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Asheron's Call (Video Game)
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Asheron's Call was a Cult Classic fantasy MMORPG by the small but respected development house Turbine, who is also responsible for The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online.It revolves around an island in an alternate universe called Auberean, after the world is destroyed. The titular Asheron, while researching dimensional portal magic, accidentally let loose the Olthoi, a race of insect monsters that very, very quickly took over his world. The entire game of Asheron's Call takes place on a small island called by the original people, Ireth Lassel, and is the site where Asheron's research took place. Before the start of the game, the portal experiment, which had run wild after opening the portal to the Olthoi homeworld, opened random portals to a world with 3 (later 4) human races, Ispar. The Isparians come through and are quickly enslaved or killed by the Olthoi, but a later rebellion allows them to overthrow the Olthoi and, in killing the Olthoi Hive Queen, free the land, which they rename Dereth, for colonization.A noteworthy feature of Asheron's Call was its relative lack of Expansion Packs — in over a decade, only 2 have been released. Instead, as part of the standard monthly fee, Turbine adds Monthly content patches to the game — over 100 to date. In addition to adding new dungeons, quests, enemies, and so forth, each patch also advances the game's ongoing storyline, which plays out in a series of year-long Story Arcs (barring some occasional Schedule Slip). Recent years have seen major overhauls of the game mechanics, including new races, new methods of character advancement, and most recently (2012) a complete revamp of the combat system.The player, when created, is considered to be a new arrival to Dereth from one of the random portals to Ispar. Character customization does not use the typical class system that most MMORPGs use, instead allowing a character to pick a number of skills using a points based system, and allows the player to buy more skills as he or she levels up. Experience does double duty: XP levels up characters, earning points to buy new skills, but is also is put into a pool where it is spent to improve stats and skills directly. Character builds, called Templates, are often discussed in and named by the community, for example, a "3 school melee" (a melee character with 3 magic skills), a "Og Mage" (named after a particularly successful PVPer), or a "Pure Archer" (Bow or Crossbow, Melee Defense, and no magic).It spawned the first MMORPG sequel in history, Asheron's Call 2, which after years of mis-management by Microsoft, was also one of the first major name MMORPGs to end.The original game was sometimes considered a Franchise Zombie — while monthly content updates continue, the active Asheron's Call player base shrank for years. Many theories abound to why this is — most people agree that at least one of the 100+ monthly updates fall under They Changed It, Now It Sucks! — but the answer may be more marketing than anything else. Whereas EverQuest released its expansion packs as new retail titles (thus keeping it eternally inside game stores), Asheron's Call instead chose to release its expansion packs as free downloads. As such, the game propagated mainly by word-of-mouth, and not much by that since a lot of things are showing their age nowadays.Regardless, Asheron's Call remained one of the most unique MMORPG experiences in the genre.Nonetheless, on January 31st, 2017, both the original game and its sequel were shut down after 17 years of activity. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Bad guys have conflicting interests. Some want to destroy everything, some to lord over it. | |
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20 Bear Asses | |
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20 Bear Asses: The quest system was revamped late in the game's lifecycle, but many of the quests before and after involved handing a NPC x number of a given item, many of which were random chunks of monster. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
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Anti-Magic: Chorizite is a metal that ignores magical energies. It was first introduced as the Kryptonite Factor of magic users in PVP. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: There was one ad that showed up in numerous videogame magazines showing someone fighting a tremendous monouga (a 50 foot tall version of normal monougas, which were basically ogre-like creatures that were normally about 7 or so feet tall). While said monsters appeared at the end of beta to give it a suitably apocalyptic end, they weren't in the release, and weren't re-added till much later (2003). Unfortunately, this, combined with the strategy guide listing their stats and talking about them as if they were still in game created an Urban Legend of Zelda that they were still in the game but just really rare. | |
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Order Versus Chaos | |
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Order Versus Chaos: Virindi and Shadows. | |
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The High Queen | |
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The High Queen: Played straight with Elysa Strathelar, the kindly and courageous queen of the Isparians (humans.) | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Bael'Zharon is a product of one of these. Virindi are a major source of these, too. | |
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Ominous Floating Castle | |
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Ominous Floating Castle: Shadow Spires, Gaerlan's Fortress. All were shot down. | |
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Muggles Do It Better | |
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Muggles Do It Better: Somehow a bunch of enslaved humans managed to overthrow and kill an Olthoi Queen, something an entire species of powerful mages was incapable of. Lots of story background was added as Authors Saving Throws to justify this. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Late in the game's run there were a few monthly patches that hinted at new story arcs ,including 2 more renegade virindi factions, the Empyrean Evil Sorcerer Geraine creating the gurogs (a race of powerful satyr like monsters), and some new islands allegedly controlled by T'Thuun, but none ever went anywhere. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: Magaritte de Jacquette and Ned The Clever are N.P.Cs stand-ins for notable players Maggie The Jackcat and Ned Cleversun. Maggie The Jackcat ran for many years a famous reference site for the game. Ned Cleversun was her vassal (an Asheron Call unique game mechanic, basically a guild member who generates experience points for another guild member), and he passed away in late 2008. (Maggie retired from the game after Ned's passing.) | |
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Blood Magic | |
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Blood Magic: Falatacot magic relied mostly in human sacrifice. | |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology | |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology: The Virindi where really alien creatures that normally live in portal space, and had a Hive Mind. As such, they always knew what eachother are thinking, and the concept of deception was foreign to them, so that when they got stuck in the material world, they tried to blend in using paper thin disguises, consisting of a robe with a hood and a harlequin "drama" mask. It didn't exactly work, due to them having no feet and hovering, along with making a Drone of Dread. Oddly, when Aerbax and some other Virindi gained individual conciousness, they didn't seem to get any better at the whole deception thing and wore basically the same costumes. Maybe it just wasn't possible for virindi minds to really figure such a concept out? | |
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Perpetually Static | |
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Perpetually Static: While the developers often come with plausible explanations for this, N.P.C.s have moved, died and even whole cities have dissappeared. Then there was the incident during the first year's arc (the Fourth Sending of Darkness) where the players were charged with defending the last Crystal Prison keeping the Big Bad in check. On the other hand, great rewards were offered to those who destroyed the crystal and set him free (players were required to go PVP to participate). In most servers a half-hearted defense was mounted and the crystal was quickly destroyed, but in one, Thistledown, they were able to mount a round-the-clock vigilant defense. Unfortunately the developers had expected the crystal to be destroyed for plot purposes, and thus were forced to intervene (in game, with overpowered GMPC characters) to keep all of the servers on the same page. Read the whole story here and here. | |
