A player in a horned helm climbing a hill of red grass toward the setting sun, between autumn trees.

A free fantasy MMO that plays in your browser. Aim every block, arrow, spell, and strike. 20 skills to grind and master.

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Whispered Scrolls is in open alpha and evolving daily. Needs a keyboard and mouse.

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See Aethermere in Motion

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A player mid-swing in a glowing sword attack against a pair of bats in a dark forest clearing.

Old-School Progression, Modern Combat

The skill grind of the classic browser MMOs, rebuilt as a real-time action game.

Skill-Based Action Combat

There's no tab targeting. Aim every block, arrow, spell, and strike.

A knight in dark plate with a greatsword and a tall shield facing a Giant Spider, its charge marked by a glowing red lane across the path. — A Giant Spider's charge, painted on the ground before it lands.

Read the wind-upCreatures wind up before they strike, and the hit lands when the wind-up ends. Bigger attacks mark the ground before they land.
Time your parryRaise your guard just as a blow lands and you take nothing. The attacker staggers, and your next hit lands harder.
Roll and jumpA roll slips through blows. Jump clear of slams, shockwaves and low sweeps, and swing in the air to plunge down on landing.
Round, kite or towerBigger shields cover more of you but slow you down and cut your damage. Purple-gold telegraphs can't be blocked at all.

Five combat skills and 21 weapon types

There are no classes. The weapon in your hand decides the skill you train, and you can switch whenever you like. Every weapon type has its own trait and four abilities. An axe's combo finisher opens a bleed, a mace ignores 30% of armour, a dagger crits more from behind, and a longbow hits harder the farther the shot. Each weapon keeps its own hotbar, and one character can train all five combat skills.

Skill	Role	Weapons	Armour
Might	Melee damage	Sword Axe Mace Dagger Spear Greatsword	Warhide armour
Precision	Ranged damage	Bow Crossbow Flintlock Blunderbuss	Leather, quivers, powder horns
Arcana	Magic damage	Staff Wand Sceptre Runeblade	Cloth robes
Restoration	Healer	Tome Reliquary Censer Prayer bell	Vestments, focus orbs
Guard	Tank	Shield Flail Halberd	Plate and shields

A tree crashing down beside a player standing in a green beam of light under a Woodcutting 8 level-up banner.

20 Skills to Master

Fight, gather, craft and explore, all on one character.

Craft your own gear, upgrade it to +3 and sell the rest at the Exchange in Hearthmoor.

Combat

MightMelee damage with blades, axes and maces.
PrecisionBows, crossbows and blackpowder pistols.
ArcanaSpells from staves, wands, sceptres and runeblades.
GuardTanking. Take the hits and hold the aggro.
VitalityYour health. Every fight trains it.
RestorationHeal and ward your friends.

Gathering

WoodcuttingFell trees for logs, from oak to yew.
MiningMine ore, from copper all the way to aether.
FishingCatch fish to cook.
ForagingPick herbs and plants for potions.

Artisan

SmithingSmelt bars and forge weapons and armour.
FletchingBows, arrows and staves.
TailoringCloth robes, Vestments and tomes.
LeatherworkingWarhide, leather armour and quivers.
CookingFood that heals you between fights.
AlchemyPotions and brews.
EnchantingPut magic into your gear.
JewelcraftingCut gems and make rings and amulets.

Utility

AgilityStamina, sprint and dodge. Trained on jump courses.
BountyTake hunting contracts on dangerous creatures.

A party of five players dancing together with their arms raised outside a lamplit stone hut at night, their names floating above them.

Party up with your friends

A party holds up to 5 players. Someone tanks, someone heals and everyone else hits hard.

BossesWorld bosses at their lairs, phased fights built for a full party
Group questsStory chapters you take on together
Dungeons21 instanced dungeons, levels 4 to 99
LootEveryone gets their own drops

For the grinders

What the grind looks like

Craft in batches, watch your haul add up by the hour and stash the lot in the bank. Click a shot to read it up close.

The Rootwarden, a towering outlined tree giant, looming over a player in a forest clearing at night.

The story

The seventh Scroll is still missing

Hear the Whispers, follow the shards across Aethermere and reach them before the Hushed do.

166 quests, and some of them play out like small mysteries. In A Hush in the Hollow, Hearthmoor's lamps go dark at midnight. You question the neighbours, steep a cloth that swallowed a voice and name the culprit, then decide whether she gets your mercy or the watch.

Embers
Tides
Roots
Stone
Gales
Starlight
Dawn

Pinned up in Hearthmoor

Strong backs wanted. No geese.

These are pinned up on the Hearthmoor board right now, and yes, one of them is about a goose.

See the board in game

The Delvers' Hall on Tinker's Rise records every party going underground. Sign the ledger going in. Sign it again coming out, if you can.
Carters wanted: the Wagon Yard outside the Carters' Gate wants strong backs and sound knees. Apply to Cartmaster Axle. No geese.
Rats: the Ryefields outside the Mere Gate are overrun. Bertram Oake offers breakfast and a theory. Inquire at the Mere Gate.
Lost: one goose, answers to Your Honour. Do not approach. Last seen at the Exchange. Reward: the honour.

The in-game parchment map of Aethermere: an island of coloured regions from Thornwood and Ironcrest in the north to the Wickstrand Coast and the Salt Sisters in the south, with towns and lamp-stones marked.

The world

Aethermere Is Open

Thornwood. Saltmire. The Sunscar Dunes. Hollow Barrow. Cinderhold. The Veilspire.

6.4 km across. You start at the harbour in Wickhaven and head north through moors, badlands, dunes, deep forests and mountains.
20 towns and outposts. Each one has a bank, an inn and a Lamp-stone for fast travel, and when you fall you wake at the nearest stone you have touched. Smiths gather at the furnaces in Stonebrook, tailors at the looms in Silverford, and traders at the Exchange in Hearthmoor.
21 dungeons. Instanced delves for up to five players, levels 4 to 99, each with its own bosses.

See it in screenshots

A player in a horned helm standing in tall grass under a starry sky, fireflies drifting toward blue mountain peaks and pale creatures on the plain.

After dark

Then the stars come out

Watch the sun sink over the moors and the stars fill the sky above the peaks. Then head for the nearest lamp-stone, or keep going into the dark.

Screenshots

Scenes from Aethermere

All taken in game during the alpha. Click any shot to see it bigger.

Patch notes

Everything we've changed, newest first. We patch often.

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Whispered Scrolls for Windows

The desktop app plays the same live game with the same account and characters. It always uses your graphics card and keeps itself up to date.

Download for Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. About 100 MB. Signed by the developer.

Not on Windows?

Mac and Linux: Play in Chrome or Edge in a tab and bookmark it. Apps for these may come later.
Firefox: Firefox runs the game poorly. Use Chrome or Edge instead.

Open Alpha

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It's free, and you'll be out in the world in about a minute. We're still in open alpha and we'd love to hear what you think.

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