Holy War X guilds, forts and the prison

Holy War X has two kinds of guild. In-game guilds such as the Holy Knights are joined like a faction and come with ranks and powers, including arresting other players. Player guilds are your own group, and they fight over five fort islands.

Checked 15 November 2026

The Holy Knight guild

From 2 November 2023:

Think of in-game guilds a bit like joining the companions brotherhood from skyrim, some guilds won't allow you to enroll because you're in one which sees the other as a rivalling faction.

The Holy Knights are the one described in detail. Progress through the guild goes:

  1. Apprentice Holy Knight
  2. Holy Knight
  3. Grand Holy Knight

Each rank has its own armour. The guild also has its own weapon, the Apprentice Holy Knight Katana, which glows in the colour of your magic. Its special power is the law: “Holy Knights are the only ones who can go around game capturing people in cuffs and throwing them into jail.”

Three views of grey and blue knight armour with a cape
One of the three Holy Knight rank armours posted with the guild's announcement. Posted 2 November 2023. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

Arrests and Baste Prison

Arrested players go to Baste Prison, a no-fly island. The first screenshots, from October 2023, showed its upper levels and “the top where high level prisoners get executed”; sandy dungeons sit lower down. In July 2026 the prison was rebuilt with several floors.

Friends can break you out. Lockpicking is the skill for it: “the fastest way to get it done would be to have someone on your prison break squad who's got high lockpicking skills”. A clip from April 2026 came with the comment that dying while trying to free someone is not worth it.

A player standing in a torch-lit brick hall with barred arches
Inside Baste Prison, from its first public screenshots. Posted 6 October 2023. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.
A frozen hall with hanging chains, bells and a swirling ceiling, a player in the foreground
Posted the day the developer wrote that the whole prison had been rebuilt; he did not label the picture. Posted 25 July 2026. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

Player guilds and forts

Player guilds earn standing by holding forts. There are five fort islands, built for this and kept as they were when the rest of the map was redone.

  1. An unclaimed fort has active defences. Destroy them first, most likely from a ship.
  2. Go in and claim it. Holding a fort earns guild gold, also called guild points.
  3. Points grow the guild: more members, new uniforms, and buffs and perks you choose.
  4. When every member able to hold the fort has left the server, it goes back to unclaimed and its defences return.

The developer compares it to the forts in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Since February 2026 the player list shows each player's guild logo. A full video on guild wars and guild progression was promised and has not been released.

NPC factions

Besides monsters, regions are home to NPC groups that look like players and attack on sight, each with its own armour. The Movie reads out a list that includes the Ravagers, forest dwellers, Highlanders, wildlings, cave dwellers, fairy hunters, giant deserters and nomads, rogue fairies, fairy guardians, fallen celestials, goddess missionaries, banished demons and demon officers. The Ravagers come from the game's own story and were called “one of the hardest faction you can encounter in the game”.

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