Five ways to answer the road
Choose Your Vocation
Calia teaches that retreat is part of every route. Your vocation decides what you do before that retreat: stand, stalk, burn, vanish, or hold the veil long enough for others to make it home. Carry the calling far enough and the realm names what you have become.
At Stonebrook's rain gate
Five Roads. One Shared Realm.
Stand at the front, read the next retreat, turn the Fracture's heat, take the unseen angle, or carry one more companion home. Every calling leaves through the same gate; the road decides what your party needs from you.At level 20
The Stonebrook Oath
King Edric IV offers proven vocations a lasting oath to Stonebrook, with Maelin as witness. The River-Crown records whom you serve, grants your calling a permanent title and badge, and teaches a shared Muster alongside a deliberately small boon.
StonebrookOath recorded
PermanentTitle and badge
River-CrownMuster learned
Kept with your character
At the outfit fitting
Four Hues, One Calling
Choose one hue for the chief cloth, one for the second cloth, one for leather, and one for the small marks that catch the lamp. The realm keeps all four while every painted light and shadow remains upon the garment.
Your colours name you. They do not change the calling's strength.
Read the five field guides- First cloth
- The broad field of robe, hood, or battle-cloth.
- Second cloth
- A companion hue for binding and trim.
- Leather
- The road-worn pieces beneath the cloth.
- Accent
- The smallest mark beneath lamp or ember.
Make the calling yours
The road does not ask for one face.
Choose your body build, then set cloth, leather, and metal dyes without changing the strength of the calling. Armor still tells the truth of what you can do.
Ironbound
The same tools, oath, and battle rhythm—worn by the traveler you choose.
Waystalker
The same tools, oath, and battle rhythm—worn by the traveler you choose.
Ashcaller
The same tools, oath, and battle rhythm—worn by the traveler you choose.
Gloamknife
The same tools, oath, and battle rhythm—worn by the traveler you choose.
Hold when the road narrows.
Ironbound
- Core
- Strength and vitality
- Stonebrook oath
- Oathshield
- In battle
- Melee waves, blocks, shield control, and close-range pressure.
- Carries
- Swords, axes, shields, armor, and heavy supplies.
- First road
- Best first choice if you want forgiving health, simple positioning, and steady hunts.
See the retreat before the hunt.
Waystalker
- Core
- Agility and strength
- Stonebrook oath
- Rowan Pathfinder
- In battle
- Cones, traps, kiting tools, and sustained ranged pressure.
- Carries
- Bows, crossbows, light armor, ammunition, and movement supplies.
- First road
- Strong for players who like spacing and planning escape routes before a fight starts.
Turn the fracture's heat against it.
Ashcaller
- Core
- Intelligence and spirit
- Stonebrook oath
- Cinder Laureate
- In battle
- Burst spells, fields, area denial, and high mana conversion.
- Carries
- Wands, robes, spell components, mana supplies, and resistance gear.
- First road
- Powerful but fragile; learn monster telegraphs and keep an exit path open.
Arrive in the enemy's last mistake.
Gloamknife
- Core
- Agility with burst damage
- Stonebrook oath
- Duskwarden
- In battle
- Mobility, poisons, ambush windows, and single-target finishers.
- Carries
- Daggers, light blades, throwing tools, poison kits, and evasive gear.
- First road
- Best after you understand movement; rewards timing more than raw durability.
Keep one more name from the book.
Veilbinder
- Core
- Spirit and intelligence
- Stonebrook oath
- River Votary
- In battle
- Threadmending, self-guards, wards, slows, and party rescue windows.
- Carries
- Mender wands, light armor, mana supplies, and positioning tools.
- First road
- Solo-capable through protection and careful pulls; strongest beside allies who use your wards.
Open a vocation for its spells, equipment, Stonebrook oath, and first-road guidance.