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FantasticSlur | |
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Fantastic Slur: In the first game the Viamontians (blue-skinned people) call the other human ethnicities the "bloodless" In the second game, the Gurogs (Satyr/minotaur-like creatures) call the Lugians (8 foot tall giants that were made a playable race in the sequel) "rock pusher!" | |
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Number of the Beast | |
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Number of the Beast: Bael'Zharon is level 666, as the Killer Rabbit. Ulgrim the Unpleasant's lucky number, too. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Unseen Evil: The "Great Master" is said to be behind the creation shadows, mukkir, and other "dark" creatures, and the game's Greater-Scope Villain. Bael-Zharon (the game's first Arc Villain) says that he serves him. We later learn that he's apparently imprisoned at the center of the planet, though exactly how this works is unclear ,other than the menhir rings having something to do with it. He never actually showed up, although the devs implied multiple times that if he did get free, it would be a doomsday event. | |
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Beef Gate | |
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Beef Gate: AC has way too many to comprehensively list. Venture too far out of town, even the starter towns, without buffs and you will get ripped apart by the level 50+ monsters. Thankfully the starter towns have a much larger 'buffer' zone with lower level baddies and the line is very clearly marked with 'Shadow Stones'. The (these days) very quick level progression very soon leaves this moot though. A few of the endgame areas don't have quests to 'flag' you for entering them. An example of this is the Mhoire Graveyard. Venture too far outside the Hall of Metos, an older lowbie dungeon, and you'll find the graveyard and level 200+ monsters. Even the area immediately around it is populated by level ~100 monsters. Even being too cocky in trying to access the upper-end areas is usually cause for immediate death. Think you're prepared for the level 200+ baddies near the Lost City of Neftet? Until you're ALSO 200+, have both normal augmentations and luminance augmentations, and have every skill and stat maxed, doubly so if you're playing a mage, think again. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: Virindi have a hard time understanding material entities. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: Kind of. The game takes place after the entire planet of Auberean was ravaged by a horde of giant sentient bugs, but also after the bugs had been killed off and civilization had been re-established. | |
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One-Man Party | |
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One-Man Party: Magic-using melee fighters, for a long time. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: Thorsten Cragstone's original band of escaped slaves that managed to kill the Derethian Olthoi queen. | |
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RandomlyDrops | |
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Randomly Drops: Some enemies are known for specific drops, however — Golems, for example, randomly drop specific types of spell components, the 2 foot tall dragons drop caster items, undead typically drop jewelry, etc etc. | |
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Crystal Prison | |
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Crystal Prison: The one that held Bael'Zharon, for starters. | |
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Volcano Lair | |
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Volcano Lair: Aerlinthe Island. | |
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Emote Animation @ymca | |
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Elemental Powers | |
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Elemental Powers: Elemental powers and abilities play heavily in the game's engine. Weapons, for example, can be Slashing, Piercing or Bludgeoning damage... but also Fire, Ice, Thunder, or Acid charged. Golems and Elementals can be any element, with particularly powerful ones being dual elemental. | |
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Expansion Pack | |
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Expansion Pack: Over 100. Or 2, depending on if you require the expansion be in a box instead of a download. | |
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UnCancelled | |
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Uncancelled: Thanks to Turbine, Asheron's Call 2 was revived during the holiday season of 2012. As of this writing (April 2020) it is the only MMORPG ever to have this happen. The players, having been Screwed by the Network when WB refused to honor the agreement to have the server and client go open source if the game was ever shut down, banded together to recreate the game's protocols and create their own server software. | |
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Touched by Vorlons | |
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Touched By The Virindi: The Virindi just love to tinker with other species. Their biggest success and terrible mistake? An Isparian called Camdeth Martine. | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_45a177f1 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_47d56aac | type |
Fish People | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_47d56aac | comment |
Fish People: Moarsmen. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_47d56aac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_47d56aac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_47d56aac | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | type |
Infinity -1 Sword | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | comment |
Its big brother, the Sword of Lost Light, has been upgraded at least four times and is still an Infinity -1 Sword. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: Bael'Zharon, for a long time. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4b32995a | type |
Friend-or-Idol Decision | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4b32995a | comment |
Friend-or-Idol Decision: Gaerlan tried to shake off Martine by offering him a way to return to Ispar and his family. Martine didn't take the bait. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4b32995a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4b32995a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4b32995a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4d1f9226 | type |
Video Game Tutorial | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4d1f9226 | comment |
Videogame Tutorial: Optional. Not recommended to skip. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4d1f9226 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4d1f9226 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_4d1f9226 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | type |
Death Is a Slap on the Wrist | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | comment |
Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: At the time it had one of the kindest death penalties in MMORPGs: a penalty to skills and attributes ("vitae") that went away by gaining experience, and leaving on your corpse a number of the player's most valuable items (defined by their vendor value). This lead to the unusual practice of D.I.s (Death Items), expensive but useless equipment carried around solely for the purpose of dropping it on death instead of the day-to-day working tools. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_51567188 | type |
Cast from Hit Points | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_51567188 | comment |
Cast from Hit Points: A Life Magic spell lets you turn your hit points into mana. The other routes are also available — Mana to Health, Stamina to Health, et cetera. This is a primary reason for taking Life Magic, as it allows a mage to cast magic effectively nonstop when paired with a large mana pool and a high enough mana conversion (read: conservation) skill. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_51567188 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_51567188 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_51567188 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5281d5b1 | type |
Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5281d5b1 | comment |
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Lugians fit the traditional dwarf niche... but they are 9-feet tall hairless marsupials (although the marsupial part might be Canon Discontinuity now). | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5281d5b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5281d5b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5281d5b1 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_52aa0c4a | type |
The Caligula | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_52aa0c4a | comment |
The Caligula: One of the later villains turns out to be the rich son of the former king, who intentionally screwed up Asheron's portal experiments in an attempt to get him killed. This resulted in the deaths of 95% of the population, the only ones surviving being the ones Asheron trapped in stasis between dimensions. He's not amused that Asheron survived and that the majority of "his" subjects are trapped in stasis. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_52aa0c4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_52aa0c4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_52aa0c4a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_537b4ea | type |
Snake People | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_537b4ea | comment |
Snake People: Sclavus. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_537b4ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_537b4ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_537b4ea | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Isin Dule to Bael'Zharon, at first. Despite their Villainous Friendship, he eventually became a Dragon Their Feet when he realized Bael'Zharon was Brainwashed and Crazy. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_55afe8af | type |
Ley Line | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_55afe8af | comment |
Ley Line: The Olthoi have an intuitive understanding of mana flows and dam them to prevent the use of magic. Also, leylines have been shaped on a planetary scale to ward off... something. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_55afe8af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_55afe8af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_55afe8af | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: A strong will can bend it to any use. Falter, and it will bend you instead. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_57d43e40 | type |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Aluvian are late Middle Ages European of Saxon/Germanic flavour, Gharundim are Arabian and Sho Japanese/Chinese. Viamontians are imperialistic Norman/Spaniard/Italians. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_57d43e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_57d43e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_57d43e40 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_58204b95 | type |
Magic Knight | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_58204b95 | comment |
Magic Knight: The Point Buy System supports it. In fact, buffing is such a critical part of AC that any melee character is using buffs. This game does not support a Badass Normal. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_58204b95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_58204b95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_58204b95 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 | type |
Arrows on Fire | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 | comment |
Arrows on Fire: And frozen, and electrifying... | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5abc8612 | type |
Unholy Matrimony | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5abc8612 | comment |
Unholy Matrimony: Lord Rytheran and Lady Aerfalle were two liches who were married and made several in game appearances (sometimes appearing as killable enemies, other times as quest givers). Appropriately, when societies were added into the game, they were the leaders of the Eldrych Web (the evil faction.) | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5abc8612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5abc8612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5abc8612 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5ae89ca | type |
PointBuySystem | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5ae89ca | comment |
Point Buy System: The first major MMORPG to use this style of system. There are no classes, merely you are given a set number of skill points to take your skills from untrained to trained to specialized, and then must allocate experience points directly to them. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5ae89ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5ae89ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5ae89ca | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | type |
Disc-One Nuke | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | comment |
Disc-One Nuke: Step one: get a set of no-wield (no skill or level requirement for using them) weapons and Major armor for your character, either by getting it on a better character or asking around. Step two: have the armor tinkered and the weapons rended and tinkered as appropriate to their element. Step 3: get buffed with level 7 spells. Step four: rip apart Tuskers and Olthoi 50-60 levels above you at level 20 while barely breaking a sweat. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee | type |
Inexplicable Treasure Chests | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee | comment |
Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Why are so many funky shaped chests lying around in the wilds? | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6156eafa | type |
So Last Season | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6156eafa | comment |
So Last Season: Many, many, examples, due to bigger and badder monsters requiring bigger and badder firepower. For example: the Silfi Of Crimson Stars was originally an endgame weapon for Axe-wielders. Today, it's just a step above a newbie weapon. Its big brother, the Sword of Lost Light, has been upgraded at least four times and is still an Infinity -1 Sword. Explorer gear, a low-level set of weapons and armor that requires a rather convoluted quest, isn't worth the trouble now that everyone gets Pathwarden Armor right at the start. This can even happen to entire areas. The Direlands used to be a popular lower-end hunting area, now almost no one ventures out into them. The Obsidian Plains were meant for high-level characters when it was introduced, now a mid-range character can handle it with ease by themself. Black Spawn Den used to have a crazy-fast spawn rate and you needed to be 40+ to survive, but now you can go in almost out of the starting gate and wreck the Tuskers therein. There are many, many examples of this, these are just a few. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6156eafa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6156eafa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6156eafa | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Many major antagonist factions have eventually aligned with the Isparian kingdom wholly or in part. Turns of note included Martine's, which allowed the defeat of the megalomaniac Empyrean mage Gaerlan, and Isin Dule's, which prevented Bael'Zharon's victory during the Fourth Sending of Darkness. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: The Empyrean Mage Council that defeated the Third Sending of Darkness. Also Candeth Martine. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f | type |
Non-Indicative Name | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f | comment |
Nonindicative Name: the Unarmed skill. You can use it empty-handed, but it isn't a very good idea. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_65f5c15d | type |
Designated Victim | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_65f5c15d | comment |
Designated Victim: Until 2002 (when it was finally found and fixed), players with the dreaded "Wi Flag" gained aggro instantly. The game used an ID number randomly assigned at players during creation to select aggro when no other considerations were in effect, meaning that monsters drew a bee line towards Wi-flagged (an unusually low ID) players as soon as they entered a new room or there was a respawn. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_65f5c15d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_65f5c15d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_65f5c15d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Tusker Pus. It will hit you so hard the lifestone will flinch. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_67edaf78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_67edaf78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_67edaf78 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_681f0d25 | type |
