The first and most permanent decision you make when signing up to Kanveay is your race: 🩸 the Blood Clan (vampires) or 🌙 the Moon Clan (werewolves). It cannot be changed later; your character fights on whichever side they were born into. The good news is that neither race is "stronger" — but knowing exactly where the choice does shape your experience lets you pick your side deliberately and makes your first week far more productive. That is what this guide is about. For community topics such as founding a clan, the treasury and membership, see the Clans guide; for the details of the combat maths, see the Combat System page — we will not repeat those here.

🧭 What does your race actually decide?

In Kanveay the races are deliberately symmetrical: there is no hidden stat bonus at sign-up, no secret damage multiplier, no race-only item advantage. What the choice does touch, however, is far from trivial:

• Who your enemy will be — In the arena you can only attack players of the opposing race; the system blocks an attack on your own kind with "You can only attack the enemy clan." If you are a vampire your prey is werewolves, and the other way round.
• Who your allies will be — Player clans are locked to a race: a vampire can only join Blood clans. The world boss, the clan's shared content, is therefore always fought shoulder to shoulder with warriors of your own race.
• The name and mood of your ritual — The race-specific power-gathering feature is called the Rite of Blood for vampires and the Ritual of the Moon for werewolves. The maths is identical on both sides, but the theme on screen changes completely: a blood-red power bar against a moon-blue one.
• Your visual identity — Your interface colour follows your race: vampire accounts get badges and avatar frames in red tones, werewolf accounts in blue. Even the ready-made avatar sets are themed — the vampire side offers options like 🧛, 🦇 and ⚰️, while the wolf side leans on 🐺, 🌕 and 🐾.
• How the game addresses you — A small but pleasant detail: when you start a mine shift the screen says "Your vampire is in the mine!" or "Your werewolf is in the mine!"; the homepage greeting, the battle reports and a good deal of other text adapt to your race.

📊 Where there is a difference, and where there is not

One glance at the table is enough before you decide:

🩸 Blood Clan: the calculation of the night

In the game's fiction, vampires are cold-blooded, deliberate hunters: the side that weighs its target from a distance, waits for the right moment and finishes it in one move. If you want to play to that identity, the critical-hit axis may suit you — accuracy raises your critical chance, intelligence raises critical damage, and together they produce a "quiet but lethal" fighting style. Let us be explicit: this is a thematic suggestion, not a mechanical requirement. A werewolf can put the same gold into the same stats; what vampire identity gives you is a sense of direction and a stage, not a hidden multiplier.

🌙 Moon Clan: the power of the full moon

Werewolves stand for the pack and for raw force: they come through the door, face you down, and whoever is still standing wins. If you want a body-built character to match the theme, a distribution weighted towards strength and endurance carries that mood well — a fighter with plenty of health who can stomach long battles. The same caveat applies: the stat costs and the combat formula are identical for both races. When deciding, ask not "which side is strong" but "which story is mine". If you cannot choose, here is a practical criterion: join whichever side your friends are on — clan content and the world boss can only be shared with players of your own race.

⚖️ The crowded side or the sparse one?

The counter on the homepage shows the live warrior count of both races, and that number has a more interesting consequence than you might expect. Arena matching looks at combat value, not level, and brings you opponents whose power sits within roughly ±35%; by definition those opponents are always of the opposing race. So if the opposing race is crowded your pool of targets widens and your arena list gets more varied; if your own race is crowded it is easier to find a clan and build a strong roster for the world boss. Both are legitimate preferences — if you are an aggressive PvP player, picking the less populated side and hunting the crowd makes sense; if you are a social player, joining the crowded side does. And for the moments when you want to fight without regard to race, the duel hall described in the Arena and PvP guide is always an open door.

