Forging Avatars
Minting a new Avatar happens right on your Roster — tap the Forge Avatar button at the top of the Roster tab. It's instant: pick a role, spend your Avatar Essence, and your new fighter is minted on the spot — no cook slot, no cook timer, no trip to the Kitchen. (The old "Forge New Avatar" Kitchen cook and the even older destructive six-gear Forge are both retired.)
The decision — forge new, or deepen what you have?
A new Avatar starts at the bottom — Essence Tier 0, a 250 stat budget — and needs its own Equipment, Skills, and Essence climb. Forge when you need a new role or class for a team; otherwise your Essence usually goes further growing a fighter you already field.
Standard forge — roll the class
The Forge Avatar button mints one new Avatar instantly:
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Where | Roster → Forge Avatar (an instant in-place mint — no Kitchen cook) |
| Cost | 25 Avatar Essence — or pay 7,500 RSNC if you're out of Essence (Tune-In discount applies at burn) |
| You pick | The Avatar's role (Anchor / Striker / Mender) |
| It mints at | Essence Tier 0 — a 250 stat budget |
The role is the one thing you choose up front. Everything else — class, element, stats — is rolled, and you grow the fighter from there.
Premium forge — pin the class
If you want to choose the new Avatar's class instead of leaving it to chance, use the premium variant. It costs 3 Aspect tokens of the same class plus 150 Avatar Essence, and the Avatar mints as that class. (Standard forging rolls the class for 25 Essence; premium is the guaranteed-class path.)
Aspects ("Aspect of the <Class>" tokens) drop from the Journey — higher on Elite, Boss, and Swarm nodes — so a committed premium forge means banking three same-class Aspects first.
Where Avatar Essence comes from
Avatar Essence is the fuel for forging (and for Essence upgrades, Glyph cooks, and Ascension). Main sources: your one-time starter grant of 105 Essence (dropped when you finish onboarding — enough to forge your first team of three), the Journey (first-clears, chapter/sprint completions, repeat runs), Discord loot drops, and essence-synthesis cooks. See Essence for the full breakdown.