Weirdly Underpowered Admins | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_681f0d25 | comment |
Weirdly Underpowered Admins: An invoked case happened when a group of players inexplicably decided to protect a crystal shard whose destruction was required as part of an event that would usher in the game's next update, some of them even sacrificing themselves to the crystal in order to raise its hitpoints to nigh-invulnerable levels. Rather than simply rewriting the shard's code to reset its hitpoints or banning the players, or any number of other solutions they could have taken, the developers tried to beat the players in-game, using high-powered avatars with high-level weapons, assisted by two high-level players to give the whole thing legitimacy. They lost. Three times. It was only on their fourth try that they finally got lucky and beat the "Defenders of the Shard", allowing them to move the event forward. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_681f0d25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_681f0d25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_681f0d25 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a | type |
And Your Reward Is Clothes | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a | comment |
And Your Reward Is Clothes: A long quest line rewards you with a... simple fedora that does nothing special. Also, the traditional Halloween mask festival. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6bfc52a3 | type |
A Wizard Did It | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6bfc52a3 | comment |
A Wizard Did It: Basic mechanics like lifestones, the PK switch, and even the burst of light that accompanies a level up are explained as being "Asheron's Magic" | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6bfc52a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6bfc52a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6bfc52a3 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85 | type |
Welcome to Corneria | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85 | comment |
Welcome to Corneria | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | type |
Underground Monkey | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | comment |
Underground Monkeys: In the literal sense, and the trope sense too. (Tusker Island is filled to the brim with monkeys in caves; most monsters are part of monster "families" that consist of pallet swaps, size changes, and slight cosmetic modifications.) | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | type |
Cosmetic Award | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | comment |
Cosmetic Award: Titles, plushies and house furniture. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6f572188 | type |
Another Dimension | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6f572188 | comment |
Another Dimension: There are at least five major worlds in the cosmology (Ispar, Bur, Tuu, Ezheret-Hazahtu, and the unnamed Olthoi home), besides the elemental planes and several eldritch places. All except Bur, the Burun (frogmen) homeworld, are inaccesible from Auberean. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6f572188 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6f572188 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_6f572188 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | type |
The Undead | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | comment |
The Undead: Sentient undeads are the norm in Auberean, not the exception. Skeletons, mummies, and your regular walking corpse are typical examples; you can come across typical ghosts, too. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: Every big crisis is followed by yet another big crisis. As of mid-2014, when the game went buy-to-play, the evolving world stopped evolving. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_74828aea | type |
Killer Rabbit | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: The "White Rabbit" monster which is level 666, has the most powerful piercing damage attack in the game, has one of the more powerful electrical attacks in the game and can cast the "Bunny Smite" spell which kills the target instantly no matter where the target is. To top it all off she'll attack you if you even look at her funny. (More specifically, you can identify creatures to see their stats without them noticing you. However, identifying the white rabbit will cause it to murder you; This is unique to the white rabbit.) | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_74828aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_74828aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_74828aea | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_767ef8a0 | type |
Flying Seafood Special | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_767ef8a0 | comment |
Flying Seafood Special: Nifflis are levitating, spell-casting Nautiloids. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_767ef8a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_767ef8a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_767ef8a0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_77666408 | type |
Combat Tentacles | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_77666408 | comment |
Combat Tentacles: Slithis are the main offender/s, but not the only ones. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_77666408 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_77666408 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_77666408 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7836c43 | type |
Casting a Shadow | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7836c43 | comment |
Casting a Shadow: Void magic | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7836c43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7836c43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7836c43 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c4ba0e0 | type |
Red Sky, Take Warning | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c4ba0e0 | comment |
Red Sky, Take Warning | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c4ba0e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c4ba0e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c4ba0e0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c61a2d4 | type |
ShmuckBait | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c61a2d4 | comment |
Shmuck Bait: Portals. You're in your homeworld, doing your business, and then a glowing, swirling hole in reality opens. Would it hurt to peek into it a little? The answer is: no, as long as you don't want to go home ever again. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c61a2d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c61a2d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7c61a2d4 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | type |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Tremendous Monougas are a 50 foot tall version of normal monougas (green-skinned triclops). | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | type |
Fetch Quest | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | comment |
Fetch Quest: And even with portals, the place is huge. Good thing there is a Run skill. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ec94d53 | type |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Candeth Martine. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ec94d53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ec94d53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7ec94d53 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f15b05c | type |
Rainbow Pimp Gear | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f15b05c | comment |
Rainbow Pimp Gear: Before the advent of dyeing and tailoring armor and weapons, one could see people all running around in gear that was outright garish. Some people took special care to have gear that looked at least similar to the rest of what they had on, but they were generally so far in the endgame at that point that it was really only because they had nothing better to do. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f15b05c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f15b05c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f15b05c | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f48a2b2 | type |
"YEAH!" Shot | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f48a2b2 | comment |
"YEAH!" Shot: Easy to do with the built-in emote command @atoyot. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f48a2b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f48a2b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_7f48a2b2 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_808b6d16 | type |
