An arched stone bridge carrying the road over the river, mountains beyond
The World

Every horizon is a promise

Two continents, a sea between them, and no loading screen from shore to shore.

Aster Vale

Ashenvale from above, a walled town ringed by mountains
Safe ground

Ashenvale

Home. Every door opens.

Sunlight falling through the deep green canopy of the Verdant Forest
Lv 1 – 10

Verdant Forest

Waterfalls, lantern paths — and something watching from the trees.

The pale stony shoulder of the Crystal Highlands under a wide sky
Lv 5 – 15

Crystal Highlands

Crystal veins, and the golems that guard them.

Golden grass and purple flowers on the Whispering Plains
Lv 10 – 25

Whispering Plains

Gold grass to the horizon, and storms that mean it.

A broken column of the old world standing in a field of flowers
Lv 15 – 35

Ancient Ruins

The old world sleeps here. Its knights don’t.

An adventurer walking toward the Ancient Rotwood across the grove floor
Lv 20 · World Boss

Rotwood's Grove

The Ancient Rotwood waits. Bring everyone.

Snow-dusted firs on the slopes of Frostpeak Rise
Lv 20 – 40

Frostpeak Rise

A long white climb with the whole vale at your feet.

Still water and drowned trees at the edge of Stormreach Marsh
Lv 25 – 45

Stormreach Marsh

Fog, rain and things beneath the still water.

The Marsh Hydra marker over the water of its lair
Lv 45 · World Boss

Hydra's Lair

Many heads. One appetite.

The whole of Aster Vale seen from above: plains, forest, marsh and the town between them
Across the sea

The Kurogane Expanse

Iron-rail foothills, a drowned lantern bay, a volcano that breathes, the walled capital of Seikyo — and a forest the Hollow King calls his own. The airship leaves at dawn.