Khaeros.zip
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There is a github regarding these files and it has a message that is tasteless, disrespectful, and unprofessional. This era of Khaeros was placed under a moniker that everyone could use it and I will abide by that original message of that owner of the era. It was placed as open source for that reason.
With respect due to that owner, the people who put their time into it, and that message... Enjoy as you like.
Oh. Uh. Spoilers ahead?
"To anyone who reads this,
These are all the files, including spawns but not player accounts, for Khaeros, an Ultima Online free shard built on the RUNUO 2.0 engine. Over the years, it passed from owner to owner, staff team to staff team, and slowly gained scripts even as it slowly lost players. At the time of writing this, it seems like Khaeros has finally run out of steam, and thus my decision to shatter khaeros into copiable shards in true Ultima Online fashion. I think many people in the UO roleplaying community still have fond memories on these maps, with these scripts, and so if any of you form new communities using these files, there will always be someone who appreciates it.
Khaeros began under Eufron and Typhon as a shard about 6 human races struggling to sustain peace as a world empire was created, and later destroyed, while vampire like creatures (pale shadows of an ancient terror) secretly controlled the political landscape. The focus of this was subtly shifted as different owners and staff members cycled through, and perhaps the greatest change was when control of the server was given to me and Malefactor; you'll find the scripts no longer describe a world with 6 races, but have been unceremoniously hacked into a form where there are three societies (a mysterious desert dwelling people, religious northern Europeans, and roman-like southerners) that combined aspects of the old racial lines. Despite this, in lore, we tried to stay true to the original precepts of Khaeros. The ancient evil that was the precursor to Eufrons vampires had returned, and these six beings were the source of all magic, seething under the earth; the eastern locusts were the embodiment of the Locust Martyr, the dark god Eufrons creatures had summoned; the desert people were descendants of "The Lucent Brotherhood," as people kept secret in the lore from the earliest days of Khaeros; the northern European peoples based their worship of the Mother and Father on the earlier beliefs of the Vhalurian and Tyrean races; and so forth.
The way the scripts, maps and lore contained here hold together are all reflective of the time I spent as owner, and of the work put in by Malefactor, Remus, Shaedar, Zack, Swil, slave, myself, and many others from this 'era', rather than from earlier staff members and scripters (e.g., Wraithe, tmloyd...) but of course, the majority of work on Khaeros had been contributed by countless earlier individuals, and was already existent by the time I got my talons into the server. I am giving this work away, most of which is not mine, for the good of the community, as it was left in my charge. I am aware that some may disagree with that decision. So... my bad.
Finally, because this is the "time jump" version of the scripts, suiting a Khaeros Malefactor and I loved, there are of course earlier map versions and legacy script versions floating around. If anyone greatly desires those, they can get in contact with me and we'll see what we can do.
It's been wonderful playing on Khaeros, and I hope that old players will remember me and their time in Khaeros fondly, and that new players will continue to enjoy this world into the future.
- Aves"
