The World

A fair fight on the road.

The foes carry a curse. Win to choose a rare relic.

A stranger, a shrine, a choice.

Chip frozen coin out of the drift. +7 gold.

One hero ranks up and learns a new art.

An old stash. Choose one of three relics.

Your chosen hero alone against a champion. No life lost if you fall.

Let the embers do the talking. +1 warmth.

Push one warden hard until dawn. They rise one rank.

Hold one warden’s steel and skin to Ancapyra’s heat. +15% max HP for the run.

A hooded traveller shares the fire and leaves three trinkets. Keep one relic.

One warden forgets a learned upgrade and chooses anew from their calling.

Enemies heal 2% of their max HP every second.

Enemies gain +1 armor (+25 Defense).

Enemies +20% attack speed.

One more enemy joins the fight.

Enemies have 30% more HP.

A glacier-troll squats on Equilibriax’s toll road and will not move. Hit it as hard as you can before the frost takes you. Every breakpoint pays.

Something vast walks out of Valtoroth’s dark and grows stronger by the second. Keep one warden standing — 20, 40, 60 seconds each pay.

One of your wardens, masked, against a champion of the court. Win for a purse; lose and only pride bleeds.

A clerk of the Ardenne Guild Office leans out of the snow with a parcel for your new guild, then is gone.

• Open the weapon roll — Your warden takes a fresh blade.
• Open the coin purse — +6 gold for the first shop.
• Open the charm box — A relic of the road.

Seven hollows ring a frozen altar. Three still hold a gem, each humming with a dragon’s colour.

• Take the ember gem — All heroes +1 attack for the run
• Take the stone gem — All heroes +5 max HP for the run
• Pry out all three and sell them — +9 gold · -1 warmth. The cold follows greed.

The Frostroad splits three ways: a white meadow, a black chasm bridged by one rope, a forest that whispers your name.

• The meadow — +1 warmth
• The chasm — Half chance of a rare relic, else nothing
• The forest — A random item

Coins glitter at the bottom of a well that never freezes. A sign in old script: GIVE, AND BE GIVEN.

• Throw in 5 gold — -5 gold · choose one of three relics
• Fish the coins out — +6 gold · -1 warmth
• Leave it be — Nothing happens.

Tents half-buried, a pot still on the cold fire. Whoever camped here left in a hurry, and left their packs.

• Search the packs — A random item
• Burn the tents for warmth — +1 warmth

Smoke rises from one chimney. The headman sits on a woodpile taller than his house while the children beg at his door.

• Share your own coin with the children — -4 gold · +1 warmth
• Take the headman’s hoard for the warband — +7 gold · -1 warmth. The cold follows greed.

A smiling moneylender in a balance-stitched coat offers a purse. "My patron believes in you. Repay him a little at a time."

• Take the loan — +10 gold now · -1 gold after every win
• Decline politely — Nothing changes. He keeps smiling.

A stone coil in the snow, the shape of a sleeping dragon. It is warm to the touch.

• Kneel and rest a while — +1 warmth
• Leave an offering of gold — -5 gold · a random relic

A warden of an older age, sealed upright in blue ice, lance still raised toward the north.

• Thaw the ice — -3 gold · a warden joins you
• Pry the lance free — Your strongest hero +3 attack for the run

Something with many eyes speaks from the drift. "You want to win. I want you to win. Take this."

• Accept the gift — A rare relic · -1 warmth
• Walk on — +2 gold — you feel steadier

A pearl-white wind curls around your party and a voice laughs. "Answer me, little warden, and I might be generous."

• Answer boldly — Half chance of 9 gold
• Flatter her instead — +3 gold

Travelers huddle in a stone waystation while rime wolves circle outside.

• Hold the door with them all night — All heroes +4 max HP for the run
• Sell them passage through your guard — +5 gold · -1 warmth

The brazier where the first Dragonwarden burned his enemy’s stolen heart. The coals never went out.

• Feed it gold — -6 gold · all heroes +1 attack for the run
• Warm your hands and go — +1 warmth

Below Ardenne’s streets, a smith with frost-bitten fingers still works. "No coin? Then help me carry iron."

• Buy from him — -4 gold · a random item
• Carry iron till dawn — +3 gold