A WEVIUM game · Azure Covenant vs Crimson Dominion · Rendered in real time in your browser
Age of Embers
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✦ In Spirit · moves, strikes & works 50% faster
Click to take control · SPACE to release
Azure Covenant
Crimson Dominion
Choose your soldier
1 · 2 · 3 or click · you are one soldier among hundreds · kills bring XP and coins · die and you start again at level 1, as any class
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How to Play
You are the ruler — a Chieftain who becomes Lord, King and High King as your realm advances through the Ages (your people's garb and arms evolve with you). You begin above your realm in Spirit Sight: a lone Hearth and its King. Press TAB to dive into the King and play him in person, TAB again to rise back. Hunt Elk for meat and carry it home, summon your first Villager at the Hearth, then invoke Houses, storehouses and barracks. Villagers raise them and work the jobs you set. Slay the enemy King to win. If yours falls, the realm falls.
Everything you break or slay drops on the floor. Villagers and your King carry what they pick up in a pack (pods) to a storehouse. Hunting, chopping, mining, fishing and farming level up your Professions. Fighting, working and capturing Spirit Shrines level up your King, who awakens spirit powers: Rallying Cry (Lv 2), Spirit Mend (3), Spirit Step (4), Wrath (6). Spirit Sight and Possession are yours from the start. Bears drop Spirit Relics that awaken a power early.
Possession is yours from the start: aim at any of your units and press SPACE to become it. Villagers chop, mine, fish, invoke and hammer buildings up by hand; soldiers fight, archers shoot, riders ride, rams batter. Aim at another unit and press SPACE to leap on — SPACE with no target (or TAB) returns you to your King, whose body waits where you left it.
As the King
WASD · MouseMove · lookShiftSprintLeft mouseStrike · chop · mine · fishRight mouseBlock · cancel invocation1 – 9 · wheelPick a building to invoke (0 or the same digit = hands)BEvery buildingEUse a building (summon, train, research)JRealm: jobs, professions, powersWarbandButton on your King's panel: idle soldiers follow him (ones you give orders to stay put)Q R C FRally · Mend · Step · WrathTABSpirit Sight (command view)SPACEPossess the unit you aim at (from the start)VFirst / third person
Spirit Sight — command view hotkeys
Left click / dragSelect · Ctrl+click / double-click: all of a typeRight clickMove · attack · work · capture · rallyWASD / arrows / edgesMove around the mapScroll up · downSwing the view up to straight overhead · down toward the horizon (like the sun)Side scroll · PgUp/PgDnSpin the view around (middle-drag also works) · pinch = zoom · Home = default viewCCamera to your Hearth (repeat to cycle)H · KSelect Hearth · select your ruler. · ,Idle villager · idle military1 – 9 · build stripBuild anything, nothing needs to be selected: 1 House, 2 Field, 3 Sawmill, 4 Granary, 5 Mine Lodge, 6 War Hall, 7 Bowyer, 8 Palisade, 9 Tower · click the strip for the rest. Villagers go and raise it on their ownProductionYour buildings run themselves: each keeps training its unit (click a unit on its panel to switch, or pause it), upgrades are researched and the Age advances on their own when affordable; every spend is announced. Each Age trains faster1 – 9 on a buildingChoose what it produces / research now (Shift = queue 5 extra)ESelect the character closest to your mouse pointer · repeat for the next closestX · Z · DelStop · attack-move · deleteCtrl / Ctrl+Shift / Alt + 1-9Save / add to / recall a control groupHold Shift while placingPlace several of the same building in a rowF3 · F10 · + −Pause · menu · game speedTAB · SPACEDive into your ruler · possess selection
Possessed
LMB / RMBStrike, shoot (hold & release), block, aim, work, buildHold LMBKeep striking / working for as long as you hold itLLock onto the task: the unit carries on by itself (next tree / rock / blueprint / enemy)1 – 9 · B · EVillagers invoke & use buildingsKing at restWhen you're not using him your King hides inside the nearest Hearth (safe, healing). TAB or any order brings him out; if the Hearth falls he's thrown outIn SpiritWhoever you play (possessed or your King in his view) glows gold and moves, strikes, gathers and builds 50% faster§ (as King)Switch weapon: Sword → Sniper Bow → Javelins. Bow and javelins work alike: no reload, they only fire at full draw (the bar turns gold), headshot kills, chest ×2; drawing slides the view into the shot's point (RMB zooms further) and the camera rides the shotSPACE (as King)Jump: higher every level; strikes from the air hit 50% harder. X possesses the unit you aim atShift while placingKeep placing the same buildingRMB tap (as King)Command every soldier within 30 m (more as he levels): attack what you aim at, or advance to that spotSPACELeap to the aimed unit · or returnTABReturn to your King