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"The Lands of Aethar" was a MUD (Multi-User-Dimension) which ran from 1994 until 2009. Until it closed down,
Aethar was the second oldest game running Derek Snider's SMAUG code engine. Thousands of players explored the Lands over many years.
After Validus made the decision to shut down the game, he gave me all the game's files, representing a frozen copy of the universe
as it was in its very final moments. I was the head programmer of the game during the early 2000's, so I took it upon myself to create
a snapshot of the world and transform it into HTML so that it might be preserved forever on the internet. The Lands of Aethar are
frozen now, a ghostly untouchable world forever locked in torpor; but, honored guest, feel free to explore the unmoving universe and
rekindle in your imagination some of the valorous deeds that once took place here.
Click now to be transported to The Market Square of Bedlam...