Adellion

Adellion is a cancelled PC MMORPG by HonourBound. It was to be a role-playing focused game set in medieval times.

Plot
Adellion was the home of five empires six thousand years ago. The religion zealots of the Merussan empire took over the empires. The Merussan and Coechian engage in an epic battle, to which the Merussans win.

The Merussan empire would collapse from climate change catastrophe named the Great Sundering. Their technology is lost but the emerging cultures slowly discover and claim it. The current-day empires are at a standstill with only the occasional battle.

Gameplay
The aim of the game is to gain wealth and in turn gain political influence. You will begin as a peasant of one of five races. Command military troops, order your workers in the farms, and build up your status.

You could play as six different empire factions. There were around ten official cultures and a future player-made admin-approved cultures. Each culture determines your strengths, weakenesses, and stats.

The Council of Salandorf is made up of the five most powerful players in the game. Their decisions will affect the players. They cannot however engage in diplomacy between player squabbles.

The land the game takes place in is the continent of Aryiure in the Adellion world. The gameplay size was 300-500 square miles but players could only travel 20 miles a day. The game world would grow by two square miles for everyone person that joins.

Adellion would be a persistent real-time MMORPG. There would be 12 hours in an in-game day and fourteen days a week. There will also only be 56 years.

The game had a three strikes permadeath system. Upon death you'll respawn at the nearest healer but without your equipment. AT the third death you'll permanently die unless you have a heir, then you play as that.

Development
Andellion was originally powered by the TGE engine, then v12 engine, the Torque Game Engine. When MMOKIT was released, they merged their engine with it but this meant rewriting lots of it.

Cancellation
Adellion had many setbacks, such as the loss of their engine programmer team in late 2003. Coupled with the engine changes and engine rewrites, the MMO never saw a full release. Andellion remained permanently in alpha until being snuffed out in 2008.