Swear to Tarus or Humana. Then walk north.

I played a Swedish nation-war server from 2011 until it closed in 2019. Nothing has replaced it since, so I am building it again.

You swear to one of two nations, pick a class, and go kill things north of the capital. They drop experience, gold and gear. You get stronger, you walk further out, and somewhere past level 20 the other nation is out there doing the same to you.

No plots, no jobs, no minigames, and you cannot place a block. If that sounds thin, it is the same thin that had me logging in every evening for eight years.

Java Edition, a premium account, nothing to install. In English this time, and open to anyone.

Everyone starts in the capital. One gate in the north wall, the fields of Tallen through it, and an oath to swear before you walk out.

The oath decides who can kill you. Your name is that colour to everyone on the server from the moment you swear, and theirs is too. There is no third side and nowhere neutral once you leave the starting fields.

You can walk over to the other nation later. Their envoy will take your oath once a day, and it costs you every point of PvP rating you have earned. Changing sides should hurt, so it does.

You pick one at the trainer, and you can change your mind whenever you like. Every class keeps its own level, so the warrior you leave at 30 is still 30 when you come back for him. Nothing you put in is ever wasted.

Each class has its own stat line, its own weapon and its own swing speed. Clicking faster does nothing; the swing timer is the swing timer. Four armour sets each, one per tier, at levels 10, 30, 50 and 70, and gear stacks flat attack, defence, HP and MP on top of the numbers above.

Your basic attack is whatever your class is holding. Slots 1 to 4 are your abilities, with the game's own cooldown sweep drawn over them, and slot 5 is a passive that fires by itself. All five kits are finished and modelled: every spell is a real model flying through the world with its own sound, from the mage's meteor to the priest's angel.

Past Tallen every zone is at war, all the time. Anyone in the other colour is a target and anyone in yours is not, and you can read that off a name before they are in range.

Kills move a rating that sits next to your name. Beating someone stronger than you is worth more, dying gives some of it back, and killing the same person over and over inside ten minutes is worth nothing at all. Spawn camping pays you nothing here.

The ten highest-level players carry their rank in front of their name, in chat and in the tab list, where everyone can see it.

Armour and weapons come in four tiers: Low, Mid, High and Legendary. Every class has its own four sets and its own nine weapons, all modelled in 3D and worn on your body. Legendary comes off the last zone's bosses and out of the Abyss, nowhere else.

Scrolls come in those same four tiers and only lift gear of their own, so a Legendary piece needs a Legendary scroll. Each step adds 10% of what the piece dropped with, and 30% from +8 up, so a +7 is worth 70% more and a +10 is worth 160% more. The three levels that can destroy it are worth more than the seven safe ones put together.

Up to +3 a failure only costs you the scroll. From +4 the item is destroyed, and the server posts it in chat with your name on it. That rule is not getting softened. The day it does, a +7 stops meaning anything.

Almost nobody will own a +10. That is the point of them. From +7 a worn piece throws sparks at the height it sits on your body, so people can see what you are carrying across the plaza.

A clan is a tag in chat, a shared bank, and a reason to log in on an evening you were not going to. Kill experience and gold go to every clanmate standing near you, the full amount each, easing off only once ten of you are crowded round the same mob. Hunting together is never worse than hunting alone.

Pets follow you around. They come from the store, they cost money, and following you around is the whole of it.

OATHBREAK. Twice a week the gates of Dustos open and the oath is suspended for an hour. Clan against clan, for the last hit on a King who gets tougher the more of you are online. Whoever lands it takes the crown: a cut of the gold everyone else earns, and the only key to the Abyss, a tower whose mobs never stop coming. One clan holds it at a time, until somebody takes it off them.

There is no launch date and I am not going to invent one. The Discord is where the build gets posted while it is being made, where the closed test will run, and where the address goes first. This page gets it the same day.

Put the address in your server list and come in. Read the rules before you type in chat. Nothing in the store will make anyone stronger than you.