None of them is locked behind the others. Learn a trade on the way to a dungeon, chase a portal when one opens, or spend a week walking the coast road and never fight anything at all.
Dagger, greatsword, bow, wand, staff or sword and shield: whichever you pick up is what you are. Each one has its own ladder of skills to spend points on, from a blink and a fireball to a leap that lands with a stun on the end of it.
Meet the classes
Towns, farms, caves and coastline, with the day turning over them and rain rolling across one map while the next stays dry. Every road leads to somewhere real.
Explore the world
Take a job from somebody who needs it, follow the trail, and get paid. Then take a few people underground and clear a floor that belongs to nobody but you.
Find something to do
Now and then a portal tears open beside somebody, and anybody close enough has a minute to step through: a store-room nobody has opened in years, a rift full of something that came through, or a stranger waiting on the other side.
How portals work
Roll Charge Dice to raise a weapon or a piece of armour one level at a time. From +4 a weapon glows for everybody to see, elemental dice turn part of every blow into fire, water, thunder and more, and from +5 a bad roll can break it. And the same sword can turn up in five tiers, T5 to T1.
Upgrading your gear
Three shops in Aeven sell weapons, armour and something for a bad morning, all for gold. Bank Daddy keeps whatever your bags cannot, and your first drawer with him is free.
What the shops sell
Party up and share what you kill. Found a guild, name it, give it a crest and a rank ladder. Trade face to face, post a letter, and talk to the world, the street, your party or your guild.
Parties and guilds
Open your journal and claim a box a day from whatever run of rewards is on. Every box shows what is in it before you open it, and missing a day costs you nothing: the next box is still waiting when you come back.
How daily rewards work
Four things that decide how the first hour feels.
You come apart into your own pixels and wake up somewhere safe with everything still on you.
Stay clear of a fight for a few seconds and health and mana climb back by themselves. No potion required.
A bow is not the same size as a ring. Three bags, and a banker in town for whatever will not fit.
Close the tab in the middle of the street and your character will be standing there when you come back.
