Adventurers

Adventurers are the heart of the game. They have free will and make decisions based on their personality, needs, and current state.

Class Overview

Class	Primary Stat	Attack Scales With	Attack Range	Recruitment Building	Traits
Warrior	STR	Strength	3	Barracks	High HP, high attack, fights up close
Mage	INT	Intelligence	12	Mage Tower	Ranged magic attacks, low HP
Ranger	AGI	Agility	11	Ranger Lodge	Ranged bow attacks, high curiosity
Guard	STR	Strength	3	Guard Post	Patrols buildings, never leaves post
Builder	AGI	—	3	Builder’s Guild	Repairs buildings, pacifist (does not fight)
Thief	AGI	Agility	3	Thieves’ Guild	Greedy and evasive, low HP

Every hero class in the game, written from its data: the six that any kingdom recruits, then the classes that a castle path’s own buildings recruit.

Class	Castle path	Recruited at	Health	Attack	Attack range	Skills
Warrior	—	Barracks	70–150	STR	3	Power Strike, Shield Wall, Berserker, Warlord, War Cry
Mage	—	Mage Tower	25–65	INT	12	Fire Bolt, Mana Shield, Chain Lightning, Archmage, Fire Tornado
Ranger	—	Ranger Lodge	45–100	AGI	11	Precise Shot, Evasion, Multi Shot, Eagle Eye, Wind Break
Guard	—	Guard Post	50–120	STR	3	Vigilance, Fortify, Taunt, Bastion, Close Guard
Builder	—	Builder’s Guild	30–70	—	3	Quick Repair, Reinforce, Master Craft, Architect, Emergency Repair
Thief	—	Thieves’ Guild	35–80	AGI	3	Backstab, Evasion, Cutpurse, Shadow Dance, Slip Away
Shield Knight	Guardian	Bastion	90–170	STR	3	Vigilance, Shield Wall, Taunt, Bastion, Oath Shield, Sworn Stand-in, To the Rescue
Hospitaller	Guardian	Sanctuary	50–100	INT	3	Vigilance, Mana Shield, Fortify, Bastion, Mending Prayer
Pathfinder	Wilds	Wild Camp	50–105	AGI	11	Precise Shot, Evasion, Multi Shot, Eagle Eye, Hunter’s Mark
Beast Warden	Wilds	Beast Lodge	65–135	STR	3	Power Strike, Evasion, Berserker, Eagle Eye, Hawk Strike, Trail Tracking, Beast Companion, Companion Cover, Herbal First Aid
Grave Knight	Undead	Ossuary	95–175	STR	3	Power Strike, Shield Wall, Berserker, Warlord, Bone Armor
Necromancer	Undead	Crypt	40–90	INT	3	Fire Bolt, Mana Shield, Chain Lightning, Archmage, Withering Seal, Bone Guard, Soul Debt
Marshal	Order	Constabulary	80–155	STR	3	Vigilance, Shield Wall, Taunt, Warlord, Lockdown, Muster Order, Alarm Round
Roadwarden	Order	Toll Post	55–115	AGI	10	Precise Shot, Evasion, Multi Shot, Eagle Eye, Convoy Guard
Oathsworn	Valor	War Hall	85–165	STR	3	Power Strike, Evasion, Berserker, Warlord, Sundering Blow, Storm the Walls, Blood Frenzy
Bannerman	Valor	Quartermaster	70–140	STR	3	Power Strike, Shield Wall, Taunt, Warlord, Unyielding Roar
Spellblade	Arcane	Academy	60–125	INT	3	Fire Bolt, Evasion, Chain Lightning, Archmage, Rending Light, Phase Step, Rune Riposte
Adept	Arcane	Spire	40–88	INT	11	Fire Bolt, Mana Shield, Chain Lightning, Archmage, Rune Ward
Escort	Commerce	Trade Guild	80–150	STR	3	Vigilance, Shield Wall, Taunt, Bastion, Guard the Goods, Forced March, Convoy Duty
Caravaneer	Commerce	Depot	55–115	AGI	3	Precise Shot, Evasion, Multi Shot, Eagle Eye, Route Mark
Inquisitor	Tyranny	Tribunal	65–130	INT	3	Fire Bolt, Mana Shield, Taunt, Archmage, Dread Brand, Iron Oath
Enforcer	Tyranny	Levy Office	90–170	STR	3	Power Strike, Shield Wall, Berserker, Warlord, Chain Verdict
Alchemist	—	Alchemy Guild	45–85	INT	8	Measured darts, Field apron, Precise mixing, Master distiller, Field alchemy

