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Aethro Online: Start Here
This guide explains the text-based MMORPG, the Kalismor setting, current development state, and links to races, professions, skills, lore, account tools, launcher help, and the roadmap.
The World of Kalismor
The existing world hub: the setting four thousand years after the First Great War, the approaching Second Great War, the Mana Seed and Mana Stones, and links into the detailed archive.
Chronicles of Kalismor: Lore Timeline
This guide presents the existing lore chapters into a readable timeline covering the world before the Burning, Tulimsur, Courtlyn, the First Great War, the Everdawn dynasty, the Iron Reign, Kalismor, Kodaisdain, and unresolved mysteries.
People and Dossiers
This guide indexes the existing major-figure and people records.
Playable Races
The eight documented races—Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Draconids, Avians, Orcs, Halflings, and Undead—with lore, strengths, drawbacks, starting skills, portraits, and confirmed character-creation implications.
Professions and Guilds
The ten documented starting paths—Rogue, Chef, Priest, Mender, Ranger, Mercenary, Beast Master, Guard, Pirate, and Merchant—plus guild identity, ranks, trainers, core skills, and confirmed progression.
Achievements Codex
Searchable achievement categories, milestones, and point values.
Skill Codex
A searchable reference for combat, crafting, survival, social, travel, gathering, healing, and profession skills.
Factions and Powers
This guide covers the military, civic, magical, resistance, guild, and political powers shaping Kalismor and Kodaisdain.
Places of the Known World
This guide covers cities, ruins, roads, palaces, archives, and contested regions including Kalis, Celestium, the Northern Wastes, the Fields of Red Mercy, and the Palace of Iron.
Aethro Online Account and Character Portal
This guide explains the linked Aethro identity, character roster, race/profession portraits, public profile identity, character slots, purchases, grants, and account benefits.
How to Enter Aethro Online
Launcher selection, account sign-in, connection flow, and first-character expectations.
Aethro Online Development Updates
A maintained index of official news and roadmap items.
Aethro: Reforged: Start Here
Canonical realm overview, requirements, account-to-launch journey, game rates, main systems, and links to all feature guides.
Install and Join Aethro: Reforged
This guide covers how to use one Aethro Account, keep a separate WoW 3.3.5a folder, install the current Play Aethro Launcher, set a separate Reforged password in the account panel, launch, and enter the realm.
Playable Races, Classes, and Allegiance
This guide explains Worgen, Goblins, and Pandaren; the current any-race/any-class promise shown by PA; Alliance or Horde Allegiance as a separate character choice; and how Allegiance relates to faction identity.
Territory Map and Faction Influence
This guide explains how to read the territory map, select a region, understand influence, and use the map for planning.
Beyond the Boundaries
Universal Armor Mastery, the eight counted armor slots, material bonuses, mixed-loadout calculations, heavier-than-native armor penalties, three-primary-profession rule, veteran profession protection, and the Aethro Box.
Aethro Box
How new characters receive it, how innkeepers replace it, and how it links players to custom NPCs, systems, full guides, and travel destinations such as Elysian Retreat.
Playtime Rewards
Character-based eligible playtime, one-time mail rewards, the confirmed 1/3/6/12/24/48/72/120/240-hour milestones, and the current reward table.
Mythic+
Keystones, affixes, group preparation, the ten-second start delay, timed-run expectations, completion, and earned rewards.
Paragon Progression After Level 80
How post-80 experience becomes long-term Paragon progression and how players should choose bonuses for their play style.
Bounty Board
How to find a bounty, understand the target and reward, complete it, and return to normal play.
Old World Flying
This guide explains the unlock rules and classic-zone use once the exact current requirements are confirmed.
Automated and Seasonal Events
This guide explains the PA event calendar and individual Reforged events, schedules, participation rules, and rewards using the current event records.
Achievements
This guide covers how to browse the custom achievement catalog, open an achievement, understand criteria and rewards, and control optional achievement display in the armory/community profile.
