After intensive Development and Testing, we are proud to present our current update for Realms of Arkania. With a myriad of new features, fixes and improvements, along with a complete graphical overhaul of the Buildings and the Town environment, you are most likely to not recognize the game any more, in the most positive way. Give it a try!

• Opening Hours and -Days for Markets
  
• Characternames can be Changed ingame
  
• Fixed Battle Character turns
  
• Partymanager now correctly shows User Images
  
• Battle Opponent Health display
  
• Camera-”Sweep” on Loading a new Town to reduce post-loading jiggle
  
• Gardianum Spell target fixed
  
• Fixed some Tavern texts
  
• The Dead Ship dungeon unlocked
  
• Companion NPCs unlocked
  
• Display of Weapon skill in the inventory
  
• Reduce current VI if losing permanent VI while freezing
  
• Fixed “Markets have identical offers”
  
• Fixed savegame breaking when saving in specific buildings
  
• Fixed Name display of some Market Stalls
  
• Fixed “bare hand” sortiment offer
  
• Fixed Sickle checkbonus
  
• Fixed Be my Friend target aquisition
  
• Introduced Helter Skelter
  
• Fixed Summon Ghost
  
• Added convenience presets for Item moving and looting amount
  
• added more travel events
  
• Fixed Blacksmith accepting multiple weapons
  
• Thinmarsdotter Clanegh quest now correctly triggers Thinmarsdotter Thoss quest
  
• Honest Jorge Clanegh enabled
  
• Egilsdotter Quest + Dialog improved
  
• Windenbek / Nameless Temple improved
  
• Introduced Events in Towns
  
• Included User-contributed Events (thanks to lunatic, Ali Bengali, ugralitan, NeoderWeise)
  
• Fixed a Diceroll bug delivering exaggerated results
  
• Rabalancing Hunting, Water- and Foodconsumption
  
• Battles: Repeat last Action
  
• Battles: Wait in the same Battleround
  
• Battles: Autobattle
  
• Battles: Acceleration Factor for animations
  
• Battles: Opponents can now spawn after the first round, not revealing the full enemy strength right away
  
• Eating of certain herbs
  
• New and improved Graphical effects
  
• Complete overhaul of Buildings and Towns
  
• Hetman Tronde now lives in a real longhouse
  
• Travelmap now has an actual background (before: Black)
  
• Waterreflection autoadaption depending on performance (optional)
  
• Made Town Runin Trigger optional
  
• Introduced “Town borders” triggering a “do you want to leave this town” Dialogue
  
• Unconcious Characters are automatically replaced as leaders
  
• Cameraheight now depends on Leading Character height
  
• More “Backgrounds” for Dialogues
  
• Numerous other smaller Bugfixes

After intensive Development and Testing, we are proud to present our current update for Realms of Arkania. With a myriad of new features, fixes and improvements, along with a complete graphical overhaul of the Buildings and the Town environment, you are most likely to not recognize the game any more, in the most positive way. Give it a try!

• Opening Hours and -Days for Markets
  
• Characternames can be Changed ingame
  
• Fixed Battle Character turns
  
• Partymanager now correctly shows User Images
  
• Battle Opponent Health display
  
• Camera-”Sweep” on Loading a new Town to reduce post-loading jiggle
  
• Gardianum Spell target fixed
  
• Fixed some Tavern texts
  
• The Dead Ship dungeon unlocked
  
• Companion NPCs unlocked
  
• Display of Weapon skill in the inventory
  
• Reduce current VI if losing permanent VI while freezing
  
• Fixed “Markets have identical offers”
  
• Fixed savegame breaking when saving in specific buildings
  
• Fixed Name display of some Market Stalls
  
• Fixed “bare hand” sortiment offer
  
• Fixed Sickle checkbonus
  
• Fixed Be my Friend target aquisition
  
• Introduced Helter Skelter
  
• Fixed Summon Ghost
  
• Added convenience presets for Item moving and looting amount
  
• added more travel events
  
• Fixed Blacksmith accepting multiple weapons
  
• Thinmarsdotter Clanegh quest now correctly triggers Thinmarsdotter Thoss quest
  
• Honest Jorge Clanegh enabled
  
• Egilsdotter Quest + Dialog improved
  
• Windenbek / Nameless Temple improved
  
• Introduced Events in Towns
  
• Included User-contributed Events (thanks to lunatic, Ali Bengali, ugralitan, NeoderWeise)
  