Detailed Stats

Warrior

Stat	Range
HP	70 – 150
STR	8 – 22
AGI	3 – 12
INT	1 – 8
LCK	1 – 10

Personality Tendencies: High Glory (0.5–1.0), moderate Greed (0.2–0.8), low Curiosity (0.0–0.2)

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Power Strike	Attack ×1.15
6	Shield Wall	Defense +5
10	Berserker	Attack ×1.3, HP ×0.9
15	Warlord	Attack ×1.5, Defense +8

Mage

Stat	Range
HP	25 – 65
STR	1 – 3
AGI	1 – 8
INT	12 – 28
LCK	3 – 14

Personality Tendencies: High Safety (0.3–0.9), moderate Curiosity (0.1–0.3)

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Fire Bolt	Attack +5
6	Mana Shield	Defense +4
10	Chain Lightning	Attack ×1.4
15	Archmage	Attack ×1.6, Attack +8

Ranger

Stat	Range
HP	45 – 100
STR	4 – 14
AGI	8 – 20
INT	3 – 12
LCK	3 – 14

Personality Tendencies: Very high Curiosity (0.7–1.0), low Safety (0.0–0.4)

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Precise Shot	Attack +4
6	Evasion	Dodge rate +15%
10	Multi Shot	Attack ×1.35
15	Eagle Eye	Attack ×1.5, Crit rate +20%

Guard

Stat	Range
HP	50 – 120
STR	3 – 10
AGI	2 – 8
INT	1 – 5
LCK	1 – 6

Personality Tendencies: Very high Safety (0.5–1.0), no Curiosity

Special Behavior: Automatically assigned to patrol buildings; will not leave their post to chase distant enemies.

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Vigilance	Defense +3
6	Fortify	HP ×1.2
10	Taunt	Defense +6, Attack +3
15	Bastion	HP ×1.4, Defense +10

Builder

Stat	Range
HP	30 – 70
STR	1 – 6
AGI	4 – 14
INT	2 – 8
LCK	2 – 10

Personality Tendencies: Very high Safety (0.8–1.0), no Curiosity, no Glory

Special Behavior: Pacifist — will never enter combat. Automatically travels to damaged buildings to repair them.

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Quick Repair	Repair speed ×1.3
6	Reinforce	Repair speed ×1.5
10	Master Craft	Repair speed ×2.0
15	Architect	Repair speed ×2.5, HP ×1.3

Thief

Stat	Range
HP	35 – 80
STR	4 – 12
AGI	12 – 30
INT	3 – 12
LCK	6 – 18

Personality Tendencies: Very high Greed (0.75–1.0), high Safety (0.5–1.0), moderate Curiosity (0.3–0.7), low Glory (0.0–0.3)

Special Behavior: Dodge (10% + 1% per AGI) is its defence rather than HP, and its greed pulls it toward the best-paid bounties.

Skill Tree:

Level	Skill	Effect
3	Backstab	Crit rate +12%
6	Evasion	Dodge rate +10%
10	Cutpurse	Crit rate +20%, Attack ×1.15
15	Shadow Dance	Dodge rate +18%, Attack ×1.35

State System

Adventurers transition between the following states:

IDLE
  ├─→ MOVING_TO_BOUNTY
  ├─→ EXPLORING
  ├─→ PATROLLING
  ├─→ REPAIRING — Builder only
  └─→ FIGHTING
        └─→ RETURNING
              └─→ LODGING
                    └─→ IDLE