🚀 Opening strategy: a plan for your first 72 hours

Whichever race you pick, the game gives every new warrior the same protection, and using that window well doubles your first week. The newcomer period lasts 72 hours from sign-up or until you reach level 8, whichever comes first, and throughout it both the XP and the gold you earn are doubled. On top of that, as long as you attack no one during this window, no one can attack you — but the moment you make your first attack, that protection falls away for good. Here is how to plan it:

1. Spend the double-earnings window on production. Hunting is the basic loop, running on 10 energy and never risking your health; with the newcomer multiplier every hunt leaves twice the gold. Hunt as your energy fills and do not let it sit.
2. Do not go on the attack before your protection drops. The arena is not going anywhere. In the first days a single early attack puts you on the whole opposing race's target list before you are ready. Build your stat and gear base first.
3. Use the dungeons' gentle entrance. The first three floors of the Well are deliberately tuned soft so new players can settle in — do your first runs there and learn the rhythm. Details in the Dungeons and PvE guide.
4. Do not let your ritual overflow. Rite of Blood / Ritual of the Moon power accumulates at 1 per minute even while you do nothing, but it stops at 100 — power stuck at the cap is power that is not accumulating. Once you have at least 20, set it off right before a hard run: every 5 power gives all your stats +1 for 30 minutes, plus an instant burst of gold scaled by your level.
5. Drop in once a day. Login rewards count your total login days in the month; there is no penalty for breaking a streak. Even a brief visit counts towards the milestone rewards at the end of the month.

🎓 Stat distribution: work with the curve, not against it

The Combat System guide explains in detail what each of the five stats does in battle; we will not go into that here. This section is about something else: in what order and on what logic should you put gold into your stats?

Training cost is exponential, and this is the most overlooked fact in opening strategy. Raising a stat by one point at level 40 costs around 3,500 gold; that same single point costs about 13,000 at level 60, about 65,500 at level 100 and about 558,000 at level 200. In other words, advancing five stats together is always cheaper than forcing one: spreading 40 points into each of five stats eats far less gold than climbing a single stat to the same total. The game's balance backs this up — characters piled into one stat are exactly the side the formula leaves at a disadvantage against balanced opponents.

Stats also have returns that never show up in the arena, and those belong in your distribution decision too:

• Intelligence pays on every hunt. Hunting loot gets a flat gold bonus equal to half your intelligence — for a "producer" who never enters a fight but hunts dozens of times a day, that small bonus quietly adds up.
• On the world boss all five stats are equal. The damage you deal is calculated from the sum of your five stats; which stat they belong to does not matter. Since the reward pool is split by damage share, points spread evenly — because they stay cheap — are the ones that grow your boss income most efficiently.
• Endurance lowers your dungeon costs. Every point adds +6 to your health pool; a bigger pool means fewer health potions and a deeper record in Well and Dark Lair runs.
• The ritual bonus treats everyone the same. Because the ritual you set off gives an equal +1 to every stat, it favours no build — whichever one you choose, the tactic of firing it before hard content works exactly the same.

Practical advice: in the first weeks keep the five stats close together and never leave one at zero for long; a slight tilt towards your identity (the vampire's critical axis or the wolf's body axis) adds flavour and costs you nothing. The stat-training goal in the weekly quests already rewards steady training — for the full set of quest packages see the Quests guide, and for where to find the gold see the Economy guide.

⚠️ Three classic mistakes of a new warrior

1. Breaking your protection early. Saying "let me try one attack" on day one means spending the rest of your double-earnings window under attack from the opposing race. Do not rush.
2. Forcing a single stat past 60. With that gold you could have carried two stats up to 40; both your combat value and your world-boss damage would have been higher. The exponential curve does not forgive.
3. Leaving the ritual sitting at the cap to "build up". Power waiting at 100/100 is no longer accumulating; the player who fires it regularly gets both more buffs and more gold in the same time.

❓ Can your race be changed later?

No. The race you choose at sign-up is permanent, tied to your account; the only affiliation you can change is your clan within your own race. That is why we recommend talking it over with your friends before you start. For this and other short answers, the FAQ is always at hand.

Chosen your side? Then the next stop is finding a clan: the Clans: Blood and Moon guide is waiting. If you want to learn the combat maths in depth, continue with Combat System and Stats.