Athelias - Introduction

Athelias is a free world for Well of Souls game engine, developed by athelias.biz team. Another world, again..., you could say. Yes but Athelias is at the moment the world with the best art of Well of Souls, and one of the biggest ones. It is still a project under developpement, but the version available is fully playable and you can ever have hours of fun with it. And if you are still hesitating, just check the screeshots pages and don't ask "Why to download it?" anymore...

The world of Athelias is based on an open plot. There is no God nor King to defeat to complete the quests of the world, which also potentially imply an infinite developpement of the world. The background is the struggle of the four races, human, dwarf, elves, and gnomes, against the Chaos and the demons invading the world. Depending on their class, the characters will be born in different parts of the world (there are currently two parts implanted : Athelias Island and the Desertic Lands), and get specific quests. The choice of the class also determine the alignement of the character, and his general goal in this world. Soon, the players will be allowed to pick chaos classes, and have quests directly opposed to those of the good-aligned classes. For exemple, a Chaos Knight would have to besiege a city that a Paladin is trying to save. The originality of Athelias is to focus on the classes, making hours of quests for every classes, and not on a closed-plot with the same repetitive quests for all the characters. Of course there are still common quests but we tried to make them non-repetitive (note: there are no common quests for both chatic and good-aligned classes yet). We could add lots of stuff, but we will just let you visit the site and discover by yourself what's behind the word "Athelias".

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Somewhere in the world...
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Tenisan says:
- After all those centuries spent in the dreamlands, I am free again!
- Thank you for rescuing me, adventurers.
- But...
- I feel a familiar presence...
- Tell me what's going on!

The adventurer:
- The nine dark paladins are also awaken and they are about to walk over Athelias.
- They are preparing an old ritual and we came here in order to ask you to help us stop them.

Tenisan:
- The nine dark paladins, hmm?!
- So that's how they are called nowadays, eh!
- Let me make you know their -our- story.
- When the Chaos invaded Athelias, the Elders met here and succeeded in uniting the Lords of the Island in the fight.
- The greatest army of this time raised and we succeeded in pushing away the army of the Chaos.
- But our victory couldn't be complete.
- We still had to destroy the demonic artifact that was the source of all the power of our enemies.
- It was kept by their most powerful creatures, hidden in Arkhangal, the first city they invaded.
- So the greatest heroes of the realm started what should have been the ultimate crusade.
- The company consisted of a paladin, a knight, a wizard, an illusionist, four elementalists, a death dancer, and a priest.
- Myself.
- The Master Blacksmiths of the past ages forged weapons and armours to help us in our quest.
- Every elementalist also received a magical crystal that multiplied their powers.
- We fought, and defeated the guardians of the artifact.
- But the victory was not ours.
- Our enemy succeeded in taking possession of the spirits of my former companions while we were about to destroy the demonic artifact
- I resisted but the soul of my companions was ever lost in the realms of the Chaos.
- I don't know what happened then.
- I felt unconscious.
- When I woke up, I was imprisoned here.
- Bartuc, the jailor, was the rider of paladin of the company.
- I bet my former companions will gather in Varanas Castle.
- If I am right they would need an old book of spells hidden in the castle.
- The castle was Kashgar's, the paladin of the company.
- You must go and try to stop them there...