Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning for dummies

When I first heard about Warhammer, soon before I gave up World of Warcraft, I was thrilled. I was desperate to know more, but since Mythic Entertainment (the developer) hasn't really thrown up much information about the game on their webpage, almost all information we've been given has been through interviews of the developers. This is also the reason why I'm writing this, to make it easier for people to know more about this fantastic game, and make sure that as many people as possible will start playing it, without having to spend hours searching the internet. Though, I can't include everything, since I still want this to be a light overview of the game.

I will try to keep this "guide" as "up to date" I can, but if you find some information out there that I haven't added here, [u* please tell me/u! As well, feel free to correct me at any point if you think (or know) that I'm wrong, and I shall gladly correct the misstake (and do my best to cover the fact that I made a misstake up).

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In the world where Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning takes place there are two major factions. Order - which is the "good" side - and Destruction - not very surprisingly, the complete opposite. Order consists of three races: Empire - the humans; High Elves - the... well... elves; and the Dwarves. The Destruction faction is made up of three races, as well (you didn't see that coming, did you?): Chaos - corrupted (a.k.a "bad", a.k.a "physically destorted") humans; Dark Elves - elves... again...; and Greenskins - Orcs and Goblins combined.

In this world, there are three frontiers - the Greenkins fighting the Dwarves, the Empire versus the Chaos and the High Elves versus the Dark Elves. Players will be able to move between the frontiers, even though they start at their race's own frontier. Everything in the world will be based around this on-going war. Almost all quests will be either to fight the enemy yourself, or help the war effort in any other way.

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I could try to write really thought-through aspects of all the races, but I'd rather just write down what Paul Barnett (Design Manager) said in a presentation (both because what he said is so darn good, and the fact that I'm too lazy).

[i* "When we look at the actual races, it's full of joy, because they're all based on clich

Very nice post, I sticky it. By the way, we have a [URL="http://curse-gaming.com/en/war/article-135-1-warhammer-online-age-of-reckoning-faq.html"]Warhammer Online:AoR F.A.Q./URL too.

Lord Byron, not Byrad. I'm happy to correct you.

Ok. I'll be away for a week and a half (I think that something's wrong with the popcorn I just ate... Damn you, Werik!)*, and thus the guide won't be updated on a while. However, I'll return with more detailed descriptions of the races (I think), and other "cool" stuff.

*= internal joke that nobody who don't understand it should take any notice of.

Thanks for all the Warhammer information. It looks interesting!:)