Your first hours in the Lands Between

Start by treating death as a signpost, not a verdict. The first hours are for learning which fights are lessons and which are invitations to walk the other way.

Pick a weapon that feels honest in your hands and stay with it until the moves are boring. A second spell or ash can wait until you know what you are missing.

When a grace points down a dramatic road, look for the smaller path beside it. Sites of grace are a diary. Use them to remember where you have already been rude to a knight.

Level the stat that stops you dying to a single mistake before you chase the stat that makes the screen flash. Vigor is not a personality. It is how you stay in the conversation.

Stop while a vista is still a surprise. The map is large enough that tomorrow’s session can begin somewhere you have not named yet.