Come and Abandon Reality.

Once upon a time, Ellandor had two moons.

Time before The Shattering is a mystery for the most part. People speak of it as a lost paradise — a time of innocence when the gods walked the world like men and all creatures lived in harmony. Cities of shining marble and gold, temples that reached the sky, bountiful harvests for all. Most of it is little more than a fanciful story, told to children at night. In truth nobody is left alive from before The Shattering, save the gods, and if they know, they do not tell.

Only one moon still remains. The second was said to be made of crystal, orbiting so low that tides could be doubled and tripled. There are still paintings in caves of the crystal moon above a great smoking mountain.

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Eleven centuries, and a war that never quite ended.

The known world, drawn twice.

Ten races, eight classes, and a name you'll answer to for years.

Names should be made up, one word, and hold no similarity to nouns, verbs or vulgarities. This is a medieval fantasy roleplay world and your name is the first thing anyone reads about you — nicknames can bend those rules, real names can't.

First time here? Choose human. Humans have mastery of Ellandor's common tongue, which is the language other players will answer your questions in — useful, when you're the one asking. Warrior and thief are the easiest classes to begin with.

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In any society, people with common interests form a club. Ours have code support.

An official organization needed a background detailing the events that led to its founding, a charter, and at least four members above level twenty-five. No rooms were provided — you bought those at the weekly property auctions. Uniforms, insignia, ranks and promotions earned in combat all came with the code.

They had to stay active or they were disbanded. Most of these are quiet now, but the code that ran them is still loaded, and the charters are still in the archive.

The old organization pages

Your old character is probably still in there.

Accounts and characters were never wiped. Log in with the name you used and see what happens — if the password is gone with the rest of the decade, make a new one; nobody is checking. The Academy still runs for anyone who never played.

And the directions never changed: north, south, east, west, up, down. Nothing diagonal, and look still works the way it always did.