Chapter 1.2 Character Creation and World Start

Creating a Character
Players can choose from premade character templates to get started quickly, or create their own. There are no classes and players can mix and match any traits, and can edit after starting from a template. Players can filter classic categories by using the search filter. (Examples: Combat Skills, Crafting skills, Healing Skills, etc.) Players will see all starting skills, and can see all starter breakdown skills from there. (Examples: Crafting -> Smithing/Carpentry/Masonry/etc.) Players can also save their own templates to reuse in the future, or share with other players.

These are some premade template examples, and some ideas for character creation. Actual character trait options will be uploaded in the future, and the following is a general reference. [Images coming soon.]

  • Combat Templates

    • Balanced Adventurer

      • Traits have a balance of combat between defensive, short ranged, long ranged weapons, survival and general crafting traits

    • Close Range Adventurer

      • Increased attack and speed with short ranged weapons, recovery, and increase crafting proficiency crafting related to armor and short ranged weapons

    • Long Range Adventurer

      • Increased accuracy, speed, and attack with long ranged weapons, increased speed with lighter armor, recovery, and increased crafting proficiency towards bow and arrow crafts

    • Defensive Adventurer

      • Mainly focuses on stamina for defense, speedier builds using shields, fast recovery, and crafting related to heavy armor and shields

  • Wilderness Templates

    • Nomad

      • Has a focus on survival traits and lightly spread traits between combat and crafting

    • Druid

      • Focuses on lessening reactivity with animals to draw closer, increases buffs to effects to nature and bond with nature companion

  • Crafting Templates

    • Balanced Crafter

      • Slight proficiency skills towards all crafts

    • Balanced Smith

      • Increased proficiency towards smithing and mining, negate durability loss for mining and smithing tools, increased stat boosts to smithing crafts

    • Cook

      • Increased proficiency to all cooking crafts, unlock restaurant service abilities sooner, increased bonuses to quest rewards to player relating to menu items, cooking buffs last longer for yourself and other players

    • Peasant

      • Increased offering worth of sacrifices towards monsters, additional bonuses to quest rewards to other players, unlock service abilities sooner, increased proficiency to farming and cooking

  • Other Templates

    • Faith Based

      • Prayers have increased effective rates, sacrifices for rituals and offerings are worth more, unlock new altars quicker, decreased ethereal damage, see all ghosts, spirits, and hidden cosmic entities

    • Merchant

      • Can carry XL backpacks with no speed penalties, increased worth of items when selling (but players pay the same price,) unlocks store based service counters sooner, unlocks merchant stalls and merchant wagons, sooner

Character Traits vs Skill Slots and Skills
Character traits are permanent character buffs, (or challenges) that cannot be altered. In-game, players gain empty skill slots over time. You will unlock skills that fill the slots. These can be flexibly learned, forgotten, or archived for later use if done strategically. In-game, strategically stack buffs with traits for maximum effects, or balance different traits with unrelated skills to maximize flexibility. You can modify skills outside of combat, but traits are unchanging.

Leftover Character Traits
Leftover character trait points can be used to either spend on starter items, equipments, pets, or livestock, or if enough is saved up, use to spend on more max skill slots. If a player doesn't want to spend any points on permanent character traits, they can spend all of the points on more max skill slots.

Challenging Characters - Increase Skill Slots
Every player has the same amount of points to select character traits. However, players can select trait challenges to either unlock more character traits, or increase their max skill slots in game.

Examples of Trait Challenges:

  • Permanent Alcoholic

    • Character needs ale or other brewery every so often, failing to do so results in a debuff

    • The debuff increases the longer the character goes without it, and cannot recover

  • Never Log Off

    • Doesn't turn into a firefly when logged off, character will pass out upon disconnecting and fall asleep when logged off

    • Will gain a debuff upon return if not logged off at a bed

    • Player can be moved by other players when logged off if the area/context allows it

  • Survival

    • Needs to eat and drink periodically to stay alive

    • Failing to do so will result in slow HP drain (pauses when logged off, unless has "Never Log Off" trait)

  • Survival Hard Core

    • Needs to eat and drink periodically to stay alive

    • Failing to do so will result in slow HP drain (pauses when logged off, unless has "Never Log Off" trait)

    • Player's core and consumable buffs are not enough to warm the player, player needs to wear warm or light gear in cold and hot areas

  • Geographically Challenged

    • Minimap is permanently disabled

  • Cosmically Damaged

    • This character always speaks in a garbled filter and their written texts comes out as scribbles

      • Trained scholars can decipher written texts and translate

      • Cannot also take on cosmic translation traits or skills

    • Cannot take on any skills or traits that negate or aid cosmic horror and cosmic bliss damage

    • Cosmic horror and cosmic bliss damage in increased

    • Attracts cosmic entities when entering their reactivity radius

  • PVP Always

    • Can attack and be attacked by another PVP always trait character

    • Normal PVP rules still apply (covered in a future chapter)

Loadouts - Options
Loadouts are full or partial gear changes that have cooldown timers. This gives players the option to focus on a single equipment loadout, or quick changes between equipment sets.

  • Loadout Examples - Switch Between...

  • Swordsman themed loadout and an archer loadout for combat

  • A combat loadout and crafting loadout

  • Multiple crafting loadout sets

  • Or more...


At character creation you can toggle to start with an extra loadout. Loadouts cost 3 skill slots, but players can convert them back and forth any time in game, when outside of combat. You will need to have room in your inventory to unequip a loadout, or be near an accessible loadout storage that has enough space.

Character's True Name
By inputting a character's true name, players can make up identities as aliases in various parts of the game, but deities (and GMs) will know your true name.

Game Start
Players can start a game by selecting where in the world they want to start. Each grid space selected will show if there are any land claims and their player count. It will also show the dominating ecology/biome and what types of resources are typically available in the area, and a general indicator of how much.

Starter Items Based on Location
Players can select starter items after choosing an area to spawn. The area's ecosystem grid type will determine the theme of items that can be chosen. Players can choose to start at a friend's land claim, or an allowed settlement (password protected, or public). Land claims can attach storages to player spawn points, which become a library of starter items players can select. These will need to be replenished as players claim them.

Change Mind on Starter Items
If you decide you don't want to spend remaining character points on starter items, you can convert your remaining points towards a skill slot (any remainder less than 1, will always give at least one skill slot), or return to reselect character traits.

Game Start with Meteors
Depending on the context of the location, players might be asked which meteor to start with. Meteors are resource based landings that add more material to the terrain. These are often limited to the dominant ecology in the selected grid. Wildlife based constructions, and world events can affect meteor selection. Land claims may also create constructions that don't allow meteors in their area.

Different Types of Templates
There are 3 different types of character templates a player can save and share.

  • Character Design Template

    • Contains character's visual features like hair, eyes, starting clothes and so forth

  • Character Traits Template

    • Contains just the traits to apply to a character

    • Can be uploaded after creating the character's visual features

  • Full Character Template

    • Combination of above

    • Players can still edit after uploading


(There are no templates that include items, livestock, pets, or meteors since this depends on the ecology and player activity of a selected grid.)

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