DarkWind

DarkWind is a text-based multiplayer RPG set across Blackmar, its continents, its moons, and the strange places between them. The world has been under development since 1992 and continues to grow through player activity, staff building, quests, guilds, professions, events, and long-running story threads.

You play by typing commands. Movement, combat, conversation, crafting, travel, shopping, guild abilities, spellcasting, and social systems all happen through the command line.

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Useful Commands

Connection

Come join the friendly player base at DarkWind now. Just click here or telnet to darkwind.ai port 4242. We'll see you soon!

Getting Started

When you complete character creation, you will find yourself in the adventurer's guild. The Center of Town (COT) is north, east (or n, e) from there. COT is the 4-way intersection on the map of Darkwind, and all the directions in this guide start from there. See DarkWind City Services for a practical city checklist. See Account And Session for tutorial commands, saving, quitting, passwords, reboots, and registered character switching.

To begin adventuring you will need equipment. Erga's Newbie Shop (4 west, 1 south) will give you free equipment. At level 2 you will have access to the donation room (5n,e). Here you can get equipment donated by higher level players. Please return it when you are done with it so that the next Newbie will have access to it. Remember to wear and wield all. You can do this with one command by typing equip. See Basic Commands and Equipment for more.

Now that you have equipment you will want to gain experience and gold so that you can gain levels. The Adventurers' Guild (w,s) will give you an idea of how much gold and experience is required for your next level. Keep in mind that levels are only the ability to further increase your stats. So in most cases it is generally best to spend experience on stats until you get the message that says you must increase your level before gaining more stats (See help stats). Some players skip stats to reach the next level faster. That raises the level number without giving the same practical power as trained stats.

When you kill something you will want to get the gold and the loot from the corpse. You can get all from corpse. Or you can burn the corpse with a corpse burner and get all. You can sell the loot in the shop (5w,2s,w). When you leave the game, many carried, worn, and wielded items save with your character. Some items never save, including donated gear, broken gear, food, drinks, uniques, items inside containers, and items directly restricted by the game. Guild and shop storage rooms are temporary and do not survive reboots. Put extra coins in the bank (5w,3s,e) for safe keeping and a better restart after death. See Economy for banks, corpse ash, markets, auctions, pubs, and inns.

Death Happens

It is part of the game. Luckily it isn't permanent. If you die, go to the church (5w,n) and pray. When you die you will lose one from each stat, all of the experience you have on hand and one level. Note that this penalty does not exist if you are level 5 or lower. Until then, praying at the church will restore all of your stats and your level. Some guilds have the ability to raise people from the dead. This saves them some of the stat loss, but not the level or the experience on hand. You can get someone to avenge your death. This is a way to get some experience back (help deathavengement). Don't do this if you are level 5 or below, because Dierdre works every time.

See Death And Recovery for death, ghosts, prayer, and avengement.

Next Steps

• Account And Session for tutorial, save, quit, uptime, password, and switching characters
• Communication for channels, tells, mail, and language
• Combat for fighting, healing, wimpy, and newbie combat commands
• Travel for ferries, recall, ships, domains, and hazards
• Parties for grouping with other players
• Quests for structured objectives and rewards
• Rules before using client triggers, PK, or multichars

Basic Commands

DarkWind is played by typing commands. Most commands are short verb phrases: look, get sword, say hello, kill rat, wear armor, wield sword

Looking Around

Room descriptions often contain nouns you can inspect. If a room mentions a statue, sign, trail, table, corpse, altar, or doorway, try looking at it.

Moving

Most movement uses compass directions.

Some rooms have special exits such as enter, climb, portal, knock door, or exit. Room text usually hints at these.

Items

If there are several similar objects, add a number: look corpse 2, get sword 3, sell knife 2

Combat

Levels 1–5 have nheal, ncot, ndomain, npunch, and nkick. From levels 6–49, use their adventurer forms: aheal, acot, adomain, apunch, and akick.

Help

The in-game help system is large and useful.

Aliases

Aliases shorten commands you use often.

Examples:

• alias ga get all
• alias la look at
• talias bob bobert

Some commands cannot be aliased, including get, drop, equip, wear, wield, take, and unwield.

Account And Session

This page covers the commands that keep your character, login, tutorial, and play session in order.

Tutorial

The tutorial teaches the first layer of play: looking, examining, moving, inventory, channels, Erga's equipment, wearing and wielding gear, newbie combat, score, and a first newbie quest.

The tutorial is useful even for players familiar with other MUDs, because it teaches DarkWind-specific city locations and commands.

Saving And Quitting

Your character saves automatically when you quit. Many carried, worn, and wielded items save with your character, but some items never save: donated gear, broken gear, food, drinks, unique items, items inside containers, and items directly marked as temporary.

Guild storage, shop storage, boats, helpers, ponies, and temporary followers do not preserve everything across reboot. Keep important coin in the bank and check Equipment for item saving rules.

Password

After entering the command, the game prompts for the new password twice.

Passwords must be 8 to 16 printable characters long. Spaces are allowed, and all characters are significant. Accounts using the older password format are prompted once at login to choose a replacement password.

Use a password that is not your character name, not a common word, and not reused from another site. Shared or guessed passwords can compromise every registered character on the account.

Switching Characters

Registered multichars can be reached without fully disconnecting.

Only one registered character can be active at a time. When you switch, the current body is parked linkdead, and inventory and equipment stay with that body. Client-side aliases, triggers, highlights, and chat scrollback remain with your client.

You cannot switch while in combat or during the attack-quit cooldown. Parked characters idle out after a while, so return to them before relying on anything time-sensitive.

See Multichars for the rules, unlocks, shared banking, and social visibility settings tied to registered characters.

Reboots

DarkWind reboots periodically for memory cleanup, code updates, and once-per-boot world resets. Unscheduled reboots happen during crashes or emergency maintenance.

Before a reboot:

• Save with save
• Bank extra coin
• Finish active purchases, auctions, quests, and risky fights
• Retrieve anything important from temporary storage
• Expect helpers, ponies, summons, temporary guild storage, and some placed items to vanish

Money on your character, bank balances, registered character data, and many carried or equipped items survive normal quitting and reboot.

DarkWind City Services

DarkWind City is the main starter hub. Most directions in beginner help start from Center of Town, often shortened to COT.

Use this page as a practical city checklist.

First Stops

Common Directions From COT

Directions can change as areas are rebuilt. These are the traditional starter routes from Center of Town.

Equipment Loop

New adventurer equipment loop:

1. Visit Erga's Newbie Shop
2. equip
3. Hunt a beginner area
4. Inspect useful loot and get all from corpse
5. Return to the Main Shop and sell ordinary loot, or carry a corpse burner with set autosell on to send ordinary equipment to Taylor as you hunt. Alternatively, set autorefine on converts refinery-eligible equipment directly into saved profession materials
6. Bank spare coins

Taylor deducts 10% for automatic selling after applying the same Charisma and reputation appraisal he would use at his counter. Noteworthy gear is left on the corpse rather than transmitted.

Autosell and autorefine cannot be active together. Autorefine does not require a burner, uses normal Refinery yields, and permanently processes eligible equipment before autoloot. Keep it off when you want to inspect drops first.

At level 2 and above, check the Donation Room. Return useful donated gear when you are done with it.

Recovery Loop

After a hard fight:

1. Leave danger
2. Sit
3. Eat food or drink ale
4. Check score or .
5. Restock before returning

New players can use the Newbie Inn before player-owned pubs and inns become affordable.

Death Loop

After death:

1. Go to the church
2. pray
3. Recover your corpse if safe
4. Ask for help if the corpse is in a dangerous area
5. Replace food, light, and basic gear
6. Bank coins before leaving again

See Death And Recovery.

Travel Services

The city connects to ferries, ships, gates, roads, and domains.

Useful services:

• Ferry tickets near docks
• Ship shop and ship customizer
• Scroll shop for travel knowledge
• Lunar gate for moon-linked travel
• Roads out of the city gates

See Travel and Areas.

Social Services

DarkWind City also has social and account services.

• Post office and mail
• Newsroom
• Boards
• Chambre of Commerce
• Player-owned pubs and inns
• Clan and guild meeting points
• Profession building
• Weapons training

If you are lost, ask on newbie, use where, or return to COT with ncot or recall when available.

It was nearly 1800 years ago that the dark wind appeared and ravaged our cities, countries, towns and villages. From where this evil came and what the cause was, I regret to say is not known to us, for most of the immortals were still children at the time. Some say it was an evil birthed of the foul arts of Alarian, the great Necromancer, and that he was its first victim, but that is just a legend from the mists of time. Whatever the cause, the effects were obvious. Not even the longest of wars killed as swiftly and effortlessly as that unliving wind of malice.

The dark wind has come and gone several times during my life, during the life of the city, and during the rebuilding. Not even Mitra, Gaea and Set fully stopped the destruction. But the first occurrence of the wind was the worst by far. We shall start our history at that time, for history of the time before the coming is lost, just as the lives and cities were lost. The clades of Darkwind were thrown into confusion, and the blancmanges, who had been decimated by the wind, were pushed to the brink of extinction by the resulting wars.

The clade wars were bloody affairs. The ogres, orcs and trolls banded together, and with their combined raw strength launched raids and besieged the elves, gnomes and dwarves as they attempted to rebuild. The humans fell victim to massive infighting. The faerie and the halflings managed to escape most of the bloodshed, however they found themselves unable to do much rebuilding of their shattered culture.

The death and barrenness caused by the dark wind caught the eye of three gods: Gaea, the earth mother; Mitra, the goddess of goodness; and Set, the god of chaos. Gaea set about to restore the land, the plants, and the animals. Mitra and Set, however, made themselves known to the inhabitants of Darkwind. Gaea worked so very hard at rebuilding life. Mitra and Set, however, attempted to lead the people to a better life. Co- existence between the factions, the clades, and families was not to be at this time. The religious wars that followed were unfortunate, and only served to dilute the population even more.

No one but the gods know what happened to change things. 24 years after the cleansing by the dark wind, representatives from the different clades met at the bay where Darkwind City now stands. Many say that Gaea herself came to the representatives and entranced them, giving them power from her own body, as well as power from both Set and Mitra. Thus she bestowed upon them immortality; the ability to command flesh, stone, air, water, and spirit, and the determination to create a better life.

With the immortals in place, she forbade Set and Mitra from taking a direct hand in the world, allowing them to only work through the priests and the immortals. The age of immortals had begun. The first act was the creation of a city on the very ground where they were given their power. And the city was called Darkwind, and it was open to one and all.

The clades of Darkwind thrived, and explored the surrounding countryside and the oceans. The immortals created many things, guided by Mitra, Set and Gaea.

World

Work in progress: these pages describe the Blackmar setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Blackmar is the known world of Darkwind: a continent of old roads, rebuilt cities, dangerous wilderness, and domains that feel like their own countries. Most of Blackmar uses medieval fantasy technology. Swords, ships, temples, caravan roads, guildhalls, old keeps, and dangerous ruins form the common shape of daily life.

That common shape breaks in a few places. Ashad runs on AshPunk craft, where ash, pressure, brass, glass, and alchemy create machines that look impossible beside a knight's forge. Tekal, the green moon, is stranger still: a technological domain of cybernetics, virtuality, and machine cities.

Use areas <domain> in game for current level guidance. These pages focus on what the places are, what they feel like, and what kinds of stories live there.

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Domains

Moons

Blackmar has three moons. Each one is a separate domain with its own landscape, dangers, and powers.

Blackmar

Work in progress: this page describes the Blackmar setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Blackmar is the known world of Darkwind. The name covers the great continent, the seas and island frontiers around it, the deep roads beneath it, and the three moons that hang above it as separate domains.

The Dark Wind defines the beginning of remembered history. It destroyed cities, scattered clades, broke old nations, and left enough ruin behind that rebuilding became the central story of the age. Darkwind City rose from that rebuilding. Other domains kept their own scars, their own gods, their own styles of magic, and their own answers to survival.

Most of Blackmar feels medieval: roads, ships, guilds, temples, castles, caravans, farms, forges, monster-haunted borders, and old ruins. Two places break the pattern openly. Ashad turns ash, brass, pressure, and alchemy into AshPunk machines. Tekal turns the sky itself into a reminder that Blackmar's moons are not just lights overhead.

Domains

The Moons

Travel

Blackmar is a world of hubs and thresholds. Roads connect the central cities. Ports and wharves open the island routes. Caves, mines, grave roads, and old temple paths lead downward. The moons answer gates and celestial timing.

For player use, the areas command shows current level guidance. The world docs describe where a place belongs in the setting and what kind of story a player is stepping into.

Darkwind

Work in progress: this page describes the Darkwind setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Darkwind is the rebuilt heart of Blackmar. The first immortal city rose here after the Dark Wind, on the bay where the surviving clades gathered and began again. Its streets are open to almost everyone, which makes the city less pure kingdom and more living crossroads: merchants, guilds, pilgrims, rogues, adventurers, priests, and old grudges all pass through the same gates.

The city is the safest place many players learn to name, but it is not a soft place. The sewers, old roads, nearby forests, and ruined holdings keep the past close. Darkwind is where civilization starts making promises, and where the world immediately tests them.

Darkwind City is the social and practical center of the domain, with banks, boards, shops, guild access, public roads, and a constant flow of travelers. Center of Town is the common navigation anchor. The Church of Mitra marks holy influence within the city, while the Lunar Gate answers Dailos, Markas, and Tekal when the moons are right.

DarkWood Forest spreads west of the walls, thick with roads, clearings, and stranger paths. The northern roads lead toward mountains and colder frontiers. The southern shore holds abbeys, keeps, pirate paths, and old settlements.

Areas

Darkwind is built for discovery in layers. New players find streets, farms, sewers, and familiar roads first. Returning players learn the same roads hide portals, keys, old factions, and routes to places that felt impossible at level one.

The city stays busy and practical. It has taverns, boards, shops, banks, guild access, donation rooms, roads, gates, ferries, and public landmarks. The fantasy comes from walking out of an ordinary street and finding the impossible two rooms later.

Ashad

Ashad lies west and slightly south of the Darkwind mainland, beyond the mountains west of Syldenith and Endrael. Its western Oasis of Life opens onto the Mirage Sea, while the Ocarian Sea curls around the continent's southern approaches. Travelers can come ashore at the Oasis and follow the soot roads into a full continental progression.

Ashad is the desert that learned to burn productively. Its cities do not merely survive the heat; they harvest it, refine it, and build with it. Where Souvrael is mythic desert, Ashad is industrial desert: furnace towers, brass pipes, soot-black walls, pressure gauges, glass lenses, ash mills, and caravan engines coughing across the dunes.

