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By Ethos

Welcome to Atriana,

To anyone familiar with the massively multiplayer role playing game genre, Atriarch will be at once shockingly foreign and a refreshing breath of originality. The first time the Editors at Stratics saw this game we were immediately intrigued by what it proposed: To create a world where everything was alive and interlinked as part of a massive "Gaia Theory" style experiment.

At its core, Atriarch is built around five unique player controlled species. Yes, you heard right... this is not a game where life forms are similar enough to be called races, not quite, in Atriarch the life forms are so massively different that in many respects they don't even seem to have evolved from the same basic life forms.

The Cavalon are masters of Atriana's lush plant life.

The Cavalon are masters of plant life. These green thumbed beings resembling a genetic hybrid between Starcraft's Protoss and your local High School football field are not the average tree-hugging hippies. In Atriana, plants can actually be used as weapons. In a land where everything is alive, this could be a major advantage. By contrast, The Unarra are masters of the beasts of the world - another deadly advantage given the breadth of creatures on this planet.

Other races have more subtle powers. The exploratory Lokki have an innate sense of space and have mapped the globe, making them valuable and resourceful friends. Aparently they are masters of trade to go with it - a strong combination. In a world where player interaction is so important that factions (guilds) can build their own cities, the hulking Eshlar are master architects. Finally, the insidious Tyrussin have no special powers that we can discern and have learned to survive through combat and superior weaponry.

Lokai Explorers have explored and mapped the entire planet.

The game engine itself is still in alpha testing and advanced textures have only recently been applied. The artist's renderings, of which there are plenty, give us a more true-to-vision idea of what Atriarch will look like upon completion. Between the rapid progress being made on the game's engine (it's almost up to par with the artist's renderings) and the amazing concepts behind it, this title is destined to become a classic and World Fusion a major player in the MMORPG market.

Welcome to the Lokai capitol city of Orescent

Impressed by the devotion and visionary thinking of Atriarch's development team, we launched Atriarch Stratics (ATS) as a way to help bring fans of this project closer to the developers. Our mission is not only to serve as the ultimate resource for Atriarch but to play a vital role in the continued development of the game and its features as well.

We now invite you to continue your tour of Atriarch. This rich, lush world has to be seen to be believed.

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~ Ethos

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