Status effects and counters

Conditions make a specific action, resource or movement decision harder. Their names remain visible alongside a plain label: Reeling / stun, Muted / silence or Disarmed / equipment disabled. Numeric chances and durations below are proposed defaults and limits. The expanded skill suite tests stat/source resistance, repeated control, early expiry and periodic ownership in its offline model. Complete condition effects and encounter balance remain unvalidated.

Application and player control

A cause is an explicit authored skill, card, consumable, monster action or emitter that names the status. Merely dealing Fire does not apply Kindled; Poison affinity does not apply Rotsick; a heavy physical hit does not silently Reeling. The originating action resolves first, then its eligible status attempt rolls once per target under the chance and resistance contract. A missed direct action does not produce an on-hit condition. A critical lands through every evasion mechanism, while its condition remains separately resistible.

Resistance, prevention and recovery

STATUS_RES is the current per-condition application-chance modifier, including its equipment and skill contributions. The selected resist stat also contributes to the separate source-relative duration factor. Equipment STATUS_RES is not reused as duration resistance. A future dedicated duration modifier is only a proposal: values, eligible conditions and stacking are unselected. A tooltip must label application and duration separately instead of saying an ambiguous “status resistance” percentage protects both. Neither property removes the shared lock, duration, Resolve or mode ceilings.

A shorter periodic condition can produce fewer scheduled ticks, but it does not reduce each tick's authored amount. Periodic damage mitigation and total-loss limits remain separate. A slowed movement or attack rate changes only its declared rate; duration resistance does not secretly weaken the slow's magnitude. A resisted or budget-rejected application consumes no control-recovery step.

Madness and temporary player exposure

Ancient Madness is the irreversible narrative corruption described in the world's history: the Progenitor's consumed flesh and the four external Great Old Ones are not ordinary player debuffs waiting for a tonic. Humanity began from lucid soul fragments, before the predators consumed that flesh and its corruption; that origin does not make every human a permanently afflicted character. The eight returned champions are Fallen through the unpaid curse of the concealed imperial ritual, not Madness consumption. Neither curse nor ancient consumed identity is released by an ordinary condition cure. A player can encounter a temporary staged Madness exposure through an explicitly authored encounter action. Its buildup, current stage, signed effects, permitted recovery and expiry must be visible. Stage names, thresholds and timings remain unselected; no extra status ID or permanent character-loss rule is established by this narrative distinction.

Oriel's authored revelation and Ymbria's The Revelation Beneath Sleep use the same temporary-exposure contract, with a visible counter belonging to the target within the actual encounter. A warned phrase or revelation adds exposure only when its authored action successfully completes against that target; merely reading a journal, seeing the artwork or remaining in a camera view adds none. Lesser exposure attempts Addled; greater exposure additionally attempts Mindscorch. These are existing separately resisted catalogue conditions, not new stage names or engine IDs. Each declared upward transition supplies its named attempt once for the originating committed action. Holding a stage, rendering another frame or receiving several cosmetic pulses supplies no additional attempts. Reapplication still obeys ordinary stacking, resistance, recovery and mode limits.

Interrupt the phrase, break its declared exposure route or destroy its visible channel support to prevent further buildup. Without a new exposure, the counter recedes through its displayed recovery and eventually clears; a new valid exposure can interrupt that recovery. The counter also clears on the target's death or encounter end. Thresholds, contribution amounts and recovery timings remain numerical handoff inputs, not concealed exceptions to the qualitative rules. Clearing or lowering exposure does not retroactively cure an applied catalogue condition: Addled and Mindscorch keep their own expiry and named removal rules.

Clearwater Tonic and Hearthroot Elixir remove either named condition. Hearth Cure removes Addled; Cursebreaker's Clear Mind improves its application resistance without cleansing. Sanctifier's Purity Ward covers Mindscorch under its listed eligible DoT-status immunity family. These counters protect or remove the named payload, rather than automatically erasing the exposure counter. Mindscorch affects SP, not HP, and retains its floor. Addled changes legal movement, not skill selection or allegiance. A rejected condition attempt does not grant an unlisted substitute effect. No lasting loss of the player's identity, character, equipment or learned skills follows from exposure.

