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{{Patch notes header|date=2026-08-31|build=65cb8f141}}
'''Patch 2026-08-31''' - the world-event protection round. Dying at a world event now costs nothing and the boss can no longer be dragged away from the fight, every player runs the fast combat simulation once reserved for player killers, Obsidian and Tiger Eye become armor-and-clothing only, and deaths in private instances stop eating corpses. This page covers everything player-facing since [[Patch 2026-08-30]].

== World events ==
* '''Asheron's Protection.''' While a world event is running, any player who dies within its reach loses nothing: no vitae, no item or coin drop, no enchantment purge. You still die and return to your lifestone, with the message "Asheron's power holds death's toll at bay. You lose nothing."
* '''Bosses stay at the fight.''' A named boss is now tethered to where it spawned: it only hunts players who are actually at the event, and stepping outside the tether snaps it back onto the crowd. One player can no longer drag the boss away from everyone else.
* '''Sky Rift scenery''' now arrives in one of four color schemes.

== Changes and tuning ==
* '''Fast combat for everyone.''' Every player now runs the full server-side combat simulation that used to be reserved for player killers: quicker spell release with no pre-cast turn delay, retail-speed potion drinking, and melee that sticks to a moving target.
* '''Obsidian and Tiger Eye are armor-and-clothing only.''' [[Equipment Mods|Obsidian equipment mods]] and Tiger Eye armor tinkers no longer apply to jewelry, cloaks or trinkets; descriptions and targeting now say so.
* '''[[Serpentine Salvage]] from loot works.''' A Serpentine salvage bag you fill yourself from looted salvage is now usable for spell rerolls; previously only the ready-made bags from the Salvage-Broker worked.
* '''Mules are off the boards.''' Storage mules no longer appear on any <code>/top</code> leaderboard.

== Fixes ==
* '''Deaths in private instances drop nothing.''' Dying inside a private, on-demand copy of a dungeon - a Proving Grounds arena, First Pin, the Loom - no longer leaves a corpse with your items in it. Those corpses were destroyed with the instance and could never be recovered. If this already happened to you, tell a mod.
* '''The Withered and the Olthoi soldiers lost their magic immunity.''' Both lines silently ignored all non-projectile magic - life drains and debuffs simply did not land. They now resist with their skills like everything else.
* '''A [[Prismatic Drift Stone]] on a life caster grants Life Rending''', not Critical Strike.
* '''Martyr's Hecatomb flies as an arc.''' The spell now lobs on the gravity trajectory of its family instead of flying flat.
* '''Zero-value rares fit the mule's sell pane.''' Rares with no listed value can now be dragged into your [[Game systems#Mule storage|mule]]'s sell pane to deposit them; handing them over already worked.

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Patch 2026-08-30

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Patch 2026-08-30 release notes (build 7563e018a)

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{{Patch notes header|date=2026-08-30|build=7563e018a}}
'''Patch 2026-08-30''' - the world-event tuning round. Named world-event bosses now size their damage to the crowd and the world announces their arrival and health, the mule vault banks Trade Notes and accepts anything you could hand to a friend, offline experience gains a pause switch, and life drains finally hurt the bloodless. This page covers everything player-facing since [[Patch 2026-08-29]].

== World events ==
* '''Bosses size their damage to the crowd.''' A named boss now measures what its hits actually do to the players present and adjusts itself so the toughest player there survives roughly three ordinary hits. Softer players should still treat every hit as lethal.
* '''The world keeps you posted.''' Global announcements now cover the boss's arrival, its health falling past 75%, 50% and 25%, and event progress every couple of minutes. Reward caches burst with a sparkle when they land.
* '''More varied invasions.''' A randomly composed run now pairs two monster families and always reaches down far enough that low-level characters have something to fight.

