Ashen Empires

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Ashen Empires (Iron Will Games, formerly Dransik) is a pay to play mmorpg (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). The game is split into servers, PVP (player vs. player) and NPVP (non-players vs. players).

Ashen Empires is free to play up to level 10 on Valinor Island. Valinor Island allows players to sample all skills and professions up to skill level 15. There are hundreds of quests to complete along the way. To leave the island players must be an Ashen Empires subscriber ($8.95 a month).

The game lets the player choose one of three races to play -- human, night elf, or orc. After they choose their character, they are free to become whatever they want. Though there are no fixed classes there are many skills and trades on which a character can focus.

They can also:

Do various side-quests
Make friends/allies and chat, hunt, do quests together
Make enemies/rivals and kill each other and loot
Go solo and hunt by theirself
Choose to be divine (they don't kill other players or loot)
Choose to be evil (they kill others players and loot)
Have a reputation (as a person) of either being good or bad
Train in various trade skills that will help later
Trade items with other players

History

The game was originally created by Jason Ely (Lothgar), Doug Gesler (Zarquon) and the others at Asylumsoft.The music was composed by Paavo Härkönen, and Customer Support was driven by Angela Gaston (Cordelia).

"Miikka on ihme angsti pissis" -Lothgar^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Jason Ely was originally one of the programmers of Ultima VIII, and . Using, with permission, old graphic tiles from Ultima V, Ely began working on the first Dransik beta. Over the course of the next two years, the developing Dransik beta very much had the look of Ultima IV and Ultima V along with the general ruleset and character building functionality of Ultima Online in the beginning. As the beta progressed towards release, those similarities slowly vanished. The Dransik team eventually brought on board a graphic designer to redesign the graphical tileset. The look of the game progressed from its original flat 2D style to a more sophisticated isometric layout. As well, the ever-expanding character building options under development eventually forked off in a new direction from that of its mentor MMORPG, Ultima Online.

Dransik Classic

Iron Will Games now "owns" Dransik and maintains a Dransik Classic server.

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