What Is Evernight?
Evernight "The Reign of Darkness" is a strategy game that pits you against other players in a quest to conquer the world of Midia. This world is filled with a vast number of conquerable regions.
Each new player begins with only a single region, however, by deploying your forces and launching calculated attacks into the surrounding regions and player's kingdoms… the player's borders rapidly expand.
Gameplay
Game Lobby
In a standard game the tick runs once every 24 hours, except on weekends and holidays, at a set time each day. This allows you approximately 24 hours to enter your orders for each cycle.
The War Room
The game interface a player sees is called the War Room. From here, armies are called forth to do battle against opponents and cast devastating spells with the power to change even the landscape of the world itself.
Player Lobby
Rankings are generally run in different groupings, includingRank, Games Finished / Games Played, Wins, Experience, and Skill Rating
The Verse
There are 6 forms you can call upon within Evernight, each tied to a specific religion and conjured from a temple dedicated to that religion.
Chron
From the craggy peaks of Midia I brought the stony powers of the ground forth in the form of the Colossa. The creature stands as tall as a fortress, and its granite skin is near impervious. Wherever this titan walks death will follow, and even the bottoms of the frozen seas will not be safe.
Zan
The noblest of the Forms, this golden beast soars higher than even the mightiest sorceror… It was this supernatural creature who stood at my side when the Demons turned, and it was Amber wings that carried the lightning cry of K'Ar Tüf to the battlefield.
Mindbender
As I had created the Amber from all things pure, so the Black Dragon was summoned from all things evil. Its chaotic appetite for death defied even my most delirious fears… and when its form rose from the twisting portal of MindBender, nothing was safe from its poisonous fire.
Incinerak
The ageless Incinerak sent the Magma Demon in my hour of vengenace not as servants, but treacherous deceivers. Their dry-witted cruelty and slavering thirst for blood have earned them a fearsome reputation and an intolerable attitude.
Bork
The strangest of the Forms must be the wide-minded Woodens. This all-seeing entity penetrates the mortal mind with the madness of Bork, and its ancient, splintered fingers crush legions in their grasp. Never before had I laid eyes on a thing so sublime… so illusory.
Crank
For centuries the machines of the Golden Age, the mighty Iron Hulks, lie dead and cold beneath the stony ground. But destiny will open the eyes of the mechanical God, and his legions will rise from their earthy tombs to devour the air and the land. Mortals will be ground under their heartless metallic tread...and the choked, smoggish age of machines will again be upon the surface of Midia.
The Entities
Colossa
From the craggy peaks of Midia I brought the stony powers of the ground forth in the form of the Colossa. The creature stands as tall as a fortress, and its granite skin is near impervious. Wherever this titan walks death will follow, and even the bottoms of the frozen seas will not be safe.
Amber Dragon
The noblest of the Forms, this golden beast soars higher than even the mightiest sorceror… It was this supernatural creature who stood at my side when the Demons turned, and it was Amber wings that carried the lightning cry of K'Ar Tüf to the battlefield.
Black Dragon
As I had created the Amber from all things pure, so the Black Dragon was summoned from all things evil. Its chaotic appetite for death defied even my most delirious fears… and when its form rose from the twisting portal of MindBender, nothing was safe from its poisonous fire.
Magma Demon
The ageless Incinerak sent them in my hour of vengenace not as servants, but treacherous deceivers. Their dry-witted cruelty and slavering thirst for blood have earned them a fearsome reputation and an intolerable attitude.
Wooden
The strangest of the Forms must be the wide-minded Woodens. This all-seeing entity penetrates the mortal mind with the madness of Bork, and its ancient, splintered fingers crush legions in their grasp. Never before had I laid eyes on a thing so sublime… so illusory.
Iron Hulk
From the remains of the machinery of the Golden Age a race of mechanical Form arose. The supernatural glow of doom glimmered in the hollow eyes of crushed metal parts, and I watched as the land was flattened under uncaring, bloodied wheels.
Crusader
Long ago, when my quest seemed futile and my holy war seemed a delusion of madness, there were a chosen few who pledged their lives to the cause. Ironically, the sorceror's empire must be built on a foundation of these crusader's lives… and so they stride into battle.
Arma
Since the Golden Age mortals have been kin with this ancient and wise race. Their sturdy demeanor and impervious resolve bring comfort to the endless darkness of the trenches, where the wounded and dying cower behind the sheltering bulk of their shelled allies.
Rip Lizard
For generations, elite crusader warriors have mounted these viscious reptilian killers. I watched as the last wave of their toothy legion rolled into the valley below me… claw and tooth tore the enemy to bloody ribbons… only terror and a growling darkness answered their bizarre scaly warhowl.
