Atharia

[icanbeyourmuse]

Since Atharia is on a new code base, my health is behaving, and I rewrote stuff. I’m making a new post. At the bottom I’ll include current plots, staff wants, and any currently important details.

The world of Atharia is quite fantastical. It is home to four kingdoms (potentially more), meddling Gods, mythical creatures, and mortals living with a curse placed on them by a very petty God. There are many things people can opt to do such as play the political game as nobles, explore the world and find interesting things, landmarks, creatures or anything else. Amongst the mortals of the world are people who have a parent as a God, they are known as Children of Gods. Come join us on Atharia and help form the world. Should the current problems get solved, more will surely pop up.

Atharia is a casual Fantasy Lords and Ladies game that utilizes the AresMUSH code system. We have a variety of roster characters that people can choose from or make their own. At the moment there is little in the way of restrictions on the types of characters that can be made. Staff is open to discussion on theme changes and ideas with the caveat that what is suggested might not be used or it might not be exactly what was envisioned.

Feel free to join us and see if it is a place that fits for you:

The website: https://www.atharia.net
To connect: atharia.net:2222
Discord: http://discord.atharia.net

The story lines currently going on:

The current plots can be found here: https://atharia.aresmush.com/plots

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This is a list of what characters staff would like to see played. The suggestions can be comboed or not used at all. We’re just looking to help people get into the game as easily as possible. You do not need to be a ‘long term’ player. You can come in as new for any of these suggestions.

• Anyone on the Roster
• Echo’s Child - Any gender, any kingdom. Echo, the Eighth God, would likely have chosen the parent of the Child because the parent did something that interested Echo.
• Mataya and Ossian’s Children - Any gender works. These two are unlikely to be enemies but could be friends, siblings, a couple, friendly rivals but it is unlikely they will have an adverse relationship due to the blood of their god parents. The preference is that the characters come in a pair. This can either be as 2 players (you can approach people already playing and not a Child, yet) or talking to staff about making one an NPC.
• Children of Gods - You can be a Child of any God. No gender or concept preference. Mataya and Ossian’s Children are explained above.
• Members of the Holy Order of Knights - This is a relatively new organization and is considered the protectors of the Seat of Gods. Any rank, any gender, any concept. We are open to the possibility of someone apping in as the Grand Master.
• Military Folk - There hasn’t been many of these about. Any rank, any gender, any concept.
• Combat Types - Any sort of combat type.
• Nobility from any kingdom, titled would be especially welcome.
• Scholars - The types who can become (or are) Sages for royals and noble families.
• Knights, Sages, Baronets - Each royal family has a Baronet, Knight, and Sage - with a House created as an official family. Each noble family has one of these too.
• Courtesans - Debutantes and full Courtesans.
• Clergy - All the Gods.
• The Divine Ambassador - This person leads the Conclave of Divine Guidance

What we want is not limited to what is listed here. It is mere suggestions we could think of at the time.

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Currently, while I am transferring characters from our old code base to the new one, there is no limit on how many points you spend in CG as long as you are reasonable about it (AKA you don’t need to make everything) and leave your character space to grow. I still have a couple rooms to describe, since I changed the grid around during the transfer of everything, and obviously not all characters are moved over, yet. People who want to return can 100% transfer their character over. For currently active characters, that haven’t created yet on Ares Atharia, I’ve restricted the names. Just nudge me to remove them for you.

[icanbeyourmuse]

The current story line we’re doing is finding a kingdom and having an ‘enemy’ starting to get really active. A special request for people to play the ‘bad guys’ is given with reward things for it. The post:

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Staff Special Request Minerva
Recruitment (5/2) Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:45am

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The next major plot point for Atharia is to reveal Ren to be a villain. He is likely a part of the Council of the Devoted. I repeatedly say that I don’t really hide what is intended to happen, even if I don’t give all the details. What happens to Ren will depend on players (kill him, convert him, save him, etc).

I explained all that for a reason. My semi-plan is that Ren is the current leader of the Council of the Devoted. What I would like is a couple people willing to play members of the Council, publicly known as such. This means the character will be a villain and likely temporary, though, I am not against the character becoming permanent if people end up enjoying the story line for the character, which will likely be a redemption arch to where they ‘become Good’ (or at least an anti-hero type) since sometimes people have issues with getting into scenes with villains.

You can totally be part of the Council on a current character that gets exposed along with Ren or before him. IF you’re worried your character concept won’t work, we can figure it out to make it happen.

[[[Council of the Devoted]]] (https://atharia.net/wiki/council_of_the_devoted) for more details on the Council.

My ideal would be at least 1 sub-leader and 2 or 3 ‘general members’.

As this will be a temporary character (unless you decide otherwise), 50% of any XP you earn on the character can be transferred to an alt, if you desire. If you don’t care about the XP we can discuss alternative ideas for a ‘reward’ for playing a character that is destined to be ‘dealt with’ in some form. Rewards can be anything, within reason. It can be you can ask for a plot line that is strictly geared for your character, work out an angle of getting a position you would like for your alt, you can add some specific details to theme files that you feel would add to the game (subject to review and possible modifications if it is to off theme), etc. If it works for the game IC or OOC, I’m willing to talk it over. You can play more than 1 Council member but the ‘reward’ only applies once. So, if you play 5 characters the reward will be once over all not once for each character.

Contact me if interested.
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(1) Minerva replied on Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:03am
These temporary characters can absolutely be Children of Gods but it needs to fit with the alts rules. That is to say, if you have a Child of Gods PC already, the temporary one can not be one. This is so that if you decide you enjoy playing the character’s story you don’t need to give up either character unless you want too.

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The ability to go beyond available CG points is no longer a thing. We’ve transferred everything over.