Lodging System

Adventurers go to rest and heal when HP is low, at the nearest place with room: their own guild, an inn, a wild camp or the castle. Of places about as near, their own guild comes first (it counts 8 tiles nearer) and the castle last (8 tiles further); one running for its life takes whatever is nearest
Lodging adventurers enter the LODGING state: they disappear from the map and become invulnerable
Each building can house up to 3 lodgers
If a building is destroyed, all lodgers inside are immediately released
Adventurers leave lodging automatically once their HP is fully restored

Leveling System

Item	Description
Max level	20
Base XP	40 XP (to reach Lv. 2)
XP formula	`40 × 1.6^(level-1)`
Kill XP	Varies by enemy type (10 – 160 XP)
Combat drip	Each hit grants 1/5 of the kill XP
Shared kill	A kill’s gold and XP are shared without anything being added: the hero that struck last keeps 60% when others share, and the rest goes in equal parts to up to 3 heroes fighting within 6 tiles of it or, within 10 tiles, that tended another hero in the last 30 seconds
Bounty XP	Explore 15 XP, Defend 25 XP, Kill 30 XP

On level up, primary and secondary stats increase along with HP.

Skill tree: a class’s skills are a tree, not a fixed number of slots: each skill has the level it is learnt at and may require other skills first, and a tree is as large as its class has skills for. A hero learns every skill its level and what it has already learnt allow. Its panel shows the tree: a skill it has in bold, one still to come greyed with the level it comes at, each under the skill it requires. A skill marked (active) is one the hero casts by itself; the others change its numbers for good.

Personality System

Each adventurer has four personality values (0.0 – 1.0) that influence whether they accept bounties:

Trait	Effect
Greed (gold)	Higher values mean the adventurer cares more about the reward
Safety (safety)	Higher values mean the adventurer avoids danger
Glory (glory)	Higher values mean the adventurer prefers combat missions
Curiosity (curiosity)	Higher values mean the adventurer prefers exploration

A hero’s details show each value as a word: low under 0.35, moderate up to 0.7, high from 0.7.

Bounty Attraction Formula:

level_scale = max(1, level × 0.6)
attraction  = reward / 100 / level_scale × greed + fame × glory - danger × safety
            + 0.3 × curiosity (Explore only) + renown bonus
            - distance × 0.02 / level_scale - danger × 2 (when HP < 40%)

A Warn marker is never taken
A reward below level × 20 gold is refused outright
Guards never take bounties: they patrol the town instead
Heroes below level 8 refuse bounties inside a warning zone
An adventurer takes the highest-scoring bounty, if it scores above 0.1

Heroes’ Own Lives

A hero with nothing to do weighs everything open to it and takes the best: a bounty, an errand in town, or exploring.

Errands: buy better gear at a blacksmith, restock potions at a market, study at a library, take an evening off at an inn (15 gold; a fountain or garden is free), or go home when wounded or tired. Each needs the building, the gold and a real need, and the hero walks to that building to do it.
Commitment: a hero finishes the trip it started. Only an exploring trip is given up, after 150 ticks, for something clearly better. Danger still comes first: a badly hurt hero heads for the nearest place to rest.
Strongholds: from level 3, bold heroes march on known enemy strongholds by themselves when they dare one alone; thieves rob them.
Support: a hero whose class tends others (heals, shields, cheers or stands in) and that has no work of its own walks with a party: the nearest hero within 30 tiles on its way to a bounty’s work or a march, or in a fight, whose work it dares with that party. It turns after the party as it moves, and leaves when the party dies, stops or goes home, when it is hurt itself, or after 2 minutes.
Memory: a hero keeps a few things that happened to it, each for some minutes. One whose guild was attacked values defend bounties 30% more; one that another hero helped when badly hurt, or that was paid a bounty’s work beside another, values a bounty that hero holds more; one that turned for home badly hurt, or saw such a hero fall, wants better odds within 12 tiles of the place. The hero’s panel lists what it remembers.
A lost guild: a hero whose guild is destroyed or torn down is not lost. It moves by itself into the nearest building that recruits its class and has room, a rebuilt guild among them. Until then the castle shelters it: 3 heroes for each castle level for 5 minutes, any more for 100 seconds. A hero whose time runs out leaves the kingdom with what it carries; the log and the chronicle say so beforehand, and its panel counts the seconds.
What a hero shows: a hero flinches when it is hit, raises a hand when its skill goes off, cheers when it gains a level, and slumps where it falls before the dust takes it. With reduced motion (Settings) it does none of these.
Class leanings: every class has habits of its own. Warriors fight on until badly hurt and like storming strongholds; mages stay near town, retreat early and like studying; rangers travel far and favour explore bounties; thieves go for the best-paid bounty and rob strongholds; guards and builders stay in town. A hero’s own caution and curiosity shift this a little, and its panel lists its leanings. How far a hero roams is its own as well: the bolder and more curious it is, the further from the castle it ranges, so two heroes of one class do not keep to the same ground. A hero makes for unknown land within its range first; when none is left it goes a little further out and walks across to the far side of its range rather than circling the town.
Reading a hero: a hero’s panel says what it is doing and why, where it is going, what it needs, and where it stands on each open bounty: on the way, busy, or the reason it turned the bounty down, with the reward that would change its mind. A bounty’s panel lists the heroes by those reasons, the cheapest to win over first. The panel ends with the hero’s history, its last eight deeds with the game time of each: the gear it bought and what it studied, the bounties it took and what tipped it (the pay, others already on it, or what it remembers), what it was paid and beside whom, who came to its aid when it was badly hurt, and when it turned for home.

