The Wilds
The land answers to no banner.
Lore
Long before the great races drew their borders, the wild places were already full. Sellswords drift between the warring kingdoms selling their blades to the highest bidder; ancient troll-vaults trade relics to any hero bold enough to approach; spirit-fed pools mend the wounded and the weary. And in the dark between settlements lurk the creeps - kobolds, wolves, trolls and ogres that answer to no crown and guard their hoards with tooth and claw. The Wilds cannot be commanded, only contested, courted, or culled.
Mercenary Champions
Recruited at The Crossroads Tavern (The Broken Keystone), these wandering champions answer to no king or high council. Any faction may hire them into their ranks, governed by their Town Hall level hero capacity.
Neutral · The Broken Keystone WayhouseHask Nailbearer, the Iron-Drawn
Lodestone Warrior
The Mountain Calls
Drive the Toll into the ground: every enemy within 5 tiles is dragged toward Hask and disarmed for 2 s, then he cleaves all around for 200% weapon damage. Costs 75 rage.
The Toll: a greatsword never forged, only gathered, forty blades pulled off his own body and fused edge to edge into one heavy, serrated slab with a wrapped leather grip.
- Hask Nailbearer, the Iron-Drawn, Lodestone Warrior. The Toll: a greatsword never forged, only gathered, forty blades pulled off his own body and fused edge to edge into one heavy, serrated slab with a wrapped leather grip.
- Folio the Unwritten, Paper Witch. The Last Blank Page: the one leaf of Palimpsest never written on, folded into her chest like a heart, under the wax seal. Her long red quill is the pen that cannot be dulled.
- Varr Widecast, the Trawl-Lord, One-Eyed Net-Fisher. The Widecast: a brass-banded boarding net-gun whose muzzle spits weighted black cord, plus the green-glass-weighted cast-net across his shoulders. Every weight is a bead off a wrecked ship's lantern.
- Rask of the Many Quills, Quill-Tailed Lion. The Sting-Crown: the black quill-fan at the end of his tail. Each quill is iron-hard, as long as a javelin, and regrows in a day; the Mantichor count their age in quills shed.
- Gorm Hollowcrown, the Oath-Wall, Tavern-Door War-Giant. The Keystone Door: the Broken Keystone Tavern's front door, torn off its hinges the night Gorm arrived, still with its barred peephole, iron knocker ring and painted keystone sign, and the hire tag hanging from the sign.
- Umma Oldest-Tun, the Undying Pilgrim, Moss-and-Stone Bear. The Standing Stones: a ridge of spiral-carved menhirs grown into her back over three centuries, strung with a pilgrim's bell-and-ribbon garland. Allies say the stones keep the count of everyone she has sheltered.
Mercenary Camps
Scattered across every map, mercenary camps hire out neutral troops for gold alone. Move a hero next to a camp to recruit (a naval unit for the Pirate Platform). Each camp holds limited stock that slowly replenishes over time.
Mercenary Camp
The classic for-hire band — a mixed company of ranged, melee, healing and stealth mercenaries.
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A cliff-top rookery that hires out winged mercenaries — from cheap swarm flyers to a hulking Roc Matriarch.
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An overgrown rune-spire where wandering spellcasters sell their services — healing, hexes and wildfire.
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A sea-built dock of cutthroats. Bring a naval unit (not a hero) alongside to hire pirate ships.
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An ancient troll statue turned merchant vault. Move a hero within range to buy consumables, scrolls, tomes and gear. Buy consumables, scrolls, tomes and permanent gear to outfit your heroes mid-battle.
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A neon-lit goblin casino. Move a hero within range and spend a fixed price per gear slot to gamble for a fully-random, level-scaled item — the rarer it rolls, the more affixes, elemental enchants and procs it gets. The house always wins, but sometimes you do too.
Gear Slots & Roll Cost
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Prices are the base (level-1) gamble cost per slot and rise gently with the hero's level. Item level scales with the nearby hero's level (max at 10). Rarer rolls add more affix slots, stronger elemental enchants and on-hit procs — and the stats are tailored to the hero's class.
Try Your Luck
Creep Camps
Hostile monster lairs guard the map's richest ground. Creeps leash to their camp rather than chase forever, respawn while the lair stands, and reward those who clear them with gold bounties and item drops. Higher-tier camps hit far harder.
Kobold DenTier 1
A burrowed warren of weak but numerous kobolds. A good first camp to farm for early loot.
Found in: Plains, Forest, Winter, Cave, Deep Cave, Wasteland, Desert, Jungle
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70Wolf DenTier 1
A bone-littered lair. Wolves are weak alone but hunt in fast, dangerous packs.
Found in: Plains, Forest, Glade, Winter, Swamp, Gloom
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A tanky dire bear and its wolf companions guard this den. Bring numbers.
Found in: Plains, Forest, Glade, Winter, Cave, Jungle
18060Troll HutTier 2
A tribal troll camp with brawlers, headhunters and a regenerating shaman.
Found in: Plains, Forest, Glade, Swamp, Jungle, Gloom
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A high-tier camp of brutal ogre bruisers and spell-slinging ogre magi. Rich rewards, real danger.
Found in: Plains, Forest, Glade, Winter, Cave, Deep Cave, Swamp, Wasteland, Desert, Jungle, Gloom
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A half-sunken hulk on open water, crewed by the old pirate sloops and galleons. Three other crews hold their own sea landmarks instead (below).
Found in: Open water
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420150Shellback ReefTiers 2-3
A living coral reef grown over a giant shell, with conch watchtowers and a salvaged hull for a gate. Shellback raiders and hulks put out from it.
