Lore & Gameplay Arkadia One

Races

CARDINAL RACE

The Humans are the Imperial Faction leaders, with their emperor Aryan Raikk ruling from the capital Imperial City in Hildoren. The humans set the standard for all Imperials to follow and any Imperial aspirants who wish to join the faction must adhere to strict regulations. For example, allied Kabala and Fae players cannot enter the Imperial City with their exotic appearance and require magical assistance first, transforming them into human form during their stay.

CARDINAL RACE

The Colossus are a demigod race of living statues, they represent an avatar of the Titans that created the world of Arkadia. The Titan Gods would not engage in racial wars on Arkadia, but they had to intervene after the Visitors struck an imbalance in the ecosystem. Each metal or stone statue is a mere vessel that was infused with a Divine Spirit in order to aid the Imperials. When the Colossus have to travel long distances their body shatters, releasing the spirit to roam. Upon arriving at the desired location, the statue reassembles from the ground up.

CARDINAL RACE

Hobblets are a childlike race that evokes love and affection in other Imperials, they come from Owo Town, ride bunnies and like ice cream. The parental nurturing element of the Imperials is in stark contrast with the Neggar, who don’t care about their young ones and have a more animalistic approach to parenting. Hobblets can be a little timid at first, but in time they build up the courage and become master rogues and wizards. It is also advisable for hobblets to avoid Chomonium Priests within their ranks.

TRANSMUTED RACE

Soma Elves are a transmuted race made of Elves that abandoned their ethereal form and Satyrs that joined the Imperial faction. The Soma Elf development is a coming-of-age story where the former Elf females accept their new corporeal form and become brides of the Soma Elf males, who were previously Satyrs. After the ceremonial rites in their valley, the mature Soma Elves are ready to set sail and travel to the Imperial City where they can develop their skills and join the Imperials in battle.

TRANSMUTED RACE

The Werewolves are a northern human tribe that became proficient with entrapping and morphing the Fae and Kabala wild races. The hunted Furbolgs and Xenotaur would adopt the wolf form as their bestial aspect and the tribe would conjure an additional human form for them. At first, the Imperials were weary of the Werewolves, seeing the tribe dabble in primitive magic. However, their impressive battle skills prevailed and they were accepted as equals. Werewolf players can choose the form they prefer and switch between wolf and human forms.

CARDINAL RACE

While the Imperials see the Satyrs only as malevolent and cruel demons, other races enjoy their love of revels and their gregarious personalities. Bapho, the unisex Satyr god, is the supreme deity of the Kabala. While Bapho is revered amongst the Undead and other Kabala races, the Satyr society follows a different set of rules and traditions. Their society is very patriarchal, so only male Satyrs are playable while the covered females keep a low profile.

CARDINAL RACE

The uncanny Visitors are not native to Arkadia, their origins and date of arrival remain a mystery. They prefer building settlements in caves and underground areas, where they developed their unique network that serves as a mode of transportation and a living space called the Habitat. Visitors can enter the Habitat and disappear in all open-world areas. They spend most of their time on Arkadia modifying the wildlife, with a special interest in domestic cows. Their alliance with the Kabala developed spontaneously with them needing protection and the Kabala getting knowledge.

CARDINAL RACE

XTaur or Xenotaur are an artificial hybrid race made by the Visitors. Ancient Tauros were a nomadic tribe of hunters, and when they met the Visitors they were in awe of their capabilities, so the Tauros chieftain begged the creatures to alter his tribe and make them the best hunters. With their natural affinity for cow modification, the Visitors agreed, and thus the XTaur was born. But the tainted gift soon turned sour as the new race decimated the landscape, wreaking havoc on Arkadia. The XTaur has an agile body with long grasshopper legs that allow them to jump high. Their bright neon colors indicate the poison they spit through the udders on their face.

TRANSMUTED RACE

The Golem are constructs scavenged from the fallen Colossus, the artificers behind the Golems are the Dwarves or (((dwarves))). Dwarves are a leading race in the Order of the Kabala, but due to their poor fighting skills they developed Golems for the battlefield, while they control from the shadows. Dwarves seek to infiltrate Imperial and Neggar settlements and take control through religion or the economy. They envy the purity and beauty of the Humans and would like to see them interbreed with the Neggar races.

TRANSMUTED RACE

The Undead are a tormented race made of dead Humans, Orcs and Ogres. Necromancers were trained by the Order of the Kabala to revive dead bodies so they can bolster their ranks with fast-recycled corpses. They start their journey in the north in their ghost town capital Underaids in the Winterfell region. Their area has a unique haunting atmosphere with an immersive player experience where players interact with evanescent ghosts and see flashes and glimpses of their previous lives. Additionally, Undead players can switch between ghost and corpse form.

CARDINAL RACE

The Orcs are a highly primitive and warlike race of bestial humanoid raiders with a dark complexion. Insensitive to pain and higher thought, the Orcs carry war and savagery to all corners of Arkadia. The Order of the Kabala opened portals west of the Imperial City for faster transport of Orcs and other Neggar to Imperial lands. Like the majority of Neggars, Orcs don’t have a proper capital city of their own, and the former Imperial fortification Stonewind Keep, now in a derelict state, serves as a major hub and capital for all Neggar.

CARDINAL RACE

Ogres are monstrous lesser giants, with large and powerful bodies. They venerate corpulent fertile female bodies and are voracious creatures that will eat anything they get their hands on. While ogres excel in strength, they are also rather slow-witted with a slow speech impediment, though some possess a surprisingly brutal cunning. They live in tribal agrarian and hunter societies and prefer swampy or mountainous areas to build settlements. Players can make characters with one head or two heads, and choose if they prefer them to have one or two eyes.

