Game Basics 1

House of Night

The player's base. From here, you can play in online matches or the tutorial where you can learn the game's basic controls and rules.

Dusk Battle

A battle for Virtue between Bloodsworn that is made up of four phases. Eight Bloodsworn come together and battle. The Bloodsworn with the most Virtue battle for victory in the final phase.

Selecting Starting Area

During the intermission prior to the start of the phase, each player can select a starting area. You start the phase from a random location in the selected area. If too many players gather in the same area, randomly selected players will be relocated to another area.

Exploration and Strengthening

In Dusk Battles, it is crucial that you strengthen your character. You can gain an advantage in battle by defeating enemies to level up and searching the Lands of Dusk for items. You can also use the map to get information that will help you in exploration, such as the characteristics of that area.

Fighting Enemies

Enemies on the field will attack players. Press or to perform a melee attack, or to perform a ranged attack. You can deploy your shield with to block enemy attacks.

Experience and Levels

Earn experience by defeating enemies. You level up by earning a certain amount of experience, increasing your HP and attack power.

Death and Revival

Even if defeated, you can revive and continue in the match. Select a revival point from the map. If you have fewer than two Goldblood Stake uses when you die, they will be replenished so you have two remaining.

Clock

The clock at the top right of the screen indicates the progress of the phase. When the clock's hand reaches the shining dot, a ritual site will appear on the map; when it reaches the red dot, the phase ends.

Ritual Sites

Ritual sites appear in the second and third phases. You can earn Virtue at the ritual sites by defeating other players and swearing to the blood pledge pillar. Fighting at the ritual site is extremely important for surviving the culling.

Virtue

Virtue can be acquired in various ways, and the amount you can gain increases as the phases progress.
There are also several types of Virtue. Those with low Virtue in the second and third phases are culled and eliminated from the Dusk Battle, so acquire as much Virtue as possible.

Types of Virtue

1. Sword Virtue

   Earned by defeating other players at a ritual site. You will not earn it by defeating Bloodsworn outside of a ritual site.

2. Pledge Virtue

   Earned by swearing to the blood pledge pillars that exist at ritual sites. It will be lost if the pledge is overwritten by another player.

3. Repulsion Virtue

   Earned by defeating great foes. You can earn even more Virtue by defeating stronger enemies called trespassers.

4. Flame Virtue

   Earned by lighting a flame in the skulls of corpses sitting in chairs. There are large lantern corpses that grant even more Virtue, but only the first person to light them can do so.

5. Commendation Virtue

   1. Earned by the players with the highest Bloodfang Commendation and Collector Commendation at the end of every phase—two players each. Rankings are calculated at set intervals during the phases, with players gaining and losing Virtue according to their rankings.

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   2. Bloodfang Commendation

      Earned each time you defeat an enemy.

      Collector Commendation

      Earned by collecting items. You get more Commendation for rare or new items.

6. Other Virtue

   Earned through finishing Sigil goals or other events.

Redstones and Goldstones

Within ritual sites are rock plinths where you can get either a redstone or a goldstone that increases the amount of Virtue you get. You cannot hold both a redstone and goldstone at the same time.

Redstone: Increases the amount of "Sword Virtue" earned by defeating enemies at ritual sites.
Goldstone: Increases the amount of "Pledge Virtue" earned by swearing to blood pledge pillars at ritual sites.

Moon Blood Bestowal

Moon Blood Bestowal is the final phase, during which players fight until only one remains. Alliances are no longer in effect. You can revive if you're defeated once, but you'll lose when you are defeated a second time. HP is increased according to the amount of Virtue you acquired by the final phase.