Adventurers and factions

Rebel guild members, turncoats and human spies use the same classes, learned skills, equipment and potions as recruited adventurers. They fight and support according to faction relations, use their own guild’s limited money and supplies, and recover at a surviving camp. A turncoat keeps the same name and history. An unrevealed spy’s faction is shown as unknown. Foreign heroes do not share the crown’s research or recruitment capacity. The editor’s hero brush can place crown, friendly, neutral or hostile adventurers.

Brown bear · Hunting hawk — Calls one hound. From level 8, chooses a nimble hawk against ranged foes, a sturdy bear against heavy armor or packs of three, otherwise a hound. Shares the 12-summon map cap; all follow their owner on walkable ground, cost no upkeep, leave no loot and stay behind on a new mission.

Persistent companions

Real contributions to dangerous shared combat create mutual comradeship. Effective healing, absorbed shields or damage borne for a critically wounded hero can leave a one-way rescue debt; repeated complementary work can establish a mutual partnership. Each hero keeps at most three important companions, preserved through saves and campaign levels that carry heroes. Weaker idle bonds fade, and death or permanent departure clears their links. Loot sharing alone, standing nearby, ineffective aid and cancelled flags add no relationship strength. Completed shared work is recorded in the hero’s history; relationships give no permanent attack or armor bonus.

Companion invitations

A hero volunteering for a stronghold bounty can invite up to three nearby idle companions. Each independently weighs current health, supplies, danger, the walk and its expected share of the reward, and may choose other work. Pending offers reserve finite muster slots but leave room for other volunteers. They expire and have a cooldown, never restart the muster, and cannot commandeer resting, rescuing, fighting or busy heroes. Accepting or refusing changes no relationship strength. Saves keep current offers; a new campaign level clears invitations and their cooldowns while preserving companion identities.

Travelling companions

Heroes keep their own routes and retreat decisions. On a safe stronghold march, a hero may wait once for a nearby lagging companion, for at most eight seconds. Supporting heroes prefer companions they can safely reach, stop following when the work changes or becomes unsafe, and never chase beyond their normal range. Losing a companion leaves a brief, limited local caution and a lasting history entry; it does not increase grievance. Saves retain the original wait deadline; another campaign map clears the wait.

Reading companion choices

Hero details show up to three companions, why they matter and whether they are working together, elsewhere in the kingdom or in reserve. Bounty details show invitation replies, refusal reasons and the original time remaining. Living companions can be located through their names. Important rescues, cooperation and losses enter the chronicle and settlement stories, with repeated news combined; death and permanent departure are distinct.

