The folks at The Chronicles of Spellborn have released this new Art Journal focusing on the Shorath Mesa area of the game.

Hello and welcome to this new art dev journal. In this journal I shall describe the progress of the creation of Shorath Mesa, the most recently added area in the world of Spellborn, it's located on Ringfell.

When the design document for Shorath Mesa was created it was still really vague how the area should turn out. There were some general ideas which involved ancient ruins, a swamp and an Urvhail settlement. The location was also known, it was to become the latest addition to Ringfell, a basin located higher than any other location on Ringfell.

As work begun on Shorath Mesa some things were changed from the design document and some additions were made, this all in cooperation with the game design department. One of the first things to change was the approach. Shorath Mesa is located south of Garminholm, since Shorath Mesa was to be located on a high altitude basin we required some changes to Garminholm itself. The reason for this is that players had to cross this altitude distance. Since we don’t have high-speed elevators or jump-pads in Spellborn we had to come up with another solution.

Read it all here.

I have to give CoS high marks for creative (and logical) landscape designs and also for providing regular updates to the public.

I am really looking forward to trying this game!

I really hope this game is all it seems to be. I been following it's development for a couple years now. I also hope that they have the total funds needed to get it done and supported for a while til the mmo community catches on. I hope it is not another Dark and light.

It's looking very nice indeed. Been following it for a while as well and I can't wait to roam around.

I like the art a lot, can't wait to be able to explore the world. The art team has done good work, as far as I can judge by the screenshots, I can only hope the programmers are at least as talented and this game would rule them all :)

Originally posted by eccoton

I hope it is not another Dark and light.

It isn't. Trust me.

Originally posted by eccoton

I really hope this game is all it seems to be. I been following it's development for a couple years now. I also hope that they have the total funds needed to get it done and supported for a while til the mmo community catches on. I hope it is not another Dark and light.

They have the funds to release in Europe and china. There will be no release in NA when it goes gold in 3 months. If you want to play this game at the start you will need to buy the European version and play on European servers.

The mods on this site don't seem to like TCoS but hey there are plenty of european sites that do. You are not allowed to talk about it in the pub mmorpg section of this site even though people mention AOC/WAR/AION all the time, for some reason talking about TCoS outside of its own forum is a no no.

Probably because its a threat to there two pet loves AOC/WAR..