New European Season Announcement
& The Council of Marius Expansion
In 3 weeks (July 19th), We will be dropping our largest content expansion to date as well as the new European Server Season! Our team has expanded, restructured, and is producing content faster and cleaner than ever. Starting sunday, every 2 days we will be dropping teasers of new things coming to Archlight on July 19th! To mention some of the things that will be coming in these teasers... 2 New Vocations will be coming to Archlight. The Tamer & The Gunslinger. Some massive reworks to many vital systems on Archlight, such as Guilds, Guildhalls & Profession Islands, a large new expansion of content called the Council of Marius, a new town revamp, many things removed from the Archlight store such as skill potions, profession crates & more, and a new daily profession quest system that 1. scales based on your profession skill and 2. doesn't require you to sacrifice your products you gathered/crafted for the experience and lastly, we are being featured on MMORPG.org about our upcoming expansion & new season... for anyone of you OG's who remember the massive flood of players that came last team we were featured there
There is far more things coming than mentioned above, but we will be keeping those for teasers & expanding on all the things aboved with screenshots, teaser videos & more. We are so excited to share all we have been working on
Our first teaser will be dropped on Sunday, for now, enjoy this animated piece of a Tamer & Gunslinger facing off against the new Expansion Boss - Marius.
The Council of Marius: Bloodtide
An Archlord Vampire’s blood has been spilled upon the land, unleashing an ancient darkness...
For centuries, Marius and his Council—all elder vampires—have been trapped in a dungeon deep underground, magically imprisoned by their own kin. With the Archlord’s final death, these powerful bonds lay broken, the cells which held them unlocked. Ravenous, bloodthirsty and crazed from their years of captivity, the Council of Marius is once again loose to terrorize the realm.
Only this time, they have deeper ambitions.
Vampire legends of old speak of the Bloodtide—a horrific power hidden and forgotten in the lost Crypt of King Vlad. Newly freed and hungry for vengeance, Marius and his Council of elders have set their evil eyes on finding and awakening this plague of plagues. Wherever they search, a bloody path is left in their wake.
Will you defeat Marius and his unholy Council? Will you stop the Bloodtide?
For if you fail, the Bloodtide will spill across the realm, ushering in a new dark age… one ruled by vampires.
The campfire’s orange light shifts between the trees, their skeletal branches reaching out like bony arms in the darkness. The night is quiet, aside from a faint wind whispering through the leaves and the stray hoot of a lonely owl. As you relax on the bedroll, listening to the breeze, your ears catch another sound— something fumbling through the forest, beyond the glow of the fire.
A young boy emerges from the gloom, pausing at the edge of the light before walking slowly to the fire. Messy brown hair frames his small face. He looks dazed, his eyes wide with shock. As the boy nears the flames, you notice red splatters on his shirt. He looks at you, blinking, as if noticing you for the first time. Without a word, he sits down and begins to weep. You want to ask him what’s wrong, why he’s covered in blood, but you allow him some time. After some minutes he calms down, wipes his eyes and tells his story.
“Last night…” he begins, “Last night the strangest storm gathered above our village. It hadn’t rained in days, but suddenly water came down in sheets, muddying the ground, leaking through the roof. Lightning crashed above the forest, caught trees on fire. Father thought the entire forest might burn, if not for the pouring rain. He brought the animals inside, fearing they might bolt in the uproar. Thunder boomed outside our house. Then, just like that—everything stopped. The dark clouds went away. The thunder disappeared. The rain ceased.” The boy shook his head. “I was hidden underneath my covers, but Father said the trouble was over. That I had nothing to worry about. I believed him. I went to sleep.”
The boy shudders, fighting a memory.
“Sometime in the night, I heard screams.” He brings his knees to his chest, wraps his arms around himself. “That’s when the nightmares started.”
The child speaks of terrible things—pale men in robes and dark armor, chains and amulets dangling from their necks, fingers ending in long, wicked claws. They went from one house to the next and screams followed each time. The boy tells of the worst figure of them all, more creature than man, with large, leathery wings attached to his back. The boy watched from under the floorboards as the ravenous creature drained his parents, one by one. By the time the horror ended, and the creatures disappeared into the night, nothing in the village survived. Not even the animals.
Exhausted from reliving his nightmare, the boy weeps himself to sleep. You lay your blanket over his small body, and throw another dry log onto the fire. The forest is silent once more. As you listen to the child’s rhythmed breathing, you vow to bring those responsible to justice. This evil should never be free upon the land.
Though you pressed him for specifics, the child was only able to give you one name he heard whispered from those wicked mouths...
Marius.