Ashad's technology is called AshPunk. It uses ash, pressure, alchemy, scavenged bone-white fuel, desert oils, and heat engines to create wonders that look like machines and behave like spells. A knight from Darkwind sees a forge. An Ashadi engineer sees a prayer with valves.

Furnace cities anchor the domain with stacks, pressure towers, foundries, water vaults, ash mills, and glasswork. Soot roads carry caravans between refinery houses, engineer-priests, furnace families, machinewright orders, and blackened waystations.

Glasswork is everywhere: lenses, warded windows, distillation towers, mirrors, heat traps, and signal lamps. Ashad's beauty is smoky, dangerous, improvised, expensive, and practical.

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Heat

Ashad rewards preparation. Severe and extreme heat ramps up rather than striking immediately. The first sustained exposure leaves a traveler Exposed; remaining outside then applies Burning stacks. Full daylight checks most often and applies the strongest stacks, dawn and twilight are milder, and night is half strength. Type heat in an Ashad room to see the local tier, cadence, and the stacks expected for your character.

Marked shelters stop new exposure. Resist Heat prevents it, Ranger desert survival reduces Burning stacks, and Souvraeli adaptation helps further. Ordinary fire resistance mitigates the resulting Burning damage. Existing Burning decays normally after reaching safety, and Exposed expires shortly afterward.

Heat, scarcity, machines, and human ambition all matter. A player feels the desert pressing in from every direction while civilization hisses, clanks, and refuses to die.

The continent is one irregular 96 by 92 travel grid rather than a hub with detached area maps. Every live region occupies its own cells in that shared geography and meets the Cinder Flats through narrow, defended approaches. Pyre climbs through only part of its exact 30 by 30 civic reserve, leaving unbuilt terraces honestly blank for later growth.

Souvrael

Work in progress: this page describes the Souvrael setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Souvrael is the great desert domain of Blackmar. Its walls rise from the Segovia Desert, its beaches touch the Gearnat Sea, and its roads vanish into dunes, oases, pyramids, snake temples, and older empires buried under sand.

Where Ashad is mechanical, Souvrael is mythic. It is a land of sultans, caravans, veils, scimitars, date palms, gold mines, ancient curses, and temple doors that open only when the desert accepts the question.

The city of Souvrael is a walled desert hub of markets, banks, temples, opium dens, docks, and trade. The Segovia Desert surrounds it with vast dunes, stone trails, salt wind, heat shimmer, and routes that only patient travelers learn to trust.

The Gearnat Sea is Souvrael's harbor route into the wider world. Water sellers, camel yards, bazaars, desert guides, and noble houses turn the domain into a place where survival and commerce are never far apart.

Areas

Souvrael is about heat, belief, wealth, and hidden doors. It is bright at the surface and old underneath. Players cross it by reading roads, respecting water, and learning that every oasis has a shadow.

Hyperborea

Work in progress: this page describes the Hyperborea setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Hyperborea is the northern domain of fjords, mountain passes, snow forests, old walls, and mythic war. Grimsfjord stands against the cold as a practical village of gates, outfitters, wharves, ponies, fires, and hard roads. Beyond it, the land climbs into icy valleys where clouds swallow the ridges.

Hyperborea carries the weight of northern legend: vikings, dwarven halls, giants, gnomish conflicts, frozen rivers, wolf-haunted roads, and Asgardian realms that touch the mortal map.

Grimsfjord is the main town, mountain gate, wharf, and practical northern hub. The River Alsvid cuts through canyon rock and ice, while the western valleys rise into snow paths, glacier lakes, cloud ridges, cliffs, and alpine forests.

Longhouses, raids, honor feasts, cold-weather craft, and sea routes define much of its mortal culture. Divine realms, trials, world-tree imagery, Valhalla, and mythic enemies pull that culture toward legend.

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Hyperborea is physical. The world is steep, cold, and loud with wind. Travel feels like earning ground: a trail, a ledge, a pass, a bridge, a gate, a fire.

Hyperborean stories put small settlements against impossible weather and impossible enemies. The warmth of a room matters because the next step outside matters.

Kerei

Work in progress: this page describes the Kerei setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Kerei is a chain of connected jungle islands. It mixes fortress roads, river travel, coastal docks, hidden temples, faerie borders, ninja clans, Amazon villages, and old island cities. The land feels lush, but not gentle. Paths disappear under leaves, river crossings hide politics, and the next shrine may belong to a faction that does not name itself twice.

Kerei's central settlements are Odako and Chimotage. Odako is the fortress hub. Chimotage is an island city with its own roads, docks, forests, and mountain paths.

Odako is the fortress domain, with river roads, an arena, markets, guarded halls, and watched routes. Chimotage is quieter and stranger: docks, Ichi-Ban Way, forests, mountains, old alleys, and island politics.

Ninja clans, Amazon villages, hidden temples, catacombs, remote shrines, and faerie borders turn the islands into a web of guarded paths and half-spoken allegiances.

Areas

Kerei is movement through concealment. It favors players who read social space as much as terrain: which gate is watched, which river crossing is safe, which village is only friendly from the road, and which temple has been waiting for them.

Lerquird

Lerquird is a swamp continent of black water, peat roads, fungal towers, and luminous wetlands. The sky often feels low there. Mist hangs over canals, insects sing in the reeds, and giant mushrooms rise like forests where ordinary trees drown. Broad open swamplands separate its named regions, leaving room for paths and settlements still to grow. Wandering spore clouds, pearl-moss stalkers, and walking root knots make those crossings dangerous without turning every channel into a forced battle.

The people of Lerquird build upward, sideways, and carefully. Homes cling to stilts, bridges, root platforms, floating shrines, and hollow fungus trunks. The swamp is not empty space between villages. It is the oldest power in the domain.

Giant mushroom forests replace normal woodland. Blue-green marsh light, spore glow, and strange water reflections make distance uncertain. Stilt towns, reed boats, wet markets, bridge law, and canal villages keep civilization above the waterline.

Mire magic works through damp earth, spores, rot, preservation, poison, and slow transformation. Sacred causeways make pilgrims read omens in water, fog, and fungus bloom. Dense sporefall can inflict Swamp Blight; the spores command reports the local concentration, shelter, and risk.

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Lerquird is slow danger. The swamp does not rush, and that makes it worse. Routes shift, poison matters, light lies, and an enemy can be nearby for a long time before the first strike.

Druids and Gaean Acolytes find living rot and stubborn recovery here without stepping into Garou moon-wilderness. Lerquird is wet, fungal, communal, and ancient.

Virodia

Work in progress: this page describes the Virodia setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Virodia is tropical, but not jungle. It is a bright coastland of reef harbors, warm rain, fruit terraces, tiled villas, sea roads, island temples, pearl markets, and storms that arrive with theatrical force.

The domain is lush because it is cultivated, watered, sailed, sung over, and fought for. Its danger lives in reefs, trade rivalries, ritual storms, corsairs, old sea shrines, and gardens that remember blood in the soil.

Coral ports, pearl trade, shipwrights, sea walls, and watch towers define the coast. Inland, fruit terraces, tiled courts, fountain plazas, and bright-painted houses make the domain feel cultivated rather than wild.

Weather magic, lighthouse omens, festival bargains, merchant princes, naval houses, temple patrons, private fleets, ship routes, reef gates, smugglers' cuts, and sacred channels keep the sea at the center of Virodian life.

Areas

Virodia is color, weather, salt, and social consequence. It is tropical without becoming another jungle: more harbor intrigue, stormlight, reefs, gardens, and sea law than vine-choked wilderness.

Dramasa

Work in progress: Heffenpurt is the first implemented Dramasa area. Ships can reach it through the Cold Sea, while a scheduled ferry and the inland regions remain under construction.

Dramasa is a barren ice-covered land. It is not the lived-in northern myth of Hyperborea. Dramasa is harsher, emptier, and more alien: white plains, frozen roads, black rock, silent ruins, and auroras that make the snow look haunted.

Travel in Dramasa feels exposed. Shelter is rare, warmth is political, and the oldest structures are half buried under ice that has no interest in giving them back.

White barrens stretch across the domain, wide enough for weather to become the main enemy. Frost ruins, cracked towers, buried roads, aurora omens, survival houses, heat vaults, and oath-bound host customs shape every journey.

Ice pilgrimages cross the barrens as tests of endurance, memory, and sacrifice. In Dramasa, reaching the next shelter is already a kind of answer.

Areas

In Hearth Square, sit by fire clears Chilled and Freezing and grants 15 minutes of Hearth-Warmed protection. Touch the aurora-pale wayshard to remember Heffenpurt for later travel.

The White Barrens, Frostglass Coast, Sunken Road, Last Watch, Cathedral of Rime, Dead Aurora, and Hoarfrost Vaults remain possible names and themes for later expansion beyond the initial map.

Dramasa is quiet pressure. Hyperborea asks players to endure a living north. Dramasa asks them what remains when the world has already gone still.

Iglantu

Work in progress: this page describes the Iglantu setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Iglantu is a hellish continent of elemental fire. It is not simply hot. Heat is the weather, the road, the border, the weapon, and the law. Rivers of lava cut the land into black islands. Basalt cities cling to shelves above molten channels. Smoke makes daylight red.

Iglantu is Blackmar's fire realm as a continent rather than an abstraction. It has ports, roads, citadels, mines, temples, rulers, prisoners, and travelers. It is a place people live in because power there is too valuable to abandon.

Lava rivers divide territory and shape travel. Black stone settlements rise on shelves, vents, and fireproof foundations. Ember law binds rulers, warbands, temple courts, and tribute pacts around heat as both resource and threat.

Living flame, heat spirits, ash storms, furnace magic, obsidian weapons, heat wards, vent armor, and cooled-lava architecture are ordinary facts of survival here.

Areas

Iglantu is pressure, risk, and spectacle. The domain turns fire into a civilization. A player crossing it feels every road asking the same question: how much heat can ambition survive?

The Bodachian Fallows

Work in progress: this page describes the Bodachian Fallows setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

The Bodachian Fallows are a shadowed land of horror. Fields lie under permanent dusk. Roads bend through haunted forests. Old houses keep lights in windows no one admits to lighting. Graves are too shallow, bells ring without hands, and fog carries voices that know names they were never told.

The Fallows make fear local. They are not a distant underworld or a fire realm. They are villages, orchards, churches, farms, manors, and lanes that look familiar until something moves wrong.

Haunted forests, ghost roads, fallow villages, black manors, abandoned chapels, grave fields, and locked family houses give the domain its shape. Spirits, death marks, grave ash, forbidden formulae, and Bodachian study keep the dead involved in daily life.

Fear in the Fallows often begins in familiar rooms: a village inn, a family orchard, a chapel lane, a nursery, a cellar, a portrait hall, a road home after sunset.

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The Bodachian Fallows are about dread, investigation, and consequences. Players are pressed to ask what happened before they arrived, who benefits from silence, and which dead thing is still waiting to be paid.

The Fallows also give Mage a natural path into forbidden Bodach and Arcanarton study without making Necromancer a public guild.

Islands

Work in progress: this page describes the island frontiers we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

The islands around Blackmar gather the world's strangest edges. Some are coastal kingdoms. Some float in the sky. Some feel like pocket-realms caught around a volcano, a cloud, a ruined tower, or a door that never belonged on a map.

The island frontiers keep the world from feeling like one continuous continent. They are reached by ship, sky, storm, portal, and rumor.

Ferries, wharves, passenger ships, private vessels, cyclones, cloud paths, floating keeps, and aerial sanctuaries all belong to island travel. Local laws and isolated communities make each island feel like its own answer to distance.

The island frontier also gathers pocket-realms: small worlds around volcanoes, halls, gates, clouds, and impossible thresholds.

Areas

The islands are where the map starts making side deals. They are perfect for self-contained stories, experimental zones, strange travel, and places that feel real without needing to explain why they sit beside the mainland.

Underworld

Work in progress: this page describes the Underworld setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

The Underworld is the deep realm beneath Blackmar: mines, tunnels, old cities, lava breaches, dwarf halls, broken towns, worm roads, and darker places where surface law has no reach. It is not one culture. It is a stacked geography of pressure, hunger, secrecy, and forgotten architecture.

Darkwind has paths downward, and many domains have their own rumors of what lies below. The Underworld is where those rumors begin sharing walls.

Deep roads, mine paths, worm tunnels, old trade routes, buried cities, garrisons, ruins, hostile capitals, fire breaches, dwarven works, and surface echoes all share the same lower dark.

The Underworld is full of dark reflections: surface towns repeated as ruins, surface gods echoed in mines, surface wars continuing where sunlight never reaches.

Areas

The Underworld is descent as a genre. Every step down makes food, light, return routes, and trust feel more important. It is where players go when they want the map to close over them.

Calendar

DarkWind uses its own calendar, moon cycle, and date commands.

Commands

The year is calculated from DarkWind's opening day.

Time

DarkWind's calendar uses:

• 300 days in a year
• 10 months in a year
• 30 days in a month
• 3 ten-days in a month
• 10 days in a week
• About 20 hours in a day

Days Of The Week

Months

Moons

Blackmar has three moons:

The moons matter to lore, omens, divine systems, lunar travel, and future guild features.

The Three Moons

Work in progress: this page describes the lunar domains we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Blackmar has three moons: Dailos, Markas, and Tekal. They are visible in the sky, woven into calendars and omens, and reachable as separate domains. To most people they are celestial powers. To adventurers they are also places with roads, cities, monsters, shrines, and rules.

Each moon has a color, a temperament, and a divine or cosmic association.

Lunar Travel

The lunar gate near Darkwind's center uses three moonstones: magenta for Dailos, red for Markas, and green for Tekal. The moons matter as bodies in the sky and as destinations underfoot.

Moon phases affect travel time, but no phase closes a route. A visible destination moon opens its gate immediately. If the destination is new, the Afterlight Relay borrows light from the brightest visible moon and opens after three seconds. During the rare alignment when all three moons are new, the Eclipse Reserve releases stored afterlight and opens any route after eight seconds. These slower passages cost nothing; the traveler only needs to remain still, alive, connected, and out of combat while the route forms.

The gate and each portal chamber describe their current travel mode when examined. Return travel from a moon to Darkwind remains immediate.

Each moon moves through eight phases on a real-time clock. Markas changes phase every 2.5 hours, Dailos every 3.75 hours, and Tekal every 10 hours. Their complete cycles take 20, 30, and 80 hours respectively, and continue independently of game reboots.

Lunar stories connect especially well to Acolytes, Druids, Garou, Mages, omens, portents, and pilgrimages. A character does not need to belong to a lunar tradition to feel the moons acting on the world.

