Faded Legacy & Astral Reign¶

Morimens has two storylines with different game rules: Faded Legacy and Astral Reign. These are often called Arc 1 and Arc 2 by the community.

Faded Legacy is the original story that released with Morimens. It begins with the Prologue and ends with Chapter 9.

Astral Reign is a new storyline that started after the game's 1^st anniversary. As of this writing, the latest chapter is Astral Reign Chapter 5.

Astral Reign stages have different rules. Exploration is reworked, game mechanics are rebalanced, and all characters have a new talent called Soulforge Aptitude that changes how they play. These are the rules used in almost all endgame content.

Astral Reign builds look different from Faded Legacy builds. Don't assume that teams that work in one game mode will work in another.

Each stage tells you which ruleset it uses:

Faded Legacy (Arc 1)¶

Faded Legacy rules are the ones you're already familiar with. They're used in:

• Faded Legacy story chapters (normal and hard)
• Awakener Trials
• Interludes (including Lightless Realm)
• Phantasmal Dive
• Side stories originally released during the 1^st year of the game
• Events originally released during the 1^st year of the game

R Wheels¶

The lowest-rarity wheels are very powerful in Faded Legacy.

Many new players ignore R wheels. These wheels are actually better than most SR and even SSR wheels. They're so powerful they had to be nerfed by removing their abilities in Astral Reign stages.

If you're new, put R wheels on all your supports. The benefit of SSR and SR wheels is raw stats, which are only important on your main damage dealer and shielder. Everyone else is more useful holding R wheels.

Here are some of the best wheels in the game:

Astral Reign (Arc 2)¶

Astral Reign rules were created to fix game balance by nerfing game-breaking builds from Faded Legacy. They're used in:

• Astral Reign story chapters (normal and hard)
• D-Effect Zone
• Hectic Skybound Rail
• Side stories released after the 1^st anniversary of the game
• Events released after the 1^st anniversary of the game

Soulforge Aptitude¶

Soulforge (SF) is the most important thing to level in Astral Reign.

Each character's soulforge talent gives them new abilities in Astral Reign stages. In some cases, it overhauls how the character is played, or enables entirely new teams to work.

Each level of Soulforge Aptitude also increases CON, ATK, and DEF by 3% in Astral Reign stages. This is like adding 5 extra character levels per soulforge level.

Here are some of the most impactful soulforge talents:

• Kathigu-Ra, Pollux, and Vortice become much stronger.
• Corposant deals massive bonus damage to Aequor enemies.
• The Lemurians — Faros, Goliath, Miryam, GMurphy, and Tulu — get gigantic buffs when put in a team together.

Keyflare Rouse¶

In Astral Reign, you spend keyflare to get rouses during battle.

You can't rouse characters at healing junctions or shops like in Faded Legacy. The main way to get rouses is to use Keyflare Rouse.

Once each turn, you can spend 1000 keyflare (one full meter) to add a rouse to your hand. Each time you do this, the cost increases by 1000 for the rest of the battle.

Keyflare Regen is incredibly important in Astral Reign because of Keyflare Rouse. Without enough keyflare, you can't rouse your characters and they don't do anything.

Summary of Rules Changes¶

For full details, you can click the Astral Reign icon in each stage, or check the Mythag Compendium.

Archive Mark¶

Your relics and posses have 1% higher numbers for each posse you've unlocked.

Arithmetica Harmony¶

Playing more than 10 command cards in a turn costs more arithmetica.

Arithmetica Overflow¶

You can have a maximum of 12 arithmetica. Any more is converted into keyflare.

Aliemus Harmony¶

Effects that increase aliemus generation (e.g. the SSR wheel Incalculable Factor) are halved.

Each time you use an exalt, that exalt costs 10 more aliemus for the rest of the battle.

At the end of each turn, for each character that didn't exalt that turn, you get keyflare based on their Keyflare Regen.

Existence Paradox¶

Your starting death resistance is reduced to ¼ of its original amount. You get a small max HP bonus in return. If you have more than 400% death resistance, the excess is not reduced.

Each time you trigger death resistance, you get a "Silver Key Gleam." This is a 0-cost card that lets you choose from 3 random posses you've unlocked and activate one of them.

Bottomless Scar¶

If you heal more HP than 100% of your max HP in a battle, all future healing in that battle is reduced by 25%. This stacks up to 3 times. Each time it triggers, you get some death resistance.

Prismatic Lens¶

Your permanent counter is reduced each turn if you have more permanent counter than 20× your max HP. You can't gain more permanent counter than 60× your max HP.

Poison on enemies is reduced each turn if they have more poison than 30× your max HP. You can't apply more poison than 90× your max HP.

Poison and counter are 25% more effective for each roused awakener in the battle.

Attacks that get bonus damage based on your counter have severely reduced scaling. This means Pandia, Ultra "24", and Wanda are much weaker (but not Nautila's Fixed DMG).

Light Cone of Fate¶

If you don't kill a normal enemy after 6 turns, it will Gaze you every turn instead of attacking for the rest of the fight. Each Gaze permanently adds a symptom to your deck.

When your 15^th turn starts, you get a "Light Cone of Fate." This is a 0-cost card that fully charges your keyflare and the aliemus of all awakeners.