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The rules described on this site are not authoritative.
The official rules of the game are available in this wiki.

This site reproduces the rules of the game described in the wiki, fully translated into English.

What is here?

• The Rules
• Registering for the game
• E-Announce: mailing list for rules changes — IMPORTANT!
• Tools
• Tips for beginners
• The story of Eressea
• Eressea originates from Atlantis
• Frequently asked questions to the game master.

Noteworthy pages

• Orders sequence - the most important rules page
• Tactics - How many tacticians for which bonus
• Familiars - All about those magical creatures
• Development of tools or tool-based scripts
• Xontormia Express - a gazette and its archived issues
• Archive of announcements of rules changes
• Player pages
• You play too much Eressea if ...

List of games

Eressea

This is the main game that has been running since 1996.
Since there were some rules changes in 2000, it is known as "The Second Age", or E2 for short.

E3 (discontinued)

On June 24^th, 2009 the Third Age of Eressea started.
The Third Age is a new world with a lot of rules changes.
Less micro management and a clearer profile for races where the main design goals.
The game ended on August 11, 2019 after 517 turns.

• An overview about race changes (in German)
• List of rules changes compared to E2 (in German)
• Announcements from the e3-announce mailing list

Deveron (discontinued)

On April 19, 2014 a new game called Deveron for Enno's Patreons.
The world started with E3 rules, but was supposed to be subject to further changes.
It ended with turn 243 on March 2, 2019.

Drachensgrab (discontinued)

A game started by Solthar in 2017 that featured E3 rules with a few tweaks and 3 turns per week.

• Forum thread (in German)
• Rules (in German)

External Links

• Eressea home page
• Registration for E2 is open!
• Discord server: you can find friendly players and answers to your rules questions in German, English, and other languages here.
• Forum for Eressea
• Mantis - report bugs here
• Magellan
• CSMapFX
• Ralf Duckstein's Eressea wiki
• Eressea on Wikipedia
• The best known map of the known world
• Who is Who of Eressea (in the Internet Archive, in German)
• Generator of excuses for war

Continue reading: rules.