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Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

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Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

oh yeah some tags:
#aetolia
#textrp
#ffxivrp
#furryrp
#darkfantasy

Also you can follow the game: @aetoliandevs.bsky.social

November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

Anyway my ref link is
www.aetolia.com?eid=aet52458...
if you want to come check it out!

Want to learn more?
You can check out the website at https://www.aetolia.com
It has lots of information on the setting, but you can also learn it all by jumping in and playing the game!
Feel free to reach out and DM me with questions!
I am happy to explain the various races!
Are you a furry?
We have Cat People, Dog People, Fox People, Cow People, Bat People, Bug People, Fish People, Lizard People, Frog People and MORE! All playable!
If you want to use my reference link, you can sign up using
https://www.aetolia.com/?eid=aet52458496
About AI:
The game went through a phase when they were cool with AI, but are moving away from it as a whole. You'll still find it in some places (like the current art pieces on the website that will hopefully be replaced soon), but those are an artifact of what once was! The player base is generally anti-AI, and very vocal about it! If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask.

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

On the Right: Concept art for Ishgard

But isn't that...?
-A Theocracy in the far north
-Dragons. Dragons Everywhere.
-Filled to the brim with magic nerds and engineers
-Think they're better than everyone else
-Mistrustful of Outsiders
-May or may not be planning to kill a Dragon
-Surrounded by mountains and snowy tundra

That's not Ishgard, that's Spinesreach!
-A theocracy with a twist: they are looking for their prophesied god to lead them, the Ard-Dhasani
-Everyone is trying to become a god so they can try to become Ard-Dhasani
-Only city that raised one citizen to godhood
-Their patron is the Dragon Goddess of Pride and most of them plan to kill her
-Full of Archivists (number-mages), Alchemists, Sciomancers (Shadow Mages), and the Syssin, which is the big spy guild!
-A very welcoming and newbie-friendly playerbase
-Only city where government positions are done by Divine Appointment rather than voting (because Theocracy)
-Come here if you want to be a HUGE FUCKING NERD (it's literally the nerd city in the nerd text game)
-Come here if you want to live out your JRPG fantasy of killing god
-Come here if you want to be a cool shadow-spy
-Come here if you want to be a mad scientist
-Come here if you want to argue about lore esoterica until 2 am
-Come here if you wish FFXIV gave you more lore on the Amaurotines and gave them internal power struggles (looks directly at the Ankyreans)

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

Is That...?
-A coastal city with a strict hierarchy
-Secluded from the rest of the world, only allows access to their market districts to outsiders
-A dedicated group of soldiers that police the streets for signs of corruption
-A rich tradition of art and culture that everyone wants a piece of

On the right is a promotional art piece for Kugane

That's not Kugane, that's Enorian!
-Southern city of religious extremists that worship the Light and the God of Fire and the Goddess of the Sea
-Seek to eradicate shadow and corruption and the vampiric taint
-NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CHRISTIANITY, VERY DIFFERENT
-Only city in the game to canonically have an orgy
-They have a boat!!!
-Some of the best PKers in the game holy shit these guys have been playing for 1000 years and they will help you.
-I was actually torn between Kugane and Limsa for this one.
-Come here if you want to be a 'good guy' paladin archetype
-Come here if you want to be a hot sailor archetype
-Come here if you have a crush on Llymlaen
-Come here if you want Lovecraftian horror from the depths of the sea
-Come here if you want to become Teal'c from fantasy!Stargate SG-1 and have a light-symbiote take over your body
-Come here if you want to do the WH40K HERESY thing.

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

On the right is a screen shot of Gridania Concept Art.

What about...?
- A forest commune full of people who live in tune with nature
- Their rulers listen to nature spirits to make all their decisions
- Have exterminated whole villages because Nature told them to
- Their guards are a bunch of spear-wielders/archers
- Everything surrounds a Giant Tree

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

Could it be...?

- A city in the far south
- Full of wealth and opulence but also terrible class disparity
- Built on the bones of a previous civilization
- Blood sport isn't a secret, it's a feature
- Lots of necromancers and blood mages

On the Right is a screenshot from the Heavensward Trailer of Nanamo holding the goblet witht he caption "pictured: shit that kept me up at night"

That's not Ul'dah, that's Bloodloch!
-A city at the southern edge of the Mhojave desert
-Fucking infested with Vampires (Do you want to be a vampire? You can be a vampire.)
- Watched over by Abhorash, the god of Tyranny, but has the Goddess of Corruption, the God of Strife, and the God of Shadow on tap!
- Trying to build an empire to take over the world!
- Built in a Volcano!
- Blood, Sex, and Rock 'n' Roll. Literally.
- Come here if you want to be a decadent vampire and lord over humans enslaved to feed your appetites
- Come here if you want to play a necromancer and throw tarot cards at people
- Come here if you want to be a blood mage and do a body horror
- Come here if you want to be in a city where "Might makes Right"
- Come here if you want to be the thing that keeps me up at night

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Amandaterasu

@amandaterasu.bsky.social

What is Aetolia?
- A MUD (all-text MMO, basically)
- Free-to-play, but does have a premium currency you can collect through daily tasks.
- Dark Fantasy Theme!
- Really good Mod-to-Player Ratio
- It's like a fusion between an MMO and a D&D game
- Literally you can have an active role in the world, even run cities
- Don't need a top of the line PC to run it
- Some players use a tablet or phone but most do use PC

To the left is a screenshot of gameplay which is just many lines of text.

Note: This game also has screenreader support, if you are interested!

As if that wasn't enough~

-Four Player-Run cities, each built around a different theme
-Twelve Player-run guilds
-Twelve Gods for you to follow that are played by mods
-Lots of world events for you to participate in
-19 player classes and one character can play all of them
-24 player races, and you can unlock more advanced race options as you level up!

To the left is a picture of a shop's wares with gold prices. The caption below says "And I haven't touched on the custom designing/crafting system or the player economy...

Oh, you want more?
- An active discord with a super supportive playerbase
- Communicative mods that actually listen to player feedback
- A policy that actively supports add-ons/codes/systems and encourages you to automate tasks so you can focus on RP!
- No limits, uninstanced player housing. Build your house and have it on the map.

To the right is a screenshot of the in-game grid map with a section circled in red and captioned "pictured: my house"

Now, I don't have time to go over all the character options, and most of my followers are FFXIV players, so instead I'll take a little time to go over the four cities (basically your teams in world PVP) and equate them to cities in XIV.

I hope you're ready!

November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM