A shared world. An endless ascent.
At the center of the world stands a Tower of a hundred floors that no one has ever seen end. Three hundred years ago it closed on the night of the Great Rupture. Now it has started to open again, and it takes many people to climb it.
A hundred floors, and each one is a world
The Tower was here before any people of Aetherion. From the outside it is a mountain of pale stone that disappears into the clouds. Inside, each floor is far larger than the Tower looks: it has its own sky, rivers, forests, ruins and creatures found nowhere else.
The floors are linked by stairways closed by seals. No seal opens to the strength of a single person. Ever since the first expeditions, people have known that the Tower was made to be climbed by many, together.
The energy that gives life to magic
The Aether flows beneath the land and rises through the Tower. Before the Rupture, a blue light came down from the top and kept the land fertile. People called that light the Descent.
Those who study magic learn to borrow a little of the Aether around them and give it back when the spell ends. Blue Aether is calm and obeys. Golden Aether, which appeared after the Rupture, changes everything it touches: plants, animals, stone and anyone who gets too close.
The night the sky tore open in gold
312 years ago, the kingdom of Aetherion ruled the first floor and sent expeditions ever higher. In a single night, which common folk call the Breaking, the blue light went out, the sky tore open in gold and every floor above the first one closed. The king and his court were up there and never came back.
The official chronicle says the Rupture was an attack from the Depths and that the king died defending the Tower. The elders of the Veiled tell a different story, and not everyone in Elyndor believes the chronicle.
The city on the first floor
Elyndor Citadel lies inside the Tower, in the valley of the first floor, the only one that survived the Rupture. For three centuries it was a refuge inside a closed Tower.
Three years ago, a night of tremors opened the stairway to the second floor. Since then, anyone who receives the Bond at the Temple of Awakening and dies inside the Tower comes back to life at the temple hours later. The Citadel Council called on everyone willing to climb. No one is chosen: anyone willing can receive the Bond, and thousands already have.
Three seats on the Council, three ideas about the Tower
Heir to the old stairway guard. It protects Elyndor, watches the passages and organizes expeditions to the open floors.
Scholars and mages. They teach magic, tend to those touched by golden Aether and try to understand the Awakening.
Miners, scavengers and merchants. They buy what adventurers bring back, sell maps and keep the routes open.
The places that already have a name
Floor 1. The city, the Temple of Awakening and the fields that feed everyone.
Floor 3, still sealed. They say the trees repeat the voices of those who died there.
Outside the Tower, to the west. Mountains of the mining clans, where the Aether turns to crystal.
Beneath the Tower. Tunnels the Aether flows through, which no one has fully mapped.
What the chronicles record
The Tower's gate is opened and the first settlers move into the first floor. The chronicles and the Veiled disagree about who opened it.
Expeditions open floor after floor. The stairway guard and the college that studied the Aether are founded.
The Great Rupture. The blue light goes out and the Tower closes above the first floor.
The kingdom falls. Elyndor becomes a refuge city, ruled by a Council of three factions.
The Tremor opens the stairway to the second floor and the Awakenings begin.
Today. Elyndor calls adventurers from everywhere to climb.
B.R. and A.R. mean before and after the Rupture. The story of AETHERION is still being written, and names and details may change before launch.
Earn experience, level up and train your combat and magic skills.
Form parties, found a guild and help open the floor seals with the rest of the server.
Trade items with other players or use the city market to buy and sell.
Discover floors, ruins, lost journals and the secrets the official chronicle leaves out.
The game systems are still in development. This page is updated as they are confirmed.
