The world and its clans

The world is a map cut into territories by a Voronoi diagram. Each cell has a clan that owns it, a settlement (a seat, town, village, hamlet or outpost), a resource profile read from its biome, a stockpile, a threat level and often a den or a ruin. The borders between cells are where politics happens: every border is an edge with a relationship, a road, a trade route and sometimes a fort.

Settlements

Clans and alignment

Every clan has an alignment: light, neutral, dark. The light clans are elven (the glades and the Elderwood), the neutral ones are plain folk, the dark ones follow the dusk. The land leans the same way (each biome has an alignment that tints its light and sets its faction mix), so the map reads as a slope from the bright Glade and Sunplains down to the dark Mirefen, Veilmist and Ashen lands (see biomes). Reputation with a clan runs from -1000 to 1000: 100 opens its vendors, 400 housing plots, 750 membership, and below -250 it is hostile.

Borders and what they build

An edge carries one of six relationships, ordered from friend to foe: alliance, treaty, trade pact, neutral, rivalry, war. A relationship follows a score from -100 to 100 and flips with hysteresis. What stands on the border follows the relationship:

Wars cut routes, so prices in cut-off cells rise each day without supply; raids drain stockpiles; a treaty freezes territory flips on its edge for three days. Goods that move: timber, stone, ore, bars, food, fish, hides, cloth, gear, reagents, coreShards, luxuries. The currency is the Silver Leaf.

Places

Every world scatters these site types (33 kinds). The old and the dangerous ones:

The Start Grove holds the Lightheart Tree, where every character wakes. Seven Wellsprings are the boss altars of the progression ladder: a boss is called with an offering and, once killed, sets a world key that unlocks the next tier. Core stones sit inside the Sky Isles and cannot be mined; core shards come from the Heart of the Deep.

The ladder

Tier	Land	Metal	Boss
T1	Glade	stone and flint	The Hollow Stag
T2	Elderwood	Bronze Bar	Grimbark the Elder
T3	Mirefen	Iron Bar	Bonemaw
T4	Frostpeaks / Ocean + Deep Tide	Moonsilver Bar	Nythara, the Dim Wyrm, The Drowned Crown
T5	Sunplains	Sunsteel Bar	Warlord Vael, the Fallen King
T6	Sky Isles / Veilmist / Rimewild	Starmetal Bar	The Unlit Seraph
T7	Ashen	Voidsteel Bar	Nocthra, Mother of Dimming

The world is generated from a seed and is the same for everyone who joins. A new world opens at 07:55 in fair weather; the day lasts 30 real minutes and a season 6 days.

The pocket dimensions

Beyond the sea at the edge of the map lie three worlds the elves cut loose from the sky. They are not separate worlds: each is a far 4 km square of the one world (14 km east, west and south of the Lightheart, past the open sea and a rim wall), made from the same seed, saved in the same save, streamed by the same zones and run by the same host. They cannot be reached on foot; a portal puts you there, and a client in one is only a client far away.

Dimension	Tier	Look	Creatures	Materials	Pellet
The Shroomworld	T2	Giant mushrooms on soft, spore-lit hills: a quiet world the elves cut loose from the sky, and it still glows.	Capback, Sporeling	Spore Cap, Glowspore	Spore Pellet
The Crystallic World	T5	Spires and trees of singing glass: every ridge throws light, and the shard-hounds hunt by the glare.	Shardhound, Glimmerwing	Crystal Shard, Prism	Crystal Pellet
The Ice World	T4	A Europa: an iceberg crust over a dark ocean, geysers that lift you and cracks that drop you into the sea.	Rimeback, Floe Tern	Deep Ice, Brine Crystal	Rime Pellet

Each has a landmark (a dais, a ring of pillars and the stone home ring, which opens a gate back) and a foothold: a small ruin in the main world (Shroomworld in the Elderwood or Mirefen; Crystallic World in the Sunplains or Veilmist; Ice World in the Frostpeaks or Rimewild) whose chest always holds the first pellet of that dimension. Later pellets are made at the Workbench from the dimension's own materials, which only a visitor can carry. One in five Mystery portals lands in a dimension.