The world: creatures, plants, ruins and events

• Mist wrath wolf and thunder wrath wolf hunt in packs. Mist wolves breathe out a blinding mist in a fight; thunder wolves call down lightning, and their bite crackles.
• Blade hood snake: a huge serpent with blades along its hood.
• Crystal serpent: a calm crystal snake. Tame it and shear it for crystal shards.
• Pyro hydra: a rare three-headed fire drake of the deserts that breathes fire. Avoid it unless you are ready.
• Snarl beast: a horned lion whose snarl stuns everyone around it.
• Bleyk: a huge horned pack animal with tough skin. It can be ridden through Giddy-Up.
• Keel turtle: a slow giant with a spiked shell.
• Poison monkey troupes, berserker wasp swarms (their sting can drive a victim berserk), the sand-buried dust digger and swarms of hell moths whose scales burn.
• Many can be tamed, some only by a Monster Trainer's techniques.

• Healing: belan tree nuts stop bleeding; all-heale, yulpris root and lavender work as herbal medicine (yulpris is as good as real medicine).
• Poisons: larkspur seeds and desert thornapple are what alchemists make debilitating and death poison from.
• Drugs and remedies: fletharane smoke (a hallucinogenic social drug), nightcall (sharper senses and a quicker step, but mildly addictive), cinderbloom (a rub against fire) and northern wind (a pipe weed against the cold).
• Frostcap makes frostcap oil, a weapon coating that adds frost.
• Zalantar (strong black wood) and golden beech (beautiful golden wood) are trees with their own woods.

• Chakra metal ore: a metal for weapons and armour. Weapons made of it drain a little chakra with every hit.
• Spirit gem veins: A and S rank seals need spirit gems.
• Ruby, sapphire, emerald and amethyst veins: cut them into gems (below) or sell them rough.

New maps sometimes hold a ruin, and travellers sometimes tell of one nearby (a quest).

• Sealed clan tomb: a stone hall with spike traps and an inner chamber. Its sealed casket keeps its contents hidden until you break the seal (the Open order, or right-click). Breaking it wakes the tomb's guardians (stone and bone golems, blade hoods, snarl beasts), and some seals carry a poison ward. Inside: technique scrolls, seals, silver, gems, spirit gems at high ranks, sometimes a clan weapon, and now and then a clan's preserved bloodline tissue, the tomb robber's prize. Tombs on quest sites are richer and better guarded.
• Ruined shrine: broken walls, an altar and a sealed offering urn. Praying at the altar gives a three-day blessing (faster chakra, a calmer mind); each shrine has three blessings in it. The urn is sometimes guarded by hell moths or wrath wolves.
• Abandoned training ground: old training posts, a few practice weapons and sometimes a forgotten technique scroll. An hour at a post teaches melee, once a day per person, and now and then the carved notes teach a D-rank taijutsu technique.

• Monster incursion: a pack of maddened archive creatures comes out of the wilds. If the Order of the Venator is friendly, its hunters sometimes follow the pack and join the fight.
• Chakra storm: a violet storm. Every ninja recovers chakra much faster and hits harder with techniques, but lightning strikes at random. Stay under a roof.
• Wandering master: a master of a friendly faction visits for about a day and offers lessons for silver: open the letter, choose a ninja and one of up to three techniques that fit their build. Two lessons per visit, up to B or A rank. Prices: D 150, C 350, B 750, A 1500 silver.

Gems are cut and harnessed at the alchemy table.

• Gem cutting (any crafter, Crafting 5): two rough gems make one cut gem.
• Harnessed gems (Crystalmancy discipline only):
  • Worn on the belt: awareness stone, chain of knowledge, gem of the wise, gem of vitality, spirit amber, skull of strength, eye of the tiger, troll stone, chakra gem, negotiator's gem, gem of charming. A belt gem takes the same slot as a talisman or a shield belt.
  • Used up: healer's gem and fairy tear stone (close wounds), death's tear (cures the worst condition), wolf fang, swarm amber and hydra tooth (call wolves, berserker wasps or a bone golem for a while).
  • Thrown: death plume, devil's heart, fluor gas, stinkstone, stone of a thousand cuts, thunder egg, whistle stone, Qurna's folly (seals the chakra of everyone hit, so no techniques for about two hours), and the wall gems: escarpment (stone), glacier (ice), briar (thorns) and fire curtain raise a short wall across the way they were thrown, which crumbles after about an hour.
  • Gem eyes: vision stone, blue-eyed gem and tiger's eye, installed by surgery like an artificial eye.
  • Gem buildings, placed like furniture: sunstone (light), heating stone, frost crystal, growing stone (plants nearby grow 50% faster) and plenty stone (makes pemmican).
• Crystalmancers can also make their old crystals and grenades from crystal shards and rough gems instead of jade.