In the single-player game, you'll choose to play as any one of these characters, and you'll explore the game's six different realms, which will include your character's hometown. For instance, the amazon calls a jungle region filled with ruins that recall Mayan architecture her home, while the dwarf lives in a tranquil mountain village. Each character's hometown will eventually come to be a home area, which can be revisited instantly using a magic runestone that can be activated every 15 to 20 minutes. Hometowns will feature merchants to sell off the loot you've acquired from hacking and slashing through your enemies, and from which to buy unique items. You'll also be able to use your hometown's forge to socket magical gems, known as "magestone shards," into your weapons and items. These shards will have immediate effects on your inventory (a sword equipped with a red shard may deal fire-based damage, for instance), but they'll also trigger hidden abilities when used in the right combinations (such as planting a red and a green shard in the same weapon to create an all-new effect).

Over the course of the game, you'll develop your character in one of three major skills (each character will have a unique trio of skills). For instance, the amazon uses three different combat stances: a bear stance for hand-to-hand fighting, an eagle stance for fighting with a bow and arrows, and a jaguar stance to perform stealth attacks. You'll advance through each set of skills simply by using those skills repeatedly, which will eventually cause your character to increase in rank in that line of skills, as well as unlock additional new abilities tied to that set of skills.