Torvane

The duel

Torvane is swordplay in an arena where reading your opponent and reacting beats memorising combos. Every death should be a fight you could have won. Combat is brutal and gory, and the Gore setting changes only how a hit looks, never its timing or hitboxes.

Roles, levels and gear

Pick tank, DPS or healer. The three roles form a soft rock-paper-scissors triangle: the favoured side wins more often, never always, so skill can overturn a matchup. Mirror matches are built to be good fights too.

Fighters level from 1 to 5 and earn gear that changes how your role plays. Gear and levels add options, never a win button.

Fair play

• No pay-to-win: nothing that adds power is for sale.

• No counter-swapping: your role is locked for the match.

• No cheap ring-outs: map edges never decide a fight on their own.

• Server-authoritative netcode: the server decides every hit, so lag and cheating are not meant to decide a fight.

The Khaedr

The first fighter is the Khaedr, heavy-boned warriors from a volcanic world. After a war fought from too far away, they swore an oath to kill only within the reach of their own arm and blade, face to face. Their technology lives in their swords, axes, spears, shields and masks.

Torvane is in early development. Everything here describes the game we are building.