== Changes and tuning ==
* '''Mule vault quality of life.''' Selling a Trade Note to your [[Game systems#Mule storage|mule]] now credits its full face value straight to your Currency Bank instead of storing the note (stored notes were nearly impossible to withdraw). The vault also accepts anything you could hand to another player - pyreal nuggets included.
* '''<code>/offlinebonus on|off</code>.''' Pause your offline experience bonus without losing what you have banked; bare <code>/offlinebonus</code> still shows your status. See [[Game systems]].
* '''The [[Geode Field]] respawns faster.''' The Amethyst Spire's wave Wardens and the Amethyst Archon return five minutes after they die, down from thirty.

== Fixes ==
* '''Life drains hurt the bloodless.''' Constructs, wisps, crystals and other creatures retail made fully drain-proof now take three-quarters of a normal drain instead of nothing.
* '''Multi-shot aims in three dimensions.''' Multi-shot's extra targets are now picked in a true cone around your aim line, so it no longer locks onto monsters far above or below you and visibly fires arrows straight up or down.
* '''Oswyn Cray reads your real Wave score.''' The Wave trial's paymaster paid from the wrong ledger, telling players with a nine-wave best to "clear five waves and come back". He now pays from your exact best score.

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	=== How it works ===		=== How it works ===
	* The vendor can only be summoned in the '''Marketplace'''. It stays for ten minutes without interaction and follows you about 30 metres before it despawns; summoning again brings a fresh one.		* The vendor can only be summoned in the '''Marketplace'''. It stays for ten minutes without interaction and follows you about 30 metres before it despawns; summoning again brings a fresh one.
	* Anything you could ~~sell~~ to ~~a normal vendor~~ can be deposited~~, including~~ salvage bags ~~and~~ mod hammers. Stackables merge into one entry in the vault, however many you deposit.		* Anything you could hand to another player can be deposited - salvage bags, mod hammers and pyreal nuggets included. Attuned items stay out, and a pet essence must have its pet unsummoned first. Stackables merge into one entry in the vault, however many you deposit.
	* The vault holds up to '''500 entries'''. A whole stack of one item counts as a single entry, whatever it holds, so the cap is about distinct things rather than quantity. The vendor tells you your count each time it appears.		* The vault holds up to '''500 entries'''. A whole stack of one item counts as a single entry, whatever it holds, so the cap is about distinct things rather than quantity. The vendor tells you your count each time it appears.
	* Vault contents are per '''account''': deposit on one character, withdraw on another.		* Vault contents are per '''account''': deposit on one character, withdraw on another.

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	''Latest patch: '''[[Patch 2026-08-29]]''' - the ~~[[Proving Grounds#Speed\|Speed trial]] opens with~~ the ~~Lost Coastal Archive season, every account gets [[Game systems#Mule storage\|~~mule ~~storage]] behind <code>/mule</code>, and full [[Class Abilities\|class-ability]] respecs are free below level 275~~.''		''Latest patch: '''[[Patch 2026-08-30]]''' - world events spawn at and above your level, draw two monster families, and field a boss that tunes its damage to the strongest player present; the mule vault takes anything you could hand to a player; life drains always land for something.''

	''New here? Start with the [[Unbidden Doors]] and visit the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] in your home town.''		''New here? Start with the [[Unbidden Doors]] and visit the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] in your home town.''

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{{Patch notes header|date=2026-08-30|build=c6f5d6ff8}}
'''Patch 2026-08-30''' - the world-event tuning round. Events now spawn monsters at and above the crowd's level, random events draw two monster families with one always fit for a low-level crowd, the boss tunes its own damage to the strongest player present, progress and boss health are called out server-wide, and the reward caches sparkle. Alongside that: Field-Marshal Oswyn Cray pays wave tiers again, the mule vault takes anything you could hand to another player, life drains no longer bounce off drain-immune monsters, and Multishot's extra arrows follow your real aim line. This page covers everything player-facing since [[Patch 2026-08-29]].

