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Umbrae dropped the pen on the table and shook the cramps from his hands. He urgently rolled the last scroll and tossed it onto the pile.

“Geoffrey!” he yelled as the young squire rushed into his study.

“Yes, Sire!” he prompted awaiting his master to respond.

“Take these piles and scatter them about,” Umbrae waved his hands over the stacks of parchment.

“Scatter them where, Sire?” he questioned. Geoffrey flinched slightly as his master’s eyes quickly flashed upon him.

“Where? Where people will see them, of course!” Umbrae proclaimed. “Preferably those that have frequented the most recent gathering place.”

“At once, Sire!” Geoffrey acknowledged as he gathered the bundles of scrolls and scurried off.

Welcome Avatars! We are pleased to present the new SOTARP.ORG site and the permanent home for Shroud of the Avatar Role Players.

For existing members, please note we are unable to get user information from our previous host. As such, unfortunately, we will need users to re-register at the new location (there is a login/register panel on the right hand side of the site). If you had specific privileges that need to be applied to the new site, please contact myself or Bowen Bloodgood either here on sotarp.org or the official Shroud of the Avatar Forums.

In celebration, you can download a free wallpaper (1080p 16:9) modeled after the new site’s background image. We hope you enjoy the new site and forums whose services have kindly been donated by Bowen Bloodgood.

Please forgive our mess as we will be continuing to clear the clutter and improve as time goes on, and I am sure there will be growing pains.

From all of us on the Staff here at SOTARP.ORG, we wish you a great and wondrous New Year!

Interview Two – Soleidad, Owner ‘Isla

SotA (Player) Owned Cities and Towns
by Fireangel

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The lady smiled brightly at her new acquaintance. The two ladies met in one of the side parlors of the tavern, and each curtseyed in turn. “Thank you so much, Soleidad, for agreeing to be interviewed. It was very good of my old friend, Lord Beli, to make our introductions. I am so happy to get to know a new friend, and you must be, I think, to open yourself to our old guild so kindly. Really, it is more than generous of you, Soleidad.”

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Interview One – Winfield, Governor of PaxLair

SotA (Player) Owned Cities and Towns Interviews
by Fireangel

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The lady smiled brightly at her friend. She hugged him as they met in one of the quieter rooms of the tavern. “Thank you so much, Winfield, for agreeing to be interviewed. I’m sure you’ve been through so many that it must have lost some of any glamour that an interview might hold.” Fireangel laughed lightly, and motioned at a chair.

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Where Have All the Role-players Gone?

by Fireangel

Roleplay is a Stimulant

Where do you get your roleplay fix? I personally have a long history of role play, and I have actual withdrawals. If you are a real role player, this makes sense to you. If you are not, I may be speaking a foreign language to you. I cannot really role play without other ‘actors’. Many like me are asking: where do you find roleplay online?

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One Year of SotA, One Year of Community Spotlight

By Seon

One year of Shroud of the Avatar funding has passed and one less year until the game comes out. Throughout that time the game’s community has grown and developed satellite communities such as Forsaken Virtues, The Poets’ Circle, The College of Arms, SotAWiki, The MadHermit Gaming, Avatar Radio and Shroud of the Avatar Role Players Community. The result is a Community (with capital C) more tightly knit than the sweater my grandma had made for me when I was a kid!

My expectations for this year? To see Portalarium as well as the players expand even more their interaction with the satellite communities to build a solid support base for a solid game, and you know what? I think it will happen.

Did you miss the community spotlights and want to find out whats out there? No problem. Click here!!!

SOTA RP Community Adventure 1

SOTA RP Adventure - Duncan

Character: Duncan (Fisherman)

Stats (1-100)
Strength: 56
Dexterity: 80
Intelligence: 31

(( The SOTA RP Community Adventure was a forum game in which the SOTA Community voted for an Avatar to be summoned to New Britannia. The original thread can be found on the SOTA Official Forums.))

The sea was calm as the sun began to set. Duncan felt an uneasiness to the quiet that bothered him. Even the sun seemed to be pulling the horizon over its head as if retreating from some impending doom. The feeling was familiar to him which brought on a mixture of excitement and dread. A hinted memory so distant he could not be sure whether it was just a past dream.

How long had it been? He had been a child the first time. The wind would howl drawing you into the night. Drawn into the circle of stones and the pulsing light and then… falling.

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Fireangel’s Heart to Hearth with Wsye

Episode One – Interview with Wsye
By Fireangel

The lady goes to sit for awhile inside the nearby tavern, and talks to her friends. She sees a gentleman she has spoken to before on his interesting beliefs. “Would you be interested in an interview, Wsye? Are you still in a guild of anti-virtues?” Struggling to hear over the din of patrons, she motions that they move from the busy Common Room of Fire Lotus’ Tavern to a small adjacent parlor.

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