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ATLAS is the ultimate survival MMO of unprecedented scale with 40,000+ simultaneous players in the same world. Join an endless adventure of piracy & sailing, exploration & combat, roleplaying & progression, settlement & civilization-building, in one of the largest game worlds ever! Explore, Build, Conquer!
- MMO On the Grandest Scale | Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don’t wish to play any PVP.
- Construct Your Ship & Captain Your Crew | Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo.
Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship.
- Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be | Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree.
- Instense Action | Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives.
- Endless Adventures & Creatures Great and Small! | Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals — while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there’s always something new to find out over the horizon.
More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend.
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From the creators of ARK: Survival Evolved comes ATLAS — a massively multiplayer first-and-third-person fantasy pirate adventure. ATLAS will host up to 40,000 players exploring the same Globe simultaneously, with an unprecedented scale of cooperation and conflict! Stake your claim in this endless open world as you conquer territory, construct ships, search for buried treasure, assemble forts, plunder settlements and hire crew to join your powerful growing armada.
Start small then expand your spheres of influence from a small island, up to an unstoppable pirate empire that spans across the oceans. Wage battle against enemy fleets as you singlehandedly command large ships of war using the captaining system (or divide up to the responsibilities among your trusted lieutenants), or take control of any weapon directly with your own character. Dive deep into the briny water to explore permanent sunken wrecks and recover salvage, unearth the loot from procedurally-generated Treasure Maps and challenge zones, or complete challenging main questlines. Team up with other aspiring adventurers and sail into the vast ocean to discover new lands rich with region-specific elements, tame exotic natural and mythical creatures, raid forgotten tombs, confront powerful ancient gods and even build and administer your own colonies, cities, and civilizations to dominate the ATLAS in this ultimate quest for fortune and glory!
MMO On the Grandest Scale
Physically sail in real-time across the vast oceans with the proprietary server network technology.
Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separate PvE ATLAS for players who don’t wish to play any PVP.
Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank!
Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Name your ship in big bold letters, paint and copy your own pirate flag and custom-place all the pieces of your ship — which sails and where, planks and gunports, every single structure piece has a physical Weight and Material — to function exactly how you want.
Captain your Crew!
Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship.
Your crew are versatile! Whether on land, or ship, or even riding behind your animal companions on emplacements, they can man weapons of all kinds— cannons, swivel guns, siege engines, turrets, and even gigantic mortars, many with dynamically swappable ammo types including grapeshot, chainshot, spikeshot, liquid fire, and more! Instruct them to board enemy ships and help you conquer the seas! Keep their stomachs full and their pockets full of gold lest you want a mutiny in your hands! Take on the Captain’s Wheel or divide up the command responsibilities via Lieutenant Podiums to direct the Ship’s assignable weapon systems, sails, and stations, including standing-orders or manual grouped fire. Or, walk up to any station and take control of it yourself!
Pirate PVP to the Limit
Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. A ship’s permanent logbook tells the tale of their legendary travel, exploits and ownership.
Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be
MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New Feat system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded!
This is Who You Are
Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. You can even per-pixel design your own permanent tattoos (and then draw warpaint on top of that too!). If someone exists in the real world, they should be creatable in ATLAS! Best-in-class dynamic hair growth and real-time aging systems allow you to get old and… pass on your legacy? (Or find a fountain of youth!).
Endless Adventure
Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals — while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there’s always something new to find out over the horizon.
Intense Action
Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more — just be sure to keep your powder dry!
Claim What’s Yours
Form a company, claim territory and apply taxation and behavior rules to that which you own: be a benevolent governor, a feudal lord, or a ruthless dictator. Territory ownership is visualized on your dynamic zoomable World Map, with Fog of War obscuring uncharted regions and Shroud of War hiding enemy territories out of sight range.
Contest other government’s ownership of land, structures, or ships to expand your empire! The top large-scale Spheres of Influence on the Official ATLAS’ are visualized in real-time on the PlayATLAS homepage. Design your own custom flag per-pixel to apply to your claims, to be famous (or infamous)!
Creatures Great and Small
More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah’s Ark to trade in exotic locales.
Freeports to Meet & Greet
Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown.
Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods!
Build Your Empire
Overhauled building systems include automatic foundational elevation adjustment, dynamic tile type swapping, improved snap detection & previewing, integrated plumbing systems, per-pixel-paintable everything, beast-of-burden harness attachments for field-gun and carriages, and much more! Survival systems newly include, among other aspects, Vitamins benefits and deficiencies, with recipe & cooking skills and varying ingredient qualities.
Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities
Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about a Tank? An Aircraft Carrier to play out the Battle of Midway on an expansive scale? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen, all supported by the database-driven network technology that powers ATLAS.