== Changes and tuning ==
* '''Event monsters spawn at and above your level.''' A world event used to draw its rank and file from a little below your level to a little above it. It now draws from your level up to half again as high, and its elites from a quarter above you to three-quarters above. Each monster is sized against one of the players present, so a mixed crowd still gets a mixed spawn.
* '''Random events draw two monster families.''' Instead of one family for the whole event, a random event picks two and mixes them wave by wave: one of them always has members low enough for a level-50 crowd, and at least one brings spellcasters. A low-level crowd no longer gets a family whose youngest member is level 135. The event announcement names both families.
* '''The boss reads the room.''' A named event boss now adjusts how hard it hits to the players it is actually fighting, so the strongest player present dies in about three clean hits. It measures its own landed hits and corrects itself as the fight goes on. A low-level player can still be one-shot.
* '''Event progress goes server-wide.''' While an event runs, a <code>[World Event]</code> line every two minutes reports the goal's progress, the current wave and the time remaining. A named boss's arrival is announced to everyone, and its health is called out at three-quarters, half and a quarter.
* '''Weave Caches sparkle.''' The reward caches at the end of an event burst with the max-skill sparkle when they appear, and again every 30 seconds until the claim window closes, so nobody misses one.
* '''Life drains always land for something.''' Harm, Drain Health and Martyr's Hecatomb used to drain nothing at all from plated tuskers, golems, wisps, crystals and a handful of bosses, and next to nothing from several hundred more. Every monster now takes at least 75% of a life drain; monsters that already took more are unchanged. Stamina and mana drains are untouched. See the [[Class Abilities#Blood_Mage|Blood Mage]].

== Fixes ==
* '''Field-Marshal Oswyn Cray pays wave tiers again.''' Since 18 August he had been reading a score the Proving Grounds no longer wrote, and told everyone "The Mire has not counted you yet." He now reads the live one, and a best score set before the change still counts. See [[Proving Grounds]].
* '''The mule vault takes anything you could hand to another player.''' It used to refuse anything a town vendor would not buy, pyreal nuggets among them. The vault's rule is now the give rule: if you could hand it to a player, you can store it. Attuned items still stay out, a pet essence must have its pet unsummoned first, and town vendors are unchanged. See [[Game systems#Mule storage|Mule storage]].
* '''Multishot's extra arrows follow your real aim line.''' The extra targets were picked on a flat map, so a monster far above or below you with the same footing could be chosen and the extra arrow would visibly fire straight up or down at it. Extra targets are now picked in a cone around the line your bow is actually pointed along.

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	\| '''[[Game systems]]''' \|\| Server customizations, all on one page: the [[Game systems#Currency Bank\|Currency Bank]], the [[Game systems#Offline Time Bonus\|Offline Time Bonus]], [[Game systems#Fellowships\|Fellowships]], and more.		\| '''[[Game systems]]''' \|\| Server customizations, all on one page: the [[Game systems#Currency Bank\|Currency Bank]], the [[Game systems#Offline Time Bonus\|Offline Time Bonus]], [[Game systems#Fellowships\|Fellowships]], and more.
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			\| '''[[Proving Grounds]]''' \|\| Four solo trials in the Marketplace with public leaderboards - damage, survival, endurance, and the timed Speed run through a rotating dungeon.
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	\| '''[[Class Abilities]]''' \|\| The eight-class Class Ability system - pick your powers and build your character. Bought at the [[Class Trainers]].		\| '''[[Class Abilities]]''' \|\| The eight-class Class Ability system - pick your powers and build your character. Bought at the [[Class Trainers]].
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	''Latest patch: '''[[Patch 2026-08-19]]''' - the [[~~Marketplace Crafting Stations~~]] ~~open for business~~, [[~~Vaelith the Omni-School Professor~~\|~~a five-school spell tutor~~]] ~~sets up in the Marketplace~~, ~~every~~ [[Class Abilities\|class ability]] ~~is repriced with reworked Berserker and Rogue kits, and monsters past~~ level ~~185 start paying Luminance~~.''		''Latest patch: '''[[Patch 2026-08-29]]''' - the [[Proving Grounds#Speed\|Speed trial]] opens with the Lost Coastal Archive season, every account gets [[Game systems#Mule storage\|mule storage]] behind <code>/mule</code>, and full [[Class Abilities\|class-ability]] respecs are free below level 275.''

	''New here? Start with the [[Unbidden Doors]] and visit the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] in your home town.''		''New here? Start with the [[Unbidden Doors]] and visit the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] in your home town.''

