Welcome to Underlight: Shades of Truth!

Underlight is an online roleplaying game that originated as one of the first of its kind just before the turn of the century. Unlike many other RPGs to follow, Underlight would focus on traditional roleplay, promoting creative interactions and complex political structures that, for the most part, evolved at the hands of the players themselves. Mindless power gaming was discouraged to promote the realistic nature of the roleplay environment.

Non-Player Characters would be limited completely to dark creatures that provided an outlet for combat and experience. All other player interactions were represented by the actual controllers of players or gamemasters that worked to guide and support the storylines as they developed.

The environment would unfold, quite literally, in a dream. The premise being that certain individuals, otherwise separated physically on their home world of Cloudsbreak, would advance not technologically but mentally, learning to control their conscious in order to enter a shared dreamstate and interact with others that did the same. Their collective thoughts would create the city of Underlight.

Underlight was created and ran by Lyra Studios for over a decade until they announced in 2007 that the dream had ended. Later that year, Ixios Development and many of the players, unwilling to let the dream die, would pick up the project, and operate it free of charge. Thus, Shades of Truth was born with the same desire to promote true roleplay in a creative graphic environment. The premise of the dream city remains, but the story takes place many thousands of years later as the newly awakened find themselves in a city long ago abandoned, facing new terrors and challenges.

The City of Dreams awaits you...