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What is Aetolia?

Aetolia is a multiplayer RPG (role-playing game) set in a dark fantasy world.

The difference between Aetolia and other games is that Aetolia is played entirely in text with minimal graphics. This genre of games is called MUDs or Multi-User Dungeons.

Characters in Aetolia talk, trade, fight, plot and even kill and eat each other. They roam the continents and explore dungeons, killing (or helping) foul creatures, gather gold and treasure while increasing in power and prestige.

Unlike other fantasy settings, Aetolia enables you to play characters of all alignments and creeds, and it's entirely in the hands of the player whether to become a hated villain, vaunted hero, or anything in between.

Bugs

Hello everybody, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that if you find a quest that lets you repeat it with little to no cooldown, then you should report it as a BUG for us to fix. Choosing to instead abuse the quest to generate yourself gold will almost always result in loss…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXXI: Truth and Reason

Streaking downward like an atramentous comet, Severn materialised between Damariel and His foes. Churning vortices of sable deception consumed the air, masking threatening movements and cunning gambits in His fabled obfuscation. Surprise broke through the stoic grit of Damariel’s expression as He looked upon His newly-arrived Twin, His grip tightening upon Daybreak. A single thud…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXX: The Battle of Green Lake

Ethereal music filled mortal minds as the Giver of Life’s colossal form heaved through the earth. To the tune of this beautiful chorus did He fashion the means of His own escape, His glimmering bulk swimming through muddy, raging rapids that surged from underneath and around Him. Brought to abatement by Accordant Water’s untimely emergence,…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXIX: The Blessed Child

At dawn’s first light upon the three-hundred-and-fourty-nineth day of the Creators’ Monomachy, Enorian put their plan into action. Intent upon an act of blind faith, the Hammer constructed numerous klaio bronze bells of varying sizes and hauled them to Green Lake and the insidious seal situated beneath its placid depths. There, a tremendous crowd of…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXVIII: Delve’s Grand Debate

Upon the three-hundred-and-thirty-seventh day of the Creators’ Monomachy, the Free City of Delve gathered together their citizens, political candidates, and ceremonial speakers for the purposes of a grand debate. In the days leading up to the debate, the Delve Election Committee conducted a highly secretive and rigorous process to select a speaker for each political…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXVII: Bestowment of Truth

Upon the three-hundred-and-nineteenth day of the Creators’ Monomachy, the Lord of Truth gathered the Hammer of Dawn’s faithful upon the shores of Green Lake. There, He explained to them His suspicions and discoveries throughout the many prior weeks of wandering the realm in search of answers regarding the Albedi gods and Their imprisonment. After a…
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Cherry chocolates refund/adjustment

Hey folks, While investigating a bug with cherry chocolates, we unfortunately discovered that they didn’t work, and even worse, had never worked. The short explanation for that being when cherry was coded, we had two sets of code for handling NPC gold drops, an old version kept around for reference, and a newer rewrite that…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXVI: The Dragon’s Fury

Upon the three-hundred-and-seventh day of the Creators’ Monomachy, the northern theocracy embarked upon a clandestine operation to board the vessel Drakkenmont had left within Sapience’s airspace. After two weeks of dedicated scouting, Spinesreach’s institute had devised a plan with the help of Legyn, Evlentesh, and Nawan. With their combined genius, the city utilised the Archivium’s…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXV: Hope of the Aalen

Upon the three-hundred-and-first day of the Creators’ Monomachy, the Heartwood council gathered within the Bloodwood at the behest of wild Haern. Weeks prior, the Hunter had tasked the council with preparing a sufficient ritual to beseech seventeen of the enigmatic guardian spirits of Dia’ruis to aid Him in an act of Immortal renewal. With enthusiasm…
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The Worldeater Saga, Part XXIV: Renewal and Reconnaissance

Late into the Monomachy’s first year, the goddess known as Omei gathered Her courtiers within the scoured remnants of Naryusa Adil and detailed the next step of Her enigmatic scheme. Utilising Her newly bolstered power, She summoned Astral’s mysterious quicksilver and bound the surrounding area to it, bringing it nearer to the deceptive sphere of…
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How Can I Play?

Aetolia is a free-to-play game that can be played on several different platforms. To play directly in your browser, you can click this link, or the play button above.

If you're coming from another MUD and already have a MUD client of choice, you can connect to Aetolia at aetolia.com, port 23.

You can also play on mobile with the Iron Realms Entertainment Nexus app.

View the Nexus app in the App Store.

View the Nexus app in the Google Play Store.

Intricate

Player vs Player Combat

Aetolia has some of the most detailed and intense PvP ever created.

