2008 Events

Asheron's Call is updated frequently with content, activities, and other in-game goodies. Check back often for game release notes, screenshots, and fiction stories about the latest happenings in the world of Dereth. Don't forget that there are hidden mysteries in the game waiting to be discovered, and you never know when you may even encounter a special event hosted by our staff in the game!

December, 2008: Sins of the Fathers

Release Notes
Let's see what is new and exciting this month in Asheron's Call!

Sins of the Fathers
On a strangely warm late fall afternoon, Ardry opened the door to his uncles cottage and recoiled from the smell and the gust of roiling green vapor that greeted him. It was a sharp, overwhelming reek, redolent of rotten eggs and burned hair. Trying not to gag, he called out to the cabins inhabitant.

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The Summoner hissed and lashed out his serpentine tongue to taste the air. It was a delicious smell, ripe with the rich scent of the Blood of the World. In the weeks since his Master had first raised him and sent him to this world, he had been almost drunk with the saturated power of this island that the human cultists had once named Killiakta. He could taste his own Masters influence upon this world, could almost see the dark streams of power flowing into the world from the fonts that Tthuuns other servants had consecrated. He could tell from the taste of the air that this worlds cold season was upon it, and only his Masters considerable influence kept the hated snow and ice from encroaching upon the land.

October, 2008: Seeds of Corruption

Release Notes
Let's see what is new and exciting in Dereth this month!

Seeds of Corruption

Atop one of the high cliffs overlooking Mayoi, Nithruvis the Cruel stood with arms crossed. Here in charge of a scouting party, he had left his followers and servants behind to spend a few moments in solitude, considering the land before them.

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Aun Hautona was stripping a Carenzi carcass on the shores of the lake above the North Fork Dam when he smelled something foul, carried to him by the wind. He dropped his skinning knife, work forgotten, and stood up straight. He pointed his long snout straight up in the air, closed his eyes, and let the information come to him.

September, 2008: Risks and Rewards

Release Notes

Lets see what the next month has in store for Asherons Call!

Risk and Rewards

Even from miles away, Aliester could see the forest burning. When he began his long journey to this remote and forsaken corner of Dereth, he could see the vague orange glow on the horizon and use it as a lodestone to navigate by. For all his years in Dereth, Aliester had gone on precious few of these wilderness rangings, and this was the first he'd attempted in the dark, by himself.

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In a dark and roughly hewn cave tunnel far beneath Freebooter Keep, a group of men waited by a huge, heavy metal door that was locked and barred with a beam as thick as a ship's mast. The only sound in the damp confines of the tunnel came from the soft crackle of a single torch, held by the man in the back. Every other man waiting there kept their eyes forward, on the door, to keep the light of the torch from interfering with their dark-vision. Every man there was dressed in black or dark grey, and kept a dagger or a sword belted at his side.

August, 2008: Ancient Powers

Release Notes
Welcome to the August 2008 Release Notes. This month we are celebrating our 100th content update for Asheron's Call. This is a very special occasion for all of us at Turbine, so we have something special in store for our players.

Ancient Powers
War had finally come to Freebooter Isle. The tropical fortress resounded with the shrieks of combatants, the cries of the wounded, and the ever-present hum of magical energy. Even as the keeps foundation stones shook with the magical energy unleashed by both besieging and defending forces, two men sat in the deepest subterranean fortress levels and enjoyed a quiet drink in the last few undisturbed moments they had.

Rollout Fiction
The sun set red over Ayan Baqur. On the southern hill of the city, overlooking the coast, an old man and his nephew sat, cross-legged, and watched the western sky. Each bore the dust and dirt of a long day on the trail, but only one of them wore the grime in comfort. Aliester the Loquacious, one of the pre-eminent Isparian scholars of Dereth, was busily dusting off his new traveling boots and complaining under his breath about how dirty theyd gotten.

July, 2008: Shattered Lines

Release Notes
Let's see whats new and exciting in Dereth this month!