CARDINAL RACE

Niglins are a whimsical race of diminutive humanoids that are not as strong as other Neggar races but are large in numbers. They naturally band together in large groups or mobs as a form of protection. Niglins possess just enough intelligence to craft simple tools and build crude buildings, traits that are usually nonexistent to most Orcs and Ogres. Being in a faction that only respects strength and brutality the Niglins try to find other ways to prove their worth amongst the Neggar.

TRANSMUTED RACE

The Trolls are the most intelligent Neggar race with an advanced culture and society. The players start their journey in the lush jungle capital city of Tars where they get familiar with the customs, traditions and the complex social structure of the Trolls. The troll ruler is Mejah, the Princess of Tars and she encourages outsiders to join the troll forces and earn the Warlord of Tars title. The Elf and Satyr players that wish to join the Neggar faction get assimilated by the Trolls by bathing in their dirty river and gradually acquiring their new Troll identity.

TRANSMUTED RACE

The peculiar Ooga Booga walk on all fours and are the most bestial out of all Neggar races. They were first cultivated by the Neggar jujumbas and hunters when the captured Furbolg, XTaur and Centaur would get magically treated and branded with a mask. The Ooga Booga eventually became self-sustainable and can now recruit other bestial races by themselves. They have also split into two tribes, with one tribe idolizing wild cats and the other tribe preferring black-and-white aesthetics with gorillas as their deity. The Ooga Booga players must choose their affiliation between the two tribes.

CARDINAL RACE

Roamers at heart, the Centaur love open spaces and the freedom to travel. They are liminal creatures, half-human and half-horse that transmute accordingly if changing factions. The Centaur exists within a constant power struggle where the human component is always trying to tame and slow down the wild counterpart, and only through the Druidic teachings have they managed to find balance by celebrating the seasons, the harvests, and the equinoxes. Still as much as they can, the Centaurs run. They race the wind, hooves thundering and tails streaming behind them.

CARDINAL RACE

The Elf females of Arkadia developed an optimized functional society for themselves, devoid of male members. While players may encounter occasional male Elf outcasts or loose gangs, only the female Elf characters are playable. The Elves are luminous, incorporeal humanoids that attach their spectral appearance to any accessories or weapons they’re using. The damage done by their arrows or melee weapons is magical. Their main purpose is the defense of Arkadian natural flora and fauna, and the Elf player character development excludes any tasks involving killing animals or harming wildlife.

CARDINAL RACE

The Furbolg are large primitive bestial humanoids and staunch defenders of the Fae. It took some time for the Elves and Elad to soothe and tame the rowdy creatures, but their efforts were rewarded and now they have their big cuddly loving friends. Furbolgs usually form peaceful and sedentary tribes, only rarely could they be persuaded to join adventuring parties but once they get irritated they will actively seek out evil entities to slay. With large claws that will relentlessly maul opponents beyond recognition, an enraged Furbolg is a sight to behold.

TRANSMUTED RACE

Elad are elemental humanoids made of Imperial or Neggar players that decided to switch to the Fae faction. Despite their newcomer status the Elad quickly rose to prominence within the Fae. With their corporeal faction origins, the lively Elad bring an executive energy to the dreamy and ethereal Fae. Depending on their class the players get transformed into three different forms, the heavy earth and stone oreads, thick cactus elementals, or the light leafy dryads. The Elad and most other Fae races don’t wear manufactured fabrics or metals as all their gear gets naturalized, morphing into their body.

TRANSMUTED RACE

Pixies are a race of sprites made of transmuted Hobblets and Niglins. When the Elves of Arkadia decided to make a diminutive fey race they started tampering with the captured Hobblets and Niglins placing them in enchanted larvae and cocooning them until they found the perfect Pixie specimen. Pixies can’t reproduce by themselves and need to be nurtured by the Elves, so it’s common to find Pixie hives in the vicinity of Elf settlements. They are the smallest of all playable races, and every Pixie has the ability to disperse into a swarm of smaller clones overwhelming the opponent.

Gameplay

Arkadian factions consist of Cardinal and Transmuted races.

When creating a new character the player can only choose from the cardinal races. When they advance, they can choose an optional faction affiliation and conversion into the transmuted race. The conversion is permanent and irreversible, and the conversion storyline becomes available in the middle of the leveling process. It doesn’t require max level.

There are two Corporeal and two Divine factions, and the players cannot transmute into the opposite faction. This means that conversion from one Divine faction to the other is not possible, or from Corporeal to Corporeal.

Hostile Factions – Cardinal races can’t transmute into the opposing faction.

Friendly/Neutral/Hostile Factions – Cardinal races can transmute or build a friendly reputation with one of the two factions.

Increasing reputation with one faction decreases the reputation with the other.

Slave Mode

Slave Mode is a downgraded player mode unique to the world of Arkadia. Only the Corporeal factions can get enslaved, with varying degrees of susceptibility between the two factions and the races.

If a player has a poor gaming record, they risk becoming eligible for enslavement by the opposing faction Slave Masters or Hunters. In case they get enslaved during a PvP encounter, they will immediately switch factions and enter slave mode with limited player options. The enslaved character becomes the property of the Slave Master/Hunter and they continue playing together. If the master is not online, the slave can perform menial tasks on the master’s property, develop skills or play mini-games.

The master can also decide whether he wants to release his slave, reverting the slave back to his original class with complete autonomy, or if he wants, he can kill the slave.

After a slave is killed by the master the player’s character is completely erased, and the player can try his luck again by creating a new character.