The more I'm away from Istaria, the more I miss it. These past few weeks have been tough because of outside obligations, RAM and RAID controllers going bad, and all sorts of other problems. Seriously,

One thing I've forgotten to mention was the recent tier 2 revamp patch in Istaria. It revitalized the regions around Chiconis, Dalimond, and south toward the sea. It brought back an old "friend", Cran

Istaria is not a static world. The developers see to that. To keep this world alive and vibrant, sometimes changes occur. I'm rather excited to bring to you information about a revamp of an entire CLA

In case you haven't seen on youtube.com some of the different video captures and such about Istaria, I have one to offer you. this was a developer-made advertising movie, to give you a bit of a feel f

Seems that with the most recent patch applied to the live shards, we're getting an increase in population. We're getting new players as well as several returning players back on the shards, Order, Cha

Well, in Istaria, I had to do something quite difficult. I had to decide to merge Obsidian Order in with Strata guild. Both guilds have a long standing and it's good fit. Still, there are some hard th

Well, I've been over to Mercedes' plot in Mithril's Anvil recently here on Order shard. I think the woman has an aversion to buildings. Granted, we've been building on her place to make up for the plo

Today was the Scion's annual holiday ball on Order Shard. Now, mind you, it's a roleplay server. You make your character(s) and you play them to be as lifelike as possible. However, that leaves for a

While many games offer some sort of holiday cheer in their development, Istaria has it's own set of celebrations.   In the winter, there's Gnomekindle. There's also the Festival of Ash for drag

Something I want to specifically mention about Istaria is it's lore. Much has been thought out about how the world came about. Even with the process of the revamped lands, more lore is added to suppor