History VideoGame / Aetolia

* JerkJock: A fair number of player-killers. The "jock" part of it is [[{{Nerd}} very]] questionable, though.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The various vampire Houses.

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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Various members of the playerbase, [[FanDumb unfortunately]].

Long version: A Gothic Fantasy MUD with roots in ''VideoGame/{{Achaea}}'', long regarded as a carbon copy with the OurVampiresAreDifferent Consanguine and some extra skills. Recent developments have started to give the game its own identity, as has the strong community focus on quality roleplay.

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* AnAdventurerIsYou

Short version: {{Achaea}} [[RecycledINSPACE WITH VAMPIRES!]]

Long version: A Gothic Fantasy MUD with roots in {{Achaea}}, long regarded as a carbon copy with the OurVampiresAreDifferent Consanguine and some extra skills. Recent developments have started to give the game its own identity, as has the strong community focus on quality roleplay.

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Galleus, Aetolia's producer, has stated that the game world will be taking a turn towards the Lovecraftian. Whether this means the emergence of a EldritchAbomination or just a few extra tentacles remains to be seen.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Ankyrean artifacts seem to be made of these. Also, how the first vampires were created.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Almighty Kerrithrim, who is two miles tall.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Credits can be spent on lessons to improve your skills, or sold for ridiculous amounts of gold. You either pay exorbitant amounts of real life money for them, or find some way to win them in the game proper.

* CharacterClassSystem: There are seventeen different classes in Aetolia. Most, but not all, have an associated guild.
** [[BareFistedMonk Sentaari]], monks who use the skillsets of [[GoodOldFisticuffs Tekura]], [[KiAttacks Kaido]], and [[PsychicPowers Telepathy]].
** [[NatureHero Sentinels]], who are hunter-themed warriors that use the skillsets of [[ExoticWeaponSupremacy Dhuriv]], [[TrapMaster Wood]][[FriendToAllLivingThings lore]], and [[MasterPoisoner Toxicology]].
** [[{{Druid}} Druids]], who are using the skillsets of [[ShapeShifting Metamorphosis]], [[WhenTreesAttack Groves]], and [[ItemCrafting Conjuration.]]
** [[ThePaladin Paladins]], who use the skillsets of [[ArcherArchetype Chiv]][[DualWielding alry]], [[TheBlacksmith Forging]], and [[WhiteMagic Devotion]].
** [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Indorani]], cultists who employ the skillsets of [[{{Necromancer}} Necromancy]], [[TarotMotifs Tarot]], and [[DealWithTheDevil Domination]].
** [[ChurchMilitant Luminaries]], holy warriors who use the skillsets of [[GuardianAngel Spirit]][[EnergyWeapon uality]], [[WhiteMagic Devotion]], and [[PlayingWithFire Illumination]].
** [[ThievesGuild Syssin]], tricksters and rogues who practice the skillsets of [[MasterPoisoner Venom]], [[ArcherArchetype Subte]][[TheTrickster rfuge]], and [[HypnoFool Hypnosis]].
** [[BlackKnight Infernals]], {{Evil Counterpart}}s of the Paladins, who also use the skillsets of [[ArcherArchetype Chiv]][[DualWielding alry]] and [[TheBlacksmith Forging]], but prefer [[{{Necromancer}} Necromancy]] to Devotion.
** [[WarriorMonk Daru]], who use the skillsets of [[GoodOldFisticuffs Tekura]] and [[PsychicPowers Telepathy]] like the Sentaari, but have [[PlayingWithFire Illumination]] instead.
** [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Cabalists]], scholarly cultists who use [[{{Necromancer}} Necromancy]], [[NumerologicalMotif Numerology]], and [[DealWithTheDevil Domination]].
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Praenomen]], the "standard" form of Consanguine. They have no guild, instead giving the class to other players through [[VampireBitesSuck bites.]] Their skillsets are [[SuperStrength Cor]][[SuperSpeed pus]], [[PsychicPowers Mentis]], and [[BloodMagic Sanguis]].
** [[ThePowerOfBlood Bloodborn]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire mages]] that use the skillsets of [[SuperStrength Cor]][[SuperSpeed pus]], [[PsychicPowers Mentis]], and [[BloodMagic Hematurgy]].
** Teradrim, earthen priest-mages who use the skillsets of [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], [[DishingOutDirt Sand]], and [[{{Golem}} Animation]].
** Bahkatu and Atabahi, two opposed guilds that share the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lycanthrope]] class, and mutate into werebears and werewolves respectively. They have [[WolverineClaws Ferality]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Lycanthropy]], and [[MagicMusic Howling]] as skillsets.
** Ascendril, mages of fire, water, and spirit that have [[ElementalPowers Elemancy]], [[PowerCrystal Crystalism]], and [[ItemCrafting Enchantment]] for skillsets.
** Sciomancers, evil counterparts to the above that use air, earth and shadow. They employ the [[ElementalPowers Sciomancy]], [[PowerCrystal Crystalism]], and [[ItemCrafting Enchantment]] skillsets.

* DualWielding: Practiced by the two knight classes (usually with two of the same weapon), and also by Syssin (with a whip and a dirk).

* GrandfatherClause: Anyone with the Priest class is operating under one; the Priest guild was replaced by the Luminaries, and there is no way for new Priests to be created as a result.

* LawfulStupidChaoticStupid (Many characters are, to put it mildly, [[LargeHam slightly over]] [[ClicheStorm the]] [[{{Narm}} top]].)

** AnimalMotifs: Invoked by the Atabahi and Bahkatu, who are [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werebears]] respectively. Guess which are evil and which are good.

** WorldTree: Featured prominently as an actual location.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Aetolian vampires are also called Consanguine, and come in Praenomen (fighter) and Bloodborn (mage) varieties. Both are immune to all the traditional vampire weaknesses, with the sole exception of sunlight, and vampires of certain races can even kick their blood dependency with enough experience.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves and Werebears are not bitten, and the moon doesn't affect them at all - it's just a learned form of voluntary transformation.

* PlayerVersusPlayer: The main focus of the game, with an absurdly complex combat system designed to facilitate conflict.

* WarpWhistle: Most classes have at least one teleportation ability. Sciomancers and Ascendril can warp to their Master Crystal, Indorani to an isolated location pre-marked by their Hermit tarot card, Cabalists to a place pre-marked by their Numerological abilities, Lycanthropes to a place they previously marked, vampires to their coffins, Luminaries to Nirvana. Paladins, Luminaries and Priests also get the Pilgrimage ability, which lets them travel to anyone standing within a Pilgrimage rite and lay down Pilgrimage rites themselves. Sentaari and Daru, who share the Telepathy skillset, can teleport to each other after linking minds. Syssin can use Subterfuge to create and use wormholes that link rooms together.
** Infernals are the one exception, receiving no teleportation ability whatsoever.

Long version: A Gothic Fantasy MUD with roots in {{Achaea}}, long regarded as a carbon copy with [[strike:Vampires]][[OurVampiresAreDifferent Consanguine]] and some extra skills. Recent developments have started to give the game its own identity, as has the strong community focus on quality roleplay.

* {{Badass}}: Anyone who's sufficiently good at the in-game fighting system can qualify.

** [[{{Druid}} Druids]], who are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, using the skillsets of [[ShapeShifting Metamorphosis]], [[WhenTreesAttack Groves]], and [[ItemCrafting Conjuration.]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Almighty Kerrithrim.
** CaptainErsatz: Of Cthulhu.
* FanNickname: [[strike:Varian]]Laserjesus the Celestine.

* ScheduleSlip: Very common with the administrators of the game, who have been known to miss their deadlines for new content by real-life years.