Alfheim’s Defense: Chronicles

Chronicles is the season's clock. It runs stage by stage through the whole battle, each stage unlocks something on the map, and the end of stage 16 opens Decaywood Palace.

The four quest families

Family	Who completes it
Solo Quest	You
Tribe quests	Your Tribe
Team quests	Your whole Team, both kingdoms
Battalion Quest	Your Battalion

The stage that opens the center

Stage 16 is Capturing Cities and Lands. What it unlocks is Decaywood Palace (Level 8 Lair), and the game spells out the rule:

“When this Stage ends (regardless of whether the goals were achieved), the Decaywood Palace located at the center of Alfheim will activate immediately. You can only attack the Decaywood Palace that borders your Tribe Territory.”

So the center opens on time whether your Team finished the stage or not, and the Teams whose territory already touches it are the ones who can fight for it. Build your Forts and Flag Towers toward the center before stage 16 ends. See the Lairs.

What the stages ask

Stage	Quests
1, the opening stage	Defeat 50 Bloodblade Generals of level 56 or higher in Alfheim (Exorcise Evil). Your Tribe completes 1 Tribe Fort before the stage ends.
2	Retake the Stronghold.
11, the early settlement	12,000,000 War Merit from enemy Teams' troops in Alfheim. Occupy 1 Manor of level 7 or higher. Your Team: 3,000,000,000 War Merit from T5 and higher troops. Battalion Merits: 1,800,000,000.
15, Strategic Conquest	Eliminate Anomalies: “During this Stage, defeat 10 Lv 24 or above Bloodaxe Fiends in Alfheim.” Your Battalion defeats 100 Bloodaxe Fiends.
16, Capturing Cities and Lands	Merits Galore: 24,000,000 War Merits. Occupy Pass: “Before this Stage ends, your Battalion occupies 1 Level 8 Passes in Alfheim for the first time.”
17, Mid-Phase Settlement	Merits Galore: 26,000,000 War Merits from enemy Teams' troops. Eliminate Filth: “By the end of this Stage, defeat a total of 35 dark elves within Eggrot Chasm or Nightrot Forest”. Invincible: “Before this Stage ends, occupy 1 Lairs of Lv 8 and above.” Battalion Merits: 4,000,000,000.
21, the final settlement	The track's closing settlement stage.

Other stages along the way rebuild the Fortress, break through the Passes, and take Corrupt Insect City.

The reward that matters most: Divine Crystals

A Chronicles Divine Crystal gives you one crystal for each Divinity: Heimdall, Tyr and Freya. Upgrades on your Divinity's statue are paid in crystals. See Divine Awakening.

For tribe leaders

• Read each stage's Tribe and Battalion quests the day it opens, and assign them.
• Build a Tribe Fort in stage 1. It is a quest, and it starts your territory.
• Have your Battalion's Lv 8 Pass target chosen before stage 16, and its Lv 8 Lair target before stage 17.