• Fixed a Diceroll bug delivering exaggerated results
  
• Rabalancing Hunting, Water- and Foodconsumption
  
• Battles: Repeat last Action
  
• Battles: Wait in the same Battleround
  
• Battles: Autobattle
  
• Battles: Acceleration Factor for animations
  
• Battles: Opponents can now spawn after the first round, not revealing the full enemy strength right away
  
• Eating of certain herbs
  
• New and improved Graphical effects
  
• Complete overhaul of Buildings and Towns
  
• Hetman Tronde now lives in a real longhouse
  
• Travelmap now has an actual background (before: Black)
  
• Waterreflection autoadaption depending on performance (optional)
  
• Made Town Runin Trigger optional
  
• Introduced “Town borders” triggering a “do you want to leave this town” Dialogue
  
• Unconcious Characters are automatically replaced as leaders
  
• Cameraheight now depends on Leading Character height
  
• More “Backgrounds” for Dialogues
  
• Numerous other smaller Bugfixes

• House-Decals updated
  
• Leaving Buildings makes the party “turn the back to the door”
  
• City-Triggers (Doors, Hetman) now react to “running into them”, therefore hopefully making some spots like the hetman easier to access
  
• Made Armory Credit variable depending on “opening” at the hetman and visit to Jadra (thanks to Fujak Logansson)
  
• Fixed Battlecharacters "falling" at exactly 5 LE, where they should fall below 5 LE only
  
• Black Magicians Ruin collisions improved
  
• Texts not displaying in battle fixed
  
• Attack- and Parry base values are now rounded instead of floored
  
• Broken Weapons sometimes don’t show up at the Blacksmith fixed
  
• New Spells
  • Calm Body (Healing Spell for Camps)
    
  • Eye of Eagle (improve Perception)
    
  • Penetrizzel (improve Minimap uncovering distance in Dungeons)
    
  • Be my Friend effect (works now)
    
  • Evil Eye effect (just rechecked)
    
  • Paralyze effect fixed
    
  • Witch’s Spit effect (chance to heal Sickness and Poison)
    
  • Skelettarius (summon Skeleton)
    
  • Summon Spirits (summon ghost)
    
  • Master of Animals (Be my Friend for Animals only)
    
  • Meek you be (Calm animal)
    
  • Odem Arcanum (show all unidentified magic items of the party)
    
  • Analys (Identify a single magical item)
• Rats bite effect fixed in Dragon Cave
  
• Fixed House of Captains in Daspota can be opened unlimited times
  
• Fixed Daspota Hook Hugo won’t start a battle
  
• Fixed Arena Grids
  
• made the "Secret Forest path" between Skelellen and Peilinby actually "secret" and position according events there
  
• included more Travel-Hunting-Events
  
• Included Mountain Pass events
  
• Fixed Old Bailey lower levels
  
• Partly reworked temple flags
  
• Fixed Wolfcave climbing (carefull, it can be quite deadly now)
  
• Fixed "dying" too fast
  
• Fixed State and Staff Enchantment getting lost on losing the weapon in battle
  
• Fixed Dullskull infection always hitting whole party despite of successful checks
  
• Fixed Black Magicians ruin crashing through the floor in Level 1
  
• Fixed several texting bugs
  
• Introduced Whetstone usage
  
• Improved Flyovers on items
  
• Made special states of items (magical, broken) visible in inventory
  
• Fixed buggy loot after fighting Gorah
  
• Fixed early arrival on Ship Journeys "before the red Line arrived in the harbor"

• House-Decals updated
  
• Leaving Buildings makes the party “turn the back to the door”
  
• City-Triggers (Doors, Hetman) now react to “running into them”, therefore hopefully making some spots like the hetman easier to access
  
• Made Armory Credit variable depending on “opening” at the hetman and visit to Jadra (thanks to Fujak Logansson)
  
• Fixed Battlecharacters "falling" at exactly 5 LE, where they should fall below 5 LE only
  
• Black Magicians Ruin collisions improved
  
• Texts not displaying in battle fixed
  
• Attack- and Parry base values are now rounded instead of floored
  
• Broken Weapons sometimes don’t show up at the Blacksmith fixed
  
• New Spells
  • Calm Body (Healing Spell for Camps)
    
  • Eye of Eagle (improve Perception)
    
  • Penetrizzel (improve Minimap uncovering distance in Dungeons)
    
  • Be my Friend effect (works now)
    
  • Evil Eye effect (just rechecked)
    
  • Paralyze effect fixed
    
  • Witch’s Spit effect (chance to heal Sickness and Poison)
    