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Game systems

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-DreamWeave adds a number of custom systems on top of the classic Asheron's Call ruleset. The '''[[Class Abilities|Class Ability system]]''' is large enough to keep its own pages - see '''[[Class Abilities]]''' and the '''[[Class Trainers]]''' who teach it. Gear can also be reworked through '''[[Custom Crafting]]''', including '''[[Equipment Mods]]''' tied to those abilities, '''[[Weapon Mods]]''' for weapons, and '''[[Serpentine Salvage]]''' for an item's enchantments. The server's other custom systems are collected here.
+DreamWeave adds a number of custom systems on top of the classic Asheron's Call ruleset. The '''[[Class Abilities|Class Ability system]]''' is large enough to keep its own pages - see '''[[Class Abilities]]''' and the '''[[Class Trainers]]''' who teach it. Gear can also be reworked through '''[[Custom Crafting]]''', including '''[[Equipment Mods]]''' tied to those abilities, '''[[Weapon Mods]]''' for weapons, and '''[[Serpentine Salvage]]''' for an item's enchantments. The '''[[Proving Grounds]]''' - four solo trials with public leaderboards - keep their own page too. The server's other custom systems are collected here.
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 === Shopping from the bank ===
 When you buy from a vendor, the cost can be drawn from your banked currency - so you can shop without carrying a pack full of coin. That includes vendors and stations priced in '''Trade Notes (250,000)''': notes in your pack are spent first, and any shortfall is drawn from your banked pyreals at face value.
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 Out on the market floor, a handful of named stall-keepers have set up at the stands nearest the travel alcove, selling their usual wares.
 There is no salvage broker. The materials [[Equipment Mods]], [[Weapon Mods]] and [[Serpentine Salvage]] are built from are ordinary salvage you make yourself out of loot - see [[Custom Crafting]] for which material feeds which system and where each one drops.

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	'''Respec:''' you can refund and reallocate spent CAP at any time. Refunding below a tier's spent threshold closes that tier again until you reinvest.		'''Respec:''' you can refund and reallocate spent CAP at any time. Refunding below a tier's spent threshold closes that tier again until you reinvest.

			'''Full respec:''' Osmund Vale, in the west alcove of the [[Drift Network]] hub's trainer hall, clears your entire class-ability slate in one visit - every ability unlearned and every point refunded to your available balance. It is '''free below level 275'''; from level 275 the flat fee is '''1,000,000 Luminance''' from your bank. Tier unlocks are not refunded and stay open.

	'''Reading the tables:'''		'''Reading the tables:'''

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{{Patch notes header|date=2026-08-29|build=df210e4a4}}
'''Patch 2026-08-29''' - the beta round. The Proving Grounds gain a fourth trial, a timed speedrun through a rotating dungeon, opening with the Lost Coastal Archive; every account gets a private item vault summoned with <code>/mule</code>; the full class-ability respec is free below level 275; the Marketplace gains a sundries broker paying in MMDs and a broker for the Sealed Hollow Hammer; Sanguine becomes a full ninth caster element in loot; Spell AOE grows to three ranks; and a full pack can no longer eat a Proving Grounds reward. This page covers everything player-facing since [[Patch 2026-08-19]].

