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

New adventurers also have nheal, ncot, npunch, and nkick.

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.

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. get all from corpse
5. Return to the Main Shop
6. Sell ordinary loot
7. Bank spare coins

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

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

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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Ashad rewards preparation. 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.

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.

Areas

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

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

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.

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.

Areas

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

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

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.

Areas

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.

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, balance, Luna, and advanced technology. It is the technological wonder of Blackmar's sky: clean lines, machine cities, cybernetic labs, virtual spaces, and computation that most mainland scholars can only describe as magic with better manners.

Tekal is not AshPunk. Ashad is soot, pressure, heat, and brass. Tekal is glass, signal, circuitry, precision, artificial minds, and lunar balance expressed as design.

Green moonlight belongs to knowledge, balance, Luna, and calm precision. The Techno-City, cybernetics labs, virtual environments, robot factories, quantum study, prosthetics, artificial minds, and interface craft make Tekal feel impossible by mainland standards.

Its dangers are precise rather than wild: controlled systems, simulated spaces, machine governance, prediction failures, and questions about where a body ends when technology begins.

Areas

What Players Find Here

• Machine cities and clean artificial spaces
• Cybernetics, prosthetics, and body-interface questions
• Artificial minds, factories, signal systems, and predictive hazards
• Virtual training or trial spaces
• Strong links to Luna, Mage research, Artificer concepts, and future class play
• Technology that feels advanced without becoming AshPunk

Travel Mood

Tekal feels precise. Doors, lights, voices, machines, and simulated spaces all behave according to rules the mainland never taught you. The danger is not mud, hunger, or wilderness. The danger is a system that understands itself better than it understands you.

Tekal makes the world suddenly vertical, electric, and strange. Its technology is not dirty, medieval, or industrial. A player on Tekal feels like the rules are written in another language and the moon expects them to learn.

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

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. They give characters a social home and a trained way to act in the world.

Guild Roster

How Guilds Work

• Guilds give characters a trained discipline and shared home
• Classes are separate remort-scale transformations
• 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.

Reading Older Names

Some older in-game help, player habits, and area text use names from previous guild structures. This wiki uses the future-facing roster above.

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 drills, endurance practice, weapon use, ally defense, inspection, armsman service, and hard fights.

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

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

Mages study the Dark Wind: the hidden force that binds matter, memory, light, distance, heat, death, and spellwork. A Mage carries that study in the spellbook, then proves it by casting under fire, burning ash into ink, and teaching old formulae to behave.

In Play

A Mage works from page to field and back again.

• Cast spells in real situations
• Improve Arcane through research and field use
• Master individual spells through repeated useful casting
• Set a mastered combat spell to barrage
• Collect ash from spell kills and corpse burning
• Turn ash into ink for spellbook research and rune work

Arcane

Arcane measures magical understanding. It opens thresholds and stays with the character.

Arcane rises through:

• Level-appropriate Mage spellcasting
• Detecting, analyzing, finding, or solving magical problems
• Recovering fragments, grimoires, and research notes
• Closing magical anomalies
• Identifying strange effects for other players
• Teaching or assisting apprentices
• Mage quests and guild research tasks
• Spell kills that create ash events

Practice counts when the magic matters.

Spell Mastery And Barrage

Every spell tracks its own mastery.

Manual casts are stronger and flexible. Barrage casts are efficient and automatic.

barrage prepares one mastered combat spell to fire automatically every few combat rounds.

Barrage rules:

• The spell has Fluent mastery or better
• The spell is combat-safe
• Barrage uses a lighter version of the spell
• Manual casts still cost SP and remain stronger
• Silence, concentration breaks, antimagic, and some disables stop barrage

Common barrage forms include Mana Shard, Missile, emberburst Fireball, freezing-shard Icestorm, and lesser Bolt.

Runes

Runes are named modifications discovered by earlier Magi. A rune changes how a spell behaves.

Runes open through Arcane, research, quests, discoveries, and rare inks. Practiced spells hold one rune. Inscribed spells hold two.

Rune Grammar

Runes are the Mage's customization. Two Mages can know the same spell and make it behave differently by changing the runes written beside it.

Rune Binding

Runes are copied into the spellbook before they touch a spell. The Mage studies the rune, prepares the ink, binds it to a known spell, and tests the result in real casting.

Spells

Analyze

Read the structure of an object, creature, spell, room effect, or strange piece of magic. Analyze can reveal value, origin, curses, combat odds, and the residue left by magical creation.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: analyze <object|target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Reads deeper structure and hidden layers
  • Falx: Shortens repeat checks
  • Marsellus: Finds force traces, impacts, and old ruptures
  • Mezari: Reads ally-linked effects and sympathetic bonds
  • Saloman: Identifies wards, shields, and protected thresholds
  • Talek: Clarifies exact weaknesses
  • Arcanarton: Finds decay, instability, and failing enchantments
  • Bodach: Finds death traces, spirits, and grave residue
  • Ravidel: Finds heat, burn history, and ash signatures

Detect

Force evil, secrets, and hidden room details to show themselves. Detect begins as a way to read danger in nearby creatures, then grows into a sharper room inspection spell.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: detect
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Widens the sweep
  • Falx: Pulses more often for a short time
  • Marsellus: Detects force and movement traces
  • Mezari: Finds allied magic and party-safe links
  • Saloman: Finds wards and sanctuaries
  • Talek: Sharpens direction
  • Arcanarton: Finds unstable or corrupted magic
  • Bodach: Finds spirits, corpses, and grave magic
  • Ravidel: Finds fire, heat, and fresh ash