Unofficial ATLAS’ can be of any size and configuration, while a visual map tool lets server hosts layout their own complete custom world of islands, continents, terrain features, spawns, resources, hazards, underwater zones, dynamic weather, biome configurations, ecology, and an infinite number of other configurable features — all dynamically streamed to the client during gameplay. The possibilities are endless!
Far, Far More
Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. This brief sampling is just the tip of the iceberg (though be sure to watch out for those in the polar regions, as they’re extremely dangerous to ship hulls!!).
A Brief History of ATLAS
Long-ago, far above the watery world of ATLAS there once existed a magic-powered “Golden Age”— where great Empires of the Sky lived at peace alongside magical creatures, flourishing upon floating continents above the clouds, all powered by a magical source of energy known as the Heart of the Goddess, granted by the powerful beings who dwell in the stars beyond.
However, a powerful warlord known as Xevos sought to unite the human civilizations over the magickind, and launched a war that broke the Heart into pieces, unleashing a wave of destruction that shattered the floating landmasses and plunged them into the waters below.
Many generations later, as living memory of the “Sundering” has faded into legend and the once-plentiful magical energy has long since dissipated, descendants of the protectors of the Heart of the Goddess — known as “Pathfinders” — emerge from their provincial oceanic lives to explore the new continents and islands, and seek out the power they may yet contain. Across the vast new world they’ll encounter hostile creatures, technological remnants of the Golden Age past, and ultimately the undying spirit of Xevos himself and his soulless “Army of the Damned”, still intent on recovering the pieces of the Heart of the Goddess to raise the continents once again under his vision.
If the latest generation of Pathfinders can outwit and outgun Xevos and his legions, and recover the Heart pieces for themselves, they will be faced with the very same choice: whether to attempt to restore the old world, or build a new better one…
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Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day items have been added to Atlas
Atlas’ Early Access game is under development and Grapeshot Games has released the first update of the year to add themed items
January 12 at 18:59
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Atlas has new official PvP servers
The Atlas sandbox received a new update that fixed a number of issues, added several new quality of life changes and four new official PVP servers
December 20, 2022
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The next Atlas wipe is scheduled for the end of September. The new season is just around the corner
Atlas will start a new season soon, which means that soon all game servers will be reset. But before that, the traditional Kraken Bowl 9 game will take place.0003
September 10, 2022
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Atlas received a major update with a new region
The pirate sandbox Atlas received a major update that adds a new Tame Hatchery building, a new region, several improvements and a number of fixes to the game
8 July 2022
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Tomorrow 9 starts at Atlasseason 9 that will add a ton of content to the game
After a week delay, tomorrow Atlas will receive a new update that will start season 9 with a clean slate.
The new patch includes the opening of the ruins of the Golden Age, as well as seven new difficult bosses
May 24, 2022
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Atlas now features a turtle ship and wall-crawling spiders
Grapeshot Games, who have been working on Atlas’ Early Access multiplayer project for two years and eight full months, recently released patch 528.11 with new content.
August 31, 2021
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Atlas — «Tradewinds» update will be accompanied by a progress reset
Developers from Grapeshot Games studio continue to improve their Atlas multiplayer project, which has been in early access for more than two years and will receive a major «Tradewinds» update in a few days.
April 27, 2021
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Atlas — With the «Maelstrom» update, the world map was redesigned
The developers of the Atlas multiplayer project announced the release of a major update called «Maelstrom», which marked the beginning of the fourth season and at the same time reworked the maps of the islands of the fantasy world.
July 6, 2020
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Atlas — Crossplay between Steam and Xbox One
Thanks to the “Game Preview” program, owners of the Xbox One console can now get a taste of the pirate life, and with it, cross-platform support will be available, which will ensure interaction with the Steam version of the game.
September 27, 2019
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Recently, the team at Grapeshot Games decided to share their plans for the future development of Atla. One of the users of our portal has prepared a complete translation containing details about all upcoming changes.
September 9, 2019
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Atlas — The «Blackwood» map is now at your service
Grapeshot Games, the developer of the Atlas multiplayer project, recently announced the release of a major content update called «Blackwood».
August 1, 2019
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Overview: Atlas — Blackwood update and single player mode
The developers have already decided to share some details about the innovations awaiting the brave pirates. A small overview has appeared on our portal, in which you can find more detailed information about the upcoming changes.
June 22, 2019
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Atlas — Ice Dungeon and Five New Islands in Mega Update 2
Over the weekend, Grapeshot Games released Mega Update 2 on Atlas live servers. It opens the doors to a new Polar Ice Dungeon with a grumpy Snowman waiting deep within its cold walls.
June 4, 2019
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Stream: Go Hard — Discussing the most interesting news
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time to chat a little and discuss the most interesting news and events in the gaming industry over the past week.
