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Once a day

Keep the Vigil

Before a day’s campaign you keep the Vigil at the rim, and the Pyre grants a Boon. It lasts a day on your account and fades inside a match, so it is never a whole-match multiplier. Three Rekindles a day if you want to ask again — 150, 300, then 600 Gold.

Why each Rekindle costs more than the last

A flat price would make “reroll three times, every day” the obviously correct habit for everybody, which turns a daily decision into a daily chore and hands whoever has the most Gold a permanent edge in draw quality. At these prices using all three costs two to three days of play: you can chase a Boon occasionally, and nobody can do it daily.

A few of them

Thirty-three in the pool. The game serves the whole catalogue at /api/blessings, rules text and measured power included — a player deciding whether to spend Gold can read exactly what they are deciding about.

  • First LightEmberAn early gift. Levy is one heavier for three turns.
  • Warm StoneEmberYour walls hold the heat. Defence is one higher for three turns.
  • Old SongsEmberThe host sings on the walk. It changes nothing and everyone feels better.
  • Forge LightFlameThe Pyre keeps your fires. Levy is one heavier for six turns.
  • Black GlassFlameObsidian in the walls. Defence is one higher for six turns.
  • War DrumsFlameHeard across the ring. Attacks land one heavier for six turns.
  • The Long BurnInfernoThe Pyre keeps its promise all season. Levy is one heavier for eight turns.
  • Obsidian WatchInfernoGlass on every wall. Defence is two higher for six turns.
  • The Pyre's FavourInfernoIt is simply on your side today. Levy is two heavier for five turns.

A Boon applies in ranked. Here is why that is defensible.

Most competitive games would keep a daily reward out of rated play, and the reason is sound: an uncontrolled input widens the error bars on a rating exactly where matches are decided. Bannerfall keeps it, and pays for that decision with measurement.

Every Boon’s power is the win-rate delta it actually produced across 80 mirrored pairs — not a number a designer typed. The strongest in the game measures 0.053 against a bound of 0.08. Anything above the bound is retuned or cut; the bound does not move.