What's in the current build. Everything shown here is playable today.
The world is generated from a seed and never runs out. It's split into named regions, each with its own biomes, level range and shrine. The farther you go from where you started, the more dangerous it gets.
Weapons are big and every family fights its own way, with its own combo, timing and weight. Swings wind up, strike and follow through, and heavy ones land when they come down. Attacks home in on the enemy in front of you, and landing hits builds Fervor to spend on your weapon's special.
Every region has a shrine. Attune to one to make it your respawn point, then fast travel between attuned shrines from the map. Out in the wilds, shrines start corrupted and guarded until you fight for them.
The map is a terraced relief model on a cartographer's table, built straight from the world. It starts as blank parchment and fills in as you explore. Camps, shrines, ore, herbs and your pins stand on it as painted miniatures.
Mine copper, iron, silver and gold, pick herbs, and level your skills the way you'd expect from an MMO. Smithing turns ore into bars, swords, pickaxes and full sets of armour.
The world is worth wandering. Caves wind down into crystal caverns full of spiders and bats. Dungeons are vast vaulted crypts of the Hollow, ending in a great hall where a guardian waits over its treasure. Landmarks, from a fallen colossus to the bones of a giant, hide caches and a line of lore.
Villages, castle towns, and the towns of the dwarves, elves and beastfolk, each built along its own streets. Shops, trainers and an inn, quest givers with work for you, guards on patrol, and goblin raids at night.
Characters are built from dense voxel models with faces, hair, beards and layered gear. Pick from four races, and meet goblins whose role you can read from their silhouette.
The Gathered Dawn