Dailos feels sickly, savage, dangerous, tempting, and corruptive. Markas feels luminous, restorative, guarded, beautiful, and sacred. Tekal feels clean, strange, electric, precise, and almost impossible by Blackmar standards.

Player Hooks

The moons matter in several kinds of play.

• Travel through lunar gates and moon-linked thresholds
• Omens and divine timing
• Acolyte patron work, especially Luna and Gaea-adjacent rites
• Druid moon rites and natural cycles
• Garou tension between Gaea, rage, and lunar influence
• Mage research into lunar runes, residues, and impossible domains
• Calendar, night sky, and seasonal flavor

Tone

The moons are not just remote lore. They give the world a larger ceiling: a medieval adventurer can look up, see three lights, and eventually walk under alien skies.

Dailos

Work in progress: this page describes the Dailos setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Dailos is the magenta moon of disease, chaos, plague, and savagery. It is the home of the God of Disease and the lunar domain that punishes casual curiosity. The land feels infected rather than merely dangerous: forests sicken, cities rot, foothills corrupt, and ruins curse the memory of whoever built them.

Dailos is not only decay. It is also endurance through decay, power taken from sickness, and faith twisted into survival.

The God of Disease is the divine presence behind plague, infection, fever, rot, and blighted worship. Magenta moonlight carries chaos, savagery, mutation, and a sense that the land itself has symptoms.

Plague cults, desperate healers, heretics, survivors, corrupted forests, sick swamps, altered beasts, and ruined cities all treat disease as more than an illness. On Dailos, disease is law, language, and revelation.

Areas

What Players Find Here

• Diseases, poisons, fevers, and hostile environments
• Corrupted beasts and altered survivors
• Plague cults and blighted rites
• Ruins that remember sickness as history
• Tempting power wrapped in obvious danger
• Strong hooks for Set, Bodach, Arcanarton, and forbidden magic themes

Travel Mood

Travel on Dailos is stressful because the land feels contagious. Camp, food, water, healing, and status cures matter. Safe rooms feel temporary. Victories often leave players asking what they carried back with them.

Dailos is a pressure test. It asks players to manage risk, corruption, disease, and temptation. Victory here feels less like being clean and more like leaving before the moon names a price.

Markas

Work in progress: this page describes the Markas setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Markas is the red moon of strength, stability, healing, and sanctuary. It is beautiful in the way a protected place is beautiful: ordered gardens, crystal water, enchanted forests, high mountains, and gates that feel closer to heaven than to stone.

Markas is not harmless. Sanctuary has guards, rites, tests, and enemies. Its healing power comes with expectations of courage, steadiness, and service.

Red moonlight is tied to strength, healing, protection, and endurance. Markas is governed by sanctuary law: hospitality, oaths, guarded healing, and consequences for anyone who violates sacred refuge.

Its gardens, lakes, mountains, forests, and gates restore the spirit, but every protected place is also a trial. Markas asks pilgrims to prove they can defend what heals them.

Areas

What Players Find Here

• Healing waters, sanctuary rites, and sacred gardens
• Strength trials rather than simple safety
• Pilgrimage routes and guarded thresholds
• Enemies who threaten refuge, beauty, or oath
• A natural home for Mitra, Luna, Gaea, and protective Acolyte themes
• Places where rest has rules and mercy has teeth

Travel Mood

Markas gives relief, but it does not remove responsibility. A safe lake or garden often asks for service in return. Players come here to recover, prove steadiness, or learn what sanctuary demands from those protected by it.

Markas offers relief without removing stakes. It is the moon of being protected, then being asked what protection costs. Healing here is active instead of passive.

Tekal

Work in progress: this page describes the Tekal setting we are building toward, and current game content differs in places.

Tekal is the green moon of knowledge, ash-electric steam technology, sealed archives, Vyra refinement, and forbidden augmentation. It is the technological step beyond Geshtei's medieval world, but it is not a gunpowder or laser future. Tekal's wonders are made from ash-fired furnaces, pressure engines, copper conduits, green glass, calculation halls, Vyrariums, academies, observatories, and locked doors.

Later Tekal expansions may push farther into robotics, quantum computing, virtual reality, and official cybernetics labs. The first Tekal arc should establish the ash-electric foundation before those higher-tech layers become playable.

Tekal's tagline:

The light of knowledge casts the deepest shadows.

The Tekai believe knowledge is sacred, dangerous, and earned through discipline. Surface Tekal is beautiful and brilliant, but also class-bound and secretive. The ruling Knowledge Houses decide who may learn, who may heal, who may build, and who must remain outside the next gate.

Core Concepts

• Ash-electricity powers Tekal through ash-fired steam systems, turbines, coils, lamps, gates, and pressure infrastructure.
• Miniaturized ash-electric ranged weapons are unstable and banned after the Small Coil Catastrophe. Tekal has no guns, no lasers, and no ranged ash-weapons.
• Vyra is the root liquid refined into the Core Four.
• Vyrariums are shops or clinics that sell, refine, serve, or administer Vyra and its variants.
• Nethrys Undercity uses banned cybernetics, implants, and Vyra-enhanced augmentation beneath the surface.

The Core Four

Areas

Nethrys And Reca

Nethrys is not a small sewer district. It is a large underground city beneath Tekal, full of black-market Vyrariums, forbidden schools, smugglers, worker refuges, ripperdoc implant clinics, and banned cybernetic technology.

Its mastermind is Reca, Ringleader of the Green Door Society. Reca is part man and part machine, a charismatic and ruthless visionary who believes Tekal's future lies in unrestricted technological evolution. He opposes the Knowledge Houses, the Council, and the surface belief that knowledge must stay locked away.

Later Expansion Concepts

These remain canon for future Tekal expansion content:

What Players Find Here

• Green-glass cities, sealed archives, pressure gates, and ash-electric machinery.
• Licensed Vyrariums on the surface and black-market Vyrariums below.
• Knowledge ranks, credentials, scholar-guards, and controlled civic access.
• Industrial ash hazards, greenhouse experiments, academy trials, and celestial moon-lore.
• Banned implants and cybernetics in Nethrys. The Forbidden Replacement Table in the Ripperdoc Quarter is a staffed clinic for implant installation and extraction.
• The truth of the Small Coil Catastrophe.

Travel Mood

Tekal feels precise, beautiful, and judgmental. Doors open only for the credentialed. Lamps glow behind green glass. Machines breathe steam beneath stone. Scholars speak softly while hiding entire histories.

The danger is not wilderness. The danger is a society that understands systems better than mercy, and knowledge better than freedom.

Organizations

Blackmar is full of groups that shape how players live, travel, fight, trade, and ask for help.

Adventurers' Guild

The Adventurers' Guild is the first practical home for new characters. It gives early guidance, level information, and access to the Newbies' Tome. It is also the place many players use as a common meeting point.

Guilds

Guilds are adventuring paths. A guild gives commands, abilities, restrictions, training identity, and a community of players with similar tools.

Current guild directions:

• Acolyte
• Bard
• Berserker
• Druid
• Fighter
• Garou
• Mage
• Monk
• Ninja
• Ranger
• Swashbuckler
• Thief

Clans

Clans are player-created organizations outside the guild system. They provide a clan channel, headquarters, shared coffers, storage, reputation, and optional clan wars.

Religions

Divine systems tie characters to patrons, omens, shrines, tithes, and pilgrimages. This matters most for Acolytes, but any character can encounter divine signs and patron systems.

Major patron powers include:

• Mitra
• Set
• Gaea
• Luna

Player-Owned Businesses

Player-owned pubs and inns are part of DarkWind's economy. Owners control menus, descriptions, prices, staffing, and business funds. See Economy.

City Services

Darkwind City has public services that matter to nearly every character.

• Banks
• Shops
• Donation rooms
• Post office and mail
• Adventurers' Guild
• Guild halls
• Weapons training
• Ferry tickets
• Ship shop
• Chambre of Commerce
• Temples

Staff

Wizards and administrators build, maintain, and moderate the game. Players must follow staff instructions in-game. Reports, bugs, typos, and ideas are covered in Feedback And Reports.

Stats

Stats measure a character's physical, mental, and social strengths. DarkWind has six core stats.

Strength

Strength affects raw physical power.

• Carry heavier loads
• Hit harder in melee
• Handle heavier weapons and gear more comfortably
• Reduce the practical burden of loot and supplies

Constitution

Constitution affects toughness and stamina.

• Increase HP
• Survive longer in combat
• Endure physical strain
• Recover from hard fights with more room for error

Your guild sets Constitution's base HP multiplier. That multiplier increases by one at every 50th level, so reaching Champion, Hero, Legend, Epic, and Mythic increases maximum HP even when Constitution does not change.

Dexterity

Dexterity affects coordination, balance, aim, and reflexes.

• Improve accuracy with many physical attacks
• Improve missile weapon use
• Help with dodging
• Support guilds that rely on speed, stealth, and precision

Intelligence

Intelligence affects memory, reasoning, tactical judgment, and magical study.

• Support spellcasting and mental powers
• Help characters use equipment intelligently
• Improve the ability to recognize openings and weaknesses
• Matter heavily for arcane or knowledge-driven guilds

Wisdom

Wisdom affects awareness, instinct, and judgment.

• Improve survival sense
• Support divine and spiritual powers
• Help with defensive awareness
• Matter in combat where timing and caution are important

Charisma

Charisma affects force of personality and social influence.

• Improve social presence
• Support guilds that rely on charm, leadership, or subtlety
• Influence some shop and interaction systems
• Matter for characters who guide, perform, bargain, or persuade

Stat Raises

Characters begin with 1 in each stat and 10 stat raises to spend.

Each level grants 5 additional stat raises. Every 10 levels grants 10 extra raises, for 15 total at those levels.

Major level ranks grant another 10 stat raises:

• Champion at 50
• Hero at 100
• Legend at 150
• Epic at 200
• Mythic at 250

A base stat can be raised to 300.

Stat Limits

A stat can be raised up to 3 times your level.

Examples:

• A level 1 character can raise a stat to 3
• A level 10 character can raise a stat to 30
• A level 100 character can raise a stat to 300

Bonuses And Penalties

Clades, equipment, guild abilities, buffs, debuffs, sigils, and other effects can raise or lower total stats.

Base stats are the points you train. Total stats are what your character has after bonuses and penalties.

Character Info

These commands show information about your character, other players, and personal notes.

Score

Score shows important character details:

• Level
• Experience
• Guild points
• Coins carried
• Coins in the bank
• HP and max HP
• SP and max SP
• Stats
• Age
• Wrathful Avatar charge where available

Finger

Finger works even when the player is offline. Darkflow clients can open a GUI modal by default; use finger -text for a text version.

Who And Laston

Useful who filters include new, ghost, pk, hero, legend, level <#>, guild names, clades, and clan names.

Personal Notes

Every adventurer carries a personal notebook.

Use notes for quest hints, routes, prices, rare spawns, recipes, and reminders.

Announcements

DarkWind announcements are official staff notices.

The web client also has an Announcements interface with read and unread status.

Metaphysician

The Metaphysician helps high-level adventurers improve beyond ordinary training.

The Metaphysician can raise:

• Constitution
• Strength
• Intelligence
• Dexterity
• Wisdom
• Charisma
• HP
• SP

Requirements and limits:

• Requires level 90
• Primary stats can receive 100 total metaphysical increases
• HP and SP do not use that same primary-stat limit
• HP and SP increase by 2 to 7 per metaphysical raise
• Cost rises as your stats grow

Clades

Work in progress: Clades are being built toward this design. Some current rooms and commands still use the older word "race".

A clade is the body, ancestry, culture, and old magic a character carries into the adventuring life. Clades change stats, size, vision, resistances, languages, hunger, thirst, flight, natural damage, and sometimes guild access.

Most adventurers begin as Darkwinders, then find a Hall of Races or a stranger place of reincarnation when they want a different life.

Reading Clades

• Positive stat traits make that stat grow better over time
• Negative stat traits make that stat harder to raise
• Small clades handle some equipment differently and have trouble with very large weapons
• Large clades handle larger weapons more easily
• Alignment traits make movement toward that alignment easier
• Resistance traits reduce damage from that source
• Vulnerability traits increase danger from that source
• Flight and wings matter for travel, restrictions, and special checks

Regional Clades

Darkwinder

Darkwinders are the humans of Darkwind City and its surrounding lands. They are adaptable, well liked in trade, and unusually comfortable with reincarnation.

• Home: Darkwind
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: charisma, experience gain, race change affinity
• Languages: Common

Barbarian

Barbarians are the rugged humans of Canith, south of Darkwind City. Their lives favor strength, stamina, blunt honesty, and the pursuit of common good.

• Home: Darkwind region
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: strength, constitution, charisma, experience gain, good tendency
• Languages: Common

Glavian

Glavians are humans from the mountain kingdom of Glavia. They are peaceful and open-minded by habit, but their history of resisting demonic forces leaves a strong goodward pull.

• Home: Glavia
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: charisma, experience gain, good tendency
• Languages: Common

Faerie

Faeries are woodland sprites, brownies, dryads, atomies, and other small fae folk. They are wise, winged, flighty, and more resilient against mental force than their size suggests.

• Home: Darkwind and faerie places
• Lineage: Faerie
• Traits: small size, wings, flight, wisdom, psionic resistance
• Languages: Common, Faerie

Halfling

Halflings love food, comfort, stories, jokes, and trouble that looks harmless until it is already happening. Adventuring halflings tend to be quick, charming, and hard to pin down.

• Home: Darkwind region
• Lineage: Halfling
• Traits: small size, dexterity, charisma, weaker strength, lower wisdom, food and drink endurance
• Languages: Common

High Elf

High elves come from the elven kingdom south of Darkwind City. They are bright, graceful, persuasive, and fragile in the way old glass is fragile: beautiful until someone tests it badly.

• Home: Darkwind forests
• Lineage: Elf
• Traits: vision, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, charisma, lower constitution, light resistance, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Elvish

Kender

Kender are small, fearless wanderers with quick hands and very little respect for the idea that danger deserves solemn behavior. They are agile, lucky, and deeply annoying to people who like quiet plans.

• Home: Hidden Darkwind enclaves
• Lineage: Kender
• Traits: strong vision, small size, strength, high dexterity, low wisdom, psionic resistance, evil vulnerability
• Languages: Common, Kenderspeak

Rift Duergar

Rift duergar are subterranean dwarves twisted by old darkness. They are hardy, strong, suspicious, and more comfortable under stone than under any honest sky.

