Glossary

The words the game uses, each in one plain line. The game uses one word for each thing, and so does this wiki.

Word	Meaning
Action	One completed piece of an activity: one ore mined, one bar made, one round of a fight.
Activity	What your character does over and over: gathering, crafting, scouting or a fight. It keeps going while you are away.
Bank	Where your items are kept. Each different item takes one bank slot.
Blocked	The activity cannot go on, and the game says why: out of materials, bank full, out of arrows, or the wrong weapon equipped.
Charges	How many actions a potion lasts. Each completed action of its skill uses one.
Defeated	Your HP reached 0 in a fight. The fight stops, your HP refills, and each equipped piece loses 1 durability.
Drop	An extra item an action can give. Each drop is rolled on its own, every time.
Durability	How many defeats a piece of gear can take. A damaged piece breaks if you unequip it.
Frontier	Places next to rebuilt land that Scouting can find next.
Gear set	A saved set of equipment you can equip in one step.
Goal	A target you pin. The Goal page lists what it still needs, down to raw materials.
Healing items	Food and remedies your character eats on its own in a fight, when HP drops to 50% of max HP or lower.
High quality	The better of an item's two qualities. Sells for more, and gives 1.5× as gear, food or potion.
Mastery	Each activity's own level, up to 99. Part of its XP also fills the skill's mastery pool.
Mastery pool	XP you can spend on any activity of one skill. Bonuses turn on when it is 10%, 25%, 50% and 95% full.
Materials	What an action uses up each time.
Normal	The basic quality of an item.
Place	A location on the map: a well, a forge, a town, the capital.
Potion	A bottle that helps one skill. Slot it, and it lasts a number of charges.
Power	Fighting strength from equipped gear. Makes rounds faster and lowers the damage you take.
Quest	A one-time request from someone: hand in items, do an activity a number of times, or beat an enemy a number of times. All quests are open from the first day, can be completed from anywhere, and never run out. Every quest counts toward 100%.
Rare drops	Drops with a chance of 5% or less. Guaranteed by 3 times the expected number of actions.
Rebuild	Bring a ruined place back by handing over its cost. Press Rebuild it on the Map. It is permanent.
Round	One turn of a fight: one roll to hit, and one hit from the enemy.
Station	A building on the King's Road. You build one of its designs. Each design helps some skills and has a downside for others.
Tax income	Coins per hour from places you rebuilt, set by your Town level. The only income you do not work for.
Temper	Turn a Normal piece of gear into High quality at the forge, for coins and bars. It cannot be undone.
XP	Experience points. Every completed action gives XP to its skill.