Editing Ascension (section)

== Reaching the Door ==

What opens the Door depends on whether this would be your first walk or a later one.

=== First ascension: the Warden's Census ===

Your very first Ascension has no score requirement at all — instead, the '''Warden's Census''' must read 100%. The Census is a fixed checklist across nine categories, each a straightforward done/total count:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Category !! What it counts
|-
| Skills at 99 || All 13 [[Skills|skills]] at max level
|-
| Species tamed || Every one of the 57 [[Creatures|species]] you've ever tamed
|-
| Museum complete || All 57 skeletons mounted (the [[Museum]]'s Grand Hall)
|-
| Quest chains finished || Every [[Quests|quest]] chain in the game
|-
| Chronicles & The Sigil || All 40 [[Chronicles]] notes, including the capstone
|-
| Guardians felled || All 10 biome [[Trail#Guardian bosses|Guardians]]
|-
| Arena tiers won || All 30 [[Arenas]] pairs (10 Guardians × Gamma/Beta/Alpha)
|-
| Rift bosses felled || The 4 base [[Rifts]] boss fights (Beta/Alpha rank variants don't count toward this — or gate anything else about the Door)
|-
| Achievements || Every [[Achievements|achievement]] except the two secret trials and the Ascension-track ones themselves (an achievement that requires ascending can't be required to ascend)
|}

Every denominator above is read live from the game's own content, so shipping a new species, biome, arena tier, or rift boss raises the bar automatically for anyone who hasn't crossed it yet. The Census only has to hit 100% once — it never has to be re-cleared on later cycles.

=== Later ascensions: Guardians and score ===

Once you've walked the Door at least once, the gate changes:

* All 10 '''Guardians''' must be defeated again (they reset with everything else — see below).
* Your live '''Ascension score''' (see '''[[#Sparks and the score|Sparks and the score]]''' below) must reach or exceed a rising '''bar'''. The bar starts at 0 and, after each ascension, is recalculated from that ascension's score as ''min(score × 1.3, score + 3,000)'', rounded to the nearest 100 — so it always climbs, but a big score jump is capped at +3,000 per cycle rather than compounding forever.

=== What can hold the Door shut mid-attempt ===

Separately from the two gates above, the Door refuses to open while you're mid-action: an active [[Hunting|hunt]] or fight, a [[Rivals|raid]] or [[Tribe#Rogue-clan outposts|siege]], a [[Dispatch]] squad still out, an [[Excavation]] dig running, a [[Breeding]] pair (either pen) in progress, or a Nursery egg still maturing. Finish or cancel whatever's running first.