The final boss of each tutorial is meant to challenge the group that faces them. In the easy tutorial, they are testing how many of the thirty are combat-proficient; in the medium tutorial, they are testing the group’s teamwork; in the hard tutorial, they are testing how far you can go past your limit. I have not included the extreme …

As long and draining as they were, the tutorials eventually came to their ends. Wilfrid Pember – Historian – The Start of the Apocalypse ____ Choose between the 3 following classes you have unlocked through your performance so far. You can later switch your class at a hub, but you will lose all your current class experience on doing so. …

The most dangerous individuals combine power with intelligence. While many races display both qualities, only a few notable ones do so with the same splendour as humanity. Suko Ryo – Interspecial Expert – Humanity and the Other Races ____ The mink zone was the most taxing territory to traverse as it was dense with thick foliage, forcing them to stay …

Another of the System’s defining features is its use of classes. Although the prerequisites for the classes are unknown to us, especially for the rarer ones, it is accepted in scholarly circles that their function is to not only provide immediate power but also direction. Giada Marino – Scholar – Intricacies of the System ____ Silas woke up clutching the …

Rune engraving is a difficult craft and a near-impossible one for those lacking high perception. Relatively speaking, humans have quite a low base perception, and many choose to spec into other attributes after seeing the marginal gains it provides. All in all, this has led to very few humans making it as master engravers, especially compared to the other major …

The extreme tutorial, in particular, provided exceptional attribute boosts unseen anywhere else, even on Idroa. This, in turn, set all its survivors to become flagbearers for their races, especially the ones who took the extra step and killed their teammates for their rewards. Giada Marino – Scholar – Intricacies of the System ____ Collapsing his status screen, Silas turned around …

One of the defining features of the System is its quantification of attributes. As far as we can tell, the five core attributes are in fact composite measures comprised of several readings. Generally speaking, Strength is a measure of physical power, Dexterity a measure of agility and control, Arcana a measure of magical capabilities, Constitution one of vitality and toughness, …

While humans have an innate capacity for magic, the lack of mana on Earth caused it to be a worthless quality when searching for a mate. This caused a lack of selective breeding over it which over the generations gave individuals greatly varying – almost random – arcane talents. This is why so many of us are now restricted to …

Although I am of the opinion only fools picked the extreme tutorial, there were, admittedly, select individuals who rose to the challenge. These men and women would go on to earn their places in my colleague’s, Stefan Sommer’s, book, Heroes and Villains of the First Age. Wilfrid Pember – Historian – The Start of the Apocalypse ____ “Just when you …

The biggest difference between the four tutorials was group size. Those who chose easy were put in groups of 30; those who chose medium were put in groups of 10; those who chose hard were put in groups of 5; and those who chose extreme were put in groups of 3. Whenever someone in your group died, another would be …