Relationship anchors

An anchor is any person, place, faction, or object your character has a meaningful stake in — something they'd fight to protect, or fear losing. Anchors give your GM a direct signal about where your character's stakes are.

Anchor types

There are four anchor types:

Person — an NPC, world NPC, or another player character
Place — a specific location your character is attached to
Cause — a faction, ideology, sworn oath, or vow
Object — an item or artifact that holds personal significance

Setting an anchor

Go to your character profile in the portal.
Click Add Anchor.
Select the anchor type.
Link to an existing world or backstory entity, or create a new one if it doesn't exist in the world yet.
Set the bond strength from 1 to 5, where 1 is a background concern and 5 is something your character would risk everything for.
Save the anchor. It appears in your anchor list and is visible to your GM.

"This matters most"

You can designate one anchor as your top priority. Tap the anchor and select This matters most. Only one anchor can hold this designation at a time.

This signal goes to your GM so they know where your character's deepest stakes are. No explanation is required — the designation alone communicates it. If your priority shifts during the campaign, you can move the designation to a different anchor.

What your GM sees

Your GM sees your anchor list, bond strengths, and your "This matters most" designation. They use this information to understand your character's stakes — not to spoil surprises, but to make sure the threats and pressures they build feel real to your character. If your character doesn't actually care about something, your GM knowing that is useful.

📝Note

Your GM doesn't see anchor notes you mark private. Bond strength and anchor type are always visible to them.

Threat levels

As the campaign develops, your GM can set threat levels on your anchors. When an anchor is threatened, you'll see a threat indicator on it in your portal. This reflects that something in the world is putting pressure on that person, place, cause, or object — your GM decides when and how to surface this.

Anchor lifecycle

Anchors move through stages:

Stage	What it means
Stable	No active threat; the anchor is present in your character's life
Threatened	Something in the world is putting this anchor at risk
Resolved	The threat has concluded — the anchor is safe, lost, or transformed

Resolved anchors stay in your history. If a person you were anchored to died, that record remains. If a place was saved, that's recorded too. Your history of anchors over the course of a campaign becomes part of your character's story.

💡Tip

You don't need to have anchors set to play. But if you're finding that sessions feel disconnected from your character's concerns, adding anchors and communicating them to your GM is often the fastest way to fix that.