Atlas

The launch content, place by place. 01-world.md holds the lore behind it; read its section 1 before writing a quest past level 30. Levels here are content bands for writers and map builders; 03-systems.md owns the XP curve, monster stats and drop tables, and may shift a band by a few levels.

Every monster marked H is a Lampghost: it carries a stolen ember, glows in its own coldlight tint and releases motes when put out. Unmarked monsters are ordinary creatures, machines or people.

Map budget. Each region is at most six surface maps plus two strata (the dark layers under the surface, built from strata kits in 05-art-audio.md). Boss arenas, event maps, safe towns, holds and the instanced prologue do not count. The Deep (08-scale.md §4) sits under the strata and is assembled from pieces. A region ships at the density bar in 08-scale.md §9 or not at all. Regions 1–5 ship at launch; 6–8, 9 and 10 ship with Acts III, IV and V (D1).

1. Regions at a glance

What the existing content becomes

Strata

Strata are darker, denser and better-paying than the surface above them, and with the Deep they are the only places where the lantern burns and motes must be carried home (03-systems.md §6.5, §7.2). A stratum’s level band is its surface region’s top half; the lower stratum runs a few levels past the region’s cap.

Local life below the holds

Each region past the Furrows has one standing NPC and one custom that players meet without a quest.

The holds as maps

Holds are separate maps reached by Return Lantern, the Tetherline, or on foot when docked (01-world.md section 5).

2. Regions

2.1 The Mossway (1–10)

Mossback has walked this ground for three hundred years. Every footprint became a pond and every pond grew a meadow. The safest place below the holds, and the place where the most Lampghosts fall, because Lantern Town lights more lanterns than anywhere.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Pilgrim’s Stair | 1 | Instanced prologue map (does not count toward the six): ropes and ladders down Mossback’s foreleg, always played during a staged Kneeling. In the live world it is a shortcut open while he kneels. | | Mossy Field | 1–4 | The canon first field. Moss mounds under two tiers of low platforms, Puddlings on every tier: a dense grinding field in MapleStory’s mould, about 14 kills a minute solo. Built as map 2: Puddlings, Mossnips and Dandlehops at eight spawn points of three, 6 s respawn (3 s for the Puddlings’ points). The west half is Puddlings only, five points within one screen (x 250–700) on the ground, the mound and two platforms; the two Mossnip points are on the east ground (x 1460 and the x 1700 mound), the Dandlehop on the east high platform (03 §1.2, first-field tuning). | | Footprint Ponds | 4–7 | A chain of pond-craters; lily-pad platforms that dip when stood on. The newest print is at the far end. Built as map 3: four craters you wade, a low, middle and high lily pad over each; Dandlehops, Shellmites and Thornpigs at nine spawn points, the first crater a Dandlehop point (03 §1.2). The pads do not dip yet. | | Dewline Hedgerows | 5–8 | Tall hedges grown in lines; vertical climbing through branches. Built as map 5 (§6.3). | | Shellshed Slopes | 6–9 | Where shed scutes pile up; curved plate platforms; shell-mites. Built as map 6 (§6.3). | | The Old Tollbridge | 8–10 | A Concord bridge that crosses nothing; the riverbed is moss. Dimwings roost underneath. Built as map 4: a 1054 u three-span stone bridge, Dimwings in the riverbed (three points), the Tollkeeper (its own kind, 14) on the deck at three points. | | The Soak | 9–10 | Boggy edge toward the Glasslands; the Puddle Mayor’s map. Built as map 7 (§6.3), with only its way back to the Tollbridge so far. |

Build sheets for every Mossway map, its camp (the Tollhouse), the Sump and the Puddle Mayor’s arena (the Drain): §6.3.

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Puddling (H) | 1–3 | The slime. A wobbling drop of sea-glass-aqua pond water with its ember low in the belly; hops, leaves glowing wet prints. | | Mossnip (H) | 2–4 | A beetle wearing a clump of moss like a hat; nips ankles, rolls into a ball when hit. | | Dandlehop (H) | 3–5 | A rabbit made of dandelion fluff; puffs seed clouds that blur the screen edges. | | Teacup Puddling (H) | 4 | A rare Puddling that ate someone’s teacup and wears it; drops a teacup. | | Shellmite | 4–6 | Crab-sized lice off Mossback’s shed scutes. No stolen ember: the game’s first non-Lampghost, taught by a quest. | | Thornpig (H) | 5–8 | A hedgehog that ate a hedge; rolls along platforms and drops off edges. | | Dimwing (H) | 7–9 | The cave bat. Dives at lanterns; a hit dims your light for a few seconds. | | Tollkeeper (H) | 9–10 | An Afternooner (skeleton) in a faded toll-collector’s coat; blocks the bridge and swings a lamp-pole. Drops Concord coins. | | Snagcat (H) | 7 | A cat that ate a bramble; pounces from shelf to shelf in the Hedgerows. | | Rustpuff (H) | 8 | A puffball of rust-colored moss spores drifting over Shellshed Slopes. | | Bog Puddling (H) | 9 | A heavier Puddling of brown bog water; the Soak. | | Runlet (H) (proposed) | 10 | A piece of the Puddle Mayor racing back to rejoin it. |

Open-world boss: the Puddle Mayor (10). A Puddling the size of a cottage that ate a drowned Concord mayor’s chain of office and tricorn hat. Splits into Puddlings at each quarter of its health; the pieces race back to rejoin it, and putting them out before they arrive is the fight. Spawns in the Soak, where every Puddling in the Mossway drains in the end.

Quest line: The Lighting. The Stair, Fen Cobble and the Lighting at the Vent; Mossy Field; Reeve Tamsey’s lantern count; Old Ponder’s Small Steps (sample text in 01-world.md 10.4); the Shellmite lesson (“not everything that bites is a Lampghost”); the Tollkeeper’s coins, which Mote at the Almanac will later date to the year of the Setting; the Puddle Mayor; induction at your Lodge.

2.2 The Glasslands (10–20)

The pilgrim road west from the Mossway, lined with lanterns of the dead. For a year the Cinder Eye has been eating their flames and leaving the glass, melted, behind it. The plain rings in the wind.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | The Lantern Road | 10–14 | Old road lined with lantern posts, most of them dark; Gilded Hour bounty board. | | Chime Dunes | 13–16 | Glass dunes with chimes hung by pilgrims; sound carries, so packs come. | | Mirrormere | 14–17 | Flat mirror-glass; Mirrorkin show only in the reflection below your feet. | | The Broken Lamphouse | 15–18 | Ruined Guild waystation; vertical ruin climb; the missing Lanternbearers’ empty lanterns. | | Slagway | 17–20 | Cracked glass over glowing slag; vents puff heat that lifts you. | | The Kiln | 20 | The Cinder Eye’s lair: a crater bowl of glass. The slice’s boss map. | | Glassbreak Fields | 15–20 | Opens one Glow per Turning after Greyhorn crosses; shattered paths to buried lanterns. |

Build sheets for every Glasslands map, its camp (the Last Milepost) and the Kiln: §6.4.

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Wickwren (H) (proposed) | 10 | A wren that ate a lantern wick; perches on the dark posts of the Lantern Road. The road’s Lampghost, so the Dim lesson has something to hide. | | Glassback | 10–12 | A beetle with a shell of fused lantern glass; reflects arrows and spells off its back. | | Cinderling | 11–14 | Flecks of the Cinder Eye’s fire with tiny eyes; fly straight at the brightest lantern. | | Mirrorkin (H) | 12–15 | Seen only in reflections; wears a blurred copy of the player’s own class silhouette. | | Chimehound (H) | 13–16 | A dog that ate a wind chime; its howl rings every chime on the map and calls the pack. | | Lamplicker (H) | 14–17 | A long lizard with a longer tongue; licks your lantern and leaves it guttering. | | Pilgrim Afternooner (H) | 15–18 | Skeleton pilgrims in sun hats, walking west forever; hostile only if you block the road. | | Slagworm | 17–19 | A worm of molten glass that rises from cracks and hardens where it lands, making new platforms. | | Lostbearer (H) | 18–20 | Wears a Lanternbearer who went missing here: their coat, their dark lantern, their walk. Quest-linked; names match missing-persons notices. |

Open-world boss: the Cinder Eye (20). A floating molten eye the size of a cart, lidded with plates of fused lantern glass. Its gaze sweeps the Kiln like a lighthouse beam; caught in it, your lantern drains and Cinderlings home on you. Hide behind glass pillars, which it melts one by one. At low health it weeps: embers fly west and the fight ends with a sound like a kettle. A Gilded Hour agent collects the largest ember.

Quest line: The Lantern Road. Missing-persons notices on the Lantern Road; warm empty lanterns in the Broken Lamphouse; the Lostbearers (put out, they drop the missing people’s names, which you return to their families in Lantern Town); Gilt-Captain Lucan Sallis’s ember bounty; the Kiln. A Lamplighter files your report and tells you not to think about where the embers went.

