Welcome to Season 2 ⚔️

⚔️ Two new raid locations

• ❄️ The Frostmarch — a brand new raid realm in the Far Realms
• ⚙️ The Brazen Deep — a brand new raid realm in the Deep
• Both come loaded with new unique equipment drops (25 new pieces each!) and 20 new relics apiece

🌌 The Beyond — a whole new realm

In addition, we're launching a brand new Realm called The Beyond. It's harder than the Deep. Way harder.

• The Beyond starts with 3 raid realms of its own: the Gloaming Shires, the Lantern City and the Last Court
• 12 raid locations in each — that's 36 new places to raid in The Beyond alone
• Every area has its own unique equipment drops (75 new pieces of gear!!)
• 59 brand new relics you can ONLY find out here
• And a new mechanic, the Hue and Cry 🔔 — every war-party you send stirs up the countryside. The harder they fight back, the richer the loot gets... and each realm's lord's hall won't even open its gates until the whole country is out hunting you

That's 60 new raid locations today. Have fun. 😈

🏰 Tier 5 sieges

• For the most seasoned Raiders: the Throne Fortress, a brand new Tier 5 siege above the Great Fortress
• Its map is hidden in the keep of a Tier 4 fortress... if you can take one
• The spoils? 380 regions, 380k gold, Godstone and 8,000 prestige. Bring an army.

📕 8 new spells

• 8 new greater spells added to the spell pool: Rime Lance, Wildfire, Soul Leech, Word of Ending, Mark of Ruin, Aegis of Dawn, Quickening and Mistveil
• Freeze 'em, burn 'em, drain 'em, brand 'em, execute 'em... shield up, reset your cooldowns and vanish in the fog
• Recipes drop from your delves once your Archmage's Rise is built

⚒️ The Forge got a major overhaul

• Reforging has been reworked to make weapons more unique and customizable to your needs — lock the buffs you love, reroll the rest
• Imbue the exact buff you want — 10 to choose from, including the brand new Thornward (finally, a counter to thorns!)
• Premium buffs — Lifesteal, Rampage, Momentum and Thorns — can ONLY be imbued, and they're powered by reagents you bring back from the Far and Deep realms
• Every buff rolls a quality — Crude, Fine, Superior or Masterwork — and you can upgrade the buffs you've imbued on the road to creating a masterwork
• Forge something great and it carries your maker's mark forever

🛡️ The Gear Marketplace

The new forging really comes into play here:

• Sell and trade your equipment with other players on the brand new Gear Marketplace!
• Every listing shows its buffs, their quality and who forged it... so a masterwork from a famous smith is going to be worth something 👀

🎨 Make your Barony your own

• You've probably already noticed the new character builder/customizer — there are more options than ever, and today the recoloring got WAY better: colors blend like real dye now, and all 168 hair colors are hand-painted
• We want you to be able to customize your characters more and more, making your Barony your own

🎲 Attribute rerolling

To keep with that promise, we've also added character attribute rerolling!

• Reroll a champion's attributes and get back every point they've earned to place all over again
• Right now it's expensive, it requires a sacrifice, and you can only do it once per season (which I'm sure someone will find a way around, lol)
• The Sacrifice? A legendary animal from your pen. 🐂 (Plus some Augur's Bones from the delve and a pile of gold.)

🐖 The Pens — way more than breeding

We've added more features to the pens, along with Sacrificing:

• 🔮 Hold rituals to predict future successes — read the signs, and a raid can be guaranteed to pay out a trinket or gear
• 🍄 Send your animals into the forest to forage mushrooms, herbs and worms for your kitchen
• 🐫 Harness an Ox for a Caravan and let him haul you over the rough roads
• 🏟 Send him into the arena for a Bull Fight — your champion vs. the beast, for XP. Mind the horns.
• 🩸 Blood Offerings for Forge essence (the dark road)... or 🕊 tithe a beast to the poor and the realm will love you for it (the light road)

🎣 The Weir got an upgrade too

• 30 new types of fish in the Weir — including three new legends to brag about
• You'll also find non-fish surprises — junk, treasure, curios, a drowned chart that leads somewhere... and messages in bottles 🍾
• Upgrade your Docks to T4 to unlock new fishing rods and custom fishing lures — both help you land bigger and rarer catches, and better rods give you extra daily fishing attempts
• Every lure needs a special ingredient from somewhere else in the realm — flour from the Mill, eggs from your pens, mushrooms from the delve...
• Some fish ONLY bite on the right lure. Good luck.
• And the Weir got a whole new look, split into tabs

🌍 Rewards revamped across the board

Rewards have been revamped across the board to take into account all of the new content. It didn't make sense to keep getting trinkets that increase food production or give you +1 public support. While that will continue to happen, you will also get:

• additional use of mountain regions
• ingredients for cooking
• luck for the alley
• additional breeding luck
• boosts for forge production
• siege build time reduction
• combat bonuses in sieges
• ...and more — 60 new kinds of rewards in all (the Star Astrolabe can even push your tech past the cap now!)

🌲 The Small Hunt

• We added 25 new animals to the Small Hunt — the woods change every day, and every beast pays out differently

📊 New pages

• Bonuses Page (in the Realm menu) — see specifically ALL of your bonuses, where they come from and the effects they're actually having. No more guessing.
• Trophies Page (in the Rankings menu) — track your lifetime progress across 85 trophies, Bronze to Diamond, and post your triumphs on socials 🏆
• 🗳️ Realm Polls — we'll be asking YOU what you think, right from a banner on every page. One vote per barony, live results.

🖼️ Fresh paint & mystery boxes

• 🐫 The Caravan got a makeover — the same painted look as the Tavern and the Weir: the road is a painting, every fork is a picture card, and whatever trouble meets you gets stamped right across it
• ❔ Mystery boxes — every fish, beast, piece of junk and treasure you haven't found yet now shows up as a ??? mystery box. You only find out what it is once you've met it. Gotta find 'em all 👀

🐎 Oh yeah... the Ride-Out

Oh yeah, and we added a "Ride Out" mechanic to the Titan drops:

• When the War Council convenes, players who have Heroes with Horses assigned to them can form posses with other players and ride out to the Titan before he gets to the wall
• Scout for weaknesses and leverage attacks to weaken his resolve before he reaches the gates of the Realm — and every weakness you find is shouted to the whole realm
• This one is untested — so we'll see how it goes next time a group of players unwittingly releases a monster. 😅