Sdrawkcab Name | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_808b6d16 | comment |
The various kinds of Knathteads, jelly-like monsters whose model resemble the tanks of the vintage Atari Battlezone game, all bear the Sdrawkcab Names of past Turbine staff. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_808b6d16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_808b6d16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_808b6d16 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super Soldier: Viamontese Knights. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_812ee32b | type |
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_812ee32b | comment |
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: At low levels, mages are a boring, tedious, pain-in-the-ass to play whereas warriors are (at least in comparison) a breeze. But once the mages reach high levels... | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_812ee32b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_812ee32b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_812ee32b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa | type |
Tome of Eldritch Lore | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa | comment |
Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Book of Eibhil. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Gaerlan and pretty much every Empyrean. And ursuins (an strange bear-like huge bunny/cat) are apparently aiming for an Oscar in their death animation... | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_82ebf026 | type |
Minmaxer's Delight | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_82ebf026 | comment |
Minmaxer's Delight: Item Magic school. Don't leave home without it. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_82ebf026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_82ebf026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_82ebf026 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_859ec5d8 | type |
The Fair Folk | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: Zephyr. Nasty pests. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_859ec5d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_859ec5d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_859ec5d8 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_85bfd195 | type |
They Look Like Us Now | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_85bfd195 | comment |
They Look Like Us Now: Simulacra, a Virindi attempt to make better human infiltrators. They talk funny. It is heavily implied that the Empyrean playable race are actually Virindi that took the place of the Empyreans. Float off the ground? Glowing eyes? Came from portal space? ... Yeah. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_85bfd195 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_85bfd195 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_85bfd195 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8618825d | type |
Portal Network | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8618825d | comment |
Portal Network: The main mode of transportation. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8618825d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8618825d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8618825d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8657983a | type |
Projectile Spell | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8657983a | comment |
Projectile Spell: Being Painfully Slow Projectiles, they can be dodged by simply moving aside. Fortunately, the AI isn't that smart. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8657983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8657983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8657983a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Several. The Kemeroi; the Virindi Singularity; although the singular Bael'Zharon, the Hopeslayer was possibly the closest to the trope. Aerbax eventually changed himself into one (which looks like a combination of virindi and Giant Spider, as seen here. The Falatacot worshipped some really disturbing...things. Things like the Great One T'Thuun, the Blighted Dreamer. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_892c241c | type |
Massive Race Selection | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_892c241c | comment |
Massive Race Selection: The game started with only humans available as player characters. Asheron's Call 2 then added the Tumerok beast men, giants of dwarven disposition called Lugians and the goblin-like Drudges. After a decade of expansion, Asheron's Call lets you play humans, blue-skinned humans, Tumeroks, Lugians, Empyreans, former enemies Shadows and Undead, and sentient, mechanical armor suits called Gear Knights. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_892c241c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_892c241c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_892c241c | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8add1a93 | type |
AlternateCalendar | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8add1a93 | comment |
Alternate Calendar: The exiled Isparians abandoned their calendars and adopted P.Y. (Portal Year) as their new calendar. 0 P.Y. marks the death of the Olthoi Queen. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8add1a93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8add1a93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8add1a93 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | type |
Ancient Conspiracy | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy: The Filinuvekta (Winds From Darkness), an undead aristocracy that ruled their empire through pawns. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: Olthoi are ant-like, and Virindi are manifestations of a single, extradimensional mind. Shadows risk losing themselves to the hateful sentient energy that powers them. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_90965cc7 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_913089c2 | type |
Screwed by the Network | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_913089c2 | comment |
The players, having been Screwed by the Network when WB refused to honor the agreement to have the server and client go open source if the game was ever shut down, banded together to recreate the game's protocols and create their own server software. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_913089c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_913089c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_913089c2 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91526ff7 | type |
Absurdly High Level Cap | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91526ff7 | comment |
Absurdly High Level Cap: The original MMORPG example — experience capped out at 4 billion, or around level 126, with requirements going up logarithmically. Players could continue to gain experience to max out every skill, with a similar cap of 4 billion, without actually increasing in level. A later update changed this, creating 275 levels in the game. Add in alternate forms of advancement such as Augmentations and Luminance and it qualifies as Serial Escalation. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91526ff7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91526ff7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91526ff7 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91c651a1 | type |
Guilt-Free Extermination War | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91c651a1 | comment |
Guilt-Free Extermination War: The humans want to make the Olthoi extinct, as they enslaved and ate a lot of them. Given that the olthoi are barely-sapient predators, the feeling is mutual. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91c651a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91c651a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91c651a1 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91cab736 | type |
Major Injury Underreaction | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction / Minor Injury Overreaction: For some reason creatures and PCs would make some kind of noise when hit with a critical (or just a lot of damage), but wouldn't make any noise when taking magic damage, even though it was usually much higher (I.E, you might get hit for 15 damage in melee and scream, but get hit for 100+ damage with a war spell, and you don't make a sound.) | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91cab736 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91cab736 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_91cab736 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b | type |