2.3 Tallowmere (20–30)

The Concord’s chandleries sank here when the lamps failed, and three centuries of wax and tallow flowed into the fen. It is white, soft and faintly warm, and it glows from inside.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Wickshore | 20–22 | Guild outpost Wick Station; Mossback’s dock in the last part of his loop (01-world.md §5). | | Reedmere | 21–24 | Wick-reed beds; reeds are climbable and burn if lit. | | Candlestump Isles | 24–27 | Islands of giant half-sunk candles; climb the frozen drips. | | The Pour | 26–29 | A frozen wax waterfall you climb against softening ledges. | | Chandler’s Sink | 28–30 | Rooftops of the sunk factory town; the Gutterworks entrance. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Waxtoad (H) | 20–22 | A toad with a wax-drip back; spits warm wax that slows. | | Wickheron (H) | 21–24 | A heron wearing a lit wick for a beak; stabs from above while standing in the reeds. | | Dimwing (H) | 22–25 | Larger cave bats swarming the Drip; hits dim lanterns. | | Gutterling (H) | 23–26 | A candle stub on legs with a sputtering flame; bursts when put out, melting the floor under it. | | Dripcrab | 24–27 | A hermit crab living in a Concord candle jar; tucks in and becomes a platform. | | Moorwisp (H) | 25–28 | A floating light that looks like a Lanternbearer’s lantern; leads you off solid wax. | | Fenspinner (H) | 26–29 | A spider that spins wick thread; its webs are climbable ropes until it bites them. | | Chandlerling (H) | 27–30 | Afternooner apprentices carrying trays of tapers; throw lit tapers in arcs. |

Open-world boss: Old Gutter (30). A toad as big as a house wearing a sunk candle tower as its shell. It eats lantern light to grow its wick; the bigger the flame, the more of the arena floor softens. Players douse its wick with fen-water buckets from the edges, and that is the Snuffers’ trick, which a Snuffer named Ivo teaches you before he douses your own lantern and runs.

Dungeon: the Gutterworks (section 3.1), entrance at Chandler’s Sink.

Quest line: The Wick Harvest. The wick-harvesters vanish one by one; Moorwisps are leading them into soft wax. First EVERY WICK A WOUND graffiti on the Wick Station wall. A Stay trader sells coldlight jars on the sly and won’t say where from. The Gutterworks and the Chandler’s ledger (“Tap 41, Aun”), which the Guild confiscates. End of Act I.

2.4 The Furrows (30–42)

Greyhorn’s country. Every Turning he charges through and ploughs another trench. The Horncutters camp in the shed horn plates and mine them. The Lampghost herds graze here because Greyhorn’s fire falls here.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Hornrest | 30–32 | Greyhorn’s dock: chain lifts up his leg. Horncutter camp, Dockmarket. | | Long Furrow | 31–35 | A trench a kilometer long; floor and ledges; Charge lane. | | Scrapewall | 33–37 | Cliff scored by horn marks; vertical climbing on scrape ledges. | | The Shedfields | 35–39 | Fields of shed horn plates; Horncutter claims; claim-jumpers. | | Dustgut | 37–41 | A storm canyon; gusts push you sideways. | | Herdhome | 39–42 | Open bowl where the herds gather; the Bellwether. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Dustcalf (H) | 30–33 | A calf made of red dust; herds of five; stampede in a line when one is hit. | | Pickrat | 31–34 | Rats wearing dropped miners’ helmets with candle stubs; steal ore from your drops. | | Rustbuzzard | 33–36 | Buzzards that circle after a Charge and dive at anyone left on the trench floor. | | Hornflea | 34–37 | Fleas the size of dogs that fell off Greyhorn; enormous jumps. | | Dustdevil (H) | 36–39 | A Lampghost that ate a whirlwind; a funnel of grit that pulls you in. | | Drover Afternooner (H) | 37–40 | Concord cattle drovers in wide hats, still driving the Lampghost herd; whip-crack knockback. | | Claim-jumper | 38–41 | Renegade Horncutters cutting live stone off Greyhorn’s sheds; human, flee at low health. | | Herdmother (H) | 39–42 | A great cow with an ember as big as a hearth; calls Dustcalves. |

Open-world boss: the Bellwether (42). A bull-shaped Lampghost that ate a Concord bell tower and wears it as a yoke. Every toll calls a stampede across Herdhome; players take the ledges, then strike while it rings. When put out, every one of its motes streams to Greyhorn, and he stands quiet for three days.

Quest line: Greyhorn’s Temper. Hornspeaker Gell’s worry; the gimbal houses tearing loose; the Horncutters’ strike over the Deepening (side with Mags Cutter or the Forgemother; the outcome is the same, the reputation differs); claim-jumpers; the Bellwether, and Gell’s “he wasn’t angry, he was hungry.”

2.5 The Cloudshelf (42–55)

Mountain peaks above a sea of cloud. Up here the sun still shines, low and gold and cold, and Ystra moors to a spire to bask. The light is so strong that Lampghosts, whose own glow is drowned by it, are almost invisible: a shimmer in the air. Under the cloud it is pitch black.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Mooring Spire | 42–44 | Ystra’s anchor chains; kite-skiff port to the Almanac. | | Cloudwalk | 43–47 | Rope bridges between peaks; updraft columns. | | Stargazer’s Shelf | 45–49 | A Concord observatory ruin; brass Sentinels. | | Rookery Crags | 49–53 | Cliffs stacked with Cragrook nests; items crows stole from your drops sit in the nests and can be climbed back. A Lampblack fence buys nest-finds. | | Hailmount | 52–55 | The summit; hailstorms; the Dusk Roc. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Shimmergoat (H) | 42–45 | A mountain goat that is only a heat-shimmer in sunlight; solid and blue under cloud. | | Cloudray (H) | 43–46 | A flat manta that skims cloud tops; rams you off bridges. | | Cragrook | 45–48 | Crows that steal one item from your drops and fly to their nests in Rookery Crags. | | Orrery Sentinel | 46–49 | A Concord brass automaton that still tracks the sun and focuses it into beams. | | Lantern Eel (H) | 47–51 | Under the cloud: dangles a false light, lunges from the dark. | | Rimehare (H) | 49–52 | A hare that ate a frost; leaves ice on platforms. | | Astronomer Afternooner (H) | 50–53 | Skeletons at telescopes, writing the sun’s height in ledgers; throw ink. | | Songeater (H) | 51–55 | A Lampghost that ate a phrase of Ystra’s song; its hum silences skills nearby. |

Open-world boss: the Dusk Roc (55). A roc-shaped Lampghost that ate a sunset: wings of torn orange cloud. It dives between the sunlit top and the dark underside of Hailmount; above cloud it is invisible except for its shadow on the cloud; below, it is bright and visible but the players are in the dark. Parties split between layers and call it out.

Quest line: The Long Clock. Kite-skiff to the Almanac; Reckoner Quarle’s measurements; Songeaters attacking Ystra’s song; Provost Aumbry’s telescope wing and her generous Lanternbearer stipends; Quarle’s chart (the sun drops faster after each titan death), which Aumbry reads over your shoulder; the council buries it. Then Hornheart (section 3.2) ends Act II.

2.6 The Combs (55–68)

Canyons honeycombed with hexagonal cells: the Moth Queen’s old cocoons and nursery. She roosts against the canyon walls through the Glow, and Lampblack hangs in her fur. Silk lines run everywhere and glow. In the Under she takes off, and the canyons fill with cold falling light.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Silkfall Landing | 55–57 | The canyon rim; the Scale Stair down to Lampblack. | | Hexwall | 56–60 | A cliff of cells; climb cell to cell. | | Dustriver | 61–64 | A river of shed wing-scale that flows like sand; currents carry you. | | Smugglers’ Seam | 63–66 | Hidden tunnels; moth-skiff docks; Velvet Market overflow in the Under. | | The Roost | 66–68 | The Queen’s oldest cocoon, high on the canyon; the Pale Tenant. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Scaleflit | 55–58 | Small natural moths drawn to your lantern; swarm, nibble, scatter when you shutter it. | | Combcrawler (H) | 56–60 | A larva-shaped Lampghost that crawls out of cells and seals you in silk. | | Silkcutter (H) | 58–61 | A mantis that cuts silk ropes, dropping anyone on them. | | Lampfaker (H) | 60–63 | Wears a moth that ate a lantern; flashes like a Lanternbearer calling for help. | | Duster (H) | 61–64 | A cloud of wing-scale dust with a stolen ember; blinds, reveals stealthed players. | | Unlicensed | 62–65 | Cutthroats thrown out of the Moth Court; human; steal brass. | | Hexmother (H) | 64–67 | A brood Lampghost filling a whole cell; births Combcrawlers. | | Gilded Prospector | 65–68 | Gilded Hour agents in gold-leafed masks, gathering Cinder embers that drift here. |

Open-world boss: the Pale Tenant (68). A Lampghost in the shape of a small Moth Queen, living in her oldest cocoon: the last piece of her own absence she did not take back. It flies only in the Under, mirrors her wing patterns and silences the canyon. When it is put out during Act III’s server event, its motes pour into the Moth Queen and her true wing-light shows for good. This happens once per world; afterwards the Pale Tenant returns as an ordinary boss that replays the fight for rewards.