== New content ==
* '''[[Proving Grounds#Speed|Proving Grounds: Speed]].''' A fourth trial joins Attack, Defense and Wave. The new Speed portal in the Marketplace drops you into a private copy of the season's dungeon with the clock already running; it stops the moment you pick up the season objective, and the fastest time tops <code>/top speed</code>. Dying, leaving or logging out forfeits the run and costs nothing else. '''Pace-Master Odda Cray''' pays 10, 25 and 100 Trade Notes for clears under five, four and three minutes.
* '''[[Proving Grounds#Season 1: The Lost Coastal Archive|Season 1: The Lost Coastal Archive - "The Unsung Choir"]].''' A drowned choir holds the Archive, and eight gates stand between the entrance and '''The Untranslated Song of Grael''': rooms to clear, levers to hold down together, bells to ring without touching the decoys, and named singers to silence. Every gate is an objective inside your run - nothing carries over between attempts.
* '''[[Game systems#Mule storage|Mule storage]].''' Type <code>/mule</code> in the Marketplace to summon a private vault vendor. Sell to it to deposit, buy from it to withdraw, every price zero, and the contents are shared by every character on your account. Up to 500 entries, a stack counting as one. <code>/mule grant</code> lets a friend deposit, or deposit and withdraw, and <code>/mule log</code> shows who did what.
* '''Sundries-Broker Rashid al-Munzir.''' A Marketplace vendor who takes MMDs: Black Market gems of dispelling, health and mana elixirs, Burning Coal, Plentiful Healing Kits and Draughts of Revitalization at one note each, and Promissory Notes at two.
* '''Salvage-Broker Devan Tolliver.''' Stocks exactly one thing, the '''Sealed Hollow Hammer''' for one Trade Note - the way into the [[Salvage Forge]]. Everything else salvage is yours to make from loot.
* '''Sanguine casters in loot.''' Sanguine is now a full ninth element alongside the eight you know: the '''Sanguine Sceptre''', '''Sanguine Baton''' and '''Sanguine Staff''' roll in the same shape families and at the same weight as every other elemental caster. The Sanguine Orb no longer drops.
* '''The [https://wiki.acdreamweave.com/crafting/ Salvage Simulator].''' A wiki tool that works out what a bag of Tourmaline, Amethyst or Obsidian is likely to do to a piece of gear, and which quality tiers a given workmanship can reach.

== Changes and tuning ==
* '''Full respecs are free below level 275.''' Osmund Vale in the Drift Network waives his 1,000,000 Luminance fee until you reach 275. Unlearning single abilities still costs what it did. See [[Class Abilities]].
* '''Spell AOE has three ranks.''' The Archmage's radiating spells now spread 15%, 30% and 50% of their damage by rank, at 1, 2 and 3 points, in line with every other class's tier-1 game changer.
* '''Obsidian converts only the ratings an item was born with.''' Gear ratings added later by the Luminous and Empowered Amber recipes are no longer turned into equipment mods.
* '''Staff are off the boards.''' Admin and developer characters no longer appear on any <code>/top</code> leaderboard or in the new-record announcements.
* '''A five-minute warning before restarts.''' Planned server restarts now announce themselves in game five minutes ahead.

== Fixes ==
* '''A full pack no longer eats a Proving Grounds reward.''' The three Cray brothers used to close a reward tier even when they could not hand you the prize. They now refuse until you have a free pack slot, and the tier stays open until you do. If this already happened to you, tell a mod.
* '''Relogging in the Drift Network hub no longer strands you.''' Logging out inside the hub and back in used to put you at your lifestone in an empty copy of the world. If you are still stuck, any portal or recall clears it.
* '''Ring spells stop shoving the camera''', for every ring spell this time rather than only some of them.
* '''Mule storage hardening.''' Stored salvage and mod hammers now show in the vault panel, and two rounds of security fixes closed the ways a vault could be tricked or stalled.

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Proving Grounds}}
The '''Proving Grounds''' are four sealed trials run out of the [[Portals and Transportation|Marketplace]], each measuring one thing about your character and keeping a public leaderboard of it. Three of them - '''Attack''', '''Defense''' and '''Wave''' - score damage, survival and endurance. The fourth, '''Speed''', is a timed run through a rotating dungeon. Every trial is solo: you enter a private copy of the arena, nobody else can follow you in, and the score is yours alone.

Staff characters never appear on any board, so what you see is other players.

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== The four trials ==
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! Trial !! Measures !! Board !! Paymaster
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| '''Attack''' || How much damage you can deal || <code>/top dps</code> || Master-at-Arms Ordwin Cray
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| '''Defense''' || How long you can survive || <code>/top defense</code> || Ward-Master Osric Cray
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| '''Wave''' || How many waves you can outlast || <code>/top wave</code> || Field-Marshal Oswyn Cray
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| '''Speed''' || How fast you can clear the season's dungeon || <code>/top speed</code> || Pace-Master Odda Cray
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The four portals stand together in the Marketplace, and the four Cray brothers keep their ledgers nearby. Each brother pays out in tiers as your best score climbs, and each tier is paid once. A brother will not pay you while your pack is full - he tells you to make room and come back, and the tier stays open until you do.

