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The Saga, Feats & Titles

Three ledgers give a character's life shape: the saga (the campaign, in chapters), feats (the permanent record of firsts and finishes), and titles (the names the herald lets you wear). All three are optional — the world is yours either way, and none of them ever locks, resets, or expires.

The Saga

SAGA (aliases SAGAS, CAMPAIGN) shows the campaign ledger: the chapter you are on, its steps, and the chapters already written.

  • Chapters land strictly in order. Only the current chapter's steps make progress, so wandering ahead spoils nothing and skips nothing — a shaman felled during chapter I counts as ordinary kobold blood, never as chapter II's step.
  • Steps note themselves off play you were doing anyway: entering places, greeting people, killing creatures (kill steps show a live n/N tally).
  • Each step pays real experience (a direct quest award, straight to exp — not the field pool), and each chapter pays a completion bonus. The next chapter's opening prints in-stream the moment one closes.
  • Future chapters, and future arcs — render as ???. The mystery is the point.

The campaign runs seven arcs, strictly in sequence, and together they walk the whole ladder: each arc carries a band of levels to that band's summit, and each finale opens the next arc's first page in the same breath. Saga I — The Warren Beneath the Climb is the on-ramp: three chapters, from first blood on the trail west of Coldhollow to the warren chief's chamber, finishing on a telegraphed boss fight — the room tells you how to answer. The arcs after it go south with the roads, up the ore country, through a Gate no army opened, across the top of the world, and then down, all the way down, to the thing the mountain has been keeping the whole time. Writing the seventh arc's last page is the campaign complete: the campaign stands written, and the mountain owes you nothing further. Each written arc stamps a feat and its own title.

Feats: the permanent record

FEATS (alias FEAT) shows the marks a character earned first, hardest, or earliest. Each is stamped with the day and never revoked — unlike embermarks, which are spent when you return from death, a feat is forever.

Feat Earned by
First Flame Any login during the founding era — before 2027-01-01 UTC. When the era closes, no one can ever earn it again.
Found Your Feet Finishing the newcomer checklist (TASKS).
First Blood Your first kill.
Read the Blade Answering a telegraphed attack inside its window for the first time.
Chief of the Warren Slaying the warren chief.
The Warren Beneath the Climb Completing Saga I.

The table above is the founding page; the record runs much longer now. Every saga arc stamps its own feat, named foes leave marks (a warren chief is only the first of them), so do places reached that most feet never reach, and the Tallyman's ledger counts your kills in courses — twenty-five entries at a time — toward marks of its own.

The ledger keeps a column for duels won, with marks at one, ten and fifty: The First Yield, Ten Yields, and Fifty Yields — "fifty duels answered and won", and Maud writes your name without asking how it's spelled. Only the winner marks anything, and the column is a tally of what you have done, never a ranking against anyone else. See Duels & PvP.

Some feats unlock a title in the herald's list — the Firstkindled rides First Flame, Warrenbreaker rides the first arc, the Duelist rides fifty yields, and each arc after carries a style of its own, up to the one the seventh arc leaves on whoever stands at the end of roads and walks home to tell it.

Titles: earned, never invented

TITLE shows the name you wear; TITLE LIST shows every title you have earned; TITLE <pick> (a list number or the title's words) wears one; TITLE CLEAR bares your name.

Titles come only from the herald's catalog — the rank ladder you grow through, your profession's road, guild masteries, and the marks feats leave. Free text is refused by design: the only names a character can carry are earned ones. Outgrown rank titles retire ("that name belongs to younger hands").

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