Encounter marks and their removal

Cruel Mending is a historical conversion candidate, not a current Ymbria action. Graft is explicitly registered as Ulgath's Graft of the Ravenous (GO-VEYR-ULG-03), with the source, admitted recipients and finite limits in boss counterplay. A related current name never silently grants another retained move. The following conversion rule applies only if a future explicit action registers Cruel Mending; the sharing rule governs the current Graft. Both marks remain separate from Withering, ordinary Undead healing interactions and the catalogue's general cleanse families. Cruel Mending replaces eligible incoming skill or item HP restoration with hostile loss owned by that registered conversion source. Regeneration, revival, absorb creation and damage prevention remain available under their ordinary rules. Pause marked healing to avoid further conversion; this does not clear the mark. Destroy the visibly linked blossom to remove it. Its displayed expiry, the marked target's death or encounter end also removes it. Ordinary poison cures, healing-debuff cleanses and enemy-buff dispels do not remove this distinct mark by implication.

Graft visibly links its eligible recipients and warns the boundary inside which the link operates. Crossing that boundary removes the link before later losses can be shared; destroying its visibly linked tendril support also removes it. Expiry, either linked recipient's death, invalid allegiance or encounter end clears the whole link. Its declared share divides the originating loss rather than duplicating it; each actual recipient retains their own eligible mitigation and survival rules. If a recipient becomes invalid, the diverted portion is discarded rather than silently committed again to the other recipient. General cures and buff dispels do not remove Graft unless their own explicit contract later admits it.

The HUD names the mark, its visible support or boundary, affected recipients and available removal. Removing one mark cannot clear unrelated conditions. Future mark-cleanse admission must name the actual eligible friendly-removal action; neither an enemy-buff dispel nor a class title supplies universal cleansing. Conversion/share magnitudes, ranges, durations and damage-routing implementation remain numerical handoff work under combat rules.

Holy and Shadow name combat affinities and effect families. They do not classify a character as morally good or evil, confer sainthood, or decide whether Madness can be cured. Protective magic and a frightening visual aura remain their authored actions rather than hidden changes to allegiance or race.

Control primitives

Stacking

Remover classes

Available cures

Cure access follows the current ranked skill trees, not a retired class name. Thief owns Purge Venom; Acolyte owns Hearth Cure and Hearth Rouse; Priest owns Ember Absolution; Saint owns Purifying Flame. A descendant receives only actually learned ancestor nodes and current recovery gates. Monk and Mystic Fighter have no Acolyte ancestry. Clear Mind prevents eligible applications rather than cleansing; Purity Ward prevents only its explicitly eligible condition family. Neither a profession title nor a Fallen card grants a universal remover. Occultist and Performer are parked, including CAD04/Fermata; retained status/termination semantics do not make those nodes learnable.

Purifying Flame additionally removes ordinary and deadly poison together with its listed bleed, burn, silence, blindness, confusion, slow and combat-debuff coverage. It does not remove Rootbound, hard control or equipment states. Clearwater Tonic and Lantern Water may treat a party ally within 5 tiles and line of sight. Cure items share a1,000 ms user cooldown. A separate no-item state blocks self-drinking; it does not block a valid ally from helping.

Early expiry

Complete identity and effect catalogue

The effect table declares the actual state. The following timing and removal tables apply to every matching name. Friendly figures are reference rank values; each skill's own rank formula remains in the skill catalogue.

Hostile chance, duration and resistance

A skill may declare a chance up to 1,000‰. A card or item cannot exceed the stated status-origin chance limit. Base duration is the maximum a source may declare, except Disarmed permits up to 10,000 ms even though its default is 5,000 ms. Stoneset adds the fixed 1,500 ms Stonecreep onset, which counts within its shared lock budget.

Hostile stacking, removal and nature immunity

All PvE boss encounters, including mini-bosses, have stronger protection against lockdown and DoTs than ordinary creatures. The Boss/World immunity entries below remain full rejection for their registered categories. A mini-boss title does not automatically assign that category: its explicit creature profile governs the status and card category while retaining the stronger resistance requirement. An eligible condition that is not immune still uses its authored application resistance, reduced duration and separate periodic-damage resistance; stronger boss tuning is a named profile property awaiting numerical validation, not an invented value in these retained rows. DoT resistance never turns a repeated direct attack into a periodic condition or treats a shorter duration as a smaller tick.

Composition-specific immunity names the actual condition and body reason in the creature profile. If the declared body lacks what a named effect needs, its profile must fully reject that effect; partial resistance is not a substitute. No susceptible circulating tissue can establish Gash immunity; no susceptible metabolism can establish Rotsick/Blackrot immunity. These are effect-specific declarations, not automatic assignments from a costume, elemental colour or the narrative word Maddened. The existing nature-immunity rows still apply to their registered families. Inspect information and body clues disclose full immunity before an encounter depends on it; feedback distinguishes immune rejection from a resisted application, a shortened condition and mitigated periodic loss. An immune attempt consumes no control-recovery step and supplies no replacement ailment.