Battle pairings

Each independent trial starts with eight level-8 heroes. Total capital is 7000 gold, including buildings, required upgrades, research, one potion per hero, finite reagents or siege supplies, and 200 gold per hero. The unspent part remains in the treasury. Heroes decide their own movement and skills; use buildings and bounties to guide them.

Both alternatives have won on seeds 17 and 73. Times describe this starting encounter, not a whole campaign. Living defenders remain after a lair falls.

Shield sustain

Shield and healing need damage dealers against armor.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Shield Knight ×2, Hospitaller ×2, Ranger ×2, Mage ×2	Bastion, Sanctuary, Mage Tower	Shield Weaving, Mending Discipline	7000	17–22.6	7	136.28–181.18	34 / 103, 130 / 257
2	Warrior ×2, Mage ×2, Ranger ×4	Barracks, Mage Tower, Ranger Lodge	Battle Tactics, Arcane Affinity	7000	10.6–13.6	7	226.47–290.57	0 / 0, 0 / 0

Poison control

Poison needs paid vials and loses value against cleansing and dispersed targets.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Alchemist ×2, Shield Knight ×2, Hospitaller ×2, Ranger ×2	Alchemy Guild, Bastion, Sanctuary, Cleansing Altar	Caustic Reagents, Shield Weaving, Cleansing Reach	7000	10.6–11.6	8	132.59–145.09	0 / 205, 31 / 164
2	Mage ×3, Ranger ×3, Warrior ×2	Mage Tower, Ranger Lodge, Cleansing Altar	Arcane Affinity, Keen Eyes, Cleansing Reach	7000	8.6–9.6	8	160.21–178.84	0 / 0, 0 / 0

Ranged towers

Towers cover fixed ground; hunters and sappers punish an exposed rear.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Guard ×2, Ranger ×4, Roadwarden ×2	Guard Post, Ranger Lodge, Toll Post, Arrow Tower, Arrow Tower, Frost Tower, Beacon	Frost Lattice, Beacon Lenses, Keen Eyes	7000	7.6–8	8	93.75–98.68	0 / 66, 0 / 0
2	Warrior ×3, Mage ×2, Ranger ×3	Barracks, Mage Tower, Arrow Tower, Frost Tower	Battle Tactics, Frost Lattice	7000	5–5	8	150–150	0 / 0, 0 / 0

Companion expedition

Companions depend on living wardens; durable fronts delay their burst.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Beast Warden ×3, Pathfinder ×3, Ranger ×2	Beast Lodge, Wild Camp, Ranger Lodge	Pack Training, Warden Guard, True Flight	7000	2–2.6	8	484.62–630	0 / 0, 0 / 0
2	Warrior ×2, Ranger ×3, Mage ×3	Barracks, Ranger Lodge, Mage Tower	Keen Eyes, Battle Tactics	7000	7.6–7.6	8	165.79–165.79	0 / 0, 0 / 0

Melee rush

A fast melee advance is vulnerable to poison zones and crossfire.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Oathsworn ×4, Bannerman ×2, Ranger ×2	War Hall, Quartermaster, Ranger Lodge	Blood Oath, Banner Guard	7000	4–4	8	165–169.5	0 / 0, 0 / 0
2	Warrior ×4, Mage ×2, Ranger ×2	Barracks, Mage Tower, Ranger Lodge	Battle Tactics, Iron Skin	7000	4–4.6	8	147.39–165	0 / 0, 0 / 0

Siege breach

Wall supplies are finite; defend the supply route and finish the lair before replacements arrive.

#	Heroes	Buildings	Research	Capital	Time (s)	Alive	Damage/s	Healing / absorbed shields
1	Bannerman ×2, Oathsworn ×2, Ranger ×4	Quartermaster, War Hall, Ranger Lodge	Siege Provisioning, Blood Oath	7000	39.6–40.8	8	92.16–98.36	0 / 0, 0 / 0
2	Ranger ×4, Warrior ×2, Mage ×2	Ranger Lodge, Barracks, Mage Tower	Keen Eyes, Battle Tactics	7000	37.2–48	8	80.69–100.94	0 / 0, 0 / 0