Battle Information

Action-selection pause and battle clock

After a player’s action resolves, battle pauses while that player chooses their next action; they have up to 10 seconds. During selection, neither player accumulates ABP, temporary-effect durations do not advance or expire, and no battle timers advance. The player chooses a Weapon Attack or an Ability, including an available companion Ability; a companion Ability uses the player’s action. After selection, calculate BP for the selected action from PPS and its applicable Weapon Stats or Ability Stats, then resume battle time. While time runs, each player accumulates ABP at the BP for their currently selected action. Each completed player action counts as one turn for that character. Battle time does not advance during either player’s selection pause.

ABP cycle

At 30 ABP, that player’s currently selected action resolves. Subtract 30 ABP and retain any excess. Then pause battle for that player to choose the next action in a new selection period of up to 10 seconds; once selected, add any Starting ABP on top of the retained ABP and resume accumulation at the new action’s BP.

Final damage and rounding

Damage reduction can reduce final damage to 0. Final damage never falls below 0 and has no mandatory minimum of 1. For percentage-based calculations, round in the affected character’s favor.

Battle ending

A battle ends when either side reaches 0 HP or lower, or when a player chooses Give Up.

Battle-specific outcomes

Rewards and loss penalties are specific to each battle; each battle must define and display its own. There are no universal battle rewards or loss penalties.

Battle Priority scale

BP means Battle Priority and determines the rate at which a character accumulates Battle Priority Points. A character’s Base BP is 5. Companion abilities use their owner’s BP, not an independent creature-specific Base BP. Applicable action modifiers and passive bonuses can raise BP above 10. Starting ABP is separate from BP and never changes its accumulation rate.

Stat terminology and calculation order

ABP means Accumulated Battle Priority Points: points accumulated toward the character’s next action. BPS means Base Player Stats, the player’s universal base combat statistics. UPS means Unique Player Stats: BPS after Blessing Stats. PPS means Predetermined Player Stats: UPS after all unlocked passive statistics. Apply stats in this order: BPS → Blessing Stats → UPS → Passive Stats → PPS. If no applicable passive statistics exist, PPS = UPS.

Selected-action stats

The player selects one action: a Weapon Attack or an Ability. For a Weapon Attack, PPS + applicable Weapon Stats = stats used for the selected action. For an Ability, PPS + applicable Ability Stats = stats used for the selected action. Only explicitly listed stats modify PPS; every unlisted stat stays at its PPS value. An omitted stat is not zero, and an Ability need not list every stat. Weapon Stats do not carry into an Ability unless that Ability explicitly uses equipped weapon damage. In that case, use the weapon damage as the Ability specifies, but do not add the weapon’s BP modifier unless the Ability explicitly says to; applicable PPS damage modifiers still apply. A matching Weapon Blessing adds the established +2 Damage to a matching-weapon Weapon Attack.

Mace and Fire Fusion example

With 5 BP, +3 Starting ABP, and a Mace with 9 Damage / +1 BP, a Mace Weapon Attack starts at 3/30 ABP and uses 6 BP. Fire Fusion starts at 3/30 ABP and uses 5 BP; it uses the Mace’s 9 Damage as its weapon-damage base, but not the Mace’s +1 BP.

Starting ABP

Starting ABP — Starting Accumulated Battle Priority Points. Add a character’s Starting ABP once at the beginning of each newly selected action’s accumulation cycle, on top of any retained ABP; it does not replace or reset retained ABP. For example, 32 ABP − 30 = 2 retained; selecting an action with +3 Starting ABP begins at 5/30 ABP, after which the selected action’s BP controls accumulation speed.

Minimum Effective Battle Priority

After applicable modifiers are calculated, Effective Battle Priority cannot fall below 3. Petrified is an exception.

Bash

Bash deals 5 Damage and removes 5 ABP from the enemy’s current action progress. ABP cannot fall below 0. Bash can reduce ABP below 3; it does not change the minimum Effective Battle Priority of 3. Bash has a BP modifier of +2.

Temporary-effect stacking

All temporary effects stack unless an individual effect explicitly says otherwise. Each reapplication of a three-turn effect starts a separate three-turn application while existing applications continue counting down. Three-turn effects count the affected character’s subsequent completed turns. Opposing modifiers remain visible separately and combine when calculating the effective value. For example, +2 Battle Priority and −1 Battle Priority remain visible as separate modifiers and produce a net +1 Battle Priority modifier. Curse and Purification do not stack; recasting either replaces the current effect and restarts its progression.

Same-second ties

If both sides reach 30 ABP in the same second, use a fresh random roll to determine which character’s action resolves first; reroll ties. A new simultaneous eligibility uses a fresh roll.

Player values at battle start

Base HP: 100. Initial ABP: 5; its interaction with per-action Starting ABP is unspecified. Received Damage Reduction: 0. Dealt Damage Increase: 0. Blessing bonuses and unlocked passive abilities modify these values.

Elemental damage

For Elemental Magic Blessing Cast Magic, each random spell result has the complete damage and Battle Priority modifier shown; spell values are not cumulative passive enhancements to a base Magic Attack. Three-turn effects follow the general turn-counting and stacking rules unless an ability says otherwise.

Elemental Magic

Nature

Tamer

Shared Suppress and Unleash rules

These shared mechanics apply to Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth Elementals.

Basic Elemental abilities

• SuppressIncreases the damage of the next Unleash by 100% of its original damage per stack, up to 3 stacks.
• Unleash+4 Damage; +2 Battle Priority.

Unleash Damage by Suppress stacks

• 0 stacks+4 Unleash Damage
• 1 stack+8 Unleash Damage
• 2 stacks+12 Unleash Damage
• 3 stacks+16 Unleash Damage

Suppress consumption

Unleash consumes all Suppress stacks.

Elemental Cast Magic selection

Randomly selects one of the three listed affinity attacks. An omitted Battle Priority modifier means no adjustment.

Elemental Cast Magic attacks

Void Elemental abilities

• Unleash+5 Damage; −1 Battle Priority.
• GravityFor 3 turns, the caster gains +1 Battle Priority and all enemies lose 3 Battle Priority.
• CurseDeals 1 Damage after the affected enemy’s first action, then gains +1 Damage after each consecutive enemy action. It has no maximum duration or damage and continues until the enemy reaches 0 HP or Purification removes it. Curse does not stack; recasting replaces the existing Curse and restarts it at 1 Damage.

Celestial Elemental abilities

• UnleashDeals Damage equal to the last Damage received by the player.
• WarpRemoves all negative Battle Priority effects applied during the previous 3 turns and gives +1 Battle Priority for 3 turns.
• PurificationRemoves all negative effects received during battle. Heals progressively over 10 player turns: 1 HP on Turn 1, increasing by 1 HP each turn through 10 HP on Turn 10, for a maximum potential of 55 HP. It does not stack; recasting replaces the existing healing effect and restarts at Turn 1.

Automatic passive effects

Unlocked passive abilities apply automatically. They require neither action selection nor ABP expenditure. BP in the lists below means Battle Priority.

Tools

Nature

Arcane

Elemental affinity passives