Quest line: The Queen’s Secret. Smuggling runs in the Under for Ferrant Gale; Nan Corvina’s lantern test (she keeps yours a Bell, and returns it with a crack in the glass); Gilded Prospectors trying to scrape the Queen’s wing-light; a Guild inspector asking questions you must answer or lie to; Lisle and the truth; the Pale Tenant.

2.7 Lowlight (68–80)

The dark country under the old titan roads, where the Stay have lived for three hundred years without heartfire. They keep Lampghosts in wicker cages, feed them, and grow blue crops in the light they put out. Heartfire is rude here.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Stairfoot | 68–70 | A Concord ladder that climbs to nothing: where a titan used to kneel. | | The Cagefields | 69–72 | Coldlight farms; don’t break the cages. | | Underhay | — | The Stay’s stilt town; safe map, vendors, Ruth Underhay. | | Blackwater Fen | 72–75 | Black water that douses lanterns on contact; Snuffers fill buckets here. | | Quietwood | 74–77 | Trees that drink light and sound. | | The Old Dock | 76–78 | Wend’s old docking place: platforms and lifts going up into empty air. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Blindhound (H) | 68–71 | Eyeless dogs that hunt by warmth; a shuttered lantern hides you. | | Jarbreaker (H) | 69–72 | An escaped farm Lampghost still wearing its wicker cage; the Stay want it back unharmed. | | Glimsnail | 70–73 | Big natural snails with blue shells that the Stay ride; aggressive when riderless. | | Hush Owl (H) | 72–75 | An owl that ate a silence; swoops and mutes. | | Sootbear (H) | 74–77 | A bear made of soot; smothers lanterns when it hugs. | | Snuffer Zealot | 75–78 | Human; carries a bucket of black fen-water; douses lanterns in an arc. | | Wendling (H) | 77–80 | Shed from Wend’s Absence: bigger than they should be, studded with bits of titan bone. | | Weeper (H) | 76–79 | Wears a Stay mourner; walks between cages crying; harmless until you strike a cage. |

Open-world boss: the Drowned Bell (80). Fought in the arena at the bottom of the Drowned Bell stratum. A Lampghost that ate Wendhome’s great bell after the Fall and sank with it into Blackwater Fen. When it tolls, every lantern on the map goes out for a few seconds and the fight is in coldlight only. Put out, the bell rings once, clearly, and far away in Wend’s Fall something stands up.

Quest line: What the Stay Kept. Earn Ruth’s trust by shuttering your lantern; the Cagefields’ quiet economy; a Snuffer recruiter taking Stay youth (Pell Dimmock among them); Hob Sallow’s sermon at the Old Dock; the song of the Tapping; the Drowned Bell.

2.8 Highnoon (80–92)

The capital of the Concord, frozen when its lamps failed. Every clock reads a quarter past three. Tower-high mirrors still aim at where the sun used to stand; some of them caught the last of the old daylight and hold it, so whole halls glow with stale afternoon. Afternooners go on with the afternoon.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | The Gate of Hours | 80–82 | The east gate; Greyhorn’s dock (he charges the walls). | | Gilt Row | 81–84 | Gold-leafed mansions; the Gilded Hour chapterhouse. | | The Tapyards | 83–86 | Where the taps were built: bronze needles hundreds of meters long on cradles. Aun’s bones. | | Mirror Gardens | 85–88 | Mirror relay puzzles; Held Hours. | | Sundial Plaza | 87–90 | A plaza that is a sundial; its shadow is the map’s moving platform. | | The Orrery Steps | 89–92 | Entrance to the Orrery; the Afternoon Prince’s court. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Footman Afternooner (H) | 80–83 | Skeleton servants carrying trays and parasols; polite, then very much not. | | Leafeater (H) | 81–84 | Ate gold leaf; peels off in flakes that cut; drops gold leaf. | | Gilt Magistrate (H) | 82–85 | An Afternooner judge; hurls verdicts (debuffs named after Concord laws). | | Tapwalker | 84–87 | A bronze spider-machine built to climb sleeping titans; drills. | | Mirrorsprite (H) | 85–88 | Lives in the mirrors; steps out behind you. | | Hourguard (H) | 86–89 | Afternooner soldiers in sun-plate; march in formation, raise shields together. | | Sunlancer | 88–91 | Gilded Hour soldiers with lances tipped in stolen heartfire. | | Aunling (H) | 89–92 | Fragments of Aun’s absence, the first Lampghost, in the Tapyards; old, slow and huge, with an ember like a banked hearth. |

Open-world boss: the Afternoon Prince (92). The Lampghost that ate Tamsin Aurel IV, last Sun-Prince, wearing her sun crown and reading her last decree aloud: “Let the afternoon be lengthened.” It fights inside a Held Hour: time stops for everything except the Prince and whoever is standing in the mirrors’ light. Players rotate mirrors to keep each other lit.

Dungeon: the Orrery (section 3.3).

Quest line: The Taps. The Gilded Hour’s chapterhouse, still friendly; the Tapyards and Aun’s bones; the Stay’s song matches the Concord records; Quarle arrives with the finished model (titans’ walking turns the world); Aumbry explains the Second Noon; the Orrery; the Afternoon Prince. End of Act III.

2.9 Wend’s Fall (92–106)

A titan lies on its side across a valley. Its ribs make arches; ash falls like snow; ember veins pulse under the skin and are dimmer each Turning. Wendhome on its back is empty and every one of its fourteen thousand lanterns is still lit.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Wend’s Tail | 92–95 | Entry; a road up the tail. | | Ribvault | 94–97 | Under the ribs; vertical arches. | | Wendhome | 95–98 | The empty hold; Leftlamps tending lanterns. | | The Gilt Harvest | 99–102 | Gilded Hour tap-rigs draining the veins. | | Wend’s Brow | 101–104 | The skull, where the Moth Queen lands; Hob Sallow’s camp. | | The Heartgate | 104–106 | Entrance to the Heartchamber. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Wendling (H) | 92–95 | As in Lowlight, more of them; their motes rise and scatter with nowhere to go. | | Mourning Ashmoth | 93–96 | The Moth Queen’s moths, grieving; neutral unless a lantern is lit near them. | | Ribcrawler (H) | 94–97 | Wears the parasites that lived on Wend; crawls on ceilings. | | Leftlamp (H) | 95–98 | Wears Wendhome’s people; tends lanterns and fights only to protect them. | | Veinmaw | 97–100 | A fire-worm living in warm veins; erupts when the vein pulses. | | Gilt Harvester | 99–102 | Gilded Hour tappers in heat-suits with drill rigs. | | Heartmite | 101–104 | Mites drawn to the heart’s heat; swarm. | | Cinder Choir fragment | 103–106 | Small re-forming Cinder Eyes that sing in harmony; heal each other. |

Open-world boss: Hob Sallow and the Black Tide (104). Hob calls a wave of black fen-water over Wend’s Brow to drown the embers so no one can take them. He fights from inside the wave; the wave douses lanterns and drowns ember veins, so the arena darkens as the fight goes on. Players light veins to push the water back. He doesn’t die: beaten, he watches the motes scatter and stops.

Dungeon: the Heartchamber (section 3.4).

Quest line: Wend’s Wake. Wendhome and the Leftlamps; Dorrit Sallow’s message to her brother; Oda Wickham’s letter opened; the Gilt Harvest rigs; Hob and the Black Tide; the Heartchamber. End of Act IV.

2.10 The Sunfoot (106–120)

The land directly under the sun’s foot. The disc fills half the sky. Every surface has a blinding west face and a black east face, and shadows run a mile long and are solid enough to walk on. The Gilded Hour’s Sunlift, a golden scaffold tower, is being built here to raise the Second Noon.

Maps | Map | Levels | Notes | |—|—|—| | Sunward Approach | 106–108 | The walk in; glare grows. | | The Glare Flats | 107–110 | Open salt flats; no cover; Glare at its worst. | | Shadowstride | 109–112 | A map made of shadow bridges that swing as the sun moves. | | Aumbry’s Camp | 111–114 | The Gilded Hour’s camp; lance batteries aimed at Wend’s Absence. | | The Sunlift Foundations | 113–116 | The base of the tower; machinery. | | The Gilt Spire | 115–118 | Climbing the scaffold. | | The Convergence | 118–120 | Event map (does not count): where the four titans meet in Act V; the raid entrance. |

Monsters | Name | Lvl | Look and behavior | |—|—|—| | Glarehound (H) | 106–109 | Bleached, half-invisible dogs; only their shadows are solid. | | Longshadow (H) | 107–110 | A Lampghost that is only a shadow; stretches across a map and trips. | | Westwalker (H) | 108–111 | Afternooners who walked west for three centuries and reached the sun, bleached white. | | Sunlancer Captain | 110–113 | Gilded Hour officers; lance volleys. | | Cindersworn | 111–114 | Gilded Hour soldiers who have taken Cinder embers into their bodies; burn and explode. | | Duskdrinker (H) | 113–116 | A huge Lampghost drinking horizon light; the sky darkens around it. | | Noonling | 115–118 | Tiny false suns that bob and burst white. | | Titanshade (H) | 117–120 | Pieces broken off Wend’s Absence; titan-scaled limbs. |

Open-world boss: Wend’s Absence (120, server event). A hole in the shape of a titan, four hundred meters long, wearing the land it walks over. It cannot be put out, and it must not be. It walks toward the Sunlift, after its own fire, and the Gilded Hour’s lance batteries are trying to break it before it arrives. Parties draw it away from the batteries with lantern-light, break the Titanshades it sheds, and destroy batteries. Success moves it to the Convergence map, where it waits for the raid.