Illuminate

Call controlled mage-light into the room. The light can expose hidden detail, steady frightened allies, and make magical writing easier to read.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: illuminate
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Brightens the light significantly
  • Falx: Quickens casting
  • Marsellus: Creates hard-edged light that reveals force barriers
  • Mezari: Shares a softer light with allies
  • Saloman: Creates steady ward-light
  • Talek: Creates cold, clear light that improves inspection
  • Arcanarton: Reveals rot and hidden decay
  • Bodach: Reveals spirits and grave marks
  • Ravidel: Burns away shadow and leaves a warm glow

Mana Shard

Summon a fragment of pure, raw magical energy and hurl it toward a target. As one of the most basic principles of magic, Mana Shard is elegant, direct, and reliable. As the Mage grows, the shard grows brighter, faster, and sharper.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: mshard <target>
• Barrage: yes
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases damage significantly
  • Falx: Improves barrage cadence and chance to overcome resistance
  • Marsellus: Adds a second shard and a chance to sunder
  • Mezari: Restores SP if the spell is resisted
  • Saloman: Shields the Mage for part of the damage dealt
  • Talek: Adds a high chance to chill
  • Arcanarton: Adds a chance to enfeeble
  • Bodach: Increases damage with a chance to instantly kill weaker enemies
  • Ravidel: Adds a high chance to burn

Missile

Conjure several bolts of pure magical energy and hurl them with unerring accuracy. Missile sits at the front of the spellbook for a reason: simple, quick, and still useful after flashier pages open.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: missile <target> or magic <target>
• Barrage: yes
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases damage
  • Falx: Increases speed and lowers recovery
  • Marsellus: Adds impact and a chance to stagger
  • Mezari: Curves around allies
  • Saloman: Weakens the target's next magical retaliation
  • Talek: Improves accuracy and critical hit chance
  • Arcanarton: Cracks defenses
  • Bodach: Rattles courage and can frighten weaker targets
  • Ravidel: Leaves sparks and a small burn chance

Mage Mark

Place a personal magical mark on a target, place, or trace. Mage Mark gives the spellbook something to remember and gives later spells a cleaner way to find their work.

• Arcane Needed: 2
• Syntax: mmark <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Makes the mark stronger and harder to erase
  • Falx: Marks faster
  • Marsellus: Marks force trails
  • Mezari: Shares the mark with allies
  • Saloman: Protects the mark
  • Talek: Makes the mark precise
  • Arcanarton: Corrupts the mark and weakens the target slightly
  • Bodach: Marks blood, spirit, or grave traces
  • Ravidel: Marks heat and ash

Blaze

Blaze is a spell mostly for show. The Mage chants, sketches symbols in the air, fills the room with smoke and sulfur, then launches through an exit like a shooting star. The landing is all thunder, smoke, flashing light, and the Mage straightening their clothes like nothing odd happened.

• Arcane Needed: 1
• Syntax: blaze <direction>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Makes the launch brighter, louder, and harder to interrupt
  • Falx: Shortens the chant and launch delay significantly
  • Marsellus: Adds a delayed shockwave at departure or landing
  • Mezari: Carries party members with the Mage
  • Saloman: Creates a brief elemental shield on landing
  • Talek: Replaces flame with cold sparks and white vapor
  • Arcanarton: Leaves unstable scorch-script where the Mage lands
  • Bodach: Adds a chance to fear weaker enemies
  • Ravidel: Turns the passage into a hotter, redder streak

Find

Find the room around a living target anywhere in the world. Strong targets can feel the scrying brush against them, so careless searching can announce the Mage's interest.

• Arcane Needed: 2
• Syntax: find <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Extends range
  • Falx: Refreshes faster
  • Marsellus: Follows force scars and violent motion
  • Mezari: Follows known allies cleanly
  • Saloman: Follows protected marks
  • Talek: Gives cleaner direction
  • Arcanarton: Follows decay and unstable traces
  • Bodach: Follows blood, spirits, or grave traces
  • Ravidel: Follows heat marks

Fireball

Find the page marked FIREBALL, meditate on consuming heat, speak the old words, and loose a bright sphere from the fingers. Fireball is simple enough to learn early and violent enough to stay useful for a long time.

• Arcane Needed: 3
• Syntax: fireball <target>
• Barrage: yes
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases blast damage and radius
  • Falx: Improves barrage form and recovery
  • Marsellus: Adds a shockwave
  • Mezari: Shapes the blast around allies
  • Saloman: Reduces backdraft and self-harm
  • Talek: Turns the spell into frostfire
  • Arcanarton: Leaves unstable ash and a weakening residue
  • Bodach: Leaves grave ash and a fear pulse
  • Ravidel: Increases burn chance and burn duration

Icestorm

Hurl a frozen barrage of ice shards through the area. Icestorm punishes groups, breaks pursuit, and turns the room into a brief lesson in sharp edges.

• Arcane Needed: 4
• Syntax: icestorm
• Barrage: yes
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases storm size
  • Falx: Improves barrage form
  • Marsellus: Adds hard impact to the ice
  • Mezari: Opens safe lanes for allies
  • Saloman: Protects the caster from cold backlash
  • Talek: Deepens chill and slow effects
  • Arcanarton: Makes targets brittle and rotted
  • Bodach: Chills spirits and frightened targets harder
  • Ravidel: Creates a steam burst on impact

Frost Lens

Shape cold into a focusing lens. Frost Lens turns sight, spell aim, and distant force into something sharper and crueler.