Hatchling
It was the diabolical Nergal who brought these unnatural monstrosities to life. In subterranean pits their countless numbers breed and heave with pinkish sickness. They are the mindless devourers of mortals; the egg-spawned children of a rotting madman.
Mud Wretch
After the sun of Midia was no more, and a plague of bogs infected the world, a race of beasts arose from the murk to wreak havoc on mortal men. Haunted and twisted by the dark forces of their hideous, mystic origin, these horrors obey only the sorceror who fears not their acidic appetite for flesh.
Glow
Legends say the Glows were the dream of a mad sorceror in the forgotten mists of history. Who knows what spawned their translucent bodies… But on this make no mistake, their otherworldly minds will penetrate even a stalwart consciousness and kill a victim from within.
Spells
Evernight features a range of 36 different spells that can be used to strengthen your forces, weaken your enemies, and do various other sneaky things.
Spells are divided into 6 categories of 6 spells each.
Church of the Transcendent Body
Spells from the Church of the Transcendent Body deal with changing regions into a different region type. There is one spell for each region type.
Min. Cost: 70
Changes Region Type To Dunes
75
Changes Region Type To Swamp
80
Changes Region Type To Dead Forest
90
Changes Region Type To Frozen Sea -- can only be cast on regions you own
90
Changes Region Type To Mountains -- can only be cast on regions you own
100
Changes Region Type To Plains
Druids of Oarne
The Druids of Oarne category is comprised of a miscellany of spells.
Min. Cost: 20
Cancels Alliances In Battle - Prevents Region from being Ceded
15
Nullifies Fury Produced In Battles At Region
35
No Spells may be Cast on Region While Pulse Probe is in Effect
100
Converts 90% of Your Lessers at Region Into Fury - Remaining 10% die but no Fury is generated
50
Destroys A Fortress or Temple
125
Heals All Forms At Region (you must cast spell on the region where the forms ARE, not where they are going TO)
Generation Technology
Generation Technology contains the movement altering spells. These spells don't actually move troops, but rather modify their movement orders to coincide with the effects of the spell. Then, when the movement phase of the tick occurs, the troops move along their new orders.
Min. Cost: 50
Permits Lessers To Cross Mountains or Water - You need to deploy your lessers the same turn that you cast the spell
75
No Lessers May Leave Region
160
All Lessers In Adjacent Regions Forced To Move Into Region
40
No Lessers May Enter Region
125
All Lessers At Region Randomly Move To Adjacent Regions and Current Region
30
Averts Border Battles At Region -- Can be cast on the region on either side of the border
Psylicides
Psylicides, which can prove very powerful in the hands of a skilled caster. The Psylicides are structured around misdirection.
Min Cost: 25
Hide Fortress/Temple From Enemy
35
Hides All Forms At Region From Enemies
10
Allows You to See Enemy Lessers & Woodens in a Forest Region, and Structures Under Construction in All Region Types
60
Region is considered to be unowned (for purposes of Production & Deployment) while Slappy Bomb is in effect
25
Enemies See 3-4 Times The Actual Number Of Lessers At Region
25
Enemies see 0 lessers at region
Ancient Amra
The spells within the Ancient Amra category are defensive combat spells.
Min. Cost: 65
All Lessers Do Not Attack For First 5 Rounds Of Battle
30
Magic Creatures (OF:0,DF:50,AT:0), Numbering 50-100% of Your Forces, Take Damage For You But Do Not Attack
90
Your Lessers Are Invincible Every Other Round of Battle Starting With The First Round
30
Each Player In The Battle Gets Assigned A Random Lesser Type For That Battle
50
Your Lessers' Defense Increased Halfway to 100%
The Jaws of Life
150
Enemy Lessers Do Not Attack for First 3 Rounds of Battle
Gonmol Horde
The Gonmol Horde category contains the offensive combat spells.
Min. Cost: 40
Your Lessers' Offense Decreased by 10% But They Do Triple Damage To Forms
50
Your Lessers Get 2 Attacks Every Round in Battle
25
Your Lessers' Offense Increased Halfway to 100%
80
Pseudo-Form (OF:100; DF:100; AT:30; SIZE:100) Fights With Your Forces for 5 Rounds
25
1 In 5 Chance ALL of Your Lessers Will Rock (AT:5; OF & DF halfway to 100%) - Lethal If Unsuccessful
40
Nullifies Enemy Fortress Bonus
Resources
There a two resources in Evernight. Treasure generated from the various terrain types and Fury earned though Battles!
Treasure
Used to build structures and buy lessers, the main combat force in Evernight. You start the game with 50 Treasure. Each turn, you receive Treasure according to the number and type of regions you control.
Most of the region types have a special property and produce varying amounts of treasure.
There are 6 different region types within Evernight: plains, dunes, swamp, dead forest, mountain, and frozen sea.
