On Weather, Research, and Consequences

Dear Baby Sister, How are you doing? I hope your children are treating you well, and that you are safe? Tell them to forgive their Auntie Constance for not writing for some years. There’s been strange weather in the world lately, and such strange happenings, and not even in Duum Village itself, if you can…

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Ghosts and Other Hauntings

A spooky mansion, lit in green, looms ominously.

Atropos would be most grateful if you put these ghosts into the Portal of Fate while she repairs the Shears of Fate. As a reward, if you rescue 20 ghosts, Atropos will give you a yummy little treat! (NOTE: Ghosts will dissipate after this event, so please don’t try to hoard them in your manses…

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Fourteen Year Anniversary Events

Lusternia turns fourteen years old in 2018! Check out some of the events below and keep an eye out for the Czigany Wayfaire which usually shows up when there is festivity in the air! Hamster Hunt Winners: First Place: Yendor Second Place: Vyell  Third Place: Amildur  Catch hamsters as they run around throughout the land!…

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The Garosaur Dilemma

The strange garosaur pups that spun cocoons were gathered in turn by the various linorii researchers, intent on studying this new lifeform. Unfortunately, they didn’t quite realize how large and vicious they became when they hatched from their cocoons. Indeed, thousands of these rabid garosaurs broke out of their respective laboratories and spread throughout the…

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The Linorii Menagerie and Garosaur Conundrum

With the glowbat population stabilising thanks to the rigorous research of the Basin’s foremost linorii researchers, each researcher published a comprehensive report based on their findings. With this stabilisation, it was thought that the commune and city members who aided the researchers would have time to relax and review the reports in peace and quiet.…

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Glory to the Glowbats

Curiously, the strange growing sinkers found across the land appear to be affected by some mysterious ailment, causing them to first solidify and then explode into numerous glowbats! As if this wasn’t peculiar enough, the ailment causes the sinkers to become stunted in their growth, leaving them small and devoid of the tangled threads… Six…

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A Whale of a Tale

Suddenly, and against all probability, a void-whale manifested in the skies above Mount Avechna. Nearly slamming into its peak, the creature took flight across the Basin of Life, littering the ground with pieces of itself that had broken off during its reentry. Its wandering was not long, however. Attracted by the scent of a particularly…

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Threads, Fall and Rise

A painted artwork of creeper vines amidst a forest backdrop.

Strange weather. The people of the Basin of Life had thought that the rain of bouncing balls from the lightning-splashed sky was the end of it. But in Shanthin, 505 years after the Coming of Estarra, reality shook once more, and the very ground began to sprout with tangles of blue-green shimmering thread, which spread…

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Transmological Visions

While sinkers and threads plagued the Basin of Life, transmologists were plagued by a vision of the threads unearthing something looking like a box or a chest. Soon, the visions came true, and a chest was found off of a spectre-filled island. Mosachi Xeeth of Gaudiguch claimed to potentially have some knowledge as to the…

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Peculiar Weather and Other Oddities

In Avechary of the year 503 after the Coming of Estarra, the skies of Lusternia cracked open with blue-purple lightning. The very atoms of reality shifted, and strange shapes and stars shifted in and out of view upon the firmament. While the inhabitants of the Basin of Life were reeling from these strange circumstances, a…

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Calling Home Lord Nocht

Recently, a concerned muted slaugh approached Xenthos An’Ryshe within the Glomdoring forest, asking if he’d heard from the Silent Lord in recent times. Soon joined by Eliron Shee-Slaugh, a former member of His Order, both confirmed that they had no news to share. As the slaugh expressed her concern, and the gathering grew further, it…

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Strange Storm Alert!

Something odd is afoot! The skies over Lusternia crackle with blue lightning. The stars struggle. Strange shapes and images shift in and out of view. Once a Lusternian day, rains of bouncing balls are falling out of the skies and bounding across the lands! At the same time, a mysterious gnome in dark spectacles has…

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The Mists of Serenwilde

A foggy sky with a full moon and silhouetted, bare trees.

A brilliant flash and massive crashing heralded a massive opening in the sky, and from it a comet of tenebrous mist fell to the Serenwilde forest. Those first to the scene were quick to find within the Centaur Hills an odd, dancing wisp of black mist with a flame within. After interacting with it, those…

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Warrior Renovations

A warrior holding a blade stands proudly against a plain background.

After weeks of development and testing, warriors have undergone a big renovation, with a number of skills updated and several new skills implemented. The primary focus of these changes was to give warriors more options and efficacy in group combat. Below is a list of the main updates. General Base damage has been increased Power…

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Magnagora and New Celest Artwork

We commissioned some concept art for two of the original cities in Lusternia. First up is Magnagora, where the artist captured the dark, polluted, urban cityscape centered around the Megalith of Doom, seen rising through the tainted air in the background. For Celest, spiral shell towers frame the sea-inspired architecture in soft blues, whites and…

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Ascension of Deichtine

Verses of Magnora, MXXXIV: “Within the serpent’s habitat shall mortals step before he dies” And so they did; but not without a Trial. When Avechna called the Final Ascension Challenge forth, the High Prophet Ghani n’Rotri swooped in and stole the Staff of Ascension for himself, and began to ascend as an Avatar of Kethuru.…

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Advent of the Solstice Court

‘Twas the season of Solstice drawing us near, once again feeling the thrill and warmth in the hearts of the young and old to celebrate the inherent festive merriment and generosity found within. We were pulled strongly towards the bright lights of the holiday that shone brilliantly to our eyes. Our arrival was heralded by…

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The Final Revelation: Son of Steel and Gold

Each legacy is more than just a story;united all beginnings open doors –we embrace Fate and die for our own glory,as ages fade, but Promises endure. Alakar i’Xiia was uncertain which of his ancestors had agreed to this nonsense, but he didn’t have time for it. A Verse of Magnora? Really? What did they take…

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Apocalypse Has Come to Call

As much of the Basin slept, the Chaos Seal weakened. More were on the cusp of fading as Lief Myeras-Silvermoon made a valiant attempt to close portals and fight back the beasts – but after much of her toil she was overcome by the madness of the Soulless too much to continue. She ceased, only…

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Renounce Ascent or Face Demise

An ornate round frame surrounds the image of sparkling purple and pink clouds. The frame is resting upon a stony grey background.

Wanda Murkle was under no illusions that she was the sort of person people liked. But then, she didn’t have much of an interest in being liked. There would be rapture, and He would come and consume them all, and all would be as it ought to be. That was enough. If people thought her…

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