In addition to traditional RP initiated combat, Aetolia has numerous systems to encourage and reward its most skilled and bloodthirsty:

  • Open PK areas with world altering effects for those brave enough to enter
  • The Sect of Blades, a ranked system of organized combat
  • Twice monthly contests for the Orrery, a powerful location that boosts the faction of the team with the best showing
  • The power of Ylem regularly tears into Sapience, leading to clashes to control these Foci, for personal and organizational gain

Of course, PvP isn't just PK. We also have elected city positions to backstab your way into, rankings of everything from most powerful merchant to best minipet collector, and even racetracks for said pets to earn their owner winnings!

Unique

Character Classes and Skills

We take our skill system seriously, and want every class or talent to feel unique and different. Whether you are an assassin leaping from the shadows to abduct your foe, a powerful knight slashing enemies with your flaming blades, or a monk utilizing your self control to heal wounds and devastate foes, all classes have their own unique mechanisms and abilities.

  • 15+ Unique Classes
  • 12 Guilds
  • 2000+ Different Abilities
  • 80+ Skillsets of Crafting/PvE/PvP
  • 60+ Race skills

Our skillsets each include 30+ skills, varying between general skills, crafting, and class based. Every guild has its own class with unique abilities, modified by a core of abilities common to everyone. And of course, add to that our mercantile, tradeskills, and talents... you get hundreds of possible combinations!

What is a Mud?

They're the original massively multiplayer real-time online games. Before there was World of Warcraft, there were MUDs.

They aren't single-player text adventures like Zork or choose-your-own-adventure games. They're very much real-time and multiplayer.

Ultimately, you can think of MUDs vs. graphical games as books vs. movies in some respects. Just as many people feel books are more immersive than a movie, many people feel MUDs are more immersive than graphical games.

Are you one of those people? Only one way to find out. Try out our game world right now!

Storytelling

The World and Your Place In It

Aetolia is an entirely unique, ever growing world and storyline. For over 17 years our realm has worked through a player driven storyline, and it has seen some changes no other setting could imagine. Almost 20,000 rooms are explorable to players, and 13,000 more are just waiting for the story to catch up...

The drive for this? Roleplaying. Aetolia has a true player-driven storytelling with depths yet unseen. Regular events keep the story moving, while the Administration supports when our players unseat it all and take the reins! Our stories are crafted from the intricate RP of our players, with a vast overarching plot decades in scope... and all without a cutscene showing some NPC swooping in to steal the show.

Your World

Crafting, Building, Leading

Aetolia is built to let players create and lead. Our organizations are designed with player-led positions, and our crafting skills mean that the clothes you wear, the swords you stab with, even the healing potion you drink from are all player designed and created.

  • 20+ Crafting skillsets
  • Over 100,000 player made designs
  • Castles and Havens for your character's private home
  • 4 Completely player run City/Council/Empires
  • 12 Player led guilds
  • Player run packs of shapeshifters

Our crafting is complex and wide reaching. Cities expand their buildings when their leadership decides to. Characters earn their own Haven and design it themself. And again, everything is player designed and crafted. Start your mercantile empire, then run the Imperial Dominion, build a castle, and corner the market in fancy hats, everything is possible!

No Download Needed

Online Dark Fantasy MUD Game

Be ready for the dark fantasy horror world of Aetolia, which is an RPG text game of Iron Realms Entertainment.  Terror, dark forces and vampires are everywhere in the land of Aetolia. If you want to survive in the fantastic world, you will have two chances; fight back or join! Every decision that you will make affects your destiny in the world of Aetolia. When you make a decision in the land of Aetolia, you will have to deal with the consequences. You can discover more than 20,000 rooms in Aetolia, the world is massive!

Aetolia is a multiplayer online RPG with no download necessary. The MUD game Aetolia does not rely on graphics because it is an RPG text game and can be played with minimal or no graphics. Its story in the dark fantasy horror world is unique and player-driven. Characters have many different abilities and skills in Aetolia, giving you great control over the game itself.

Fantasy Vampire MUD

Horror RPG

Sapience is the continent of the everyday Aetolian world. For hundreds of years, Sapience has had its own problems until flying death machines filled the skies and led to the discovery of an antagonistic other continents. Now squabbles over resources, Dark and Light, land, and life vs death play besides an overarching worry of invasion from eldritch abomination Gods from the continent of Albedos.

There are many different abilities on Aetolia encapsulated by your skills in the game. Besides the basic skills everyone shares, hundreds of other skills vary by class, and how you play is your choice. In addition to class, there are mini skills to passively protect you, mercantile skills to generate life's necessities, hobby skills, agricultural skills, practical skills, and trade skills that you will be able to learn through varying methods in the game. You can have many different talents that you can increase, separate from level, all to help you survive and thrive.

In Aetolia, you might deal with, or even become, an undead. Vampires also walk the lands, seeking blood and domination. Light counters these unnatural beasts with Duamvi symbiotes brought from higher planes to empower the select worthy few. Help either side, or neither, your choice is free.