Quest line: The Second Noon. The Glare; Aumbry’s camp and her last offer; each Listener’s question to their titan (01-world.md 8.8); the Convergence over one Turning; the Second Noon rising in every sky; the raid.

3. Party dungeons

Party of up to 6. Each has a short approach, two to three mini-bosses and a final boss with phases. Mechanics are at design level; 03-systems.md sets numbers.

3.1 The Gutterworks (28–34)

Where: under Chandler’s Sink, Tallowmere. What it is: the Concord chandlery that made wicks for tapped fire, sunk in its own wax. - Approach, the Pour Line: a conveyor of wax molds. Molds harden into platforms on a cycle and soften again; the party moves with the line. - Mini-boss, Foreman Toad: a Waxtoad in a foreman’s apron; slams the conveyor speed up. - Mini-boss, the Wickloom: a Fenspinner weaving wick across the room; cut threads to open the way, but every cut thread drops someone. - Boss, the Chandler (34). An Afternooner master chandler fused to his own vat. 1. Dipping. He dips a player into wax, sealing them in a mold. The others break it out before it sets. 2. Taper Rain. He throws lit tapers from the ceiling rails; each one melts a patch of floor. The party herds the melt away from the exit drip. 3. Wick. He lights himself. The whole room softens; the party climbs the vat’s drips to the ceiling while he burns down, and puts him out from above. - Story: his ledger: “Tap 41, Aun. Yield 1,900 steps. Subject expired.”

3.2 Hornheart (55–60)

Where: down the forge-tap from the Burn in Brazenbrow, into Greyhorn. What it is: the inside of a living titan, and the place a Lampghost is being born. - Approach, the Tapline: ride down inside the tap pipe; heat pulses travel up it and must be dodged into side vents. - Mini-boss, Hornmites: a swarm of mites in the tissue; the floor is Greyhorn and flinches where they bite. - Mini-boss, the Quartz Clot: a growth of spine-stone blocking a vessel; break it while it re-grows. - Boss, the Gnaw (60). A Lampghost in the shape of a missing horn, forming at the tap. 1. Heartbeat. Greyhorn’s heart beats every few seconds and sends a shockwave across the floor; jump on the beat. The Gnaw attacks between beats. 2. Open Tap. While the tap is open, the Gnaw heals from it. Two players hold the valve wheels shut while the other four fight; valves drift open if released. 3. Unmaking. With the tap shut, the Gnaw tries to flee into the heart. Players put it out before it reaches the chamber; its motes flow into the heart and the beat steadies. - Story: Forgemother Stane sees what her forge made; Hob Sallow is waiting outside.

3.3 The Orrery (85–90)

Where: under Highnoon’s Orrery Steps. What it is: the Concord’s great clock, which tracked the titans’ routes and scheduled the Tapping, and the device that focused tapped fire: the Noon Lens. - Approach, the Ring Halls: the map is a set of concentric brass rings that rotate on a cycle; floors become walls. The party times its crossings. - Mini-boss, the Calendar: a Concord automaton that stamps “days” onto the floor; a stamped day repeats the last ten seconds of attacks. - Mini-boss, the Hourguard Captain: Afternooner soldiers in formation; break the shield wall from behind. - Boss, the Reckoning Engine and the Gilded Hour (90). 1. Alignment. The Engine is vulnerable only when its rings align, every half minute; between alignments it fires sunbeams down the gaps. 2. Ambush. Tapwright Holt and Gilt-Captain Sallis arrive, take the Noon Lens and set the Orrery spinning. The room tilts in a slow circle; ropes become floors. 3. Spin-down. Players jam the four drive gears while Sunlancers defend them. The Engine stops; Holt and Sallis are gone with the Lens.

3.4 The Heartchamber (102–106)

Where: through the Heartgate into Wend’s heart. What it is: a cave of fire cooled to crystal, and the memory of the Last Lighting. - Approach, the Valves: chambers that alternate hot and cold; cross on the cold beat. - Mini-boss, the Last Lighting: Leftlamps replay the siege night: Lampghosts pour in and Leftlamps light more and more lanterns. Every lantern the players defend makes the wave bigger. The encounter ends only when the players let the lanterns go out. (The one place in the game where the answer is less light. Telegraph it with Hob, not a tooltip.) - Mini-boss, Holt’s Harness: the Gilded Hour’s chain rig around the heart; break four anchors while Gilt Harvesters repair them. - Boss, the Cinder Choir (106). The re-formed Cinder Eye, many eyes singing together. 1. Chorus. Five eyes heal each other while any two sing in harmony; put them out in pairs. 2. Homing. The Choir pulls at every lantern in the room; lanterns drift toward it and must be held. A held lantern is a player who can’t attack. 3. Weeping. It merges into one Eye and weeps embers at the players. The fight ends when the harness snaps and it is dragged west through the wall, still weeping.

4. The raid: the Second Noon (120)

12–18 players. The Gilded Hour have lifted the Cinder Eye, fed with Wend’s veins and a year of stolen lanterns, to the top of the Sunlift, and lit it. A white sun hangs in the east of every sky in the game. The raid happens inside and on top of it.

Phase 1, the Sunlift. Three lift platforms rise side by side up the scaffold. Each lift moves only while balanced: equal weight and equal lantern light aboard. Sunlancers and Cindersworn board from the scaffold. Players cross between lifts to keep them level; a lift that tilts too far stalls and must be cranked. Ends at the Gilt Spire’s crown.

Phase 2, Provost Calla Aumbry. She fights with the Noon Lens and Gilt-Captain Sallis. - Proclamation of Noon: every shadow on the platform vanishes. Stealth, shade-based skills and hiding fail; heat stacks on everyone. - Tether shade: players raise four titan tethers (the holds’ anchor chains, lowered by the converged titans) to throw shadow and bleed off heat. - Sallis kneels at half health if no player has struck him; if he is spared, he holds the stair for phase 3 (and grants a title). - At a quarter health, Aumbry steps into the Lens’s light and goes into the sun. She is not killed. Her letter drops later.

Phase 3, the Second Noon. Inside the false sun: an arena that brightens every few seconds. Glare stacks on everyone and cannot be cleared, only outrun. - The sun is made of four cores of fire. The raid splits into four groups, each carrying a core along a different route to a titan tether, and each tether has its own rule: - Mossback: a slow, steady carry; any hit makes the carrier drop it. - Greyhorn: a timed sprint between his charges, which sweep the route. - Ystra: the route moves to her song; step on the beat or fall. - The Moth Queen: the route is pitch dark; only players with shuttered lanterns (or Shades) can see the path, and they guide the carrier with pings and raid markers (there is no voice chat; 03-systems.md owns the marker set). - Holt dies here, crushed by his own Sunlift when the cores leave it.

Phase 4, the Return. The four titans give the cores back as one flame. Wend’s Absence rises over the arena edge. The raid escorts the last flame across the arena into the Absence’s heart (proposed), where its stolen ember gutters, while Titanshades and the sun’s remains try to snuff it. No boss health bar: a single bar for the flame. When it enters the heart, the Absence fills, and Morrow stands up.

The first clear on a world during Act V’s server event triggers Morrow’s birth (01-world.md 8.9), once. Later clears replay it as the Almanac’s record (“the Remembering”) with the same rewards.

5. Notes for other writers

• Systems (03): Footfall, Reflections, Softwax, the Charge, Cloudline, Silkways, Shutter, Mirror relay and Held Hours, Cooling, Long Shadows and Glare are one mechanic per region; keep them that size. The Shutter mechanic in Lowlight assumes lanterns have a brightness the player controls. Glare (Sunfoot, Cloudshelf tops) needs a Glare tier: a lantern state above full that overcharges and drains. The raid needs a marker and ping set, not voice.
• Art (05): the stolen ember rule; heartfire amber versus coldlight blue-white; the Second Noon appears in the east of every sky during the finale Turning; the Pale Tenant and Morrow each change a permanent visual on the server.
• Architecture (04): the Convergence moves all four hold docks to one map for a Turning, and the raid’s first clear changes every map’s sky for one world. Wend’s Absence, the titans and the Pale Tenant’s state are world singletons: one entity per world shared by every channel, owned outside any channel process, with position and state persisted. Act state and route parameters change only at a Turning boundary.

6. Build sheets: the Mossway and the Glasslands

What map and creature builders need for Phase 1 item 3 (06-roadmap.md): the rest of the Mossway, then the Glasslands to the Cinder Eye. Everything here not already in §2.1–2.2 or in the game is marked (proposed) and listed in 07-decisions.md (D40–D45). Life, touch, aggro and drop rates are 03-systems.md’s (§3.3 Designed, §13.6, §15.1); this section says where things are, how they behave and what they look like.

