The World

Every realm is grown from a single seed: the hills, the coast, the village and where its houses stand. Nothing here was placed by hand except the things that were meant to be.

Stormridge Harrowgate Mage quarter Thieves' Guild Caves Frostgate The wilds Bestiary The next map

Saltmeadow, the village by the sea

The starting village seen from the hillside, the sea beyond

You wake by the well of a small fishing village on the coast. Log houses, a watchtower over the path down to the pier, and a handful of folk who have seen strangers like you before.

Walker Norris

The martial arts master at the well. Greeter, trainer and teller of tall tales about himself. He teaches the fighting stances, for a price, if your fists are ready.

Osbert Barker, Tanner

Buys hides, sells leather, and always has work for a new pair of hands. His prices rise and fall with what the village needs.

The children

They play kick-ball around the town all day. Walk into the ball and see who comes running.

The Kragmor coast

Down the shoreline, where the sand meets the shallows, the fish-folk build their reed huts on stilts over the water. Nets hang between driftwood poles, fish dry on the racks, and a whole pig turns over the fire.

Their warriors come in every colour of the catch: silver bass, bluegill, salmon, koi. Their tide-callers keep to the back and throw bolts of water. Catch one off guard and you might find her dancing by the fire.

A Kragmor reed hut on the sand and a stilt hut in the shallows

Stormridge

A walled town at the ford on the road east, with a round palisade, a gate, and archers walking the wall. It's the place to rest up for adventurers of level 5 to 10, and it's where you go to learn the next step of your trade.

Captain Garrow Flint

Holds the town, and the next step of the main quest. Sergeant Reed will send you to him when you're ready.

Isolde Fairweather, Healer

Teaches potion recipes from Alchemy 30, where Aldous in the village leaves off.

Edda Rookwood, Quartermaster

For tailors who chose Tailoring as their path: Padded cloth from 35 and Silkweave from 55.

Ulric

Bronze and iron arrows, for archers who have outgrown flint.

Torvin

The master smith. His pupils forge iron arrowheads, among much else.

Silas Wick

Found in a back alley, if you look. He teaches Backstab and Pickpocket, and has a job for anyone who learns both: Who's Going to Know. Don't get seen.

Harrowgate, the first city

Over the Kingsneck, on the coast of the Eastmarch, stands the realm's first city and the hub for levels 10 to 20. Half of it is built out on the water.

The harbour

Four stone islands with canals between them, round an open basin with the ferry pier in the middle. Gulls overhead, fish in the water, cats and dogs on the quay, rats where nobody's looking, and harbour folk and guards going about their day.

The town

The Sea Stair climbs from the quay to the Seagate and the Lantern Market, with cobbled streets of terraced houses on either side.

Harrow Keep

On the crest above it all: the keep, the great cathedral called the Hearthfane, and the Proving Yard where fighters train. The main quest brings you here to meet the Bishop.

Gull Isle, the mage quarter

A cobbled street of half-timbered houses leading to a tall stone tower — Down the centre road to the Spire. An Editor test render of the quarter, without the sky and lighting you'll see in the game.

One of Harrowgate's islands belongs to the mages. Cross the bridge and the road forks: homes of every size, from cottages to tall townhouses, a ring of shops round a raised lawn with a crystal fountain, and a park behind it.

At the isle's far tip, on the half-moon facing the sea, stands the Spire: a grand tower of many floors, visible from all over the harbour.

The Under-Drains and the Thieves' Guild

Under Harrowgate runs a maze of brick-vaulted drains, with dead ends, loops, and water running down the main channels to the sea. At its heart, under the Lantern Market, is an old cistern: a vaulted hall on pillars round a still pool. It's the Thieves' Guild's hall, and it has a bar.

The way in is a cellar door in every district and a barred gate under the ferry pier. For anyone who isn't a member, they're just doors. Membership is earned: it starts with Silas Wick's job in Stormridge, and somebody will find you after that.

A vaulted brick hall on thick pillars around a pool of still water — The cistern hall. Editor test render.

