The Year of 2012 has flown by faster than any I have seen yet! As usual, at the end of the year, I like to look back and see what has transpired in Lusternia during the past twelve months. Frankly, I am rather proud of how many events and new releases took place during that time. However, our...

I recently had the pleasure of releasing the third Order beast in the game, my rage worgs, the first "litter" of which reached maturity just this morning. Coincidentally, a player asked me last week how I decided on appearance variables for my worgs, so I thought I'd address beasts in general....

Not every night were there deep philosophical discussions as we weighed the fate of mortals; rather, for an evening or two, the gods went out to let down their hair (or tentacles, as the case may be) to enjoy a few modest libations while decorously dancing to the music of the modern bards.

A few players have asked what it's like to take on an "older" godrole that an admin has played in the past. After some poking and prodding from Zvoltz, I've decided to write about my experiences with Isune - because, frankly, every godrole's situation is different.

When I was creating the character of Zvoltz, after I decided on his general background and personality, I spent some time thinking about his relationships with the other gods. Was he mad at Elostian for messing up the concept of Divine Circles? How did he feel about Eventru and Fain? Did he...

Let's face it. However you feel about Maylea, she was an ephemeral-fueled concept from start to finish. Estarra mentioned an idea in passing--wasn't it something about a Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired Goddess? Other than that, there was no guidance. There's no mention of Maylea in the Elder Wars,...

A fun little video of what Lusternians say! You know it's true! Check it out!

I don't often get the opportunity (or, admittedly, the inclination) to interact with players more than a significant distance from my particular realm of influence in Magnagora and the DisOrder of Morgfyre. This past month, we celebrated Lusternia's seventh (!) anniversary, and boy, was it a...

After reading a numerous threads and posts on the forums and nearly four years as an administrator (boy, time flies!), I can say one of my greatest frustrations regarding New Celest is a matter of perception. Indeed, people look down on it, from the outside, and scoff loudly, while others...

Gaudiguch is a city of contradictions and a city of passions.

It has to be. After all, the main focus of the city is on frivolous revelry, on drunken, debaucherous celebration, and on tearing down the old in pursuit of the new. It's a city of Freedom, a city of Revolution, and a city...

I know what you're thinking—the divine? "All human"? Preposterous! After all, they do so much work for the game, how can they possibly have lives beyond it?! And we're flattered, trust me, but it's true: Not all of us are automatons devoting full capacity and resources to Lusternia (except maybe...

Being a God and an Administrator is really, really cool, because it affords us some opportunities to add to the world of Lusternia and spruce it up with nice things (Which I love doing!). We do our very best to bring you all things that are interesting and engaging...and sometimes, in our haste...

I'm going to preface this post with something completely irrelevant to the topic - a short story.

Estarra and I were sitting at Havens (this is very common), both terribly idle (also common), as I was in the other room watching Joan Rivers (ibid) because my poor dog (fun fact: Arco, the...

For some of us, leaving behind that mortal life can be one of the most difficult choices we've ever had to make. There are the quasi-friends that we love to see when we log in each day. There's the political turmoil that we've so embroiled ourselves in that we dare let our fingers off of the...

Hello, everyone!

Rather than writing about my ephemeral days (which were filled with the same joys and trials that everyone has mentioned), I thought I would try to write something different! Seeing as Shikari’s latest post discussed him taking up an inactive god role, I will write about...

What’s your favorite thing about Lusternia?

Is it the lore? The immersive storylines? Are you a master politico up to your armpits in intrigue and foreign policy? Do you own your city’s stage, making a name for yourself as a playwright? Or, failing all that, are you one of those who goes...

"Text-based? So there's a lot of reading? I don't know about that..."

Yeah, I was one of those people. I've played MMORPGs for years, from Ragnarok Online on private servers to Guild Wars - and yes, I did dabble in World of Warcraft. But before 2008, I'd never played a MUD before...