Found in: Open water
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400140Brinebeard LighthouseTiers 2-3
A stone lighthouse on a wreck-strewn rock, its lamp lit to lure ships in. Brinebeard cutters and salvage frigates put out from it.
Found in: Open water
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420150Skull IslandTiers 2-3
A rock carved into a giant horned skull with a wrecked hull lashed to its flank. Ogre war barges and dreadhulks put out from it.
Found in: Open water
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440160Ancient RunestoneTier 3
An ancient rune-carved monolith that raises slow, heavily-armoured Rune Golem guardians while it stands — shatter it to stop the golems.
220Spider LairTiers 1-3
A web-choked hollow in the deep woods, jungles and caves. Spiderlings swarm, broodspiders spit webs that slow, and the deepest lairs hide a Spider Queen who hatches more.
Found in: Forest, Glade, Cave, Deep Cave, Swamp, Jungle, Gloom
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520Shell GrottoTiers 1-3
Crab-folk corsairs stash their plunder in a shoreline grotto: cutlass-swinging cutthroats and tidecallers hurling seawater, with reef crabs guarding the cheaper hauls.
Found in: Coastlines
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170Drake RoostTiers 2-3
A scorched nest on smouldering rock in deserts, wastes and deep caves. Magma salamanders set their prey burning, and drakelings spit fire from the air, so bring units that can hit flyers.
Found in: Deep Cave, Wasteland, Desert
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170Scorpion BurrowTiers 1-3
A sand-drifted burrow ringed with bleached bones, found in deserts and wastelands. Armoured giant scorpions whose sting poisons whatever it hits.
Found in: Wasteland, Desert
200Wreckers' CoveTiers 1-3
Dwarf wreckers and whalers hole up in a cove of salvaged ship timbers on the shore. Harpooners snag you in place for the anchor-swingers, and the richest cove is held by their one-legged captain, whose bellow makes his crew hit harder.
Found in: Coastlines
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Ogre pirates squat on a heap of plunder by the sea. Buccaneers wade in behind barrel-lid shields while a cannoneer lobs cannonballs that burst over your army. The cannon cannot hit flyers.
Found in: Coastlines
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330Drowned ShrineTiers 1-3
Half-sunk standing stones in the swamp where hulks of peat and root rise from the mire. Their blows leave a rot that eats at the wound, and lanternbearers flare their wisp-lanterns to blind and slow.
Found in: Swamp
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175Yeti CavernTiers 1-3
An ice-choked cavern in the snowfields. Huge shaggy yetis whose frost-rimed blows chill and slow whatever they hit.
Found in: Winter
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Webbed hollows, scorched nests and weathered coves for your custom maps.
Dungeon Bosses
At the heart of every dungeon waits a boss — a colossal guardian standing between you and the hoard. They hit with telegraphed special attacks you must dodge, shrug off ordinary blows, and drop a guaranteed legendary item when they finally fall. Slaying one pays out a huge gold bounty and a wave of hero experience.
500 bountyGuards the Easy and Medium dungeon crawls — a mountain of muscle whose ground-shaking slam strikes everything around him. The first true wall standing between you and the deep-hall hoard.
900 bountyLord of the Hard dungeons. A primordial reptile that spits long-range molten breath (and shrugs off fire in return), scorching whole clusters of units at once. Only the best-geared raiding party walks away.
700 bountyThe campaign’s final boss — the ancient will behind the runestones. It raises the Rune Golems and reshapes the ground itself, hammering its foes with earth-shattering, telegraphed slams.
Magic Pools
Neutral fountains found on most maps. Hold the ground around them and your forces are healed or replenished for free.
A spirit-fed spring that steadily restores the health of any units standing in its aura.
An arcane font that regenerates the mana of nearby spellcasters and heroes.
Waygates
A pair of ancient arches standing far apart on the same map, linked to one another. Nobody owns them and nothing can bring them down — march an army into one and it walks out of the other, which turns a map’s longest flank into a single step.
Arcane Well
A spring of raw Arcane, guarded by creeps. Clear the guardians, then hold the ground around it with soldiers (workers do not count): its holder gains 1 Arcane every 5 seconds and their spellcasters nearby regenerate mana faster. Indestructible.
Monuments
A single ancient marker stands at the heart of the map, owned by nobody and impossible to destroy. Stand your army around it to claim it; hold it long enough and you win outright. It wears the face of whatever ground it stands on — a moss-furred stone ring under the old canopy, a sun-scoured obelisk in the desert, a drowned colossus in open water — and each of those is a separate structure with its own art.
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In deep water
Where the middle of the map is open water, the Monument is a different thing entirely: a drowned colossus, the head and shoulders and one raised arm of a titanic statue breaking the surface, holding aloft the same glyph-stone the land Monument carries on its dais. That stone is all the two have in common. Taking one is a naval fight — transports, warships, and no ground army to lean on.
Relics
Scattered across the map lie ancient relics — no owner, no guard, no way to build one. A hero walks one up and carries it home; carriers glow gold and are visible to everyone, so the moment you have one, every enemy on the map knows exactly where it is going. Bank enough of them at your Altar and the match is yours. Kill the carrier and the relic drops where they fell, for anyone to take.
Wildlife
Harmless critters wander the map for flavour, varying by terrain. They do nothing but scatter when disturbed.
Special
One of a kind. Special units never appear on a map by themselves.
A small, friendly crab robot who has read the whole map. Twice. He never wanders in on his own: only a secret summon brings him scuttling to your side, and his claw snap is more greeting than threat.
Contest the The Wilds
Hire mercenaries, raid creep camps, and seize the magic pools in your next battle.
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