Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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Translation: We are not talking about lore yet, silly. Something, something, blow up history because then you know there WAS a history, that you're IN A PLACE after something, something, old history, and you're going to a place to make your own history. Plus this keeps our writer from shooting themselves trying to resolve every conceivable conundrum (aka "Galaxy Quest syndrome").
"Granted by divine intervention, your ancestors fled the world of Ashes through towering gateways, seeking refuge in a place void of magic."
Translation: You got here because of... stuff. You know nothing because, while not related to Jon Snow, we're still working on this stuff and, as with any other theocracy, when brains don't have a story to tell yet, they blame the gods. Oh yeah, and you have no magic.
"Soon after the exodus, the gateways dimmed and became dormant. Centuries turned to millennia, burying them beneath myriad calamities. Over eons, history became legend, then even the great legends were at last forgotten.
Until now."
Translation: We can't run too close to how Jackson opened LoTR but you get the idea; history became legend, legend became myth, and hey... what are you doing messing around in that ruin... get... get away from there! Oh great... NOW look what you've done.
"What was once buried had risen again. The gateways had opened, reigniting the link to the ancient world.
Translation: Oh no, buddy, you don't poke around in the ruins and awaken stuff and then just waltz off to dinner and a movie. You pick up your poking around hinie and get through that portal. Yes, go on, through! If... er... when you return, you better have a more gold than Smaug and a good map for where we can get our share because.... what do you mean, "Who are you?" I'm the narrator, damn it, keep up!
"Vast expeditions were sent through the gateways to discover the beautiful and perilous magical realm of your ancestors."
Translation: No, you're not the first to go through today.... yes, yes, we're monitoring those who went ahead of you. ~calmly looks up from clipboard~ Why no, actually, we haven't heard back from any of them yet... but I'm sure we will. ~bright smile~ Have a nice trip.... buh-bye.... ~parade wave~
"You arrive in the world of Ashes to explore, rebuild and repopulate your place of origin. Ancient treasures and wondrous adventures await those who dare to disturb the dark remnants of evil that inhabit this land."
Translation: Conjugal adventure for AoC confirmed! Oh, and maybe loot.
"From now on, your choices and the choices of your fellow adventurers will influence how the story will unfold."
Translation: Or not, whatever; it's not like I'm your mother.
(Really looking forward to lore release... is there any indication of a timeline for it?)
"Long ago, the world of Ashes was besieged by a great calamity. A corruption befell the land, twisting and perverting every facet of nature, spawning hideous beings of every description; from troll-like creatures to towering behemoths. Nothing escaped its touch."
"Oh gods, I bet its black and gassy and makes spikes everywhere because of course it does. Why are all 'corruptions' the same?"
"Granted by divine intervention, your ancestors fled the world of Ashes through towering gateways, seeking refuge in a place void of magic."
"Ah, our world! our lovely magicless world. and wait, why more calamities? Stop with the calamities! You can't just calamity it up with calamities! Then no one knows what constitutes a calamity! "
"Soon after the exodus, the gateways dimmed and became dormant. Centuries turned to millennia, burying them beneath myriad calamities....
*sip* "My tea is a calamity."
Over eons, history became legend, then even the great legends were at last forgotten.
Until now."
"Spider demons would be the sort of thing adults would keep to themselves."
"What was once buried had risen again. The gateways had opened, reigniting the link to the ancient world. Vast expeditions were sent through the gateways to discover the beautiful and perilous magical realm of your ancestors."
"That's where I'm going!"
"You arrive in the world of Ashes to explore, rebuild and repopulate your place of origin. Ancient treasures and wondrous adventures await those who dare to disturb the dark remnants of evil that inhabit this land."
"Because you know, let's poke the corruption, let's see where that takes us. Oh? Running back? What a great idea."
"From now on, your choices and the choices of your fellow adventurers will influence how the story will unfold."
"...I'm going to have to act tall for this."
It will lead to all sorts of questions for my character when he arrives. Why am I this short? Why can I spend hours in the sun without my skin turning red? How did I become this stout? If I have multiple identities on the other side of the portal does that mean I have multiple personalities on this side of the portal? (Luckily I have a few years on this side of the gateway to ponder the last one)
It may explain why our characters are slightly less efficient upon first entering the portal. Lots of introspection and self analysis to do.
~ Rhapsody ~
So just who exactly did create the gateways in the first place? If they are opening now, why? What or who triggerd this event? What legends were forgotten and can we re-discover them?
Long ago, the world of Verra was besieged by a great calamity. A corruption befell the land, twisting and perverting every facet of nature, spawning hideous beings of every description; from troll-like creatures to towering behemoths. Nothing escaped its touch.
BoC - Dancing in the Ruins -
Granted by divine intervention, your ancestors fled Verra through towering gateways, seeking refuge in a place void of magic.
Breaking Ben - Angels Fall -
The world in Ashes lay devoid of civilization for centuries. Until now.
What was once buried had risen again. The gateways had opened, reigniting the link to the ancient world.
Crywolf - Neverland -
Vast expeditions were sent through the gateways to discover the beautiful and perilous magical realm of your ancestors.
You arrive in the world of Ashes to explore, rebuild and repopulate your place of origin. Ancient treasures and wondrous adventures await those who dare to disturb the dark remnants of evil that inhabit this land.
Jørn Lande - Don't Talk To Strangers -
From now on, your choices and the choices of your fellow adventurers will influence how the story will unfold.
Within Temptation - And We Run -
I anticipate my character and his crew of miscreants came through the portal to avoid charges levied against him and his peeps by the powers in the old world. They are fleeing into the Verra for the same reasons many fled the Old World during the expansion of the US into the West- freedom of jail time!
Thank you for putting this together- will you update this as they release lore on the old world or will you create a new thread specifically for that?
So the people we attack as per pre alpha, are they people who went through earlier and got corrupted.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/showcase/how-intrepid-studios-is-looking-to-reinvent-the-mmorpg-with-ashes-of-creation
How can it be a magic-less world if magic was used to get us there? Seems to me that magic was thus introduced and some magic was brought over in what possessions the races brought with them and in the case of elves, what they are. Perhaps the magic is weak, but there is no longer a "void of magic" from where we are leaving to return to Verra.
Just
As
Planned