Landmarks and words
Read What Was Left
A named road, readable book, or notice board gives the next purpose without naming every turn beyond it.
First Hour
Survive Your First Hour
Ulna rewards the player who knows when to retreat. Learn Stonebrook's service loop, take a first fitting, test one dangerous road, and come home with enough gold and knowledge to push farther next time.
The road remembers
A failed road names the enemy, lost experience, dropped supplies, spent blessing, protected corpse, and the exact recovery point. Survival starts with knowing when to turn back.
The Ulna loop
Bring Something Back
Prepare in Stonebrook
Fit the First Road
Turn the opening 22 gold into the one level-one headpiece your vocation can actually wear.
Meet Smith Hadrik
Test one dangerous road
Learn the First Teeth
A Dire Wolf is the early lesson: distance from town matters as much as damage when the pack closes in.
Open the Bestiary
Return before empty
Bank the Way Home
Bring gold and supplies back to Stonebrook, save them with Mira and Iva, restock, and choose the next push.
Learn bank and depot
How Ulna tells a story
A Road, Not a Ledger
Ulna’s authored roads ask for more than a ledger of kills. Read landmarks and boards, carry proofs between people who disagree, and put tools, doors, and levers to use. A plain hunt remains an honest way to grow; the story road is meant to keep pace.
Roadcraft over errandsOpen the Quest Board
Proofs and workings
Put Hand to the World
Tools meet marked targets; proofs change hands; doors, levers, and return conversations remember what you did.
Hunt or authored road
Choose the Pace
Stay with the hunt while the cave holds you, or follow a road for experience, coin, items, access, and a name the realm remembers.
Eleven habits
The Things That Keep You Alive
Learn these in town and on the first roads. They are the difference between a useful retreat and an empty backpack far from the lamps.
01
Create Character
Reserve a name, choose a vocation, and begin in Stonebrook, the mainland’s safe first stop.
02
Move and Read the Map
Follow roads first. Roads connect town services, farms, training areas, and safer exits.
03
Interact
Talk to NPCs, open doors and containers, use stairs, and watch for named destinations.
04
Eat and Carry Supplies
Food supports recovery. Potions matter before you leave town roads.
05
Use Potions
Keep emergency healing separate from normal sustain so panic clicks do not empty your bag.
06
Cast Spells
Auto-attacks exist, but aimed spells, fields, cones, and timing decide hard fights.
07
Kill and Loot
Hunt creatures near your level, loot everything early, then learn which drops are worth space.
08
Sell and Restock
Return to town before supplies run dry. Sell loot, repair your plan, and buy for the next route.
09
Use the Bank and Crown Depot
Ask Banker Mira to deposit or withdraw 1, 10, or All gold after a confirmation review. Ask Depot Clerk Iva to move 1 or All of a carried non-coin stack.
10
Take Tasks
Task boards and NPCs turn normal hunts into experience, coin, and useful knowledge about the road ahead.
11
Travel
Use signed roads, staffed boats, stairs, holes, and marked passages deliberately. Higher reward routes carry higher risk.
Take Hadrik’s fitting
The two opening rewards total 22 gold. Hadrik then shows the one level-one headpiece your vocation can wear, with its armor, defense, and health gains named before you buy it.Route Planning
Choose the next honest retreat
Stonebrook is the service loop, not the whole journey. Compare the first outward roads by danger, recovery, and the landmark you will use to find home again.
East Road Depths
Levels 5–20
Ashen Seal Near Rift
Starter dungeon
North Road and Northwatch
Levels 12–25