Getting Started

Welcome to Sanctuary, this page should serve to help new players acclimate to the shard as easily as possible. A variety of important tips and suggestions have been included.

Getting Help

Unfortunate, one page doesn't explain it all, and we encourage you to use the search feature of this wiki to answer other questions that you have. If you can not find an answer to your question we have a #game-questions channel in our Discord Server.

Our shard is found on the basic premise that you are our welcome guest and that we will strive to be good hosts. We have a friendly and helpful community that wants to get to know both you and your character. Please do come join us in discord as well as in the game.

Jump Right In

Unless you want a shape change before you begin playing. there is no need to create an application before creating an account. You can head directly to our Downloads section and follow the instructions to download the client and our custom files. We are set up for auto-account creation so you may log in immediately.

All player characters are heroes coming from alternate worlds, they are not natives. Consequently, you do not need to know all of the lore of the shard to start playing. We encourage you to read the Origin Myth and the Upon your arrival ... page however.

Please note that we do require standard role-play naming conventions for both characters and pets.

Play Styles

There is plenty of room here for a variety of play styles. If you are a casual role-player or prefer light low-conflict role-play, Summer Isle/Underhill is ideal for just such players. If you like hard-core conflict driven role-play with mature experienced role-play the world map, Cuivienen, is designed for just for you. More information can be found on the Map & Facets page.

Application

We encourage you to take your time considering the wiki and the shard storyline before you submit an application. Here are some of the common issues that come up during the application process.

One, if you do not wish a shape change and do not intend to participate in the shard storyline on Cuivienen then you do not need to submit an application at all. You can play on both the Summer Isle and Underhill maps with out an application.

Two, the shard storyline question on the application is carefully considered by staff. We are looking for characters that will be motivated to participate in the political and military conflict anticipated.

Three, the storyline will revolve around, and be driven by, the noble houses. You should likely have a good idea of which house, kingdom or god your character intends to support before you write your application.

Choosing Skills

We are in continual development of our game mechanics as we retro-fit a recent set of UO mechanics to a pre-AOS state. This means that skills may not work as you assume they work, or even that the manual may not yet have caught up to the storm of changes being done every week. See: User Manual

Our .spec system:

• Is required for all characters
• Immediately trains the chosen skills to 60
• Can be changed and any time during the first six days

Economy

Gold is not easy to come by for new players in their first week of play.

• Conserve your starting gold
• Take a resource/harvest skill
• Train expensive skills, like magery, last.
• Don't assume you can sell everything to NPCs. Check what NPC vendors sell, because it is usually what they buy.
• Look to join a guild/noble house, most of them help out new players.

Our player run economy is slowly developing. All player vendors are in the starter area, the town of Evervale, on Summer Isle.