The Next Generation of MMORPG

Quests generated just for your character, a fully destructible environment, closed economy, finite resources, and survival elements, means Elyria is experienced differently for every player! Each time you log in there is something new to do. No daily grind! Local, regional, and national conflicts are continuously unfolding, giving birth to repeated opportunities for you to change the course of history.

Enter Chronicles of Elyria as a member of a player or NPC-ran family, then work your way up from a humble adventurer to a landed vassal, develop your dynasty, and work your way to King. Not interested in running a kingdom? The fully skill-based system and lack of classes means you're rewarded with the ability to create the exact character you want to.

Full of dramatic opportunities, Chronicles of Elyria pulls the best from sandbox and themepark MMOs to create a new type of game - an event-driven story we call a Multiplayer Evolving Online World or MEOW.

Choose Your Own Adventure in an MMO

In Chronicles of Elyria, players experience a unique and compelling quest system where personalized, procedurally generated story arcs follow characters no matter where they go in the world. Triggered by surrounding events, the players are free to be masters of their own destiny while still enjoying a role in the larger story. Like a global, choose-your-own adventure book, actions the players take guides the direction of the 10-year story through a proprietary new story system we call “Storyfinding.” Like the GPS on your phone, the AI guides the players to the next way-point in the story, giving us the ability to maintain a tight narrative, while giving you the freedom to choose which path to take.

MMORPG Meets Survival Game

With limited inventory, hunger and thirst, drowning and fatigue, and dangerous landscapes containing both sweltering heat and frigid cold, a character experiences challenges big and small every single day. Weather and the environment are both mighty friends and foes in Elyria, depending on your circumstances. The riches are real and adventurers can become the wealthiest and most powerful in the world - if they can survive the harsh environments.

Chronicles of Elyria is built from the ground up to create a shared world that is affected by the choices of its players. Player interaction runs deep, and choices can have consequences. Survival gameplay alongside political intrigue and a system of law and government means that danger is not always obvious. Heroes will need to be truly heroic to become legends!

Break Free of Quest Hubs & Endless Grind

Tired of overly simplistic gathering quests shared by everyone on the server? Are you painfully aware that you and 50 other people are currently doing the same quest for the same NPC at the same quest hub? We're doing away with NPC quest hubs by enabling other players to give out tasks. You might meet a merchant who has run out of reagents, leading them to ask you to bring 10 elixirs back from a far off city. Our Contract Systems guarantees that there is payment on delivery!

At its most basic level Chronicles of Elyria is a fully customizable, skill-based Action RPG in which the skills you use determine which skills you're good at. Our completely classless system and skill-based progression means that your imagination is unleashed to play any role you'd like without being confined by your choice during character creation.

Achieve Fame & Fortune in a Player-Driven Economy

Elyria is a living world with a closed economy and finite resources. This means that the resources in the world at launch are the only ones Elyria will ever have. Use them wisely! Whether you plan to gather resources, process raw materials into crafting components, craft those into items for other players, run a shop or merchant caravan, or offer your sword for protection along established trade routes, each piece of the economy is run by players.

In Chronicles of Elyria's unique crafting system, there is more to becoming a master crafter than waiting on a progress bar. Requiring fast reflexes and good hand-eye coordination, skill-challenges for non-combat activities means that some degree of player skill is required for every action a character takes.

Join a Robust World Complete with Dynamic NPCs

Chronicles of Elyria is the first persistent MMO where the actions players take have a permanent and lasting impact on their environment. Players can work to gain control over and monopolize a valuable commodity, they can blockade or siege neighboring settlements to force alliances or concessions, and they can construct individual buildings or even entire civilizations through our innovative new settlement system. And, with robust A.I. behaviors, the NPCs in the world react to the reputations and actions of the players, remembering past interactions and responding in kind.

With no new resources entering the game after launch, players must find and gather resources and craft goods and services for one another, and you can bet it will be competitive! It will be up to players to set fair market value, protect their investments, and pay taxes to their governments to run the country. And it will be up to the warriors of the realms to protect their borders, to hunt down threats, or to conquer other lands.

More About Chronicles of Elyria

Our Vision for MMORPGs

Chronicles of Elyria is a persistent world role-playing game designed from the ground up to address the many problems and shortcomings that exist in today's conventional MMORPGs. The next evolution in online gaming is a dynamic, virtual world with gripping drama, personalized stories, and a reason to exist. Learn how Chronicles of Elyria is defining a new genre that will change everything you know about MMOs!

5 Design Pillars of Chronicles of Elyria

Our design pillars are the core way we make the vision a reality. These five elements will unleash players to play the character they've always dreamed in a world that invites creativity. Learn why Chronicles of Elyria is Dynamic, Dangerous, Skillful, Event-Driven, and Real.

Souls and the Business Model

Elyria is a world that is shaped by the passage of time and the creation of history. Learn how your character becomes a part of the living story through your characters and their souls. Chronicles of Elyria utilizes a new business model never before seen in MMOs. Instead of a subscription fee or micro-transactions, a Spark of Life grants a Soul the opportunity to live in Elyria for a real-life year.

Your Role in Elyria

Chronicles of Elyria uses a skill-based progression system, so the skills you practice make your character what they are. The fully skill-based system and lack of classes means you're able to create the exact character you want to and can shift your role over time. The world is full of opportunities, great and small, where player skill makes all the difference.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

With a game breaking so many conventions, it's natural to have some questions! Here are some of the most common.

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