Chasm faction
Voidbeast
Grown from the ether the Chasm forgot to keep. Reads your dodge direction, so vary it.
Lore & Gameplay
A thousand years since Aethon fell.
The world did not end. It came apart. Twelve continents still drift on the ether, held together by songs older than the people who sing them. Here is what waits for your Wanderer.
The world
An interactive map of the drift.
Click any marker to hear a piece of that region's lore, drift its ambient chord, and preview its concept art.
Pick a region
Tap a marker to reveal its lore, ambient chord, and concept art.
Characters
Four companions. None of them lie.
Your Wanderer travels alone by default. Along the way, four companions may join you. Each has their own route through the story — and their own reason to leave it.
Protagonist
The Wanderer
You. A pilgrim without a home continent, carrying a lantern that only lights when the wind blows west. You do not remember why you started walking, but the sky seems to.
- ▶Wind-StepShort teleport along the last direction you dodged. Extends combos across gaps.
- ▶Lantern CastReveal enemy tells for four seconds. On perfect parry, the light stays lit.
- ▶Song of PassageThe reputation system. Not a stat. What the world says about you when you leave the room.
Companion · Support
Iolen the Oracle
She left the Temple of the Second Silence the night the last bell cracked, and she has not stopped speaking since. She reads the wind the way you read a face.
- ▶Second SightMarks the next enemy attack for you and slows it fractionally.
- ▶Chord of WindRestores Ether Meter to the whole party when a phrase completes.
- ▶VerdictOnce per fight, she reads a monster's true name. It stops moving until you finish it.
Companion · Tank
Bram, Warden of the Rim
He has walked the last bridge to Aethon every dawn for forty years. He does not talk about what he sees on the other side, only about what he remembers of the walk back.
- ▶BulwarkPlants a shield you can dash through and out of. Attacks from behind it stagger.
- ▶The Long WatchPassive: enemies you both hit within one second stagger twice as fast.
- ▶Come HomeRanged pull. Both of a target's flanks are now yours to swing at.
Companion · Damage
Rhen the Nomad
She was born on a caravan that did not exist by the time she was ten. She reads maps the way people read faces, and vice versa.
- ▶Twin DrawTwo shots per bowstring. The second one always hits the ground she has already read.
- ▶WayfinderExposes hidden routes across the drift. Turns some regions into shortcuts, some into traps.
- ▶Leave No TraceVanish for four seconds. Return with a critical hit and a Song of Passage debt.
Mechanics
Fights read your rhythm before you know you have one.
Momentum combat
Ether Meter & the Stagger Ring
Every dodge and parry fills the Ether Meter. Every time you break contact, it drains. The Stagger Ring around each enemy shows how close they are to a heavy stagger — most techniques modify it rather than health.
◐ Parry → +Ether · sets Stagger tick
↺ Dash → +Ether at end of arc
⚡ Technique → consumes Ether, tips Stagger
✦ Break → free heavy attack window
Controls
Built for a pad. Fully rebindable on keyboard.
Combat sits on four buttons — light, heavy, parry, technique — with a dodge on the shoulder. Everything else is layered through hold-modifiers, so once your thumbs know the shape, they don't have to move.
LMBLight attack · combo chain
RMBHeavy attack · hold to charge
ShiftDodge · directional
QParry · perfect window: 220ms
ELantern Cast · reveal tells
SpaceWind-Step · traverse and combo
Ether Meter
Stagger Ring
61%
Factions & enemies
What waits at the seams of the world.
Enemies in Aetheris don't respawn on a timer. They belong to factions that remember you, and mourn the ones you kill.
Warden faction
Rim Guardian
Old armor, older reflexes. Parries three of your first four heavy attacks. Try the fifth.
Forest faction
Lantern Wisp
Small, quick, absurdly numerous. Their light heals nearby wisps. Kill the light-bearer first.