The World Boss

There is no way to summon one yourself. It is called up for the whole shard at once, and the Herald announces it in Global chat the moment it happens — that announcement is your only warning, so it pays to have the chat panel where you can see it.

A red moongate then stands in all fourteen towns. Walk to it and click it. You must be in a town, alive, not travelling, not already fighting something, not part-way through a dig, and not so loaded down that you could not swing — the gate says which of those is stopping you if one of them is.

When the 5 minutes are up the gates shut and the roster is closed. Nobody joins a fight in progress. And if nobody at all stepped through, The Time Keeper never turns up.

Everything else works exactly as it does anywhere else. Your weapon, your spells, your bandages, Bardic songs, potions and every Virtue Binding bonus all behave normally, and your skills train off it the way they train off anything.

The moment it falls, a board goes up ranking everyone who fought by total damage dealt. Nothing on it is decided by who landed the last hit.

Press Collect Loot on the board and your share comes to you one piece at a time, the way a treasure chest pays out. You can click past the animation without losing anything. Then the Hourglass puts you back in Britain — on your feet, whatever state you were in when it ended.

The shared pile is loot you could get anywhere — weapons, gold, scrolls, Cap Stones. These are different: they drop nowhere else in the world, and they are the reason to come back once your weapon is already a Vanquishing.

They are not part of the pile. Every fighter gets exactly one roll at them per kill — one roll, not one per piece of loot you happen to take home, so what you walk away with does not depend on how the pile happened to split. Damage decides the odds: do an average share and you get the standard chance, do twice the average and you get twice it, and swinging once at the end leaves you a real but small one. There is a ceiling on it, so nobody is ever simply guaranteed one. At most one per person per kill.

The rarity column is relative to the others on this table, not an absolute chance. Every one of them is rare: the roll only pays out at all a small fraction of the time, and the column tells you which piece you are most likely to see when it does.

Item	What it does	Rarity
Powdered Glass	Sand ground finer than sand, and still warm. A reagent no other kill pays out.	Uncommon
The Unwound Spring	Wind it down and for ten minutes nothing waits to be born — monsters step straight out of the dark. Once a day, and only while you are actually playing.	Uncommon
Vortex Basin	A shallow bowl with a sand vortex that never finishes draining.	Uncommon
Orrery of Dead Hours	Brass rings turning around nothing at all. Slowly.	Uncommon
The Stopped Pendulum Clock	Tall, silent, and always reading the minute the boss died. Your kill, not anybody else’s.	Uncommon
The Great Hourglass	Floor to ceiling, and it really runs — the sand shows how long the shard has stood since its last restart.	Uncommon
The Time Keeper's Head	Mounted. The eyes are still lit, which visitors find upsetting.	Uncommon
The Loop Band	Now and then a swing happens twice, and only one of them was yours.	Uncommon
Band of Borrowed Time	Every buff you drink lasts noticeably longer. The hours come from somewhere.	Uncommon
Signet of the Second Chance	A failed craft sometimes simply did not happen — your materials are still in your hands.	Uncommon
The Chronal Seal	Spells find the seam. Casts can crit.	Rare

The five pieces of furniture go down in your house or your yard like any other placeable. Three of them are not still pictures: the Great Hourglass really runs and its sand reads how long the shard has stood since its last restart, the Orrery really turns, and the Vortex Basin really drains. Those three only move in the yard — indoors a fixture is scaled into a 32-pixel cell and shows its still sprite.

The Stopped Pendulum Clock is the one drop no two people can have the same of: the minute the boss died is engraved into your copy when you claim it, and it never changes afterwards. Hover it to read the engraving.

Two more — Sand of the First Morning and the Echo Shard — are cut and named but not yet in the hoard. They will start dropping when what they do is finished; until then the Time Keeper does not hand out things that do nothing.

A shard restart while a raid is running cancels the event. Anyone left in the Hourglass is returned to Britain, alive and carrying everything they went in with, and the fight pays nothing — the same as running out the clock. An unclaimed hoard survives a disconnection, though: the board reopens when you come back, and it stays claimable for 10 minutes after the kill.