Novus Opiate
A volcanic island: a glowing crater with lava floes, a winged beast's aerie on a second peak, a turquoise lagoon harbour guarded by two lighthouses and coral columns, white ruins in the ash, and a portal on the harbour beach where fighters gather.

Hotspot · Offshore · reached by emissary

Aerlinthe Island

Darktide’s one truce. When it broke, whoever held the ties held the island.

Region
Far north, offshore
Opened
July 2000
Prize
Golem hunting
Contested
Autumn 2000 on
Record
Good

Aerlinthe Island, dated

  1. Dated to the month

    Opens in peace

    Original-era evidenceVoices: Blood-side · Reference

  2. Dated to the season

    War zone declared

    Original-era evidenceVoices: Blood-side

  3. Dated to the month

    Quest reworked

    Later evolutionVoices: Official

  4. Dated to the month

    New tunnels

    Later evolutionVoices: Reference

A volcanic island of ash and treasure golems, where the whole server agreed not to fight. The peace lasted a few months. Then it became a war of logistics.

Fire and golems

Original-era evidence

Opened in July 2000: a volcano, a lagoon harbour, ash-buried ruins, golems of coral, diamond and magma. No town.

Sources · ReferenceHollow Weapons; To Raise a Banner of FlameAerlinthe; Aerlinthe Record; Tenkarrdun; Relic Town; From the Darkness Born

The price of getting there

Original-era evidence

A paid emissary, or a hard quest. That is why ties mattered.

Sources · ReferenceAerlinthe; Aerlinthe Record; Tenkarrdun; Relic Town; From the Darkness Born

The peace

Original-era evidence

A no-war zone by server-wide agreement, says the Blood side.

Sources · Blood-sideHistory

The war zone

Original-era evidence

After Blood took Kara the peace broke. Blood declared a war zone, built recall ties with a gating mule, and held the island as far as an island can be held.

Accounts differ. Blood calls the tie war logistics; the Black Rose side says it made holding ground pointless.

Sources · Blood-side, Black Rose-sideHistoryDarktide’s Past

Later

Later evolution

A 2002 quest rework and 2004 tunnels changed the island.

Sources · Official, ReferenceUpcoming Changes to AerlintheAerlinthe; Aerlinthe Record; Tenkarrdun; Relic Town; From the Darkness Born