Mourning

Formerly known as {b}Realms of Torment{/b}, now known as {b}Mourning{/b}.

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{li}Four player races: Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Human, with two additional races that will emerge as the game world evolves.{/li}
{li}A full skill based system for all trades, melee, and magic systems that allows players to create a character in nearly any fashion desired. Players can advance and learn additional skills and abilities through the Master-Apprentice system, where a Master of a skill works with a player (the Apprentice) to teach the desired skill.{/li}
{li}A magic and melee system that allows the player to create nearly any spell or style desired with hundreds of possibilities.{/li}
{li}A large variety of general and trade skills give players a choice in what profession to take on in life, from leadership skills to masonry, to riding and map making.{/li}
{li}An armor and equipment system set up to be usable based on a characters abilities and attribute. Customizable colorization of armor, as well as nine layers of armor types for 26 visible armor slots allowing players to create unique armor styles.{/li}
{li}A political and social system that allows players to create a variety of organizations, from player orders to empires, where players can ally to create factions to defend or expand territories by social means or by force.{/li}
{li}A player vs player system that ranges from single player vs. player to kingdom vs. kingdom wars, from town vs. town to guild vs. guild, giving unlimited possibilities to forming social and political alliances. This system, tied with the skill based system, allows players to participate in PvP at an early stage, without the usual wading through many levels to be able to enjoy this aspect of the game. Characters with high leadership skills will have the privilege to make use of a commander console, which allows that player to direct and partially or fully control entire armies during a war.{/li}
{li}A city building and sieging system in Mourning allow players to change the geography of the game world. Player organizations can own cities, setting the laws and the enforcement of them, and can hire NPC's to guard the land or lay claim to an existing player city by taking it over with force through war and sieging.{/li}
{li}A player driven economy where the finest items are player crafted, and a unique auction system that uses special NPC's to create sales or trades, as well as player made quests or bounties.{/li}
{li}A unique blood-line system exists to create many role playing possibilities, and adds to the expansion of the permanent death situations feature of the game allowing for truly epic gameplay situations. Players no longer are forced to stay with one character through out the game. Here they can have an entire blood-line or lineage, where the founding character of a line is born into the world carrying the name that all characters born there after of that line will wear. With this feature comes the ability to marry, have children, and in the case of permanent death, the player continues living in the game world through his or her child as a playable character and receives the benefits that come with that characters existing blood-line.{/li}
{li}An accountability Player vs Player system called Fame that tracks a player's good and bad actions, and is inherited by each character of that player's blood-line. With the Fame system comes benefits to those players that play the game within the rules, completing quests, fighting along side their realm mates or even for pleasing their chosen gods. Players with a low Fame count are held accountable for their actions by other players.{/li}
{li}A vast geography gives players an immersive and detailed world to explore, including underground caverns and dungeons, woodlands, mountains, ice lands, swamps and more. As the world evolves and secrets are uncovered, the world size will grow.{/li}
{li}Aside from player driven quests, there are NPC and game master quests that give players the chance to advance their character or their player organization, to gain favors or gifts from the gods, and to discover the hidden secrets of the world of Krel.{/li}
{li}Mourning offers a unique game story that is one massive mystery for players to discover. Through player interaction, the hidden storyline will slowly reveal itself, giving gamers control over the evolution of the world of Krel.{/li}
{li}A large variety of AI fantasy creatures populate the world, allowing for player interaction and more challenging player vs. environment situations. {/li}
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