What the Karma Shards buy: every recorded boon, what the tiers are worth, and the six named blessings sold at the Shrine of Causality.
Boons of Salvation are permanent, account-wide upgrades bought with Karma Shards at the Shrine of Causality.
They apply across all four Part I routes, which is what makes them a long-term investment rather than a route upgrade.
There are 31 recorded boons across 6 groups, and the shape of the list says a lot about the intended second playthrough: experience boosts and shop discounts, not combat power. Nothing here raises a stat in battle directly, which makes the boons a comfort layer for a replay rather than a difficulty answer.
A boon can be switched on and off once unlocked. Toggling is not the same as buying again.
The tier requirements below are the source~s own estimates rather than confirmed figures, and it says so on the page it publishes them on.
Prices are published for 16 of the 31 boons, and only for their first tier. Those known first tiers add up to about 5,000 shards, which fits comfortably inside the 5,695 a single completed route pays out in recorded deeds.
The remaining 15 boons have no published price at all, and no second or third tier anywhere has one, so a full unlock total cannot be calculated from any source. Anyone quoting an exact figure for all of them is guessing.
The practical consequence of that gap is ordering rather than arithmetic. Karma Shards have two uses: buying boons, and Merge Causality from Part III onwards. Once every boon is unlocked, extra shards have nowhere to go but a merge. Whether shards spent on a merge come back on a restart is not recorded anywhere, so the safe reading is that they do not.
Six of the boons are discounts on a named blessing rather than on a shop. These are the only divine names the record carries: Aurora, Mars, Smyrnos, Jurah, Kalla, Credna. The full pantheon of twelve gods is recorded on the deities page; what no source adds for any of these six is a myth, a story or a relationship, so they are listed here by name with what is actually recorded and nothing more.
Shares its name with Cai's mother, who is recorded as an Aubin bearer. No source states whether the two are connected, so the blessing is listed here on its own.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
Recorded as a blessing whose discount is sold at the Shrine of Causality.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
Smyrnos also names the shrine where Combat Arts are strengthened, and the crown of Smyrnos is the Dagdan name of Macuil's Diadem.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
Recorded as a blessing whose discount is sold at the Shrine of Causality.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
Recorded as a blessing whose discount is sold at the Shrine of Causality.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
Recorded as a blessing whose discount is sold at the Shrine of Causality.
Discount boon tiers: 20% (one route completed), 50% (two routes completed)
| Increase EXP | 10% / 30% (one Part I route completed) / 50% (three routes completed) | 500 shards |
| Increase Class EXP | +1 (one route completed) / +2 (three routes completed) | No price published |
| Increase Sword EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Spear EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Axe EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Bow EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Brawling EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Black-Magic EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase White-Magic EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Infantry EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Rider EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Heavy EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Flier EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Increase Authority EXP | +1 / +2 (one route completed) / +3 (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Weapons Discount | 10% (one route completed) / 30% (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Items Discount | 10% (one route completed) / 30% (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Gifts Discount | 10% (one route completed) / 30% (two routes completed) | 300 shards |
| Room Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 40% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Meals Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 40% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Theater Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 40% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Thermae Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 40% (source prints the same requirement for both tiers) | No price published |
| Blacksmith Discount | 10% (one route completed) / 20% (two routes completed) / 30% (three routes completed) | No price published |
| Carriage Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 40% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Dungeon Evasion | Reduces how long enemies chase you in a dungeon | No price published |
| Rich Deposits | 10% (one route completed) / 20% (two routes completed) / 30% (three routes completed) | No price published |
| Aurora's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Mars's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Smyrnos's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Jurah's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Kalla's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
| Credna's Blessing Discount | 20% (one route completed) / 50% (two routes completed) | No price published |
This is the page that has to separate two systems that share a name, and a captioned blessing walkthrough is the clearest record of the second one. Boons of Salvation are the permanent Karma Shard purchases tabled above. Blessings are the in-battle effects, unlocked by serving at a temple and spent from a different resource, and the video below is about picking between them. As with every video-sourced section on the site, the creator's rankings are his judgement, and the values he quotes are left out because captions are not reliable for numbers.
Karma Shards buy the permanent boons. Blessings are unlocked by providing service at the relevant god's temple and then paid for in battle from a separate, limited resource, so a player holding a large shard balance can still be unable to fire a blessing mid-map. That split is why the two halves of this page are worth reading as separate budgets rather than one upgrade list.
Providing service is a weekly action rather than a one-off purchase, and the contribution each service makes grows with your account-wide Renown level, so the same week of work fills a blessing faster on a high-Renown save. The creator's own takeaway is that he skipped services early and lost that time permanently, which makes the temple stop part of the weekly circuit rather than an optional detour.
Asked which blessing is worth unlocking first, the creator answers Kalla's without hesitation and calls it the strongest effect in the game: an avoidance blessing that turns a turn the army should have lost into one it walks through, and which he reaches for whenever he is under-levelled for an encounter. Fortuna's rewind he treats as effectively locked in rather than chosen.
The remaining blessings are judged by scenario rather than by tier. Magic-focused blessings suit two chapters spent training under-levelled mages before a push, damage halving suits a deliberately tanky run, and the accuracy blessings suit physical attackers who keep missing. What each god actually grants, and where their temple sits, is recorded on the deities page; this page keeps the decision rather than the layout.
Shards come from Notable Deeds, which are listed in full on the deeds page, and what happens to them once the story ends is on the post-game page.
