Claim your vessel
Your first is free, you pay only the gas to draw it on-chain. It arrives whole. What it becomes is up to you.
By claiming you mint an ERC-721 drawn entirely on-chain. The vessel will begin to age once the Cracking phase opens.
Quiet questions
Your first vessel costs nothing but the network gas to draw it on-chain. Additional vessels cost 0.001 ETH each, up to five per wallet.
Aging begins in the Cracking phase. Fractures then accrue on a deterministic schedule tied to block height, the same for every vessel, fully verifiable.
Never. A vessel can sit raw and cracked forever, that is its own kind of beauty. Mending is an invitation, not an obligation.
Entirely on Ethereum. The SVG is generated and stored by the contract, no IPFS, no image server, nothing that can disappear.