We've launched the announced Talent and Lore Update! All characters are granted one free RP talent and race change. Update Log.
Updates to Talents and Monsters: Read the specifics in the Update Log
08/01/'21
Gaia Reborn
Gaia Reborn, the hottest MMORPG of the last decade, has seen millions of players experience its unique world - a combination of fantasy and reality. When Gaia Reborn was a game, one goal was to make the game world a one-half scale model of the real world. This pursuit was known as the Half-Gaia Project, and it is one of the aspects which led to Gaia Reborn becoming such a popular virtual world. With regional servers having unique areas, quests, cities, and monsters, it wasn't uncommon for people to create alternate characters on other servers to experience what felt like an entirely new game.
Ten years after the game's launch, millions of players have joined and created countless characters across the many servers. Now, with the release of the latest expansion, Pioneers of Arcadia, many are getting ready to begin new adventures in the new Italian server, exploring the new region corresponding to Italy, known in Gaia as Italia. Characters would have to start from fresh in this new world, but Italy would finally get its own piece of this world.
Countless players created their characters, logged in with excitement fueling their hands as the cursor swept across the screen, and then... darkness... Everything was black, and as their eyes opened, the players found themselves in the streets of an unfamiliar city. Looking around to survey their surroundings, many players realized this city was not so new after all. While desolate and ruined, the architecture conquered by vines and greenery, this city was unmistakably Rome, but at the same time, it was not. Finding themselves in the bodies of their characters, trapped in the world of Gaia Reborn, players are left to adapt to their new reality in this fantasy world.
- Player - Name: Kathuanya Gender: Female Age: 18 Sexuality: Bisexual Face Claim: Maou Nobunaga, Fate Played By: Inphyy Faction: Gaian
- Appearance - Despite her age, Kathuanya's height and facial appearance make her seem at least 10 years older than what she actually is. When measured, Kathuanya comes out at 1.83m (6'0") and weighs approximately 68.0 kgs (140 lbs) depending on her eating habits for that week. She has broad shoulders and soft pale skin, though there are numerous scars all over her body from the antics she would get up to as a child because of her recklessness. Some of her most notable traits would be her slender body and it's unrealistic proportions and her long scarlet hair. When it comes to her body, while Kathuanya is mainly leg and slightly-longer-than-average arms, she is well endowed in the chest area and has wide hips with a thin waist. She's also surprisingly skinny, often throwing people off when they find out her actual strength. Kathuanya rarely cuts her hair, so it stops just below her pelvis when she lets it flow free, though when she's focusing it's not uncommon that she puts it up in a ponytail as to not get in her way.
- Personality - Kathuanya is an individual that keeps to herself, however, she is quite kind when people get to know her. While being incredibly independent and able to keep to herself for an extended period of time, Kathuanya has become quite dependable and caring to those around her, or at least those that can bring themselves to lean on her. This makes her somewhat of an introvert, but even her tolerance for loneliness has her limits before she seeks out her friends again. However, it's not like Kathuanya can actually bring herself to offer herself up because despite caring about others she finds it hard to approach people and others find her general demeanor intimidating and unapproachable. Talking wasn't a skill she put much care into, so she's actually quite odd in conversation and has a rough time trying to understand other people's viewpoints and feelings and will most likely try to force her ideals onto them. She's much more of a person who is easier to understand through their actions rather than their words, so she's more likely to demonstrate what she means to others.
Other than her lack of social skills, Kathuanya's other notable traits would be her temper. While she has a strong temper, she has a short tolerance. So while she doesn't get mad at things if they happen to her once or twice, if it's constantly on repeat she's been known to snap on a dime. Though this is not all bad as it has contributed to her determination. Kathuanya is able to focus on difficult tasks for way longer as long as she's able to make some sort of progress, and even if she isn't this trait of hers often sparks her curiosity. Because of her upbringing, Kathuanya is quite witty and cunning, though instead of using these for malicious things, these traits often contribute to her subpar humor. It allows her to be quick with jokes but her thinking capability isn't anything to note so these jokes are often uncreative and dumb.
- Biography - Kathuanya comes from a land far from Romalia, a land full of nobility and royalty. At first, she was neither of these things. Due to complications, Kathuanya's mother had died giving childbirth and her father couldn't bear to raise her as looking at her would remind him of his dead wife, so from early on she was raised in an orphanage. Looking back at this, she wouldn't go as far as to say she enjoyed having no parents, but the orphanage that raised her was staffed mainly by volunteers, a lot of them being teenagers or young adults so the atmosphere was pretty lax most of the time. It was there that she would make some of the best friends she would ever meet, getting into hijinks with them and living life to the fullest. Though as the years would pass by, more and more of them would get adopted and the group would get smaller and smaller until there was just one person: Kathuanya. This was depressing for her, and over the years it did take a toll on her, but she also learned how to entertain herself and have fun by herself during this time.