  • Skelettarius (summon Skeleton)
    
  • Summon Spirits (summon ghost)
    
  • Master of Animals (Be my Friend for Animals only)
    
  • Meek you be (Calm animal)
    
  • Odem Arcanum (show all unidentified magic items of the party)
    
  • Analys (Identify a single magical item)
• Rats bite effect fixed in Dragon Cave
  
• Fixed House of Captains in Daspota can be opened unlimited times
  
• Fixed Daspota Hook Hugo won’t start a battle
  
• Fixed Arena Grids
  
• made the "Secret Forest path" between Skelellen and Peilinby actually "secret" and position according events there
  
• included more Travel-Hunting-Events
  
• Included Mountain Pass events
  
• Fixed Old Bailey lower levels
  
• Partly reworked temple flags
  
• Fixed Wolfcave climbing (carefull, it can be quite deadly now)
  
• Fixed "dying" too fast
  
• Fixed State and Staff Enchantment getting lost on losing the weapon in battle
  
• Fixed Dullskull infection always hitting whole party despite of successful checks
  
• Fixed Black Magicians ruin crashing through the floor in Level 1
  
• Fixed several texting bugs
  
• Introduced Whetstone usage
  
• Improved Flyovers on items
  
• Made special states of items (magical, broken) visible in inventory
  
• Fixed buggy loot after fighting Gorah
  
• Fixed early arrival on Ship Journeys "before the red Line arrived in the harbor"

• Battlearenas completely redone, for more compact battles
  
• Special Locations for specific fights (Gorah, Spidercave, Ship of the dead, Temple of the nameless god, Daspota Treasure Cave)
  
• Quest for Old Bailey lower levels added
  
• New Scene for Blacksmith (making him “visible”)
  
• New Scene and Handling for “simple House”
  
• Skillcheck Logging improved
  
• Introduced Scene for Boar Hunting
  
• Daspota Dialogs can be restarted until a fight was provoked
  
• Introduced Scene for Brothel
  
• “Tabbing out” of Fullscreen automatically switches to window mode to enable getting back into the game
  
• Added Building Decals (work in progress)
  
• Removed Body Control check to avoid damage
  
• Fight Target choice now possible via field, not only via Character
  
• Fastness of Body nerfed (max level reduced, no casting outside of Battle)
  
• Introduced “Spell failed, try again?” for Spells outside of combat, e.g. Light in the Darkness
  
• Dullskull infection fixed and reduced to 24 hour “incubation” time
  
• Paralysis fixed
  
• Permanent wonders are only possible once per character (instead of “as long as godgrace and money last”)
  
• Fixed Staff Enchantment removed when losing the staff in battle
  
• Fixed Swafnildsson-Quest, he now is correctly at home even without the letter of recommendation by Sevenstone, but asks for it in order to give the piece of the map he possesses
  
• Characters now drink on their own if there is something to drink available (careful, alcohol is liquid as well)
  
• Message “<charactername> drank his/her last bit” now appears correctly
  
• Fixed some texting bugs
  
• Added Golden Shield to Temple of the Nameless loot (only if not entered so far)
  
• Temple of the Nameless rescue from the hole only possible once
  
• Temple of the Nameless Blocking Stone Door fixed after loading
  
• Run-Footsteps only triggered on forward running (as there is no backward running)
  
• Assignment and Exchaning of Ring and Arm Slots fixed
  
• "Strange appartus" in Abandoned Hostel Dungeon fixed
  
• Direct Entering of Numbers at the Marketplace fixed
  
• "Identical Sortiment" bug in Marketplaces fixed
  
• Old Bailey Phex Altar can be sacked after first time saying no

• Battlearenas completely redone, for more compact battles
  
• Special Locations for specific fights (Gorah, Spidercave, Ship of the dead, Temple of the nameless god, Daspota Treasure Cave)
  
• Quest for Old Bailey lower levels added
  
• New Scene for Blacksmith (making him “visible”)
  
• New Scene and Handling for “simple House”
  
• Skillcheck Logging improved
  
• Introduced Scene for Boar Hunting
  
• Daspota Dialogs can be restarted until a fight was provoked
  
• Introduced Scene for Brothel
  
• “Tabbing out” of Fullscreen automatically switches to window mode to enable getting back into the game
  
• Added Building Decals (work in progress)
  
• Removed Body Control check to avoid damage
  
• Fight Target choice now possible via field, not only via Character
  
• Fastness of Body nerfed (max level reduced, no casting outside of Battle)
  