April 14, 2019
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Atlas — Mega-update 1.5 is already on the main servers
The Atlas multiplayer project has moved to a new stage of development — Grapeshot Games studio has installed the long-awaited Mega-update 1.5 on the main servers of the game.
April 13, 2019
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Podcast: GoHa talks about Atlas
One of those who decided to settle in the fantasy world of the game was Egor, better known as GoHa. He really liked this project, so we decided to make a small podcast and find out why the pirate life is so attractive.
March 22, 2019
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Overview: Atlas — Cap log issue 24
The next issue of the «Captain’s Journal» on MMO-survival Atlas from Markel is already on our portal. This time we will talk about changes to PvP networks, PvE mode, and the Kraken Cup, as well as the upcoming release of ATLAS 1.
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March 20, 2019
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Review: Atlas — Cap log issue 23
The next issue of the «Captain’s Journal» on the pirated MMO-survival Atlas by Markel is already on our portal. This time we will talk about the March mega-patch, the change in PvE and PvP stigmas.
March 12, 2019
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The Time Lord Atlas is coming to Paladins soon
On a recent broadcast, Evil Mojo Games lifted the veil of secrets and told players about the upcoming update for Paladins. A new tank will rise to defend the champions — the time-ruling Atlas
February 23, 2019
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Atlas — Development plans for the game
The team decided to rework some elements of the gameplay in order to give «loners», as well as those who do not have too much time for adventure, the opportunity to find their place in this fantasy world.
January 31, 2019
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Atlas — Hacker Attacks Continue
The Atlas multiplayer project was recently attacked by hackers. And so, the situation repeated itself, but this time the hackers surpassed their past achievements.
January 21, 2019
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Atlas — «Apocalypse Now»
Atlas — a pirate MMO, it seems that the gods have obviously angered something. According to the news received today, no more than yesterday, the attackers were able to gain access to the administrator account and the developer console and plunged the PVP servers of the North American region into chaos.
January 18, 2019
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Atlas — Creator’s tools will be available to everyone
New piece of news from Grapeshot Games, creators of the already very famous survival-MMO Atlas.
On January 19, exactly at midnight in Moscow, the stream with the developers should begin. Also on January 17-18, Grapeshot Games will share the promised devkit with users.
January 17, 2019
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Stream: Atlas — The Beginning of the Free Life
Garro and the adorable Kerayra have assembled their team of pirate-inspired pioneers and are ready to embark on an adventure, and we invite everyone to join us on this epic journey.
January 15, 2019
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Video: MMORPG — What to play in 2019
2019 has just begun and promises to be a busy year in terms of releases, so we invite you together to figure out which of the upcoming projects deserve close attention. And I would like to start with such a game genre as MMORPG.
January 12, 2019
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MMO Atlas Game Guide & Walkthrough
Table of Contents
Start small, then expand your reach.
From a small island to a pirate empire that stretches across the oceans. Fight enemy fleets. You alone command large warships.
Recent entries:
ATLAS manuals:
Water How to find?
Secrets and tricks in the early stages of the game
Cheats Full list and console commands
Server How to choose the right one?
Pirate tactics
Ship building
Vitamins Manual
Home server How to find, on which one?
How to change home servers
Navigation and landmarks and degrees. How to control the ship
Leveling up the hero — how to quickly get levels
Use the captain system (or distribute duties among your trusted lieutenants). Or take control of any weapon directly with your own character.
Dive deep into the salt water to search for sunken ships. Find loot from procedurally generated Treasure Maps and Challenge Zones. Or complete complex main storylines.
Team up with other budding adventurers. Embark on an endless ocean to discover new lands.
They are rich in elements characteristic of the region.
Tame exotic natural and mythical creatures. Raid forgotten tombs. Give a challenge to the powerful ancient gods. Create and manage your own colonies, cities and civilizations. Dominate ATLAS in Search good luck and fame !
MMO on a grand scale
You actually sail in real time across vast oceans using proprietary server network technology. The explorers will embark on a journey through more than 700 unique lands covering 45,000 square kilometers. With thousands of discovery zones and ten different regions of the world, each with its own:
- unique resources
- creatures
- secrets
- danger!
There is a separate PvE ATLAS for players who don’t want to play PVP.
Build the ship of your dreams!
Build dry docks and start with:
- rowboat
- simple raft
- tiny sloop
- agile schooner
Build your own custom titanium galleon.
It is capable of carrying hundreds of crew members and a large load. Name your ship in big bold letters. Color and save your very own pirate flag. Place all parts of your ship in their place:
- sails the way you want them
- decks
- gun ports
Each structural element has a physical weight and material — everything will work exactly the way you want.
Captain of your team!