6.1 Conventions

6.2 Map ids and the portal graph

Ids continue from the built 1–4, append-only like tile and item ids (game/sim/maps.gd). All new ids are (proposed, D40); if a sibling PR claims one first (the prologue’s Stair and Wick), the later PR renumbers before any map file exists.

Later, with no id yet: Old Tollvault (the Mossway’s lower stratum), Underglass and Slagdeep (the Glasslands’ strata) and Glassbreak Fields (event map, §6.5). Id 20, the Lodge yard, is the creation map, reached from no portal; it is not part of either region.

The surface count stays inside the map budget at the top of this document: the Mossway has six fields (Mossy Field, Footprint Ponds, Dewline Hedgerows, Shellshed Slopes, the Old Tollbridge, the Soak), the Glasslands five (the Lantern Road, Chime Dunes, Mirrormere, the Broken Lamphouse, Slagway). Arenas, camps and hidden maps do not count.

Each link is two-way unless the row says otherwise; the Sump’s way up into the Ponds is one-way up (banking on arrival, 03 §7.2). An arena’s portal leads into the boss instance during its window (03 §15.1) and is a dark archway otherwise.

6.3 The Mossway

The Mossway’s family: Puddlings and what Mossback leaves behind. Region mechanic, Footfall (proposed numbers): while Mossback walks rather than kneels, a tremor every 30 s sways every rope for 2 s (climb speed halved), bounces every small monster once and shakes 1–3 shellfruit loose on the Hedgerows and the Slopes (a pickup that heals 10%). It needs the world clock as sim input and waits for the titan routes (03 §8.3); the maps are built without it and gain it as a map flag.

5. Dewline Hedgerows (5–8)

Hedges grown in lines along Mossback’s old path, three rows stacked up a bank: vertical climbing through branches. 1440 × 720.

 P3 (Lost Print) <-lightbridge-  ---- top tier y 296 ----  * vista   P2 (Slopes)
  |   S Snagcat            S Snagcat            S Thornpig         |
 ==[hedge row 3: branch shelves every 32 u, vine ropes on its faces]== y 392
  |      S Thornpig             L            S Dandlehop           |
 ==[hedge row 2]=====================================  ====   ===== y 488
  |  S Dandlehop      S Snagcat              S Thornpig            |
 ==[hedge row 1]=====================  =========================== y 584
 P1 (Field)   S Thornpig        L        S Dandlehop               ground y 680

• Footholds: ground at y 680; three hedge rows each 96 u tall with one-way branch shelves inside every 32 u (jumpable), and a one-way hedge top. Gaps of 40 u between hedge sections let Thornpigs roll off.
• Ropes: 6 vine ropes on hedge faces (two per row), each 96 u. The top tier is reached only by vines or shelves, never by one jump.
• Portals: 1 ground west to Mossy Field; 2 top east to Shellshed Slopes; 3 top west to the Lost Print, past an 80 u lightbridge (03 §6.9).
• Spawns (9 points, 27 slots): Thornpig (6) ×4 points, Dandlehop (4) ×2, Snagcat (7, proposed) ×3. All Lampghosts (100%).
• Light: dusk; two lantern-lily lights (radius 56) on rows 1 and 2.
• Feature: the hedge tops are the Mossway’s vista: from the top tier the far layers show the line of round footprint lakes stepping to the horizon, Mossback’s shell beyond.
• Motes and loot: field banking. Thornwood cuttings (the Thornwood Sword’s material) drop here; the Hornsmith’s Thornwood lines name this map.
• As built (map 5): ground y 680; tiers at y 584, 488, 392 and the top at 296, each a one-way run broken by 40 u gaps, with 56 u branch shelves every 32 u under each tier; six vines (x 300/1100, 460/820, 360/1200), each split at the platform it passes. Portal 1 at the west foot, 2 and 3 at the top tier’s east and west ends. Spawns as the sheet; lights at (620, 584) and (880, 488). TODO: the 80 u lightbridge to P3 (03 §6.9) waits for light-gated footholds; the top tier is continuous to P3 until then (D57). TODO: hedge art and the kit/branch climbable (D54); the field’s layers and ropes stand in.

6. Shellshed Slopes (6–9)

A long rise where Mossback’s shed scutes pile up: curved plate platforms on a slope. 2240 × 480.

                                              ---(scute)---  * Scute Stack  H  P2
                                  ---(scute)---   S Rustpuff   ===== y 248 =====
             ---(scute)---  S Shellmite    S Thornpig   /
 P1  S Shellmite   S Rustpuff     L       ____________/   S Shellmite
 ==== y 440 ======\___________/==========/   S Rustpuff

• Footholds: ground climbs from y 440 in the west to y 248 in the east in slanted segments (no slope steeper than 1:2); six domed scute platforms, each three one-way segments with a 12 u crown, 32–36 u above the ground or the scute below.
• Ropes: the Scute Stack at x 1950: a pile of plates with a ladder up 120 u to a lookout; 2 short ropes off scute edges.
• Portals: 1 west to Dewline Hedgerows (arrives on a ledge at y 400); 2 east foot to the Tollhouse.
• Spawns (9 points, 27 slots): Shellmite (5) ×3, Thornpig (6) ×2, Rustpuff (8, proposed) ×4. Lampghost share 67%; the Shellmite lesson (§2.1) is taught here, which pulls the share under the region’s 85% on purpose.
• Light: dusk; one light at the Stack’s foot.
• Feature: the Scute Stack, a pile of shed roof-plates players climb, each ring of growth lines as wide as a door.
• Motes and loot: Shellmites release none (the quest says so). Scute Chip (material) from Shellmites.
• As built (map 6): ground y 440 west with a dip to 460, slopes at 1:2 and gentler up to 360 and on to y 248 from x 1470; the arrival ledge [0–96] at y 400; six three-segment scutes; the lookout at y 128 (x 1904–2008) with a ladder at x 1944 down to the east ground; ropes off the scutes at x 376 and 1216. Spawns as the sheet; three lights (one at the Stack’s foot). TODO: scute and Stack art; the field’s layers stand in.

7. The Soak (9–10)

The boggy edge toward the Glasslands, where the Mossway’s water drains in the end. 2000 × 360. Mossback’s region boss lives under it.

 P2 (Lantern Road)                                        P1 (Tollbridge riverbed)
  ---raft---     ---raft---        * whirlpool P3     ---raft---    ---raft---
 S Bog Puddling   S Dimwing     ~~~~~~~~(deep pool)~~~~~~~  S Bog Puddling   S Dimwing
 ====\__~~__/====\__~~__/======\________________/====\__~~__/===P4 culvert====
       S Bog Puddling   S Bog Puddling     L         S Bog Puddling

• Footholds: ground at y 320 broken by five wade pools (12–16 u deep, like the Ponds’ craters); the middle pool is 32 u deep and 320 wide. Reed rafts are one-way platforms 28–36 u above the water, 120–160 wide.
• Ropes: 2, from a dead willow over the deep pool.
• Portals: 1 east to the Old Tollbridge’s riverbed; 2 west to the Lantern Road; 3 the whirlpool in the deep pool to the Drain (during the Puddle Mayor’s window; a slow eddy otherwise); 4 a Concord culvert in the east bank, down to the Sump.
• Spawns (8 points, 24 slots): Bog Puddling (9, proposed) ×6, Dimwing (7) ×2 over the rafts. 100% Lampghosts.
• Light: dusk, lower than the fields (fog layer at 9); lantern-lilies ring the deep pool (3 lights, radius 48).
• Feature: the water visibly flows toward the whirlpool; Puddlings from the whole Mossway are drawn there in the background layer, little bright drops sliding downhill.
• Motes and loot: Glowdrops (id 37) from Bog Puddlings, at the same 40%.
• As built (map 7): five pools: four 14 u deep, the middle one 32 u deep and 464 u across (x 796–1260); four reed rafts at y 294 (40 u over the pool floors, the jump limit); the willow branch at y 240 with two ropes to the deep pool’s floor. Portal 1 at the east edge; spawns and lily lights as the sheet. Portal 3, the whirlpool, leads to the Drain (§8). Portal 4, the culvert at x 1580, leads to the Sump (map 10). TODO: portal 2 (Lantern Road, 12) is added with that map, not as a dead portal (game/sim/maps.gd). TODO: the flowing water and the background Puddlings; the Ponds’ water and layers stand in.

8. The Drain (10, arena)

The Puddle Mayor’s den at the bottom of the Soak’s whirlpool. A shallow bowl. 960 × 360.

       L lily                     (Mayor's hop arc)                    L lily
 P1  ---pad---        ---pad---                ---pad---        ---pad---
 ===\                                                                /===
     \==================== flat floor y 320, 640 u ================/
              L                       L                      L

• Footholds: a 640 u flat floor at y 320, slopes up to rim ledges at y 280 on both sides; four one-way lily pads 32 u above the floor, two on each side.
• Portals: 1 out to the Soak (also the reset exit).
• As built (game/content/maps/8.map.json): as above, the pads as ponds/lily defs at x 232, 340, 620, 728, the Soak’s look until the Drain has its own. Portal 1 and the Soak’s portal 3 (the whirlpool, on the deep pool’s floor at x 1028) lead to each other; the whirlpool is open in the Mayor’s window, 30 minutes every 6 h of world time (Mayor.window_open), and a dark archway that goes nowhere otherwise. TODO: windows from worldd’s calendar.
• Light: dusk; five lantern-lily pools (radius 48, intensity 1) on the floor and pads. The Mayor is a Lampghost: outside a pool it is Shrouded (03 §6.6) and takes half damage, so the fight is played around the pools.
• Feature: the Mayor’s tricorn bobbing above the water line before it surfaces.

