Archlorath

Dear Players,
After many months of hard work, dedication and countless hours of development, we are proud to finally present a project that aims to bring back the feeling that made MMORPGs a memorable part of our lives.

We are veterans of Chantra ourselves, and we bring years of technical experience from outside the game as well. Our goal has always been simple: a stable, competitive and enjoyable server that respects the spirit of the original while improving on its weaknesses.

Before the gates open, we would like to share a few things about how we intend to run this world.

As many of you know, keeping a game server alive is expensive. We are fully prepared to fund and operate ArchLorath for at least one year, regardless of donations or community support.

Any support we receive goes first to server maintenance, infrastructure, security and long-term stability. Our objective is to secure operational costs two years ahead. Once those are covered, everything beyond them goes straight into development: new content, quality-of-life work and expansion projects.

The content available at launch is built with long-term progression in mind. Our goal is for you to still have meaningful objectives roughly seven months from launch day — we do not want this world consumed in a few weeks.

If everything goes to plan, when we gather here again next year you can expect a new chapter: new features, improvements, balance adjustments and entirely new content.

Transparency matters to us, so here is ours in plain words. We are giving ourselves one year to judge how ArchLorath and its community grow, and our commitment does not depend on what the donations look like. Updates, bug fixes, balance changes, optimisations and security improvements keep arriving as part of our ongoing roadmap.

We started from a clean foundation and rebuilt, reworked and improved countless systems, adding our own ideas and mechanics while preserving the core experience players love.

One of our strongest beliefs is that a server launch should be exciting. That is why we deliberately chose not to run a public beta. Discovering the game together, competing on equal footing, makes for a far more rewarding start — we wanted launch day to feel like a true beginning, not the continuation of months of testing.

The result is a smoother and more stable experience than the original game was ever able to provide. For the first time, Siege battles can be played the way they were always meant to be played.

Performance naturally depends on your hardware, but we optimised the game for older PCs and integrated graphics just as much as for high-end systems. A tremendous amount of effort went into keeping large-scale battles responsive and enjoyable.

We will not share every detail of how this was achieved — that part is our team's own work. What matters is that you get to enjoy the result.

Fair monetisation
One of the first questions we asked ourselves was how to keep a server sustainable without compromising fair gameplay.

A premium currency store has become a common part of online gaming. Our position, however, has always been that a player who never buys a single Lorath Coin should still be able to progress a character fully through gameplay alone. Essential progression items, levelling resources and core gameplay requirements can be obtained by grinding, trading and player-to-player interaction.

By supporting the server through the Lorath Pass you help us maintain and develop ArchLorath while the competitive environment stays fair for everyone.

Over the years we have watched players create one e-mail address after another just to run several game accounts, and then fight to recover the ones they forgot.

So we built a single account manager instead. One primary e-mail address, one profile, and as many game accounts as you need — created and managed from one place at archlorath.com. You only ever need the address you already use.

Our position on cheating and unauthorised software is straightforward: we have the tools and the monitoring in place to identify, investigate and flag anyone who tries to gain an unfair advantage.

We also believe punishment should be reasonable and proportional. Players make mistakes, and wherever possible we prefer corrective action over immediate permanent exclusion

There is one exception. Scamming, stealing items, account theft and any form of deliberate player fraud end in a permanent and irreversible ban. We do not tolerate theft in any form. ArchLorath is built on competition, respect and community trust, and anyone who exploits that trust to steal from others has no place in this community.

Thank you
To everyone who believed in this project, followed our progress, supported us and waited patiently for launch: thank you.

Today marks the beginning of a new adventure. Visit our website, subscribe to our YouTube channel for future updates and teasers, gather your friends, prepare your guilds, and join us on Discord to get ready for Evolution of War, the first chapter of ArchLorath!