Carrion Fields

Carrion Fields is a text-based online role-playing game set in Thera, a dark fantasy land torn by eternal wars among mortal factions and gods. You create a character, develop their story and survive in a world where monsters, other adventurers and the passage of time all pose threats. Role-play is required and enforced: you act in character, and the people you meet pursue their own stories and goals.

Thera and its dangers

You explore a world of secrets and mysteries, using what you discover to your advantage. Its more than 250 original areas contain over 23,000 rooms, with hundreds of quests, puzzles, raids, dungeons and other places to explore. You can talk and share stories in taverns, venture from populated cities into dangerous caverns, investigate lost vaults with puzzling magic, or face ancient dragons in their lairs. Grouping with other players can be essential to surviving dangerous areas.

Thera has no truly safe places, and no one is completely protected from violence. You can fight other players in a strategic PvP system that includes cabals locked in ongoing battles for power, or take on the world's dangers through PvE. Even a character who survives combat will eventually die of old age; characters can last for hundreds of hours, but none survive Thera forever.

Shape your character

Choose from 21 races, including a seasonal race, and 17 classes, then specialize and customize your character. You can use weapons, draw on diverse schools of magic or seek power from the gods, who are role-played by volunteer Game Masters. Seven player-run cabals offer another way to shape your character's place in the world.

Classes offer distinct abilities and paths. Necromancers can become Liches, Vampyres, Wights or Mummies; Shapeshifters can transform into powerful or mythical beasts. Warriors can specialize in weapons and learn abilities from warrior-monks, while Thieves can brew poisons and set traps. Rangers can master specific terrains, use archery or travel with beast companions.

Quests and competition

You can pursue quests and puzzles, join raids, explore dungeons and compete with other players to discover or plunder powerful limited and legendary items. The game combines role-play with PvP and PvE, and expects valid in-character play throughout.