Season 1 Emberfall

Philoi

For the Best on Campus

Season 1

Emberfall

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Season 1 opens October 1, 2026 · Fall 2026

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Turn Your Campus
Into Your Leaderboard.

Every hour you lock in — studying, lifting, running, building — is scored. Your rank is public to your friends, your campfire, and your school. So is theirs.

Campus standings · this week Live
1 Laurier 0
2 Waterloo 0
3 Western 0

Illustrative standings — Season 1 has not started yet.

The name

φίλοι · fee-loy · Ancient Greek

“close friends bound by trust, affection, and shared effort”

Shared effort is the last third of that definition and the whole of the app. The name was the spec before there was a spec.

φίλος is one friend. φίλοι is the plural — and there is no version of this app for the singular.
  • Αγοράagorá

    The gathering place — marketplace, forum, cultural heart. In Philoi it is the feed, where a win gets an audience instead of a private notification to three people.

  • Φιλίαphilía

    The root the name grows from: the bond between equals who make each other better. Not the friendship of convenience — the one with effort in it.

  • Ήρως · Τιτάν · Ολύμπιοςhērōs · titán · olýmpios

    Past Diamond the ladder leaves the mortal climb and enters the realm of legend. Hero, Titan, Olympian, Immortal — four tiers most people never see.

  • Πρωτόγονοςprōtógonos

    First-born — the beings that came before the gods. It is the apex tier, and the only one with no divisions to climb through. You are Primordial or you are not.

  • α β γ δ Ωalpha to omega

    The five rungs stamped on every discipline relic. α is the day you started. Ω is the last one the ladder has.

The climb

Rise through the pantheon.

Ten tiers, thirty divisions. Everyone starts in Bronze. Every hour you lock in forges you up the ladder — and past Diamond you leave the mortal climb behind. Almost nobody reaches Primordial. That is the point.

III

Bronze

III

Silver

II

Gold

II

Platinum

II

Diamond

I

Hero

I

Titan

I

Olympian

I

Immortal

Primordial

The bar fills in your tier

Bronze fills bronze. Diamond fills teal. Your rank is not a number in a settings screen — it is the colour of every bar you look at all day.

Divisions III → I

Each tier splits three ways, so the climb always has a next step. Primordial has no divisions. You are either there or you are not.

Rank up in public

Promotions land as a full-screen forge reveal, then a share card your campfire actually sees. Getting there is half of it. Them seeing it is the other half.

Relics

Earn your discipline.

One relic per discipline, and it upgrades as you do — α through Ω, uncommon up to mythic. Not a badge you collect. A record of what you actually did, sitting on your profile where everyone can read it.

Socrates’ Scroll

Study

The unexamined hour isn’t worth logging. You examined a hundred.

144 / 200 hγ III

Hercules’ Might

Gym / Lift

Twelve labours. You’re somewhere past the seventh — and it shows.

58,200 / 100,000 lbγ III

Pheidippides’ Sandals

Movement

He crossed 414 km on foot to call for help. You have matched every step.

357 / 414 kmδ IV

Daedalus’ Blueprint

Deep work

The labyrinth wasn’t built in a day. Neither is whatever you’re making.

41 / 100 hβ II

Oracle’s Stillness

Meditate

The Oracle spoke only in the quiet. You have kept a great deal of it.

11 / 50 hα I

Crown of Olympus

Mythic · all five, maxed

Master of no single art, but of the discipline beneath all of them. Olympus has a seat for that.

1 / 5 ladders at ΩΩ V

🔒 And the ones nobody has a checklist for — secret relics, found, not given.

Cosmetics

Open crates. Flex the profile.

Flares that aura the whole app while you’re locked in. Halos, banners, profile cards, flame skins, sound effects. Earned from the climb, pulled from crates, or forged out of duplicates — and every one of them is visible to everybody who opens your profile.

Legendary

Void Smoke

Flare · app-wide aura

Odds are shown in-app, before you spend anything.

Profile
noah
“Kindled by Emberfall”
RankOlympian I
FlareAura
HaloAvatar ring
BannerCampfire
CardBackground
SFXLock-in sound
FlameSkin
Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary Mythic

Campfires

Your circle, around one fire.

A campfire is private — your people, no strangers, no algorithm. Everyone’s fire lights up in real time when they lock in, and goes cold when they don’t. It flies its own banner, keeps its own streak, and prestiges when the group holds the line together.

Emberfall Night

4am Club

31-day streak6 members

  • maya locked in — 90m study
  • jo hit Gold I
  • dev kept the streak alive
Ashfall Ridge

Engineering Grind

12-day streak9 members

  • amir pulled a Mythic flare
  • sam finished a 3h deep-work block
  • riya claimed the daily fire
Obsidian Colosseum

Gym at 6

58-day streak4 members

  • tomi logged 14,000 lb
  • kai upgraded Hercules’ Might to δ
  • len is locked in right now
Prestige Ember I Ember II Ember III

Hold the campfire streak long enough and the whole fire prestiges — a permanent mark on the campfire, earned by the group, not by one person carrying it.

Challenges

Duel a friend. Or the whole campfire.

Put it on the line. Pick a metric, pick a window, and the app scores it live — no honour system, no arguing about it after. The harder the challenge, the bigger the payout.

1v1 duel

Live · 2d 4h left
N
noahOlympian I
VS
M
mayaDiamond II
14h 20m studied10h 25m

Winner takes 900 embers + the bragging rights, posted to the campfire.

Campfire race

Collective · 4d left
0 / 250 lock-ins
  • 1amir41
  • 2you38
  • 3riya33
  • 4sam29
Duel

Head to head on one metric. Hours, distance, volume, lock-ins — whatever you both agreed to.

Collective

The whole campfire chases one target together. Everyone who contributed gets paid.

Placement

Same window, individual standings. Top finishers take the bigger cut of the pot.

Team mode

Two sides, one scorekeeper reports the final, and both rosters get rewarded off the result.

For clubs & teams

Run your club on Philoi.

Intramural teams, varsity clubs, study societies, fraternities and sororities — anywhere attendance is the whole problem. Philoi gives you a private space, a season-long structure, and a leaderboard your members actually open.

  • A private campfire for the roster

    Invite-only. Members see each other train in real time — nobody else does.

  • Season-long training challenges

    Set a target for the term — sessions, hours, distance, volume — and let it score itself.

  • Team mode for game days

    One scorekeeper reports the final. Both rosters get credited and rewarded off it — no spreadsheet.

  • A leaderboard people check

    Ranks, streaks and standings your exec can point at in the group chat on a Sunday night.

What we need from you

Pilot
  • A roster — 10 members or more.
  • One exec who’ll run the campfire.
  • A term you want to structure. That’s it.

Pilots for Season 1 are set up by hand, free, one campus at a time.

Bring Philoi to your club →

Or just email nb@philoi.app — a real person reads it.