Weapon and armour customisation is coming to Conqueror’s Blade! Known as the Rune System, it will be introduced as part of Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok on March 18!

HISTORY OF RUNES

Runes were not actively used as a means of written communication for Viking peoples, who instead often told stories orally. The word ‘rune’ stems from the Germanic root run- which means a secret or whisper, a nod to their development and use as a language tool by high-ranking Vikings. As such, runestones were often created in commemoration of deeds or people of great importance, and many of them can still be found throughout Scandinavia to this day.

The 26 Ingvar runestones in Sweden are a famous example, erected in memory of the ill-fated Caspian voyage of Ingvar the Far-Travelled. Another famous rune is still in common use around the world, too: the Bluetooth symbol combines the runic initials of Harold Bluetooth (ᚼ and ᛒ), a King of Denmark who united the Danes and brought Christianity to his once-pagan kingdom.



RUNES IN CONQUEROR’S BLADE

Once unlocked, you can apply Runes to your warlord's weapons, helmet and armour, with each bestowing a unique bonus to attributes such as Health, or augmenting various attack or defence stats or abilities. Unlike Weapon Skills, Rune effects are passive, but by mixing them up you can create unique warrior builds that better reflect your personal playing style.

There are two ways to access the Runes interface:

• Navigate to the Seasonal Interface (press F5) and select the new Seasonal Runes tab.
• Press P to bring up the Character Screen and click the Rune icon underneath any equipped item.

Runes come in different types and grades and are unlocked in accordance with your seasonal level. The more levels you unlock during the course of the season, the more Runes you will have access to. Similarly, when levels are reset at the end of a season, Runes become unavailable.

Runes have to be applied to the correct type of equipment (weapon, armour or helm), with each item able to accommodate a maximum of three Runes. Each Rune has a Rune Power requirement, depending on its grade. The higher the grade, the more Rune Power is required to ‘equip’ the Rune. Each item can accommodate Runes with a total Rune Power value of six (for example, you can equip 1 Legendary with 1 Rare, or 2 Epic, or 3 Rare).

Runes are not physical items and therefore are not consumed when removed or replaced. However, they can only be applied to active weapon and armour items. If you want to see which Runes you have unlocked among all those currently available, click the distinct “four square” icon on any applicable screen.

It is time to prepare for a new era of conquest. With Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok approaching on March 18, we will be resetting Territory Wars so that we can ensure that all players, houses and alliances will charge into battle across a level playing field.

In addition to the following changes coming on March 18, we will be running Territory Wars in Drill Mode on March 16. The first Territory War of Season VII will take place on March 20 in the starting regions of Ostaria and Anadolou. Please plan your campaigns accordingly:

ALLIANCE RESET

• Diplomacy between alliances will be reset to Neutral.
• There will be NO CHANGE to alliances in terms of names, member houses, member warlords or leadership.

HOUSE RESET

• House funds will NOT be reset.
• House level will return to Level 1.
• House Prestige will be reset to 0.
• Unresolved war declarations will be cancelled.
• House markers, which are used on the open-world map to tag Resources and places of interest for House members will be removed.
• There will be NO CHANGE to houses in terms of their names, members, leadership, history or achievements.

LEGION RESET

• Imperial Restorationist cohorts (aka NPC houses) will be emptied of all members. Players will not be able to rejoin legions until March 18.
• Acclaim gained as an Imperial Restorationist member will be reset to 0.

FIEF RESET

• Fief ownership will be transferred to NPC houses.
• A fief’s resource centres will return to default with access and transit permitted.
• Fief levels and quests are to be reset.
• Fief Prosperity will revert to 100.

RESOURCE RESET

• Players will have access to acquire and transport resources.
• Site reserves will be set to full.
• The collection tax rate will revert to 100%.

RANKED BATTLES RESET

• Ranked Battle standings will be cleared and Ranked Battle scores reset to 0.

If you have any questions or concerns about the Territory Wars reset, please direct them via the usual channels. You can always share your thoughts and request clarification in our Discord channel.

We’ve just announced that Avatars will be a feature of Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok, allowing you to select from a number of awesome images to represent your warlord in-game. The system makes it relatively easy to add new ones, which means if you wanted to create your own Avatar, we could select the best of them for later inclusion in the game!

What better way to celebrate this than with a competition to see what kinds of Avatars we can expect from our great player community? If you want your designs to be considered, all you have to do is read the rules below and send your entry to us by 23:59 CET on March 29, 2021. So long as it’s judged to be appropriate and is selected by Booming Tech, it could be available in a future update in a few weeks!

1st Place Winner

• Your Avatar design may be added to the game!
• 2,300 Sovereigns
• Exclusive Title

2nd Place Winner

• Your Avatar design may be added to the game!
• 1,100 Sovereigns
• Exclusive Title

3rd Place Winner

• Your Avatar design may be added to the game!
• 525 Sovereigns
• Exclusive Title

NOTE: The winning avatars will be exclusive to their creators for one month after being added to the game, after which they’ll be distributed as rewards for a future community event (TBC).

