An anime fantasy MMORPGIn development
Two worlds share one sky.
Begin on the moonlit shores of the Pearl Lake, where the white city of Asumeri floats on its own reflection. Then set out with your friends across five continents, by road and sea, through portals, and one day on wings.
Being built as a native desktop game for Windows, macOS and Linux
Concept art · Asumeri, capital of the moon court
Andral, the old home world, and Amarel, its luminous sister hanging in the sky. Each has its own kingdoms, capitals and peoples.
Every quest, story scene and dungeon is made for a full party, with progress and rewards shared by everyone in it.
Ride on the ground first. Later, flying mounts carry you anywhere outdoors, over open sea and into the capitals themselves.
The world
Andral is the old, settled home world: green heartlands, sun-baked canyons and polar fjords. In its sky hangs Amarel, a vast jade-and-silver disc, younger and luminous, with moon lakes, floating rock, titan trees and the cradle of the dragons.
Amarel · Continent
A broad, luminous land around the inland Moon Sea: a pearl palace on a mirror lake, storms of blossom, lantern-lit deltas, jade water terraces, a spirit forest, silver kite steppe and peaks above a sea of cloud.
PeoplesVelunari moon elves · Lissel fae · the humans of Ilvesta
Begin in MoonlakeAmarel · Continent
A primordial continent cut along its whole length by the Rift: titan trees, coral sky-reefs, iridescent lagoons, a storm prairie of titan herds, a fossil coast, and the Cradle where the dragons were born.
PeoplesBramun plant-folk · Rukara winged bird-folk
Amarel · Islands
Lantern-lit islets and whale-roads strung across the Silver Sea, between Senmara and Valdora.
Andral · Continent
The long home continent down Andral's west: a green northern heartland, autumn woods, golden steppe and blue lakes, blossom riverlands, the red peaks of the Dragonback, and a drained seabed sunk in the far south.
PeoplesHumans · Pennik halflings · Eluvar wood elves · Aldari high elves · Ruvan horned folk · the risen Dorsen
Andral · Continent
The fjord-torn polar crown of the north-east: cobalt fjords, aurora snowfields, hot-spring terraces, copper taiga, a whale-bone ice shelf, a volcanic waste and a spine of glaciers.
PeoplesBrukka orc- and ogre-kin · Kordun dwarves · Sorvani dark elves
Andral · Continent
The sun continent: twilight canals, pink blossom cliffs, a black volcanic reef, savanna and red canyons, a salt mirror, a drowned jungle, amber glass dunes, and lilac mesas floating over its southern sea.
PeoplesNessari vampires · Rinnik beast-kin · Teldrak dragon-blooded
Andral · Islands
A free archipelago of lagoons, sea arches and pirate coves on the sea lane between Talmaren and Orvessa.
Every people has its own homeland and starting land, but any character may begin in any of them, or follow a friend's invitation straight to their side.
The first starting land
A white ring of shore around a silver mirror, between a pale sea coast and a vale of pink blossom. Moonlake is the homeland of the Velunari, and guests of every people begin their journey here.
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Each year the Moon Court opens the Moonward Shrine to guests of every people who answer the Empress's invitation. You arrive on the pilgrim ships and stand on the Moonrise Terrace, your party beside you, as the great moon lifts out of the sea.
02
Chalk-and-pearl cliffs over the Moon Ocean, a crescent bay of pale sand and silver-grass meadows. Below the shrine lies the pilgrim harbour of the Crescent Landing, where the court's guides welcome every newcomer.
03
Groves of great dome-shaped silver willows trail their curtains into clear shallow water, crossed by stepping stones and lantern posts. In the Moth Glade, moon moths the size of kites sleep through the day.
04
Glass-flat silver water, lotus beds and lantern boats. High arched moon-bridges link three white isles, and near the south-west shore the pale roofs of a drowned palace still show beneath the surface.
