Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a new type of third person fantasy RPG that combines a single player narrative with a sandbox MMO. It is being created by a team that includes: Richard "Lord British" Garriott the creator of the Ultima series, Starr Long the original Director of Ultima Online, and Tracy Hickman the author of the beloved Dragonlance Novels and Dungeons & Dragons modules. 


Episodic Content: Shroud of the Avatar will consist of five episodes that will tell a series of virtue based stories created by Richard Garriott and Tracy Hickman. All supported by a series of prequel novels starting with Blade of the Avatar. Forsaken Virtues is the first episode (this is what you are purchasing access to). 

Single Player Offline Mode: Players will adventure through over 40 hours of story in an interactive world where their choices have consequences, ethical paradoxes give them pause, and they play a vital part in weaving their own story into the immersive world and lore surrounding them. 

Selective Multiplayer Modes: If you want to go through the story online you can play with everyone in a single world with three different online modes (Single Player, Friends Only, and Open). 

Classless Character System: Vast customization options with hundreds of skills and spells in over 20 different skill trees. 

Skillful Combat: A new way to prepare and fight in an RPG by building custom decks of skills and dynamically activating them in combat. 

PVP: Consensual with Open PVP flags, zones, and Guild Warfare. 

Player Housing: Non instanced, finite, and embedded in the world with multiple group living options. 

Player Driven Economy: Deep crafting system where the best items are made by players and player items are the main source of loot found in the game. 

Pay Once to Play: No subscription fees. Each episode (released approximately annually) is a one time fee and everything in the game can be purchased with in game gold that can be earned (except for some exclusive backer rewards). 

Social: Full Guild System, Highly Active Community and Player Owned Towns. 

Crowd Sourced & Funded: Support the project by contributing content (and receive compensation) or by pledging (and receive exclusive rewards). 

Open Development: Players help shape the game by giving feedback on monthly early access releases, videos, weekly updates, blog postings, forums, chat, etc.

WINDOWS MINIMUM: 


OS: Windows 7 or newer 

Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz 

Memory: 4 GB RAM 

Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics 

DirectX: Version 10 

Network: Broadband Internet connection 

Hard Drive: 6 GB available space


RECOMMENDED: 


OS: Windows 7 64 bit or newer 

Processor: Quad Core Processor 2.4GHz or faster 

Memory: 8 GB RAM 

Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible AMD Radeon HD 6850 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 

DirectX: Version 10 

Network: Broadband Internet connection 

Hard Drive: 6 GB available space


MAC MINIMUM: 


OS: 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks) 

Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) 

Memory: 4 GB RAM 

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVidia Geforce 640M 

Network: Broadband Internet connection


RECOMMENDED: 


OS: 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks) 

Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) 

Memory: 8 GB RAM 

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 / NVidia Geforce GTX 775M


LINUX MINIMUM: 


OS: Ubuntu 10.10 or newer officially but most linux flavors supported 

Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz 

Memory: 4 GB RAM 

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics 

Network: Broadband Internet connection 

Hard Drive: 6 GB available space


RECOMMENDED: 


OS: Ubuntu 10.10 or newer officially but most linux flavors supported 

Processor: Quad Core Processor 2.4GHz or faster 

Memory: 8 GB RAM 

Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6850 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 

Network: Broadband Internet connection 

Hard Drive: 6 GB available space