• Home: Rift depths
• Lineage: Dwarf
• Traits: strong vision, small size, strength, constitution, lower intelligence, lower charisma, magic resistance, psionic resistance, light vulnerability, drink endurance, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Dwarvish, Shel-zaran

Shel-zaranite

Shel-zaranites are an ancient underground branch of elvenkind. They are agile, clever, and steeped in the customs of a hidden city that remembers forgotten gods too fondly.

• Home: Shel-zaran
• Lineage: Elf
• Traits: strong vision, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, lower constitution, light vulnerability, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Shel-zaran, Elvish

Silver Elf

Silver elves, also called moon elves, live along the road between Darkwind and the frozen north. Their culture honors Luna, favors grace and charm, and keeps its sharpest eyes for the night.

• Home: Silver elf settlements
• Lineage: Elf
• Traits: strong vision, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, lower wisdom, lower constitution, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Elvish

Stone Dwarf

Stone dwarves are surface dwarves bound by tradition to mines, stonework, and the service of Mitra. They are compact, stubborn, and built for places where the ceiling is too low for fools.

• Home: Darkwind mines and underworld roads
• Lineage: Dwarf
• Traits: strong vision, small size, strength, constitution, lower dexterity, psionic resistance, drink endurance, strong good tendency
• Languages: Common, Dwarvish

Uruk

Uruk are orcs from warlike tribes around Darkwind. They prize strength, stamina, weapons, raids, and survival in rough ground over scholarship or diplomacy.

• Home: Darkwind borderlands
• Lineage: Orc
• Traits: vision, strength, constitution, lower intelligence, lower wisdom, lower charisma, weapon specialization, disease resistance, poison resistance, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Orcish

Northman

Northmen are the humans of Hyperborea, especially Grimsfjord and the northern trade routes. They are hardy travelers, capable hagglers, and stubborn enough to call freezing weather a local custom.

• Home: Hyperborea
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: charisma, experience gain, northern cold affinity
• Languages: Common, Northern

Arctic Elf

Arctic elves are northern elves adapted to Hyperborea's ice, wars, and ancient ruins. They are quick and bright, but their bodies carry the familiar elven fragility.

• Home: Hyperborea
• Lineage: Elf
• Traits: dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, lower constitution, fire vulnerability, northern cold affinity, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Northern, Elvish

Hyperborean Gnome

Hyperborean gnomes are small, practical folk from the habitable edges of the north. They survive through nimble hands, clever heads, and a surprising tolerance for harsh environments.

• Home: Hyperborea
• Lineage: Gnome
• Traits: small size, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, fire resistance, acid resistance, poison resistance, drink endurance, northern cold affinity, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Northern, Gnomish

Ice Gnoll

Ice gnolls are predatory northern hunters with more appetite than mercy. They are strong, fast, and direct in a way that makes other clades choose longer roads.

• Home: Hyperborea
• Lineage: Gnoll
• Traits: strength, constitution, dexterity, lower intelligence, lower charisma, food endurance, northern cold affinity, evil tendency
• Languages: Common

Ice Ogre

Ice ogres are huge mercenary brutes from the cold wastes. They are immensely strong, thick-bodied, and poor company for anyone who values subtle thought.

• Home: Hyperborea
• Lineage: Ogre
• Traits: large size, high strength, high constitution, lower dexterity, lower intelligence, lower wisdom, lower charisma, disease resistance, psionic vulnerability, food and drink endurance, northern cold affinity, evil tendency
• Languages: Common

Souvraeli

Souvraelis are city-dwelling humans of the desert continent. Trade, education, and politics shape them into quick learners with good manners and sharper motives.

• Home: Souvrael
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: intelligence, charisma, experience gain, water vulnerability, desert affinity
• Languages: Common, Souvraeli

Desert Nomad

Desert nomads are the wandering peoples of Souvrael. Hospitality, faith, endurance, and open sand shape their lives.

• Home: Souvrael
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: constitution, charisma, experience gain, fire resistance, water vulnerability, desert affinity, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Souvraeli

Desert Dwarf

Desert dwarves keep small, peaceful settlements in Souvrael's dry places. They are strong, hardy, resistant to magic, and accustomed to long thirst.

• Home: Souvrael
• Lineage: Dwarf
• Traits: vision, small size, strength, constitution, wisdom, lower dexterity, magic resistance, psionic resistance, drink endurance, desert affinity, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Souvraeli, Dwarvish

Wayfarian

Wayfarians are elves marked by a holy legacy. Their stories remember oppression, Mitra's blessing, and the bright aura that lets them strike evil with more than steel.

• Home: Wayfare
• Lineage: Elf
• Traits: good damage, evil resistance, chaos resistance, strong good tendency
• Languages: Common, Elvish, Talamh

Sidhe

Sidhe are unseelie fae touched by old corruption and a vampiric strain. They are clever, winged, magically quick to recover, and frail in body.

• Home: Talamh Darag
• Lineage: Faerie
• Traits: small size, wings, flight, dexterity, intelligence, spell point recovery, lower strength, lower constitution, drink endurance, strong evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Talamh

Pixie

Pixies are small fae tricksters with silk-like wings and a talent for making other people's plans worse. They are bright, magical, and morally inconvenient.

• Home: Talamh Darag
• Lineage: Faerie
• Traits: small size, wings, flight, intelligence, magic resistance, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Talamh, Faerie

Crannian Gnome

Crannian gnomes are earth-dwelling, misshapen, treasure-guarding cousins of gnomes and dwarves. They are quick, clever, charming, and uncomfortable with the needs of ordinary flesh.

• Home: Talamh Darag
• Lineage: Gnome
• Traits: strong vision, small size, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, experience gain, lower constitution, weaker food and drink endurance
• Languages: Common, Gnomish, Talamh

Hidden And Exotic Clades

Gypsy

Gypsies are bright-clothed wanderers, performers, fortune tellers, and artful travelers. Their lives reward charm, quick fingers, strong stories, and a talent for leaving before the bill arrives.

• Home: Darkwind wanderer camps
• Lineage: Human
• Traits: dexterity, charisma, experience gain, lower wisdom, drink endurance, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Romani

Scro

Scro are disciplined orcs adapted to wildspace and organized war. They are less brutish than uruk, more mentally capable, and trained to treat the strange as a military problem.

• Home: Hidden wildspace outposts
• Lineage: Orc
• Traits: vision, strength, constitution, intelligence, lower charisma, weapon specialization, psionic resistance, astral resistance, evil tendency
• Languages: Common, Orcish

Sylph

Sylphs are high-air fae from mountains, tall trees, and places where the wind has room to think. They are graceful, clever, charming, and lighter than a front-line warrior wants to be.

• Home: Kerei and high faerie places
• Lineage: Faerie
• Traits: strong vision, wings, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, charisma, lower strength, lower constitution, food and drink endurance, good tendency
• Languages: Common, Faerie, Elvish

Thraxian

Thraxians are draconian humanoids from eastern Hyperborea. They carry wings, breath, harsh features, and enough dragon-blooded presence to make tools and polite society both slightly awkward.

• Home: Thrax, Hyperborea
• Lineage: Draconian
• Traits: vision, wings, flight, breath, strength, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, lower dexterity, lower charisma, food endurance, northern cold affinity
• Languages: Common, Draconian

Swamp Troll

Swamp trolls are large, ugly survivors from wet and hungry places. They heal well, hit hard, and dislike sharp punctures more than flames.

• Home: Swamps and troll marshes
• Lineage: Troll
• Traits: large size, high strength, hit point recovery, lower dexterity, lower intelligence, lower wisdom, lower charisma, fire resistance, piercing vulnerability, food and drink endurance
• Languages: Common

Dragon

Dragons are enormous mythic bodies rather than ordinary ancestry. A dragon life changes scale, appetite, language, travel, equipment, and the way the world decides whether a doorway is a joke.

• Home: Dragon class rites
• Lineage: Dragon
• Traits: huge size, slower experience, dragon language
• Languages: Common, Dragon

Crinos

Crinos is the war-form of the wolf-blooded: part person, part wolf, all claws, rage, and terrible presence. It is a transformed clade rather than a normal birth clade.

• Home: Garou and lunar transformations
• Lineage: Lycanthrope
• Traits: vision, large size, high strength, dexterity, high constitution, lower intelligence, lower wisdom, very low charisma, food endurance
• Languages: Varies

Wolf

Wolf form trades hands, speech, and polite society for speed, instinct, teeth, and the clean honesty of a hunt.

• Home: Garou and lunar transformations
• Lineage: Lycanthrope
• Traits: vision, strength, high dexterity, high constitution, lower intelligence, lower wisdom, low charisma, food endurance
• Languages: Varies

Yugoloth

Yugoloth form is a fiendish bargain-body: powerful, cruel, resistant to evil and chaos, and deeply vulnerable to holy order.

• Home: Deathknight bargains
• Lineage: Fiend-touched human
• Traits: vision, strength, constitution, wisdom, low charisma, evil damage, evil resistance, chaos resistance, good vulnerability, law vulnerability, light vulnerability, food endurance, weaker drink endurance, evil and chaotic tendency
• Languages: Common, Demonic

Future Unlock Clades

The following clades are design targets for remort, shrine, quest, class, or other special unlocks. They are not normal Hall of Races choices.

Ashborn

Ashborn bodies carry the desert ash of Ashad in their lungs and blood. Their skin runs warm, their scars darken like soot, and their best work happens around flame, engines, burners, and ruined corpses.

• Unlock: Ashad remort shrine or ash research chain
• Traits: fire resistance, ash crafting, weaker water tolerance, strong endurance

Gearborn

Gearborn are Tekal-touched souls rebuilt with tiny machine miracles. Their hearts tick too evenly, their hands remember measurements, and their bodies make poor peace with wild magic.

• Unlock: Tekal moon shrine
• Traits: crafting, traps, devices, precision, magic vulnerability

Markasi

Markasi are moon-sanctuary descendants from the light of Markas. They are calm, beautiful, difficult to frighten, and drawn toward healing, protection, and astral travel.

• Unlock: Markas pilgrimage
• Traits: light resistance, fear resistance, healing affinity, lower brute force

Dailosi

Dailosi are plague-moon survivors touched by the God of Disease. Their bodies understand sickness too well: resistant to some corruption, unnerving to the healthy, and watched closely by temples.

• Unlock: Dailos shrine or disease quest
• Traits: disease resistance, poison resistance, grim aura, social penalties

Rimebound

Rimebound clades come from Dramasa's barren ice. Their breath fogs even in warm rooms, their blood chills quickly, and their patience outlasts storms that kill ordinary people.

• Unlock: Dramasa remort shrine
• Traits: cold resistance, endurance, slower recovery in heat, calm focus

Cinderkin

Cinderkin are Iglantu-born bodies shaped by lava rivers and elemental fire. They live close to combustion and carry a dangerous brightness under the skin.

• Unlock: Iglantu fire rite
• Traits: fire resistance, burn effects, heat vision, water vulnerability

Sporekin

Sporekin come from Lerquird's mushroom forests and wet fungal depths. They are patient, quiet, strange to read, and more comfortable with rot than with sun.

• Unlock: Lerquird mycelium pact
• Traits: poison resistance, disease resistance, regeneration, light sensitivity

Fallowsworn

Fallowsworn souls come back from the Bodachian Fallows with too much shadow still attached. They see ghosts in the corner of the eye and make haunted places feel almost welcoming.

• Unlock: Bodachian Fallows remort or ghost story chain
• Traits: fear resistance, spirit sight, shadow affinity, light vulnerability

Tideborn

Tideborn are Virodian sea-folk from warm coasts and reef cities. They are graceful swimmers, charming traders, and hard to keep away from salt water.

• Unlock: Virodia sea shrine
• Traits: water resistance, swimming, charisma, fire vulnerability

Lotuskin

Lotuskin are Kerei island mystics whose bodies carry jungle pollen, temple incense, and old faerie bargains. They move quietly and read omens in petals, smoke, and blood.

• Unlock: Kerei hidden temple chain
• Traits: dexterity, stealth, minor omen affinity, poison vulnerability

Serpentblood

Serpentblood clades descend from Souvrael's snake temples and dune cults. They are graceful, patient, venom-wise, and hard to surprise in hot places.

• Unlock: Souvrael serpent temple rite
• Traits: poison resistance, desert affinity, dexterity, cold vulnerability

Stormtouched

Stormtouched are Hyperborean souls claimed by thunder, giants, and old sky wars. Their voices carry, their tempers arrive early, and lightning treats them like distant kin.

• Unlock: Hyperborean storm pilgrimage
• Traits: lightning resistance, strength, loud presence, stealth penalties

Areas

Areas are the places you explore, hunt, quest, gather, and die in. The areas command gives a rough sense of where to go next.

Area Command

Use:

areas <domain>

Domains include:

• darkwind
• highway
• hyperborea
• islands
• kerei
• souvrael
• talamh darag
• underworld

The list shows rough level ranges. Treat those ranges as guidance, not a guarantee.

Variable Areas

Areas marked with {*} have variable-level NPCs.

Variable NPCs can change level to match the first player they encounter. They do not always go below the area's base level, and they return to normal if left unfought for a while.

New Adventurer Areas

Good early places around Darkwind include:

Use monitor, wimpy, and where while learning an area.

Reading Area Danger

Signs that an area is too dangerous:

• Aggressive enemies attack immediately
• Your HP drops faster than food or sitting can recover
• consider or guild judgment tools look bad
• You cannot safely drag one enemy at a time
• Exits are blocked or unclear
• Status effects appear faster than you can answer them

Leaving early is part of learning the map.

Directions

Many old area directions start from Center of Town in Darkwind City. Use the in-game direction helps and areas <domain> for current route hints.

Common travel anchors:

• Center of Town
• Adventurers' Guild
• Docks
• Ferry ticket shops
• Domain town plazas
• Underworld pit

See Travel for ferries, ships, recall, and domain hazards.

Guilds

Work in progress: the guild roster is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Guilds are organizations, disciplines, faiths, orders, and traditions. A guild is something a character learns to do as a skill. It gives the character a social home and a trained way to act in the world. Innate character identities belong to Classes, not the guild roster.

Guild Roster

How Guilds Work

• Guilds give characters a trained discipline and shared home
• Classes are innate identities, separate from learned guild skills
• Advancement uses traits, devotion, mastery, renown, paths, or other guild-native measures
• Some paths are hidden and discovered in play

Joining A Guild

Most characters begin outside the major guilds and join after learning the basics of play. Many guilds require level 5 before they accept new members. Individual guilds can add their own requirements, including stats, alignment, patron ties, reputation, initiation tasks, sponsors, quests, or hidden discovery.

Useful commands and habits:

Pick a guild by the kind of play you want to do every day: the resource loop, the combat rhythm, the social home, the restrictions, and the tools it gives you outside combat.