05
The forbidden old palace gardens: clipped hedges grown wild into great round shapes, moon-gates in long white walls, still mirror pools, and the first pink petals drifting in from the blossom vale next door.
06
Misty fens over the drowned outer town of the first palace, where roofs and moon-gates rise from mist-white water. By night a ghost procession walks the lantern pillars of the Drowned Avenue.
The great capital
A long, low white city of silver-blue roofs and red lacquer pillars, climbing in crescent tiers from the quays to the seven-tiered Moon Palace, all of it doubled in the still water of the lake.
The city's one straight street, from the Water Stair on the bay up the palace terraces to the round Hall of the Full Moon.
Market and auction house on its crescent square by the quays.
A round mirrored hall alone on its isle in the lake, for councils, petitions and intrigue.
The high terrace where travellers from the other world land.
A people of the moon
Court poets, astronomers and lunar mages who believe a true thing shows itself in its reflection. They prize grace, memory and composure. They are beautiful, and secretive: what their court leaves unsaid matters as much as what it says.
Soft, flowing names with the sounds of moonlight and water: Selwen, Ilvane, Nethra, Caelun, Varis, Sevrin.
Bestiary
Pale, silvery and a little strange. Not every creature in Moonlake wants a fight, and the one everybody remembers is a friend.
Signature creature · Friendly
Round little hares the size of a cat, with silver-white fur, a pale crescent on the brow and extra-long ears whose tips glow lantern-gold. They hop in small flocks and sit up on their haunches to watch the moon.
Moon-hares are never prey. At dusk, sit with a frightened hare as a party and offer it a moon-lotus petal. When everyone is calm and still, it may trust you all, and lead you somewhere hidden.
Rare
A moon moth as wide as a house, with glowing violet eye-spots and antennae like silver ferns, trailing glittering dust above the sea cliffs.
Rare
Silver cranes stalk the shallows in pairs. The rarest of them, with a mirror-bright crest, haunts the pearl-grass of the Cranewing Downs.
Moonward Shore
Dog-sized crabs whose smooth pearl shells shimmer lilac, clicking along the sea-cliff coves on oversized violet claws.
Pearl Lake
Cart-sized turtles with polished shells that mirror the sky, and cool-blue spirits that rise from the water with flowing hair and serene faces.
Group play
Ilarosia is a classic MMORPG at heart, and everything in it is built for a party.
Every quest step, interaction and reward counts for the whole party. Story scenes are played together, and nobody is pulled into a solo instance.
Pick any starting land at creation, whatever your people, or follow a friend's invitation and begin right next to them.
There are no rival player factions. Everyone can group with everyone.
All players share a single world, with no realms or servers to choose between.
Travel
Walk first, then ride. Later in your journey, flying mounts give you real, free flight: everywhere outdoors, out over the open sea, and even through the capitals, whose terraces and roofs are made for landing.
Great sky-rays carry travellers between the great capitals of Andral and Amarel. In Asumeri they settle on the Sky-Ray Terrace, high above the lake.
Every capital keeps a portal ring of violet light. Others are hidden, waiting for those who explore.
Concept art · A sky-ray at the Sky-Ray Terrace
In development
Ilarosia is being made right now. Everything on this page is concept art and design intent: it shows where we are heading, not finished game footage, and details will change as the world takes shape. There is no release date yet.
Quests, mounts, an auction house and a proper inventory, built as first-class systems from the start.
No fixed classes. Combine disciplines into a build that is yours.
A single in-game currency, with no premium currency layered on top.
A bright, high-definition anime world with luminous skies, and darker places where the story calls for them.
Neighbouring lands contrast strongly, and every crossing between them is framed as a view to remember.
Planned first for Windows, macOS and Linux, as a native game rather than a browser game.
The lanterns are lit over the Pearl Lake, and the moon court is expecting guests.
Back to the topConcept art · Lanterns on the Quay Promenade at moonrise
