El Errante (la tienda)

What it is

It is not a shop: it is a travelling stall, and the same man in five different places. What he carries depends on the land you find him in, because the catalogue is themed by continent — not one shop window with the backdrop swapped out.

It plays two opposite roles at once, and that is the point of it: it is where the Khron comes in from everything you track and dig, and it is where it goes — every purchase is swallowed by the stall and never handed back. It is the counter where work turns into money and money turns into tools.

When it opens

It is open from the very first minute, with no requirements at all: buying your first tool there is literally the goal the game starts you on, and it seeds you exactly 675 Khron — enough for one, not a coin more.

What is staggered is the catalogue. While you are still missing the Compass or the Claws, the stall shows you that tool and nothing else; after that, each article appears when you set foot in the continent that introduces it. Travelling between lands you have already conquered is free, so going to buy an item in its own homeland is always an option.

You get in from the Gadget, «The Wanderer» button.

What it is for

Its real job is not selling you things: it is holding up the price of everything else. Every article in the catalogue is calibrated in work runs of the land that introduces it, so it costs the same number of runs wherever you buy it — and that is the yardstick that decides whether anything in the game is expensive or cheap.

That is why it matters at both ends of a playthrough. At the start it is the only door: without a tool there is nothing, and if you end up with none and nothing to sell, the Wanderer will lend you one on credit. At the end it is the drain: the Dawn Vale ShowcaseDawn Vale ShowcasePrestigeRefinedThe Wanderer — from [[valle-alba|Dawn Vale]] · 22,500 Khron (flat)On sale in [[valle-alba|Dawn Vale]]Alba Valley trophy showcase, the Celestial EmberCelestial EmberPrestigeCelestialThe Wanderer — from [[corazon-del-velo|Heart of the Veil]] · 1,575,000 Khron (flat)On sale in [[corazon-del-velo|Heart of the Veil]]cosmetic: celestial ember aura and the Wanderer's CrownWanderer's CrownPrestigeCelestialThe Wanderer — from [[corazon-del-velo|Heart of the Veil]] · 4,500,000 Khron (flat)On sale in [[corazon-del-velo|Heart of the Veil]]title: the Wanderer's Crown exist so the endgame's Khron has somewhere to go.

And it is the half nobody talks about — selling him your loot — that pays for the Portals, the boss rites and everything else.

How it works

1. 01

   Un puesto por tierra, no una tienda

   El Errante viaja contigo, pero no lleva lo mismo en las cinco tierras. La regla es simple: lo que se paga con Khron es exclusivo del continente que lo hace, y lo que se paga con Esencia está en los cinco. Por eso entrar en el puesto del Valle Alba no se parece a entrar en el del Corazón del Velo. Lo que no se vende aquí sencillamente no aparece: el escaparate se lo salta, no hay una línea que te diga dónde está. Eso solo te lo dice la caja, y solo si intentas comprarlo desde un mensaje antiguo de otra tierra: «El Errante no trae eso a esta tierra · baja a Bosque Umbral» (o «· sube a Dunas del Olvido», según toque). Y viajar entre continentes que ya has abierto es gratis: nada queda fuera de alcance, solo lejos.

   

2. 02

   Lo primero de todo: las dos herramientas

   Mientras te falte la Brújula de Rastreo o las Garras de Excavación, el puesto NO te enseña nada más: solo la que te falta, en su versión Mundana, por 675 Khron — y el Errante te recibe con «Llévate tu primera herramienta, cachorro — el resto de mi mercancía viene después». En cuanto completas la pareja el catálogo se abre entero: te lo canta el propio recibo de esa compra («El Errante ya te enseña TODA su mercancía», que solo sale las dos primeras veces), y a partir de ahí el saludo del puesto cambia a «¿Buscas mejorar, cachorro? Traigo lo mejor de los Continentes». Después seguirá vendiéndote repuestos de todos los niveles que ya hayas forjado tú. La Mundana está siempre y cuesta 675 fijos: es la red de seguridad, y de hecho no se puede forjar. De la Refinada para arriba el precio es lo que costaría hacerla ×1,6, así que a partir de ahí comprar sale peor que craftear, y eso es a propósito.

3. 03

   El escaparate: seis por página y tres cajones

   Los artículos salen de seis en seis, ordenados en tres bloques: HERRAMIENTAS primero (sin ellas no se juega), CONSUMIBLES en medio (lo que repones cada rato) y OBJETOS al final (las compras de una vez en la vida). Ninguna página mezcla bloques ni monedas. Hay un desplegable para comprar, otro para saltar directamente a una categoría, y las flechas para pasar página. Cada ranura tiene un número fijo — s1, s2, s3… — y con `/buy s1` compras esa ranura sin abrir nada; el autocompletado te enseña el nombre y el precio de cada una.

What you can and cannot do

What you do not see

The Wanderer's loan was for a while the best path through the game, by accident. It handed over 675 Khron with no cap, no cooldown and no charge, and the state that unlocked it could be recreated with that very money: measured, 243,000 Khron an hour against the 3,722 farming pays in the first continent. Today it hands over the tool instead of money, leaves a debt taken from the first thing you sell him, and only one a day.

There are two things about prices you cannot see. Carriage: the further you are from an item's homeland, the more it costs — 1% per continent, capped at 4%. At 6% it stopped being «I pay a little for not going» and became a fine, and the walk is free. And prices in Essence are flat across all five lands and carry no surcharge: carriage measures distance from the Khron economy, and Essence has none.

And a third: the market saturates. Past the day's quota for a rarity, he pays 60% until tomorrow.