Getting Started

Follow the objective, finish Tidewash, and begin using Bahast as your base.

### Where to look

- The Quest chip near the top of the screen names the current objective. Expand or use its route action when one is available. - Brass highlights and coachmarks point at the next required control. Space advances eligible tutorial continuations. During either of Tidewash's first two Inventory prompts, `Disable Tutorials` turns off future guidance, prepares and equips the starter weapon automatically, and lets combat begin without completing each highlighted item action. - When the tutorial highlights the Inventory icon in the top navigation, click it or press I to open Inventory.

### Your first journey

- Every new Character begins in The Tidewash Approach with an Enchanting Sigil and a class-compatible main-hand weapon in carried Inventory. The first enemy remains hidden and combat stays paused while you hover the weapon, hold Alt for deeper details, right-click the Sigil, left-click the weapon to improve it, and equip the result. Closing Inventory pulses its top button until you reopen it. The improved weapon always remains usable at level 1; the enemy appears only for the final 2.5-second approach warning before Battle begins. - Auto Combat attacks and selects usable skills for you. Manual Combat keeps automatic Basic Attacks but lets keys 1-8 decide when attuned skills are used. - A class-appropriate Skill Parchment drops during Tidewash. Its guide appears beside the new parchment and flashes the first open skill-bar slot gold. Drag the parchment into that slot or right-click it to use the first eligible slot; `Next` and Space cannot skip the equip step. - After reaching Bahast, follow Lorskan's dialogue in the Eternal Grove and choose Accept First Hunt. Review his field-order confirmation: Not Yet leaves the hunt untouched, while Accept First Hunt begins the Map handoff. - Select Map, choose the Shimmering Expanse and Gilded Plains, then enter the route. - Clear the route and return to the Eternal Grove to report to Lorskan. Complete First Hunt appears and highlights only after that clear; using it unlocks Mara Venn's Hunt mechanic and Hunt Stash.

### Important rules

- The Tidewash Approach is tutorial-only and does not appear as a normal Map route. - Combat advances only while you are in Battle. Town, Map, Passives, and management screens pause the run. - Optional coachmarks can be enabled or disabled in Pause Menu > Game. Required Character onboarding and unlocks still remain.