Lore
World Items
世界級（ワールド）アイテム
Magic ItemsWorld Items
The highest class of items in YGGDRASIL: 200 in total, each with effects that can break the game's balance.
- 200 kinds in total; the only ways to counter their effects are to hold a World Item yourself or to use a skill of the top class "World Champion" at the right moment
- The holder's status bar shows a buff called "World" (whether it must be equipped is unclear); in the side story The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country, equipping one grants "World's Protection," which defends against Wild Magic
- Single-use World Items can be obtained again in the same way after use, and there are single-use World Items besides the Twenty (author's Twitter)
- The guild Ainz Ooal Gown holds 11, far ahead of every other guild; second place has only 3 (Vol. 1)
- In Vol. 3, after Shalltear was brainwashed, Ainz took several World Items from the Treasury and handed them to the Guardians to guard against World Items in the New World
- In the game's lore, World Items were formed from the leaves of the World Tree that survived being devoured by a gigantic monster
- The 11 held by Ainz Ooal Gown (Vol. 1): Billion Blades, Caloric Stone (consumed; unclear whether still counted), Ginnungagap, Avarice and Generosity, Scenes of Nature and Civilization, Throne of Kings, Hygieia's Chalice, Momonga's Red Orb, one held by Aureole, and two of the Twenty
- Arcadia comment replies: most offensive World Items can at least attack everything in an area (some are single-target); the Web novel also says World Items can let NPCs learn super-tier magic
- In Vol. 14, after Ainz removed Momonga's Red Orb, he could no longer watch Tsa's fight with Pandora's Actor through the Mirror of Remote Viewing; from this, readers infer that "World's Protection" requires physical contact with the item itself rather than keeping it in the inventory
- Japanese sources speculate that the New World's automatic language translation (speech that doesn't match mouth movements) may be the effect of some World Item (unverified)
Notes
In the Web novel, an English document compiled by the guild "Burning Three Eyes" records information on 50 World Items; at an event Q&A the author said the specs of the items besides the Twenty have also been worked out.
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