Leaving Or Changing Guilds

Guild membership is a major character choice. Changing guilds costs time, resources, and in some cases access to training, powers, or relationships built inside the old guild.

DarkWind City has ways to sever guild ties, but the price is serious enough that guild choice remains meaningful. Talk to current members, read the guild page, and try the early command set before committing to a long-term path.

Guilds And Classes

Guild and class choices can both shape combat, equipment, and advancement, but they represent different parts of a character. A guild is learned. A class is innate. See the class roster for Artificer, Dragon, Morpher, Psionicist, and Vampire.

Bard

Work in progress: Bard is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Bards turn attention into power. Songs, stories, rumors, morale, reputation, old lore, loyal fans, and enchanted instruments all become tools in the hands of a practiced performer.

In Play

Bards walk into a room and change what the room believes.

• Learn songs, chants, tricks, and stories
• Perform in rooms where the audience matters
• Keep a lute, drum, fiddle, flute, blade, or fan in the act
• Build Renown through useful performances, public deeds, and lore work
• Open stronger performances and deeper legends

Renown

Renown is the Bard's public memory. It rises through active performances, combat rallying, panic or fear soothing, useful lore, composed material, and witnessed public deeds.

Renown opens new songs and tricks and stays with the character.

Acts

Every Bard learns the same guild, but the act gives the Bard a favorite way to hold the room.

An act is a polished habit. A Bard can retrain the act when the old material goes stale.

Repertoire

Repertoire grows through study, travel, discovered stories, composing, and guild training.

Chorus Companions

Bards can keep parts of the song moving while their hands are busy. A chorus companion is an animated instrument, loyal fan, or enchanted weapon that follows the Bard and carries a melody, rhythm, or refrain.

The old fan fits here: a devotee drawn in by performance who cheers, distracts, carries gossip, and helps the Bard stay public. Singing weapons fit here too: the blade remembers the song and cuts in time with it.

A Bard can keep one lead companion active. Higher Renown opens backup parts that sustain a weaker refrain while the Bard performs something else.

Chorus companions take cues from the Bard:

• carry keeps a chosen melody going at reduced strength
• answer repeats the last performance as an echo
• guard turns the companion toward defense, distraction, or body-blocking
• solo lets the companion take a brief featured action
• dismiss ends the act cleanly

Virtuosos get the most from animated instruments. Motleys use companions for misdirection and embarrassment. Lorekeepers use them to hold protective or memory-heavy refrains.

Audience

Audience changes performance strength, Renown gain, morale recovery, enemy hesitation, and tricks such as distraction or misdirection.

Performances

Tricks

Advancement

Bards advance through Renown, repertoire, composed material, public deeds, audience work, lore discoveries, and companions that survive enough songs to earn a name.

Stage Commands

Acolyte

Work in progress: Acolyte is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Acolytes serve a divine patron. They heal, curse, bless, bargain, cleanse, resurrect, read omens, walk pilgrimages, consecrate ground, and protect allies through faith.

In Play

Every Acolyte has a patron and a vocation.

Daily service looks like this:

• Serve a patron through prayer, taboo, offering, and rite
• Build Devotion through service, pilgrimages, trials, and prayer use
• Use shared prayers in the patron's style
• Unlock patron rites and vocation training at Devotion thresholds
• Read omens, follow portents, and keep shrine work active

Patron choice remains until the character leaves the guild. Vocation shapes play without replacing the patron.

Patrons

Vocations

Devotion

Devotion measures service to the patron and mastery of Acolyte rites. It opens thresholds and stays with the character.

Devotion rises through shrine prayer, tithes, offerings, pilgrimages, patron quests, healing, cleansing, resurrection, consecration, marked enemies, taboo keeping, prayer use in combat, and patron or vocation trials.

Devotion Ranks

Patron Rites

Vocation Training

Omens And Pilgrimage

Sigils

Shared Prayers

All patrons use the same common prayer list. Patron choice changes messaging, damage type, side effects, taboos, and secondary bonuses.

Resurrection

Resurrection returns the fallen, helps recover the corpse, stabilizes the target after death, and gives a chance to restore lost level progress.

Shrine Commands

Fighter

Work in progress: Fighter is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Fighters are trained combatants. They own weapons, armor, shields, positioning, endurance, discipline, and the practical art of keeping a battle from falling apart.

In Play

Fighter owns the hard middle: stand, strike, guard, recover, and keep other people alive.

• Consider the enemy
• Choose the weapon and shield that fit the fight
• Turn on the defensive techniques worth paying for
• Use bash, disarm, charge, cleave, or defend at the right moment
• Surge when endurance runs low
• Call an armsman or guild help when the line starts to break

Endurance

Endurance is the Fighter's tactical reserve. Defensive toggles and hard maneuvers spend it when they matter. Combat bars can show endurance and active techniques.

Defensive Techniques

Weapons And Armor

Fighter uses almost every weapon family. The guild rewards matching weapon to maneuver.

Weapon inspection reads balance, quality, and use. Armor inspection reads coverage, protection, warmth, and fit. Balance improves a suitable weapon.

Maneuvers

Armsmen

Advancement

Fighters advance through battle. Every worthy NPC kill (killing blow, or at least 10% of the victim's health dealt) awards Fighter XP — more for tough prey and bosses, less for repeat farming, nothing for trivial kills. Guild levels 2 through 15 pop automatically as XP accumulates; there is no exp or gold cost and no purchase step.

Two gates hold advancement back: your guild level can never exceed your character level, and your combined guild levels across guilds can never exceed your character level. XP earned while gated is banked and the levels pop when you next advance your character. Skills unlock by guild level as listed under fs.

Total to Battle Lord (level 15): 237,000 Fighter XP. fstats shows your progress; the battle record survives leaving the guild and is restored on rejoining.

Fighter Commands

Garou

Work in progress: Garou is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Garou are Gaea's werewolf children: protectors, predators, spirits, and warning teeth. They carry rage and duty in the same body.

In Play

Garou embodies Gaea's animal judgment.

• Read the room through scent, instinct, and balance
• Choose the right form for the work
• Build Rage through danger, pain, pursuit, and threat
• Spend Rage on decisive violence, protection, or spiritual answers
• Calm down before the Rage owns the body

Forms

Changing form is a commitment: wolf hunts, Crinos breaks, human speaks and uses tools.

Rage

Rage rises from pain, pursuit, corruption, pack defense, denial, moon pull, howls, roars, and form shifts. It gives stronger attacks, faster pursuit, and refusal moments. Too much Rage narrows judgment.

Pack

Pack is social memory: warnings, remembered targets, territory, pursuit, carrying, defense, and shared answers to corruption.

Dedication

Every Garou leans toward a duty.

Moon And Balance

Moon state matters as instinct and omen. Balance reads corruption, spiritual sickness, and broken natural order.

Abilities

Pack Commands

Druid

Work in progress: Druid is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Druids serve Gaea through grove, storm, root, beast, moon, water, stone, fire, rot, and renewal. The sea and stone, the storm and sun, the animals and plants, the patient work of decay, and the first green push after ruin all belong to their circle.

In Play

A Druid reads the ground first. Forest, swamp, desert, cave, storm, moonlight, and sacred grove all change which rites feel near at hand.

• Read the terrain
• Gather components and profession materials
• Tend a sacred grove
• Use rites that match the land, path, and form
• Craft Druid-only Alchemy blueprints
• Master favorite rites through real use

Natural Attunement

Natural Attunement rises through rite use, grove service, harvesting, path practice, living pilgrimages, and acts that restore natural balance.

Rite mastery moves from Known to Practiced, Fluent, Rootbound, and Elder. Higher mastery improves cost, recovery, terrain hooks, grove hooks, form hooks, and component use.

Sacred Grove

Every Druid has a sacred grove planted in the wild. It grows through care, components, and plant or renewal magic used nearby.

Terrain And Components

Attunement reads the current terrain. Favorable terrain strengthens forms and changes certain rites.

Harvesting And Verdant Alchemy

Druids use Professions as part of guild life. Herbalism turns wild herbs into potions, poultices, grove offerings, rite catalysts, and blueprint ingredients.

Blueprints unlock through Alchemy, Attunement, path work, and grove stage.

Paths And Spheres

Spheres are the spell lenses: Animal for companions and forms, Plant for growth and thorns, Water for healing and drowning, Air for wind and storm, Earth for stone and endurance, Fire for heat and harsh renewal.

Wild Shape And Followers

Druid forms are spirit-forms learned through Gaea's mysteries.

Rites

Lunar Rites

Dailos brings disease and change. Markas brings sanctuary and healing. Tekal brings knowledge, balance, and strange gravity.

Restrictions

Druids favor leather, hide, wood, bone, stone, cloth, plant fiber, silver, and gold. Heavy plate and most forged metal armor break the covenant. Sickles, daggers, staves, spears, polearms, bows, thrown weapons, and simple blunts fit. Extreme holiness or corruption disrupts spellcasting.

Field Commands

Mage

Peering into the Dark Wind, Magi learn to read and alter the patterns beneath the visible world. Heat has structure; distance can be folded; memory leaves a pristine copy behind the mind. Death, light, and even an interrupted moment can be written down if the Mage is patient enough. Those observations accumulate in a leather-bound spellbook, and the field is where they become more than theory.

In the guild's older vocabulary, gramarye is the art and a spell made real is a working. Cantrips, charms, and malisons describe the temper of particular workings rather than separate advancement tracks.

Mage is intended to feel useful immediately. Mana Shard and Missile are steady first-page attacks, while Analyze, Detect, and Blaze give a new member reasons to open the spellbook outside combat. Level-appropriate fighting supplies most Mage guild XP, or GXP. Useful field casting adds smaller, rate-limited awards, so varied play advances Arcane without rewarding empty repetition. Arcane has fifteen ranks, and every rank reveals another portion of the spellbook.

Learning the spellbook

A working develops its own history alongside Arcane. Its first useful casts move it from Copied to Practiced, then onward through Fluent, Inscribed, and Instinctive. The progression is compact enough to understand at a glance, but the consequences accumulate naturally: costs fall, rune sockets open, and automatic casting becomes quicker.

The first rune socket makes a familiar page personal. Ashkenazy may push it toward raw force, Talek toward cold and Chilled, or Ravidel toward fire and Burning. By the time the second socket opens, two Magi can carry the same working and use it rather differently.

Workings and combat

The combat pages are meant to form sentences rather than sit as isolated buttons. Fireball and Inferno leave Burning behind. Icestorm brings Chilled, and Stasis resolves a few seconds after casting with cold damage and Freezing. Glassstorm hangs written panes in the air before breaking them across nearby enemies and applying Exposed. Once the room is carrying enough hostile conditions, Singularity consumes them and gains fifteen percent damage from each, up to seventy-five percent. A group that brings its own statuses can help write the same ending.

Echoform waits beside the Mage's thoughts and copies the next direct offensive working for a thirty-five percent echo two seconds later. Recollection is the quieter signature spell. After a vulnerable four-second weave it restores all missing SP at the cost of ten percent maximum health. Its private timer begins at ten minutes. Recollection mastery removes one minute at Practiced, two at Fluent, three at Inscribed, and four at Instinctive; wielded FOCUS and worn AURA equipment each remove another minute, with a five-minute floor.

Delayed workings require commitment. Movement by the Mage or a chosen target tears the unfinished geometry loose, and another working cannot begin until the pending one resolves. The delay is visible through the normal buff/status display, making the risk legible to both the caster and the group.

Battlemage resonance

Barrage lets Mana Shard, Missile, Fireball, Icestorm, or Bolt cast a lighter copy of itself beside ordinary combat. A Practiced working can be prepared with barrage <working> and continues to improve as its automatic casts land. Its cadence rises from every four combat rounds at Practiced to every three at Fluent and every two at Inscribed. Mastery lowers its SP cost, Falx can quicken the rhythm, and Instinctive barrage costs nothing.

Wielding a FOCUS brings that playstyle forward. Any known barrage working may be prepared while it is still Copied, its automatic casts cost no SP, and the weapon improves both cadence and damage. Worn AURA equipment completes the battlemage resonance, adding another improvement to each. A freshly Copied working therefore fires every four rounds with FOCUS alone or every three with both pieces; practice soon brings the fully resonant cadence to its floor of two rounds. The Mage still makes ordinary weapon attacks and may still choose manual workings, so the result feels like weapon-and-spell combat rather than a caster waiting between commands.

battlemage reports the current equipment resonance, prepared page, cadence, SP cost, and Recollection timer. barrage off releases the prepared working.

Investiture opens at Arcane 4 and lets a Mage borrow one missing half of the style. investiture focus writes temporary FOCUS resonance over an ordinary wielded weapon, while investiture aura draws an AURA around the caster. The working is bound to the chosen weapon and goes dormant if that weapon is no longer wielded. Because only one Investiture can be sustained, it completes a real FOCUS or AURA rather than conjuring full resonance by itself.

Runes and the old Isle

Four rune patterns belong to ordinary Arcane instruction. Five others wait for the spellbook to witness a feat or discovery.

The Isle of the Magi lies south of Darkwind, still scarred by the war that separated Mage and Necromancer lore. At Arcane 9, a Mage can attune to the surviving Focus Point and enter the buried portion of Arcanarton's broken tower. A fused palimpsest and a violet fracture preserve more of the old argument than the official history admits. Bodach's page waits elsewhere, beneath the disused well, after the Wyrm's breath no longer overwhelms the quieter voices there. These discoveries remain in the spellbook permanently.

Long study and useful commands

GXP continues accumulating at Arcane 15. Surplus study opens Silverline, Ember Script, Aurora Hand, and finally the Void Palimpsest. These marginalia styles change the flourish around completed workings without making the cap another compulsory power climb; marginalia lists the open styles and selects one.

Most of the guild can be navigated through a small set of commands. research or study describes Arcane progress and the next page. spellbook follows mastery, rune sockets, equipment resonance, and the prepared barrage, while spells is the working index. runes, inscribe, and unbind manage the customization pages. battlemage explains the live weapon-and-AURA setup. Guild conversation uses mage <message>—with m and ma as aliases—and magi lists visible members.

Monk

Work in progress: Monk is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Monks train the body until discipline becomes a weapon. Breath, chi, staff work, empty-hand forms, notches, challenges, and combos define the guild.

In Play

Monk is breath, rhythm, posture, and the body used with complete intent.

• Choose a style for the fight
• Build or steady Chi
• Use staff, fist, sweep, kick, and point strikes
• Chain moves into combos
• Meditate, train, and earn notches from formal challenges

Chi

Chi powers burst, defense, recovery, transfer, and special techniques. It rises through meditation, clean combos, training, hard survival, and style triggers. It falls when spent on advanced techniques.

