History VideoGame / Achaea

* OneHitKill: Most classes have one or more of these, and they can get pretty nasty. Anyone who is good enough with a weapon can [[OffWithHisHead behead]] someone. Knights can [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice disembowel]] their victims. Serpents can behead people by driving their [[WhipItGood whips]] through people's necks. Jesters can summon a jack-in-the-box that eats heads. Flinging the Death Tarot card at someone summons the {{Grim Reaper}}. Blademasters can slice people into [[LudicrousGibs bloody chunks]] with four well-placed slashes. Priests and Apostates can command their respective familiars to tear the soul out of someone. Apostates can also tear the heart out of their victims with their [[EmpathicWeapon living dagger]]. Sylvans can plant a seed in someone that will grow inside them, eventually sprouting and shredding them from the inside out. Monks can kill using a backbreaker, but can also use their KiManipulation to do one of two things: [[KillItWithFire burn their victims to ashes]] or [[BloodyMurder literally boil their blood]]. Voyria, a venom, causes spasms so great it breaks backs if it isn't cured in time. Shamans can shrink the heads of their victims ''while they are still attached.'' The prize for [[{{Gorn}} most gruesome]], however, goes to the people who use Necromancy, and gain the ability to slice someone's chest completely open, rip apart as many of the poor soul's innards as possible, and finally drive a bone through their exposed heart.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: In game, it's very common for players which are skilled at the incredibly complex combat system to be prime candidates for political positions. This is more marked in the more recent IRE games.

* DarkIsNotEvil: There are distinct deities of Darkness, Chaos, Sin, and Oppression and Suffering (though the last two were once joined as [[GodofEvil Sartan]] and still hold sway over [[CardCarryingVillain Mhaldor]]). [[TheTheocracy Shallam]] and its [[ChurchMilitant Church]], and sometimes Cyrene, perennially fail to distinguish between the adherents of these various paths and will do war on [[TheHeretic anyone they see as evil]], much to the consternation of those who are, for instance {{Chaotic Neutral}}, {{Lawful Neutral}}, or even {{Lawful Good}} according to their native laws and chosen religion but do not follow the {{One True Faith}}. This has a tendency to make the rest of the world view them as {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s at best.

* OneHitKill: Most classes have one or more of these, and they can get pretty nasty. Anyone who is good enough with a weapon can [[OffWithHisHead behead]] someone. Knights can [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice disembowel]] their victims. Serpents can behead people by driving their [[WhipItGood whips]] through people's necks. Jesters can summon a jack-in-the-box that eats heads. Flinging the Death Tarot card at someone summons the {{Grim Reaper}}. Blademasters can slice people into [[LudicrousGibs bloody chunks]] with four well-placed slashes. Priests and Apostates can command their respective familiars to tear the soul out of someone. Apostates can also tear the heart out of their victims with their [[EmpathicWeapon living dagger]]. Sylvans can plant a seed in someone that will grow inside them, eventually sprouting and shredding them from the inside out. Monks can kill using a backbreaker, but can also use their {{Ki Attacks}} to do one of two things: [[KillItWithFire burn their victims to ashes]] or [[BloodyMurder literally boil their blood]]. Voyria, a venom, causes spasms so great it breaks backs if it isn't cured in time. Shamans can shrink the heads of their victims ''while they are still attached.'' The prize for [[{{Gorn}} most gruesome]], however, goes to the people who use Necromancy, and gain the ability to slice someone's chest completely open, rip apart as many of the poor soul's innards as possible, and finally drive a bone through their exposed heart.

* BareFistedMonk: And of course [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Monks Know Tekura]] and Kaido is essentially a derivative of {{Ki Attacks}}.

One of the more popular [=MUDs=] on the internet (which still makes it a shrimp compared to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''), ''Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands'' is an RP-enforced game that generates revenue via its pay-for-perks system. With enough money, you, too, are capable of [[BribingYourWayToVictory trying to Bribe Your Way to Victory]], only to discover it isn't that easy after all.

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[[IReadThatAs Not to be confused with]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea 'Archaea']], or with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaea_%28ancient_region%29 region known as Achaea]].

Before 2005 there was a guilds system in the game. To gain a class, you'd have to join the guild for that class, but it wouldn't stay permanent (you'd lose your class if you quit the guild or were kicked out) until you reached a high enough rank in the guild. In 2005 this was abolished in favor of "autoclass" which skipped the entire guild requirements and let someone join a class immediately. Depending on who you ask, this either [[JumpingTheShark destroyed the very core of the game]], or [[GrowingTheBeard was a vast improvement]]. An almost surefire way to start InternetBackdraft is to head to their forums and start a thread talking about how much autoclass rocks.

One of the more popular [=MUDs=] on the internet (which still makes it a shrimp compared to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft), ''Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands'' is an RP-enforced game that generates revenue via its pay-for-perks system. With enough money, you, too, are capable of [[BribingYourWayToVictory trying to Bribe Your Way to Victory]], only to discover it isn't that easy after all.

One of the more popular [=MUDs=] on the internet (which still makes it a shrimp compared to WorldOfWarcraft), ''Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands'' is an RP-enforced game that generates revenue via its pay-for-perks system. With enough money, you, too, are capable of [[BribingYourWayToVictory trying to Bribe Your Way to Victory]], only to discover it isn't that easy after all.

* {{Druid}}s: Comes in three flavours: the freewheeling Sentinel Class, the more mystical Sylvan class, and, well [[CaptainObvious the Druid class]].

** Sentinels have the Woodlore skill which allows, among other things, the summoning various [[CaptainObvious woodland creatures]] for assistance in combat.

[[IReadThatAs Not to be confused with]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea 'Archaea']].

* AnAdventurerIsYou: To the point that a large amount of the ''in game history'' are just the actions of really old [=PCs=]. One recently added quest explains some of the history of the major towns in the game; almost every name mentioned in the multiple spiels given to you has an Honours [[note:A command which summarizes the age of, class of, and everything done by a player]] entry.

* AnAdventurerIsYou: To the point that a large amount of the ''in game history'' are just the actions of really old PCs. One recently added quest explains some of the history of the major towns in the game; almost every name mentioned in the multiple spiels given to you by NPCs has an Honours [[note: A command which summarizes the age of, class of, and everything done by a player]] entry.

* AnAdventurerIsYou

Iron Realms Entertainment, which makes Achaea, has three other games ({{Aetolia}}, ''Imperian'', {{Lusternia}}), with the same game engine. They also all are pay-for-perks and have a fairly complicated political and combat system. Which means that if you spend a lot of money and/or time on one and decide to play another, all your hard work went down the drain and you have to start from scratch and do it all over again!

** Occasionally averted with global events such as the unification of Apollyon, God of Suffering, and Shaitain, God of Oppression as [[GodOfEvil Sartan]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin God of Evil]] (and later splitting again), and the invasion of the Vertani, among other things.