The Long Game
The Game Is Bigger Than One Season
It is easy to treat a season as the whole game — to race for everything you can grab before the reset wipes the slate. That is the natural way to play, and it is also the smaller game. Unyha is built to be played across seasons, and your real story — your name, your House, your legacy — is the long one. If a single shift in mindset separates a lasting Spiritfolk from a forgotten one, it is this: the next season matters as much as this one, and often more. Play now with next season in mind.
The Shape of a Season
A season runs seven days, and those days have a rhythm worth learning:
Days 1–4 — you arrive, train, delve, craft, and build a House, taking on the daily quests that steadily prepare you for what is coming.
Day 5 — the Unyha Event. A boss spawns and the season reaches its climax; everything the early days built toward converges here.
Days 6–7 — the aftermath settles, the dust of the event clears, and the season winds down toward its reset.
The Unyha Event
On day five the world turns: an Unyha Event begins and a boss spawns. This is the season's defining moment, and not something to stumble into unprepared. The daily quests you have been running all week are not busywork — they are the game walking you toward this event, building your character, your gear, and your standing so that when the boss arrives you can actually matter to how it goes.
The Outcome Echoes Forward
Here is the part that should change how you think about everything else: the outcome of the Unyha Event determines the direction of the next season. What happens on day five — who rises to it, how it ends, what is won or lost — is written into the world and shapes the season that follows (see Autochronicle AI and Season Reset). The event is the bridge between one season and the next. Treat it as an ending and you miss the point; it is a beginning in disguise.
What Carries Over
The reset takes your momentary progress, but not everything. The long game is built on what persists:
Your House — lineage and reputation carry across seasons, so you return as part of something that remembers (see Houses).
Your heirlooms — most carry forward with your House; only a few (two or three) are lost and scattered into the world each reset, waiting to be reclaimed (see Heirlooms and Season Reset).
Your stash — up to five items of your choosing pass directly to your next heir.
Your talent — any skill trained above 50 carries to your heir at a reduced value, and the higher the skill the more survives — so mastery compounds across generations (see Season Reset).
Your name — deeds done and stories told are recorded, so a Spiritfolk who mattered this season is known in the next (see Golden State and Autochronicle AI).
The world itself — shaped by the Unyha Event and everything players did, so the next season is not a blank slate but a consequence.
How to Play for the Long Game
In practice this means spending your season on the things that last, not only the things that vanish. Build a House worth inheriting. Forge heirlooms worth chasing down later. Show up to the Unyha Event and leave a mark on how it ends. And when the reset comes, don't mourn the wipe — plan your return. The Spiritfolk who treats each season as one chapter of a longer story is the one whose name is still spoken many seasons from now.
In Short
A season is seven days with a boss at its heart on day five — but the season is a chapter, not the book. Play this one well, and play it for the next. The long game is the only game that lasts.