Styles

Styles change which attacks flow cleanly and which recovery options feel natural.

Combos

Combos are planned routes. Example routes:

• Sweep into staff strike
• Body point into open punch
• Grapple into tiger punch
• Chi focus into chi blast
• Crane defense into counterstrike

Notches And Challenges

Notches record training victories, formal tests, and memorable fights. Challenges open higher training, stronger combos, and better Chi control.

Abilities

Training Commands

Ninja

Ninja are disciplined assassins built around stealth, disabling strikes, bare-handed combat, and short technique combos.

Joining requires level 5 and at least 10 unmodified Dexterity.

Progression

Ninja have two independent progression tracks:

• Guild level rises only when Yagyu accepts proof of a newly completed unique assassination mark. Marks do not cost experience or guild XP. There are 50 marks and guild level 50 is final.
• Ninja rank rises every 250 guild XP (GXP). Each rank after rank 1 grants one training session. Rank does not change guild level.

Qualifying combat kills use the shared guild-kill award system; NPCs ten or more levels below the Ninja grant no battle GXP. A fully validated Ninja skill attempt awards 2 GXP, whether its reliability roll succeeds or fails, subject to per-skill pacing. Resolving a three-piece combo awards another 10 GXP.

Reliability and Training

Unlocked trainable skills start at 70% reliability. practice <skill> spends one available session to add 5%, up to 100%. Failed reliability rolls charge one fifth of the evaluated SP cost and do not consume required items, start the normal cooldown, or add a combo piece.

nskills displays guild level, marks, Ninja rank, residual GXP, available sessions, and each skill's reliability.

gscore ninja also reports whether nswitch is currently using bare hands or ordinary weapons, including the screen-reader presentation.

Marks

Ask Yagyu in the Kerei guildhouse to accept challenge. Kill the assigned target yourself, use bloody to mark the kunai with that exact target's corpse, and give the kunai back to Yagyu. Suggested target level influences assignment selection but is not an advancement gate.

Every assignment permits one free reroll challenge. The replacement is a different incomplete mark; the rejected mark remains eligible later. Use list challenge to review the active assignment and completion count.

Combos and Pummel

Successful offensive techniques add pieces to the wraps. Three recent pieces resolve during combat, producing a specialized result for recognized combinations or a general burst otherwise. Pieces expire after a short time.

Pummel applies a stacking physical vulnerability. Its duration is min(90, 30 + 2 * guild level) seconds and it can end early after its extra damage budget is exhausted.

Common Commands

Ranger

Work in progress: Ranger is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Rangers are practical wilderness specialists. They know terrain, tracks, weather, tools, camps, animal helpers, and the quiet work that happens before the first arrow lands.

In Play

Ranger studies the land, reads the trail, and survives.

• Read the terrain
• Track or choose quarry
• Prepare a camp, trail mark, trap, or ambush
• Open from range or from cover
• Keep the fight on ground the Ranger understands

Terrain

Familiar ground gives better tracking, cleaner foraging, stronger ambushes, and safer camps.

Terrain familiarity rises by traveling, foraging, tracking, camping, and fighting on that type of ground.

Quarry

Quarry study improves tracking, ambush openings, called shots, companion behavior, trap placement, and material recovery.

Camps

Camps are temporary field positions for recovery, gear sorting, track reading, and planning. Familiar terrain and field materials make them stronger.

Companion

Ranger companions scout, track, distract, retrieve, guard, and help finish wounded quarry. Training and field use improve them.

Abilities

Field Commands

Swashbuckler

Dashing rogues, gallant courtiers, outlaw kings, pirates, kensai, duelists, and dockside troublemakers all find a home in the Swashbucklers. They trust quick feet, light armor, a ready blade, a better insult, and the kind of nerve that turns a bad room into a story.

In Play

A Swashbuckler is at home in courts, taverns, alleys, ships, forts, and any place where someone important thinks they are safe. The guild fights in the open, usually with a jest on the tongue and a blade already moving.

A Swashbuckler steals the room. The guild wins by making the fight public, personal, flamboyant, and just a little haunted.

• Choose a proper blade
• Start one or more techniques
• Build Flair by holding the fight, landing criticals, and wielding named weapons
• Spend Flair on quick pressure or a decisive push
• Challenge, charm, parley, skulk, or toss a doubloon when the room turns ugly
• Steal attention with a flourish, insult, named blade, or ghostly echo
• Name the weapon that survives long enough to deserve it

Blades

Many Swashbuckler powers require a blade: knives, daggers, rapiers, sabres, cutlasses, short swords, katanas, and other light or one-handed swords. A good blade is more than a damage number. It has weight, balance, edge, story, and the right sort of arrogance in the hand.

sevaluate reads a weapon without making it magical. It tells the Swashbuckler what the blade is good for, whether it suits slashing or thrusting, and whether it has oddities worth noticing.

Finesse

Finesse measures how much blade work a Swashbuckler can keep alive at once. A young Swashbuckler handles one technique. A seasoned one layers styles until the fight looks unfair.

Technique strain comes from:

• Technique weight
• Blade type
• Armor weight
• Current tempo
• Charm and reputation
• Multiple offensive techniques
• Multiple defensive techniques

Too much strain makes the dance ugly. A good Swashbuckler knows when to add another flourish and when to stop before the feet get tangled.

Rank and Flow

Swashbuckler Rank is open-ended and earned through GXP from qualifying kills, active combat windows, and triggered techniques. Ability Tier is 1 + floor(2 * sqrt(rank - 1)); it synchronizes the legacy guild level so existing abilities, titles, and rooms remain compatible.

Flow rises by 5 on eligible combat heartbeats, to a maximum of 100. It holds for six seconds after combat ends, then falls by 10 per heartbeat. Flow discounts positive technique SP costs by up to 50%. At full Flow, each eligible combat round has a 5% chance to steal one guaranteed weapon hit. At Tier 15 and full Flow, Dance of Death can separately and very rarely make the next paid triggered technique free.

An effect that prevents fleeing does not disable in-room attacks such as Slip, Press, Wound, Sap, Thrust, or Flank. Physical restraint still blocks those maneuvers, while Skulk retains the fleeing/movement check because it actually changes rooms.

Flair

Flair is the visible part of Swashbuckler skill: the glove slap, the impossible bow, the lucky coin, the cutting joke, the named blade held high while someone bleeds on the floor. In combat, it is also a spendable momentum resource.

Flair starts at zero, decays outside combat, and caps at 10 + CHR/10. Each active combat round offers a chance to gain Flair. Wielding a named weapon provides an additional opportunity, and Flourish improves both chances. A critical hit grants one Flair, at most once per combat round.

Flair spenders currently include:

Techniques

Techniques are blade styles. Some trigger when the right moment appears. Others pull effort every round. They can be started and stopped with starttech and stoptech.

Dance of Death is passive at Tier 15; sdance remains reserved only for compatibility messaging. Spectral Siphon unlocks at Tier 18.

Phantom Brethren

The Order keeps company with its dead. Old duelists, drowned pirates, vanished kensai, and nameless bladesmen linger around the guild's flashiest work. They answer best when a Swashbuckler fights with a named weapon, holds the center of the room, or risks everything on a beautiful mistake.

The ghostly side stays concrete. phantom calls fallen brethren into the attack. Black Flag Bravado leans harder into drowned pirates and haunted boarding work. Named weapons and the Dance of Death give those echoes style and timing while phantom remains the main ghostly technique.

Tricks

Swashbucklers are duelists. Style counts. So does leaving a room before anyone notices, buying luck with coin, insulting a foe into standing still, and talking a brawl into a truce.

Some of the guild's theater is practical. Some of it is simply necessary. A dramatic bow, a glove slap, a carved initial, a lucky coin, and a weapon juggled while waiting all belong to the same tradition.

Named Weapons

Naming a weapon begins as style. It becomes history when the blade survives duels, escapes, wounds, insults, impossible victories, humiliations, and recoveries. The name makes the weapon personal.

Named blades can remember:

• Notable opponents
• Favorite techniques
• Public challenges
• Parley victories
• Broken weapons
• Lost duels
• Recoveries after embarrassment

Bravados

Bravado is a polished flavor of trouble. A Swashbuckler learns a Bravado from a branch, keeps one polished at a time, and can retrain when another kind of trouble calls louder.

Each Bravado gives one signature trick and nudges a small set of existing techniques. The core guild stays the same: blades, Finesse, tricks, named weapons, and nerve.

Advancement

Swashbucklers advance through Finesse, technique mastery, duels, daring escapes, public victories, blade work, and a reputation that can survive being seen.

Deck Commands

Thief

Work in progress: Thief is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Thieves turn information, access, timing, and opportunity into power. They case rooms, scout exits, steal coins, lift objects, plant evidence, trap paths, follow marks, hide in plain sight, poison blades, and strike when the target is already compromised.

In Play

Thieves care about the thing everybody else forgot to guard: the purse, the door, the evidence, the exit, the witness, the back.

• Case the target or room
• Scout exits and escape routes
• Steal, palm, pick, plant, trap, or shadow
• Let Heat rise only as far as the job is worth
• Enter combat with poison, marks, position, and dirty tricks
• Leave with the money, item, secret, or body

Jobs

Jobs are the Thief's real work.

Heat

Heat is the cost of being sloppy. Witnessed theft, repeated targets, botched jobs, public violence, and obvious escapes raise Heat. Clean escapes, time, contacts, and quieter work lower it.

Marks

Marks are prepared advantages from casing, shadowing, scouting, planting, trapping, or studying habits.

Dirty Fighting

Thief combat is unfair by design. The guild uses openings, bleeds, stuns, movement denial, poison, and prepared strikes.

Advancement

Thieves advance through jobs, clean escapes, marks, contacts, traps, risky theft, and prepared violence.

Guild levels 2 through 20 are bought with gold coins carried on hand at the guild hall: cost shows the price of the next level and advance guild pays it. Your guild level must stay below your character level.

Job Commands

Berserker

Berserker is an independent combat guild built around Fury, Frenzy, Madness, Vex training, and permanent scars.

Berserkers turn pain, fear, and bad odds into weaponized fury. They feed violence until it becomes a machine: build Fury, break into Frenzy, and keep Madness from taking the wheel.

In Play

Berserker starts simple.

• Fight and kill to build Fury
• Fury crests into Frenzy
• Frenzy tears through the enemy
• Vent, crash, recover, and start again

Mastery means riding Frenzy instead of ending it. Kills and heavy hits keep Fury moving. Staying in Frenzy builds Madness. Madness makes Frenzy stronger, opens harder effects, and raises the cost of losing control. A strong Berserker keeps Madness high enough to matter and low enough to survive.

Fury

Fury is the fuel. It rises from combat and falls when the Berserker vents, crashes, waits too long, or loses the chain of violence.

It can be tracked on the monitor bar if enabled (bstatus fury on) and ranges from 0 to 100.

Fury rises from:

• Taking damage
• Landing heavy hits
• Killing enemies
• Being outnumbered
• Suffering a status condition
• Berserker skills

When Fury crests, Berserker Frenzy opens.

Automatic Frenzy performs five attacks, two seconds apart, and drains the entire Fury bar. Fury generation is suppressed until the barrage ends. The Berserker monitor shows the remaining Frenzy pulses and time, and reports when the Frenzy ends.

Frenzy

Frenzy is the Berserker's signature state and is available once Fury reaches its maximum. Initially, this presents as a barrage of attacks that happen automatically. This drains Fury, and prevents new Fury from being generated for a short duration.

Berserkers learn to hold onto Frenzy and release it by choice. This is Directed Frenzy.

While using Directed Frenzy mode, a Berserker who holds maximum Fury for too long gains Madness.

Directed Frenzy is unlocked through the Momentum Vex branch. Use frenzymode directed, frenzymode automatic, and frenzymode release to control it.

Madness

Madness is a measure of a Berserker that has given in to their rage. With Fury at its maximum, any additional Fury is tracked toward Madness, with each additional 100 Fury gained granting one level of Madness (up to 5).

It can be tracked on the monitor bar if enabled (bstatus madness on).

Madness falls when:

• The Berserker uses vent
• Frenzy ends naturally
• The Berserker leaves combat and remains calm
• Certain guild skills spend Madness
• Certain supernatural or alchemical effects soothe rage

Madness rises when:

• Fury would be gained while already at maximum Fury
• The Berserker scores a killing blow during Directed Frenzy
• The Berserker takes a large single hit while at maximum Fury
• The Berserker is stunned, paralyzed, feared, poisoned, or otherwise impaired
• The Berserker remains at maximum Fury without venting

The effects of each level are cumulative unless otherwise noted.

Madness Level 0

• vent: At the cost of SP, the Berserker dumps all Fury and Madness
• No passive Madness benefits or checks

Madness Level 1

• The Berserker gains minor passive damage resistance against weapon damage
• Berserker guild skills no longer consume Fury
• The Berserker occasionally suffers a Concentration block
• Dropping out of Madness gives a temporary stat penalty

Madness Level 2

• The Berserker cannot flee while actively fighting; normal movement returns when combat ends
• Berserker abilities remain usable while this no-flee restriction is active
• Weapon damage resistance improves
• Critical hit damage bonus
• vent cost increases and reserves some SP

Madness Level 3

• The Berserker occasionally resists stun and paralysis effects
• Weapon damage resistance improves
• Chance to answer a weapon hit with one targeted main-hand or unarmed attack without changing combat targets
• vent has a real failure chance

Madness Level 4

• Critical hit damage bonus
• Each main-hand attack has a 15% chance to gain at least one extra swing, a 4% chance to gain at least two, a 1% chance to gain at least three, and a 0.25% chance to gain four. One roll selects the whole long-tail result
• Momentum mastery improves every tier of that swing distribution; Madness 5 raises the baseline chances to 20%, 6%, 2%, and 0.5%
• High chance to lash out and attack random targets

Madness Level 5

Upon reaching Madness level 5, the Berserker loses control.

At this stage:

• Weapon damage resistance improves
• Higher chance to resist stun and paralysis effects
• The Berserker remains Exposed
• Outside combat, the Berserker suffers 2% of maximum health as blunt damage every 10 seconds until Madness falls below 5. A sufficiently strong Black Scar reduces or suppresses this damage
• Attacks can apply Exposed

Scars

When Berserkers meet certain conditions, they receive a permanent mark on their body. They record what the Berserker survived and change what the Berserker becomes.

Scars are permanent once earned. Training Flare allows one scar at a time to be activated for 60 seconds, increasing to 75 seconds at higher rank:

The full-strength duration appears as Flared Scar in the buffs display. At sufficient Defiance mastery, its residual benefit continues quietly until the Flare cooldown ends.

