Combat

How a fight goes

Click a creature to attack it. You and it trade blows every 1.2 seconds until one of you falls or you walk away. Vitality is your hitpoints; eat food (click it in your backpack) to heal. Some creatures start the fight themselves, so mind where you walk.

Three ways to fight

• With a blade: Precision decides how often you hit, Power how hard, and Block how little the enemy's blows hurt.
• With a bow (Archery): from a distance, with arrows in your backpack. The bow decides how well and how far you shoot, the arrows how hard.
• With spells (Sorcery): each cast uses shards, and each spell hits for a fixed most: Gust (level 1, up to 2); Cinder (level 5, up to 4).

Fighting styles

A style decides which skill your blade's fighting trains:

Controlled

Xp split evenly — no level bonus

Accurate

+3 precision, xp to Precision

Aggressive

+3 power, xp to Power

Defensive

+3 block, xp to Block

Vitality always gets its share.

Gear

Armour takes the edge off every blow, and even a helmet and a shield make a first fight much fairer. Weapons of a metal ask for a Precision level, and armour for a Block level:

Bronze 1 · Iron 1 · Steel 5 · Blue 20 · Green 30 · Cyan 40

See weapons and armour in the wiki, and the NPCs for every creature's level.