Skill explanation

  0 = completely unknown

  1= just started, just started to pick the basics of the skill up

  2-3= novice gained an understanding of how the skill works

  4-5= journeyman able to make a reasonable living of the skill

  6-8= master an expert in the skill with many a year's of training, often sort out for teaching

  9-10= grandmaster, only a few exist in the world so skilled, they are sort after by all interested in the skill

  +11= godly, a users skill above the level off ten is skilled enough to make the gods them selfs jealous

  Arthur: our protagonist and storyteller, Arthur was thirty-one when he first joined the game Novae Terrae Online, he is a classical loner preferring to spend much of his time alone, preferring to play alone this is due to an accident when he was young during which he lost both his legs, he was one of the first players to join the game and earned the title Friend of Dragons within a month of joining, over the course of the game he played as an Adventurer, playing a dexterity based swordsman, able to cast spells, he quickly became friend with Tor-ron how taught him heaven based magic, he learnt swordplay from Waruan and was taught dexterity based fighting by Irdu, he watched young Licu grow up from a toddler to a young man, after their deaths and the start of the wars he spent eight years trying to save NPC’s to build up a resistance but ultimately failed. The after a battle were the entire group of refugees he saved were killed, by a player army. He gave up, he became distant and vindictive, if he couldn't save people he would by hell make sure that the players got dragged down along with everybody else. During the final battle of Ragnarok, Arthur was responsible for slaying the god Nevermore, his weapon is a hand and a half sword named, Caliburn.

  Waruan: a retired captain of the guard, human, husband of Irdu and father of Licu, he taught Arthur swordplay, they were friends and companions until his death holding a door against a horde of players, buying time for the party to escape, aged 55 at the time of his death, he was a level, 157 knight,. he was a member of Arthur's previous party.

  Irdu: an elven ranger wife of waruan and mother to Licu, she was 167 at time of her death and a level 283 ranger, she taught Arthur to dodge and to be light on his feet, and help merge his swordsmanship skills with his agility. She gave her life running an explosive barrel across a cavern in order to save four hundred civilians. She was a member of Arthur's previous party.

  Tor-ron: a human level 143 wizard, he was a skilled heaven mage that taught Arthur heaven based magic, he gave his life blowing up a barrel of alchemical fire, to stop a horde of players massacring hundreds of civilians. he was a member of Arthur's previous party.

  Licu: when Arthur first joined the party licu was only three years old, he watched young Licu grow up and become a man, he was 15 years old during the genocide at Stonebridge, he was a level 83 knight, but lost his hand in a battle against level 130 skeleton knights. His ultimate fate is unknown. he was a member of Arthur's previous party.

  Mike: an old alchemist that fought in the battle of Stonebridge, he died, being stabbed by players.

  SGT Hardarse: an old veteran of the guard that rallied the Stonebridge adventuring guild buying time for civilians to escape.

  Malus: god of order, created the ground, the plants the flowers and all sentient life, was responsible for the levelling system, was killed by Nevermore during Ragnarok

  Ashgrave: god of chaos, created animals, the monsters and the seas and the wind died during Ragnarok, after being crushed by a collapsing gatehouse then stabbed by a angles blade.

  Nevermore: god of death, was responsible for players respawning, and the arrival of players in the world, he aimed to destroy worlds, was slain by Arthur after being weakened by Malus.

  New world

  Alexis village

  Alexis: character info incoming on completion of arc.

  Mother; mother of Alexis, the advance of age, married with one son and daughter died in the sacking of Alexis village.

  Margaret; old shopkeeper in the village was a tailor, died in the sacking of Alexis's village

  Iver: general store manager in the old village died during its sacking, fate unknown

  Vanart: fat lazy guardsman of the old village, spent most of his time asleep his post.

  Farmer Orin: sexist farmer that owned the towns only farm, died during the raid

  Mary: tavern worker that worked alongside Alexis, fate unknown

  Innkeeper: boss of Alexis ran the tavern. died during the raid

  Dorasion: head of lumberjacks guild, started the fight with the bandits, was the first to die

  Alice: a young nun 16 years of age, that had arrived in last year to train under the priest: fate unknown.