Warband Camps
Claim a phased account-wide camp, 30 normal or 100 Premium props, decorate, place camp NPCs, use mailbox/training/rest features where available, set public/party/guild/private access, visit camps, and document the complete `.camp` command set and `/wb` interface.
Guild Villages
Teleport setup, village overview, production, currency and caps, boss progress, expeditions, daily and weekly quests, return flow, and the complete `.village`/`.v` command aliases.
PlayerBots: Complete Player Guide
Adding a bot, whisper/party/raid command scope, formation and combat roles, strategy, spells, targeting, loot, equipment, quests, pets, professions, and role-play behavior.
Reagent Bank: Complete Guide
Account-wide reagent storage, all `/rbank`, `/reagentbank`, and `/rbankui` aliases; sorting; confirmations; recipe plans; shopping lists; crafting withdrawal; low-stock alerts; undo; themes; scaling; timed deposit; leftover auto-deposit; and shared gold.
Auction House Bots
This guide explains their role in market availability and how players use the Auction House normally.
AoE Looting
Enable with `.aoeloot on`, disable with `.aoeloot off`, expected behavior, and basic troubleshooting.
Dual Herb and Mineral Tracking
Requirements for both gathering professions and both tracking spells, how to enable them together, and the fact that normal gathering skill requirements still apply.
Global Chat and Discord Bridge
This guide covers how to use `/1 <message>` in the General channel, write enough context for both in-game and Discord readers, and explain that retired `/global` instructions do not apply.
Reforged Titles
This guide covers how to browse the supported cosmetic titles, buy with Vote Coins or money, choose a character, allow delivery, log out and in if required, and select the title in the Aethro Titles panel.
Reforged Premium
Subscription purpose, current convenience/cosmetic benefits, renewal rewards, Premium forum access, camp-prop increase, billing management, and cancellation behavior.
Refer a Friend
Share the personal link before the new player signs in, create the Reforged login, reach one hour of character playtime, receive the next reward pass by mail, and explain one-credit-per-new-player/no-self-referral rules.
Armory, Online Roster, and Profile Privacy
Character sync, online roster, public character pages, gear/stats/skills/kills/PvP/playtime display, optional achievement display, and account privacy controls.
Dominion: Start Here
This guide explains the persistent realm-building concept, its relationship to Kalismor and the Aethro identity, and its current development/beta state.
Create a House
This guide explains the intended House concept, choosing a people, establishing a foothold, and House identity.
Grow a Settlement
This guide explains the confirmed high-level loop: gather resources, construct and upgrade a Keep, farms, lumber camps, and quarries, and build progress that persists over time.
Resources and Buildings
A reference for food/sustenance, timber/growth, stone/fortification, the Keep, prerequisites, and construction timing.
The Eight Races of Dominion
This guide explains the available races and their confirmed gameplay differences using the current published data.
Dominion Beta Access
How eligibility is granted, how the launcher displays access, what “not enabled” means, and where to follow testing announcements.
Launch Dominion from Play Aethro
Sign in through Aethro, select Dominion, confirm beta access, and use the short-lived launcher handoff.
Dominion Development Roadmap
Current roadmap items, statuses, official updates, and how signed-in users can submit suggestions or comments.
Welcome to Play Aethro
This guide explains PA as the shared home for Aethro games, community, news, guides, events, account tools, store, voting, and roadmap.
Create or Sign In to Your Aethro Account
This guide explains browser-based Aethro sign-in, Google/Discord as routes into the same account, why players should not create duplicates, callback completion, and logout.
Download and Install the Play Aethro Launcher
Official download, supported platforms, installation, first launch, browser sign-in, returning to the launcher, updates, and choosing a game.
Choose Your Game
Compare Aethro Online, Reforged, Dominion, and any other currently offered PA game by genre, availability, client needs, and access state.
Set Up Your Reforged Game Login
This guide explains that the Reforged username/password are for the WoW realm and are separate from the social/OAuth Aethro Account login.
Your Account Dashboard
Identity, connected games, Reforged setup, character information, referral link, armory visibility, purchases/subscriptions, and relevant profile controls.