• Arcane Needed: 5
• Syntax: frost lens <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Magnifies the lens
  • Falx: Quickens focus
  • Marsellus: Turns the lens into force focus
  • Mezari: Lets allies cast through it
  • Saloman: Stabilizes the lens
  • Talek: Sharpens the lens significantly
  • Arcanarton: Cracks the image and exposes instability
  • Bodach: Reveals ghosts through the lens
  • Ravidel: Turns the lens into heat mirage

Lightning Net

Throw a net of living lightning across the target's movement. Lightning Net is for stopping runners, breaking rhythm, and making the room feel smaller.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: lightning net <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Widens the net
  • Falx: Snaps faster
  • Marsellus: Adds a force snare
  • Mezari: Leaves ally gaps
  • Saloman: Grounds backlash
  • Talek: Freezes joints
  • Arcanarton: Makes the net unstable
  • Bodach: Terrifies trapped targets
  • Ravidel: Arcs fire along the net

Stormglass

Read turbulence in the Dark Wind through a glassy storm-pattern. Stormglass is forecast, warning, and omen without prayer: less cloudwatching, more watching the spellbook sweat.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: stormglass
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Shows wider turbulence
  • Falx: Updates faster
  • Marsellus: Reads force fronts
  • Mezari: Shares readings with allies
  • Saloman: Predicts dangerous magic
  • Talek: Clarifies cold lines and force snaps
  • Arcanarton: Shows broken spellfronts
  • Bodach: Shows grave-fronts
  • Ravidel: Shows heat fronts

Insane

Strike the target's pattern until thought begins to fold. Insane is ugly magic: confusion, panic, obsession, and a brief failure to trust what the senses say.

• Arcane Needed: 4
• Syntax: insane <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens confusion
  • Falx: Takes hold faster
  • Marsellus: Adds a force migraine
  • Mezari: Softens the effect around allies
  • Saloman: Reduces rebound on the caster
  • Talek: Creates a precise obsession or repeated mistake
  • Arcanarton: Breaks judgment and worsens failure chance
  • Bodach: Adds dread
  • Ravidel: Adds fever and heat shimmer

Teleport

Fold distance around a remembered place. Teleport rewards preparation: a Mage who keeps careful locations in the spellbook travels farther and lands cleaner.

• Arcane Needed: 5
• Syntax: tport <remember|list|forget|#>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Extends range
  • Falx: Lowers delay
  • Marsellus: Resists shove-off and force disruption
  • Mezari: Can pull a linked ally
  • Saloman: Makes arrival safer
  • Talek: Improves exact landing
  • Arcanarton: Reaches broken or unstable places
  • Bodach: Follows grave marks
  • Ravidel: Follows heat marks

Barrage

Prepare quick spells in the book and keep them ready for combat. Barrage starts with simple attack types such as fireball, lightning, and icestorm, then grows into mastered spell patterns that repeat during battle without spending the full cost of a manual cast every round.

• Arcane Needed: 5
• Syntax: mbarrage <attack type|mastered spell|off>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens each repeat
  • Falx: Improves cadence significantly
  • Marsellus: Adds an echo hit
  • Mezari: Makes barrage safer around allies
  • Saloman: Stabilizes concentration
  • Talek: Improves target choice
  • Arcanarton: Adds unstable surges
  • Bodach: Adds fear or siphon notes
  • Ravidel: Adds burning repeats

Mage Eye

Send sight down a nearby direction. Mage Eye is scouting through spellwork: a thin thread of perception pressed through doors, roads, and danger.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: meye <direction>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Sees farther
  • Falx: Moves faster
  • Marsellus: Sees force barriers
  • Mezari: Shares sight with allies
  • Saloman: Resists disruption
  • Talek: Sharpens detail
  • Arcanarton: Sees decay
  • Bodach: Sees dead things and spirits
  • Ravidel: Sees heat

Armor

Lace the fingers together, imagine tiny luminescent spiders spinning a prismatic web, then fold that web around the body as a protective aura. Armor adds temporary Armor Class and Magical Protection.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: armor
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases armor value
  • Falx: Lowers cast time
  • Marsellus: Adds force padding
  • Mezari: Spreads a smaller ward to allies
  • Saloman: Hardens the ward significantly
  • Talek: Adds cold resistance
  • Arcanarton: Punishes attackers with decay
  • Bodach: Resists fear and death effects
  • Ravidel: Adds fire resistance

Bolt

Point a finger and channel the current barrage into one direct arc. Bolt hits harder than the repeating barrage because the Mage gathers the loose pattern and drives it on purpose.

• Arcane Needed: 7
• Syntax: bolt <target>
• Requires: active mbarrage
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases damage
  • Falx: Lowers recovery after the focused bolt
  • Marsellus: Adds knockback and a chance to sunder
  • Mezari: Preserves the prepared barrage after the bolt
  • Saloman: Leaves a brief self-ward
  • Talek: Turns the arc cold and improves accuracy
  • Arcanarton: Destabilizes armor and resistance
  • Bodach: Adds a grave shock against weakened enemies
  • Ravidel: Turns the arc into a burning lance

Levitate

Convince gravity to loosen its hand. Levitate surrounds the Mage with weak sparks, builds them into a flickering vortex, and lifts the body from the ground.

