What is Romance of Five Kingdoms?
A persistent wuxia romantasy MUD set in the Aolang Empire, where your character's story weaves into a living world shared with hundreds of others.
Wuxia
Disciplined martial arts, sect rivalries, and the long climb from outer disciple to legendary master. Train in one of twelve fighting styles taught across four ancient schools.
Romantasy
Bonds of love, jealousy, and obligation matter as much as the fighting pit. Courtships, arranged marriages, and the politics of noble houses shape every story.
Vast Empire
Five kingdoms under the Aolang banner, from the rice terraces of Sìshuǐ to the iron foundries of Jīnjiǎ. Forty towns, hundreds of locations and thousands of NPCs.
Collaborative Storytelling
A fully persistent multiplayer world, spar with others, go on adventures together, host events, get married, and use destiny to influence fate for your co-adventurers.
Living World
NPCs go to work, attend festivals, have opinions of each other and PCs that change with real world events. Political actors issue decrees in response to each other and the actions of PCs, villains scheme constantly, player actions can lead to NPCs dying, or being arrested or promoted.
Ongoing Story
Each seasonal arc interacts with regular stories and adventures to produce an always moving story where previous victories, failures and decisions echo into the future.
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