9. The Tollhouse (camp)

The Mossway’s camp (03 §17.1): the Concord toll-keeper’s lodge at the bridge’s east end, reroofed by the Guild. Safe. 960 × 300.

• Footholds: ground, the lodge’s porch and roof (prop defs), a ladder to the roof.
• Portals: 1 west to the Old Tollbridge’s deck; 2 east to Shellshed Slopes.
• Services: Tetherline station (the free Pilgrim Tetherline lands here when Mossback is not kneeling, 03 §8.6), a Guild-lit beacon (relight point), a vendor stall (Moss Tonics, the Mossway swords), a contract board. hearth rect over the lodge.
• NPCs (proposed): Ansel Ford, Tetherline keeper, who counts carts the way Tamsey counts lanterns; a stall-keeper.
• As built (map 9): safe, hearth ambient; ground y 260, the lodge (the town’s house def) at x 480 with a ladder to its roof, the hearth rect at x 380–420, a lamp at each side. Portals 1 west and 2 east. TODO: the Tetherline station, beacon, vendor stall, contract board and both NPCs.

10. The Sump (12–14, upper stratum)

Under the Mossway, where the pond water drains through roots and old Concord culverts. The stratum Phase 1 needs: the lantern burns, motes are carried and banked at the beacon or the way up (03 §6.5, §7.2). 2400 × 400.

 P1 culvert (from the Soak)                                  P2 way up (Ponds, one-way)
  H     ---root---    S     ---root---      B Low Lamp     ---root---    S    H
 ==\__  S Sump Puddling __/====\___ S ___/=== * glowdrop pool ===\___ S __/==
       S Sump Dimwing    S Bog Puddling      S Sump Dimwing      S Sump Puddling

• Footholds: cave floor with dips, root shelves (one-way) at 32–36 u steps, two ladders at the ends.
• Portals: 1 the culvert from the Soak; 2 the way up into Footprint Ponds’ newest print (one-way, carried motes bank on arrival).
• Spawns (10 points, 30 slots, denser than a field): Sump Puddling (12, proposed) ×4, Sump Dimwing (13, proposed) ×4, Bog Puddling (9) ×2. 100% Lampghosts.
• Light: ambient dim, carry_motes true. The Low Lamp (11-prologue.md §5, D33), Phase 1’s one beacon, on the middle ledge at x 1200, directly under the ground where Mossback kneels: cracks in the roof over it let down his light and dust. Glowdrop pools glow chartreuse, never cyan (05 Mossy Field palette), and give no gameplay light.
• Feature: the glowdrop pool under the beacon: thousands of Glowdrops settled in a root basin, the Mossway’s whole drainage of Puddling-water.
• Band: 12–14, as 03 §1.3 and 11-prologue.md §5 have it, against §1’s rule that an upper stratum is its region’s top half (5–10): nothing below the Lodge should burn fuel (D42).
• Quest: The First Kindle (11-prologue.md §5.2), Fen Cobble’s: kindle the Low Lamp, bank at it.
• As built (map 10): a cave floor at y 360 with three 16 u dips, the Low Lamp’s mound at y 328 (x 1120–1280), the glowdrop basin east of it (x 1360–1540, drawn by beacon_view.gd, no light); six one-way root shelves 34 u over the floor; portal shelves at both ends at y 300 with a ladder each. Portal 1 the culvert from the Soak’s 4; portal 2 up to the Ponds’ 3, which leads nowhere back ("to": null, drawn dim) and banks carried motes on arrival. Spawns as the sheet, 3 each, respawn 6 s; one roof-crack light (radius 56) over the beacon. The beacon is a map key, beacons (D75, D76). TODO: The First Kindle and Fen at the beacon wait for the quest system (D77); the cave’s art, roof cracks and root kit.

11. The Lost Print (hidden)

The first footprint Mossback ever left in the Mossway, grown over in white moss. Reached over a lightbridge from the Hedgerows’ top tier (03 §6.9). 640 × 360. No spawns.

• What is there: an Archive entry (The First Print: Mossback’s oldest step, dated by its moss rings to before the Climb); a cosmetic, the Moss Crown (proposed); one lily light. It reads safe and is: the region’s quiet place.
• As built (map 11): safe, a 640 u floor at y 300 with a shallow basin (to 316) for the print, one lily light, portal 1 at the west end. TODO: the Archive entry and the Moss Crown wait for those systems; the print’s white-moss art.

The Mossway’s other changes

Omens (proposed): Rust Week (Rustpuffs at every Mossway field point that holds a Dandlehop); Teacup Season (the Teacup Puddling at 1 in 10); High Water (Bog Puddlings on the Ponds’ low pads).

6.4 The Glasslands

The Glasslands’ family: things of glass and heat, and the Lampghosts of pilgrims and the missing. A Dim region: the first where the dark hides Lampghosts outside your light (03 §1.3, §6.6). Region mechanics: Reflections (Mirrormere and Glassbreak Fields only) and the Eye’s Sweep (the Kiln only). Wind chimes play everywhere on the ambience bed.

Look (proposed, for 05-art-audio.md to adopt as the region palette):

Layer stack notes (05 Layer stack): far terrain (2) is dune ridges with the ghost-shapes of lanterns melted into them; mid (3) a line of dark lantern posts running to the sun; back props (4) half-melted posts and pilgrim cairns; foreground (8) hanging chimes and ribbon; weather (9) glass grit and drifting embers on the Kiln’s side. Mossback’s shell is on the north rim’s skyline on the Lantern Road only.

12. The Lantern Road (10–14)

The old pilgrim road west, lined with lantern posts, most of them dark. Walked right to left, toward the sun. 2560 × 360.

 P2 (Dunes)  <- toward the sun                                    P1 (Soak)
  post  post  post  L post  post  post  post  B  post  post  L post  post  post
  -arm- -arm- -arm-  -arm-  -arm- -arm- -arm-    -arm- -arm-  -arm- -arm- -arm-
 S Wickwren  S Glassback  S Cinderling  P3 camp gate  S Wickwren   S Glassback
 =========/\=========/\==================[Last Milepost]======/\=====/\========= y 320

• Footholds: the road at y 320 with gentle dune humps (12 u). Every lantern post (every 160 u, 16 posts) has a one-way lamp-arm platform 32 u up and a second 64 u up on every fourth post (reached by its iron rungs, a ladder).
• Portals: 1 east to the Soak; 2 west to Chime Dunes; 3 the Last Milepost’s gate.
• Spawns (10 points, 30 slots): Wickwren (10, proposed) ×5 (on lamp-arms), Glassback (11) ×3, Cinderling (12) ×2. Lampghost share 50%.
• Light: dim. Three posts still lit (radius 48); one beacon spot by the camp gate. The lit posts are the lesson: Wickwrens on dark posts are Shrouded until you bring them into light.
• Feature: the road’s vista: dark posts running in a line into the low sun, the Glasslands’ frame shot. When Mossback docks at the north rim (01 §5.3) his foreleg stands at the east end and a rope ladder goes up to Lantern Town (dock way-up).
• Motes and loot: Wickwrens release motes; Glassbacks (living) and Cinderlings (Cinderkin) do not. Snuffed Wicks, Glass Shells, Cinder Flecks (§6.6).

13. The Last Milepost (camp)

The Guild’s camp at the last post on the road that is still lit. Safe. 960 × 300.

• Services: Tetherline station, kitepost, a Guild-lit beacon, a weapon vendor (the Glasslands’ Glass-grade weapons at iL 12, 15 and 18), the Gilded Hour’s bounty board, a contract board. hearth rect around the post.
• NPCs: Hedda Lark (proposed), Guild clerk who pins up the missing-persons notices and knows every name on them; Gilt-Captain Lucan Sallis (01 §8.7) at the bounty board, warm and generous.

14. Chime Dunes (13–16)

Glass dunes hung with pilgrims’ chimes. Sound carries, so packs come. 2400 × 440.

            [chime arch]               [chime arch]              [chime arch]
   P2     |  ------  |     B     /\   |  ------  |    /\        |  ------  |   P1
       S Chimehound   S Lamplicker   S Chimehound  S Cinderling   S Chimehound
 =====/      \=====/        \======/      \===P3 (Mirrormere)==/     \======= 

• Footholds: dune slopes (no steeper than 1:2) between y 400 and y 300; six chime arches (prop defs) with a one-way crossbar 36 u up and a chime rope (climbable) under each; a dip at x 1500 that holds portal 3.
• Portals: 1 east to the Lantern Road; 2 west to the Broken Lamphouse; 3 the south dip to Mirrormere. On Glassbreak day a fourth opens to Glassbreak Fields (§6.5).
• Spawns (10 points, 30 slots): Chimehound (13) ×6 in two packs of three points, Lamplicker (15) ×2, Cinderling (12) ×2. Lampghost share 80%.
• Light: dim; two beacon spots, built for launch (Phase 1’s one beacon is the Low Lamp, D33).
• Feature: a Chimehound’s howl rings every chime on the map; the chime strings swing and the rest of its pack comes (§6.6).

