Wiki — Banking & Depot

Gold Banking

• Deposit Gold: Hand gold to a banker NPC to store it safely. Banked gold is not lost on death.
• Withdraw Gold: Retrieve your gold from any banker NPC.
• Banking is character-specific — each character has their own gold balance.

Item Depot

• Deposit Item: Store items in your depot chest. Depot items are safe from death loss.
• Withdraw Item: Retrieve items from your depot at any depot chest.
• Depot is character-specific — each character has their own depot inventory.
• Depot chests are located in temples and banks throughout Aetheria.

Account Stash

The account stash is a shared storage that is accessible by all characters on the same account. This allows you to transfer items and gold between your own characters without using the mail system.

• Deposit to Stash: Move items from your inventory to the account stash.
• Withdraw from Stash: Take items from the stash on any character on the same account.
• The stash is accessible from any depot chest.

Death and Banking

Items in your depot and gold in the bank are never lost on death. Only items in your inventory and equipped slots are at risk. Use the depot to store valuable items you don't need for combat.

Account-Bound Items

Some items — most notably the starter kit every new character receives — are bound to your account. Bound gear keeps fresh-account farming worthless: a bound item can never change hands or leave your character.

• Bound items cannot be dropped, traded, sold on the market, mailed, or nested inside another container — they stay at the top level of your backpack.
• Bound items are never lost on death, so your starter tools survive every wipe.
• Trying to move one somewhere it can't go returns it with the message "This item is bound to your account."