The Forgotten Realm

The Forgotten Realm of Elben Aator is a player created module for online play with the soon to be released Atari / Obsidian Entertainment title Neverwinter Nights 2 which is based on the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons. The goal of The Forgotten Realm is to balance the interaction of an RP / Story-based NWN2 server with the excitement of an action server offering the optimum environment for a wide player base.

Promising a significant level of both DM interaction and stand-alone quests,The Forgotten Realm also plans to create a second tier for players to aspire to reach, giving senior players the ability to initiate and supervise their own quests with some abilities granted that would normally be available to DM's only.

"As the player base grows and natural leaders immerge, we intend to have cities and factions for the players run by the players themselves with minimal guidance from the staff. We want to see the players shape the world, rather than the developers." says Tyler Caughill - one of several developers on this project.

Offering a wide variety of areas, The Forgotten Realm has plans to introduce custom areas for factions that have an established presence on the server, and hopes to present content that will entertain a wide range of player styles.



The NWN2 Persistent World of The Forgotten Realm will launch in beta to a limited number of players shortly following the initial release of the Neverwinter Nights 2 title which is now expected to be November 1st 2006. Following beta-testing, The Forgotten Realm will open to everyone, and hopes to push the limit to allow the maximum numbers of simultaneous players that the engine will support. A corporate sponsor has offered significant bandwidth at no charge to this project, however a deal with a hardware sponsor has not yet been reached.

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Where is The Forgotten Realm?

On Abeir-Toril, south of Faerun and west of Zakhara in The Great Sea, the Isle of Elben Aator and the surrounding smaller islands are the setting for The Forgotten Realm.

Few who have seen it have ever survived the return journey to Faerun, so it is not spoken of in much of the area lore, though it is rumored that a trade route to the east once existed with the western most islands of Zakhara. Supplies from the other lands do seem to reach the island, but little is known of their transit. Most of the island is edged by high cliffs that fall hundreds of feet to the crashing water and jagged rocks below; though there is a major port located on the eastern most point of land. Waters that promise a terrible death from either the pirates that seem to loom on every horizon or the creatures that snarl their many teeth at anything they see.

Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) is a computer role-playing game currently in development by Obsidian Entertainment and to be published in October 2006 by Atari. It is the sequel to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights (NWN), a successful game based on the Dungeons & Dragons system. Where NWN was based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules, NWN2 will be based on Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 (also known as the Revised 3rd Edition), somewhat changed to adapt to real-time game play.