15. Mirrormere (14–17)

A flat lake of mirror glass. Mirrorkin show only in the reflection below your feet. 2200 × 320.

   P2 (Slagway)                                                   P1 (Dunes)
        ---shard---        ---shard---   B    ---shard---     ---shard---
  S Mirrorkin   S Mirrorkin    S Glassback    S Mirrorkin   S Mirrorkin
 ======================== mirror floor y 240 ================================
  (reflection layer: every actor drawn flipped below the floor line)

• Footholds: one long mirror floor at y 240; eight glass shards, one-way, 32–36 u up, two of them 68 u (a second step).
• Portals: 1 east to Chime Dunes; 2 west to Slagway.
• Spawns (8 points, 24 slots): Mirrorkin (14) ×6, Glassback (11) ×2. Lampghost share 75%.
• Light: dim; one beacon spot mid-lake. The floor reflects every light, so the map reads brighter than its tier without being lit.
• Feature: the reflection layer under the floor line: actors drawn upside-down below their feet. A Mirrorkin’s body exists in the sim like any monster’s; the renderer draws it only in the reflection (and its health bar above the floor). Players learn to watch the floor.

16. The Broken Lamphouse (15–18)

A ruined Guild waystation tower: a vertical climb past the missing Lanternbearers’ empty lanterns. 1280 × 880.

              P2 (Slagway) <- broken bridge ===  top floor y 160  S Lostbearer
                           H                         |
         ==== floor 4 y 304 ====    S Lamplicker  ===  ==   S Pilgrim Afternooner
                 |                    H
         ==== floor 3 y 448 ==== B  S Lostbearer   ======  * empty lanterns
              H                          |
         ==== floor 2 y 592 ====  S Lamplicker  ====  S Pilgrim Afternooner
                    |                 H
 P1 ======= ground floor y 736 ======= S Lamplicker ======  cellar: gloamway -> P3

• Footholds: five floors 144 u apart, each broken by one or two 40 u gaps; outside balconies (one-way) at mid-height between floors on alternate sides.
• Ropes: a ladder between each pair of floors, placed on alternate sides so the climb zigzags; a rope down the central light shaft from the top floor to the ground (the fast way down).
• Portals: 1 ground floor east to Chime Dunes; 2 top floor’s broken bridge west to Slagway; 3 behind a gloamway in the cellar (intensity 0, hooded) to the Still Lamp.
• Spawns (10 points, 30 slots): Lamplicker (15) ×4, Pilgrim Afternooner (16) ×3, Lostbearer (19) ×3 on the upper floors. Lampghost share 100%.
• Light: dim, one beacon spot on floor 3; window light from the west on each floor (lights radius 40 on floors 2 and 4).
• Feature: the empty lanterns hung on hooks on every floor, still warm (the quest’s collect objective drops them from Lostbearers; the hooks are art).
• Teaches: shutter and hood (03 §1.3, 16–18): the gloamway to the Still Lamp is the reward for learning to hood.

17. Slagway (17–20)

Cracked glass over glowing slag; vents puff heat that lifts you. 2400 × 480.

 P3 (Kiln)                         ---crust---           ---crust---    P1 (Lamphouse)
   S Lostbearer   ^vent  ---crust---   ^vent   S Slagworm    ^vent
 =====crack====\_____crack______/====crack=====\____crack____/==== y 360 ===
  S Slagworm    ^vent   S Lostbearer      ^vent       S Cinderling    P2 (Mirrormere)
 ========================== lower crust y 440 ===============================

• Footholds: two crusts: an upper at y 360 broken by cracks (gaps of 40 u), a lower at y 440; one-way crust plates above the upper. Eight heat vents (proposed map element, D45): every 4 s a vent puffs for 0.5 s and lifts anyone over it 80 u, the only way from the lower crust to the upper without the end ladders.
• Portals: 1 upper east to the Broken Lamphouse; 2 lower east to Mirrormere; 3 upper west to the Kiln (during the Eye’s window).
• Spawns (9 points, 27 slots): Slagworm (18) ×4 at crack points, Lostbearer (19) ×3, Cinderling (12) ×2. Lampghost share 33%; the map is the Glasslands’ least haunted, the slag being Cinder country.
• Light: dim; the cracks glow (art only); two beacon spots.
• Feature: the vents, and Slagworms that harden where they land into glass humps you can stand on for 6 s (needs dynamic footholds, D45).

18. The Kiln (20, arena)

The Cinder Eye’s lair: a crater bowl of glass. 960 × 440.

                         (the Eye hovers 40 u over its target)
  rim ---                                                          --- rim
       \     [pillar]     [pillar]          [pillar]     [pillar]     /
        \      |  |         |  |               |  |        |  |      /
 P1      \=====|==|=========|==|=== floor ======|==|========|==|=====/
            x 240        x 400              x 560       x 720

• Footholds: a 600 u floor at y 400, slopes up to one-way rim ledges at y 300 on both sides. Four glass pillars (prop defs) 24 u wide and 120 u tall at x 240, 400, 560 and 720, each with a standable top. A pillar that melts loses its footholds and collision (needs prop state, D45).
• Portals: 1 out to Slagway.
• Light: dim; the Eye is a moving warm light (radius 64, intensity 1). The pillars throw shadow from its gaze, which is the fight (§6.7).
• Feature: the bowl’s glass is full of the ghost-shapes of eaten lanterns, and the pillars are lanterns melted into columns.

19. The Still Lamp (hidden)

A hollow under a dune, behind the Lamphouse cellar’s gloamway: one pilgrim lantern the Eye never found, still lit, beside a Pilgrim Afternooner asleep on its pack. 480 × 300. No spawns; the Afternooner never wakes.

• What is there: an Archive entry (The Pilgrim’s Book: a list of places walked west, the last one blank); a cosmetic, the Pilgrim’s Sun Hat (proposed); the lantern is the map’s one light (radius 56).

Omens (proposed): Chime Storm (Chimehound packs gain a fourth point); Heat Haze (Slagway’s vents puff every 2 s); Long Shadows on the Road (the Lantern Road’s lit posts go dark for the week).

6.5 Glassbreak Fields (event, outline)

Opens for one Glow on Turning day 7 after Greyhorn crosses the south Glasslands (01 §5.4), from Chime Dunes’ fourth portal. 15–20. Shattered glass plates open shortcut paths down to buried lanterns: each buried lantern is an interactable that gives an Archive page or a brass cache. Reflections apply (as Mirrormere). Greyhorn’s south dock is here when docked. Built after the Kiln; an id when it is.

6.6 Creatures

New kinds continue game/sim/creatures.gd from 10 (8 and 9 are the Training Dummy and the Archery Butt), append-only (all (proposed) until built). Levels are one per kind, inside the band §2 gives the name. Behaviour names an archetype in game/sim/behaviours.gd (HOP, FLY, WALK, HOVER_DASH) or a hook (game/sim/brains.gd), and says when it needs something neither has (D45). Numbers are 03-systems.md §3.3 Designed; drops §13.6.

The Puddling, Mossnip, Dandlehop, Shellmite, Thornpig, Dimwing and Cinder Eye (0–7) are built; the Afternooner (2) stays the generic kind, now the Tollkeeper’s model. As built (10–14): stats at normal_health/touch_damage of the level and aggro, leash and paces from 03 §3.3. Teacup: HOP, short hops; rare, so it is left out of the brass budget (D58). Snagcat: HOP 130 across, −330 up, 1.4 s rest. Rustpuff: FLY 40, wobble 18. Bog Puddling: HOP 60 across, −190 up, heavier friction. Tollkeeper: WALK 42, jump 0, leash 10. Each is a Lampghost from tools/art/monsters.json with its own tint (enemy_view.gd): the Teacup the Puddling’s aqua, the Snagcat violet, the Rustpuff rust, the Bog Puddling olive-brown, the Tollkeeper periwinkle. As built (17, 18): the Sump Puddling is the Bog Puddling’s rig and AI at level 12, tinted a darker moss olive; the Sump Dimwing the Dimwing’s at 13, tinted dusk rose, dropping the Dimwing Membrane (item 54). Each has its own sprite file (a copy of its model’s channel map) so the catalog shows it. Ids 15 on in this table predate the reservations: the Runlet and Puddle Mayor are 15 and 16, the Sump kinds 17 and 18, and the rest renumber when built. Lampghost elites (03 §3.3: 10x life) for the Drawn spawns while Mossback docks: an elite Snagcat in the Hedgerows and an elite Chimehound on Chime Dunes, one point each (proposed).

6.7 Bosses

Both are open-world bosses (03 §15.1: an instance per window, up to 60 attackers) with a Trial for 1–6 (03 §15.6, D27). Telegraphs use 05’s shapes: the Mayor’s are cold (#7FE3F0), the Eye’s warm-red (#E0533F). Numbers in 03 §15.1.