• Introduced “Spell failed, try again?” for Spells outside of combat, e.g. Light in the Darkness
  
• Dullskull infection fixed and reduced to 24 hour “incubation” time
  
• Paralysis fixed
  
• Permanent wonders are only possible once per character (instead of “as long as godgrace and money last”)
  
• Fixed Staff Enchantment removed when losing the staff in battle
  
• Fixed Swafnildsson-Quest, he now is correctly at home even without the letter of recommendation by Sevenstone, but asks for it in order to give the piece of the map he possesses
  
• Characters now drink on their own if there is something to drink available (careful, alcohol is liquid as well)
  
• Message “<charactername> drank his/her last bit” now appears correctly
  
• Fixed some texting bugs
  
• Added Golden Shield to Temple of the Nameless loot (only if not entered so far)
  
• Temple of the Nameless rescue from the hole only possible once
  
• Temple of the Nameless Blocking Stone Door fixed after loading
  
• Run-Footsteps only triggered on forward running (as there is no backward running)
  
• Assignment and Exchaning of Ring and Arm Slots fixed
  
• "Strange appartus" in Abandoned Hostel Dungeon fixed
  
• Direct Entering of Numbers at the Marketplace fixed
  
• "Identical Sortiment" bug in Marketplaces fixed
  
• Old Bailey Phex Altar can be sacked after first time saying no

• Introduced sleeping bag
  
• Introduced graphical effects (Antialiasing, SSAO, DoF) that can be (de)activated separately in the settings
  
• Made finding herbs harder in Winter
  
• Freezing damage only in Winter
  
• Wintercoats now available at Chandlers (formerly only at Arms Merchant, as they are classified as “Armor”)
  
• Hetman Dialogue improved (more to come)
  
• Keyboard control for the battle camera (remembers tilt and zoom)
  
• Herbsearch now chooses from correct set depending on location (formerly the “by a river” set was taken regardless of location)
  
• Freezing only does permanent damage after 48 hours untreated, not right away after sleeping
  
• Permanent damage to LE capped at 15

• Introduced sleeping bag
  
• Introduced graphical effects (Antialiasing, SSAO, DoF) that can be (de)activated separately in the settings
  
• Made finding herbs harder in Winter
  
• Freezing damage only in Winter
  
• Wintercoats now available at Chandlers (formerly only at Arms Merchant, as they are classified as “Armor”)
  
• Hetman Dialogue improved (more to come)
  
• Keyboard control for the battle camera (remembers tilt and zoom)
  
• Herbsearch now chooses from correct set depending on location (formerly the “by a river” set was taken regardless of location)
  
• Freezing only does permanent damage after 48 hours untreated, not right away after sleeping
  
• Permanent damage to LE capped at 15

• Sicknesses

• Healing Talents
  
  • Poison
    
  • Wounds
    
  • Sickness
• Brendhil: Changed Hostel to Tavern+Hostel
  
• Battlearena 01 fixed
  
• Fixed Abandoned Hostel triggers everywhere
  
• Fixed: Items are not removed (Alchemy, Quests)
  
• Adapted Regeneration while Sleeping
  
• Temple Collection shows group wealth
  
• Fixed Characterstate “dying” (now correctly deducts 1 Damage every 15 Minutes until Character is actually dead)
  
• Removed "overdamage" on Ignifaxius with spell failure
  
• Ignifaxius now correctly is held off by armor
  
• Adapted several item values
  
• Heshthot immune to mundane weapons
  
• Altar(battle) Spidercave can only be started once
  
• “Wait”-Command fixed for magical characters with <= 2AE
  
• Fixed Fulminictus Damage calculation

• Sicknesses

• Healing Talents
  
  • Poison
    
  • Wounds
    
  • Sickness
• Brendhil: Changed Hostel to Tavern+Hostel
  
• Battlearena 01 fixed
  
• Fixed Abandoned Hostel triggers everywhere
  
• Fixed: Items are not removed (Alchemy, Quests)
  
• Adapted Regeneration while Sleeping
  
• Temple Collection shows group wealth
  
• Fixed Characterstate “dying” (now correctly deducts 1 Damage every 15 Minutes until Character is actually dead)
  
• Removed "overdamage" on Ignifaxius with spell failure
  
• Ignifaxius now correctly is held off by armor
  
• Adapted several item values
  
• Heshthot immune to mundane weapons
  
• Altar(battle) Spidercave can only be started once
  
• “Wait”-Command fixed for magical characters with <= 2AE
  
• Fixed Fulminictus Damage calculation