The Realm Observer
Spleef comes to aridnea! new local league founded
The Arena of Aridnea City has received alterations to accomodate hosting of spleef games. Spleef is a sport where competing players harvest blocks underneath each other until one of them hits the ground floor, losing the match.
The brand new 'Aridnea City Spleef League' has been incorporated as the Realm's first Spleef competition. The League currently consists of two teams; Citadel (red) and Southwatch (black).
"This new league will help familiarize the Realm with spleef, and hopefully grow to worldwide league or competition, in the future" said ACSL founder Joos. Spleef requires two players, who can pick whichever team they want to represent, match results can be added to signage at the entrance to the Arena itself.
The inaugrual game between Realm Founders ended with a victory for Southwatch!
This new league will help familiarize the Realm with spleef...
The internal areas of the Arena have also been renovated to include locker rooms and colour coded team uniforms, with a generous supply of shears and leaves available at the Arena seating level for use in the game.
May 2025
Pallid Peaks Probed
In a recent expedition to the westernmost lands of the Yestergust Sea, explorers from Aridnea conducted a comprehensive canvass of the colossal Pallid Peak mountains.
Several enormous interconnected underground caverns were discovered with abundant open resources nodes, along with one barely explored mineshaft.
The mountains themselves are difficult to traverse, with steep inclines and many dangerous patches of powder snow, broken up only by densely forested valleys, perilous at night.
A small base was constructed inside the tallest mountain's cavern, there is however a cliffhanging village on the very northeastern section of the mountains, bordering the Ridgardian Desert/Savannah (towards Everburn).
May 2025
Eastern expedition reveals pale garden
Explorers from Aridnea and Sakura Valley united recently in efforts to find a 'Pale Garden' biome. This ambitious trek began at Sakura, heading east across to the next continent.
Following some equine and supply losses, the East Continent was reached and the search for the biome continued. Luckily it appeared rather close to the landing coast, however with this came the next perilous chapter
These bold explorers became the first in the realm to face the new threat to our world, Creakers. A beast which only appears at night, visually arborial and chameleonic with the surrounding flora, it remains stationary when gazed upon. Yet, when one looks away, these beasts move at frightening speed to attack your stern. The Creakers are also seemingly invulnerable on first encounter, that is until their weakness is identified.
Nearby pale oak trees hold the 'heart' of these Creakers, which is the point that must be attacked to fell the beast. Fortunately the explorers realized this and were able to slay several of the creatures, as well as engage in moderate rare resource harvesting!
Following this extended encounter, the expedition commenced it's journey home, but along the way rediscovered the location of Sakura's unnamed East Continent village. A densely forested taiga village bordered by cliff and thornbush, accessible only by bridge. Eventually the expedition returned to Sakura and the known realm, successfully acquiring the materials of the Pale Gardens biome.
May 2025
Lunar Festival Forthcoming
June Solstice is rapidly approaching at the end of this month. This winter solstice will be host to the first ever 'Lunar Festival' since the festivals were layed out late last year.
Lunar festival will be celebrated the world over, with the primary decoration site centreing on Aridnea City's Old Town Square. The realm will be plunged into darkness in an attempt to accentuate the moon, which is to say that Dokucraft Dark will be applied for the duration.
The festival will begin on 20th June and run for two weeks time. There may be more nightfall than usual during this also.
June 2025
