Hero state & training

Fit, Worn, and who actually gets benched

High stress or low condition never locks a hero out. The only things that truly sideline someone are an injury (its own countdown in days) or being awayon a job. Everything else is a flag: cross a threshold (stress over ~72, condition under 50, fatigue over ~78) and the hero simply stops counting as fit, so auto-selected parties skip them and the roster paints them Worn. You can still send a Worn hero by hand; they just carry a small job-suitability penalty and are likelier to spiral. Crossing several thresholds at once doesn't stack the penalty; it's one flag, one small hit.

Ability, potential & what the stars mean

A hero's overall rating is Current Ability (CA), on a 10–200 scale, and it can grow up to their Potential Ability (PA), the ceiling. The gap between the two is their room to improve, and it's what makes young, unfulfilled heroes train fastest.

The stars are just Current Ability ÷ 40, rounded to the nearest half. That's the whole formula: a 4-star hero is simply one sitting at 150–169 CA. The faint "potential" stars run the same math on PA, showing how far they could climb.

The Training Ground gives every at-home roster hero below Potential a small daily passive Ability gain: 0.12 × facility level × the active staff training multiplier. Its stronger active work uses slots. The yard starts with two; each facility level adds two more and makes assigned work 15% more effective. Assignments settle every six days. Recover and Rehearse use no bench, while Hone can use two. Auto-train idle can preserve your manual choices and fill unused slots for you.Train pushes Current Ability toward Potential; Mentor does the same under a veteran's eye; and about 15% of that progress is also rolled into class-weighted attributes, up to that hero's personal attribute ceilings.

Hone works the other way round: it directly attempts the chosen or role-critical attributes, then adds roughly one point of Current Ability for every two successful attribute points, rounded up. Attributes below 15 improve at the normal pace; each point beyond 15 becomes sharply slower. Delves and realm jobs can also award Current Ability, while separately adding Veterancy. None of these routine paths can take Current Ability past Potential; only exceptional outcomes, such as being forged by a hard war or expedition, can raise the ceiling itself.

Veterancy is not hidden combat power either. It makes yard growth up to 25% faster across its full range and reduces the chance that a downed hero dies, but it does not add damage or attributes. Realm jobs use Current Ability directly; a live delve reads attributes, class and gear instead.