• Arcane Needed: 8
• Syntax: levitate
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Lifts heavier targets
  • Falx: Starts faster
  • Marsellus: Pushes or steadies the target
  • Mezari: Lifts allies cleanly
  • Saloman: Prevents falling backlash
  • Talek: Gives fine control
  • Arcanarton: Creates unstable floating with odd drift
  • Bodach: Gives ghostly drift
  • Ravidel: Adds heat lift

Mage Unlock

Touch a locked threshold with spellwork and convince it to stop being stubborn. Mage Unlock works on mundane locks first, then stranger doors as Arcane grows.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: munlock <direction>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Opens stronger locks
  • Falx: Works faster
  • Marsellus: Breaks force locks
  • Mezari: Spares friendly wards
  • Saloman: Handles warded doors
  • Talek: Finds exact tumblers
  • Arcanarton: Corrodes locks
  • Bodach: Opens grave locks
  • Ravidel: Heats metal

Phase

Let the body slip partly out of agreement with the room. Phase can carry a Mage through a dangerous moment, a hostile body, or a place where matter is arguing.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: phase <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Lengthens phase
  • Falx: Improves timing
  • Marsellus: Phases through force locks
  • Mezari: Pulls an ally briefly
  • Saloman: Leaves a warded return point
  • Talek: Exits more precisely
  • Arcanarton: Slips through broken spaces
  • Bodach: Phases through grave-shadow
  • Ravidel: Leaves heat shimmer

Gate

Open a passage between here and there. Gate is heavier than teleportation and more public, but it can move things that ordinary travel refuses to carry.

• Arcane Needed: 11
• Syntax: gate <item> to <person>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Holds longer
  • Falx: Opens faster
  • Marsellus: Strengthens passage
  • Mezari: Improves ally passage
  • Saloman: Protects both sides
  • Talek: Anchors precisely
  • Arcanarton: Opens through broken thresholds
  • Bodach: Opens through grave marks
  • Ravidel: Opens through heat marks

Inferno

Release fire too large to be polite. Inferno is the Mage letting the room learn what heat remembers.

• Arcane Needed: 12
• Syntax: inferno
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Enlarges the firestorm
  • Falx: Lowers recovery
  • Marsellus: Adds concussive heat
  • Mezari: Preserves allies at the edge
  • Saloman: Shields the caster
  • Talek: Creates steam and cracking ice
  • Arcanarton: Leaves unstable ash
  • Bodach: Leaves death-touched ash
  • Ravidel: Makes the fire hungry

Powerup

Trade physical reserves for magical power. Powerup is the desperate page a Mage opens when the spellbook still has work to do and the body has HP left to burn.

• Arcane Needed: 13
• Syntax: powerup <hp>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Improves spell power
  • Falx: Improves casting rhythm
  • Marsellus: Improves force spells
  • Mezari: Shares a lesser boost
  • Saloman: Reduces risk
  • Talek: Improves accuracy
  • Arcanarton: Trades safety for a higher peak
  • Bodach: Powers death formulae
  • Ravidel: Powers fire formulae

Wrath

Shape anger into spellwork and let it answer the target. Wrath is punishment, force, and a little bit of old Mage arrogance.

• Arcane Needed: 14
• Syntax: wrath <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Widens punishment
  • Falx: Shortens recovery
  • Marsellus: Adds force shock
  • Mezari: Shields allies from splash
  • Saloman: Punishes hostile magic
  • Talek: Freezes openings
  • Arcanarton: Rots defenses
  • Bodach: Adds fear
  • Ravidel: Adds eruption

Touch

Use the body as a lightning conduit, burn through the pain, and discharge the whole attack through one hand. Touch is harsh magic for drastic situations: it can tear through resistance, but the Mage pays for it in blood as well as SP.

• Arcane Needed: 15
• Syntax: touch <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Makes the discharge devastating
  • Falx: Reduces the channel time and self-burn
  • Marsellus: Adds a thunderclap impact
  • Mezari: Returns SP when the target resists
  • Saloman: Shields the Mage from part of the feedback
  • Talek: Turns the lightning white-cold and precise
  • Arcanarton: Makes the conduit unstable and enfeebling
  • Bodach: Adds a death-surge against weaker enemies
  • Ravidel: Turns the arc into heat lightning and ash

Spellward

Raise a ward against hostile spellwork. Spellward is the formal answer to the question every Mage eventually asks: what happens when the other caster is faster?

• Arcane Needed: 4
• Syntax: spellward
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens the ward
  • Falx: Refreshes faster
  • Marsellus: Catches force spells
  • Mezari: Links warded allies
  • Saloman: Improves spell blocking significantly
  • Talek: Blocks cold and precision magic
  • Arcanarton: Catches unstable magic
  • Bodach: Catches death magic
  • Ravidel: Catches fire magic

Negate

Unmake an active magical effect. Negate is less dramatic than a fireball and far more satisfying when the target was relying on the effect to survive.

