of max. Teleported to City Square.

Corpse Recovery

Injuries are persistent stat penalties applied when you use the Registrar for corpse recovery. Multiple injuries stack.

Curing Injuries

Injuries can be treated via Clinical Restoration at the Healer, costing 15 gold per active injury (free for levels 1–2).

Arena Duels (Safe)

• 100% safe. No corpse, no gold loss, no item loss.
• Winner receives 50 XP.
• Challenge via the Arena UI or the /duel <name> command. Recipients can Accept or Decline from the Arena or their dashboard challenge notice.

World PvP (Lethal)

• Available in non-safe zones only.
• Loser drops a full corpse (gold + all carried items). 10% gold permanently lost.
• Initiator gains Heat and Threat.

Brackets

You can only challenge players within a +/- 3 level range of your current level.

New Player Protection

Characters under level 3 with PvP protection enabled cannot be challenged. Protection is permanently disabled for both players once a challenge is accepted.

Safe Locations

PvP is blocked in: City Square, Tavern, Bank, Healer, Office of Corrections, Market, Arena Lobby, and the Blacksmith.

Each class has a workshop at its restricted class location. Travel there and select Enter Workshop to craft class goods, refine compatible materials, apply a charged combat preparation, or complete the location's once-daily job.

On wider screens, workshop panels are arranged in two columns; on smaller screens, they stack into one column. Use ← RETURN at the top to return to your district.

Alchemists craft their eleven established consumable recipes at the Alchemists Sanctum; the recipe ingredients have not changed. The other class workshops offer their own basic recipes. Advanced recipes and trials are not yet available, even when the chamber's level and Class Identity requirements are met.

Workshop Rules

• Only the matching class can enter a class workshop.
• Crafting and preparations consume carried, unequipped ingredients.
• Replacing a preparation discards all of its remaining charges.
• Death removes one quarter of remaining preparation charges, rounded up; corpse recovery does not restore them.
• Crafted provenance follows items through market sales and corpse recovery.

Material Sources

Turn in proof-of-kill items at the Market for gold rewards. Requires the matching material item in your inventory; contracts you cannot currently claim have disabled Claim buttons.

Chat Channels

• Global: Visible to all players (when not at the Tavern).
• Tavern: Only visible to players at the Tavern.
• Messages appear in Local Chat immediately after they are submitted; the panel also checks periodically for messages from other players.

Slash Commands

News Feed

The dashboard shows recent game news — player deaths, PvP and Arena victories, boss kills, bounty completions, corpse recoveries, rare loot, and system announcements. Automatic notices vary their wording while always stating the relevant names, locations, rewards, losses, or recovered belongings.

Who's Online

The dashboard shows players who have been active in the last 5 minutes. The global navigation also displays a broader Players Online count for players active within the last 15 minutes.

• Bank early, bank often. Carried gold is lost on death. Banked gold is safe and earns interest.
• Salvage unwanted gear. Break down off-class or low-level gear at the Blacksmith to get materials.
• Watch your Nerve. If it runs low or becomes spent, your rewards are reduced, but you can keep exploring and fighting.
• Store valuable items. Items in Tavern storage survive death. Keep backup gear there.
• Use the Defend action when you're low on HP and waiting for an opportunity to heal or disengage.
• Carry Smoke Bombs. They guarantee escape from combat — useful when outmatched.
• Sell supplies at the Healer. Consumables, materials, and treasures can be sold at the Healer for 40% of their value.
• Alchemists should gather materials. Crafting potions and bombs is cheaper than buying them.
• Don't fight enemies too far below your level. Rewards are drastically reduced when the level gap is large.
• Retry an expired form. If a page remains open long enough for its security token to expire, the game rejects that submission safely, refreshes the token, and returns you to retry the action.