Cathedral

The Cathedral (大聖堂 or 大神殿) is a huge building in Adventurer Cities where players who are killed in Elder Tale revive.

Overview[]

After the Catastrophe, players were unsure whether this revival feature and the Cathedrals still worked, leading to a general apathy from battle and hunting. However, it was soon determined that players who are killed in Elder Tale still revived at the Cathedral, just as they did before the Catastrophe. The discovery that even in-game deaths did not allow players to exit from the game led to a rise in Player Killing.^[1] When entering any location with a Cathedral or a Shrine, Adventurers are instantly bound to it and will revive there unless they come upon another Cathedral or Shrine.

In Minami, Nureha managed to buy the Cathedral and thus had power over the lives of any player who dies with Minami, as his or her revival point was under her control. It is known that those players will not revive (or at least, not at that Cathedral), but it is unknown what happens to them besides that.

Shrines[]

Shrines serve the same purpose as a Cathedral, although they are not located in Adventurer Cities. They can be found from Earthling cities to the wilderness, making it both useful and highly dangerous depending on the situation an Adventurer is in.

There is also a certain type of shrine that can act as portable Cathedrals ; for example, the Odysseia Knights, a suicide cult branch of Plant Hwyaden, somehow came to possess the Portable Shrine of Boreas. Touya's Party, along with Roe2 and Dariella, came across the shrine along with them as they carried it in their hunt for monsters. When any Adventurer who comes in contact with it dies, they respawn at this Shrine. The Odysseia Knights use this to perpetually enter battle, killing monsters while killing themselves, then respawning at the Shrine and continuing the fight.

Raid Safe Zones[]

Raid areas have designated Safe Zones where players revive when they are killed. This is a system that was in Elder Tale so players could continue raiding without the trouble of reviving on a Cathedral far away from the Raid Area.

In the case of the Akiba Raid and the Akiba Guild Hall Raid, Akiba's Cathedral doubled up as their Raid Safe Zone.