• Arcane Needed: 5
• Syntax: negate <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strips stronger effects
  • Falx: Casts faster
  • Marsellus: Breaks force effects
  • Mezari: Spares allied effects
  • Saloman: Strips wards cleanly
  • Talek: Targets exact effects
  • Arcanarton: Unravels unstable effects
  • Bodach: Breaks fear and death effects
  • Ravidel: Burns away fire effects

Blink

Move through a short fold in space. Blink is quick, rude, and useful for Magi who prefer a different spot than the one the weapon just landed in.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: blink
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases distance
  • Falx: Improves recovery
  • Marsellus: Adds force displacement
  • Mezari: Avoids ally collision
  • Saloman: Leaves a warded afterimage
  • Talek: Lands cleaner
  • Arcanarton: Blinks unpredictably farther
  • Bodach: Leaves a fear-shadow
  • Ravidel: Leaves heat shimmer

Invisibility

Gather the light around a target, fold it thin, and hide the body behind a wavering veil. Invisibility is strongest outside combat, when the Mage has time to settle the pattern cleanly.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: invis <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Lasts longer
  • Falx: Fades faster
  • Marsellus: Hides motion and force traces
  • Mezari: Softens ally notice
  • Saloman: Resists reveal magic
  • Talek: Sharpens quiet edges
  • Arcanarton: Flickers unpredictably
  • Bodach: Looks ghostly under spirit sight
  • Ravidel: Leaves heat haze

Cloak

Wrap the Mage or an ally in a quieter pattern. Cloak is less perfect than invisibility but easier to use while moving, preparing, or helping another.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: cloak <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens concealment
  • Falx: Slips on faster
  • Marsellus: Hides force traces
  • Mezari: Cloaks an ally more cleanly
  • Saloman: Protects against detection
  • Talek: Cleans outlines
  • Arcanarton: Blurs with static
  • Bodach: Blurs with grave-shadow
  • Ravidel: Blurs with shimmer

Portable Hole

Open a small impossible pocket and put things where they have no business fitting. Portable Hole is convenience, storage, and a minor insult to geometry.

• Arcane Needed: 7
• Syntax: portable hole
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Holds more
  • Falx: Opens faster
  • Marsellus: Stabilizes weight
  • Mezari: Shares access with allies
  • Saloman: Protects contents
  • Talek: Organizes contents cleanly
  • Arcanarton: Stores unstable scraps
  • Bodach: Stores grave goods safely
  • Ravidel: Stores hot ash safely

Enhance

Rewrite a small part of the body for a short time. Enhance turns thought, strength, speed, or endurance into a cleaner pattern.

• Arcane Needed: 7
• Syntax: enhance <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Raises the bonus
  • Falx: Starts faster
  • Marsellus: Favors strength and force
  • Mezari: Shares a lesser version
  • Saloman: Makes the spell safer
  • Talek: Favors dexterity and accuracy
  • Arcanarton: Trades stability for a higher peak
  • Bodach: Favors endurance through dread
  • Ravidel: Favors heat and aggression

Sever Pattern

Cut a magical thread. Sever Pattern handles bindings, links, conjurations, and spells that survive because no one has found the string yet.

• Arcane Needed: 8
• Syntax: sever pattern <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Cuts deeper
  • Falx: Cuts faster
  • Marsellus: Severs force links
  • Mezari: Spares allies
  • Saloman: Cuts hostile magic cleanly
  • Talek: Cuts exact threads
  • Arcanarton: Unravels unstable patterns
  • Bodach: Severs spirit threads
  • Ravidel: Cauterizes the cut

Rune Primer

Study a rune until the spellbook begins to understand its handwriting. Rune Primer is how a Mage turns a found mark into usable work.

• Arcane Needed: 3
• Syntax: rune primer <rune>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Teaches power runes faster
  • Falx: Teaches cadence runes faster
  • Marsellus: Teaches force runes faster
  • Mezari: Teaches sympathetic runes faster
  • Saloman: Teaches ward runes faster
  • Talek: Teaches precision runes faster
  • Arcanarton: Teaches entropy runes faster
  • Bodach: Teaches demise runes faster
  • Ravidel: Teaches fire runes faster

Rune Transfer

Move a rune from one prepared spell to another. Rune Transfer saves good ink from bad decisions and lets a Mage reshape the book before a different hunt.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: rune transfer <rune> from <spell> to <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Preserves power
  • Falx: Preserves cadence
  • Marsellus: Preserves force echoes
  • Mezari: Preserves ally links
  • Saloman: Preserves wards
  • Talek: Preserves precision
  • Arcanarton: Risks useful mutation
  • Bodach: Risks grave tint
  • Ravidel: Risks burn tint

Summon Familiar

Call a small helper from the Mage's own pattern. A familiar is a living note in the margin of the spellbook.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: summon familiar
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Makes the familiar sturdier
  • Falx: Makes the familiar quicker
  • Marsellus: Gives force bite
  • Mezari: Improves ally errands
  • Saloman: Improves guarding
  • Talek: Improves scouting
  • Arcanarton: Makes it strange and unstable
  • Bodach: Makes it grave-touched
  • Ravidel: Gives ember temper

Transfer Familiar

Move a prepared charge, mark, or small spell through the familiar. Transfer Familiar lets the Mage work at a distance through a trusted living note.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: transfer familiar <effect>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Transfers more
  • Falx: Transfers faster
  • Marsellus: Transfers force charge
  • Mezari: Transfers through allies
  • Saloman: Transfers safely
  • Talek: Transfers precisely
  • Arcanarton: Mutates the transfer
  • Bodach: Transfers grave charge
  • Ravidel: Transfers heat

