The Beginning

Learn the basics of Ashen Empires, including starting towns, character stats, inventory management, skills, magic, and communication options. Your essential guide to beginning your adventure.

Like I said, there is no "BIG" quest in the game like saving a princess or something to the like of it. However, there are little quests that involves running from one town to another with an NPC (non-player character) and a Guild Master quest which you are better off doing this when you reach a safe higher level as welkl as some experience quests.

First of all, familiarize yourself with the town you started out in. If you pick a race, you will start out in the village of the same race. For example, if you pick human, you will start in Silvest. You will start in Whisperdale if you choose to be an elf and Krog if you are an Orc. Each of those town are on their own land, like how Silvest is in Krythan, Whisperdale is in West Mainland and Krog is in East Mainland. And yes, there are three areas in the game and you can get to each one by going through a portal.

Lets take a look at what's on your screen. You are the person right in the middle of the screen without your ID at the top of your head. In the upper left corner of the screen you will see "FPS: ##". I'm pretty sure this is abbreviated for Framerate Per Second and I have no idea what it really means but I have seen those words or the abbreviation of it around. At the bottom right of the screen you will see several icons and from left to right they are:

• Body
  Click on it and it will bring up a screen of your body. This is to show what clothing(s) you have on and what kind of weapon you have equipped. There are 6 different parts on your body that you can equip and they are Head, Hands, Legs, Upper Body, Shield and Weapon. On the left side of the screen is your character's stats and from top to bottom they are Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Constitution. The last thing on that list is Armor and the number will raise and lower depends on what armor you put on. Try not to put too much armor on if you are a new player because if you do, you will put on more weight on yourself and your stamina meter will go down quicker.
• Backpack
  All of the items you have picked up after killing enemies on the way after from town to another town will be put here. Having a lot of items in your backpack can raise your weight up a little bit and your stamina will go quicker as well.
• Skills
  Like I said, if you picked a profession you want to work on, you still can participate in another skill. Clicking this icon will bring a screen of the skills you have practiced. If you participate in a NPC quest and if you successfully completed it, the experience points you are given will be put in the at the bottom of the skill list. You can add whatever how many experience points you have into one of the skills you have practiced to raise it so that you can get better in that skill. For the better, you should add them onto one of the many tradeskills.
• Magic
  This is only for wizardry stuff. A warrior can be a mage but you'll have to find a mage staff or whatever stave you can find. You can buy a staff in the Magic Shop if it has one. Once you find the wand or a type of mage staff, click on it and then click on the wand to enchant it. This will activate the wand and bring up the interface of the wand you are holding.
• Automap
  This is your map of the land you are exploring on. You can enlarge the map by double clicking on it. If you do double-clicked on the map to enlarge it, the black area are the area that you haven't exploreD yet.
• Chat
  Sure, you can chat to other players online if they are on your screen. You'll find them in the bank in the town chatting away, rarely you'll run into one running out across the land. To talk to them, press the T key on your keyboard and start typing away until you hit enter.
  There are three ways to chat and they are Normal, Whisper, and Guild. Players can read what you typed in under normal chat. Stand next to a player and switch to Whisper by hitting the Tab key after you press the T key to talk. While whispering, no one can read what you said if another player isn't one tile around you except for the person next to you. The guild chat is only for the people who are in a guild and again, those who aren't in the same guild or are not in a guild cannot read the guild chat.
• Followers
  This is a pretty neat feature in the game but it isn't really important. Find a stray dog/wolf or whatever animal that can be tamed and click on the Follower Icon and mess around with your new pet.
• Guild Deed
  A guild leader are the one who have access to this icon and they can do whatever they want to their guild from adding to removing members. There isn't much you can do on the Guild screen. You have to be a very skilled character to be in a guild and you can't just join right away. Some guilds have a set limited character level or strength or whatever. If you want to start a guild, look for the guild master quest in the The Beginning section of this FAQ.
• Ship Deed
  This icon is there but has not yet been activated. It looks like you can use a ship to travel across water but not one has been invented as of the moment so the icon stays unactive until ship comes in.
• Game Options
  Here are some of the background options you can mess around with such as turning the music on or off, control click to identify (item name will appear if checked). You can control the music and sound volume by using the slider.

Those are all of the icons at the bottom section of the statistic area at the lower right of the screen. The upper section has all those colored bars numbers and I will explain what they are:

• Time
  This is located at the very top where you see the sun or moon going from left to right. The Dransik time is also on there and the time is a lot faster than the time you are breathing through right now. I do no