The Vestige
Field Codex

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Move with the physical WASD positions (ZQSD on AZERTY) or the arrow keys and hold Shift to sprint. The primary attack follows your equipped weapon; the right mouse button uses your selected magic. E interacts with nearby objects. Attacks and spells take priority over movement for facing.

Open the inventory with Tab. Drag an item to its matching equipment slot; drag a potion to one of the four quick slots. A quick slot follows the potion type, not a particular stack. Empty bindings remain assigned and work again when you replenish that potion.

Quick keys use the physical top row, so an AZERTY keyboard does not require Shift. The Game menu lets you reassign them. Escape first cancels a drag or closes the active layer; with nothing left to close, it opens the menu. The multiplayer world never pauses.

M toggles the explored map, Enter opens chat, V toggles enemy life bars and H toggles hitboxes. P requests a PvP state change. Keyboard shortcuts are suppressed while you type or perform an incompatible UI interaction.

Vestige uses physical damage, magical damage, physical defense, magical defense, dodge chance, critical chance, critical damage, maximum life, maximum mana and resource regeneration directly. There is no STR/DEX/INT/VIT conversion in the current combat model.

Equipment bonuses and the equipped soul are added to the base statistics. An item in the backpack grants no equipment bonus. Critical damage bonuses are additive to the multiplier: a +0.10 bonus raises 1.50× to 1.60×, rather than adding ten percentage points of critical chance.

An offensive action rolls within its authored base-damage range, then adds the matching non-negative damage statistic. Dodge is checked first. A non-dodged hit may become critical; the resulting raw damage is mitigated by the matching defense. Physical defense does not reduce magical damage, and magical defense does not reduce physical damage.

Damage after defense = max(raw damage, 0) × 100 / (100 + max(defense, 0)). Dodge is clamped to 0–95%, critical chance to 0–100%, and the critical multiplier has a minimum of 1×. The chance values on these pages are probabilities, not ratings.

The base-monster tables exclude equipment and temporary combat circumstances. Monster level scaling is sublinear: with r = effective level / authored base level, life uses r^0.60, mana r^0.25, life regeneration r^0.35, both damage statistics r^0.42 and both defenses r^0.34. Mana regeneration, dodge and critical parameters are not multiplied by level.

Life and mana regenerate while alive. A potion's actual restored amount is limited by the missing resource. Using a life or mana potion when its affected resource is already full is refused without consuming it. Check each consumable for its own effects and consumption amount.

The current content defines character levels and regional enemy levels. This codex does not infer an experience curve, quests, resistance system or progression mechanic that is absent from the sources.

Natural souls are generated from soul-template items in the authored loot tables. A soul drop and a fragment drop are separate entries: one is not a fallback for the other. Equip one soul in the special Soul slot to gain its passive bonuses. Carrying an unequipped soul does not grant those bonuses.

A natural soul records its monster identity and its own soul level. Souls with the same identity and level can stack; different levels cannot. The drop-level cap is the smaller of source level and that soul's maximum level, with a minimum of 1. Levels 1 through the cap have weights cap, cap−1, …, 1: high-level souls are possible, but lower levels are more common.

At a Soul Altar, spend Soul Fragments to upgrade one soul by one level. The next-level cost grows exponentially with the current soul level; its bonuses grow with their own multiplier. The per-soul tables are exported from the same resolver used by the altar, including rounding, level limits and integer saturation.

An equipped soul may be upgraded; its equipment reservation follows the upgraded soul. Locked souls cannot be upgraded, dismantled or fused. A soul at its maximum level cannot be upgraded again. A zero next-level cost in the export means no further upgrade, not a free upgrade.

Dismantling consumes the selected unreserved units and returns generic Soul Fragments. The per-unit yield is half the cumulative upgrade costs through the selected soul level, subject to the game's boundary rules and a minimum yield. At maximum level the sum stops at the last valid upgrade step. Removing a whole stack multiplies that per-unit yield; equipped units cannot be dismantled.

Fusion consumes two available, unlocked souls and produces one unique fused instance. Two units of the same natural-soul stack are allowed when both are available. There is no extra fragment fee in the current fusion operation. The outcome is random: its level is drawn inclusively between the two parent levels.

Both parents' bonuses are evaluated at the result level before attributes are selected. The result retains at least the larger parent's number of non-zero attributes and at most their union. Counts have descending weights: 50, 30, 15, 5, then successive halvings. When possible, an exclusive attribute from each parent is retained. A shared attribute is drawn between the two scaled parent values; an exclusive attribute retains its parent's scaled value.

The fused bonus-growth and upgrade-cost-growth factors use the geometric means of the parents. The maximum level is the larger parent limit. The base upgrade cost is the rounded geometric mean, with a minimum of one. Bonuses are normalized back to a level-one basis so future upgrades keep a consistent growth curve.

Fused souls never stack and can be fused again. Their bounded names are based on the dominant normalized bonus family: Ravage, Arcane, Bastion, Shadow, Vitality or Source; near ties use Confluence. Parent names are retained as provenance rather than concatenated into an endlessly growing title.