Set Up Your Community Profile
Display name, avatar or game identity options, public member page, and safe profile expectations.
Your First 15 Minutes in Reforged
Sign in, create a character, understand race/class/Allegiance choices, check the Aethro Box, join General chat, and find the feature hub.
Follow News, Events, and Development
News filters/RSS, events calendar, roadmap, forum announcements, and Discord.
Community Rules and Conduct
The network-wide rules, prohibited behavior, moderation actions, and appeal expectations that apply across Aethro community spaces.
Shop, Cart, Checkout, and Purchase History
Money and Vote Coin checkout, recipient selection, carts, Stripe payment, purchase history, and delivery states.
Protect Your Account
Browser sign-in safety, password/token secrecy, duplicate-account prevention, trusted download links, suspicious-message reporting, and what information support may safely request.
Privacy and Data Use
What Aethro may collect, why it is used, what can be public, how payments are handled, and where to make a privacy request.
Support Start Here
Symptom chooser for account/sign-in, launcher, install/update, game connection, Reforged login, character/profile sync, store/voting, or bug report.
Aethro Account Sign-In Problems
Browser did not open, OAuth was canceled, callback did not return, expired session, wrong/duplicate account, and safe retry/logout steps.
Launcher Will Not Install or Open
Platform-specific supported-version checks, trusted download source, permissions, operating-system warnings, reinstall guidance, and log collection.
Launcher Cannot Find the Game
Selecting or moving a game folder, why Reforged should use a separate 3.3.5a folder, path/permission checks, and how to reselect without deleting the client.
Launcher Update, Verify, and Repair
What update/verify/repair do, how long they may take, safe interruption behavior, expected file changes, insufficient-space and locked-file errors, and log collection.
Reforged Launch Authorization Failed
Confirm Aethro sign-in, a Reforged game login exists, the launcher/client is current, retry after a short wait, and escalate recurring authorization/service errors.
Reforged Username or Password Does Not Work
Locate the generated game username, reset the separate 8–16 character Reforged password, confirm ASCII/letter/number rules, retry, and distinguish website login from realm login.
Cannot Connect or Realm Appears Offline
Check official status/announcements, network connectivity, launcher update state, client folder, and whether the issue affects one game or everyone.
Characters or Armory Data Are Missing or Out of Date
Confirm the right Aethro Account, game-account link, character ownership, visibility settings, expected sync delay, and escalation details.
Vote Coins or Rewards Did Not Arrive
Confirm site completion and cooldown, claim action, correct game/character, wallet/reward status, mail or relog requirements, and evidence to include in support.
Forums: Threads, Replies, Uploads, and Reactions
This guide covers how to browse categories, understand access-restricted areas, create threads, reply, edit posts, upload supported media/ZIP files, react, and understand moderation visibility.
News, Comments, and Reactions
Browse/filter news, open an article, comment, react, and follow RSS/tag feeds.
Dominion Says Beta Access Is Not Enabled
This guide explains gated access, account matching, announcement checks, and that reinstalling does not grant eligibility.
How to Report a Bug
Reproduction steps, expected versus actual behavior, game and character, date/time with timezone, launcher/game version, screenshots, exact error, and relevant logs.
Private Messages and Notifications
Start a member conversation, reply, open notifications, mark all read, and use member pages responsibly.
Roadmap and Suggestions
How public roadmap statuses, progress, suggestions, staff decisions, updates, and discussion actually work.
Voting and Vote Coins
How to open a vote site, return in the same browser session, claim daily or monthly Vote Coins, spend them, and recover from failed delivery.
Subscriptions and Premium Access
This guide explains subscription status, billing management, cancellation, renewal rewards where applicable, and Premium community access.
Purchase Paid but Delivery Is Pending
Check purchase history, payment state, selected recipient/character, in-game mail or relog, and safe escalation.
How to Collect Launcher Logs Safely
Current log locations by platform, which files to attach, how to redact secrets/private paths where needed, and retention expectations.