📈 Stats & Attributes

Every being inducted into the System is measured across ten core attributes. These aren't abstract numbers. They're the System's read on who you already are, translated into a framework it can work with.

The Ten Attributes

Starting Stats

At induction, the System doesn't roll dice. It scans everything about you: your body, your mind, your history. A trained fighter walks in with higher STR and AGI. A scientist walks in with higher INT and WIS. A salesman who spent twenty years reading people walks in with CHA that would make a mage jealous.

Total stat budgets at induction range from roughly 90 to 120 across all ten stats.

Stat Allocation

When you level up, you receive stat points. The allocation rule is simple and absolute:

One point spent = one stat gained. Period.

No multipliers. No conversion rates. No hidden modifiers. You put a point in STR, your STR goes up by one. Clean, trackable, and it never changes no matter how powerful you get.

Luck Is Different

Luck cannot be increased through free stat allocation. You can't dump points into LCK. It only increases through titles, gear, achievements, rare consumables, and System rewards. Luck is the one stat that stays outside your direct control. Every other stat, you can grind. Luck stays mysterious.

Stat Points Per Level

Each level grants two types of points:

• Free Stats: You choose where they go (any stat except LCK)
• Class Stats: Fixed distribution determined by your class archetype. You don't control these.

This means class rarity matters. A lot. A Common class at Level 50 has ~400 stats from leveling. A Mythic class at Level 50 has ~1,400. That gap doesn't close.

Derived Pools

Your stats directly determine your resource pools:

Health (HP) = VIT x 10

How much punishment you can absorb before you drop. Skills, titles, and gear can modify it further.

Stamina (SP) = STA x 10

Your physical gas tank. Sprinting, dodging, heavy weapon swings, sustained combat: all of it drains stamina.

Mana (MP) = Determined by core state, NOT stats

Deliberately not stat-derived. Your mana pool comes from cultivation, not stat dumping. A cultivator with a refined core will always have a deeper pool than someone who just stacked INT.

External Stat Modifiers

Two kinds of modifier bonuses exist in the System:

Flat Modifiers (+X)

Gear that says +15 STR adds exactly 15 Strength. Most beneficial at low levels. At 40 STR, that's a 37% boost. At 4,000 STR, it's rounding error.

Percentage Modifiers (+X%)

A title that says +10% STR adds 10% of your total Strength. These scale with you. At 40 STR, it's +4. At 4,000 STR, it's +400.

Stacking Formula

Final Stat = (Base + Allocated + All Flat Bonuses) x (1 + Sum of All % Bonuses)

All flat bonuses add first. All percentage bonuses add first. Then one multiplication. No nested multipliers. No ambiguity. You can always verify the math.

This creates a natural gear progression: early on, flat bonuses are king. Later, percentage multipliers are what you're hunting.

What Stats Feel Like: Physical

STR, STA, VIT, DEX, AGI

What Stats Feel Like: Mental

PER, INT, WIS

What Stats Feel Like: Charisma

CHA

What Stats Feel Like: Luck

LCK