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The Wardens' gifts

The chapters for the reborn end every part with something worth having: a look of your own, a power on a key, a companion that fights, the best wings, a door home from the Deep, the best amulet, the fastest mount and titles that only these chapters give. This page says what each does. Where each comes from: Chapters for the reborn.

A reborn with the Rime aura and the Wings of the First Warden, the Ink-wisp beside them, a Grown stunned by Speak the Name, and the ability bar beside the quick potions

Auras

An aura is a moving look round your character, and everyone near you sees it: in the open world, in the Deep, in towns and on the event floors. You show one at a time, or none.

Aura	What it looks like	From
Ash-script	grey flecks and small letters of ash rising	Chapter IV, part 1
Ledger-light	three pages of light turning round you	Chapter IV, part 5
Still water	rings spreading at your feet, and drops falling	Chapter V, part 2
Rime	frost falling round you, in a cold glow	Chapter VI, part 1
Starless	dark motes drifting round you, with small stars in them	Chapter VII, part 2
The Threshold's crown	a ring of nine small flames turning over your head	Chapter VII, part 5

To choose one, open the Achievements window (Y) and its Auras tab: the ones you have can be shown with Show, the ones you have not are greyed with where they come from, and None shows none. An aura stays yours through every rebirth.

Abilities

Three powers, each on a key of its own. Once you have one, a bar of their buttons sits beside your quick potions (on a phone, wherever there is room: over the hotbar or over the buttons on the right): each shows its key, and a shadow sweeps down it while it cools. A click on a button uses it too. You can change the keys in Settings.

Ability	Key	Every	What it does
Speak the Name	the key left of 1	30 s	Every Grown within 6 tiles takes 150% of your blow and is stunned for 2 seconds (a boss or a great one for 1): a stunned Grown cannot move, strike or shoot, a great one's move under way is broken off, and it has stars over its head.
Rime Ward	Shift and that key	45 s	A ward of frost takes what the Grown would do to you, up to a quarter of your life, for 8 seconds.
The Wardens' Answer	0	60 s	For 8 seconds you take 30% less from the Grown, and each one that strikes you is struck back for your whole blow (once a second each).

They work in the open world, in the Deep and in the dungeons; in a town, on an event floor or in the arena they do nothing ("Not here").
They touch only the Grown, never another player, and a Grown's thorns do not answer them.

Companions

Three Mythic pets that fight beside you. Wear one in your pet slot (the bag), as with every pet: each fires a bolt at what you are fighting, and each bolt does something more.

Companion	Perks	Its bolt	And
Ink-wisp	+4% damage, +3% critical chance	every 3 s, 35% of your damage	marks what it hits: for 5 s that Grown takes 12% more damage from you and your group
Rime-hound	+30 life, 2% less damage taken	every 3.5 s, 30%	chills: what it bites is slowed for 3 s
Starless wyrmling	+5% damage, +20% critical damage	every 3.5 s, 30%	chains: its spark leaps to 2 more Grown within 5 tiles, for half

See Pets for every pet and how rarities work.

The Wings of the First Warden

Wings: flight 7, the longest of any, and 50 more life, 6 armour and 3% more speed. They are drawn broad and feathered, with a golden edge, and shed a few motes while you fly. They take any wing dye.

The Deep door

The Key of the Deep door is a Home upgrade:

Away from your Home, use the key (from the bag or the hotbar): you step through a door to your Home Stone at once.
The door back stays open where you stood for 15 minutes. Use the key at your Home, and you step back to that very spot. If it has filled with rock, or someone has set down a Home there, the door closes and you stay home.
The way out can be taken once every 10 minutes; the way back is free.

It needs a Home of your own.
Not from a dungeon, an event's floor, a town's streets, a duel or the arena, not with a trade pack, not while you are red, and not within 10 seconds of being hurt (the travel rule).
Made for the Deep: go home with a full bag, come back to the same spot at the dig face.

Wing dyes

Four dyes only the chapters give. Each colours any wings you wear and does something as they beat.

Dye	Colour	As the wings beat
Ledger ink	ink-dark blue	drops of ink fall from the tips
Vellum	old gilt	gold glints catch the light
Steward's blue	frost-blue	frost flakes fall
Threshold	turns slowly from the dark through violet to the morning	dark motes

Mounts and the Seal

The Ashwing drake (Chapter V): speed 1.9, the fastest mount.
The Rime-stag (Chapter VI): speed 1.8, and the best jump of any mount.
The Seal of the Second Hand (Chapter IV): the best amulet in the game.

See Mounts.

Mythic titles

The ends of Chapters V, VI and VII give Mythic titles, a tier above Legendary: shown over your name in Mythic's rose, with a small crown either side and a slow shimmer. Chapter IV's the Twice-Named is Legendary.

Title	How
the Namegiver	give the First Warden its name back (Chapter V)
the Last Word	let the First Warden fade (Chapter V)
the Crownbreaker	break the Second Crown (Chapter VI)
the Uncrowned	lay the Second Crown in the Registry (Chapter VI)
the Remembered	bring Tamsin Hale home (Chapter VII)
the Threshold-keeper	leave her to keep the door (Chapter VII)

Show one from the Achievements window (Y), as with every title: see Achievements and titles.