The Great Expedition

One life. One road. One Company.

The Great Expedition is a complete, self-contained Hardcore guild-found challenge for WoW Classic Era Hardcore realms. Your guild installs ONE addon and receives the entire ruleset and every quality-of-life tool the journey needs. No other addons required — and none allowed: this is a strictly single-addon challenge. Everything you need, nothing that plays the game for you.

The Charter (the rules you swear to)

On first login you are met by the Oath — the Charter of the Company, written as an adventure tale. Accept it, and the Expedition begins:

• One Life, One Road — death is final. Every Tribute, achievement and record dies with you and can never be inherited by a reroll, even one with the same name (a hidden per-character seal makes sure of it).
• The Law of Kin — no Auction House. Mail, trade and (before level 60) grouping only with your guild and its sworn partner guilds. Outsider mail is returned, outsider trades cancelled, outsider invites declined. At 60, the world opens.
• Honest Spoils — the addon keeps a provenance ledger of how every item entered your bags: looted, crafted, mailed or traded — and by whom.
• The Unbroken Vigil — the addon must run for your character's entire life. Total uptime is checked against total /played; a character that lived unwatched is forfeit. The challenge starts at character creation.
• No Forbidden Aids — only The Great Expedition may run. The whitelist is fixed in code.

Every rule is also explained in plain language — what it demands and why — in the in-game Codex, alongside a full guide to the addon and the credits.

The Exchange — a gold-free guild economy

The Company runs its own auction house on GM-appointed bank-alt stewards (verified against the guild roster — no one can appoint themselves):

• Earn Tributes by deeds (1 achievement point = 1 Tribute) and by consigning your finds — you are paid only when a companion actually buys them.
• A Blizzard-style browser with search, rarity and category filters, quality-colored items and live bids. Bids are strictly validated against your balance.
• The Reckoning settles auctions at a random hour — never sooner than 24 hours after posting. The dead cast no bids: if the top bidder falls, the highest living bid wins.
• Winnings arrive by C.O.D. courier (the item's vendor value in gold), sustaining the Vault. Stewards list items by simple drag-and-drop — the provenance ledger auto-fills the seller.

Everything else in the pack (24 systems, one look)

Warden fair-play monitor & guild pass/fail roster · Pulse uptime vigil · Covenant Law-of-Kin enforcement & partner guilds · Vigil death alert, playtime, grief protection, epic-drop announcements · Bulwark low-HP/mana & crowd-control alerts with party notices · Omen dangerous-NPC warnings ("run — or meet Lady Death!") · Chronicle guild death feed, counter & world-map death markers · Scout rare sightings with pins · Wayfinder opt-in guild positions on the map · Watchtower world buffs, layers & dungeon lockouts shared across the guild · Almanac guild calendar with sign-ups & world events · Laurels achievements with live progress & guild compare · Appraisal Gear Rating & talents on tooltips and your character sheet · Curriculum trainer planner with real costs · Pathway attunement chains · Canvas movable frames, coords, junk/repair reminder · Insight extended character stats · Codex the rules book & Oath · Wayfarer Condition/Resolve/Strain survival systems with consumable Tolerance (spam potions and they fade early) · Herald hardcore-tuned nameplates with your own debuff timers · Cadence weapon swing timer · Fanfare floating combat text with crits that pop.

Everything is configurable from one control panel (/tge), every frame is movable and lockable, and it is all drawn in one unified royal-gold style under the Compass Crest.

Install

Extract TheGreatExpedition into World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/ and log in. Type /tge. Roll a fresh character — the Vigil covers a whole life, so the challenge begins at creation.

Fair play & license

Readable, unobfuscated code that only informs, warns and organizes — it never automates gameplay. All Rights Reserved © 2026 Daanoobz & Kravaluk; this addon may not be forked, modified or used as a base. Bundled libraries (HereBeDragons — BSD, LibStub, CallbackHandler) keep their own licenses. Built with gratitude on ideas from the addon community — full credits in the in-game Codex.

Set your seal, traveler. The Expedition awaits.