Witness
$5
Premium: 2 months
Includes
- Your name in the in-game credits
Pricing
A pledge cannot buy in-game advantage. The same rule that governs the live monetisation governs the campaign tiers: convenience, recognition, and craft, never power. What follows is the full picture: the eight crowdfunding pledge tiers, the post-launch Premium subscription, and the Cash Shop policy.
Crowdfunding Pledge Tiers
Eight one-time pledge tiers, ranging from $5 to $1,500+ USD. Each tier includes everything in the tier below it. Three top tiers carry capacity caps because their rewards require Hyper Blade's direct creative review. Payments are processed by Paddle as the merchant of record.
Scholar
$15
Premium: 4 months
Everything in the previous tier +
- Digital Aegis Books PDF
Operative
$30
Premium: 12 months
Everything in the previous tier +
- Closed beta access
- Founder UI skin: Parchment, a cosmetic theme with its own original high-fantasy medieval soundtrack
Voice of the Veil
$60
Premium: 12 months
Everything in the previous tier +
- Alpha access
- Digital Art Book of my canon vision of the people, places, and objects of VoA
- Soundtrack download
- UI skin: Wild West, with its own original soundtrack
Order Founder
$120
Premium: 2 years
Everything in the previous tier +
- Expanded digital edition of the Art Book (concept sketches, annotations, and process work)
- All Aegis Audiobooks, current and upcoming
- Your handle on a named in-world Notice Board posting (canon-reviewed)
- UI skin: Vampirica, with its own original soundtrack
Cartographer
$300
Limited · ~50 slots
Premium: Lifetime
Everything in the previous tier +
- Name a capital in the overarching lore (persists across this universe's future titles)
- Have a tavern NPC named after you, now and forever (the NPC carries forward across future titles in this universe)
- Exclusive in-game founder's heraldry (banner & emblem cosmetic)
- UI skin: Old Testament, with its own original soundtrack
Inner Council
$750
Limited · ~20 slots
Premium: Lifetime
Everything in the previous tier +
- Audiobook narrations of every in-game book: not just the Aegis Books but every recoverable text in the world (province chronicles, recovered documents, codex entries, and the rest), current and upcoming
- Digital lore compendium: the complete world bible as a deluxe ebook
- High-resolution digital Alvasmerian world map (print-quality download)
- Personalised digital Order induction certificate (signed & numbered)
- In-game Hall of Founders listing visible to all players
- Dedicated Inner Council Discord channel
- UI skin: Ancient Desert, with its own original soundtrack
Sundering Prophet
$1,500+
Limited · 5 slots
Premium: Lifetime
Everything in the previous tier +
- Rename a legendary historical figure in the overarching lore (someone whose deed is remembered in the world's history)
- Custom digital illustrated portrait of that figure at the moment of their greatest deed
- The renamed figure persists across this universe's future titles
- A legendary-tier in-game item bearing the renamed figure's name: a weapon, relic, or artifact in the canonical loot pool (the figure's blade, their last letter, the aegis they died holding, or another canon-reviewed item)
- A Lifetime Premium gift slot: pass Lifetime Premium to one other player of your choice
- UI skin: Candy Land, with its own original soundtrack
Limited tiers
Three tiers carry caps because their rewards require Hyper Blade's direct review and creative time. Once these caps are reached, the tier closes for the remainder of the campaign.
- Cartographer: approximately 50 slots
- Inner Council: approximately 20 slots
- Sundering Prophet: 5 slots
Reward delivery
Every backer reward is digital. Art books, the lore compendium, the world map, certificates, cosmetics, and audiobooks are all delivered to your account or as downloads. There is nothing to ship, no shipping address required, and no shipping fee.
Cash Shop (Post-Launch)
The Cash Shop is the second post-launch monetisation surface. Items in the Cash Shop are cosmetic or convenience, never advantage. The same rule that governs the campaign tiers governs the shop: time, never power.
What the Cash Shop will sell
- Cosmetics. Operative outfits, UI themes, weapon and armour skins, mount skins, name colours, emotes, and similar visual customisation. Cosmetics never alter combat statistics.
- Convenience. Quality-of-life conveniences in the same spirit as the Premium subscription, but purchased one-off rather than as part of the recurring sub. Examples include additional loadout-template slots beyond the Premium cap, additional Global Trade Center listings, additional character slots, name changes, and account-rename tokens.
What the Cash Shop will not sell
- No items that grant stat advantages, damage, defence, accuracy, or any other combat metric.
- No gacha mechanics. No loot boxes. No randomised paid rolls of any kind.
- No premium currency. Purchases are in real-world currency, with prices visible and stable.
- No exclusive content. Every dungeon, mastery, skill, spell, and endgame system is available to free players.
- No early access to game-progression content. Cosmetic limited-time runs are acceptable; gameplay content is not.
Refunds and delivery
Cash Shop items are delivered immediately and are considered consumed once delivered to the account. They are non-refundable except where the item is faulty, fails to deliver, or is granted in error. Reports of faulty or missing items will be investigated and corrected. Full terms are in the Refund Policy.