Caves

Green slime sagging from a stalactite in a dark cave — Look up. Editor test render.

Look at the foot of the big hills for a rock arch between tall standing stones. Behind it, a tunnel leads down into chambers, each one different, lit only by glowing fungus in the roof. Bats roost overhead, water drips into puddles, and herbs grow on some floors.

Some stalactites wear a coat of green slime. If you see a faint green glow on the floor, step back: walk under one and a Cave Ooze drops on you. Clear a cave and empty its chest and it stays quiet for a while. Then something different moves in.

Frostgate, the first dungeon

Under the Whitecrown, for levels 18 to 20. Walk into the blue portal in its doorway and your group gets its own copy for an hour.

A stone doorway in the mountainside with a glowing portal in front of it — The doorway. Editor test render.

An icy cave hall with blue braziers and ice boulders around a glowing pool — The Gate Hall, where Bren teaches you to dodge. Editor test render.

Bren goes with you

On the main quest, Bren fights at your side, heals you when you're badly hurt, and brings you back if you fall. In the Gate Hall Bren shows you how to dodge: double-tap a direction to roll.

Read the rings

A ring on the ground warns of a boss attack. Light blue gives you 1.2 seconds to step out. White-violet is a heavy blow: 2 seconds, always roll. Gold under a boss means it's casting and open, so hit it hard.

The Rime Mother and Vaskar

Two bosses, each with their own tricks, and the Rimeguard set in their spoils. You can claim each boss's spoils once a day.

The wilds

The boar wallow

A pool of black mud under a dead tree, flies buzzing over it, young boars close by. About once a week a great sow called Precious turns up and stays until someone kills or tames her. Hit her young and she comes for you: when she paws the ground, a red line in the grass shows where she'll charge. Get off it.

The Old Wood

Deep in the Old Wood, some of the dead trees walk. Gnarlwights are slow and very tough, and their branch sweep hits hard. Some stand perfectly still among the living trees. If a "tree" creaks when nothing is moving, think twice before you swing your axe.

Wayside graveyards

Near Brackenford, on the Bog road, halfway over the Kingsneck and under the Whitecrown. Fall out there and your ghost starts from the nearest one.

A large red boar at the edge of a muddy wallow beside a dead tree — A boar at the wallow. Editor test render.

Bestiary

Jelly slime — **Mimic Slime**: bones it can't arrange, a skull it can. Its neck lashes like a whip.

Kragmor colours — **Kragmor**: every colour of the catch.

**Kragmor tide-caller**: frail up close, deadly at range.

Mage Goblin casting — **Mage Goblin**: some of its Ember Bolts hunt you.

The Goblin Boss, a tall horned goblin in bone and leather — **Goblin Boss**: master of the Goblin Warren. Always a gold dragon.

A brown Forest Spider beside a white and sky-blue Frost Spider — **Forest and Frost Spiders**: brown in the woods, white on the Eastland snows.

A large red boar by a muddy wallow — **Precious**: the great sow of the wallow. Mind the red line.

Green slime on a cave stalactite — **Cave Ooze**: it drops from the roof when you walk underneath.

Dire wolf — **The Old Wolf**: a huge dark wolf that roams the whole island. When it howls, run.

Pig roasting on a spit — **Supper**: the Kragmor eat well.

**The graveyard**: where ghosts begin the walk home.

The village from above — **From above**: the village, grown from its seed.

The next map COMING SOON

We're building the realm's final map: a far bigger island, about 7.5 by 12.5 km, with a snow-capped mountain called the Crown at its heart. Rivers run from springs under its snow down to deltas on the sea, and a desert lies walled off behind a mountain range.

It's being built piece by piece on a test world, and the game will only move over to it once it looks right. Until then, the world you play in stays as it is. No date yet; we'll post here when it's close.

An early aerial test render of a large island with a jagged snowy peak, a sandy desert coast and mountains beyond — An early test render, before trees, towns and texture work. Not in the game yet.