Overworld · The Velan Codex

New region: the Sallow's upper valley and the Shardfield's southern edge, with landmarks for the Sallow warp, Corran (Art/Concepts/world/landmark-corran-a.png), the Hour Stair (landmark-hour-stair-a.png) and the Undermere mouth (landmark-undermere-a.png).
Triggers: Act3Walk_1 to Act3Walk_3 (1.4).

From Walkthrough: Act 3 › Locations › Overworld

Three spells cast outside battle, to open the world rather than fight in it.

Spell	Faction, style	Shape	Effect
Listen	Still Choir, mirrored	One short, slow stroke straight up	Shows hidden glyph fragments nearby for 20 s
Bloom	Tenders, mirrored	A small hook curling inward	Clears overgrowth and opens vine-locked doors
Ford	Waymakers, parallel	Both thumbs: one long stroke to the right	Crosses a river or a gap marked for it

From Spell Set › Overworld

Landmarks

The milestone (Road_1), the reed bed (Road_2), the last hill (Road_3), the high-water towpath (Road_4, Road_5), the Halfway landmark miniature (concept landmark-halfway-a).

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Locations

Concept art

**Overworld A**
Prompt
Overworld gameplay screen of a mobile JRPG, faux-3D world map, camera looking steeply down at the ground from high above at 60 degrees, HD-2D miniature diorama, a tiny hero figure standing on a dirt path in the center of the frame, around him a small farming village of six cottages, square crop fields, a river with a stone bridge, clumps of round trees, a white symmetric shrine on a little hill, map edges fading into soft tilt-shift blur, toy-like readable landmarks, warm daylight, stylized hand-painted 3D game art, soft cel shading --ar 16:9 --sref https://cdn.midjourney.com/e1cbf51f-e14d-47a5-878b-299fa466e41a/0_1.png`, --sw 40
Midjourney job `3e0c223a-0aaf-4a0f-989d-56289bb7702b / 1, 0`

**Overworld B**
Prompt
Overworld gameplay screen of a mobile JRPG, faux-3D world map, camera looking steeply down at the ground from high above at 60 degrees, HD-2D miniature diorama, a tiny hero figure standing on a dirt path in the center of the frame, around him a small farming village of six cottages, square crop fields, a river with a stone bridge, clumps of round trees, a white symmetric shrine on a little hill, map edges fading into soft tilt-shift blur, toy-like readable landmarks, warm daylight, stylized hand-painted 3D game art, soft cel shading --ar 16:9 --sref https://cdn.midjourney.com/e1cbf51f-e14d-47a5-878b-299fa466e41a/0_1.png`, --sw 40
Midjourney job `3e0c223a-0aaf-4a0f-989d-56289bb7702b / 1, 0`

Elsewhere in the Codex

Overworld casting, outside battle.
From Spell Set › What the code would need

Content to make: Act1_Road_Back (lines vary by companion flags). Encounter road_glint reused on a second marker Road_5, when act1.stage == 5, once. Overworld water level raised and a mirror-patch shader on the river while act1.stage == 5 (a location when on a scene object, or a material swap: question 9).
From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Act 1: The Sallow Road › Chapter 5: The Sallow Wyrm

[ ] 11. Should the overworld be one growing scene or split per act? Recommendation: one Overworld scene for the Sallow valley (Sallowbank to Halfway), and a new overworld scene per region from Act 2 (the Long Road, the Shardfield), so scene ownership stays one ticket at a time.
From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Open questions for Ray

Content to make: Yarn: Act3_Walk_1, Act3_Walk_2, Act3_Walk_3. Overworld triggers on markers Act3Walk_1 to Act3Walk_3. Optional random encounters on this stretch: sallow_road_glints, sallow_road_winged.
From Walkthrough: Act 3 › Chapter 1: The warps reach home › The road to Corran

[ ] 96. One overworld scene or one per region. Recommendation: one Overworld scene for the Sallow valley (Sallowbank to Halfway), and a new overworld scene per region from Act 2 (the Long Road, the Shardfield), so scene ownership stays one ticket at a time. Sources: walkthrough-act-1.md Q11.
From Walkthrough: Act 4 › Open questions for Ray, all tabs › Tech and production

Overworld spells folded in: Bloom becomes Root's field effect and Ford becomes Drift's. Listen keeps its shape and gains a battle effect.
From Spell Roadmap › Changes from the Spell Set tab