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Skip to content Check out our other great game worlds. Achaea Imperian Lusternia Starmourn Menu Play Now The Game The World of Aetolia Player vs Player Combat Character Classes Races of Aetolia Skills and Abilities History and Mythos Portal Game Messages Game News Game Logs Game Maps Elite Memberships Forums Gallery Artisanal November 2018 Bardic November 2018 Help What is a MUD? Game Help Newbie Guide How to Connect Privacy Policy Contacting Support Credits Log In Play Free Now Create A Character What is Aetolia? Aetolia is a multiplayer RPG (role-playing game) set in a gothic-fantasy world. The difference between Aetolia and other games is that Aetolia is played entirely in text with minimal graphics. This genre of games is called MUDs or Multi-User Dungeons . Characters in Aetolia talk, trade, fight, plot and even kill and eat each other. They roam the continents and explore dungeons, killing (or helping) foul creatures, gather gold and treasure while increasing in power and prestige. Aetolia is a gothic-fantasy setting, populated by vampires and weres of multiple varieties. Unlike other fantasy settings, Aetolia encourages both sides of the coin, letting players decide whether to help or hinder. Read More About MUDs May 8 2021 What’s Aetolia doing, Episode 2 Mining has had its scope reduced! We’ll worry about things like random encounters AFTER we’ve gotten players their new commodity system. Expect more updates on this, but its scope should be of a size now that it’s mostly filling in some blanks. Our next class of Celani will ‘enjoy’ this job! We’ve selected the next… Read More → Apr 10 2021 Revenant and Warden, two new classes released! In Khepary of the year 494 MA, two supernatural events of rediscovery took place in two different parts of Sapience. Read More → Mar 11 2021 Where are Mirrors and Mining? What’s De-scoping? Let's talk these two projects and figure out why they're taking so long! Read More → Feb 28 2021 Incoming Idea Interest, Insider Impact Indelibly Incredible In a new take on Idea Day, we're announcing that starting Friday, we'll be implementing ideas that strike our fancy. That gives you time to attack the list and let your opinion be heard! Read More → Jan 4 2021 2020 Year in Review 2020 was a complicated year! With some of the real-world events, let’s just say it felt like three or four years. With the crazy year in mind, I was surprised when I looked back over the year’s accomplishments. Many things felt like they were AGES ago. As usual, many plans were derailed and many new,… Read More → Dec 30 2020 Mirror Class Spoilers We're getting near to releasing our first two mirror classes! So, here's some information to keep enthusiasm going: Read More → Oct 18 2020 The First of the Nocturn Zsarachnor, the Vampire Lord returns? Read More → Aug 24 2020 Year 490 Celebrations Who needed Delve? Last time was great, let's do it again: Read More → Jul 5 2020 Ylemnics Aetolia gets its own visual programming language? What? Read More → Jun 7 2020 Black Lives Matter Over the last week, millions of people have protested the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. Citizens of the United States and other countries are demanding justice and equity. We’re seeing a movement for change that hasn’t been seen in our lifetimes, and it’s long overdue. First, we stand with the Black… Read More → Tweets by @aetoliandevs Intricate Player vs Player Combat Aetolia has some of the most detailed and intense PvP ever created. In addition to traditional RP initiated combat, Aetolia has numerous systems to encourage and reward its most skilled and bloodthirsty: Open PK areas with world altering effects for those brave enough to enter The Sect of Blades , a ranked system of organized combat Twice monthly contests for the Orrery , a powerful location that boosts the faction of the team with the best showing The power of Ylem regularly tears into Sapience, leading to clashes to control these Foci , for personal and organizational gain Of course, PvP isn't just PK. We also have elected city positions to backstab your way into, rankings of everything from most powerful merchant to best minipet collector, and even racetracks for said pets to earn their owner winnings! Learn More About PvP Combat Unique Character Classes and Skills We take our skill system seriously, and want every class or talent to feel unique and different. Whether you are an assassin leaping from the shadows to abduct your foe, a powerful knight slashing enemies with your flaming blades, or a monk utilizing your self control to heal wounds and devastate foes, all classes have their own unique mechanisms and abilities. 15+ Unique Classes 12 Guilds 2000+ Different Abilities 80+ Skillsets of Crafting/PvE/PvP 60+ Race skills Our skillsets each include 30+ skills, varying between general skills, crafting, and class based. Every guild has its own class with unique abilities, modified by a core of abilities common to everyone. And of course, add to that our mercantile, tradeskills, and talents... you get hundreds of possible combinations! Read More About Skills What is a Mud? They're the original massively multiplayer real-time online games . Before there was World of Warcraft, there were MUDs. They aren't single-player text adventures like Zork or choose-your-own-adventure games. They're very much real-time and multiplayer. Ultimately, you can think of MUDs vs. graphical games as books vs. movies in some respects. Just as many people feel books are more immersive than a movie, many people feel MUDs are more immersive than graphical games. Are you one of those people? Only one way to find out. Try out our game world right now! Read More About MUDs Storytelling The World and Your Place In It Aetolia is an entirely unique, ever growing world and storyline. For over 17 years our realm has worked through a player driven storyline, and it has seen some changes no other setting could imagine. Almost 20,000 rooms are explorable to players, and 13,000 more are just waiting for the story to catch up... The drive for this? Roleplaying. Aetolia has a true player-driven storytelling with depths yet unseen. Regular events keep the story moving, while the Administration supports when our players unseat it all and take the reins! Our stories are crafted from the intricate RP of our players, with a vast overarching plot decades in scope... and all without a cutscene showing some NPC swooping in to steal the show. Learn More About World Your World Crafting, Building, Leading Aetolia is built to let players create and lead. Our organizations are designed with player-led positions, and our crafting skills mean that the clothes you wear, the swords you stab with, even the healing potion you drink from are all player designed and created. 20+ Crafting skillsets Over 100,000 player made designs Castles and Havens for your character's private home 4 Completely player run City/Council/Empires 12 Player led guilds Player run packs of shapeshifters Our crafting is complex and wide reaching. Cities expand their buildings when their leadership decides to. Characters earn their own Haven and design it themself. And again, everything is player designed and crafted. Start your mercantile empire, then run the Imperial Dominion, build a castle, and corner the market in fancy hats, everything is possible! Learn Aetolia's History Aetolia is one of the incredible free games developed and operated by Iron Realms Entertainment - the world leader in MUDs. Facebook Twitter Email We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings . Accept Scroll To Top Close GDPR Cookie Settings Privacy Overview Strictly Necessary Cookies Privacy Overview This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognisi...