How Alliances Work

Related in Alliances: How Alliances Work | When the Overlord Dies | Alliance Contracts | Alliance Stars | Alliance Diplomacy | Castles | Captain's Sacrifice

Alliances are player-run clans that share chat, gold, buildings, and at the highest level, castle governance. A strong alliance turns individual warriors into a force that can shape wars, sieges, and the economy of Karadiyar.

Finding or founding an alliance#

Open the Alliances directory from the main menu to browse rankings, recommended clans, and local powers.

To create a new alliance you must:

• Hold at least 6,400 XP (around level 8)
• Carry 10,000 gold on your character
• Stand in a city ruled by your race (or a neutral settlement)
• Choose a unique name (3–25 characters) and a symbol

The founder becomes Overlord and the alliance is born in your current city. Game Master accounts cannot create alliances.

To join an existing alliance, send an application from its detail page or accept an invitation from a member. Officers review pending requests from the member list.

Leaving an alliance costs 200 gold, paid into the alliance vault. The Overlord cannot abandon the clan without disbanding it.

Roles#

• Overlord (founder): full control: buildings, vault withdrawals, promotions, castle sieges, diplomacy offers, and Chat Rally.
• Captain (appointed officer): Captain's Sacrifice protection; can view pending diplomacy; can send Chat Rally.
• Counselor (appointed officer): intelligence reports on tracking attempts; can manage diplomacy with the Overlord; can send Chat Rally.
• Member: deposit gold, join wars and sieges, and use alliance bonuses.

Only one Captain and one Counselor per alliance. The Overlord can promote, demote, or remove members.

Being cast out of an alliance can lower your character's honor. Being raised to Captain or Counselor can raise your character's honor. Being stripped of a Captain or Counselor role can lower your character's honor.

Inactive Overlord succession#

If the Overlord has been inactive for more than 15 days (no recent login activity), Karadiyar runs an automatic succession once per day, in this order:

1. Captain, if active within the last 15 days
2. Counselor, if active within the last 15 days
3. Highest-XP member who was active within the last 15 days

The new Overlord receives a private message. This keeps alliances from stalling when a leader disappears without disbanding the clan.

This daily job is not the same as when an Overlord dies. On death, only a living Captain or Counselor can inherit leadership; the game does not promote the highest-XP member. See When the Overlord Dies.

Chat Rally: Overlord, Captain, or Counselor can push all online and offline members into alliance chat once per day (UTC day). Members get a notification and can jump straight to the alliance channel. See Chat.

Alliance buildings#

Headquarters upgrades are paid from the vault and strengthen the whole clan:

• Headquarters: raises attack damage against enemy races in war.
• Mead Hall: increases maximum member capacity.
• Stable: shortens travel time for all members.
• Forge: grants a smithing upgrade bonus in the alliance home city.
• Vault: raises how much gold the treasury can hold.
• Hall of the Vigilant (Intelligence): lets the Counselor foresee murder tracking attempts against members.
• Barracks: raises the chance of Captain's Sacrifice saving an ally from a killing blow.
• Beacon Tower: fields militia for castle sieges. Each level adds 10 militia at 75 combat power each (level 1 = 750 total power, level 10 = 7,500). Only the Overlord can upgrade it from the vault. Base cost 500 gold; each step costs target level × 500 (for example level 1→2 costs 1,000 gold). Maximum level 10.

Members can deposit up to 100 gold per day into the vault. The Overlord can transfer vault gold to members for rewards or war funds.

Chat Rally#

The Overlord, Captain, and Counselor can send a Chat Rally from alliance tools. Every other member with push notifications enabled receives a push that calls them into alliance chat.

• Only the top three officers can use it.
• Each alliance may send one rally per day (shared limit for the whole clan).
• Use it sparingly for war calls, siege nights, and urgent coordination, not for idle chatter.

Member benefits#

• Alliance chat channel separate from global and side chat (see Chat).
• Chat Rally pushes from top officers when the clan must gather quickly.
• Home city bonus: quest in your alliance's founding city for extra experience.
• Private group lobbies: on the Group Quests screen, Alliance only lets your clan fill Raid, Ambush, Rescue, Dunglor, Narzburk, Dragon Hunt, and Sea Serpent without sharing the open world queue (Vorgrim is unchanged).
• Forge bonus when smithing in the home city.
• Stable travel reduction on every journey.
• Headquarters war damage against enemy races.
• Castle hourly rewards when your alliance governs a castle.
• Alliance contracts: daily tasks that earn stars for the clan and experience for you.
• Alliance stars: spend stars on rename, symbol change, or relocating the home city.

Castle governance#

An alliance may hold one castle at a time. The Overlord can start a siege from the castle city for 2,000 vault gold. Members join the assault or defence in person.

If an alliance that already owns a castle conquers a neutral fortress, the new castle is released rather than kept. Only one banner flies over the realm at once.

Wars and reputation#

Large alliances with many active members can influence wars and city control. The alliance directory shows whether Free Peoples or Dark Forces alliances currently dominate population.

For peace treaties between clans, read Alliance Diplomacy.