Glim & Promotions

The loop

Everything in Standing Orders turns on one wheel:

1. March. A squad is mustered, ordered, and sent to a well.
2. Battle. The field resolves itself under the squad's writs.
3. Verdict. The plate rises — held, lost, or spent — and grades the march.
4. Glim. The light drawn from the well comes home to the hold.
5. Spend. Hiring, gear, and promotions — then back to the muster table.

Screenshot · Verdict plate with Glim drawn

Glim drawn — the march's pay, in light.

Glim

Glim is the luminous essence that keeps a kingdom's fields alive, and it is the prize of every march. Wells of it pool in the deep wild, guarded by the things that live there — and by other crowns' squads, who want the same light you do. The better the march goes, the more Glim comes home.

Glim is not just treasure; it is time. The whole Reach draws from a shrinking pool, the decline is published for all to see, and a hold that stops bringing light home is a hold the grey wild eventually takes.

Every order written in haste is read twice on the field — once aloud, once over the fallen. — From the Codex

Promotions

A proven soldier can be raised into a senior class for 300 Glim:

From	To	What changes
Fighter	Knight	The line-anchor: heavier stats, Guard Crush, and the Bodyguard reaction.
Hunter	Sniper	Distance becomes certainty: accuracy, evasion, and a much sharper crit.
Cleric	Bishop	A senior cleric whose blessings outlast any siege.
Witch	Archmage	The master of the arcane; the hedge-craft made whole.
Wizard	Archmage	Witches and wizards alike end here, by different roads.

A promoted soldier keeps everything they knew — a Knight can still slot every Fighter skill on their writ, and adds the new class's arts on top. The full class-by-class detail lives in the class reference.

Who gets promoted first?

The soldier whose writ you rely on most. A promotion makes an existing plan stronger; it does not fix a bad one. Rewrite first, promote second.