Alpha Phase
Welcome to Song of Avaria's Alpha Phase!
Initial Storyline
Your new character will enter play in the cosmopolitan port city of Omrazir, the capital of the Sirdabi province of Raziya. Never exactly a quiet place, Omrazir has had its difficulties and excitements lately. Maritime trade has been heavily disrupted by the unprecedented presence of sea serpents in Rassi Bay, forcing more trade along the old overland trade routes through the desert. Catastrophic rains and flooding have collapsed buildings and washed out bridges, cutting off the road to Omrazir's chief port, the nearby village of al-Sakhna. Even less expected, a foreign prince from the unheard-of land of Innithel, apparently some part of the barbarian Kingdom of An-Sor, recently arrived in the city after completing the unheard-of feat of sailing straight across the Adelantean Sea. It is certainly an interesting time to reside in Omrazir!
Your character will doubtless learn more about all these happenings as they navigate the city and its surroundings, and become acquainted with more of its inhabitants. But in starting out, naturally you'll want to focus on deciding who YOU are: who is your character, and what makes them tick? Besides considering their personality, motivations, gifts, flaws, interests, and goals, you may also want to think about such things as whether they were born and raised in the city or province, or if their origins lie elsewhere, what their life has been like up to this point, what might have drawn them to Omrazir or kept them there, what they might think of the current events in the city and how they might have been affected by such happenings.
How Do I Sign Up?
First, check the rules and make sure you'll be able to follow them.
Click the Register button at the top of the website . From there, you can make a new character. If you have trouble with this, read the QuickStart for more information. For a work-in-progress walkthrough of the character creation process, check out the Character Generation Guide.
From there, go wild with your ideas! Don't worry, we'll help you refine anything that needs thematic tweaks after character creation. If you have a cool idea for a special plot hook or item you want to bring to the table, we can help with that too.
As soon as you've completed character generation, you can enter the game with your new character, either through the webclient on the site, or with telnet at songofavaria.com, port 4000.
Starting Out
When you enter the game, you'll be in the Faded Zone. It'll be as if your character is just having a strange dream, soon to be forgotten. It's all right to be a little weird and OOC here. We'll make sure your character is all set to join the story, and then approve your character application, and after that you'll be able to enter the world through the vortex.
On the other side of the vortex, your character will be on the ship -- waking up from a dream, and it will be time to be as perfectly in-character as you are able. So if you wanted to OOCly test random commands and abilities without any in-character consequences, it's best to do that in the Faded Zone before passing through into the "real" world!