Shattered Lines
Prince Borelean watched Asherons hands with fascination. In the rigorous education his mother had arranged for him, he had been spending more time in magical training and rather less at swordplay and strategy.

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Yawning mightily, Ardry leaned back from his table in the Shining Shield tavern of Hebian-To. He was the only patron in the tavern at this hour, in the dark before sunrise.

June, 2008: Dispatch

Release Notes
Let's see what's new and exciting this month in Asheron's Call!

Dispatch
Adso crested the hill and looked out over the valley. Wary of being spotted from below, he crouched down and made himself part of the scraggly brush covering that topped this hill. Far beneath him, the ruined Empyrean graveyard brooded in its own darkness.

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An old woman, tired and alone, stood in front of a stone altar. The set of her back was imperiously high and proud, but she could not keep her shoulders from sagging or her head from drooping periodically, out of sheer exhaustion.

May, 2008: Introductions

Release Notes
This month we are saying thank you to our players. Please make sure you visit the NPC's placed in one of the towns around Dereth. Lets see what else is new and exciting this month.

Introductions
The air was heavy with smoke and the stench of burned flesh. The smell of slaughter lingered on every blood- and ichor-spattered surface in the underground cavern. A man dressed in gore-encrusted leather armor walked across the cavern floor, which was littered with corpses.

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Lord Rytheran sat in his most recently constructed sanctum, his journal open before him to a blank page. The proud Lord of Menilesh, once the most favored noble of the Eternal Court of Dericost, slouched in a most undignified fashion in his hard stone throne.

April, 2008: Upping the Ante

Release Notes
The April event is upon us and many things have changed this month. Lets find out what is new and exciting in Asheron's Call this month.

Upping the Ante
Mundagurg opened the canteen and sniffed it suspiciously. Three times he had returned to Angry Grandfather for help or at least advice, and three times Angry Grandfather had told him things he didnt really understand.

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In a newly constructed underground fortress, protected from spying eyes by powerful concealing magic, a pair of old friends and sometime rivals stared across a table at each other. A nervous courier stood between them.

March, 2008: Foolish Ambition

Release Notes
The March event is upon us and many things have changed in Dereth this month. Let's find out what is new and exciting in Asheron's Call this month!

Foolish Ambition
The lonely lord sat in his private sanctum, staring blankly into the runes he had just inscribed into his heavy, leatherbound journal.

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Adso crawled across the rubble-strewn field on his belly. He moved slowly, almost torturously. Each limb moved at a glacial pace: undetectable on first or even second glance, but he managed to cover significant...

February, 2008: The Beast with Many Heads

Release Notes
Hello there and welcome to the February Release Notes. This month we see what could be the culmination of what Aerbax has been working towards. Will the People of Dereth be able to stop Aerbax from completing his master plan? We are also going to take a special look at what goes into making a new Loot Tier for Asherons Call as written by our very own Lupus Argenteus.

The Beast With Many Heads
On a windy northern beach, amidst a riotously colored assortment of coral outcroppings and relics from the bottom of the sea, a pair of Merwart brothers sat on white sand and scanned the horizon.

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In a forested valley somewhere in the highlands of northern Osteth, a lone adventurer sat by his campfire, cleaning his boots and waiting for his tea kettle to boil. He had built his fire by a large fallen log, upon which he perched while he cleaned his boots.

January, 2008: Recollections

Release Notes
The January event is upon us, and some strange things have been occurring. The people of Dereth have been reporting some difficulty remembering some thing, and strange dreams. Could this all be related in some way?

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Ardry tightened the straps on his pack and slung it over his shoulder. The pack was bulging with books, not the field rations and spare weaponry that was his usual load-out when departing the chapterhouse. The small library here was his second-to-last stop on a long book-gathering expedition.

Recollections
The bugs just wouldnt stop coming. There shouldnt even have been that many in this chamber. Something was wrong.

Adso spun away from one Olthois stabbing, spearlike claw and ducked under a stream of sizzling acid from another. Patches of burned and slashed leather dotted his entire body, marking near-misses and narrow hits.

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