How it all works

Three pieces work together: the site, the addon in your game, and the companion on your PC.

The three pieces

hashenvale.com — your account, the Codex, the armory, the gear planner, the campaign and its ladder. It is the memory: it counts your guild XP and decides your rank.
The Hashenvale addon (CurseForge) — reads your character and seals a sheet every time you log out or /reload: level, gear, professions, recipes, bags, bank, kills, bosses, books, the guild roster. It also shows the guild bar, the toasts and the guild window.
The companion (a small Windows app) — carries the sheets from your game folder to the site, and brings the site's word back into the game (your totals, your gear list, who earned a rank, who cleared which dungeon).

Getting set up, in order

Sign in on hashenvale.com with Discord (or Battle.net — link the other one later from /account).
Install the addon from the CurseForge app (search “Hashenvale”).
On /account, make a link code and type /hv link CODE in the game — one code per character.
Optional but recommended: install the companion from /account and leave it open while you play.

Without the companion your sheets still reach the site: a guildie online with a companion carries them for you (see “How your character reaches the site”).

One coin, one rank

Everything you do earns guild XP — every kill, every node, every quest, every craft — double with a guildie beside you. It gives you a guild level that never ends: at level 60 your character keeps earning. Your guild level plus your chapter's missions is your rank.