Fury
Fury is used to cast spells and to summon and fuel forms. You start the game with 35 fury. Each turn, you receive more fury based on how well your lessers performed in battle the previous turn. You gain 1 point of fury for each enemy lesser they killed and 1 point of fury for each point of damage they did to enemy forms. When your forms kill enemy troops, you do not gain fury. Instead, that form gains experience and becomes harder to kill.
History
Long and deep is the history of Midia. Here you shall find scripts of arcane knowlege and the flora and fauna of this land known as Evernight.
Golden Age of Midia
In the ancient days of Evernight, then known as the planet Midia, a warm sun illuminated a golden age of commerce and culture. The six great nations grew and reached all the glories of a civilized world...
Nergal the Mad
1,000 years of prosperity decayed into global madness in the year 991, when the unspeakable form of Bork, an ageless and unholy entity from beyond the bounds of reason, rose from the shadowy seas of Midia. This terrible bane was brought from its timeless watery slumber by one twisted mortal sorceror known as Nergal the Mad.
Curse of Bork
Every soul on Evernight suffered when Nergal's heinous master rose from his murky resting place to devour and destroy every trace of the Golden Age. Though Nergal himself was one of the first victims of this abomination, his effect on the destiny of Midia had taken its toll, and now only a sorceror of greater power could rescue this small planet from a fate more terrible than any madman's nightmare...
K'Ar Tüf, Queen of Mystery
As Bork's hated form lumbered without direction, bringing blackish rotten death to all that its gangrenous tentacles touched, a young girl in the remote nation of Thrin was undergoing a ceremony as old as Midia itself. Her bloodline was prophesized to rise to the defense of this small world in its darkest hour... and she was the apex of that bloodline. Her name was K'Ar Tüf.
The Black Between
As the prophesy had foreseen, K'Ar Tüf's natural ability to harness arcane and sorcerous powers was without peer. By the time of reckoning, as the epic conflict between her mortal form and the bony hulk of her unholy nemesis drew nigh, K'Ar Tüf mastered Midia's lunar power with the aid of an ancient relic called The Black Between.
The Great Duel
At last the great duel began... it was the year 1006 when at last Bork and K'Ar Tüf met to decide the fate of Midia. On the eleventh day, Bork's fate seemed imminent and the prophesy promised to come true. But who can say what powers shape the truth of foresight or the certainty of the future... for in Bork, god of all that is meant to never be, the strength for one last effort remained.
Darkness Falls Across Midia
In a final convulsion of hate, Bork entangled K'Ar Tüf in his labyrinth of tentacles and leaped from the surface of Midia across the dome of the sky and into the glowing sun. A cataclysmic explosion more furious and destructive than ever known turned the sun to dust, and the planet Midia fell into endless shadow.
It is said The Black Between was blasted into six pieces by the force of the sun's destruction.... casting these shards of power across the face of a world now known as Evernight.
K'Ar Tüf"s Ressurection
For the next millenium the unrelenting darkness infected even the most wise of mortals with fear and madness. The six great nations, which at one time had flown the banners of a golden age, now decayed into ruin and chaos. But deep within the cold earth of Evernight, an ancient energy stirred the disintegrated corpse of K'Ar Tüf to resurrection. It is surmised that dire vengence, raw and brutal, would write the next page in the legend of Evernight...
The Forms
Searching for a means to reassemble The Black Between and destroy Bork for time eternal, the Queen of Mystery tapped the very elements of Evernight for every scarcity of strength. Her mystic reach extended to the core of the most remote mountains, to the depths of the darkest waters, and beyond the burning earth and forgotten lands of the long-dead Golden Age. From these places of power she summoned a race of demigods: The Forms.
The Forms at War
From gaseous pools of chanting light The Forms emerged; each a towering monster of immense power. But before K'Ar Tüf could assemble her supernatural avengers and gather their wits against her vile enemy, their other-wordly wills defied her mortal control. Soon untold numbers of Forms walked Evernight unchecked. The spell out of control and the plan turned disaster, K'Ar Tüf could only struggle to lead a few loyal Forms to victory over their rebellious brethren. For two centuries it was so.
The Death of K'Ar Tüf
The Black Between still lost to the inky wilderness, no decisive power could bring Evernight under control. Forms warred across plain and mountain range as the Gods looked on. At last, whether by destiny or chance, the war of the Forms took the life of K'Ar Tüf in the Battle of Thrin. Since her death, only a chosen few have dared to harness the Forms' power, and even fewer know of The Black Between's existence...hidden away in the furthest corners of the world.
The Prophecy
Now, a new prophesy tells of a final reckoning. "The war of the Forms shall fracture the world, and an ageless God will descend to bring his followers their final deliverance." Who this God is, and what mighty chosen one will lead the forms to recover The Black Between in his name, is not known...for the fable of destiny keeps its secrets well.
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