Damage-Sponge Boss | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b | comment |
Damage-Sponge Boss: The Tremendous Monougas. Despite being about 50 feet tall their only advantage was having literally 1,000,000 hp. Otherwise, they cast no magic and had no special attacks, meaning it was just a matter of persistence. The Colosseum boss Demon Spawn Matron was even worse (at first), she also had a 1,000,000 hp but no special attacks, and had a bunch of Mooks with a 1000 hp that respawned every 30 seconds. They eventually made her better, reducing her hp to 300,000 and the mooks to 700 (as well as lowering their armor rating), but increased the mooks damage significantly. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | type |
White Mask of Doom | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | comment |
White Mask of Doom: Virindi "wear" them. Camdeth Martine wore one, too, to hide his scars. Dolls are nothing but one giant floating mask wreathed in energy. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_94d10118 | type |
Emote Command | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_94d10118 | comment |
Emote Command: "@atoyot" and Asheron's Call 2 "@gokart" being the most unusual. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_94d10118 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_94d10118 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_94d10118 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_95a2cbd4 | type |
Exposition Fairy | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_95a2cbd4 | comment |
Exposition Fairy: Town criers. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_95a2cbd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_95a2cbd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_95a2cbd4 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
Arwic's dramatic destruction (blown sky high by a Big Bad with a magical WMD), was the result of players complaining about how crowded it was. The rebuilt town was spread around the rim of the resulting crater, alleviating the problem greatly. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_970c790a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9 | type |
Bug War | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9 | comment |
Bug War: The ongoing, never-ending war against the Olthoi. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_98a63dc6 | type |
Time Abyss | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_98a63dc6 | comment |
Time Abyss: The average Empyrean lives up to 1000 years. Asheron is far older. And some Undead and Shadows are even older. And let's not speak about Great Ones and the Virindi Singularity. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_98a63dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_98a63dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_98a63dc6 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9be7c205 | type |
Giant Spider | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9be7c205 | comment |
Aerbax eventually changed himself into one (which looks like a combination of virindi and Giant Spider, as seen here. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9be7c205 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9be7c205 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9be7c205 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a | type |
Kill It with Fire | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Or Kill It with Ice, or with whatever element it is vulnerable to. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Ulgrim the Unpleasant. Notorious drunken sage, self-proclaimed best mage of Dereth and maybe every bit as good as he says. At one time he managed to split himself into ten different selves by miscasting with an splintered wand. Virindi are so removed from reality that they think their chosen material form of a floating cloak with a harlequin mask and scythe-like hands actually fool humans into believing they are humans, too. And for some reason, they like using French names: Claude, Jean, Luc... | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9e83f027 | type |
Amazing Technicolor Population | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9e83f027 | comment |
In the first game the Viamontians (blue-skinned people) call the other human ethnicities the "bloodless" | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9e83f027 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9e83f027 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_9e83f027 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a06162e8 | type |
Phlebotinum Rebel | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a06162e8 | comment |
Phlebotinum Rebel: Candeth Martine was altered by the Virindi. They regretted it. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a06162e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a06162e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a06162e8 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | type |
Respawning Enemies | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | comment |
Respawning Enemies: Areas have "encounter points" which will spawn a suitably large number of a monster that is appropriate to that area, on that spot. These typically turn active as you walk towards them. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Canon Discontinuity | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a32334b4 | comment |
Canon Discontinuity: By Word of God, some or all of lore and future history told in Asheron's Call 2 might not be canon anymore. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a32334b4 | |
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General Ripper | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a67b86a7 | comment |
General Ripper: Nuhmudira, one of the foremost human mages and counselor of the Queen, got obssessed with the potential danger Empyreans might present and eventually defected, now siding with anyone who wants Empyreans dead. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_a67b86a7 | |
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Mordor | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_aa2bd65c | comment |
Mordor: Aerlinthe Island, a volcanic island full of Golems and Undead. It was the highest level area in the game when it was first implemented | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_aa2bd65c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_aa2bd65c | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ac8cc568 | type |
Acronym Confusion | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ac8cc568 | comment |
Acronym Confusion: In this game, UST is a punny acronym for Universal Salvaging Tool, and also means "That which reduces" in Empyrean. It was introduced in-game like this: | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ac8cc568 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ac8cc568 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad62678e | type |
Living Shadow | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad62678e | comment |
Living Shadow: One of the main bad guy factions is mainly armies of these, but they're not necessarily evil, as Isin Dule followers proved when they joined the Isparian kingdom. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad62678e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad62678e | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad7b1b81 | type |
Experience Booster | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad7b1b81 | comment |
Experience Booster: In the early game you get a Pathwarden Trinket for free that is enchanted with Augmented Understanding II, which raises experience gained by 4%. Later, with the Gearcrafting skill, you can create trinkets with Augmented Understanding (up to level III). | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad7b1b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ad7b1b81 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b136ed26 | type |
Big Fancy Castle | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b136ed26 | comment |
Big Fancy Castle: In-game player housing includes these. Usually it takes a guild to pay the rent, though. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b136ed26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b136ed26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b136ed26 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d | type |
Dungeon Bypass | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d | comment |
