December Newsletter from Iron Realms Entertainment

The holidays have arrived, and what better way to celebrate than with an IRE-wide, 25% Credit Bonus? Through the end of January 1, 2008 GMT, you will receive 25% more credits on any purchase made. Just think about the possibilities! This means a purchase of 100 credits will get you 125, 500 credits will get you 625, and a purchase of 1000 credits will net you a whopping total of 1250!

Aetolia
The month of November brought the long-awaited Telepathy liaisons to the Sentaari and Daru guilds, granting each with new strength in their psychic potential. Weaponry, Venoms, and Woodlore also received Liaison upgrades, affecting all the realm's citizens. Crafters acquired the much-requested ability to customise the way in which their food is eaten and their clothing worn. Finally, a plethora of suggestions were taken for new artifacts to be found within the realm, the first of which have become available. In a strange event as yet left unexplained, a mysterious obelisk crashed into the Siroccian Mountains, triggering the release of thousands of hostile entities that were only suppressed by combined efforts from each of the realm's major communities.

Imperian
A busy month for Imperian, complete with rumours of a strange, concealed graveyard near Kinsarmar. Shaman Cymirnai announced that her rituals and the player sacrifices have allowed her to regenerate the village of L’lyra. New villagers have closed it off whilst they rebuild the community. The Shaman herself has moved to the Blighted Hollow, refocusing her efforts to contain the blight, and calling for the voluntary sacrifices of brave people to fuel her rituals.

Achaea
Throughout the month of November in Achaea, disturbances in the Dreamworld sent ripples throughout the world at large. Many who fell asleep experienced terrible nightmares from which they would awaken afflicted with a variety of illnesses, whilst others dreamt of discovering riches only to rise from sleep with gold in hand. Stranger still, adventurers began to fall into strange, deep sleeps whence dreams crossed the threshold into the waking world, manifesting as ethereal creatures who wandered the world causing all whom they touched to fall into further sleeps, repeating the cycle. Eventually, it was discovered that the phenomena originated from the sleeping child-god Pandemonium, who in his infancy had been deeply wounded in the War of the Divine Child over a century ago. Through capturing significant manifestations of Pandemonium's dreams and healing the child-god's fractured subconscious, Achaeans were able to finally rouse him from his slumber, and he awakened as Pandemonium, God of Strife!

Lusternia
This month, Lusternia saw a series of major updates to constructs and colossi, including bombardment by aetherships. These updates impacted aetherspace commerce with the addition of auronidion, adding a further dimension to aetherspace trading. As a result, aethership dogfights were a common occurrence in the battles over Nexus Worlds! From the Glomdoring Commune, a player coven of Shadowdancers led a dark ritual beseeching Mother Night's favour at one of her most blessed sites, revealing previously unknown details about the shadow-bound fae spirits enslaved to Mother Night's cold and unbending will. Along the banks of the Estengare River, a camp of gold prospectors was discovered, seeking out their fortunes in the many rivers of the Basin of Life, and offering exciting rewards to intrepid players who join the prospecting frenzy.