Welcome to the world of Illarion!

llarion is a free, graphical fantasy game that focuses on true roleplaying. Come and join the world of Illarion. You'll fully emerse yourself in the world of Illarion, as though your character is a real being. All characters around you will behave themselves like real beings in this independent, mysterious world. They'll tell you about magicians, ghosts, and fairies in some of the most unbelievable stories and rumours. Pick a race you would like to play: human, dwarf, halfling, elf. Maybe an orc? Or even a lizardman?

Please don't expect experience points or other numbers inside the game which reveal your skills. Just follow the role you want to play, then you will notice wether you will become a great warrior, fighting against the various evil creatures of Illarion, or the most respected master smith of the town, or even the most popular barkeeper - because practice makes perfect. Druids and magicians will cast mysterious spells with herbs and runes. In addition to all of this each race speaks with it's own language, but all are able to speak the common language of Illarion to make themselves understood.

We are offering our own server, a Java client (which can be used at Linux or Windows) and the guarantee that you will never ever pay anything for this game. To ensure this we founded a registered society and its became contractual in the statute. Illarion is online since Februrary 2000 and it's always being developed by programers and volunteers to fit and satisfy the wishes of the player community.

Even you can't resist the magic of this world!

	Map of Illarion		Map of Gobaith

News

Rule update

Dear players,
the Illarion rules were revised and after an comprehensive discussion among the staff, the rules were adapted to the current circumstances. Some rules were clarified and semi-official rules that were hidden somewhere on the board were incoperated. All in all, we want Illarion become a more cooperative game with less out-of-character influences. We want that all players work together to improve the gaming experience of Illarion. Playing for the sole purpose of personal gain in any form is not accepted anymore. On the boards, you can find a detailled summary of the rule changes. Note the basic rule and rule about the world (new!), out-of-character, considerateness and powergaming, especially. You can review the new rules here:

http://illarion.org/illarion/us_rules.php

We, the Illarion staff, hope the game will benefit from these rules changes. Note that the new rules will be monitored, thus, things you have done for ages might be violating the rules now. As usual, we will first notice those who do not follow the rules and offer our help to improve one's roleplay. But there is no customary right! Note that we're not making up these rules to spoil your fun or to find reasons to ban undesired players. The rules are a framework within which the game shall be played. The old saying holds, as long as you roleplay and are not too much of an annoyance to the other players, you won't do anything wrong!

GM Estralis

Newbie-Island and Accountsystem Update

Today there was a Update of the Accountsystem, that was the last needed part to the activation of the Newbie Island.
The Newbie Island will help from now on to give the new players of Illarion a better start into the game. While it is not completly done yet, its advanced for enougth to make the start into the Illarion for new players alot easier. The small missing parts will be added one by one later. Many thanks for creating that island to pharse, Ardian, Kadiya, Jupiter, Silberwolf, Greisling and Misjbar as well as everyone who helped testing the island.

The new Accountsystem is mainly made to make the account- and character creation and management easier and for new players easier to understand. Also the new attribute packages proposed on the Illarion Board were integrated into the system.
The Accountsystem is the next part of the single-time loginsystem that is the current main target of the homepage development and shall provide access the the game account, the forum and the mantis bugtracker with just one login.
The main control of that new user management is now visible for all players and is located in the middle of the left navigation.
Sadly there is currently no way to change the settings of your user account. But this will change within the next days.
Also is was needed to disable the applications to special races for a while. The reason for this is that the Gamemasters have currently no possibility to view or answer the applications that are created with the new account system. It will take a few weeks to fix that problem. All players who were allowed to play a special race before the update should be able to do this now too. In case someone lost the ability to do so, he shall contact me by board or by e-mail in order to fix this.

Within the next hours there will be a Update of the onlinelist and of the character profiles so these use the settings and informations of the new accountsystem.