Not points. Not badges. Here is what a family actually holds at every tier, in one place.
Here is what a family actually holds at each stage, in one place.
The record begins. Your first Embers, permanent from day one. At 25 Embers, the Family Chronicle unlocks, a public page with your family's name, milestones, and timeline that no company can erase.
A beginning is becoming a habit. Referrals earn a family a free month the first time someone they invite subscribes, the same at every tier.
A one-time award of 25 bonus Embers for perseverance.
A one-time award of 50 bonus Embers. The family is within reach of the most significant threshold in the system.
A full year of showing up, permanently recorded. If the family has referred other families, this is also when an ongoing monthly credit begins for each one still subscribed. The credit is real. It comes from ongoing activity, not from holding anything.
Covenant at 100 families referred, Watchman at 500, Lamplighter at 1,000 or more. Purely symbolic recognition for families who helped other families find their way here, tracked independently of a family's own Ember count.
Earning is the same everywhere: one Ember per campfire, per full pulse week, per one-on-one, per monthly goal. Streak bonuses of 3, 5, and 20 at four, eight, and fifty-two weeks. Nothing accelerates. Nothing is purchased. The record only grows.
The benefit at every stage is the same benefit. You showed up, and it is written down.
Both ladders, the Ember tiers and the Referral tiers, laid out together on the homepage.