Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Level 1 - Next level at 100 experience points.

Your experience

Level: Next level at 100 experience points.

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.

An occurrence! Your 'Main Quest' Quality is now 1 - Check the house to find some clues!


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always

Click on the button "Go" to create your character sheet


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...

An occurrence! Your 'Location' Quality is now Merovin!

An occurrence! Your 'Level' Quality is now 1 - Next level at 100 experience points.!

0 change points, 2 more needed to reach level 2.

An occurrence! Your 'Fighting skills' Quality is now 1!

An occurrence! Your 'Discovery Skills' Quality is now 1!

Your "A Stranger" quality has gone. Welcome to the world!

An occurrence! Your 'Diplomacy Skills' Quality is now 1!

An occurrence! Your 'Athletic skills' Quality is now 1!

An occurrence! Your 'Experience Points' Quality is now 1!


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

            1
            You need Main Quest 1 and Main Quest no more than 1 (you have 1)

            1
            Unlocked with Main Quest 1 - you have 1

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Success!

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

            1
            You need Main Quest 1 and Main Quest no more than 1 (you have 2)

            1
            Unlocked with Main Quest 1 - you have 2

In the ashes of your house you find a small metal box that was kept intact. You open it and find a ring with a small crystal attached to it. Carved on the inside are the words: "Dragon Slayer".

Your parents have never told you anything about such a ring. While you have no clue what the item could be it seems important enough that you decide to keep it in your pocket.

There is nothing else to salvage from the ashes. This is time to leave your home. Maybe some neighbours from the fields of Lynlith have seen something. At least this seems like the most likely option to get more information on the incident.

You have successfully completed the objective of a quest. The quest line continues and has now a new objective to complete. In addition, you received experience points that will help toward increasing your level.

You succeeded in a Discovery Skills challenge!

An occurrence! Your 'Main Quest' Quality is now 2 - Ask some neighbors in Lynlith!

You now have 1 x A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer"..

You've gained 30 x Experience Points (new total 31).


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

1 x A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

The ring given by your father


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

The ring given by your father


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

Your adventure begins...

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Success!

A modest challenge

You search among the ruins for a long time. You discover a lot of useless items: some plates, spoons and forks, a metallic box, a wooden toy.

Finally, patience is rewarded! You see a shiny coin under a big layer of rubble. Your search was not for nothing!

1 change point, 1 more needed to reach level 2.

Discovery Skills is increasing...

You now have 1 x Gold.

You've gained 1 x Experience Points (new total 2).


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Beta test

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Success!

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

The Hamlet Merovin

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

In the ashes of your house you find a small metal box that was kept intact. You open it and find a ring with a small crystal attached to it. Carved on the inside are the words: "Dragon Slayer".

Your parents have never told you anything about such a ring. While you have no clue what the item could be it seems important enough that you decide to keep it in your pocket.

There is nothing else to salvage from the ashes. This is time to leave your home. Maybe some neighbours from the fields of Lynlith have seen something. At least this seems like the most likely option to get more information on the incident.

You have successfully completed the objective of a quest. The quest line continues and has now a new objective to complete. In addition, you received experience points that will help toward increasing your level.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

The ring given by your father


The Hamlet Merovin

Always

Always

Look for gold

A modest challenge


Failure!

A modest challenge

You look for a long time among all the ruins. You discover a lot of useless items: some plates, spoons and forks, a metallic box, a wooden toy, but not a single coin!

Discovery Skills 1 failed in a challenge! Try again and you may have better luck...

Discovery Skills is increasing...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

The ring given by your father


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

A ring engraved with "Dragon Slayer".

The ring given by your father


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

The Hamlet Merovin

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Failure!

A modest challenge

You look for a long time among all the ruins. You discover a lot of useless items: some plates, spoons and forks, a metallic box, a wooden toy, but not a single coin!

Discovery Skills is increasing...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Failed!

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

You rummage through the ashes and the mess of the battle, but you cannot find anything valuable to keep. You should keep searching.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always

Introduction to the game

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Success!

A modest challenge

You search among the ruins for a long time. You discover a lot of useless items: some plates, spoons and forks, a metallic box, a wooden toy.

Finally, patience is rewarded! You see a shiny coin under a big layer of rubble. Your search was not for nothing!

Discovery Skills is increasing...

You now have 1 x Gold.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


You can now start again.

Restart your character from scratch.

Beta test

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

Always

Always

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Success!

A modest challenge

You search among the ruins for a long time. You discover a lot of useless items: some plates, spoons and forks, a metallic box, a wooden toy.

Finally, patience is rewarded! You see a shiny coin under a big layer of rubble. Your search was not for nothing!

Discovery Skills is increasing...

You now have 1 x Gold.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Beta test

Always

Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Gold

Gold


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

Always

Always

Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience

Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Beta test

The game is still in beta test. This card allows you to restart your character from scratch if you want.

For any comments, please use the forum at this thread. I am still finalizing the balance, so if something is too hard, too long, or not appropriate, please let me know on the forum, this is very important feedback.

If you are stuck somewhere without any option, feel free to send a message to the forum or to contact me directly.

Always

Always

Restart your character from scratch.

