Items & Relics

Weapon families, worst to best

5 families, each 14 grades deep. Every item shows its damage, what its shot does and the proficiency it asks for. The damage here is the weapon as forged. In your pack it reads higher, because your practice with that kind of weapon is counted in, and your Attack multiplies whatever it says. Where each one drops is on the drop table.

Armor families, worst to best

3 ladders, each 14 grades deep. Defense comes off every blow that lands on you, and weight is the percent of your movement speed the piece costs to wear. Robes also give Wisdom, which is the mana you get back over time, and a robe gives as much of it as its grade. Light armour also gives Dexterity, which is how fast you attack, and Speed, which is how fast you move.

Rings

9 families, one for each stat, and 5 grades of each. Any class can wear one, and the stat it gives is the whole of it.

Carried tools, worst to best

The 6 tools a signature grows on, and what carrying each one actually changes. Where they drop is on the drop table.

Every hero carries one of these, and it is the third equipment slot. It is the only thing your [Space] signature grows on: no rank to buy, no skill point to spend, just a better tool. Someone else’s tool equips and does nothing at all, and it still sells. A weapon is not like that: any path may swing any weapon it has the proficiency for.

Each family is a ladder of 7, worst to best, and the last two do not merely enlarge the move: they change what it does. A Freeblade can carry any of the 6 and draws 60% of what the specialist draws from the same item, which reaches the first of those two rule changes and never the second. Every figure below is what the item is worth to the class it belongs to.

Risen counts are the base: the Shepherd’s Bell and each rank of the Legion skill add one more on top.

Wearing and wielding

Two numbers every piece carries, what each one costs, and who they apply to.

A bungle is a cast that fails. The spell does not come out, the mana is spent anyway, and you are told it happened. It is the price of casting in gear that was not made for casting.

It only ever touches a caster. If your path is a magic one, or you are holding a magic weapon whatever your path, the chance applies. Anyone else can wear and swing whatever they like and never roll for it at all.

Your chance is simply your armour’s plus your weapon’s, so Heavy Armor and a Sword together come to 50%. Freeblade takes 10% straight off that, so the same kit costs 40%.

Weight is the percent of your movement speed the armour costs, and every family on a ladder weighs the same whatever grade it is: a Worn plate and a Godforged one slow you by exactly as much. Anything not listed here is free to wear or hold.

What a shop sells

Every weapon and every piece of armour on a shelf is a rung from the ladders above, so anything you can buy has a row on this page.

A shop only trades while you are standing at the shopkeeper, and the same goes for the smith, the hearth and hiring. There is no buying from the bottom of a dungeon.

Signature items

One named piece per named foe, dropped by that foe and by nothing else.

Every hero who fought the boss rolls separately, and your share of the damage divides the chance.

Signature sets

Some signatures are grouped into themed sets. Wear the pieces together and the set pays, and the deeper sets pay again for a third piece.

Trial spoils

The named prize at the bottom of each boss trial. Every one of them is a chance; only the gate to the Sunless Trench is certain.

Relics

4 off the Pinnacle Bosses, and 6 black-glass Citadel relics off The Drowned Archivist. Each changes how a build plays rather than adding to a stat line.

Pattern weapons

Each fires a distinct bolt pattern. Only a Pinnacle Boss drops one, and each weapon has its own roll at 1 in 250.

The Frostbrand

Potions

The only permanent stat gain that is not a skill point or a Bone Setting. Dropped by The Trenchmaw at the bottom of the Sunless Trench. Every hero who fought the boss rolls separately, so a party can walk out with several between them.

One lands as a chest rather than drinking itself, and goes straight into your bag, so the moment you spend it is yours to pick. Each path also has a ceiling on how far any one stat can be pushed this way: reach it and the Potion will not go down, and it stays in your bag, so a Potion is never wasted and always worth picking up.