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Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
   1. Signing up to play
   2. Creating Characters
   3. Playing The Game
2. Character Statistics
   1. Melee Rating
   2. Stamina Points
   3. Agility
   4. Aura
   5. Body
   6. Mind
   7. Might
   8. Spirit
   9. Luck
3. Character Skills
   1. Arcana
   2. Archery
   3. Diplomacy
   4. Horsemanship
   5. Lore
   6. Seamanship
   7. Thievery
   8. Unarmed Combat
   9. Weaponry
   10. Woodsmanship
4. Character Powers
   1. Necromancy
   2. Gating
   3. Destruction
   4. Restoration
   5. Divination
   6. Illusion
   7. Elementalism
   8. Telekinesis
   9. Conjuration
   10. Fortification
5. Items
   1. Types
   2. Obtaining
   3. Using
   4. Equipping/Unequipping
   5. Dropping
   6. Selling
6. Monsters & Combat
   1. Starting Combat
   2. How Combat Works
   3. Killing vs. Subduing
   4. Fighting a Round of Combat
   5. Using Your Powers,Skills, and Items in Combat
   6. Viewing Combat Results
   7. Fleeing From Combat
   8. Winning Combat
   9. Losing Combat
7. Playing The Game
   1. Saving & Restoring Your Game
   2. Event Adventures
   3. Map Overview
   4. Playing Tips

1. Getting Started

Starting your adventures in Sryth is quick and easy.

It's free to sign up and play. All you need is a valid email address. You'll also need to think up a username and password for your account.

1.1 - Signing up to play

It's free to sign up and play. Just pay a visit to the signup page and submit the required information to create your Sryth™ account.

A Welcome Email (which includes a special Bonus Code) will be sent to the email address that you provide. The Bonus Code can be redeemed for an Experience bonus for your characters.

Make certain the email address used for your Sryth™ account is valid so that you'll receive your Bonus Code!

You should receive your email notification fairly quickly, however the length of time that it takes depends on a whole host of factors completely outside of our small realm of influence.

1.2 - Creating Characters

Once your Sryth.com account is created (please see "Signing up to play" above), you're ready to start playing. Before you actually start playing, however, you'll need to create a character.

To create a character you must first login to your Sryth.com account by clicking any one of the Play! links on the site.

When the game window appears, you will be asked to login using your Sryth.com username and password.

Once you're logged in to your account, you will be presented with a list of your characters (provided that you've created at least one character), as well as with a link that lets you create a brand new character.

Just click on the Create a New Character link to start the character creation process.

1.3 - Playing The Game

Once you've signed up as a Sryth.com member and completed the account registration process, you're ready to start playing! Just click on any of the Play! links located throughout the site and login using your Sryth.com username and password.

2. Character Statistics

Each character you create will have a set of statistics, defining his or her attributes and abilities. Therefore, a "character statistic" is a numerical representation of your character's ability level in a given area.

There are 9 basic statistics that all characters possess. When you create a new character, the first step is to "roll" your character's statistics. For all statistics, the higher the number, the better that character's ability in a given statistic is.

Agility, Aura, Body, Mind, Spirit, Might, and Luck all have a minimum score of 2 and a maximum score of 20 when your character is first created. A value between 9 and 11 is considered "average".

Melee Rating has a minimum value of 3 and a maximum value of 28. Stamina Points has a minimum value of 3 and a maximum value of 32.

The aforementioned minimum and maximum values are only "starting values". Depending upon the success your character finds in the game (or lack thereof), his or her stats may increase or decrease both above and below the starting minimums or maximums.

Here are the basic character statistics will all relevant information:

When you create a character, that character's statistics are set. It is possible to have your character's stats increase or decrease as you play the game. For example, your character might stumble upon a Belt of Heroic Strength, which would grant a +4 bonus to their might score when it is worn. Or, your character may be bitten by a venomous spider, and the bite may cause a penalty of -2 to be applied permanently to your agility score.

You will discover that both permanent and temporary stat increase/decreases are to be found throughout the world of Sryth.

Skills (see the next section) can also have an affect on your character's stats. For example, the skill Weaponry will help our your Melee Rating.

Your stats can also help or hurt other stats. The two examples of this are Melee Rating and Stamina Points. Might, Agility, Mind, and Luck affect your Melee Rating score, while Body, Spirit, and Luck affect your Stamina Point score.

2.1 - Character Stat Titles

When you look at your character's statistics during the game you will notice a title associated with your score for each particular stat. The titles provide a quick reference of your character's ability level in a given stat.

The Character Stat Titles:

3. Character Skills

Another part of your character's unique makeup is the set of skills that he or she possesses. Unlike your character's stats, skills are not innate character abilities.

A skill has a minimum level of 1 and a maximum level of 100. When you start a new character, or restart an existing character, you will be able to allocate 20 points to four out of a selection of ten skills. You may allocate as much or as little of the 20 points as you wish. You could spend all 20 points developing a single skill, or spread it around and spend 5 points on 4 different skills.

During the course of your adventures in Sryth you may come upon opportunities to acquire new skills or improve existing ones. You may improve any skill you possess by spending Experience on it. Your character will earn Experience during their adventures by defeating enemies, completing tasks, and generally achieving success.

As your skill level with a particular skill increases, so does the Experience cost related to advancing it.

To check the state of your skills while playing (including their current level and how much it will cost in Experience to advance it to the next level) click the Skills button on the lower part of your game screen.

Here are the basic character skills that are available to you at the start of the game:

When you start a new character, or start over with an existing character, make wise choices about the skills you select. It might be a good idea to break up the 20 points into the maximum allowable 4 skills, thus giving your character a wide range to utilize.

As explained above, during the course of your adventures in Sryth, you may have the opportunity to acquire new skills. Some of these new skills may be among the basic ten skills, or they may be entirely new. Also, some of these new skills may require that you already have proficient level with another skill before you can acquire it.

4. Character Powers

Throughout the ages of Sryth's vast history (Igtheon, Araludon, and Thyreon), the abundance and potency of the magical energy that cradles this world have gone through dramatic shifts. However, during the Age of Igtheon, the world of Sryth is teeming with magical energy -- enough to offer both great rewards and great danger to those who seek to harness it.

It could be said with a great deal of accuracy that magic wielders on Sryth are less "magic users" than they are "conduits" for magical energy. What does this mean?

Magic on the world of Sryth comes in the form of Nevernal energy -- a raw, and unpredictable force of great power that seeps into the realm of man from a place known as the Neverness.

The Neverness is dark, shadow-filled, surreal realm, existing on another plane of existence from Sryth -- another dimension entirely.

It is from this mysterious and boundless dimension of eternal night that magic flows, its power interweaving into the fabric of the world of Sryth, driving its destiny and at the same time poisoning its soul.

Nevernal energy (for which the word "magic" may be used interchangeably) can be classified into ten basic spheres from which mages on Sryth draw their might. Rumours abound that there are those who wield power outside of the ten basic spheres, but for now we'll leave rumour alone. A mage in possession of such power would certainly want to keep such a thing secret.

The ten basic spheres of Nevernal energy are: