ATHEREA
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Guide

One hunter, two ways to play

Atherea is a dark-fantasy hunting RPG you play in Discord with your friends and on this website on your own. It's the same hunter everywhere: what you find, forge or buy on one side is instantly on the other.

A party fighting a titan in Discord

💬 In Discord: play together

Live, social, with buttons in the chat.

  • ⚔️ Party dungeons and Elite runs (2-4 hunters)
  • ☩ World titans the whole channel can join
  • 🐉 Guild raids, guild chat and events
  • 🤺 Duels with /pvp challenge
  • 🐾 Catch Riftborn that slip into the channel

Start in 3 steps

1

Join the Discord

Press ▶ Play now at the top of this page and join the server.

2

Create your hunter

In the game channel type /play: pick a look, an origin and a name. Takes 30 seconds.

3

Open the website

Type /weblogin (or press 🌐 Website in /play): a private link signs you in here, no password.

⚔️ Fighting in 30 seconds

Every turn the enemy announces its next move (the telegraph). You answer with one button:

🛡️ Ward when it winds up a blow💚 Mend when it poisons or drains⚔️ Strike hard on a Burst

Answer right and you take no damage; get it wrong and it hurts. On the website the right button glows, in Discord the whole party has to cover it together. Dungeons are deep delves: a map of forks where you choose your path through fights, elites, traps (a stat check), events, treasure (or a mimic), shrines that bless you for the run and campfires, down to a unique boss. HP carries from room to room; fall and you drop half your loot. In Discord the party votes the path. Clear one to unlock the next.

📈 Growing your hunter

You start as an Unbound. At level 5 you choose a class (Reaver, Huntsman, Pyromancer, Trickster, Warden, Vanguard), at level 15 a specialisation. Every level gives 3 stat points: put them in your class's ⭐ stat.

Equip a weapon, an armour, up to 3 relics (organs torn from bosses) and a companion. Your profile shows every number and where it comes from. More: Classes · World map.

⚒️ Loot, craft, trade

Fights drop gold, materials and relics. Smiths forge gear whose quality is rolled at the forge:

CommonUncommonRareEpicLegendary

Better skill, better odds; Rare and up get a second stat. Sell anything on the player market (it's the same in Discord) and set a market watch to get pinged when what you want is listed. A failed craft never destroys your items.

🐾 Riftborn: crack the combination

Every 20-40 minutes a creature slips into the Discord channel. To catch it, pick the right combination:

Aspect = its colourLure = read the clueApproach = its body (flyer, crawler, spirit, walker)

Two tries each; wrong tries are shown to everyone, so the channel can work it out together. Caught beasts can be your companion.

🎣 Fishing

Fish wherever you stand on the world map: on the Fishing page or with /fish go. Pick a bait, cast, wait for the bite (pull too early and it's gone), then win 3 pulls.

🟧 Perfect zone🟨 Good zone🟦 miss

  • On the website a marker slides along a bar: stop it in the zones. They change size and position every pull, and rarer fish are faster. In Discord, hit the 🎯 button fast.
  • 3 Perfects in a row can turn the catch into a rarer fish. Two misses snap the line, and sometimes the hook is empty.
  • Bait: 🪱 Grub (fewer empty hooks: dug up while gathering, sold by every merchant), ✨ Glowfly Lure (wider perfect zones) and 🌀 Rift Lure (rarer fish), made with the Fishing skill. Each city merchant also sells the bait of its own waters (🩸 Bloodworm, ⚙️ Brass Spinner, ⏳ Sandglass Fly, 🍄 Sporegrub, 🖋️ Inkfly, 🌙 Dreamlight Lure): in those lands only local fish bite, and rarer ones more often.
  • Rods: every city sells a better rod: Ironwood (+10 Fishing), Brasswind (+20), Mycelweave (+30), Starline (+45), Riftcaller (+60). The best ones need some Fishing skill and also raise the chance of rare fish.
  • 27 species, 4 for each Aspect's lands plus 3 anywhere. The fish library (/fish library) keeps your record sizes and gives titles for complete regions. The biggest fish ladder is in /rankings.

🐎 Mounts and taming

Wild mounts appear in the companions channel now and then. Press Tame it: read the mount's temperament first (Skittish, Proud or Greedy: the hint says how it thinks), then answer its moods right, with Calm it, Hold firm or Offer food. Common riding animals (ox, mule, goat, donkey, packhorse, pony) roam often and need only 3 answers, 15 seconds a round, but they are slow. Legendary mounts are rare, need 5 answers in a row at 10 seconds a round, and are much faster.

  • The same mood means different things for different temperaments, and every hunter gets a different sequence.
  • One mistake and it shies away: 1 try each (2 for Beastmasters). The first to tame it keeps it.
  • Limits: 3 mounts a day (5 for Beastmasters) and 1 Legendary a day, pet or mount together.
  • A new mount is ridden at once. Change it with /mount, on Pets → Mounts or under the Travel button on the map. Beastmasters craft saddles, horseshoes, tack and Moonpetal Feed for even more speed.

🏟️ Pet League (3v3)

Your pets fight as a team: on the website (Pets → Pet League) or with /petarena in #pet-arena.

  • Your team: a name, a banner (upload your own or use your main Aspect's) and a roster of 3 to 6 pets.
  • Team preview: you see the rival roster and pick 3 pets in order; the first one leads.
  • Each turn your pet picks Pounce, Guard or Feint (Pounce beats Feint, Feint beats Guard, Guard beats Pounce), its Aspect special at 3 sparks, or you switch: the switch comes first and the new pet takes the hit. When a pet falls, you send the next one.
  • Live matches (the rival plays too) or ghost matches (the AI plays their team: half the points, only yours move, 6 a day).
  • Ladder with Elo points and a new season every month. 🪙 250 a win, 80 a loss, pet XP. The Top pets podium shows the 3 pets with the most league damage.

🤺 Duels and guilds

/pvp challenge @friend starts a 1v1 turn-based duel: both press Start, then Strike, Guard, Mend or use your class skill. Ranked ladder with /pvp.

Join or found a guild (here or with /guild): private channel, shared bank, a weekly raid boss and events.

📅 Every day

  • Daily reward with a 7-day streak, and 3 contracts with a bonus for all three
  • A personal riddle (/riddle today): solve it for a reward, some hide secrets
  • Pet errands and the forge work while you're away: the bot pings you when they're done
  • Up to 100 dungeons a day give full rewards. The next 50 are "tired" (no relic or gear, half XP and materials); past 150 you're "exhausted": no rewards until 00:00 UTC. Lost runs count too.

Discord commands

/play your hub/profile me stats & equipment/hunt world titan/dungeon party dungeons/pvp challenge duel/pvp ladder duel ladder/guild guild/inventory items/craft crafting/market market/daily daily reward/riddle today daily riddle/weblogin sign in here/shop cosmetics/profile show show off your hunter/profile inspect look at someone/fish go fishing/fish library fish library/mount your mounts/petarena Pet League 3v3/settings reminders & pings/bet wars bet on a guild war

FAQ

Can I start on the website?

Not yet: create your hunter in Discord with /play (30 seconds), then everything works here too. Starting directly on the web is coming.

Is my progress the same on both?

Yes, it's one database: gold, items, levels, guild, market. Do something on one side and it's already on the other.

Is it pay-to-win?

No. The optional shop sells cosmetics only (card frames, titles, name colours, duel arenas). Everything that affects combat is earned by playing.

Which class is best?

All six are balanced for duels; in parties they have different jobs (damage, crits, healing, shielding). Pick the one you like at level 5.