Hearthold

Smithy

Salvage, upgrade (up to +10), enchant and forge your gear and your sellswords' — and exchange materials up or down the salvage ladder.

Enchant

• From Smithy level 3: pick an item (yours, or a sellsword's under Whose gear), then tap the affix to replace. Looking is free: tapping a line only shows its price; nothing is paid until you press Enchant this line.
• You then choose from four cards: the affix you have, or one of three new ones, each with its value, the range it can roll at that item level, and the change in Power. Tapping a card only selects it; Confirm applies your choice. Keeping the current affix is free — you already paid.
• The three new affixes always come from three different families (below; every resistance is one family, so you never see three resistances), never repeat a stat or an affix already on the item, and only roll what that item can have at its level. Armour, shields and helms have only Defense, Resistance and Resource lines, and they still offer at most one resistance. At least one option fits your class: your main ability, one of your damage types, your role, or one of the two resource triggers your class fires most.
• At least one option fits the wearer: their class's main ability or one of its damage types (else a stat the class leans on), whenever the item can roll one.
• Values roll exactly as on a drop at that item level and Pyre Tier.
• Once you take a new affix, that line (marked ✦) is the item's enchanted line and its other lines are sealed (🔒) — until you break a seal. Keeping the current affix doesn't lock anything: your next enchant may pick any line. Each enchant of the same item (kept or taken) costs more; the count stays with the item (stash, trades).
• Your three options wait on the item until you choose: close the window or come back later and they're still there (no paying again for a new set).
• Uniques: only the ◇ random affix can be enchanted.

Seals

• Once an item has its ✦ line, every other line is sealed. At the Smithy, tap a sealed line to see what breaking its seal costs; Break the seal asks once more before anything is paid.
• A broken seal (marked ☆) lets that line be enchanted just like the ✦ line — the normal enchant price applies on top, and it keeps climbing with every enchant of the item.
• Smithy level 5 breaks an item's first seal; level 6 every seal after. Each seal on the same item costs more (below). No luck involved and nothing is ever destroyed.
• A Forge-tempered line already counts as open. Uniques: only their ◇ random lines can be opened.

Exchange

Trade once or in batches of 10 or 100 (a batch goes through whole or not at all). Both directions take a cut — exchanging is for convenience, never a value loop.

Emberglass is not on this ladder and has no exchange: it is the Forge's Masterwork currency, found only in the deep (where it drops).

Level 6 opens the Forge for Emberforged gear: Reforge, Temper and Hone.

Merchant

Potions, party scrolls, sales, and the Mystery Caches gamble.

Stash

Shared storage, common to every hero you raise.

Temple

Respec your build and upgrade your potions.

Rites

• Rite of Renewal: remake your hero in full: ability scores return to the class's standard array, and your subclass, mastery perks, talents and Brand ranks are released to choose anew. The two rites below are lighter.
• Rite of Kindling: unlearn every talent and get all the points back. Free below level 10; 40 gold × level squared after that.
• Rite of Recollection: take back every rank you spent on your Brand; your sigils and Crests stay exactly where they are.
• Rite of the Hireling: unmake what you set for a sellsword (their skill bar and Brand layout).

Tavern

Hire sellswords, take work from the bounty board, and send crews out from the Expedition Table.

Guild Hall

Found or join a guild — a name and a banner shared with other adventurers.

Training Grounds

A fenced drill yard by the wall and the old hall under the barracks: beat on dummies and read your numbers.

Build it after clearing the first dungeon. No loot, no XP, no deaths; dummies reset 5 s after the last hit. Features by level: Dummy levers (level 2), Elite dummy (level 3), Resistances (level 3), Siege Effigy (level 4), Dummies hit back (level 4), Moving dummies (level 5), Burst parses (level 5).

Resistance selector: None, Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning, Poison, Necrotic, Radiant, Arcane.

Cartographer's Lodge

A map-room by the east wall: read Charts of the deep, ink Marks onto them, and plan where the next run goes.

Opens on the Adventure map once the Act V finale has fallen. Verbs, prices and the Marks you can ink: Charts & Marks. Its level 4 Survey board: The Survey.

Vhoruun's Effigy

A basalt likeness of the Ember Tyrant by the north gate, cut by the Order of the Last Light as a warning. Touch it and choose how hot the Deep burns. Nothing to build: it stands from day one and glows in the colour of your difficulty.

• Easy · Smoulder: The embers sleep. Foes at their plainest, and the stairs are kind.
• Medium · Hearthfire: The fire as the Order left it: the intended challenge.
• Hard · Blaze: Stoke it. Twice the foes, and they stop going easy on you. It pays better.
• Epic · Wildfire: The Tyrant stirs. Triple the fire, raging bosses, and no flask on the stairs.
• Legendary · Inferno: Vhoruun is awake. Four times as deadly. Expect to die, often.

Tap it to see every rule each mode changes (foes, crowds and elites, bosses, summons, potions, XP and loot, falling) and confirm a new one. A change applies from your next floor (or your next run if you're in town). Change it here any time. The Daily Descent and Weekly Rite are always played on Medium, whatever the Effigy says. Hardcore heroes: Hard, Epic, Legendary only. Full tables: Modes → Difficulty.