• Blood heals 8% of damage dealt at full scar strength, capped at 5% of maximum health per hit. Blood mastery 30 raises those values to 10% and 7%
• Iron increases weapon and control resistance
• Packbreaker improves combat performance while outnumbered
• Frenzy adds one pulse to the barrage, or two while fully flared, without increasing total Fury drain
• Black reduces Madness 5's out-of-combat self-damage and suppresses it at full strength

Vex Training

Berserker uses an independent, uncapped Berserker Rank. Its normal guild level remains at 1 for membership and dual-guild compatibility, so Berserker progression does not consume another guild's advancement allowance.

Rank starts at 1 and grants one Vex per Rank. XP required for the next Rank is:

250 + (3 * current Berserker Rank * current Berserker Rank)

Berserker XP is awarded automatically for meaningful NPC kills while Berserker is the active guild. The Berserker must land the killing blow or be listed among the killers after dealing at least 10% of the victim's maximum health. Pets, players, zero-XP NPCs, and enemies ten or more levels below the Berserker award none. The standard player kill tracker scales awards when too many recent kills come from the same area, encouraging varied hunting without eventually stopping combat XP altogether. Bosses are exempt from this scaling.

The Darkwind trainer also supports convert berserker <normal-xp|next> outside combat. The conversion rate begins at 1000 + (2 * Berserker Rank * Berserker Rank) normal XP per Berserker XP. bstatus shows the current rate.

The 19 core nodes each have five ranks, making a 95-Vex core journey:

Nodes in each column must be learned from top to bottom. A node cannot exceed the rank of its predecessor. Use vex tree, vex info <node>, and vex train <node> to inspect and raise them.

Completing every node in a branch unlocks vex mastery <branch>. Branch mastery is uncapped:

• Mastery 1-10 grants 1% branch strength per point
• Mastery 11-20 grants 0.5% per point
• Mastery 21-30 grants 0.25% per point
• Mastery above 30 grants prestige rather than additional combat power
• Milestone effects unlock at mastery 10, 20, and 30

Blood mastery improves Blood skills and wounds, Momentum mastery improves Momentum skills and Frenzy, and Defiance mastery improves healing, control breaks, resistance, and scar use.

Thick Hide's listed 2-10% weapon resistance is its full-health baseline before mastery while Mad. The bonus grows as health falls and reaches twice the listed value at 25% health or lower.

Use retrain vex confirm at the trainer outside combat to refund all core and mastery Vex for an escalating fee. Rank, XP, scars, and preferences remain; current rage and active scar state are cleared.

Abilities

Fury Commands

Armour

Berserkers may wear light, medium, or heavy armour, including shields, in any material. Individual items can still enforce their own level, race, size, or slot restrictions. Use berhelp armour in game for the concise version.

Utility Commands

Charlatan

The Charlatans are live on their modern command path. Their many-pocketed cloak keeps their road training and Rank notes, while their tricks cover control, volatile ash brews, poison leverage, and temporary loaded weapons.

Charlatans are Wayfarian tricksters who make lies useful. They win by creating the wrong certainty at the right moment, carrying a pocket for every bad idea, and ensuring that even their successes have suspicious fine print.

Progression

Charlatans earn guild XP from level-appropriate combat and bosses. GXP raises Charlatan Rank; ranks fund road selections rather than a second copy of classic guild level. gscore charlatan shows current rank, XP, roads, profession gates, and unspent points. Each rank after the first grants one road point through a total of thirty; use croads train <road>. Roads cap at ten, so Rank 31 provides enough points to complete all three. Later Ranks open horizontal schemes rather than additional road points. Every new Charlatan begins with confuse and suckerpunch; Misdirection improves both rather than gating the guild's first direct attack.

Advanced Schemes

Beginning at Rank 35, every fifth Rank through 105 opens one scheme in Drina's ledger. Learning permanently records the scheme in the Charlatan cloak and costs 1,000 gold per required Rank. A learned scheme can fill an empty active slot for free; replacing an occupied slot costs half the incoming scheme's Rank in thousands of gold, with a 25,000 minimum. Drina must be present for learning and loadout changes.

Charlatans have one active scheme slot initially, two at Rank 50, three at Rank 100, and another every fifty Ranks thereafter. All fifteen schemes can be learned by Rank 105, but only three can be active then. schemes shows the catalogue, permanent cloak notes, active loadout, effects, and prices.

Learned schemes and the active loadout remain scribbled in the cloak. Older cloaks begin with blank scheme pages, while their existing roads and road points remain intact.

Profession Gates

Road investment determines which kind of Charlatan the character is; profession skill determines whether they can execute the technical parts. The cloak soul's extra_gscore() output shows the three relevant profession values through gscore charlatan.

Guild actions do not award profession skill directly. Players advance the professions through their owning systems, preserving profession rooms, materials, recipes, and advancement loops.

Potions Without Replacing Professions

Alchemy owns dependable recipes, healing, stat support, work orders, and a repeatable market. Charlatan mixtures are encounter tools:

• narrow and short-lived;
• frequently thrown, smeared, or planted rather than consumed;
• made from stolen, substituted, or profession-sourced ingredients;
• guaranteed to carry a side effect, tell, delayed crash, or backfire chance;
• poor merchandise unless the buyer enjoys waivers.

Elemental bottles return as volatile surprises. Healing and clean stat potions do not return as core Charlatan products. A Charlatan may adulterate a profession potion later, but does not replace the profession recipe.

brewacid requires guild rank 2, Volatility 1, and Alchemy 25. It makes one owner-bound base flask, which may be thrown as a modest acid surprise or used by cookash <grey|red|blue|mixed> (legacy alias ccook). Cook Ash uses every available ash of the selected colour; mixed uses every colour. A single batch needs at least 10 relevant ash, while mixed needs at least 10 of each. Grey requires Alchemy 25, red/blue 75, and mixed 150.

brewelement <fire|ice|lightning> (alias elementpotion) requires guild rank 3, Volatility 2, and Alchemy 75. It creates one owner-bound, two-hour elemental flask. throw <element> flask at <target> deals the corresponding elemental harm, consumes the flask, starts combat, and kicks some of the blast back onto the thrower. In combat the explicit target may be omitted. The usual rules for reaching, seeing, and attacking a target still apply.

Quaffing the result creates a buff-visible Cookash Rush: grey favors accuracy and defense, red favors damage, blue favors accuracy and an extra swing, and mixed blends the offensive benefits at lower strength. Aim for 100 ash for a proper batch. More still stretches the rush, but the difference soon becomes difficult to notice; no rush lasts longer than thirty minutes. Only one rush may run at once. The vial belongs to its maker, cannot be sold, and goes flat after two hours. Throwing it deals elemental harm and always splashes the thrower. The cloak needs only a few seconds before it can cook another.

Food And Drink Additives

concoct <red salt|blue mixer|cutting bitters> (alias cmix) requires guild rank 2 and Volatility 2. It creates a transferable, no-save additive that expires after thirty minutes. mix <additive> into <carried food or drink> uses one packet on the entire carried serving; each item accepts only one. An additive cannot improve fare meant for someone more experienced than its maker, and even the finest packet tops out at Epic fare.

The additives work on profession fish, wildcrafted meals, pub food, and ordinary drinks. One packet treats every use of a meal, snack, keg, or jug; refillable containers lose the treatment when emptied. A fresh helping of the same seasoning refreshes its aftertaste rather than stacking it. Inspection and consumption messages reveal the strength and duration of the lingering recovery.

Poisons And Modifications

Charlatans should consume existing poison items or profession reagents and improve delivery: conceal a dose, stretch its duration at reduced strength, mix two weak toxins, or trigger a secondary distraction. They do not need a parallel poison catalog.

The caravan shops still sell ordinary throwing darts, whose item-owned throw <target> action remains live. cdip consumes a fresh Charlatan acid or elemental flask, or an existing prepared poison, to coat up to ten clean darts. The Rank 105 Liquid Assets scheme removes that limit. Acid darts can Sunder; fire, ice, lightning, and poison retain their own delivery effects. The pegasus-wing recipe, smoke packets, and special potion bottles remain retired.

Every loaded weapon has a drawback: noise, brittleness, self-exposure, a delayed crash, or a chance to mark the user. Unique gear remains off limits. The cloak is good at temporary, questionable improvements—not reputable craftsmanship.

loadweapon gives a carried, unwielded, non-unique weapon a temporary corrosive, razzled, oiled, silvered, flaming, frozen, poisoned, or shocking treatment. Dazzling opens at Contraband 1/Alchemy 50; corrosive, oiled, and poisoned at Contraband 2 with Alchemy 75/70/100; flaming and frozen at Contraband 3/Alchemy 100; silvered at Contraband 4, Alchemy 125, Smithing 50, and one Silver Bar; shocking at Contraband 4/Alchemy 150. Each has installer-side fine print. flash, oil, acid, and quicksilver remain parsing aliases. Corrosive consumes one fresh acid flask and lowers weapon class by one while giving strikes acid damage that can Sunder. Serration was removed.

Flaming strikes can leave a foe Burning, frozen strikes can leave one Chilled, and dazzling weapons have a very rare chance to steal a foe's train of thought. Sharpened gear can very rarely leave a foe Bleeding. Oiled weapons become markedly easier to place as soon as they are ready again.

stretchpoison opens at guild rank 3, Contraband 2, and Alchemy 100. It consumes an existing poison, smears a weaker but longer-lasting version onto a compatible weapon, preserves the poison's special nastiness, and poisons the installer. Fair is fair.

Sucker Punch

suckerpunch [foe] (alias spunch) is a baseline guild-rank-1 attack. It turns the Charlatan's weapon, physical talent, and Misdirection into one unfair melee hit. A foe already paralyzed or unable to concentrate leaves room for a much harder blow, making confuse and distract natural setup tools. At Misdirection 4, a second wielded weapon joins the pitch. This is still a close-range trick; confidence cannot punch across a room.

Distract

At guild rank 3 and Misdirection 2, distract throws the Charlatan's voice somewhere inconvenient and disrupts a foe's concentration. With deeper Misdirection, the mark may briefly forget whom they were fighting at all.

Live Commands

Traits

Traits measure what a character has learned by doing. They are separate from level, stats, guild, and clade.

A trait ranges from 0 to 1,000. Using a related skill, completing related work, or finishing specific content can raise that trait. Most traits train through use up to 750. The highest ranks come from quests, discoveries, achievements, or other focused progress.

A trait can only train up to 5 times your character level.

Seeing Traits

Some traits stay hidden until your character discovers them.

Common Trait Uses

Traits can affect:

• Spell research
• Gathering
• Crafting
• Reading signs and lore
• Identifying materials
• Handling difficult terrain
• Unlocking recipes
• Qualifying for advanced training
• Improving guild or class features

Example Traits

See Professions for gathering, crafting, tools, and reagents.

Professions

Professions are traits used for gathering, crafting, and supplying other players. They give every character a way to participate in the economy beyond killing monsters.

DarkWind has eleven professions.

Commands

Profession tools can be bought from the profession building in town. Most transformed forms do not need profession tools.

Not every reagent drop appears in reagents.

The profession building is also where workers, refining, and several crafting stations live.

Gathering Professions

Gathering professions are tied to terrain and what you kill. Different domains provide different materials.

Gathering professions can always skill up, though the chance gets lower as the skill rises. Higher skill also improves gathering yield.

Manufacturing Professions

Manufacturing uses gathered resources and reagents dropped by NPCs.

Manufacturing skillups depend on the tier of item being made. Crafting far below your current skill eventually stops improving the profession until the final tier.

Cybernetics currently uses the private Street Samurai fabrication table. Extracted cyberware can be dismantled into saved cybernetic components, which are displayed with reagents cyber and consumed by fabrication recipes.

Forestry

Forestry requires a forestry axe from the profession general store. Marked timber stands appear in the Kingswood. chop tree harvests weighted oak, ash, or pine timber and exhausts the visible stand until its virtual room resets. Higher Forestry skill improves yield and can produce fine, superior, or masterwork timber. Harvested wood is saved automatically in reagents wood.

Carpentry

Carpentry works in the Kingdom Commons or inside a homestead.

Furniture plans include stools, chairs, tables, bookshelves, and beds. Species and quality carry into the result. A room can hold eight furnishings, and placed furniture persists with the homestead across logout and reboot.

Framing Bundles cost five matching planks. Deliver them to Brant in the Kingdom Commons with deliver framing bundles or deliver <amount> framing bundles. Every home upgrade after the hut requires delivered framing in addition to coins and the existing full-room prerequisite.

Crafting Tiers

Many crafted goods follow the same broad tier structure.

Alchemy

Alchemy creates potions. Most potions boost stats, heal, restore, or support adventuring.

Potion categories include:

• Avatar Charge
• Charisma
• Constitution
• Detox
• Dexterity
• Digestion
• HP regeneration
• Intelligence
• SP regeneration
• Strength
• Wisdom

Garou are restricted from using regeneration potions.

Leatherworking

Leatherworking turns hides into leather armor and related goods.

Important rules:

• skin corpse gathers hides
• 5 hides convert into 1 leather
• Hide and studded armor can be crafted
• Boots, chests, legs, and helmets can be made
• Cow armor starts at level 0
• Bear armor starts at level 20
• Reptile armor starts at level 45
• Dragon armor starts at level 65
• Added bindings or metal studs add extra effects

Leather and stud effects:

Smithing

Smithing turns ore into bars and bars into armor.

Important rules:

• mine ore gathers ore
• 5 ore convert into 1 bar
• Bronze bars use 4 copper ore and 1 tin ore
• Steel bars use 4 iron ore and 1 mithril ore
• Banded, chain, plate, and scale armor can be crafted
• Boots, chestplates, helmets, and legplates can be made
• Bronze armor starts at level 0
• Iron armor starts at level 20
• Steel armor starts at level 45
• Adamantite armor starts at level 65
• Inlays add extra effects

Metal effects:

Tailoring

Tailoring turns cloth into bolts, then bolts into clothing and padded armor.

Tailors can craft:

• Boots
• Breeches
• Cloaks
• Doublets
• Hoods
• Robes

Cloth tiers:

Shard effects:

Refining

Refining breaks equipment back down into base materials.

Refining notes:

• Metal equipment refines into base metals
• Leather equipment refines into Cow Leather
• Cloth equipment refines into Cotton Bolts
• Some equipment cannot be refined
• Material loss is normal
• Identifying an item can show whether it refines into anything

Fishing

Fishing is a stand-alone profession. It gives players a quieter way to gather food for later adventures.

