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'''''Asheron's Call''''' is a [[Cult Classic]] fantasy [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] by the small but respected development house Turbine, who is also responsible for ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' and ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]''.
It revolves on an island in an alternate universe called Auberean, [[After the End|after the world is destroyed]]. The titular Asheron, while researching dimensional portal magic, accidentally let loose the Olthoi, a race of [[Hive Mind|insect]] monsters that very, very quickly took over his world. The entire game of ''Asheron's Call'' takes place on a small island called by the original people, Ireth Lassel, and is the site where Asheron's research took place. Before the start of the game, the portal experiment, which had ran wild after opening the portal to the Olthoi homeworld, opened random portals to a world with 3 (later 4) human races, Ispar. The Isparians come through and are quickly enslaved or killed by the Olthoi, but a later rebellion allows them to overthrow the Olthoi and, in killing the Olthoi Hive Queen, free the land, which they rename Dereth, for colonization.
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* [[The Caligula]]: One of the later villains turns out to be the rich son of the former king, who intentionally screwed up Asheron's portal experiments in an attempt to get him killed. [[Complete Monster|This resulted in the deaths of 95% of the population, the only ones surviving being the ones Asheron managed to trap in stasis between dimensions.]] He's not amused that Asheron managed to survive and that the majority of "his" subjects are trapped in stasis.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: By [[Word of God]], some or all of lore and future history told in ''Asheron's Call'' 2 might not be canon anymore.
* [[Cast
* [[Character Level]]: Interestingly, it's almost entirely cosmetic, due to the [[Point Buy System]]. Level only affects the ability to enter certain areas, use certain items, and turn in certain quests.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ulgrim the Unpleasant. Notorious drunken sage, self-proclaimed best mage of Dereth and maybe every bit as good as he says. At one time he managed to split himself into ten different selves by miscasting with an splintered wand.
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* [[Enemy Civil War]]: The Virindi, of all people, had one.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Tuskers. Big, stupid... save for Oolutanga.
* [[Everything
* [[Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods]]: [[Flying Seafood Special|Levitating]], spell-casting Nautiloids, to be precise. They're called Nifflis.
* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: Undeads love cold. It is good for their rotting bodies.
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* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: And how! There are ''no'' typical monsters in Dereth. 3 eyed ogres, giant cat... bunny... things... hordes of rabid guinea pigs... Giant monkeys with 1' long feet and 12' long arms... 2' tall flightless dragons... three-legged land sharks... The only thing that is remotely normal is the Undead.
** Averted with a very small number of individual monsters. The elementals are fantasy stock (except the ones that mix 2 elements together). Most of the mice, chickens, cows and rabbits could pass for normal in real life.
* [[Perpetually Static]]: While the developers often come with plausible explanations for this, N.P.C.s have moved, died and even whole cities have dissappeared. Then there was the incident during the first year's arc (the Fourth Sending of Darkness) where the players were charged with defending the last [[Crystal Prison]] keeping the [[Big Bad]] in check. On the other hand, great rewards were offered to those who destroyed the crystal and set him free (players were required to go PVP to participate). In most servers a half-hearted defense was mounted and the crystal was quickly destroyed, but in one, Thistledown, they were able to mount a round-the-clock vigilant defense. Unfortunately the developers had expected the crystal to be destroyed for plot purposes, and thus were forced to intervene (in game, with overpowered [[GMPC]] characters) to keep all of the servers on the same page. Read the whole story [https://web.archive.org/web/20150131154641/http://www.ethblue.com/acpaper/page2.htm here] and [http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-most-elaborate-dick-moves-in-online-gaming-history_p2/ here].
* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]: Candeth Martine was altered by the Virindi. They regretted it.
* [[Point Buy System]]: The first major MMORPG to use this style of system. There are no classes, merely you are given a set number of skill points to take your skills from untrained to trained to specialized, and then must allocate experience points directly to them.
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