Beta test

Province of Manthria

The province of Manthria in the continent of Sarvonia.

Use this option with cautious. All your progression will be lost and you will start from the beginning as new.


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Introduction to the game

Welcome to "Shadows over Santharia", a role-playing game in the fantasy world of Santharia. Your character will live through an epic adventure in the United Kingdom of Santharia and travel around the world, completing quests and mastering a plethora of challenges along the way.

This game is heavily based on the world created by The Santharian Dream project. Thanks to all the writers and artists for this great content: Bard Judith (Judy Alkema), Quellion (Santiago Iborra), Faugar (Rafal Hrynkiewicz), Eratin (Jeff Lee Johnsen), Jeshannon (John Manuel Shannon), Reegen (Frank Att), Bkiani (Barda Kiani), Seeker (Bradly Van Camp), Jordy (Jordy Lakiere) - and many more...

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a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Congratulations!

Your character sheet is now ready to be played.

On the left panel you can see the main information: your location. The location affects the list of actions you can perform at any given moment. In order to know where you are, you can position your mouse over the mountain picture.

Further down you can see a list of your stats. The first one is your level, followed by your XP (experience points). Every successful action will reward you a small amount of experience points. Quests will give you a much larger amount. When your experience points increase above a certain value, you will level up.

The rest of the page is filled with your skills: fighting, discovery, diplomacy and athletics. These four basic skills are required in many actions throughout the world, and slowly increase after each skill challenge.

Ready? Then it's time to start your adventure...


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Your adventure begins...

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Your experience


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Your experience


Beta test

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Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Introduction to the game

Always

Always


a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Your adventure begins...

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Always


Location

Location

Level

Your experience


Location

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Level

Your experience


The Hamlet Merovin

The hamlet is gone. All houses are burned to ashes.

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Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

Maybe there is something to salvage. Perhaps you can find more information about what happened.

Choosing this option will continue your main quest. Once this action has been performed successfully, it will not be available anymore as the story will continue.

This option is a skill challenge. When you activate such action, the challenge is executed. If this is a success, you usually gain some item, or knowledge. In this case, as the action is related to a quest, it will advance the story of the quest.

Look for gold

A modest challenge

You are sure that within the ashes of all the houses you should find some gold pieces - maybe in burned desks or hidden boxes where the villagers used to keep their money.

This option is a regular skill challenge. It is always available (unlike a quest option which is available only once), and you can re-use it as much as you want.

If the challenge succeeds, you usually gain an item or reputation and a small amount of experience points. In addition, you also receive some skill points to increase the level of the particular skill that was challenged. A failure usually gives you more skill points (so it is useful to try even a difficult skill challenge).

Once you reach a certain level in a specific skill, the challenge will not increase this particular skill level any more, but you will still receive the various rewards associated with the action.


Failed!

Search in the ashes of your house.

A very modest challenge

You rummage through the ashes and the mess of the battle, but you cannot find anything valuable to keep. You should keep searching.


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Introduction to the game

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a stranger

A past yet to be revealed


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Your adventure begins...

All your life you've been living in the hamlet of Merovin in the Duchy of Caeytharia, a small, quiet village in the Santharian province of Manthria. It is located at the very south of the Manthrian map, along the western shore of the Yanthian Gulf. The full map of Manthria by the way is available on the Santharian Dream website.

Note that you will have access to a small version of the map every time you need to move to a new location.

There's not that much to tell about Merovin, only that it consists of just a few houses. The main occupation of the village is fishing. It's a very quiet place with very few travellers stopping here.

You've been living with your parents all your life. In your twenties, you are now the main fisherman of the house as your father is getting a bit old for the rough Adanian Sea.

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Fishing in the Yanthian Gulf

As usual, you spend your morning on the sea and pull lots of fish out of the sea. You are quite satisfied and happy with your day, as you even manage to catch a gigantic bonehead fish.

It is time now to return home to Merovin. Your empty stomach is starting to make some noise. Eagerly you long for the nice lunch your mother must have prepared already.


Something is wrong...

The fate of Merovin.

You quickly jump out of the boat on to the small wooden dock as the horror fully assails you: The village is empty. The houses and huts have collapsed and have burnt to the ground completely. You can see many signs that indicate a battle, blood is everywhere, lots of items lie scattered around the area.

As you approach the shore you notice smoke in the sky, and a smell of burned wood.

A dark premonition strikes you. You realize that the smoke is emerging from your village! The area is usually full of cheerful sounds from children playing outside, but today everything is silent. Dead silent.


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Fighting skills

Your ability to fight monsters. Increases by doing challenges.

Discovery Skills

Skills related to observation and discovery of hidden elements. Increases by doing challenges.

Diplomacy Skills

All skills related to interactions with other persons. Increases by doing challenges.

Athletic skills

Ability related to all athletic challenges. Increases by doing challenges.


Judging by the bodies you envision the horrible scenes that must have taken place here not too long ago: helpless common folk trying to grab weapons to defend themselves, then running in despair from their assailants, torches being thrown, swords striking at them, their houses burning...

You just received a new quest. The quests are listed in the second tab of your character sheet. You should regularly take a look to check on your next objective.


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Your experience