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Firmament stars

Firmament stars grant passive bonuses while your online allocation is active. Open Growth → The Firmament in the pause menu. Every one of the 518 stars has its own reference, including the repeated small stars and roads.

Sign	Stars
The Mage	87
The Shadow	86
The Thief	86
The Steed	86
The Warrior	86
The Ritual	86
The Serpent	1

Star types

Type	Count	Allocation cost
Start	7	Free chosen start
Road	102	1 point
Keystone	12	1 point
Small	283	1 point
Notable	114	1 point

Choose one start. Every other allocated star needs an unbroken path back to it; other starts cannot be crossed and keystones end paths. Refunds also remove stars disconnected by that refund. You cannot buy the entire tree.

Point pools and refunds

Point source	Rate	Maximum	Spending
Renown	2 Stars per level after the first	98 at Renown 50	Combat or life stars
Profession ranks	1 Craft point per 8 total ranks	125 at ten Master professions	Life stars only

Change	Cost
Chosen starting sign	Free
Refund below Renown 10	Free
Refund at Renown 10 or higher	10 silver per removed star
Full respec	10,000 gold

Builds can be shared as FIRM-… codes. Life stars spend Craft points first, then Stars if needed.

Bonus caps

Bonus	Tree-wide limit
Each attribute	+15 points, raw and percentage gains together
Each combat skill	+15 points, raw and percentage gains together
Each life skill	+20 points, raw and percentage gains together
Maximum Health	+75 points, flat and percentage gains together
Maximum Spell Points	+75 points, flat and percentage gains together
General weapon damage per blow	+30% across applicable channels
Weapon damage including conditional bonuses	+50% per blow
Spell damage	+30%
Combined general and school spell-cost reduction	25%
Casting speed	+15%
Health regeneration	1% of maximum per round
Spell Point regeneration	1% of maximum per round
Health restore on kill	6% of maximum per kill
Spell Point restore on kill	6% of maximum per kill
Evasion	10% per eligible blow
Destruction absorption	15% per eligible effect
Each resistance	+20 percentage points
Each gathering yield	+30%
Each profession’s experience	+35%

Percentage attribute and skill gains use your permanent value and round down. Attribute gains also raise the live ceiling, so +15 can raise an attribute from 100 to 115. Keystone drawbacks still apply when beneficial bonuses are capped. Individual pages give every relevant channel limit; other power systems can impose additional combined limits.

Passive timing

Passive	Trigger	Separate cooldown	Exception
Ordinary stat and profession bonuses	While allocated and applicable	None	Normal action requirements still apply
Evasion	Each eligible incoming creature blow	None	Does not evade every damage source
Destruction absorption	Each eligible Destruction effect	None	Needs enough empty Spell Point capacity
Health or Spell Point restore on kill	Each qualifying creature kill	None	Players, guards and allies do not count
Health regeneration	Each magic round	No activation cooldown	Event-area rules halve it and pause it for 5 seconds after Health loss
Spell Point regeneration	Each magic round	No activation cooldown	The event-area Health-regeneration pause does not apply

A magic round is 1 game minute, normally 5 real seconds. The five-second event-area pause starts again whenever you lose Health. It applies to natural Health regeneration, including Firmament regeneration; direct heals and kill restores use their own rules. Absorption returns half the absorbed cost, rounded down.

Where the bonuses apply

Situation	Combat effects	Life effects
Offline	Inactive	Inactive
Ordinary online creature combat	Active	Active
Duels and arena bouts	Inactive	Active
Mentoring	Scaled to mentor power	Full value
Sieges and open zones	Can act against creatures; do not strengthen strikes or spells against players	Active

These rules and every individual star were checked against Update 0.0.464. The named-star comparison lists the 114 notables and 12 keystones.

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