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Anatomy of a character

A character (the game calls them members) is the unit you build, dispatch, level up, and send into combat. Three layers stack onto every member:

• Identity — race and archetype, decided at recruitment. Race is permanent; archetype can be class-changed.
• Build — skill points, equipped essences, gear, and the mutation and branch state those essences project. This is what changes day-to-day.
• Inheritance — soul tree, patron blessing, faction standing, alliance perks. Account-wide systems that buff or gate the individual member.

Most of the wiki is about how those three layers add up. This page is the table of contents.

Identity layer · permanent

Race

Eleven races. Each one rolls a different range for the five base stats (ATK / DEF / SPD / INT / VIT), weights which professions the member tends to favor, and aligns to one of five titan-links (Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Void). The titan-link decides which essences feel like home for that character.

A Fire-linked human and a Void-linked dark-elf rolling identical stat arrays will still feel different — the titan-link tilts how their essence branches grow.

Identity layer · class-changeable

Archetype

Twelve archetypes (Striker, Guardian, Caster, Assassin, Healer, Controller, Summoner, Shapeshifter, Ranger, Warden, Enchanter, Phantom) and three specialization paths inside each. Picking an archetype assigns the member's base action and unlocks a skill tree of about 37 nodes.

You can class-change later — the skill tree resets, but the levels and equipment carry over. A respec without the archetype change costs 500 gold; class change is free but wipes the tree.

Build layer · the day-to-day knob

Levels & skill points

One skill point per sublevel, max level 130, so up to 130 SP available. A full archetype tree wants ~198 SP, so you can never max everything. Every build is a forced tradeoff.

Skill points are the primary currency for shaping a single member. Spend them on the archetype tree (always), the essence branches the equipped essences project (often), and a member's profession tree (always — different SP pool, capped at 18).

Build layer · two slots that rewrite the build

Essences

Every member has two essence slots. Slot 1 fires at full power; slot 2 is an echo at roughly half. The essence drives two things at once:

• Slot triggers — on-attack, on-hit, on-kill, and passive procs that fire during combat — status effects, buffs, damage tweaks.
• Skill-tree branches — many essences project a 5-node mini-branch into the member's archetype tree. Two equipped essences = two extra branches visible. Swap the essence and the branch's invested points freeze.

Fifty-seven essences ship at launch. The Mystery Essence system rolls new ones in over time.

Build layer · the deepest crosslink

Essence mutations

When an essence is slotted, it also mutates the member's equipped skills. Eight elemental categories (Flame, Frost, Storm, Shadow, Holy, Nature, Void, Arcane) each project a category-flavored twist onto every active skill the archetype owns. A Flame essence makes your strikes chain Burn; a Frost essence layers Freeze; a Shadow essence steals Curse stacks.

Roughly 672 unique mutations (12 archetypes × 7 actives × 8 categories). Most builds quietly inherit a dozen of them without thinking about it.

Build layer · the parallel non-combat track

Profession

Every member also gets a profession — 32 of them across 18 underlying categories (Blacksmith, Alchemist, Hunter, Bard, Engineer, Cartographer, Sky Captain, and so on). Profession is set at bind and is fixed for life. It runs on its own skill-point pool (cap 18, max reachable 17) and a separate trunk-plus-leaf skill tree.

• Level 1 → 10 — earns +1 SP per level, plus +5% yield / -3% duration / +10 profession power. XP comes from profession quests, profession chain quests, and Training Intensive.
• Mastery Trial — unlocks at level 10. +5 SP, opens up the mastery-gated leaf nodes, +20 profession power. Only ONE Master per profession across your whole faction at a time.
• Leaf actives — every leaf has a daily-cooldown active button. 3 are wired today (Miner Gemstrike, Healer Field Triage, Bard Rallying Tune); 29 are flavor stubs awaiting design.

Race biases which profession a member rolls at the Tavern (Human-Fire leans Blacksmith / Guard / Farmer, Human-Water leans Healer / Merchant / Shipwright), but onboarding lets you pick directly. To re-roll a profession on an existing member you'd have to refine them — the slot is permanent.

Build layer · slotted equipment

Gear & refinement

Members equip weapons, armor, and accessories. Each piece has a base tier (T0–T5) and can be refined upward by consuming lower-tier inputs. Refining is gated by your buildings' tier range — a region whose resource tier range tops at T2 cannot host a T4 refinery.

Equipment rolls a small affinity tilt that compounds with the essence + race + archetype stack. Most members' loadouts are recipe-crafted, not loot-dropped — see the crafting wiki for the recipe graph.

Inheritance layer · account-wide

Soulfire & the Soul Tree

When a member is refined (the game's prestige flow), they leave behind soulfire — a currency that funds the Soul Tree, an account-wide passive tree with 161 nodes across 5 branches.

The Soul Tree affects every member you control. Allocating into Might raises everyone's ATK; allocating into Mastery shortens every dispatch. This is the single biggest reason late-game members feel stronger than early-game members of the same level.

Inheritance layer · faith-aligned

Patron blessing

Consecrate a patron shrine and your roster inherits a patron blessing. Mendicants reward travel and mercy; Wardens reward discipline and defense; Cenobites reward focus; Stigmata rewards sacrifice; Stewards rewards harvest and refinement.

The blessing only applies to members in regions where the consecrated shrine's patron holds sway. Cross-region members are still your characters, just without that specific buff.

Inheritance layer · per-region

Faction loyalty

Faction loyalty determines which members you can recruit, which buildings host them, and how their assigned region produces. A devoted-nobility region surfaces noble-house recruits; a devoted-merchant region surfaces caravan-runners.

Loyalty doesn't buff existing characters directly, but it gates the supply of new ones and the production rate the character's buildings put out.

Inheritance layer · brotherhood-wide

Alliance perks

Your alliance's leader equips perks at the Alliance Hall. Active perks apply to every member of the alliance, including yours. Some are flat numerical buffs (gather rate, refining speed), others unlock systems (extra caravan slot, alliance-wide tomes).

You don't pick your alliance perks. You pick your alliance.

The verbs that consume their time

What characters actually do

A member spends their time on one of three things at any moment:

• Dispatched — out on a quest, gather run, hunt, or patrol. The queue runs on real-world timers, even while the app is closed.
• In combat — auto-battle resolves their archetype actions and slotted essences against an enemy family (and its affix, if rolled).
• Working a building — assigned to a refinery, workshop, or watchtower. Their profession governs the output rate.

Plus the Heartbeat feed: when an NPC agent arrives, the member you assign to handle them gets the rewards (or the consequences).