Unleash Familiar

Send the familiar into a brief, direct action. A familiar can bite, distract, carry a rune, echo a spell, or do the small impossible thing a Mage cannot reach in time.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: unleash familiar <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens the action
  • Falx: Speeds the action
  • Marsellus: Adds a force strike
  • Mezari: Protects allies
  • Saloman: Makes the familiar defensive
  • Talek: Makes the action precise
  • Arcanarton: Makes the action erratic and stronger
  • Bodach: Adds fear
  • Ravidel: Adds burn

Recall Familiar

Pull the familiar back into reach. Recall Familiar is part safety line, part apology, and part reminder that a Mage's notes belong in the book.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: recall familiar
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Recalls from farther away
  • Falx: Recalls faster
  • Marsellus: Recalls through force interference
  • Mezari: Recalls through ally links
  • Saloman: Recalls safely
  • Talek: Recalls exactly
  • Arcanarton: Recalls from broken places
  • Bodach: Recalls from graves
  • Ravidel: Recalls through heat marks

Bind Dead Familiar

Keep a familiar moving after death. This is forbidden work, useful and unsettling, and the spellbook writes the page in a different hand afterward.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: bind dead familiar
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens the binding
  • Falx: Makes it responsive
  • Marsellus: Gives bone force
  • Mezari: Keeps loyalty
  • Saloman: Contains backlash
  • Talek: Sharpens commands
  • Arcanarton: Blights the body
  • Bodach: Anchors undeath
  • Ravidel: Leaves ember eyes

Prepare Ink

Turn ash, reagent, and patience into spellbook ink. Prepare Ink is where the Mage decides what kind of research the next page deserves.

• Arcane Needed: 4
• Syntax: prepare ink <ash>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Improves yield
  • Falx: Speeds preparation
  • Marsellus: Makes force ink
  • Mezari: Makes sympathetic ink
  • Saloman: Makes ward ink
  • Talek: Makes precise ink
  • Arcanarton: Makes blight ink
  • Bodach: Makes graveblack ink
  • Ravidel: Makes vermilion ink

Transcribe Spell

Copy a spell into the book by hand, ink, and memory. Transcription is where the spell becomes the Mage's spell rather than borrowed noise.

• Arcane Needed: 2
• Syntax: transcribe <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Improves raw notes
  • Falx: Makes cleaner shorthand
  • Marsellus: Preserves force diagrams
  • Mezari: Preserves ally clauses
  • Saloman: Preserves safeguards
  • Talek: Preserves exact measures
  • Arcanarton: Preserves unstable variants
  • Bodach: Preserves grave clauses
  • Ravidel: Preserves fire clauses

Bind Rune

Place a copied rune into a spell socket. Binding is the moment where research stops being theory and starts changing the spell in the hand.

• Arcane Needed: 3
• Syntax: bind <rune> to <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens binding
  • Falx: Reduces binding time
  • Marsellus: Reinforces the socket
  • Mezari: Links the socket
  • Saloman: Protects the socket
  • Talek: Aligns the socket
  • Arcanarton: Warps the socket
  • Bodach: Darkens the socket
  • Ravidel: Heats the socket

Unbind Rune

Remove a rune from a spell without wasting everything that made it valuable. Unbinding is delicate work, especially with forbidden marks.

• Arcane Needed: 3
• Syntax: unbind <rune> from <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Keeps residue useful
  • Falx: Unbinds faster
  • Marsellus: Prevents force snap
  • Mezari: Preserves friendly links
  • Saloman: Prevents backlash
  • Talek: Removes cleanly
  • Arcanarton: Extracts unstable residue
  • Bodach: Extracts grave residue
  • Ravidel: Extracts ember residue

Copy Formula

Copy a found formula into the spellbook. Formulae are stranger than spells: half instruction, half argument with the Dark Wind.

• Arcane Needed: 5
• Syntax: copy formula <formula>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Copies stronger formulae
  • Falx: Copies faster
  • Marsellus: Copies force diagrams
  • Mezari: Copies sympathetic clauses
  • Saloman: Copies safeguards
  • Talek: Copies exact values
  • Arcanarton: Copies entropy formulae
  • Bodach: Copies demise formulae
  • Ravidel: Copies igneous formulae

Awaken Page

Wake a prepared spellbook page. An awakened page remembers, complains, answers simple research questions, and helps familiars behave like part of the book.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: awaken page <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Wakes a louder page
  • Falx: Wakes a faster page
  • Marsellus: Wakes a forceful page
  • Mezari: Wakes a helpful page
  • Saloman: Wakes a cautious page
  • Talek: Wakes a precise page
  • Arcanarton: Wakes a strange page
  • Bodach: Wakes a grave page
  • Ravidel: Wakes a hot-tempered page

Rebind Barrage

Rewrite the automatic casting pattern for a mastered spell. Rebind Barrage lets the Mage change what repeats, how often it repeats, and what rune rides along.

