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Ancient Wonders

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Dear Humans and Elves,

With the next update, planned to be released on Beta on October 15th, there is a huge new feature coming up: the Ancient Wonders!

The once astonishing architectural achievements of your ancestors were not eternally lost in the old world – with the support of your wisest priests and sorceresses you have detected some ancient construction plans written on archaic stone discs. They are somehow mysteriously connected to your races’ heritage and they are sealed with ancient Rune magic.

As you research the first Ancient Wonders technology at the end of Chapter IV, you will unlock the Ancient Wonder Menu in the main menu. When you open it, you will find an overview of all Ancient Wonders available to you, as well as the ones that are still locked.

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From here on you can navigate to the Ancient Wonder you wish to build: To build it, you will have to reveal all magical runes on the circle at the left side.

How do you reveal the Runes?
To activate the full Rune Circle, you need to insert Rune Shards. With a bit of fortune, inserting a Rune Shard will reveal one of the Runes within the Circle. In some cases you might reveal a Rune which has already been activated. In this case your Shard breaks. But don’t worry, broken Shards are not useless. Once you have collected 10 of them, you can forge them to unlock one Rune of your choice (for any Ancient Wonder).

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Where do I get Rune Shards?
You can gain them for completing provinces and helping your friends research upgrades for their respective Ancient Wonders. Additionally, some quests will provide Rune Shards. You are also able to purchase Runes by forging them from Diamonds.

Upcoming features will provide you with further options to collect Rune Shards in the near future. Stay tuned!

How do I upgrade Ancient Wonders?
After you have placed your Ancient Wonders, you can upgrade them to boost their bonuses. For this purpose you need to research their next levels by spending Knowledge Points in a research progress bar, similar to technologies. Once the bar is full, you can spend Relics to finish the upgrading process.

Every fifth level there will be a new Rune Circle to be revealed, as the architectural magic of your ancestors is taking its toll. No fear, your neighbors and Fellowship can help you out.

How can my Fellowship and neighbours help me?
Once they have unlocked the Ancient Wonders technology, they are able to spend Knowledge Points in your Ancient Wonder. This will also reward them with additional Rune Shards if they finish the process as a top contributor. This way your neighbors and Fellowship will be very valuable for achieving your goals.

What exactly are Ancient Wonders for?
Besides the fact that they look really amazing and are huge, they also grant you big time permanent bonuses, for example: additional culture, population, extra troops health or Neighborly Help boosts, whereas the Dwarven Wonders will grant you unit auto-production and additional training size.

To top it off, you will also see the counterparts of your Ancient wonders in the background of your city, providing some amazing views.

All in all, this new feature offers you a huge variety of new content to play through. We hope you enjoy it just as much as we enjoyed creating it. As always, we are looking forward to hearing your feedback. Please let us know what you think in the discussion thread!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
We are sorry to have to announce that the release of Ancient Wonders on Beta will be moved to next week, as there have come up some last-minute issues that we have to fix before we can release the Ancient Wonders. We will still update the game tomorrow, though, so everything else that was planned is still being installed on Beta as previously planned. We ask for your understanding.

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
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