Things to Know When Creating Your Character

Welcome to Echoes of Hyboria! We're so excited to have you here telling stories with us!

To get everyone started, we wanted to make sure that everyone knows a few key things of the server canon that may affect the way you write your character when joining the game or creating an alt, so let's get started!

Not Everyone's an Exile
Due to the nature of the meta story of the server, not every character has to have been an Exile imprisoned in the Exiled Lands. Of course there still will be characters who were once Exiles as people may want to port preexisting characters to the map and that's totally cool too.

No Bracelet
Something players will need to know is there are no bracelets in the game like there were on the Exiled Lands map. Instead, there is a brand that develops on the character's body (it's location is the player's choice) via the starting quest, Oh God. This brand covers the ability to understand all languages verbally, but it does not allow your character to be able to read all languages. In prior incarnations of play it was also the bracelet that caused sterilization. While characters are still unable to have children that is not caused by the brand, but instead a different portion of the server's meta plot which players will be able to learn more about as the server develops and players complete the Main Story Questline.

The Brand
Every single humanoid on the map (both PCs and NPCs) bear the brand somewhere on their body.

Coming Soon: We will be posting an image of the brand itself for players to see what it will look like when it manifests on them.

Ported Characters
This is not the same world your character has existed in prior. IC, your character awoke in the eerie cave nude and confronted by the Ghostly Apparition. This is server canon. While you are welcome to continue your lore from previous incarnations of your character, they too woke up naked in a pit like everyone else and continue their story from there. How your character is interpreting what happened to them is up to you.

There was no major earthshaking event. To quote The Madman: "It comes for us. They come for us. You've come. Another here. You've come from there."