Strength
Physical force and the ability to apply it.
Elyndorath archive · Living-world laws
The world does not wait for its players.
Weather moves, people live once, towns can rise or fall, faith can divide, roads can fail, and wilderness exists for reasons older than a quest marker.
10 core attributesPersistent consequenceOne-life NPCsWorld agency
Character foundation · Ten attributes
Every build begins with the same ten measures.
Characters receive ten free attribute points per level. Class, training, office, faith, equipment, achievement, and lived experience can open additional stats or alter how the foundation is used.
Endurance
Sustained exertion, resilience, and resistance to fatigue.
Vitality
Life, bodily durability, health, and recovery.
Agility
Speed, balance, movement, and bodily responsiveness.
Precision
Exact control, aim, timing, and fine execution.
Intellect
Learning, reasoning, analysis, and structured understanding.
Will
Resolve, self-command, resistance, and sustained intent.
Awareness
Perception, attention, danger reading, and environmental understanding.
Presence
Influence, command, social force, and the ability to hold others together.
Attunement
Sensitivity and alignment with magic, spiritual forces, and uncommon systems.
Life, effort, and magic
Power has a body and the body has limits.
Health, stamina, mana, exhaustion, and sleep give action a cost that cannot be solved by one universal resource bar.
Progression · Paths that can change
Entry tier is a beginning, not a ceiling.
Base, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic, and higher identities describe where a class begins or evolves. Every genuine class can grow upward if its conditions are met.
Discovery and instruction
Advanced or unusual classes require trainers, actions, knowledge, reputation, sacrifice, or other world-rooted conditions rather than a simple menu selection.
A hidden path with real maintenance
It may begin at Rare and advance. Undead forces have no arbitrary hard cap; command stats, mana, logistics, loyalty, and maintenance create the practical limit.
A Rare foundation
Shaman begins as a Rare class and may evolve higher under the same upward-growth law as other authentic paths.
World permanence
Consequences remain after the person who caused them leaves.
Environment, settlement, institution, economy, ecology, faith, law, and memory form one connected world rather than separate systems waiting for activation.
Destruction and rebuilding persist
Towns, roads, forests, structures, and resources can be damaged, abandoned, restored, expanded, or replaced.
NPC lives happen once
Death can remove knowledge, labor, leadership, relationships, and future possibilities from the world.
Religions can grow and fracture
Major institutions, rival doctrines, cults, priestly paths, and player-founded religions compete through belief, practice, authority, and consequence.
Rank brings capability and risk
Military service can rise from soldier to General or Admiral; noble office can rise toward kingship. Titles unlock real authority and can be lost.
Travel, discovery, and natural law
Distance remains part of the world.
Fast travel depends on teleportation arrays built and maintained through magic. Knowledge of a place can itself become valuable through maps, books, trade, scholarship, art, and reputation.
Mages make the roads between roads
Teleportation arrays must exist before they can be used; they are infrastructure, not a universal interface command.
Information can be owned and sold
A location, route, wonder, creature record, or accurate account may become achievement, scholarship, trade, or cultural memory.
Natural law remains immutable
Magic cannot rewrite gravity itself. Levitation and telekinesis act through mana and force rather than altering the law of attraction.
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