A few changes:

Based on feedback from the forums:

1. We have removed the racial hatred stuff. Although we loved how it was making people get all racist against the Fallen (kicking them out of cities), the points about combat were valid. We do not really want to make race selection have a big impact on combat. We are debating other ways to get some racial hatred into the game.

2. SPEAK (or LANGUAGES) will now indicate all the languages you have permanently learned.

3. RACES will list all of the races your character can reincarnate into.

4. For future reference, we will be releasing a few more races before the end of the month. At the end of the month, we will be removing them. We want them to be semi rare, so we will not bring them back for several months. We will not bring some of them back at all.

5. I have changed the cherufe firewall message based on some feedback.



Some questions from the forums I would like to answer. Normally I would post on the forums, but many people do not read them and may have the same questions about them.

Q. Where were these guys? I know the races were 'sealed in a stone', but that seems like a really serious sacrifice of opportunity for cool storylining here.

A. Some of the races were never unleashed on the land. Concentrated changing power of the moons were absorbed by the stones. Thus races like the arel, cherufe, and wolkin have never existed in Imperian. Some races like the minotaur were also trapped and are now availible to you via the stones.


Q. Are there communities of these creatures now?

A. Read my answer above. This is a yes and a no. As these races develop in the game, we will create communities and mobs based on the new races. Some communities do already exist.


Q. Why are they just now able to come back, besides Christof's discovery? Wouldn't Aetherius remember these ancestral races somehow? "Where did all the catpeople go?"

A. As stated, the catpeople (Sangfel) never existed. The changing power was just trapped in the stones. Crushing the stones releases this power.

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Ferinus, in the year 47 AM.