Complete the Training

Warden Ilke meets you where the teleport set you down.

Bruna puts you on the seam. Copper, rough stones she tells you to keep, and a dull grey rock she is oddly interested in and will not explain. The grey rock does not break like the others. Pieces come off it.

Gather3 ×Copper Ore

Mine copper ore

GatherUncut Opal

Mine an uncut opal

GatherSlate

Chip a slab off the grey rock

Smelt the copper at the furnace, then beat one bar into a dagger at the anvil. Copper is too soft for a blade and the edge will roll. Bruna is delighted with it anyway.

Make3 ×Copper Bar

Smelt copper bars

MakeCopper Dagger

Forge a copper dagger

Tarn points you at the herbs, the well and a fire, in that order, and puts a cup in your hand before you have finished sitting down.

Gather2 ×Grimy Chamomile

Pick chamomile

MakeChamomile

Clean the chamomile

GatherPan of Water

Fill your pan at the well

MakeChamomile Tea

Brew chamomile tea

Ossy presses an axe, a saw and a knife on you, tells you which tree to take them to, and asks for the logs back at his bench. Balsa is soft and forgiving, which is exactly the point. It makes a poor rod and a worse staff, and he will hand you both anyway.

Gather3 ×Balsa Log

Cut balsa logs

MakeBalsa Plank

Cut a balsa plank

MakeUnf. Balsa Rod

Carve the plank into a rod blank

MakeBalsa Staff

Cap the shaft into a staff

Pick flax, spin it into thread, and then Wenna looks at the carved rod in your pack and waits to see whether you get there first.

Gather2 ×Flax

Pick flax

MakeLinen Thread

Spin linen thread

MakeFishing Rod

Finish the fishing rod

Sefa keeps the course that climbs from the weaver's stall, over the treetops, and back down toward the water. Two of the stones move. She will not say which.

Pell takes one look at the rod and sends you to the shallows. The first thing in this world you made end to end from nothing.

Gather2 ×Raw Sardine

Catch sardines

MakeCooked Sardine

Cook what you caught

Dunmar has you equip what you made, reads your stance back to you, and puts you on the dummy, then on something that hits back. He calls the goblins your first venery task, and explains what that word covers before he lets you at them.

The banker explains what the bank is for. What you leave here is safe, and everything you carry is not.

Hesper turns the rough stones over and asks for them. A chisel, no station, and they cut. She still will not say what the grey rock is.

MakeOpal

Cut the opal

Hesper answers the question from your first hour. The grey rock is slate, the only conduit there is. Etched with the chisel and imbued at the nexus, the slab becomes a rune that knows how to wait for a blow.

MakeRune of the Gathered Blow

Etch a Rune of the Gathered Blow

Hesper hands you a Shard of Knowledge and shows you what it is for, and how to keep an action where your hand can find it. She does not send you anywhere. You will do that yourself.