Lore System

Summary

• The Lore System introduces snippets of world lore unique to the lands of Outlands, encompassing the Creatures, Towns, Dungeons, History, as well as Mythical Figures and Notable Personages of our game world
• Players will encounter Research Materials throughout their journey, which must be decoded by the player to in order to create a Lore Page, which in turn can then be added to a Lore Book
• There many different Lore Volumes in the system, with each individual volume comprising of between 10 to 15 individual Lore Pages on the related subject
• Players can add Lore Pages to Lore Books to organize them, and if a player manages to add all pages required to complete a specific volume, they will be rewarded handsomely

Research Materials

• Players can find Research Materials as loot drops from a large number of sources (such as monsters, dungeon chests, treasure maps, etc)
• Research Materials can be decoded by having 120 Cartography, Detect Hidden, or Item Identification and clicking the appropriate button shown below
• If a player does not have any of those skills at 120, they can have a Research Guide in their backpack and click any of the skill buttons to consume a charge from the Research Guide and instantly decode the Research Materials
• Research Materials are stackable

Research Guides

• Players can craft Research Guides using the Inscription skill
• To decode Research Materials via Research Guides the player must have 100 skill in Cartography, Detect Hidden, or Item ID (without a Research Guide the player must have 120 skill)
• If a player uses a Research Guide to decode Research Materials without 100 skill in Cartography, Detect Hidden, or Item ID, it will consume one use of the Research Guide and produce a system message informing the player that they do not have the required skill level
• Each Research Guide has 25 uses (i.e. "Skill Clicks")

Lore Pages

• When Research Materials are decoded the text is unscrambled and the item is replaced with a Lore Page belonging to a particular volume such as "Creatures of Mount Petram"
• Single-clicking any Lore Page will say the Lore Volume it becomes to, as well as which page number of the volume it is.

Lore Books

• Players can craft Lore Books using the Inscription skill
• Lore Books begin as "empty" until a player drops a Lore Page into it
• If a player drops a Lore Page into an empty Lore Book, that book will now become dedicated to a single lore volume (such as "Creatures of Aegis
• Players can also add Lore Pages by clicking the "Add Lore Page" button instead of dropping Lore Pages onto the book itself
• Players can see which pages have not yet been added to the Lore Book by double-clicking it
• Players can click the Left/Right arrows at the bottom of the Lore Book to navigate through pages and see existing Lore Page content
• When players have added all required pages to a Lore Book, they will receive 1 Mastery Chain Link and a Legendarily Drawn Treasure Map (level 8)

Lore Bosses

• Players who dig up a Legendarily Drawn treasure map will encounter a Lore Boss creature that will guard the chest and must be killed before players may access the chest's contents
• Among other loot in the Legendary Treasure Map Chest, players will discover a Mastery Chain Link inside
• If a player is in a Guild and digs up a Lore Boss Treasure Map, the resulting Lore Boss that spawns will be treated as being Summoned by that player's guild and any other player not in that guild that attacks the Lore Boss will be flagged as attackable for 10 minutes (similar to handling for Guild-Summoned Bosses in Dungeons/Ocean)
• Read more about Boss-level Creatures