The Eltheric Ocean

Where the peace ends

Online, the sea's shared rules divide it in two. Veilhaven's peace covers the Veil, the water within a short radius of Veilhaven's own pixel where the crossing makes landfall, and the way between them. No player fights within it.

Every other pixel of the sea's box — its isles, their towns and their ruins — runs the same law as the Wrothgarian Mountains' Open Zone: the live flag, fights refereed by the relay, the death's drop and remains, strangers, and foes four times as strong. Offline the sea is the captain's own; the open-PvP rule is online only.

What waits past it

The deeper you go, the richer and the deadlier. The sea borrows the Open Zone's four rings as depth bands:

Foe health and damage are four times an ordinary foe's in every band; the bands change the loot, not the foe's base strength. A player killed at sea leaves remains, and the death rises at the nearest freeport's town — Veilhaven is one — so a voyage can cost you the trip home as well as the fight. A ship that is wrecked and boarded is a separate case: the captain keeps the hull's hold through death, but the boarder takes a share of the hold as a prize (up to eight of its most valuable pieces, about a third of its worth).

Reaching the sea

The sea is reached by ship, not by walking or a land carriage. The source does not set a universal character-level requirement for the crossing; it does set the sea's own law once you are past the peace. Use the current map and ship service to establish whether a particular passage is available, and read Owning a ship before you sail into another captain's guns.

Ocean holes can lead to Abyss Dungeon entrances on the seafloor. Treat that as an encounter in the shared sea, not proof that every voyage enters a dungeon; see Abyss Dungeons.

Common mistakes

• Sailing past the peace without a plan. Other players can attack you there, and a death drops remains; the open sea is not a scenic shortcut.

• Treating the deep bands as only "more loot". The loot rises, but the foes are four times as strong everywhere past the peace.

• Expecting a level gate to protect you. The source sets no universal level requirement, so danger comes from the zone's law and the foes, not from a character-level lock.

• Forgetting the way home. A death rises at the nearest freeport; a wrecked ship is not a death but still costs part of the hold.

Next

• Owning a ship

• The Open Zone

• Abyss Dungeons

Sources & checked facts

• src/systems/wild/etherWild.js: ETHER_PEACE_PX, the open-PvP zone, the four depth bands and the freeport rise (ETHER_RISE_PX, etherRiseSite)

• src/systems/wild/wildZone.js: WILD_FOE_HEALTH_MULT and WILD_FOE_DAMAGE_MULT (4), WILD_RING_LOOT (1.25/1.5/1.75/2), WILD_RINGS, the relay-refereed fights, death drop and remains

• src/world/ethericSea.js: the sea box, inEther, inVeil, Veilhaven and the depth bands

• src/net/sea/seaPrizeLaw.js: SEA_PRIZE_SHARE (one third), SEA_PRIZE_PIECES_MAX (8), the boarded wreck's prize

• src/world/oceanHoles.js, src/systems/travel/travel.js: seafloor holes, Abyss entrances and sea passage

• src/systems/online/onlineLane.js: the shared online sea systems

• Research notes: handbook/research/L1.md, handbook/research/E1.md