Fishing needs a fishing pole, bait, and a suitable fishing spot. During fishing, line tension matters. Better skill makes catches easier and improves the fish you bring in.

Workers

Workers gather profession materials while you adventure.

Worker notes:

• Workers cost 1,000 to 5,000 coins per trip
• Higher pay improves expected results
• Workers draw funds from your bank
• Repeating workers go out every 15 minutes
• Workers take a break close to reboot
• Ghost, linkdead, or relogged characters do not receive materials from active worker trips
• Each player starts with 1 worker per profession
• Hero, Legend, and Epic add more worker capacity
• Reaching 500 and 1,000 in a profession adds more worker capacity
• Current maximum is 6 workers per profession

Economy Uses

Professions feed directly into Economy.

• Sell raw materials to other players
• Craft useful gear
• Stock markets with finished goods
• Auction rare crafted items
• Supply guildmates and clans
• Fill work orders when that system arrives
• Support player-owned businesses

Guild And Class Hooks

Some guild and class designs build on professions directly. Druid uses harvesting and nature work as part of guild life. Mage research can use purchased inks, reagents, and ash-derived materials. Future class systems can treat profession mastery as a path into specialized crafting and support play.

Sigils

Sigils are passive effects granted by equipment, forms, boons, guild features, or other sources. A sigil changes how your character behaves without adding a normal command.

Some sigils are simple stat-like bonuses. Others react to combat, terrain, food, magic, alignment, or specific enemy types.

Common Sigils

Alignment Sigils

Enemy Sigils

Domain Sigils

Some sigils reflect the place they came from.

Reading Sigils

Sigils are easiest to understand by looking at the item, form, or effect that grants them. A weapon sigil usually changes attacks. Armor sigils usually change defense, resistance, survival, or regeneration. Domain sigils often become stronger in matching terrain.

Future guild and class designs can build on sigils directly. A protective guild buff can add or improve Buffer, a fire stance can interact with Fiery Focus, and a travel feature can grant Flight or Magma Walker.

Leveling

Levels unlock stat growth, titles, account perks, and late-game systems.

The Adventurers' Guild shows how much experience is needed for your next level.

A non-remort character may enable automatic leveling with autolevel on and disable it with autolevel off. The setting persists across sessions. Remort characters always level automatically.

Level Ranks

Most guilds allow membership at level 5.

Stats And Levels

Levels do not automatically make a character powerful. They let you raise stats further.

Useful early habit:

• Spend experience on stats until the trainer says you need another level
• Level when stat training hits the level limit
• Keep some banked coins for the next restart after death

See Stats.

Mythic And Remort

At level 250, players may optionally remort: return to level 1, keep their wealth and belongings, and earn a permanent boon point for every rebirth. Boon points buy permanent bonuses that persist through every future life. Shrines of Creation are planned future flavor for this system.

Newbification

Newbification resets a character back toward the beginning without creating a brand-new character.

Newbification can:

• Return the character to level 1
• Reduce stats back to starting values
• Reset selected learned progress
• Preserve the identity of the character

This is a deliberate restart tool, not a death shortcut. Repeated self-killing to force a similar result is against the spirit of the game.

Real Life Talk

If you are in immediate danger, call local emergency services now.

If you are in the United States and need suicide, mental health, or substance-use crisis support, call or text 988, or use chat at 988lifeline.org. The 988 Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7.

You can also send a tell, shout, gossip, or other message to someone online. You do not have to handle a bad moment alone.

Classes

Work in progress: the class roster is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Classes are things a character innately is. A guild teaches a skill or discipline; a class changes the character's body, mind, nature, or relationship with the world.

See Remort for the larger progression system.

Class Roster

How Classes Work

• Classes alter a character's body, mind, craft, or existence
• Classes sit above guild membership rather than replacing it automatically
• Class power brings class-shaped costs
• Remort choices create new play patterns, not just larger numbers
• Closed and coming classes remain unavailable until their play patterns are ready

Artificer

The Artificer implementation is in development but is not player-selectable. The Brass Crucible is deliberately inaccessible from the Esper shrine and its attunement rite has a second internal release latch. The class registry remains live for wizard testing. Once released, class membership, GXP, disciplines, essence, invention history, and prepared prototypes persist through leveling, logout, death, and future remorts.

Artificers solve problems by finding the hidden seam between body and soul and hammering it into useful shapes. Their power is transformation, not ownership of ordinary crafting: Smiths make excellent equipment; Artificers make an ordinary thing become impossible for a little while.

In Play

An Artificer enters danger with a plan, a kit, and a bag full of parts.

• Strike with blacksmith force and furnace heat
• Harvest cinder or cyan ichor from elite and boss enemies
• Temporarily elevate non-unique equipment with those essences
• Prepare persistent one-use inventions rather than mass-producing gear
• Sustain a portable wall and animate a real weapon as an ash construct
• Fabricate a class-gated shoulder projector that consumes SP and blue ash
• Temporarily fold two same-slot unique armours into one chimera working
• Eventually fold a named boss property into one treasured object

Unique equipment is excluded from ordinary tempering. Mature Artificers can instead perform a costly, reversible chimera artifice: the primary remains worn while a matching donor unique is reserved inside the temporary working. This is intentionally stranger and narrower than a conventional item upgrade.

Body, Soul, And Confluence

Bosses biased toward strength and constitution yield cinder. Bosses biased toward intellect and wisdom yield ichor. This is deterministic enough to hunt for while still making different enemies matter.

Use artificer study body or artificer study soul to spend five matching essence on a discipline rank. Once both have a rank, artificer study confluence spends three of each. Discipline ranks currently strengthen Bellows Blow and matching tempers, and are capped at five.

The disciplines are the finite build. Permanent mastery is the long tail.

Permanent GXP And Mastery

Artificer GXP belongs to the class soul, not the current body or guild. The legacy miInsight save field remains the storage location so existing class saves migrate without losing progress. A remort resets level, stats, and guilds but leaves Artificer progress intact. Every successful mutation saves immediately, and login repairs a missing class soul from its canonical path.

The mastery curve is:

mastery = GXP / (GXP + 3,500)

Mastery is displayed to one decimal place. It approaches 100% but never uses a hard rank cap as its power model.

The class is therefore practically built after dozens of hours, while a player with hundreds of hours still gets measurable—very small—improvements. Mastery scales bounded bonuses such as temper duration, prototype output, and a percentage of Bellows Blow. It never adds an uncapped flat combat statistic.

GXP sources are intentionally tied to class play:

• Boss harvest: 100 * boss tier, plus 25 for the killing blow, adjusted by the shared kill tracker's repetition percentage
• Build a prototype: 20
• Deploy a prototype: 10
• Single essence temper: 8
• Confluence temper: 15
• Chimera armour: 75
• Portable bulwark: 30
• Awakened weapon: 100
• Aether mount fabrication: 75

Bosses remain the main source. Repeated ordinary attacks do not award GXP, and repeatedly farming one boss loses GXP through the canonical kill tracker rather than a new Artificer-only history. Essence still drops so a player cannot be locked out of their class materials.

Progression

Artificers advance through boss harvests, prototypes, discipline choices, and Crucible milestones. This class progression is separate from character level, guild level, guild XP, and profession skill.

Live Abilities

Sustained Ashpunk Workings

bulwark opens at GXP rank 3 and Body 2. Eight grey ash sustains an armour bonus for ten to twenty minutes, reserves 4% maximum HP and SP, and consumes one Load. unmake collapses it early.

awaken <weapon> opens at rank 4 with Body 2 and Soul 2. Five cinder and five ichor bind a carried, unwielded, non-unique weapon into a follower for ten to twenty minutes. The construct physically wields the original weapon, follows and assists the Artificer, reserves 8% HP and 10% SP, and consumes two Load. The actual weapon is returned on expiry, dismissal, construct death, logout, soul teardown, or unmake. Unique weapons remain excluded to preserve their authored identities and Morpher's weapon niche.

At rank 5 and Soul 3, fabricate aether mount spends 15 blue ash and five ichor to create a persistent prototype implant. The standard cyberware system owns shoulder-slot conflicts, installation, extraction, strain, persistence, and combat proc dispatch. When installed, the projector has a 25% chance on a qualifying combat hit, with a six-second proc cooldown, to spend 12 SP and one blue ash on a bounded magic/lightning shot. It does not fire when the Engine lacks fuel.

Temper Results

Unique equipment and equipment that rejects the existing modifier contract are excluded. Tempering uses the established modifier duration and compatibility rules; it does not rewrite item quality or manufacture a replacement item.

Chimera Armour

artifice <primary unique> with <carried unique> opens at Confluence 2 and 50% mastery. It costs 10 cinder, 10 ichor, 75 immediate SP, 2 Load, and reserves 5% maximum HP plus 8% maximum SP. Both pieces must be unique armour with exactly the same slot mask. Rings, amulets, shields, auras, and all weapons are excluded.

The primary may be worn or carried during creation and remains a real usable item. The donor is physically reserved by a no-save temporary effect, continues to count its full carried weight, and is returned when the effect expires or the player quits. Benefits apply only while the primary is worn; removing it suspends rather than destroys the seam. Higher permanent GXP provides enough Load for multiple seams, with a hard cap of three. Duration scales toward a bounded twenty-five-minute maximum through Confluence and mastery.

The first-generation seam echoes 20–34% of the donor's armour class across its actual unlock-to-cap progression. Confluence 3 also echoes the donor's single strongest positive resistance, capped at 15. It does not clone, consume, rename, rewrite, or manufacture either unique, and it never invokes the donor's arbitrary wear hooks, combat callbacks, set bonuses, spells, or bespoke scripts. That limitation is the point: generic numbers are safe to echo; authored identity is not.

A later extension can let individual unique armours opt into a reviewed query_artificer_echo() mapping. There should be no reflective copying of callbacks. This gives builders explicit control over unusual synergies and keeps Morpher's weapon/body identity distinct from Artificer's armour work.

Prepared Prototypes

An Artificer begins with two prototype slots. Permanent mastery gradually opens three more; Confluence 3 opens a sixth. Prepared counts are primitive persisted state, so they survive remort without keeping unsafe object references alive.

Why This Is A Class, Not Another Guild

A guild supplies a combat culture, social identity, restrictions, channels, and a progression loop for the current life. Artificer sits across those choices:

• It survives when remort removes all guilds.
• It has no guild level, guild XP, channel, guild hall, or equipment doctrine.
• Its primary rewards come from reading bosses and changing equipment, not repeating a guild rotation.
• Prepared inventions work as a loadout. The player decides what future problems to pack for instead of receiving another bar of cooldowns.
• Its combat values scale from the current body and then receive bounded permanent mastery. A level-1 remort keeps expertise without carrying level-250 damage into the new life.
• It makes every guild notice different loot. A Fighter may value a cinder hammer, a Mage an ichor focus, and a Thief a compact coil, but none requires a guild-specific Artificer branch.

System Integration

Professions can later supply housings, catalysts, lenses, and blanks, but profession mastery will not gate the class. That creates trade without turning Artificer into “Smithing, but mandatory.”

Ability Buildout

The next abilities should deepen transformations rather than add a conventional spell list.

The Cinis Engine replaces the proposed signature ring. It is a class-soul facade and corpse-burner replacement rather than equipped gear.

Workbenches And Field Kits

The Cinis Engine is the field kit, ash store, persistent prototype store, and class soul. It shares the ordinary corpse burner's implementation, retains burn, check burner, and cinis, and absorbs an existing standard burner without duplicating its ash or logout event. The Brass Crucible currently handles class entry; Ashad becomes the canonical class home when available.

Dragon

Work in progress: Dragon is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Dragon is a mythic body path. The character becomes a dragon and accepts the consequences.

In Play

Dragon changes the character's physical relationship with the world. Ordinary equipment, doors, shops, rooms, and social expectations all feel different in a dragon body.

• Grow through age and form mastery
• Choose a lineage and live with its instincts
• Use breath, claws, scales, fear, and flight
• Claim a lair and build a hoard
• Deal with the cost of being too large, too obvious, and too mythic

Progression

Dragons advance through age, lineage, lair work, hoard memory, and form mastery.

Dragon Powers

Tradeoffs

Dragon power has visible costs:

• Dragon form changes equipment use
• Large bodies struggle with ordinary spaces
• Settlements and factions react to mythic presence
• Hoard and lair obligations create story hooks
• Breath and fear draw attention

Lineage

Lineage sets the breath, elemental nature, resistance pattern, and instincts that shape the Dragon's growth. Age increases scale; lineage gives that scale a name.

Morpher

Work in progress: Morpher is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Morphers make the body into the tool. Skin, bone, hands, blood, movement, and pain all become mutable material.

In Play

Morphers alter the body on purpose: useful, strange, costly, and personal.

• Change hands, skin, limbs, and movement
• Grow grafts as weapons or tools
• Regenerate through altered flesh
• Adapt to incoming damage and hostile terrain
• Watch instability before the body turns against itself

Progression

Morphers advance through adaptation thresholds, graft mastery, regeneration, and controlled instability.

Morph Tools

Tradeoffs

Morpher changes equipment expectations:

• Body weapons compete with held weapons
• Some morphs need free hands
• Torso and limb armor interfere with major changes
• Regeneration and adaptation create visible tells
• Instability punishes constant over-morphing

Instability

Instability rises when the Morpher keeps too many changes active, forces a large graft, or uses regeneration too aggressively. High instability makes the body powerful and unreliable at the same time.

Psionicist

Work in progress: Psionicist is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Psionicists turn disciplined mind into force. They reshape perception, push bodies, touch thoughts, and bend the timing of a fight.

In Play

Psionicists carry their power in thought, memory, and trained perception.

• Read rooms and targets through awakened senses
• Build Focus before difficult psychic work
• Spend Strain carefully
• Project awareness beyond ordinary sight
• Use telepathy, force, displacement, and body control

Progression

Psionicists advance through discipline thresholds, strain mastery, awakened senses, and difficult psychic work.

Disciplines

Core Powers

Strain

Strain is the cost of pushing the mind too hard. Focus steadies difficult powers, but repeated force, deep projection, and aggressive mental contact raise the chance of backlash.

Vampire

Work in progress: Vampire is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.

Vampire is a transformation of appetite, body, social presence, and weakness.

In Play

Vampire is a curse, an appetite, and a social mask.

• Feed to keep blood strong
• Hunt better at night
• Use charm, dread, claws, mist, and blood healing
• Keep hunger from exposing the curse
• Respect sunlight, sanctified ground, invitation, and public suspicion

Progression

Vampires advance through blood mastery, night rites, predatory restraint, and surviving the cost of hunger.

Core Powers