Dungeon Bypass: Every door that can be unlocked (including ones that require a unique key) can be unlocked from one side by simply using it. Due to the way physics works in game it's possible for two players to work together to glitch through a door. Also, the Jump skill can sometimes help jump over walls in outdoor structures you are supposed to require a key to get in. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: The players' habit of obtaining spoilers by looking directly into patch data and continuous demands for mounts and capes lead to an infamous case where a certain patch included icons for items like winged horses, capes, bikinis and rayguns. Cloaks, by the way, were finally added... ten years later. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b58642b1 | type |
Trapped in Another World | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b58642b1 | comment |
Trapped in Another World: Only the Empyreans, Undead and older Shadows are native to Auberean. Every other species and most monsters simply stumbled upon a portal and ended stuck there. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b58642b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b58642b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b58642b1 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b77a6d82 | type |
Evil Is Deathly Cold | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b77a6d82 | comment |
Evil Is Deathly Cold: Undeads love cold. It is good for their rotting bodies. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b77a6d82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b77a6d82 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b7b7b8d9 | type |
Mass Monster-Slaughter Sidequest | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b7b7b8d9 | comment |
Mass Monster-Slaughter Sidequest: A major component of the higher level gameplay. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b7b7b8d9 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b83e3c54 | type |
Sentient Phlebotinum | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b83e3c54 | comment |
Sentient Phlebotinum: The Shadows are powered by this. And it hates everything. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b83e3c54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b83e3c54 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892 | type |
Promoted to Playable | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892 | comment |
In the second game, the Gurogs (Satyr/minotaur-like creatures) call the Lugians (8 foot tall giants that were made a playable race in the sequel) "rock pusher!" | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8fdf22a | type |
Fighting a Shadow | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8fdf22a | comment |
Fighting a Shadow: Literally. Virindi also cheat. And Slithis only show their tentacles. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8fdf22a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8fdf22a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_b8fdf22a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_bcc2f921 | type |
An Adventurer Is You | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_bcc2f921 | comment |
An Adventurer Is You: The peculiar mechanics of fighting means that the roles are limited mostly to nuker, healer, debuffer and D.P.S. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_bcc2f921 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_bcc2f921 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c007c53 | type |
Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: After being defeated, Gaerlan was trapped in a phylactery within his fortress, doomed to be repeatedly killed by adventurers for his crimes. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c007c53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c007c53 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c1c29f00 | type |
Character Level | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c1c29f00 | comment |
Character Level: Interestingly, it's almost entirely cosmetic, due to the Point Buy System. Level only affects the ability to enter certain areas, use certain items, and turn in certain quests. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c1c29f00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c1c29f00 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3182167 | type |
Golem | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3182167 | comment |
Golem: Empyreans used them for pretty much everything, and built them of pretty much any material. While many are fairly smart, to this date only one is truly sentient. There's even a ''Gingerbread golem''! | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3182167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3182167 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Elysa Strathelair, future queen of Dereth, was a scribe's daughter. She managed to translate Empyrean, eventually leading to finding Asheron's retreat. She later dealt the killing blow to the Derethian Olthoi Queen. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3c1af5d | type |
Splat | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3c1af5d | comment |
Splat: Being a class-less system, group role is defined by whatever specialized skills the character has picked up. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3c1af5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c3c1af5d | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The Killer Bunny. Some players claim to have seen a strange British Police Box in the wilds, but Turbine insists it's an Urban Legend of Zelda. Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "Some monsters get stronger, some monsters get weaker. Just remember what ol' Ulgrim says when the health is down, fire is raining from the sky and monsters are clawing at his throat." Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "Strong...weak. I'm the one with the wand." @atoyot, an Emote Command referencing a series of old Toyota ads. The various kinds of Knathteads, jelly-like monsters whose model resemble the tanks of the vintage Atari Battlezone game, all bear the Sdrawkcab Names of past Turbine staff. By Word of God, Hoshino Kei, a canon character, got her surname from Hoshino Ruri. Don't Panic. Do you know where your towel is? Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "You cannot always acquire what you desire. You cannot always acquire what you desire. But if you attempt it occasionally, you potentially could discover, that you acquire what you require. I'm thinking of setting it to music." The Puffy Shirt The Chalice of Morkindmity A whole quest where all the N.P.C.s names reference Hogan's Heroes Bright Eyes, the tailor of Tusker Island. Paul the Monouga and his giant blue auroch. The Discus of the Mite Warrior Princess. Emote Animation @ymca | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | type |
Word of God | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
By Word of God, Hoshino Kei, a canon character, got her surname from Hoshino Ruri. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | type |
Temple of Doom | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | comment |
Temple of Doom: Plenty of those around, but the Falatacot ones are the oldest. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122 | type |
Dynamic Loading | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122 | comment |
Dynamic Loading: An impressive feat for a fully 3D MMORPG of the day, Asheron's Call does all of its loading transparently to the player. Simply running across the landscape, the content streams in from the hard drive and servers as it's needed, and travelling via portal is the only loading screen you will see (and even the fact that it's a loading screen isn't obvious). Nowadays it's a bit more obvious, with a little bar in the center saying "Downloading x/x" when you enter an area for the first time on a particular machine. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d88e125e | type |
Our Dragons Are Different | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: They were called Gromnatrosses. It is implied that they left Auberean for parts unknown because of a curse that made their offspring dumb animals (what players know as gromnies). | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d88e125e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d88e125e | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b | type |
The Singularity | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b | comment |
The Singularity: The Virindi reached one, long ago, and then stayed there. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | type |
Drunken Master | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | comment |
Drunken Master: Memetic Badass Ulgrim. Eventually, players gained the ability to brew beers. These beers are capable of buffing stats to levels higher than those attainable by magic, leading to a playstyle known as "chugging". | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_deb39de3 | type |
