This is a gaming guide from Destructoid explaining how players can obtain and farm Fragments of Afterimage and Fragments of Memory in the gacha RPG DragonSword: Awakening. These materials are essential for unlocking character-exclusive Karma cards, and unlike other resources they cannot be earned simply by completing quests, making the process a key progression bottleneck for players.

To get Fragments of Afterimage, players must visit Shanoa the Alchemist at Orbis Royal Castle and transmute one Whirling Thoughts, 100 Fragments of Memory and 100,000 gold; maxing out all Exclusive Karma cards requires 128 Fragments of Afterimage and over 10,000 Fragments of Memory in total. Whirling Thoughts, in turn, are earned by climbing the Tower of Trials mode (unlocked during the game's third main chapter), which offers over 160 Whirling Thoughts and more than 2,600 Fragments of Memory per variant if each floor is cleared within 90 seconds; Fragments of Memory can also be obtained from treasure chests, Mercenary Corps level-ups, and first-time quest or stage clears.