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Keep Control

How the keeps work →

Thorn Keep

Owners get the thorn aura from their healer

Justice

Taken from Conclave

The Citadel

Owners receive bonus saves

Slayers

Taken from Knighthood

Misery Keep

Owners control the veil of misery

Chaos

Taken from Slayers
Spell target: Shadow

Purgatory Keep

Owning kingdom gains hit, damage & armor

Abaddon

Last owners New Thalos

THE UNDERWORLD KEEPS

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The Dragon Thrones

High Dragonlord Balerion the Topaz · 5 of 5 claimed The Five Thrones →

AlthainiaAshRyzzynth the BrownReign 0 days

ArkaniaSecretsBalerion the TopazReign 2 days

IcewallRimeSpyre the SilverReign 0 days

TropicaFang and VineAtravirox the BlackReign 1 day

ShokonoStormBrasmankai the BrassReign 1 day

Player Killers of the Week

PK of the Week

Terri

[Shalonesti] Bladesinger Shalonesti elf · 15 kills

#	Name	Kills	Clan	Class	Race
1	Terri	15		Bladesinger	Shalonesti elf
2	Tobryck	14		Armsman	Giant ogre
3	Freduardo	13		Battlerager	Hill dwarf
4	Madox	12		Skald	Half ogre
5	Paco	11		Samurai	Yinn
6	Thurindol	11		Ranger	Arboren
7	Kemo	10		Transmuter	Pixie
8	Ezrianne	9		Skald	Human
9	Vycktor	8		Skald	Human
10	Tharrek	8	TEAM: ME	Shaman	Wemic
11	Mercerion	7		Samurai	Human
12	Aymer	6		Invoker	Shalonesti elf
13	Z'szytheis	6		Bandit	Bakali
14	Gares	6		Battlerager	Hill dwarf
15	Kabal	6		Shadowknight	Human
16	Ol'ur	6		Armsman	Ogre
17	Vezrathis	6		Dragon	Blue dragon
18	Fenna	6		Armsman	Human
19	Darcell	6		Enchantor	Dark elf
20	Zishraedanth	6		Mentalist	Dark elf

Algoron Gladiator League

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Piknim

22 – 2 · Kender Witch from Verminasia

Althainian Champion

Cedarmold 11 – 1

Arboren Shaman from Verminasia

Current Top 10 Contenders

#	Contender	Record	Race & Class	Affiliation
1	*Paklop	17 – 5	Human Paladin	Knighthood
2	Tyrinx	23 – 12	Pixie Transmuter	White Robes
3	Plike	44 – 55	Mountain Dwarf Battlerager	Wargar
4	Embrel	9 – 2	Mul Monk	Wargar
5	Thuken	14 – 15	Mountain Dwarf Priest	Wargar
6	Tamello	14 – 15	Lepori Druid	Bloodlust
7	Lohla	6 – 0	Lagodae Charlatan	Loner
8	Vigo	5 – 0	Yinn Monk	Bloodlust
9	Zecnys	5 – 8	Dark elf Shaman	Abaddon
10	Coenin	6 – 4	Lepori Nightshade	Arkane

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DSL News

Game updates

New Class: Avengers of Justice
(Wednesday Nov 4, 2026)

Every wound has an answer.
Justice has a new path: the Avenger, a fighter and curse-caster who binds one enemy with a Brand of Reckoning. Press the Wound builds Reckoning through steel; Remembered Pain builds it when that foe strikes back. Store up to six points, then decide how to collect.

Make the debt count.
Reprisal delivers a stronger weapon strike. Burden of Violence weakens the branded foe's attacks, Strip the False challenges a magical defense, and No Absolution hinders incoming healing. Collect the Debt spends four to six Reckoning on a heavy finishing strike.

Stand for someone.
A consenting group companion can become your Witness. Refuse the Grave wards incoming damage, Answering Steel prepares a counter, and Return the Hurt restores limited health from the damage you inflict. Grudge reads the recent trail of a branded foe.

Answer the Executor's call.
Good members of Justice from any eligible base class may take this path at level 51 if they have not already reclassed. Only the Executor may induct an Avenger through the mortal reclass command. Leaving Justice, exile or losing good alignment cuts off the Avenger arts.

Read help avenger and help avenger reckoning in game, or explore the Avenger class page.

New Class: Chaos Weavers
(Thursday Oct 29, 2026)

The world has loose threads.
When Malachive broke the world's chains, some links were left hanging. Seanan, once Master of the Conclave, learned to pull on them. The spellcasters he trains in the Warp are the Chaos Weavers, a new reclass exclusive to Chaos.

Build Entropy. Leave Reality Scars.
Reality Tear and Discord mark a foe with Scars while Weaver spells build Entropy. More Entropy means stronger magic, but pushing it too far risks a Reality Break. Collapse spends the Scars and Entropy in a devastating finisher; Reverse Causality spends Entropy to undo part of the Weaver's recent wounds.

Make reality reconsider.
Warp Flesh grants an unpredictable mutation. Unmake temporarily removes a foe's strongest magical protection. Impossible Geometry can turn an escape route back into the room, while Borrowed Tomorrow grants a burst of power followed by exhaustion.

Learn the weave.
Members of Chaos from any base class may seek this path at level 51, provided they have not already reclassed. Only the Everchosen may perform the reclass. Weavers wear cloth armor, and leaving Chaos cuts off all their spellcasting.

Read help chaos weaver, help weaver entropy and help reality scars in game, or explore the Chaos Weaver class page.

The Order of Shadow, Reforged
(Wednesday Oct 28, 2026)

The Umbra answers.
Drakkara's Shadowknights have new arts: umbral ward, dark fury, abyssal rend, duskblade and Drakkara's tempest, and in the Umbral Arts, the diablerie, shadowmaw and Telthian's torment. A great two-handed weapon can now be carried with a shield.

Followers of Necrucifer may swear to Drakkara once with pledge drakkara.

Old powers, reworked
The death knights now hold fleeing foes, and Drakkara favors her own in unholy rapture, dark essence and intimidate. Shadowknights outside the Order keep the ways they've always known.

See the help files in game, or the Shadow Knight page.

The Algoron Herald | Bloodlust Sighting

The Algoron Herald

Bloodlust Sighting Sends Herald Staff the Other Way (Tuesday Nov 10, 2026)

By Master Odric Pennywhistle, Correspondent at a Respectful Distance

Three figures near Bloodlust’s clan hall

Gentle reader, three figures have been spotted around Bloodlust’s clan hall. Witnesses say they seem very aggressive. I underlined very twice. Our editor, who pays for the ink, has underlined it a third time.

Each had a curious iron grille across the chest. My editor asked me to sketch one from memory and has since asked me to remember it better.

My editor asked how close I got. “Close enough to count.” “Could you count them again?” she asked. I counted to three right there in her office. She put a small question mark beside the word again.

A witness offered to point out the spot. I asked whether he would care to accompany me. He pointed again, this time with the conviction of a man who had found his calling in the pointing trade.

The accounts desk queried my claim for a pair of new boots. I explained that my old pair took me out at a walking pace and brought me back at the speed of a rumor. The clerk has approved the left boot. He considers the right one an accomplice.

At the editorial meeting I suggested that a second correspondent might lend the story a fresh perspective. Everyone agreed and nominated someone who was out of the room. The motion carried as far as the door.

Editor’s note. Master Pennywhistle has asked for a safer assignment. He suggests reviewing a bakery from inside the bakery.

The realm of Algoron awaits.