The Hour of the Beast

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. Prior to creating my…

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Creating the Predator

Several players have expressed interest in learning more about what goes into the divine roles we play, particularly our thought processes and inspirations. Eventru already commented on his ideas in an earlier post, so I felt it was high time to discuss mine. I know I said before that I picked up Shikari because of…

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We’re All Human

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 Eventru). Even Estarra likes to…

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Shikari Part 2: Becoming God

I said in my last post that the process of becoming an ephemeral is both easy and difficult. So is the life of an ephemeral. On one hand, you have a fairly good time. There are lots of eye-opening things you learn while up in the Upper Havens, like how to create mobiles and make…

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Shikari Part 1: From Ignorant to Ephemeral

“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, and I was…

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