Boss periodic mitigation applies to the eligible computed tick before ordinary applied-loss limits. Those limits remain ceilings rather than promised amounts. Nonimmune conditions keep their named cure, expiry, stacking and periodic-anchor rules; ordinary remaining damage and protection are not removed by the creature's resistant status profile.

Friendly timing

Causes and responses

Friendly statuses arise only from a skill, consumable or card that grants the listed modifier. Endows use the selected affinity; auras use their named emitter; stances use a deliberate toggle; Resolve is granted by the control system. Names such as Ember, Lantern or Tide do not infer another affinity or immunity.

Periodic effects and pressure

One instance exists per periodic status and source, at most four sources per status on a target. Gash has at most three stacks per source; a fifth source takes over the earliest-ending instance and resets its Gash to one stack. Refresh preserves the periodic anchor, so repeated applications do not create immediate extra ticks.

Blackrot replaces Rotsick from the same source, and that source's Rotsick cannot coexist with or overwrite it. Their shared DEF and regeneration modifiers apply once from the strongest family member. Several sources do not multiply these penalties. Cracked Guard uses its single bounded stack count. Hostile movement or attack slows use the strongest effect rather than multiplying into an unlisted lock.

All hostile periodic HP loss shares a target cap of 100‰ of min(MaxHP,100,000) per rolling 2,000 ms. SP loss has its own corresponding pool cap. Excess is discarded, then the source-root and full-health safety rules apply. Ordinary poison and Hollowing retain their 1 HP floor; Mindscorch retains 1 SP; Stoneset retains 25%MaxHP. Other lethal periodic conditions can finish an injured target.

Periodic ticks never critically hit, reflect or start outgoing card chains. Cold Hearth has an explicitly authored incoming periodic-trigger exception: one eligible positive HP-loss opportunity per originating periodic application, with the card's shared recovery. An ordinary periodic tick gains no other implied proc ability.

The proposed native shelters explicitly cover hostile periodic HP loss. Their strongest family contribution enters the eligible RES_ALL reduction once after the declared periodic amount is built, before applied loss and the appropriate loss cap. They do not reduce the application chance, erase a condition, change its duration or add another multiplicative halving. Reflection or redirection cannot reuse the same bearer's contribution twice on the same loss; each actual recipient's own eligible defence still applies once to their incoming portion. Existing periodic expressions remain specified inputs; integrating this newly declared scope is pending numerical and implementation review in combat routing.

Locks, recovery and telegraphs

Reeling, Rimebound, Stoneset, Lull, Dread, Rootbound, Muted and Addled are the eight mutually exclusive locks. A lock cannot refresh, stack, replace or queue another lock. Every attacker shares the target's lock state, rolling budget and Resolve.

Player control uses per-category duration factors 1,000/500/250‰ for its first three successful landings. Further attempts are rejected until 15 s after the last ended instance in that category; resisted/rejected attempts do not advance the step. Ending any lock, including cleansing it early, grants Resolve for max(actual elapsed lock,2,000 ms), capped 15,000 ms. Resolve prevents every lock and Shove.

The proposed PvP shared budget is 4,000 ms locked per 12,000 ms; the single-lock cap is 4,000 ms. Monster-rooted control on a player outside PvP uses6,000 ms per15,000 ms and a6,000 ms single-lock cap; all player Resolve has a2,000 ms minimum. Guild War instead uses3,000 ms per12,000 ms. PvP incapacitates cap3,000 ms and end after 25%MaxHP lost; roots/silence/confusion remain under their4,000 ms lock cap. These limits must include Stonecreep. Monsters use their profile resistance/immunity and do not acquire the player DR system by implication.

A damaging monster telegraph frees an affected player at least 1,000 ms before impact, or at the start of a shorter tell. Later lock or displacement applications cannot consume that release window. Movement away before target selection answers an area critical; evasion cannot stop a selected valid critical.

Disarmed has a separate shared disarm DR category. It is not one of the eight locks and Resolve does not remove it. A repeated application to an already-disabled slot is ignored without extending its timer. Another eligible slot can be disabled independently.

Resistance and timing formulas

All equations in this table are specified parameters. The numerical pass will check rounding, boundaries and balance.

