Category:Background

Backgrounds and guilds

 Useful: 'help open guilds'.

 First you need to pick your background. This defines what guilds
 you can join, what races will suit you and generally what will
 you be good at. There are five backgrounds. Beginning with a certain
 background might be easier or more difficult than with others.

 Nomad background is for warriors. Nomadic characters can choose to 
 join guilds such as rangers and barbarians. In the nomad guilds you 
 can train offensive and defensive abilities in physical combat.

 Magical background has four guilds: mages, psionicists, conjurers and
 channellers. Channellers major in manipulating mana, conjurers are masters
 of defensive magic, psis and mages use offensive magic.

 Good_religious background has five guilds. Healers (tarmalen),
 druids, templars, nuns and monks. Monks are martial artists and thus
 warriors, healers use the various healing and curing spells and
 druids are a blend of offensive, defensive and miscellanous magic
 with some healing abilities. Nuns and templars seek the evil in the world
 to slay it, nuns by using spells and templars with raw strength.

 Evil_religious offers you lords of chaos, evil priests and the cult of 
 reavers. LoC are yet again a new branch of warriors, evil priests have 
 some offensive magic and miscellanous stuff. Reavers focus their energy
 into destructive forces.
 
 There are rumours about a fourth guild, a guild of assassins, but not 
 much is known about those. Even less is known about a fifth guild, and 
 it might be only a legend.

 Civilized background includes merchants, civilized mages, alchemists,
 shadow sabres, bards and runemages. The background also host the guild of 
 knights. Again people talk about thieves, but finding one will be 
 difficult - and you would probably end up having a dagger buried in 
 your back if you go around asking questions.

 The merchant and alchemist guilds concentrate on leeching money off other 
 players and not so much in slaying monsters. Shadow Sabres are fighters
 with style; imagine D'Artagnan and the three musketeers. This guild might
 be worth trying even for a newcomer. Civilized mages are geared
 towards adventuring, but they are not as good at it as their pure
 counterpart in the magical background. Runemages represent the 
 disciplined and study-oriented section of the magic users. 
 And then there are the bards, often called taletellers, song
 weavers, troubadours or traveling minstrels.  These singers of legends
 bring happiness and sometimes even sorrow to the realms with their songs
 and deeds.