• You can start using magic as early as Meadows
• Magic progression is earned through the hunt, not handed to you:
  • Hunt the dead at night. They release souls on death, and both the corpse and the soul can drop Spirit Essence, the core resource that fuels magic progression
  • Regular pixies drop Magic Crystals, also required for progression
  • Each biome has a Pixie Queen that must be defeated to advance magic progression in that biome. Pixie Queens are fully random in location and spawn from magical runestones that appear roughly every 30 minutes (real time). Only 36 of each runestone type exist in the world at once, so they're a limited, contested resource
  • Defeating a Pixie Queen grants her Core, required for the main magic progression line
• Food (especially farming) plays a big role in sustaining Eitr
• All magic weapons have an AOE secondary attack

• All combat styles start out simple, you won't be swinging anything fancy right away
• Defeating Eikthyr unlocks the first real stage of gear
• From there, progression is gated by biome:
  • You'll need a unique boss-drop item from that biome's boss
  • You'll also need the previous tier of the weapon or armor you're upgrading
• Assassins, Archers, and Warriors will need to seek out custom dungeons, slay powerful corrupted bosses, and farm unique biome-specific metals to keep climbing
• This keeps melee and ranged progression in step with the world's difficulty curve, so you can't easily outscale the content early on

RtDValhalla is wrapped in a deliberately dark and somber story. Expect themes of corruption, loss, and decay woven through bosses, dungeons, and the world itself. This isn't just a mechanical overhaul, there's a real narrative thread running underneath it for anyone who wants to dig into it.

The ocean isn't just open water to sail across, it's a full ecosystem with its own food chain, creatures, and secrets to uncover. Tame friendly sea life like dolphins and orcas (and the rare mermaid), fish for everything from cod to massive whales, and watch out for predators that scale with the biome, from great whites in the swamp up to deep north horrors. Underwater you'll find sunken ships, ocean relics, fairy islands, and a dedicated ocean boss with unique rewards.

Every biome also got new crops to grow on land, and they're meant to be paired with your fresh catch. Each biome has its own cuisine identity, from light early-game shrimp dishes in the Meadows to powerful endgame sushi and stews in the Mistlands, so cooking and farming scale right alongside your progression instead of getting left behind.

Resources are spread out to match progression:

• Meadows → Flint
• BlackForest → Copper, Tin, Gold
• Swamp → Iron, Guck, MoonIron
• Mountains → Silver, Orichalcum
• Plains → Netherite, limited BlackMetal
• Mistlands → Felmetal
• AshLands → Flametal, Ancient Metal
• DeepNorth → Arcane Metal

Full breakdown of systems and progression:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hUzCYXYPLspuFeBXCIJiPO8zn6iiWPNZZfAeJRM6Icw