What to Do in Aetolia
Aetolia is a text-based RPG with over two decades of depth behind it. Whether you are looking for brutal PvP competition, political maneuvering, intricate crafting, or a dark fantasy story to get lost in, the game has a system for it.
Aetolia PvP: Player vs. Player Combat
With a combat environment over 20 years in the making, Aetolia offers a deep player vs. player experience. Take up sword and spell against players all across the world and become a champion duelist in the Sect of Blades, or lead your fellow devotees in righteous holy war. With daily duels and cities rushing to secure precious ylem, you will never want for opponents.
Full PvP Guide20+ Character Classes and Skill Sets
Play as a powerful spellcaster that manipulates the elements or a stoic warrior in service of their home. With more than twenty classes, and more to come as the story unfolds, Aetolia gives you room to build the character you want to play.
See the ClassesThe Races of Aetolia
Sapience is home to more than twenty playable races, each with four racial skill sets that unlock as you level up. From the tree humanoid Arboreans to the winged Atavians, your race shapes how your character fits into Aetolia’s world. If you change your mind, a free reincarnation lets you start over in a new body without losing your progress.
Explore the RacesDungeons, Bosses, and Level 200 Classes
Triumph over the nightmare beneath the tundra and relive the terrors of a dying world in Aetolia’s dungeon encounters. Raid the Royal Vaults of Glandor in a solo, rogue-like experience and battle unique bosses in detailed open world areas. Those with the greatest resolve can ascend to the highest levels of mortal power as an Adherent, or plumb the depths of Chaos to become an extraplanar Noble through Aetolia’s Level 200 classes.
Explore the World of Aetolia
Aetolia spans two continents shaped by centuries of conflict, discovery, and divine interference. Sapience is the heart of it: a land recovering from the Grand Artifice and a terrible Revelation, where four player-run city-states compete for control of ylem and push the story forward with every conflict. Albedos lies beyond, discovered when flying Dreikathi war machines crossed the sky and revealed a continent of gods and rival empires.
Explore the WorldThe Cities of Aetolia
Aetolia’s four city-states sit at the center of its politics, religion, and conflict. Bloodloch and Spinesreach are Shadow-aligned: one a city of strength, undead, and unyielding will; the other a scientific bastion devoted to the study of Shadow itself. Enorian and Duiran hold the Spirit side, with Enorian driving toward righteousness and the Light, and Duiran committed to protecting the cycle of life and the natural world. Which city you join shapes your alliances, your enemies, and the story you get to tell.
See the CitiesCity Governance and Player-Run Politics
Govern a city or serve on its ruling council to leave your mark on a constantly evolving story. Lead guilds and cities to war and take stands that will be remembered in Aetolia’s persistent world. With a political and election system rooted in each city’s story, your character can find a home in amoral northern theocracies, militant desert empires, staunch protectorates, or dark, ritual-laden nature communes.
GuildsDivine Orders and God Roleplay
Join a divine order and see the will of the gods made manifest in Aetolia. With a pantheon presiding over numerous domains, there are goals to pursue in every direction. Become a noble underling of a prideful Dragon, a dedicant of Astral or Corrupt Chaos, or a zealous crusader of the Light. Then join the roleplaying community built around those divine orders.
Explore the PantheonCrafting: Forge, Cook, Sew, and Build
Aetolia’s crafting skills let you build statues, cook food, mix drinks, sew clothing, forge arms and armor, and create restorative pills and elixirs. Every creation can carry your personal touch through the game’s customization system.
Skills and AbilitiesFarming, Mining, and Player-Run Shops
Aetolia’s agriculture systems let players prospect and grow their own materials. Take up Farming and Mining to build a self-sustaining merchant empire and sell your wares out of your own shop.
Aetolia’s Story and Lore
Aetolia is a living world with a history that keeps being written. The continent of Sapience carries the scars of the Grand Artifice, a catastrophic event that fractured civilization and set the four city-states against one another. Major story sagas, a full timeline, and detailed lore archives are available for players who want to dig into the history behind the world they are playing in.
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