- Recruit real players and an AI team from free ports
- Rescue experienced team members from destroyed ships «Army of the Damned»
- Manage various stations on your boat
- Set sail and explore ATLAS with crew members
- Gain experience and upgrade your stats or equipment
- Upgrade your Ship. Your team is universal!
On land, on a ship, or even on the back of their animal companions, they can use any type of weapon:
- cannons
- swivel guns
- siege guns
- turrets
- giant mortars, many with dynamically changeable ammunition Grapeshots, Chain Shot, Spike Shot, Liquid Fire and more!
Instruct them to take down enemy ships and help you conquer the seas! Keep their stomachs full and their pockets filled with gold.
Take the Captain’s Wheel or share command duties.
Direct all ship weapon systems, sails and stations, including standing orders or manual group fire. Or walk up to any station and take it into your own hands!
Unlimited Pirate PVP
Everything is available for capture, including the player’s ships, his crew. Their pets, their forts, their land and their booty. If you want to have everything, just do it. The permanent logbook tells the story of legendary travels, exploits and ownership.
Be a hero or a villain
MMO scale character development system. At launch, include over 15 disciplines with over 300 skills. The new system «Feats» allows you to use the active and passive tethered abilities of the characters.
A new stat buff system allows you to modify countless abstract statistics. And now everything has scalable statistics. Including structures, and can be gradually upgraded!
This is who you are
Extensive character visual customization provides an endless range of realistic (and not so realistic) characters.
With a wide range of sliders, morphs, muscle tones and customizable values.
You can even create your own permanent tattoos on pixel art (and then paint over them too!). If someone exists in the real world, they must be created in ATLAS!
Best-in-class real-time dynamic hair growth and aging systems let you age.
Endless Adventure
Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with additional quests and rewards. Procedural treasure maps and challenge zones ensure there’s always something new to discover over the horizon.
Intense action
Tactical melee systems:
- with blocks,
- parry
- dodges
- character movement
- stunning and power-shifting strikes
- targeted attacks
- and more for use in first or third person perspectives.
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Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers and more give you great options. Weapons with skill-based active reload systems include:
- Flintlock Pistols
- Muskets
- Rest
- and more — just make sure your gunpowder stays dry!
There is no limit to conquest!
Create a company, seize territory and apply the rules of taxation and behavior to what you have:
- be a benevolent governor
- a feudal lord
- a ruthless dictator.
Territory ownership displayed on your dynamic zoomable world map. The fog of war hides uncharted regions. Shroud of War hides enemy territories out of sight.
Contest other nations’ ownership of land, structures, or ships to expand your empire!
Major major spheres of influence on the official ATLAS are displayed in real time on the PlayATLAS home page. Create your own flag to apply to your realm to be famous (or infamous)!
Creatures Great and Small
More than 50 creatures at the start. From farm animals and shoulder parrots and monkeys, to magical mermaids and giant sea monsters.
Creatures can be found in their logical habitats. Use skills and tactics to tame them. Ferry these temperamental creatures across endless oceans to a virtual Noah’s Ark to trade in exotic locations.
Free Meet & Greet Ports
Level Restricted Starting Zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe place before heading into the great unknown.
Where the wind and fate take you beyond, depends on the gods!
Powerful mod and server features
Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully passable interior and cannon stations carrying troops with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about a tank? An aircraft carrier to play out the Battle of Midway on a grand scale? How about a steampunk arcade airship floating in a cloud world?
These examples and many more are provided with the ATLAS Developer Kit, where you can efficiently create any large-scale MMO game you want to see, all backed by ATLAS-enabled network-based database technologies.
Unofficial ATLAS can be of any size and configuration, while the visual map tool allows servers to host their own complete world.
World of islands, continents, terrain, spawning grounds, resources, hazards, underwater zones, dynamic weather, biome configurations, ecology, and an endless number of other customizable features.
All of them are dynamically transferred to the client during the game. The possibilities are endless!
Brief history of ATLAS
Long ago, far above the water world of ATLAS, there was once a magical «Golden Age» — where the great Empires of the Sky lived in peace with magical creatures, flourishing on floating continents above the clouds, and they all fed on a magical source of energy, known as the Heart of the Goddess, bestowed by powerful beings living in the stars beyond.
However, a powerful warlord known as Xevos sought to unify human civilizations through the magical world and started a war that shattered the Heart into pieces, unleashing a wave of destruction that shattered the floating land masses and plunged them into the waters below.
Many generations later, when the living memory of the «Sunders» has faded into legend and the once abundant magical energy has long since dissipated, the descendants of the protectors of the Goddess Heart — known as the «Pathfinders» — emerge from their provincial oceanic lives to explore new continents and islands and look for the strength they can still contain.
