Chapter 1
The Basics
Core concepts, how Katarra works, and what makes this persistent world different.
Open chapter ›The World of Katarra
Codex
Discover · Learn · Explore
✥
The Codex is your guide to the world of Katarra — a world that remembers. Learn the lore, understand the systems, and discover the knowledge that shapes a character's journey. It is designed to explain what a character could reasonably know without turning every mystery into a checklist.
A World That Remembers. A Story Only You Can Write.
Choose a chapter below. Each chapter has its own page, can grow independently as canon develops, and links forward and backward through the Codex.
Chapters of the Codex
17 volumesChapter 2
Your Journey
Levels, ranks, mastery, choices, and the milestones that shape a life.
Open chapter ›Chapter 3
Peoples & Homelands
Peoples, cultures, homelands, languages, and the places characters call home.
Open chapter ›Chapter 4
Attributes
The attributes that describe your character’s natural and developed potential.
Open chapter ›Chapter 5
Professions
Complete non-Adventurer lives built around expertise, discovery, trade, and mastery.
Open chapter ›Chapter 6
Legacy Stones
Stone families, manifestations, rarity, pairings, mastery, and the powers that awaken from them.
Open chapter ›Chapter 7
Renown & Infamy
The separate reputations that record what the world admires, fears, remembers, and believes.
Open chapter ›Chapter 8
Convergence
The Level 30+ possibility of uniting two established Adventurer manifestations into something greater.
Open chapter ›Chapter 9
Soul Scars
Permanent unseen marks left by events powerful enough to change a character’s story.
Open chapter ›Chapter 10
Guilds & The Academy
Organizations, contracts, standing, trust, and the communities that shape opportunity.
Open chapter ›Chapter 11
The World
Regions, settlements, routes, dangers, institutions, and the places between.
Open chapter ›Chapter 12
Bestiary
Known creatures, threats, behaviors, habitats, and the knowledge earned by surviving them.
Open chapter ›Chapter 13
Items & Crafting
Equipment, materials, crafted goods, enhancement, trade, and the objects that carry player history.
Open chapter ›Chapter 14
The Ages of Katarra
The history of Katarra, from the world before the Sundering to the lands and peoples of the present.
Open chapter ›Chapter 15
Combat & PvP
Turn-based conflict, attack and defense, fleeing, capture, homeland effects, and rank recognition.
Open chapter ›Chapter 16
Conditions & Consequences
Combat conditions, survival pressures, recovery, capture, death, and the lasting cost of danger.
Open chapter ›Chapter 17
FAQ
Quick answers for new and returning players without requiring a dive into every chapter.
Open chapter ›A living reference: the chapter structure is permanent, but the knowledge inside it can expand as Katarra develops. New lore, systems, creatures, Profession details, and public discoveries can be added without redesigning the Codex.