RULES - PLEASE READ!

• Entries must be submitted as 256x256 digital images (.jpg or .png ONLY), no larger than 100kb file size.
• Your entry cannot feature any pre-existing, copyrighted or third-party material. Only entries featuring original artwork inspired by Conqueror’s Blade will be considered.
• Images should be clearly discernible: Do not include any text, signatures or other elements that could obscure the image, nor any border elements around it.
• Avoid any offensive imagery within your submission. Specifically, no blood, skeletons, dead bodies, or religions iconography (respectfully used or otherwise).
• Images should be attributable to the themes and setting of Conqueror’s Blade: do not include elements such as cars, modern firearms or anything else that would be incongruous with the approximate time period in which the game is set.
• Entries must be received before March 29th, 2021 at 23:59 CET.
• Entries should be submitted via the Contest Discord channel. Please include your character and server name within your submission post. (We may ask for further evidence to prove that your entry was created by you.)
• Only one of your entries can win, but you can submit multiple entries. This is applicable for multiple versions of the same content across various regions.
• Entrants found to violate the Terms of Service or break competition rules are subject to disqualification up to and beyond the conclusion of the competition.
• Competition judges reserve the right to disqualify an entry without recourse or explanation - in such instances, we will seek to justify our decision in private if it is appropriate to do so.
• Sovereign prizes can only be distributed to characters on NA and EU Conqueror’s Blade servers.
• The best entries will be determined by Booming Tech and the MY.GAMES Conqueror’s Blade team and winners will be announced on the Conqueror’s Blade website after the contest has ended.
• You agree that your entry can be added to the game client of Conqueror's Blade in regional and international versions of the product.
• You agree that your entry can be used by Booming Tech and MY.GAMES for promotional purposes (for example, for publication on our official social channels or websites) for all versions of Conqueror’s Blade across all territories in perpetuity.
• Winning entries will only be added to the game at the discretion of Booming Tech.

It's the final weekend before the release of Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok! To help prepare your troops, we are boosting Bronze income from matchmaking battles by 30% until midnight server time on March 15.

Used to patch up units, acquire resources, and improve siege capabilities, Bronze is something you can never have too much of in Conqueror’s Blade. You can sometimes have too little though, which we’re here to help with over the new few days!

See you on the battlements!

Avatars are coming to Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok! What are Avatars, you ask? They are the new profile-style pictures that will represent you in any on-screen communication or feedback, in the same way that your 3D character represents you in the game world. Examples of where your Avatar will be displayed include battle notifications, match lineups and leaderboards, as well as your Character screen, where Avatars will be displayed next to your name and level.



Just like your 3D representation, your 2D self can be one of potentially hundreds of image combinations, based on your in-game exploits and activities. The more classes and units you level up, the more attires you acquire and the more ranks, levels and achievements you unlock, the more Avatars you can select from.



In addition to your main Avatar picture, you can also choose a frame to show it off so that you look your imperious best. Everyone can have a plain square frame, but only the most celebrated warlords can expect a frame that befits their achievements as champions and high-ranking officers.



There will be a special set of Avatars exclusive to Season VII, so be sure to keep a lookout for new profile pictures as not all of them will be available to claim forever! From time to time, we may even invite you to design new avatars that might one day be added to the game, so that others can use your art to represent themselves. In fact, watch this space!

After much hyperbole and ceaseless training on both sides of the community divide, the epic battle between Content Creators and MY.GAMES is ready to go ahead. The bout will be a best-of-three, played out across the battlements of the Conqueror’s City, and it will be glorious! 

Hosted by a strictly bipartisan Zimster via the Official Conqueror’s Blade Twitch Channel, the preamble will begin at 19:30 CET, March 11, with team leader interviews and the first battle scheduled to get underway at 20:00 CET. Chats with the winners of each round will follow, with a tactical recap at the end, when the Clash victors will be crowned and much merriment will be shared. It promises to be a spectacular, fun and good-natured event, so be sure you have a ringside seat when battle is joined!

19:30 CET - be there! 

The Content Creator Team


The MY.GAMES Team

Ragnarok is coming to Conqueror’s Blade, and an epic new saga is about to begin. Hear the dire prophecy of the Seeress in the official cinematic trailer for Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok, launching as a free update on March 18!

The trailer features ‘Galgaldr’, a song by the Danish band Heilung taken from their 2019 album Futha. With lyrics recorded in Old Norse and inspired by Völuspá – a prophecy of Ragnarok – Heilung’s atmospheric sound is the perfect score to immerse players in a dark new era for Conqueror’s Blade.



Prepare to embark on an epic new Seasonal Campaign starring warring bands of Northmen, augment your warlord’s attributes using Runes, besiege a new map, and battle to lay claim to over 100 exclusive seasonal rewards from the Battle Pass. You can also complete Unit Challenges throughout Season VII to recruit Viking-inspired Northmen units to your army, including fearless Shieldmaidens, unstoppable Berserkers, and the war-crazed Sons of Fenrir!

