About The Author
I am a Deep Gnome who left the familiar caverns of home to explore the multiversal tapestry of being. This archive is where I keep the field notes of my travels.
I am also an anthropologist who lives in Vienna and loves early ("classic") MMORPG design. Can't wait to meet you in-game!
About My People
Descended from Gnomes, this curious race emerged after the great cataclysm, having been transformed by something they’d experienced while deep underground.
Where Gnomes are the world’s greatest engineers and researchers, Deep Gnomes are the preeminent meta-scientists and explorers of the worlds beyond. The curiosity of Deep Gnomes is relentless, and they are fearless in venturing where others wouldn’t dare.
While Deep Gnomes make it a point to mingle with other races, they are only interested in doing so if it furthers their research. Unlike their surface cousins, Deep Gnomes do not seek to understand the truths of the universe, but rather those of the multiverse. They became the deep divers of the dreamscapes, explorers of the Astral Planes, and spelunkers of the Spirals, and the more they learned, the more pressing their desire became to return to the surface. (Source: official website)
Playable Classes: Beastmaster, Druid, Enchanter, Elementalist, Necromancer, Rogue, Shaman, Wizard
About My Home
Myths tell of a time when our world was first born, and Eth, the bright mother above, gazed lovingly down upon her creation. Eth’s sister sun grew dark with jealousy and lashed out violently at the young world. Eth immediately banished her sister, Fyr, to the edge of the heavens. But alas, the damage was done. The power of the dark sun’s assault tore deep into the Eth-ur.
Over time the wound healed, but beneath the surface of the world, malignance and corruption remain. The stone and soil are far from alone in harboring the aftermath of the assault. As the very barriers that shield us from nightmarish realities creak and ooze, both on Eth-ur’s surface and deep below. The Deep spans the entirety of Eth-ur. Great plains of darkness, sunless rivers, and bioluminescent seas create a world under our world. It’s inhabitants and their cultures are as varied as those of the surface world, but it is fair to assume that their proximity to the corruption at Eth-ur’s core plays a role in what you’ll encounter.
Legends tell of an underground jungle fed by the radiance of a magical sun, fallen cities that once ruled the surface world, and gods imprisoned in forgotten crypts. But the Deep is not just a home to mysteries to be discovered. Commerce between cities thrives along its dark rivers and entire civilizations live in the lands below. (Source: official website)
The Deep
(Source: official website)