Bad Future | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_deb39de3 | comment |
Bad Future: Asheron's Call 2 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_deb39de3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_deb39de3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_deb39de3 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e | type |
Know When to Fold 'Em | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e | comment |
Know When to Fold 'Em: The second game has the Gauntlet, which can only be done solo and has a series of increasingly tough monsters. You had to be around level 70 to get all the way through, received nothing if you died. That said, you could always leave early and still get some xp as a consolation prize. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e1acc872 | type |
From Nobody to Nightmare | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: Aerbax started out as mere virindi puppet, before gaining sentience in a freak incident and eventually becoming an Eldritch Abomination and the Big Bad of the sixth story arc. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e1acc872 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e1acc872 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | type |
Authority Equals Asskicking | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | comment |
Authority Equals Asskicking: Elysa Strathelair won her crown by slaying the Olthoi queen. Also, pretty much every ruler of every faction. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e47e0eb | type |
Scary Scarecrows | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e47e0eb | comment |
Scary Scarecrows: Hollow Minions, Virindi watchdogs and bodyguards. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e47e0eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e47e0eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e47e0eb | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e53a34aa | type |
Death Course | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e53a34aa | comment |
Death Course: Gaerlan's Fortress. It includes a Corridor Cubbyhole Run and a Solve the Soup Cans room. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e53a34aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e53a34aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e53a34aa | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Virindi are pretty much Vorlons. And of course, there are Shadows, too. The Olthoi are obviously inspired by the xenomorphs from [1] | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b | type |
GameplayAndStoryIntegration | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b | comment |
Gameplay and Story Integration: To an almost absurd degree. Seemingly every change the developers make acquires a justification in the lore. Sometimes things are handwaved by Asheron messing around, but other times they get creative: When Gertarh's Dagger had to be retired from the game, someone paid an assassin to "retire" Gertarh. The nerfing of Shadowhunter Armor was explained by an assassin killing the armorsmiths. In this case, lifestones saved them, but the death penalty meant the quality of their work went down. Arwic's dramatic destruction (blown sky high by a Big Bad with a magical WMD), was the result of players complaining about how crowded it was. The rebuilt town was spread around the rim of the resulting crater, alleviating the problem greatly. The most hilarious is probably the explanation for the entrance to the underground town of Xarabyden changing from a level-restricted portal to a long tunnel: Ulgrim the Unpleasant, too high-level to take the portal, had dug through fifty feet of solid rock to procure a sample of the barkeep's famous brew. The Olthoi (a race of insectile monsters similar to the Xenomorphs from Aliens) are basically the game's iconic enemies/monsters, and are the whole reason humans (who, like most of the in game monsters, are originally from another planet) are on Dereth in the first place: The Empyreans brought some Olthoi back from their homeworld, which got out of control and ended up destroying Empyrean civilization, so that they had to flee into portal space and leave the planet. In game, however, the olthoi aren't nearly that powerful (while they were among the hardest monsters at launch, they were still fairly easy for players around 40-50 or so to kill.) Meanwhile, most of the Empyreans were really fucking powerful (one of them, Gaerlan, was powerful enough to serve as the Big Bad for one story arc, and nearly killed Asheron himself.) And while harder olthoi were eventually added to keep up with level increases and the like, they were still way weaker than the Empyreans. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474 | type |
Hub Level | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474 | comment |
Hub Level: The Abandoned Mine, a dungeon near Arwic, became known as "the Subway" ("the Hub" in some servers) for its huge room with portals to many other towns. Later, there were other additions, like the "Super Subway", which has portals nearly everywhere. Nowadays, new players are sent into one as a part of the tutorial. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Virindi find disorder unwholesome and individuality is a sin for them. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e8e56799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_e8e56799 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eb4086e3 | type |
Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Olthoi, and later Grievvers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eb4086e3 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad | type |
Respawn Point | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad | comment |
Respawn Point: Lifestones. This is actually Lampshaded, as one of the things that causes the Shadow's Heel–Face Turn is discovering how to use them. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | type |
Underground City | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | comment |
Underground City: Two. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ee19d278 | type |
Blob Monster | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ee19d278 | comment |
Blob Monster: Knathteads. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ee19d278 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ee19d278 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ef3e4b4b | type |
Throw Down the Bomblet | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ef3e4b4b | comment |
Throw Down the Bomblet: Alchemical grenades, used for debuffing monsters. Expensive but reliable. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ef3e4b4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ef3e4b4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_ef3e4b4b | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07 | type |
Hugh Mann | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07 | comment |
Hugh Mann: Simulacra look like humans, but they surely don't act or talk like one. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3d5d15f | type |
Creepy Child | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
Creepy Child: Shadow Children. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3d5d15f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3d5d15f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3d5d15f | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3dabc11 | type |
Rat Stomp | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3dabc11 | comment |
Rat Stomp: The rats have a breath weapon, just for variety. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3dabc11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3dabc11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f3dabc11 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | type |
Enemy Civil War | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | comment |
Enemy Civil War: The Virindi, of all people, had one. | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f6722211 | type |
Hit Points | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f6722211 | comment |
Hit Points | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f6722211 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f6722211 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_f6722211 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | type |
Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Nuhmudira | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Asheron's Call (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | |
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