• Arcane Needed: 6
• Syntax: rebind barrage <spell>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens barrage
  • Falx: Improves cadence
  • Marsellus: Adds force echo
  • Mezari: Makes it safer near allies
  • Saloman: Stabilizes concentration
  • Talek: Improves target choice
  • Arcanarton: Adds unstable surges
  • Bodach: Adds fear or siphon
  • Ravidel: Adds burning repeats

Necrosis

Put death into living tissue and let the body remember the grave. Necrosis is one of the first forbidden formulae most Magi regret understanding.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: necrosis <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Deepens rot
  • Falx: Spreads faster
  • Marsellus: Ruptures tissue
  • Mezari: Avoids allies
  • Saloman: Contains backlash
  • Talek: Targets a weak point
  • Arcanarton: Empowers decay
  • Bodach: Adds death weight
  • Ravidel: Cauterizes into black ash

Wrack

Twist pain through the target's nerves and joints. Wrack is cruel, precise, and very much the kind of spell the guild pretends only the careful study.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: wrack <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases pain
  • Falx: Strikes nerves faster
  • Marsellus: Adds force spasm
  • Mezari: Spares linked allies
  • Saloman: Guards the caster
  • Talek: Targets joints
  • Arcanarton: Breaks coordination
  • Bodach: Adds dread
  • Ravidel: Adds fever

Pox

Write sickness into the body. Pox is smaller than plague, easier to hide, and worse than it looks.

• Arcane Needed: 9
• Syntax: pox <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens disease
  • Falx: Accelerates onset
  • Marsellus: Adds weakness
  • Mezari: Shapes contagion away from allies
  • Saloman: Contains spread
  • Talek: Targets exact symptoms
  • Arcanarton: Mutates the pox
  • Bodach: Makes it grave-cold
  • Ravidel: Makes it burning

Plague

Write sickness into the room as a spreading formula. Plague is forbidden because it stops being a single target problem and starts becoming an event.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: plague
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Widens sickness
  • Falx: Speeds spread
  • Marsellus: Adds body shock
  • Mezari: Creates ally gaps
  • Saloman: Contains the room
  • Talek: Makes symptoms precise
  • Arcanarton: Empowers blight
  • Bodach: Empowers death
  • Ravidel: Burns into ash fever

Bone Shield

Raise a defensive shell from prepared remains. Bone Shield is crude in material and elegant in geometry.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: bone shield
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Thickens bone
  • Falx: Raises it faster
  • Marsellus: Adds force ribs
  • Mezari: Guards an ally
  • Saloman: Stabilizes the shield
  • Talek: Shapes clean plates
  • Arcanarton: Uses rotten bone
  • Bodach: Uses grave bone
  • Ravidel: Uses charred bone

Death Shroud

Wrap the Mage in grave-shadow. Death Shroud conceals, frightens, and makes the living hesitate before touching what looks halfway gone already.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: death shroud
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Deepens concealment
  • Falx: Wraps faster
  • Marsellus: Muffles force traces
  • Mezari: Hides allies lightly
  • Saloman: Contains the shroud
  • Talek: Gives clean edges
  • Arcanarton: Makes it flicker
  • Bodach: Empowers fear
  • Ravidel: Smokes at the edge

Grave Eye

Look through death. Grave Eye can watch through remains, marked corpses, and places where the dead left enough of themselves to notice.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: grave eye <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Sees farther
  • Falx: Scans faster
  • Marsellus: Sees force around remains
  • Mezari: Shares the view
  • Saloman: Protects the eye
  • Talek: Sharpens detail
  • Arcanarton: Sees rot
  • Bodach: Sees spirits
  • Ravidel: Sees heat in corpses

Blood Locate

Follow blood through distance, violence, and old wounds. Blood Locate is ugly tracking, but it works when cleaner magic loses the trail.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: blood locate <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Extends range
  • Falx: Updates faster
  • Marsellus: Follows violent motion
  • Mezari: Follows known ally blood safely
  • Saloman: Protects the reading
  • Talek: Sharpens direction
  • Arcanarton: Follows sick blood
  • Bodach: Follows dead blood
  • Ravidel: Follows hot blood

Grave Lock

Seal a door, container, or corpse-bound threshold with grave logic. Grave Lock opens for what it knows and punishes strangers.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: grave lock <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens the lock
  • Falx: Sets it faster
  • Marsellus: Adds force bars
  • Mezari: Allows allies through
  • Saloman: Wards the lock
  • Talek: Keys exact names
  • Arcanarton: Makes the lock unstable
  • Bodach: Keys it to the dead
  • Ravidel: Burns intruders

Magic Mouth

Leave a spell to speak later. Magic Mouth is message, trap, warning, insult, and haunted punchline, depending on the Mage.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: magic mouth <message>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Speaks louder
  • Falx: Triggers faster
  • Marsellus: Carries force in the voice
  • Mezari: Keys to allies
  • Saloman: Protects the message
  • Talek: Makes wording exact
  • Arcanarton: Garbles enemies
  • Bodach: Whispers like the dead
  • Ravidel: Speaks in heat-hiss

Reclaim

Pull value back from a failed corpse rite. Reclaim is how careful Magi admit a grave experiment went poorly without wasting the whole mistake.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: reclaim <corpse|rite>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Recovers more
  • Falx: Recovers faster
  • Marsellus: Recovers force residue
  • Mezari: Preserves loyal bindings
  • Saloman: Prevents backlash
  • Talek: Recovers cleanly
  • Arcanarton: Recovers blight
  • Bodach: Recovers grave ash
  • Ravidel: Recovers ember ash

Raise Servant

Bind the dead into a useful servant. The servant can fight, carry, scout, or stand where the Mage wants a body between danger and the spellbook.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: raise servant <corpse>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens the servant
  • Falx: Makes it quicker
  • Marsellus: Adds force bones
  • Mezari: Improves obedience
  • Saloman: Contains rebellion
  • Talek: Sharpens commands
  • Arcanarton: Makes a blighted servant
  • Bodach: Anchors the dead
  • Ravidel: Makes a charred servant