The item term in the application-resistance row is the current STATUS_RES contribution from eligible items and active skills. It is absent from the duration row deliberately. That distinction prevents the same equipment percentage from reducing both chance and duration without an authored second property. A future duration modifier would require a separate input, declared scope and limit; none is silently inserted into these retained formulas.

Equipment-state combinations

Broken, Stripped, competitive Break and Cracked Guard are distinct. Ownership, sockets and refinement remain intact after combat disruption. Weapon-dependent skills fail a weapon requirement; unarmed movement, support and permitted items remain available.

This table applies independently to weapon, shield, body armour and headgear. A multi-slot strip attempts each named slot independently; a protected weapon does not prevent armour/shield/headgear applications. Two broken items require two repairs. Four disabled slots require four separate recoveries or expiry. Equipment break never deletes items or changes ownership.

Slot coverage

A named PvE boss break can set its declared equipped item to zero durability. Player-card attacks cannot damage imaginary monster inventory; ordinary-monster weapon pressure must be an explicit separately resisted Faltering-style payload, not inferred from Ironvow. In competitive combat, authored break becomes a temporary named-slot disruption with no persistent durability loss. Persistent damage already present on equipment still requires repair after leaving the mode.

Recovery supplies

Glimmer Gel is a consumed class reagent. Carrying it gives no protection. Girding Wax provides a shorter ordinary-supplier preparation window on one own selected slot. Field Rivet Kit channels outside combat to restore one own broken weapon or armour enough to function, with movement/damage/new-action interruption and consumption only on completion. Rebinding Clasp removes one selected Disarmed slot lock and pays only on success; all clasps share gear-recovery cooldown. Its cure retains earned DR/recovery state.

Field Repair uses Iron Ingot to restore a selected ally's eligible equipment durability. It cannot unlock a stripped slot. Town services restore damaged equipment at the ordinary fee. Wax, kits and clasps must have ordinary supplier/crafting access before an encounter depends on them; neither a rare card nor a working player market is a required counter.

Feedback

The HUD shows source, plain effect, remaining duration, stacks, affected slot and applicable counter. Locked slots keep item ownership visible. Evasion and critical outcomes use different cues. Shared Resolve has an unmistakable timer. Essential status/area warnings remain when cosmetic particles are reduced. A hidden actor cannot reveal itself merely through decorative effects.

The character sheet and item comparison separate per-condition application resistance, duration factors, damage resistance and explicit immunity. A source-level preview explains why the effective chance or duration can differ by opponent. During combat, the condition tooltip shows its actual remaining time and named cure or ally response rather than promising an unverified reduction for every enemy. Temporary Madness exposure shows its current stage and actionable tell without concealing allegiance, controls or essential warnings. An active native guard shows its remaining interval; it is visibly distinct from an absorb barrier, healing and Resolve.

Items and cards defines the new supply parameters and the eight signature cards. The condition matrix now tests stat/source resistance, control chains and modeled recovery. Complete equipment-slot, cure/rouse and runtime recovery validation remains open.

Current boss and signature sources

Boss skills and counterplay names the registered God-avatar and Fallen actions, their plausible footprints, preparation, recovery and ordinary responses. Stronger boss variants do not inherit every sibling profession, apply conditions merely because an affinity is Poison/Holy/Shadow, or ignore the existing boss application/duration/periodic-loss protections. Declared bloodless and nonmetabolic bodies fully reject only the named effects whose tissue/metabolism requirements are absent; other controls and damage remain separately registered. A signature card never grants that boss kit.

The Burden Carried, Unfinished Shot, Unseen Hand, Unbroken Breath, Ironvow, Veiled Interval, Unclosed Page and Cold Hearth are historical enhanced echoes with their own eligible source. Ren's source is a prepared direct weapon action; Brakkus requires any deliberately learned active physical guard mitigating eligible positive incoming direct Physical loss, without an obsolete shield prerequisite; Seliane uses an eligible direct physical ranged hit rather than ritual Magic. Shio's free after-hit enchant is exceptional and does not grant Shadow Guard the Assassin manual skill. Cold Hearth remains timed reduction, not an absorb pool. The card catalogue owns exact slot/trigger/lifetime, drawbacks and ordinary counterplay; this alias summary supplies no extra chance, targets, recursive chains or refreshed protection.

The selected encounter rule contract resolves the competitive-only generic damage break, requires per-action pending-impact windows and rejects exposure definitions without authored thresholds/recovery. The current one-caster research simulator is not full encounter validation.