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The Harrowtoll wiki

A traveller's guide to the islands, their creatures and their rules.

Welcome, traveller

Harrowtoll is a shared world of drowned roads and old bells. You begin on Saltmere, a tidal island where every traveller learns to fight, and leave it for Bellcross and the islands beyond. There are no classes: your stats, the skills you train and the gear you find or make are your whole build.

The game is in closed beta. It is played with a keyboard and a mouse in a desktop browser. Test travellers will be wiped when the game opens to everyone.

Play Harrowtoll Your first hour

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Your first hourFrom making a traveller on Saltmere to stepping through the Bellcross Gate.ControlsEvery key, as the game's own help panel lists them.

Your traveller

Stats, skills and levelsWhat your six stats do, what each skill is built from, and what experience buys.CombatHow a blow is rolled, what a guard stops, and how the three weapons differ.Weapon abilitiesThe six abilities of the sword and of the bow, and what each costs.SpellsCasting with a wand: the spells, the scarabs they need, the elements, and what creatures and armor make of each.ItemsEvery piece of gear, what it can be made of, the spells and properties it can carry, and the named rares.CraftingSmithing at a forge and brewing at the still: what each recipe needs and what your skill changes.

The world

IslandsSaltmere, Bellcross and the eight islands beyond: what lives on each and what it costs to reach.DungeonsThe large dungeons under the outer islands: how to get in, what holds them and what waits at the bottom.CreaturesEvery kind of creature: how hard it is, how it fights, what it leaves and where it is met.Loot and deathWhat creatures leave, who may take it, and what dying costs you.Gates and sealsHow each gate opens, what a seal asks for, and what stepping through costs.Bells and recallWhere you wake when you fall, how to get home, and where your vault opens.The tide and other hazardsOne tide rises and falls for the whole realm. It opens and closes ground, hides creatures and leaves flotsam.

Other travellers

Gold and tradeThe trader, the task board, the order board and trading with another traveller.Fellowships, friends and chatHunting together, keeping a friends list and talking to the island.AllegianceSwearing to a patron, what passes up the chain, and what a monarch can do.Grandmaster officesOne title for each discipline in the whole realm: how each is won, held and lost.

How this wiki stays current

Every table and every figure on these pages is read from the game's own rules each time the game is built, so the wiki cannot fall behind the build it ships with. This copy was written from build 35095c6. It describes what is in that build, and nothing that is only planned.

Some things are left for you to find: where each creature, chest and piece of flotsam lies, and how often each thing drops.