New Player Tutorial

This is the hand-held path from a single tower to a lord who raids, allies, and holds a seat of power — step by step, in the order the game actually unlocks them. Work through it over your first week and nothing will feel a mystery. Every step maps to a real button; the in-game Maester's Counsel will echo the same advice at each moment.

Step 1 — Found your keep (2 minutes)

1. From the title screen, tap Play offline (or sign in for the live realm), then Begin your reign.
2. Your keep drops onto the world map. Tap it to enter the Keep view — this is your home base.
3. Meet the Maester's Counsel: a small advisor that always names your single best next move. Tap Show me and it walks you there.

Step 2 — Raise your economy (Day 1)

1. Upgrade your resource buildings first — Farm, Sawmill, Quarry, Mine. They fund everything else.
2. Raise the Keep itself whenever you can afford it: your Keep level is the gate that unlocks every other building and system.
3. Keep a builder busy at all times — queue the next upgrade the moment one frees. See Build Order & Priorities.
4. Claim the daily login reward every day. The streak compounds — +4% per unbroken day, to a +120% ceiling on day thirty-one — on top of a ladder whose seventh day is already a jackpot. Missing a day costs more than one day's reward.

Step 3 — Your first battle (Day 1–2)

1. Build a Training Yard and train a first batch of troops — and size it honestly. Training runs at 0.2 + 0.1 per yard level troops per second, tripled by the realm's speed, so a level-1 yard musters 1,000 tier-1 troops in about 19 minutes for 15,000 food and 9,000 iron. Raise the yard before you raise the army.
2. On the world map, tap a nearby creature camp or rebel holdfast and send a march.
3. Win and you carry off resources, commander experience, and sometimes a blade. Read the battle report to see exactly what happened.
4. Learn the troop triangle before you fight bigger foes — it decides battles. See the Combat Guide.

Step 4 — Join an alliance (Day 2–3)

This is the single biggest jump in the game. An alliance gives you help timers, shared wars, forts, and a whole social layer.

1. Open the Alliance menu in the bottom dock.
2. Join an existing banner (fastest) or found your own. New players should usually join first.
3. Say hello in alliance chat, then start pressing the Help button on allies' timers. Each help shaves 1.5% of that build's own duration and a build takes 20 of them, so a fully-helped build finishes 30% early. Because it scales with duration, bank your asks for the long builds — helps on a two-minute timer are worth almost nothing.
4. And once every four hours, press 🤝 Help the hall: a minute off the longest build of every ally at once, thirty of them at most, in a single press.

Full walkthrough: Creating & Managing an Alliance.

Step 5 — Grow with purpose (Week 1)

• Start research at the Academy — economy studies first, then war. Budget for it: a study is billed in food, wood, stone and iron now (gems only buy the instant finish), so the Academy competes with your build queue for the same treasury. See Research & the Academy.
• Send gathering parties and caravans to stack resources while you are away.
• Recruit and level commanders to lead your marches. See Commanders & Loadouts.
• Hatch a dragon egg when you find one — a dragon is a force multiplier in war. See Dragons.

Step 6 — Into the war (Week 1+)

• Ride in an alliance rally — many lords' troops behind one commander, storming a target too strong for one keep.
• Help hold an alliance fort, and contest a Seat of Power for realm-wide buffs.
• Watch the event calendar and the weekly Bounty Board — cooperative goals that pay well.

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