No class lock
Character creation is about who you are, not what you fight with. Both disciplines are open to everyone from the start.
Combat & Disciplines
Steel and spell, one hand
There is no class to choose. Every Warden trains five years at Hallowmere in steel and in spell, and switches between Warrior and Mage with a single key — at any moment, mid-fight, without breaking stride.
Q
One key, any moment
Press the switch key and your stance, weapon and ability bar change in one motion. No menu, no cast time, no waiting.
The fun is the mix
Each discipline is strong alone. Together they open combos neither can do by itself — that is where mastery lives.
The Switch
Open with a spell. Finish with steel.
One fight, four beats. Watch how a single key turns a Mage's opening into a Warrior's finish — and back again.
Mage discipline
1. Open with a spell
From range, pour fire into the pack. Enemies scatter or burn.
The switch key is shown as Q here. Every key can be rebound.
Discipline
The Warrior
Heavy weapons, heavy armour and nerve. The Warrior fights where the danger is thickest.
Warriors hold the front line, break guards and punish enemies who get too close. Every swing has weight, and good footwork turns a crowd into a queue. The Blessing makes a Warden stronger and harder to kill than any soldier.
Example abilities
Area · Stagger
Earthbreaker
Leap into the air and slam down, cracking the ground and staggering everything nearby.
Gap closer
Lunging Thrust
A long lunge that covers ground fast and punishes enemies who try to retreat.
Combo finisher
Crescent Cut
A turning slash that hits all around you. Deals extra damage at the end of a combo.
Defence · Counter
Riposte
Raise your guard for a moment. Parry a blow and answer with a free strike.
Discipline
The Mage
Fire, frost and storm. The Mage decides where the fight happens.
Mages control the field from range: walls of ice to cut off a charge, fire to punish a crowd, lightning to finish what is left. Positioning is everything. Honest magic comes from your own strength: cast too much and you tire. Be wary of anyone who never does.
Example abilities
Fire · Channel
Emberstream
Pour a steady torrent of flame in front of you. Burning enemies take more damage from steel.
Frost · Area
Frost Nova
Freeze the ground around you in a burst of ice spikes, slowing everything inside the ring.
Frost · Barrier
Rime Wall
Raise a wall of ice that blocks projectiles and charges. Heavy weapons can break it.
Storm · Ultimate
Stormcall
Gather a thundercloud overhead. Lightning strikes the ground around you until it breaks.
Arcane · Shield
Glass Ward
A shell of clear light absorbs damage, then shatters outward when it breaks.
Storm · Projectile
Void Orb
Hurl a slow sphere of crackling storm energy that arcs to anything it passes.
Combos
Better together
A few of the combinations our testers keep coming back to. There are many more to find.
Freeze and shatter
Frost Nova to pin a group in place, switch, then Crescent Cut through the frozen ring.
Parry and punish
Riposte a heavy blow, step back as you switch, and bring down Stormcall while they stagger.
Wall and hammer
Cut off a charge with Rime Wall, switch for an Earthbreaker on the other side, then switch back to Emberstream.
Character Model
One character. Both disciplines.
This is our first character model, in progress. Turn it around the way you will turn the camera in game.
Because there are no classes, a character is never built around one weapon. Armour, robes and weapons layer onto the same body, and the switch key swaps what you are holding and how you stand.
Work in progress — base model shown without discipline gear.
Light your torch
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