SKILLS
- Call Vassals has been removed from Dark Priesthood and is now its own 60 CP child skill of Pledge Vassals. Unlike Dark Priesthood, it is not mutually exclusive with Command Thrall.
- The second Desecration action triggered by Thorough Desecration now functions at the reward tier of a corpse desecration, not a second full kill.
- Oath of Steel and Bond of the Mechanical no longer grant bonuses to spells - these skills are about "weapons".
- Foul Alchemy, Sacred Alchemy and Deep Alchemy now unlock the ability to brew a Potion of True Sight, which allows those who drink it to view invisible characters for 15 status ticks.
- Fundamentally changed how Scribe Pact works:
- Pact Debt no longer impacts when or where you will respawn, though dying with a Pact active can still create a Soul Thrall.
- Pact users now pay up-front costs to activate Pacts, which start low but tick upward as the Pact makes greater demands on its users. The first use of a Pact is 2AP/2MP/2HP, which ticks up by this amount for every subsequent use.
- Pacts now simply vanish when their last use is spent.
- Revoking a Pact that has been used now has an AP cost for the Dark Oppressor, which increases with the number of times the Pact has been used.
The Nexus has all-new maps encompassing new worlds which will open up over time. The Breath begins with Tempest Straits, a strategic and war-torn waterway that has become the cosmic battlefield of Valhalla.
LORE
A great deal of new lore content has been added:
- Findable fragments from the world of Tempest Straits
- Newspaper articles published in the world of Tempest Straits
- New radio broadcasts
- Many new book texts from the world of Tempest Straits
- An abundance of new Exploration Badges scattered throughout the planes
- Memory of a Past Life items can be used at Cathedral, Auditorium or Bunker tiles. Only one of those three should be accessible at breath launch.
- Font builders can have one active Font per element (acid, holy, etc.)
- Resetting a character or selling the skill Cultivate Ground removes Fonts and Leys that character created. Release does not do so, but Fonts owned by Released characters will decay more rapidly.
- Mechanics that granted infinite movement on water in prior Breaths now grant 1/4 cost movement on water.
- After being bounced off sufficient Mounds, Fonts will eventually not have power to be divided any further. Fonts will not be able to have more than Six active Mounds (that is, in the path of the ley line with enough HP to redirect them).
- Font sacrifice XP caps out at 10 instead of 20. Bottles are now emptied when the magic goes out of them.
- The maximum daily AP gain from AP-granting stuff has been ticked down a bit further to 30.
- When Strongholds are enabled, factions will be able to claim Ship strongholds and navigate them across the seas of Tempest Straits (and possibly other planes).
- Once Strongholds are enabled, stronghold setting in Valhalla (only) will no longer require the tile to be infused to your side.
- Good and Evil factions are now a bit more strict about the morality of their members. Level 10 and above members of these factions who cease to be Good Morality in a Good faction or Evil Morality in an Evil faction will have provisional faction membership until their morality is restored. Provisional faction members will display as Initiates and will not have access to rank abilities such as announcements and safes, even if these permissions have been granted to Initiates. Provisional faction members will instantly return to their old rank as soon as their morality is back within their faction's moral range. You will be notified if this happens to you and will be notified when it ends.
Players who are returning to the Nexus after a substantial time away should be aware that significantly more content than the above has changed. Hundreds (thousands, really) of bugfixes, user quality-of-life improvements and content additions were made over the course of Breath 5 from late 2021-2025. These changes carry forward into Breath 6 unless noted otherwise above.