The Game

Eternal Lands occurs as role-swimming game. That is, professional people keep close at h& to produce and respond with the character inside the virtual environment. A setting occurs as medieval fantasy world, with two historic elements like mediaeval architecture & weapons system besides when fancied elements like more humanoid races, gods and magic.

Creating a character
Prior to your computers family play, busy people keep close at h& to explore a title and a appearance of your character. That's 100% your computers family specify, all about else -- your skills, abilities & alignments -- your family is take a breath to produce in the game. Which are actually a sextet races professional people might presently purchase from either:

Dwarves stay to themselves a majority of the instance. It don't travel bay, prefering a warmth & comfort of their have front yard to the outside globe. Dwarves come fantabulous craftsmen. It buid a virtually all inflexible & elaborate structures, a virtually all accurately carven statues, & exquisite jewellery. It carve wood, chip stone, & shape metal until these are nearly hone. Because of this it usually stand their zero in or even about coffee bar, building mines that it part together.

Human being sense the require to produce a shelter by cutting down trees, & anything else that substitute their way, & to constantly produce, build, & improve items. It hunt beast for food, besides when feeding a vegetation of the land. A homo require whatever it can & let it run to their benefit. Although it besides indicate compassion, kindness, & generosity while a days come best. It own several abilities & produce large cities & towns.

Elves revere life, & may be careful does'nt to waste items. It hunt beast inside great moderation, universally yielding thanks to their god whilst it destroy, & prior to it eat. It build their zero inside the forests, in the style completely their have. A Elves may exist as friendly to a virtually all of the more races, however have a deep hate for all about it assume to be evil (like the hob, orcs, ogres, etc.), & don't fully trust a dwarves or even a Orchan(whom it assume barbaric). the Elves may be knowledgable, & harbor a great repository of historical books around libraries which it open to completely, for it survive exists of as much as 5 days that of a homo.

Gnomes come an additional little dwarfish race, however unlike dwarves it is outgoing social traveller. It is as well jolly full craftsmen, & tailors of wearable. A second skill of their's is map making, although wise shoppers might never trust the Gnome's map to become 100% precise day and night. & does'nt to forget their insatiate curiosity for looking for the recently invention for one of life's several difficulties. It is probably a virtually all helpful, generous, & unbiased of all the races.

Draegoni come what look to become the cross between the homo & the dragon, eventually great deal other man than dragon such as. Legend says that it is toddlers of the fabulous dragon god, Iringold. It is extremely magic beings that dwell in the colder regions on the extreme stops of the globe. These are said that their inherent magical abilities came from either a dragin blood that is mixed in their veins, & in their couple of scales that sparkle on their bodies.

Orchans were known as then because it look prefer the cross between the homo, & an orc. Whether or even does'nt it were bred that way occurs as normally disputed topic, there is no a single knows certainly. There are legends & myths come in every counsel. It is the humans that suppose around judgement somebody in their nature & severity, valor, and bravery. It hang on to numbers of contests of nature & severity, and too elect their leaders per competitions. Several of a children come fights to the dying, which the more races watch the children when existence barbaric. It is likewise super honorable notwithstanding, universally keeping their word whilst it took an oath, potentially whenever it means their life is at stake.

A latter triplet races eventually come "pay-to-play" races, sequentially to play the character of one of these races professional people own to donate the little total to the game.

Activities
It used to be that your family is in the game, there are numbers of different items we may wash:

Choose. Presently, there are astir Xxx different "maps" (lands) smart shoppers potty choose. Ships & teleportals can lead that you to newly, interesting however as well unsafe web pages. There are areas in which monsters could attack wise shoppers, players may fight more players, in which we potty become pain by heat or even by cold. Unnumerable hidden site may be witnessed, generating we little benefits every.

Improve your computers skills. Professional people could advance inside every of nine different skills: attack, defense, harvesting/mining, alchemy, crafting (jewellery), manufacturing (blacksmithing), evocation monsters, potion brewing & magic. Busy people may advance when numbers of skills when busy people prefer, we potty function together by having more players & wise shoppers potty trade. Everthing own household budget smart shoppers benefit in any skill may total as much as "pick points", you could utilise to improve your systems physical, mental & spiritual attributes.

Last in quests. Several nin-swimming characters give professional people little or even even big tasks or send your family on quests. It might deepen your systems computers noesis just about a world your character wanders, & if you launder easily, the nice reward at the prevent.

Worship gods. There are nine immortal busy people potty worship within EL. Smart shoppers have had to succeed around various quests, & is given blessing reciprocally, increasing your computers computers skill level and/or your personal experience benefit.

Socialise. There are universally many hundreds of players low, & many pages to meet, chat & cooperate. Players might discovered & team inside guilds, more than c of the two already survive in the game.

Playing

Sequentially to play Eternal Lands, we want the PC by having the 3D-accelerated graphics card & an net connection. Downloading a client & swimming is loose besides third-person costs like the net connection fee. Eternal Lands presently supports a Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and (soon) MacOS X operating systems & a X86, IA64 and PowerPC architectures. A punt client is open source, so should you be missing the platform, your family is welcome to port EL.

http://www.eternal-lands.com/index.php?content=download

History

EL is comparatively immature, & when terzetto years of development, a game is however non finished. Notwithstanding, it has mass produced considerable progress since a number one release inside March 2003 & is fully playable. Radu Privantu, a discoverer of EL, has summed higher a number 1 a share of its evolutiin within an article on devmaster.net:

http://www.devmaster.net/articles/mmorpg-postmortem/part1.php

Spin-Offs

Landes Eternelles is a french port of Eternal Lands currently within development. Although these are architecturally monovular to Eternal Lands & shares the bit of of the graphics & more gameplay mechanisms, it has a different role play approach by having different races, geograophy, plot line, religion & quests. Landes Eternelles is presently around closed-Alpha stage. -- http://www.landes-eternelles.com/

Barren Moon is a game that Radu started himself after noticing that EL did non get a game what he originally wanted. Though these are the all newly game, it shares a great deal of conception & approaches by using EL. It has there are no release eventually, & imputable the lot of act to become done in Eternal Lands, BM is presently stalled.

Other Life is the project that tries to produce a extra challenging variant of EL. It has been began by Steven Wilcoxon, a previous server creator of EL, & is according to the EL server & client code. It has there are no release however either & is presently simply tested by a few handpicked population. -- http://www.more-life.com/