Glossary

Every Guildlands term from A to Z, each with a one-line explanation and its full page.

A

A day in Aurelia: The world follows your clock: mist in the morning, golden light in the afternoon, torches at night
Achievements: Goals for your whole account, with points and metals
Adventures: A chain of creature stages in one zone: the main expedition for leveling up
Attributes: Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Charisma and Vitality
Aurelia: The game world: one land, with the city at its heart and portals into mines, crypts and castles

Bait: What some fish use up: one per fish
Banner: Your clan's flag: shape, field, symbol and two colors
Bestiary: Every creature in Aurelia by zone: what it is, where it fights and what it drops
Boss invitations: The seal you use at a world boss’s lair to call it down
Buy low, sell well: The book, the chart and alerts, so you never overpay
Buying from shopkeepers: Tools, books, runes and the basics, for gold, with a charisma discount

Capes: They have their own slot: profession capes or cosmetic ones
Cellar House: A house branch with a cellar of your own to keep more
Chat: Talk to people nearby, the whole map, the whole game or your clan
Chest keys: They open adventure chests: they drop very rarely and are not sold anywhere
Chests: Rewards you keep and open whenever you like, with the odds in plain sight
Clan armor: Chest pieces only the clan gives, paid with Honor
Clan Castle: One castle, one clan: five take it and defend it
Clan missions: Weekly goals the whole clan fills together
Clan notices: Clan messages that wait for you even when you're not playing
Clan ranks: Who leads the clan and what each rank can do
Clan workshop: Fenced stations for the whole clan that owns the castle
Clans: Your people in Aurelia: you play together and the clan levels up
Class focus: The attributes your class makes the most of
Classes: How you fight: chosen when you create your character
Crafting: The professions that make what gets used: weapons, armor, arrows, jewelry, runes
Crystals: The Shop currency: buys space and comfort, never power

Daily streak: A reward for every day you log in, 14 days in a row
Discord: The Guildlands community, with rewards for joining
Duels: One on one to test your character, with nothing to lose
Dungeons: Short, hard expeditions, one every few levels, with a boss at the bottom

Energy: What you spend to go fighting or gathering; it refills on its own
Errands: The charisma ladder: expeditions without fighting that pay gold
Events: Seasons with their own achievements, a shop and a wheel
Expeditions: Everything your character does on a timer: adventures, dungeons and errands

Falling and fleeing: Falling isn’t dying: you come back early, with what you already earned
Fighting as a group: How a group fights: lanes and rows
Food: Dishes that give a long bonus: life, armor, mana...
Friends and blocking: Add friends, block whoever bothers you and check out others' gear

Gather, refine and craft: From the world to the workstation, and from the workstation to your gear
Gathering: The professions that take from the world: ore, trees, water, herbs and game
Gear: What you wear: weapon, armor, jewelry and cape
Gear grades: Each grade needs a higher level and gives more than the last
Gems: Stones set into your weapon or chest that add a bonus
Gifts of the gods: What the game team sends you arrives by itself, with a notice
Gold: The coin of Aurelia: earned by playing and spent inside the game
Groups: Rooms to take on a dungeon with other players

Heavy and light weapons: In the long run they all deal the same damage; the shape changes
House branches: At House V your house becomes a Workshop, Farm, Excavation, Kennel or Cellar House
House tax: Owning a house costs gold: pay by the day, the week or the month
Houses: One house per account: bought with crystals, grown with Construction
Houses on the market: A whole house is bought and sold on the market, for gold
How combat works: Expedition fights resolve on their own, turn by turn, with your real gear and spells

Level and experience: Fight, earn experience and level up
Leveling a profession: Every minute of work gives experience; higher-level work teaches more

Mail: Letters to any player, even when they're offline
Mana and cooldown: What magic costs, and the wait between one spell and the next
Market: Where players buy and sell from each other, for gold
Market Pass: A one-time purchase that lets you buy and sell on the market, forever
Masterwork: An item that came out exceptional: everything it gives goes up
Material and spell tabs: A fixed spot in the stash for every material or book, with no stack limit
Materials: What you gather and refine: ore, logs, fish, hides, bars…
Mini-pets: A tiny creature by your side, with its own bonus
Mod tiers: How much each mod gives: T1, T2 or T3
Mods: An item's bonus lines: life, damage, critical...
Mounts: Animals that carry you faster through the city and the island, with a riding permit for each tier

Order of Aurelia: Your account's membership: more energy, more space and lower fees

Races: They shift points between attributes; none is better
Rarity: The color of the name: the rarer it is, the more mods it has
Refining: The professions that turn raw materials into something useful at a workstation
Return to the city: Hold R for a few seconds and you are back in Aurelia’s square, wherever you are
Runes: What every magic spell spends when it is cast

Selling to the merchant: Every shopkeeper buys your things at their value, with a daily cap
Shop: Where you get crystals, the Order and the Market Pass
Slayer: Hunting contracts from a slayer master: kill so many of a creature and get paid on the spot
Sockets: Holes in a weapon or chest where a gem goes
Spells: Special attacks and heals your character uses in a fight
Starting over: Get your points back, empty the Tree or change race
Stash: Your account's storage: shared by all your characters

Toil: A Master works your profession for a few hours, even while you're away
Tools: What each profession needs to work: pickaxe, axe, net, shears…
Tracking: The trail of arrows that leads you to a quest, an NPC, a resource node or a portal
Training yard: A dummy that never dies, to test your gear and spells without spending anything

Unlock chain: Each expedition opens when you finish the one before: that is how you advance through Aurelia

Where gold comes from: Fighting and quests bring gold in; shops, the market and your house spend it
Workstations: Where you refine and craft: furnace, anvil, saw, workbench…
World bosses: A huge boss that descends for the whole server: everyone hits it together and each player earns their own share

Zone trophies: What the creatures of each zone drop: one common and one rare trophy per zone