Every board lists the top 20. <code>/top level</code>, <code>/top cap</code> and <code>/top stamp</code> race on other things entirely and are not Proving Grounds boards.

== Speed ==
The '''Proving Grounds (Speed)''' portal opens into a private copy of the current season's dungeon. The clock starts the instant you land and stops the instant you pick up the season's objective. Your time is recorded, a new server record is announced, and you are sent back out.

'''How a run works'''
* Take the Speed portal. Its description names the current season's dungeon. Between seasons the portal is sealed.
* You arrive with the run already live. There is nothing to press - the approach is part of the course.
* The dungeon is gated by '''objective locks''' - doors that open when something inside your run has happened: a room fully cleared, a named enemy killed, a set of levers pulled together, the right bells rung. None of it is a key you can carry, and none of it carries over between runs. Every attempt starts from nothing.
* Pick up the objective and the run ends. Your time goes on the board if it is your best this season.

'''What forfeits a run.''' Dying, leaving the instance by any route, or logging out mid-run throws the attempt away - no time is recorded. Death inside the instance costs no vitae and drops nothing. Take the portal again and go.

'''Seasons.''' The dungeon rotates. Each season keeps its own board, and past seasons stay queryable. <code>/top speed</code> shows the current season's fastest 20; <code>/top speed winners</code> shows who set the record in each season so far.

'''Pace-Master Odda Cray''' keeps the Speed ledger in the Marketplace. He pays in Trade Notes (250,000) against your best time this season:

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! Mark !! Pays
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| Under 5:00 || 10 Trade Notes
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| Under 4:00 || 25 Trade Notes
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| Under 3:00 || 100 Trade Notes
|}

Each mark is paid once per season. When the season rotates, your page in his ledger closes until you set a time under the new door.

=== Season 1: The Lost Coastal Archive ===
''"The Unsung Choir."'' A copy of the Lost Coastal Archive, emptied of its old dead and refilled with a drowned choir: '''Drowned Choristers''', '''Brine-Swollen Bearers''' and '''Ink-Drowned Cantors''' for the rank and file, six named singers on the gates, and '''Grael, the Unsung''' at the bottom with the objective - '''The Untranslated Song of Grael'''. Pick up the tome and the clock stops.

The route runs from the entry hub up through two wings, then down through the archive. Each wing teaches a different kind of lock, and no two gates open the same way.

{| class="wikitable"
! Gate !! Opens when
|-
| '''The Purge Lock''' (west ascent) || Every enemy in the pentagon room beyond it is dead - all six.
|-
| '''The Reliquary Gate''' (west ascent) || All three Reliquary Levers in the pillar grid are down '''at the same time'''. Each lever resets about 20 seconds after it is pulled, so solo it is a tight circuit.
|-
| '''The Verger's Bar''' (east cells) || '''The Verger''' is dead. The rest of his room is optional - kill him and run.
|-
| '''The Bell Gate''' (east cells) || The three '''Chant Bells''' have been rung. Two '''Discord Bells''' hang among them: ring one and your bell progress is wiped and its cell refills.
|-
| '''The Warded Stair''' (hub, down) || Both '''The Archivist's Shade''' (top of the west ascent) and '''The Warden of the Tide''' (end of the east cells) are dead.
|-
| '''The Ossuary Gate''' (antechamber) || The Ossuary Lever behind the antechamber pack has been pulled.
|-
| '''The Choir Lock''' (crossroads) || Any two of '''The Cantor''', '''The Precentor''' and '''The Sexton''' are dead - three branches, pick two.
|-
| '''The Archive Door''' || '''Grael, the Unsung''' is dead. It gates the exit portal; the tome is what stops the clock.
|}

The Undertow, a one-way chute at the top of each wing, drops you straight back to the hub.

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