Illyriad is pleased to announce the launch of Illypedia, the game’s first official wiki resource. Illypedia offers players a unique blend of game-oriented content, including a definitive, up-to-date knowledge base of descriptions and stats for all of the game’s units and structures, as well as deep, immersive lore entries that expand Illyriad’s legendarium beyond its in-game features.
The launch of Illypedia is the result of 4+ months of steady, behind-the-scenes work to create, assemble, and present the content in a format that is easily searchable and accessible. The site, which is built in a subdomain of the main Illyriad website, features a responsive search field, A-Z navigation, and several menu drop-downs that organizes wiki content for easy user access. Additionally, Illypedia features an extensive list of contextual internal links that allows users to freely navigate related content and interact with a wide range of topics relating to the game and its lore.At launch, Illypedia has already published 2,666 individual entries. These entries include individual entries for:
Buildings and City Structures, including their in-game descriptions, resources needed to build and level them up, and other critical information
Game Units, including military, diplomatic, faction, trade, natural, and city-based units. These include descriptions, build times, combat stats, and other critical information.
Game Items, including all of the published game information about basic, T2, and T3 resources.
Research Information, including the research description, cost in research points and time, and research category.
Stats and criteria for things like population milestones for building a new city, terrain bonuses in combat, and more.
In addition to the basic information that governs the game, Illypedia also presents and vastly expands on game content related to factions, lore, and the game map. New content includes:
Regional resource pages that offer technical data on every region in Elgea and the Broken Lands.
Memorials and special squares on the map that memorialize significant events and players.
Local regions and places that are referenced in the lore, including new details and lore as well as their associated factions and races.
Every faction trade hub and outpost, including their descriptions, locations, affiliations, and more.
All Faction profiles and lore, with links to their associated locations on the map, default racial standings, and inter-factional relationships.
Racial info pages on the 4 playable races, as well as summaries of all the other races in the game, cross-linked to their respective faction profiles.
All Illy lore, including the creation stories of the 4 major races, as well as newly-written lore that expands on what already exists in-game, including:
In-depth character dossiers of living and historical leaders, loremasters, commanders, and other important figures.
Full texts of famous books and writings that are cited in the game’s current lore.
Info pages on rare items that exist in the world of Illyria, including their histories, physical descriptions, and powerful effects when wielded by players.
Many of the wiki entries are accompanied by one of over 1,500 pieces of new image content created for the site. The artwork was created by training our AI-powered image generators by only using the artwork that Illyriad’s previous human art teams created specifically for the game over its 15-year history. Therefore, while the new art is AI-generated, it is pulling the style and feel of the art exclusively from the work of graphics designers like GM Cerberus, who created proprietary image content for the game. We’ve used 2 different image-creating engines across the content to vary the style.Players also have an opportunity to interact with the content by suggesting additions and edits to existing content, as well as suggestions for new entries. Clicking on the “hamburger” menu icon at the top left of any page reveals several features to registered users, including
A Google Translate feature that will translate any entry into any target language.
Any entries that users have liked.
A Suggest feature that allows users to point out edits and additions to existing pages, as well as suggestions for new entries.
NOTE: Submissions by users are not guaranteed to be published,is and their use are at the discretion of Illypedia’s editors.Illypedia is not merely a static resource for players; as in-game content is added and updated, so too will the content be updated on Illypedia. Fresh, new lore content will also be added regularly, as well as blog articles in our news section. Players can subscribe to our weekly newsletter, which will keep subscribers up to date on all of the new content.Finally, we’re happy to offer a fun challenge for the launch of Illypedia — an “easter egg” hunt of sorts. A never-before-seen piece of information that is not visible in the game has been published on Illypedia. The first player who IGM’s GM Jejune the correct answer on that this new information is will receive a set of elemental units (1 each of the earth, fire, air, and water elemental units). The winner’s in-game player name will be published here and in the forums once the information is discovered.NOTE: The only way to win is to be the first person to IGM GM Jejune with the correct answer — submissions in the forums or in comments will not be considered.What Illypedia does not currently include are guides for playing the game, player-made content (such as land claims, Faction Play, etc.), and information on past and present alliances. We acknowledge that many players over our 15-year history have published incredibly insightful and innovative guides on how to play Illyriad, and we invite the community to continue to refine those guides for the benefit of new players wishing to accelerate their gameplay.We also acknowledge the incredible work that several players have done in the past and present to build their own wikis from the game’s content, and we look forward to working with players such as these to leverage their passion and knowledge of the game’s extensive lore.In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy Illypedia and everything it has to offer!
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