Pre-purchase the Battle Pass today to start Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok with Thegn’s Hero Attire instantly unlocked, plus get a bundle of free in-game items to use straight away!

Ragnarok is coming to Conqueror’s Blade, and the time is almost nigh to stop it with axe, shield, and the Allfather’s fury! You can now pre-purchase the Battle Pass to dive straight into a new saga when Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok lands on March 18, and also enjoy instant in-game rewards today.



The Battle Pass is your key to unlocking over 100 levels of exclusive rewards throughout Season VII. Fight and raise your Nobility Tier by earning Glory through the new Campaign and Seasonal Challenges. The Æsir’s chosen can ascend the ranks to earn legendary cosmetics, Emotes, currency to exchange for new weapon skins, and lots more!

Pre-purchase the Season VII Battle Pass today to receive the following instant rewards (only available before March 18):

• Season VII Battle Pass: Active from March 18th with Thegn’s Hero Attire instantly unlocked!
• 2 Skald's Sagas: Redeem them from March 18 to receive 5,000 Glory per item and boost your Battle Pass level.
• 10 Unit Medals: Each Unit Medal grants 5,000 Unit XP to a selected unit.
• 50,000 Bronze Coins
• 1 Treatise: This allows the War Scholar to excavate ancient battlefields and collect Doctrines to give your units bonuses.
• Fragmentary Letter: A special item featuring lore from Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok.

Play Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok from March 18 to unlock Odin’s Hero Attire, Tyr’s Warband Unit Attire, Sleipnir’s Mount Attire, and even more Battle Pass treasures worthy of the vaults of Asgard!

In advance of the Shieldmaidens and Berserkers soon to be let loose upon Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok, the Sons of Fenrir furtively stalk the land in ahead of the main attack. Inspired by the Viking acolytes that worshipped the cult of the monstrous wolf-god Fenrisúlfr, what these skirmishers lack in frenzied raw power they make up for with feral agility and breathtaking bursts of speed. It is the only warrior unit in the known world thought able to defeat an enemy head-on by planting an axe in its back!

In Norse mythology, Fenrir was a wolf sired by Loki and the giantess Angrboða. Shackled by the gods who feared what it would become, still it grew to an enormous size, broke its bonds, and brought Ragnarok upon the Æsir. Völuspá, featured in the Poetic Edda, is a prophecy told to Odin by a völva (seeress) of his eventual demise at the claws of this great beast. The Sons of Fenrir pay homage to Fenrisúlfr by adopting the outward appearance and mannerisms of wolves by wearing their pelts. Some even use the hollowed-out skull of the animal as a mask while retaining its bloodied and matted scalp as a hood.

As well as providing warmth in the frozen northern climes, evidence from throughout history suggests that the wearing of full animal hides was mostly ceremonial in nature - after all, the worshipping of animals to such extremes was more akin to a cult than of the religious mainstream.

However, the practice of adopting the full form of an animal also provided a unique form of camouflage. A warrior in the mind of the wolf was able to move quickly through low cover, often revealing only the head to suggest to an enemy that a deadly predator was stalking its prey. The unit could then silently surround an enemy, before closing in for the kill. Needless to say that after a successful hunt, it was common among some tribes for the quarry to be consumed as a part of a ritual, one that conveniently served to enhance the bloodthirsty reputation of the wolf-obsessed warriors among allies as much as enemies.



Completing the trio of Norse-inspired units coming to Season VII, the Sons of Fenrir add fanaticism and cunning to the Northmen’s arsenal, being able not only to spot for and provide support for heavier units but effectively substitute for them as well.

The unit is agile enough to avoid most entanglements due to its speed but is also able to reduce the effectiveness of incoming ranged attacks by rearranging into a Dispersed formation. This can be combined with a skill that allows the Sons of Fenrir to maintain its movement speed while reducing piercing damage even further.

But it’s the unique method employed to engage with an enemy that is more characteristic of the unit, more than any effort to maintain distance from it. A perfectly-timed leap allows the Sons of Fenrir to scramble over the front ranks of the enemy, whereupon the unit can summon itself to tear into the heart of the enemy with a primal, beast-like fervour. Were there anyone left standing to tell testament of such an assault, it would truly be a bloody sight to behold  

Stay tuned to the official website and our social channels for more news on Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok before its launch on March 18!

Please be aware that from 7:00 CET on March 10 (10:00 pm PST 3/9), the Conqueror’s Blade servers will be inaccessible. The downtime is expected to last for 8 hours.

• Teutatis (EU3) will be merged into Crystal Sea (EU1)
  
• Empyros (EU4) will be merged into Sicania (EU2)

To cover any questions you might have about the transferral process, please refer to the FAQ. Meanwhile, stay tuned to our Discord channel in case of any immediate server updates.