March Of The Damned

Raise several dead things into motion and point them at a problem. March of the Damned is never quiet and never mistaken for respectable magic.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: march of the damned
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Raises stronger dead
  • Falx: Makes them move faster
  • Marsellus: Adds crushing force
  • Mezari: Protects allies
  • Saloman: Holds formation
  • Talek: Improves command
  • Arcanarton: Blights the march
  • Bodach: Empowers the dead
  • Ravidel: Leaves burning footprints

Doom

Write an ending onto the target and wait for the page to catch up. Doom is forbidden because it treats the future like a corpse.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: doom <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Increases final harm
  • Falx: Hastens doom
  • Marsellus: Adds force collapse
  • Mezari: Spares allies
  • Saloman: Protects the caster
  • Talek: Keys the doom precisely
  • Arcanarton: Makes failure spread
  • Bodach: Adds death sentence
  • Ravidel: Ends in ash

Soulbond

Bind a soul, servant, familiar, or marked ally to a formula. Soulbond is useful, dangerous, and hard to explain to anyone who asks sensible questions.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: soulbond <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Strengthens bond
  • Falx: Quickens response
  • Marsellus: Adds force tether
  • Mezari: Improves loyalty
  • Saloman: Protects both sides
  • Talek: Defines terms
  • Arcanarton: Makes the bond volatile
  • Bodach: Binds through death
  • Ravidel: Binds through ember oath

Raise Dead

Attempt the most dangerous grave formula: returning the fallen. Raise Dead is never casual magic. The page remembers every name written into it.

• Arcane Needed: 10
• Syntax: raise dead <target>
• Rune augments
  • Ashkenazy: Improves return strength
  • Falx: Shortens rite time
  • Marsellus: Steadies the body
  • Mezari: Protects the restored ally
  • Saloman: Reduces backlash
  • Talek: Restores cleaner memory
  • Arcanarton: Returns with instability
  • Bodach: Improves grave return
  • Ravidel: Returns with ember warmth

Ash And Ink

Spell kills can leave ash directly. Corpse burners still turn bodies into ash. Mages buy ink in the guild or provide ash to change cost, color, and formula access.

Spell deaths interact with ash:

• Mage spell damage can create an ash burst on death
• Ash bursts leave a collectible pile in the room
• Fire, frost, force, and rune-modified spells influence ash color
• Burning a corpse killed by Mage spellwork can create bonus ash
• Protected corpses keep their normal protections

Research Work

Mage research is practical guild work: field casting, ash turning, rune copying, anomaly notes, and pages tested under danger.

Forbidden Studies

The old Necromancer arts become a locked door inside the Mage guild. Bodach and Arcanarton formulae, graveblack ink, and forbidden discoveries open it.

Forbidden study brings corpse rites, grave wards, bone shields, death shrouds, curses, blight, grave scouting, blood locating, bound dead servants, and rare raise-dead work.

Grave Work

Forbidden study keeps its own tools.

Spellbook

The spellbook tracks known spells, mastery, rune sockets, barrage, inks, research, familiar bond, remembered locations, ash notes, and forbidden pages.

Spellbooks can also wake.

Familiars And Pages

Familiars are living notes from the spellbook: small, strange helpers that carry a piece of the Mage's pattern. They scout, hold minor runes, carry messages, echo simple spellwork, and warn when the Dark Wind bends wrong.

Awakened pages and familiars answer one another. A page holds the formula. The familiar tests it in the world.

Mage Sigils

Guild Commands

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

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

Ninja is disciplined stealth and controlled violence. A Ninja wins by choosing when the fight starts, what the target loses first, and when to vanish.

In Play

Ninja is patience, silence, precision, and sudden violence.

• Observe the room, exits, and target
• Build Focus
• Mark or track the target
• Open with a disable, blind, shuriken, or point strike
• Control the fight briefly
• Fade before the fight turns honest

Focus

Focus steadies technique, improves the first strike, and fuels escape. It rises through concealment, tracking, marking, meditation, and clean setup. It falls when spent on attack, escape, failed setup, or long open fighting.

Marks

Marks make a target easier to read, disable, track, or finish. They come from tracking, hidden observation, shuriken setup, focused study, and body-point contact.

Stealth

Stealth is a rhythm: hidden approach, sudden violence, disappearance.

Body Points

Body-point work attacks function instead of raw health.

Abilities

Shadow 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

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

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 tempo through parries, dodges, spins, and openings
• Spend Finesse on the flashier work
• 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.

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.

Flair is the guild's public nerve. Tricks and techniques gain extra bite when the Swashbuckler is seen, challenged, cheered, mocked, or surrounded by enemies who hate being impressed.

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.

The Dance of Death is the guild's legendary end point. The Swashbuckler becomes one with the blade in the heat of the fight until the motion looks almost effortless.

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.

Job Commands

Berserker

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

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
• Bard incitement

When Fury crests, Berserker Frenzy opens.

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.

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 priestly, bardic, 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 can no longer flee from battle
• 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 lash out and counterattack
• vent has a real failure chance

Madness Level 4

• Critical hit damage bonus
• Chance to increase the number of swings per attack
• 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 suffers damage outside combat
• The Berserker suffers the Exposed status
• 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.

Abilities

Fury 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.