Hello all! A quick intro and a few questions :)

Jineva

Hi! I just made a character. I'm an old Lusternia player. I poked my head in and was a bit overwhelmed with everything. I would have to re-learn the lore, how to play and everything else, anyway. So, I figured that I'd take this time to try out something new.

I hoping that I can find fun here because I'm super casual. I'm a RPer, explorer, quester, merchant type. I don't like PVP for several reasons. One being, since I don't really hunt/bash (or whatever you call it)  and I'd rather socialize or explore, I tend to stay at a low low level. All my credits/lessons are usually pumped into non-combat abilities and skills. In Lusternia, I maxed out my trade skill, bought a manse, etc. 

I have a few questions. 

1. I love the new (I've been gone that long!) IRE and game specific web sites. Is it possible to link all of my characters up to one account? For example, I logged into my old Lusternia character on the IRE site and was able to read city messages, etc. Can I attach my new Achaea character since I use the same email?
2. Can I play a non-violent character? As I mentioned, I don't really PVP. I never really understood it and don't want to. My RP isn't all sunshine and lollipops, though. I'm just used to more story and less kill-on-sight type game play.
3. I thought about crafting, but I suck at writing descriptions. I do like exploring and gathering. Is it possible to make a decent amount of gold gather materials or supply resources? I was looking through the wikis of a few of the IRE games, so hopefully I'm not getting one confused with the other. But I think I saw that one could make paints for tattooer, fish and gather items for cooks, etc,
4. How active are the gods in RP and stuff?
5. The IRE site said "Frequent RP Events". How frequent are these? Are these staff-driven? How often do players hold events, or just large RP plots?

Accipiter

I can answer a few.

2: Yes you can play a non violent character, but Achaea is primarily combat based (I have heard the most so out of the IRE family but don't have personal experience on that)

3: Gathering the profession relies largely on killing things, so staying very low level won't be a very good idea. It is also hard to make a lot of money from it unless you do it a lot. All of the crafting skills are planned to be non-class specific in the future so you might wait around till that.

4: Gods when active are very involved in RP and stuff, but much of it is order-centric and if you get stuck in an order with a dormant divine you end up waiting around until someone new picks up the slack much of the time

5: There is alot of staff-driven RP, but again because Achaea is so combat based you will find that generally someone opposing you will rock up to see what is going on too and you will end up dead if you aren't a combatant. Non-staff RP is better for non-combat, but will mostly be personal interactions, politicking and the like rather than anything that will change the text-world.

Scarlatti

Welcome to our side of the IRE multiverse!

If you are into exploring and non-hunting methods of earning gold, you might like to check out sailing and fishing at sea. City and house mates are a good place to start asking about this. You will find it much easier to enjoy broader parts of the game if you hunt beyond low levels, though.

Accounts don't link across IRE games.

The highest concentration of admin-involved RP on a day to day basis is in the Divine Orders. If your Divine goes dormant, maneuvering to an active faction is fine by us in the Garden, though ultimately a decision for your own RP. (We are still trying to find @Penwize 's price for leaving Artemis, hint hint.)

Have fun!

Penwize

Scarlatti said:

(We are still trying to find @Penwize 's price for leaving Artemis, hint hint.)

If @Vastar went Eleusian, I might be convinced!

Tharvis

Penwize said:

Scarlatti said:

(We are still trying to find @Penwize 's price for leaving Artemis, hint hint.)

If @Vastar went Eleusian, I might be convinced!

what if you get new eagles, @Penwize?

Penwize

Tharvis said:

Penwize said:

Scarlatti said:

(We are still trying to find @Penwize 's price for leaving Artemis, hint hint.)

If @Vastar went Eleusian, I might be convinced!

what if you get new eagles, @Penwize?

New eagles from Eleusian Vastar? Yes please!