What Aethera Premium includes
Worldwright Pro through the same Aethera account
An active Aethera Premium plan includes Worldwright Pro. Sign in to Worldwright with the same verified Aethera account used for Premium. The Account panel identifies Pro active through Aethera Premium when Premium is the current source, so there is no second Worldwright identity or separate map account.
Premium inclusion unlocks the installed build's implemented Pro authoring tools: Seed Lab and recipes, advanced generation labs, professional editing and presentation, Field Atlas placement, variants and snapshots, linked maps and campaign sets, professional export, content-pack authoring, and the Atlas publishing controls available for the current destination. The installed application shows which controls are available.
Confirming access
Refresh access without exposing the project
- Open the Worldwright Account panel and confirm the displayed Aethera account.
- If Premium changed recently, connect to the Internet and choose Refresh access.
- If Worldwright reports an invalid local access cache or the problem continues after correcting the computer clock, choose Repair local access check, review the confirmation, then choose Clear cache and check online. This removes only the current account's encrypted access cache and immediately verifies access with Aethera; it keeps the sign-in, projects, recent projects, recovery copies, settings, content, and exports.
- If the account is wrong, choose Disconnect Worldwright, review the account-cache warning, confirm, then complete the normal browser sign-in with the intended account. Never share the returned callback link.
- If access still cannot be confirmed, use the official support route with the non-secret Support reference, displayed plan source, application version, and approximate UTC refresh time.
Worldwright shows access returned by Aethera or its secure account cache. Offline Pro access ends at the earlier of 30 days after the last valid online check or seven days after the paid-through date shown by Aethera. A newer account update or revocation can end access sooner. Use the exact access mode and deadline the application displays; do not edit access-cache or session-vault files by hand. The in-app repair reports offline or clock-invalid state honestly and never invents or extends access. A previously verified account may reopen local projects while offline, but Atlas, billing, catalog downloads, and access repair remain online-only.
When access changes
Your local project remains yours
If Premium no longer grants Pro, Worldwright transitions to the Lite capability set without deleting or flattening the project. Existing Pro-authored geography, placed assets, styles, variants, snapshots, recipes, and metadata stay visible and preserved under their documented downgrade rules. Lite can continue ordinary opening, inspection, editing, saving, duplication, recovery, rendering, and standard export. Worldwright does not add a watermark or lower the existing Lite 4K export baseline after an access change. A map containing Pro assets legitimately placed while access was active retains personal and commercial rights in its rendered output, including an ordinary export rendered after access ends; that permission does not allow extraction, redistribution, sublicensing, or resale of the underlying source assets or packs. Formal published license terms still control the customer agreement.
Only starting a new Pro-only authoring, queue, generation, or rich-publish operation is unavailable. The Account panel provides Continue in Lite, Refresh access, and Manage plan when those actions apply. Plan management happens in the validated system browser; Worldwright's renderer never receives payment details. Returning from the browser does not replace the open project, selection, or active tool; choose Refresh access when the account change is complete.
Billing and privacy boundaries
Premium inclusion is capability access, not permission to upload a map
Premium access checks contain account and plan state—not project bytes, map pixels, names, lore, notes, custom assets, generation parameters, snapshots, or exports. Terrain generation, climate and hydrology analysis, rendering, project storage, and export remain local. Atlas receives only the finished raster and supported metadata explicitly selected in a separate publishing flow.
Aethera Premium checkout shows the price, interval, applicable tax, final total, and renewal date before confirmation. Manage an active Premium plan through the account billing page. For an account-specific question, use the official support route without sending card details, payment credentials, tokens, cookies, or private map content.
Standalone Worldwright Pro checkout is not currently available, so there is no standalone charge to cancel or refund. Worldwright Pro access is included with an active Aethera Premium plan.