This is a living reminder how people can arrange really great events with good plot. Names like Vaughn Glowember, Aimeric, Madeline, Luthien and Marcus might not mean much to you, but it was because of these people who introduced me to how fun roleplayer community can be.

You probably notice interesting things like seer robe colour and famous people of the past like the Hulkster and Faust.

The original story which was published on "the Quill" and later on "The Hope Newspaper" can be read here for this week only: The Midwinter Ball

Yet another dated, but valuable, article
I was looking at my quite extensive link collection and I found an old link to Gamespy's article how to roleplay. Although quite humourous, it has does have good points. Check it out.

You can find the site here: Gamespy: PlanetFargo

Brimstone's Guild Leadership Community
As there is rather many small and big roleplaying guilds in Europa, I thought some words of guild management might be in order. As I do not feel I am a suitable guide, I remembered Lost order of Akalabeth leader Brimstone, who has had a lot of experiance with his giantic guild. The website also offers free graphics for you website. Have a look maybe there is something useful for your guild.

You can find the site here: Brimstone's Guild Leadership Community

Please read the story on UO2.com before reading onwards
Blackthorn is not evil person at all, and actually seems more like to be a hero of the story. It also revealed some other information that I did not at least know, like that Nystul has an daughter. Lord British himself seems to be determined to bring the shards together, although everything not happend on the main Britannia would stop to exist. Blind Virtue indeed.

And it is now to be confirmed that Ultima Online 2 will look much like Ascension in perspective of the gameplay. As a person who has played Ascension all the way to the end, I think it might be a good choise. The world seems very beatiful indeed, an you feel more inside it. However Britannia has to be at least 20 times bigger than in Ascension, but I am sure the UO2-team might forsee that the game will have quite a lot of population.

Even though the engines of Ascension and UO2 are not same, I really hope that the beauty of Ascension will be moved to UO2, do you remember the sunsets? Cities like Britain and Moonglow were so beatiful.

Trade Caravan pages down and some rules
The seperate pages for Trade Caravan are down as I did not feel they were very good. I shall have a better one at later date. The notice about future caravans will be here at the main page. But please do remember the few basic rules of the caravan:

1. No Summoning! This means no summoned pets or elementals, raise your magery elsewhere, please.

2. In case of fight between ERPA members (like roleplayed orcs attacking), do not take part of the action if your blue. Do not even heal people on your own side as it upsets the blance of a fight. If you wish to be part of ERPA just go to links section and learn more.

3. No large pets. (ruins the fun for other protectors are pets like Dragons kill everything and blocks the line sight from others)

www.uo2.com updated!
A lot of new info on uo2.com....

Go and check it out: Ultima Online 2

Art of Elfwood
Today we speak of art, and not any kind of art: Fantasy Art. Elfwood must be Internet's largest collection of fantasy and sci-fi art. The quality of art varies naturally from artist to another, but I can tell you that some of the pictures there are just breath taking. I suggest you take some time and browse around it. To make your art tour easy, there is also a very good search system that allows you to specify which kind of art you are looking for. And yes, there is Ultima art as well.

Welcome to the world of Elfwood

The picture can be found at: Nethergate.

Deepwater Council boards
The Deepwater Council has opened boards on Deepwater website that allows people to ask questions from the council, and give them feedback.

Boards can bee found at: Deepwater

Town attacks
At least Britain and Trinsic was under very heavy attacks yesterday. Also Trinsic has very odd building constructed over the town hall, it does indeed look sinister. I personally also withnessed attacks lead by a Skeleton Commander and Malabelle.

Jour'nar speaks
It seems that Jour'nar has granted an audiance on Atlantic shard (you can see interview here). More interesting is however that maybe "our" Jour'nar would be willing to speak as well, to his enemies or his supporters (Orcs and Undead mainly). I have always been more supporter of talking and story telling rather than just fighting, so this would be great to see/hear about. I am very interested to learn more about this all, in different form than just of BNN (funny and interesting, but sometimes brings TV news feeling more than medival fantasy). And remember good people, if you do somehow find and talk to any of generals of Minax, do not forget to send a post with screenshots to here to tell about it! *grins*

Photek the Brigand
Photek is one of the few roleplaying brigands there is. The pages are done with good humour. Why not have a look, is he the new Xavier?

Photek the Brigand

Good conversation like this is something that can actually make a difference.

Merchant Videric Gaveston

Lord Britishes speech
I added Lord Britishes speech he held yesterday to the history section. It is the whole speech, apparently it was identical on all shards.