Humans
The gods changed nothing.
You are what you were. Perhaps that is the point.
Classes
Choose who you are
A people, a guild, and everything you earn.
Peoples
Choose your people.
When you enter the world, you choose a people. Each carries its own strengths, weaknesses, gifts and resistances. Here is an example of the peoples you may become, with more to be found.
Elves
Long-lived. Longer-remembering.
They have seen this before.
Half-Elves
A foot in two doors.
Welcome in both. At home in neither.
Dark Elves
They chose the deep, or it chose them.
Not every shadow is a threat. Most are.
Dwarves
Built from deep places.
Slow to speak. Slower to fall.
Halflings
Small, quick, and hard to find at supper.
Luck follows them like a stray dog.
Gnomes
Always building something.
Ask what it does. Then step back.
Orcs
The war is older than their names.
Loud when glad. Louder when not.
Half-Orcs
Strength with a second opinion.
Neither camp has forgiven them. They have stopped asking.
Giants
The ground feels them coming.
Doorways are a negotiation.
Drakeborn
Scaled, proud, and breathing something.
The old blood is not quite quiet.
Hellmarked
Marked by something below.
They did not ask for the horns. They keep them.
Mindkin
They think loudly in the dark.
Do not meet their eyes. Do not be surprised if they already know.
Thornfolk
Rooted in old forests.
The woods remember who walks through them.
Skyward
Light-boned, feathered at the shoulder.
The ground is a suggestion.
Gravewalkers
The dead who did not quite stay.
They know the road below.
Die, and the underworld offers another life: a new people, with everything you have earned kept, and your experience yours to spend again.
The way in
No one hands you a class.
- You wakeName yourself. Choose your people and your face. Then follow the sound of the city.
- The signboardIn the main town stands a board that lists the guilds. Fighter. Thief. Cleric. Read it, and choose.
- The guildThe board sends you to a guild, and to its master. Each has a past, a temper and opinions about you. They will welcome you in your new calling.
- The craftCrafting is a calling of its own, with trades such as blacksmithing, woodworking and leatherworking. It can be followed alongside any guild.
Jobs
A path is a job.
You are a player with a level, and you are also every class you have trained, each with its own level.
Fighter. Cleric. Sorcerer. Thief. Monk. Join any guild, at any time. Each has a level of its own.
Each class has its own abilities. In battle you choose from every class you have trained.
Classes
Choose who you become.
Here is an example of the classes that will be available, with more coming soon!
Fighter
Steel answers when words fail.
Hold the line.
Thief
What is yours was always borrowed.
Light fingers. Longer memories.
Sorcerer
It was in the blood all along.
Power that was never taught.
Abjurer
Every door can be closed.
Wards, and what they keep out.
Cleric
Faith is a kind of light.
Something listens.
Monk
Nothing in the hands. Everything in the hands.
Discipline of the body.
Inquisitor
Truth, extracted.
Nothing stays hidden.
Summoner
You were not the only one called.
Someone answers.
Shapeshifter
Which face was yours?
No one shape holds.
Druid
The wild remembers.
It has been waiting.
Necromancer
Death is a door, not a wall.
The quiet ones obey.
Bard
The world leans in to hear a good story.
Words, and what follows.
Dancer
Every step is a spell.
Motion that means something.
Elementalist
Four old voices. One will.
Ask the world, and it answers.
Evoker
Say it, and it is so.
No ritual. No delay.
Psionicist
The loudest room is inside.
Thought, made force.
Assassin
One breath. One blade.
Unseen until it is done.
Shadow Mage
Where the light ends, you begin.
Darkness has rules.
Stacking
Nothing is given up.
Level a Summoner to 100 and a Cleric to 10, and you have both: every ability each has earned.
There is no limiter on this. Strong builds will appear, and balance is watched closely with testing, scaling and review.
There is no maximum level. High-level players look to the raids.
Experience
Spent, not just earned.
What you earn is yours to spend on whatever you wish to become.
Spend
Levels
Put experience into your own level, or into the level of any class you follow.
Train
Skills
Experience buys skills and trains them, up to one hundred percent.
Surpass
Beyond the limit
Rare items, objects and spells, such as an Abjurer's, can lift a skill past its ceiling.
Guilds
No gates.
- Join any guildAny guild, any time. Nothing stands in the way.
- Each on its ownA Cleric of level 10, a Monk of level 10, an Inquisitor of level 10 and a Summoner of level 100 is a perfectly good character.
- No penaltyTaking up another guild costs you nothing.
Stats
Seven numbers.
StrengthDexterityConstitutionSpeedIntelligenceWisdomCharisma
Speed decides when you act in a round. Speed and dexterity decide whether you can slip away from a fight.
Dungeons and raids
Go deeper, together.
Explore dungeons and raids, some built by players and some generated ahead of time. Parties can be as large as you like. Dungeon and raid zones run on a 60 to 90 minute timer. Out on the world map, random battles can also find you, anywhere outside a safe zone.
Party
As many as you like
There is no cap on party size. Everyone plans together, and the round resolves in order.
Raid
Forty and more
The battlefield widens to hold them all. The planning timer doubles to 60 seconds. Dungeon and raid zones run for 60 to 90 minutes.
Tiers
Harder each time
Raids come in tiers. The monsters scale to the level of the raid, and each tier is built to be harder than the last.