Dressed in the most fashionable silks or tattered dirty clothing, traveling across Ellandor is always a rewarding experience. A world filled with many extravagant quests for money, treasures and fame. Protecting the innocents of the main city Devenon. A life of twisted words and loot would be great if one were accepted into the Crimson Fang Pirate Gang. Joining the Imperial Army to rid the world of magic users and Sylari races. Training in the deep twisted mines of volcanoes, heavily wooded forests, and rocky mountain trails. Abandoned Reality is a great mud for first timers, with easy directions and commands. The world map is great for the ones that love to explore the land, also easy to navigate through. Plenty of player and organization owned boats to travel across the bodies of water. Easy character creation with a well made newbie area for those inexperienced players. Abandoned Reality was the first mud that I had ever tried and probably the only one I will ever play and work on. I found it easy to pick up the commands, spells, directions. There aren't any northwest/northeast/southeast/southwest directions, which helped out a lot. The world map and boats have to be my favorite part about Abandoned Reality myself. Many of the experienced players are friendly and offer plenty of help for those that need any questions answered. ^[1]

Abandoned Reality has been operating since 1996, providing an original code and highly detailed areas that must pass rigorous critique just to make it into the world. Realism is key in this medieval-setting, roleplay enforced MUD, allowing players to completely submerge themselves into this unique and wonderful world. AR has established itself as one of the premier MUDs on the internet today, and has even been named Mud of the Month for November 1998 on Mudconnector. Some of AR's features include: -Optional PK status. -A realistic aging system. Nope, you won?t have to deal with extremely powerful characters from three years back. They?ll be lucky if they have the strength to lift a sword. -An introduction system. Want to play that shady, nameless assassin? No problem. -Tons of pets which obey your orders. Don?t you wish your dog always did this? -An amazing note system that distinguishes between in-character and out-of-character notes. Send a note to anyone you want, and all in-character roleplaying notes are graded every week. The winner gets experience rewards as well as renames for their items! Personalize your character with your amazing writing skills! -Fully automated organizations. Join the Empire. Get a stylish uniform, complete with insignia and lead your troops into battle! Earn promotions based on your strength in combat and go forth to lay waste to elven lands! -Bug Tracking System/Idea Tracking System. A separate note system to share with immortals any bugs you find, or ideas you have to make the MUD even better! -Extensive Original Areas. All areas in Abandoned Reality comform to the world of Ellandor. No smurfs, mud schools, or elementary school classrooms :P Creative writers have worked hard to provide areas you can actually see yourself in, with plenty of quests to interact with and solve. Our OLC is elite, allowing your to actually INTERACT with the areas! -Property Auctions. Want your own house/castle to come home to? With your own mobs and chests to keep your goodies in? You know you do! -SOOOO MUCH MORE! Auctions, bank storage boxes, special races to apply for, different languages to learn, rare equipment, hidden skills/spells, drunk speech, ships, an overworld map, a faith system for gods, EXTENSIVE help files, bounties, helpful admins, friendly players, an OOC complex with lots of fun stuff to do when you?re bored (paintball!), even hallucinogenic drugs! (Muggly dups. Gotta love em) ^[2]

Abandoned Reality is based on a mystical and mythical fantasy background. (The background story is available on their web page. It is highly recommended and will make you understand more of what is going on in their world.) The world is expanding rapidly and will soon include: Nations with governments ruled by players The ability to buy land and invest in different things Intelligent mobs (computer opponents) that react to what you do and where you are from Guilds which you can join to team up with others of equal mind Constant opposition between certain guilds and countries & alot more Come pay us a visit, we believe that you will not be disappointed. One of the Immortal staff is always there to help you out if you should run in to any problems. Try us out, we hope that you will enjoy your stay and that you will keep coming back to join us in our world. Come and escape ordinary life with us, come and Abandon Reality... ^[3]

A triangular war ravages the countryside, as the wood-faring Sylari risk all to keep the evil and sinister L'shar from corrupting their youth. But the blood of both races spills over the land when the vicious Empire of Nok seeks to wipe out all magic in the world of Ellandor. Can the peaceful kingdom of Devenon restore order to a land troubled by arch-mages, demons, and even a few dragons? Still darkness. You are falling, but there is light far below... In a flash of light, you see Ellandor hanging there, being gradually moulded and shaped as if by some immense hand. The stars pop into being on the dark canvas of the night. Ellandor's horizons appear, pointing towards infinity... Abandoned Reality has an entirely original and beautifully detailed world, filled with exciting features that include: Skills increasing use, corpses/pets that save with you, written and spoken languages, spell power-levels, powerful and extensively used internal scripting language, storage boxes, an auction house, property auctions, IC god system, an automated arena system, star signs, cantrips, rewards through exploring, solving quests and voluntary submission of RP logs, required writeup of your character's RP characteristics at higher levels, an idea/bug tracking system, overhead wilderness map, flexible player run organizations, bounties, drunk speech, ships, blackjack, and SO MUCH MORE! Come and experience it today! ^[4]