The Puddle Mayor (10), the Drain

Built (game/sim/mayor.gd, kinds 16 and 15, map 8). A boss flag in creatures.gd replaces Enemy.is_boss’s Cinder Eye check, and a boss’s kill is shared by anyone who did 1% of its life at any time (03 §15.1; healing and time in range are a TODO). The Mayor is a HOP (hop 110 u, rest 1.4 + 0.8 s) with open-world life 662,500, touch 40, and phases at 0.75, 0.5, 0.25. mayor.gd, stepped after the monsters move, watches its hops: a take-off puts a ring (radius 40, 91) on the floor where the arc lands, closing for its airtime (about 1000 ms); a landing bursts it and sends a wave (57) out both ways at 200 u/s after an 800 ms line, hurting feet on the floor (a jump or a lily pad clears it), 200 u, 320 u from Recess. Each phase split spawns Runlets (3 in a Trial, Mayor.trial; 2 per 10 attackers in the open, to 12) that walk out about 260 u, wait 4 s and race back at twice the pace, glowing; one that touches the Mayor heals 2% and is gone. It sits sunk (half height, no hops, up to 12 s) while they are out. Gavel adds a belly-flop every 9 s on the farthest player under a 1000 ms dome (radius 36, 91); Recess hops at rest x0.7; Adjourned is drawn without the hat and sheds a Runlet every 6 s with a flash on the chain. With nobody standing it resets: life, Runlets and telegraphs. Telegraphs ride the snapshot (protocol v16, D61) and are drawn in #7FE3F0. Drops: Glowdrops x5–10 and a Hornsteel Sword (the iL 10 piece); Runlets drop nothing. The mayor-fight scenario is two Wardens; mayor-phases stages the Split and Adjourned for the shots. Its Trial life is scaled to the built Warden’s Sweep (about 225 a second against 260): 55,000 for 2, not 63,600, until the class DPS budget (03 §4.9, #89); the bot fight’s time is reported, not gated, as Phase 0’s bot times are. TODO: the Tricorn and Chain of Office (no hat or accessory slots), brass at 60x, the Lampghost half damage outside pools (Shrouded), the tricorn bobbing before it surfaces, Trials as instances (03 §15.6), and the 60 s reset delay.

The fight (proposed). A Puddling the size of a cottage that ate a drowned Concord mayor’s chain of office and tricorn hat. It is a Lampghost: it takes half damage outside light, and the Drain’s lily pools are where it can be hurt in full.

It is put out with a pop and a long glug: the chain and the tricorn drop into the shallow water. Party: 20–40 in the open (03 §15.1); a Trial for 1–6.

The bot fight (mayor-fight, proposed). Two level-10 bots (a Warden and a Ranger once classes land; two Wardens until then), at-level Glass-grade swords or bows, 5 Moss Tonics each, fight the Trial at party size 2. They stand in lily pools, leave closing rings, and put out Runlets before chasing the Mayor. Pass: put out in 3–5 min on every seed, at most 2 relights between them, and at least half the Runlets put out before they arrive (a metric, not a gate, until tuned). As built (tools/bots/mayor_bot.gd): each bot stands about 54 u from the Mayor’s centre on its own side, midway between where it is and where its next hop lands, so it is under neither the ring nor the body; it never walks into the body, jumps each wave’s crest, and Sweeps (Lanternbash on Resolve) while it is down. From the Gavel the partner steps out just before a belly-flop to the spot whose landing starts the best-lit back-and-forth, as the flop lands on the farthest player. Near a Split both hold their swings until the Mayor is east of them, so two of the three Runlets run their way, and put those out while it is sunk; the third gets home. Both swing their Hornsteel: until 2026-10-05 the bots swung the Worn Shortsword in hotbar slot 0 and never put it out in 330 s (26,274 of 55,000 left). Now it is put out in 81 s with 0 relights, 228 damage taken (all waves), 0 tonics and 3 of 10 Runlets home, lit 54% of the time, so the 55,000 life is well short of the 3–5 min target (a balance call, not the bots’).

The Cinder Eye (20), the Kiln

Built today (game/sim/creatures.gd, kind 3): level 20, life 1,200, touch 15, HOVER_DASH: hovers 40 u over its target for 2.6 s, then dashes three times at 250 u/s (0.9 s each); under half health it hovers 1.4 s and dashes four times at 300 u/s (0.75 s). It drops a Cinder Heart and gives 50 motes to every living player there (boss_motes, though it is Cinderkin; D43). The boss-fight scenario has two bots with Hornsteel Bows put it out on flat ground in the field. The life and touch are the slice’s, not 03’s.

The fight (proposed, from §2.2). A floating molten eye lidded with plates of fused lantern glass. It is Cinderkin: heartfire hits do half, coldlight one and a half (03 §3.5), so Shades have their first big moment here.

With four pillars and at-level damage, the pillars last into phase 3; a slow group runs out of shade, which is the soft enrage. Put out, it weeps: embers fly west out of the bowl and the fight ends with a sound like a kettle. Gilt-Captain Lucan Sallis steps down from the rim and takes the largest ember in a gold box (the quest beat, §6.8). Party: 20–40 in the open; a Trial for 1–6.

The bot fight (boss-fight, updated, proposed). Two level-20 bots at at-level Glass-grade gear, 5 Moss Tonics each, fight the Trial at party size 2 in the Kiln (not on flat ground), taking a pillar’s shadow at each Sweep. Pass: put out in 3–5 min on every seed, at most 2 relights, and at least one pillar standing at the kill on 6 seeds in 8. Until Trials and pillars exist, the scenario keeps its flat-ground fight and sets the Eye’s life to the 2-player Trial value.

6.8 Quests

Talk, put out, collect, light and bank only; no free text (03 §12.1). Rewards are minutes of grind at the quest’s level (03 §12.1). Below level 10 the quests are deliberately small: §5.2’s 55% from quests on a 32-minute band leaves about 20 minutes of quest XP for the whole Mossway, prologue included, below 12.1’s ranges (D44).

The Mossway (proposed; the prologue owns the Lighting, Tamsey’s count and Small Steps)

Then induction at your Lodge (§2.1).

As built (game/sim/quests.gd): all six, as data rows with their givers. Nettie Briar stands at the Hedgerows’ foot (x 220), Tansy Scutt on the Slopes’ west ground (x 200), Old Ponder (x 976) and Reeve Tamsey (x 1690, by the Stair head) on the Rim, Ansel Ford at the Tollhouse (x 290); each is drawn in a class outfit until it has its own look. Thornwood Cuttings (item 51) drop from Hedgerows Thornpigs at 50% and the Chain of Office (52) from the Puddle Mayor, each only while the quest still needs it; Rust Spores and Concord Coins are the kinds’ own 40% materials. Every quest pays 2 minutes of grind XP at its level and a sixth of a grind-hour of brass (D80); The Mayor also gives the Mayor’s Tricorn (53), worn once hats exist. The Mayor follows Where the Puddlings Go. TODO: the Thornwood offhand, and the Glasslands rows with their maps (The First Kindle with the Sump, map 10).

The Glasslands: The Lantern Road (proposed giver names; beats from §2.2 and 01 §8.2)

Quest XP over 10–20: 67 grind-minutes plus The First Kindle’s contract, about 57% of the band’s XP, against §5.2’s 55%.

Where players are sent.

• Lodges. Each Lodge’s induction at 10 ends with the same pointer: the Lantern Road, and Hedda Lark at the Last Milepost. Corra Thistlewaite (Ranger) gives the route; Pim Ashdown (Warden) complains about it.
• Hearths and binding. Players stay bound to Lantern Town’s hearth (Return Lantern) all through both regions. Relight is at the last lit beacon passed in the region (03 §3.8): the Tollhouse’s and the Last Milepost’s are always lit.
• Contract board. Lantern Town’s daily contracts point at the band’s maps: kindle a beacon on the Lantern Road or Chime Dunes, bank N motes at the Low Lamp.
• Tetherline. The Tollhouse and the Last Milepost are stations; when Mossback docks at the north rim, the Lantern Road’s ladder replaces the walk.

6.9 Pacing check

§5.1’s minutes per level (t, with the quest mix) against the map that carries each band. Pure grind is 1.15 t. Kinds are at-level for XP within ±5 (§5.1), so each map carries a band of about five levels around its strongest kind.

Checks for the map builders and the nightly:

• Mossway: adding the Hedgerows, the Slopes and the Soak changes no time on the bot’s route; they spread players, as MapleStory’s parallel maps do. A bot route through them (Field 1–4, Hedgerows 5–6, Slopes 7–8, Soak 9–10) should land inside the same 30.8–41.7 min window.
• Glasslands: a grind-warden-glasslands bot (level 10 to 20, pure grind, buying the camp’s swords) should land inside 110.4 min ±15% (93.8–127.0). Slagway carries the most minutes on the fewest kinds: if it runs slow, add a Lostbearer point before adding a kind.
• Gaps: no map carries 19–20 with a kind at 20; the Eye is the only one. Lostbearer 19 covers it at full XP (§5.1, ±5).