One day, when she was 13, a noble family had adopted her. For some reason, the couple couldn't have a child despite their efforts over the past 20 years and now time was getting short. If they didn't have a child then their lineage and nobility would die out and be handed to someone else. Thus, Kathuanya was finally given a family and a home. From that point on, she was raised to like a princess, someone who those under her were supposed to look up to. She was taught how to fight, but also how to be a model woman, but in honesty, being adopted wasn't all it was up to be. It was cool and all having all these new things enter her life, but it was a lot, and she didn't ask for any of it. This is why, when she was able to, Kuthanya ran from home, though she left a note to her parents why. To this day she doesn't know what they thought of it, but hopefully, she can return to the loving family that took her in.
In search of adventure but also a simple life, Kathuanya traveled to Romalia.
- Extra - Kathuanya means "violent protector", which is funny considering her role.
Combat Experience In a world of monsters and other supernatural threats, the Gaians have been hardened, and most have some basic understanding of how to fight. Combat Experience allows a Gaian to automatically target a monster and attempt to perform a basic attack. With their Combat Experience, the user will do a constant chain of attacks so that the total DPS is roughly the same as dealing minor damage once per second. For example, a heavy weapon will do slower but stronger attacks, while a player wielding two daggers will do faster, but weaker attacks. Any skills or movements that the user may manually perform will take priority over this ability. The Gaian can also delay their next attack to increase the basic attack’s power by performing what’s known as an “empowered attack." Each second used to charge an attack increases the damage dealt by 20%, up to a maximum of a 100% damage boost once charged for 5 seconds.
Homeward Instincts In a world of many dangers and threats, knowing where one is going is of key importance to avoid danger. As such, Gaians have a good sense of direction and generally have a clear understanding of their way home, though they may not necessarily know the easiest path back.
Mystic Ring Ever since the fateful day now known as the Apocalypse, where the Adventurers came to inhabit their once-virtual bodies in the world of Gaia, some Gaians have found themselves answering the call to adventure, following the example of those heroic Adventurers before them. Though these original inhabitants of the world of Gaia are as diverse and unique as the billions of people the Adventurers once shared the earth with, these Gaian Adventurers all share one commonality: Upon beginning their adventures, they all find themselves in the possession of a mysterious ring which grants its wearer the ability to see a personal holographic menu identical to that which the Adventurers have always known. This menu contains such important information as the wearer's list of friends, equipment, character info, inventory, and much more. The holographic display seems to react to the touch of its user, allowing simple menu navigation and management by tapping a menu tab, dragging a window, or any similar gestures with the intent to manipulate the menu. Additionally, a Gaian can talk to friends or party members through telepathy, by pressing a small rune on the ring after dialing them. This causes words said to be spoken into their mind rather than out loud.
Cast Compression Key to the power of a Monk, they have the ability to chain two skills together through compression of cast and animation times. After a successful skill with a cast or animation time, the Monk may instantly use a second skill within 5s which will benefit from having no cast or animation time at all, instantly executing it after the first skill. Passive skill.
Moving Cast As the Monk has lower defensive stats than other tanks, its mobility is of great importance when fighting off hostile entities. The Monk is allowed to move freely whilst they are in Cast or Animation times. Passive skill.
Monkey Grip A passive skill that allows an Adventurer to wield a two-handed weapon in one hand. Their Two-Handed proficiency is treated as if it were halved(rounded up) while doing so, but they can still equip weapons of their current proficiency. The user may dual-wield an one-handed weapon alongside their two-handed weapon without penalty if they possess Ambidexterity or Ambidexterity Prime, but dual-wielding two two-handed weapons incurs a 50% Accuracy penalty to both. Passive skill.
Though many might consider the lack of specialization in the stats of a human a curse, attributing them to a jack of all trade and master of none, this ordinariness is the strength of the humans, granting them the power to forge their own path, specializing in what they choose, unhindered by their race. Human characters start with 12 SP. Every 40 EXP, they receive an additional 1SP and 2AP.
Mandrake's Nightmare Being workers of wood, Carpenters have an innate understanding of wood and any creatures formed from it. In combat, Carpenters benefit from a low increase in damage when fighting an enemy made of wood, such as some plants, golems and mimics. Passive skill.
Undying Servitude The bond between a Housekeeper and their master is one of the strongest bonds imaginable. The Housekeeper can designate one person as their master. Upon activating this skill, the person designated as the Housekeeper’s master receives a popup window to request their consent for this skill’s use. As long as the Housekeeper is within 10 meters of to their master, they are granted a very minor Attack, Magic Attack, Defense, Magic Defense and Movement Up. The Housekeeper can only serve one master at a time, and after choosing one there is an extremely long cooldown before they can choose another. Instant, 1 week cooldown. No mana cost.
- Equipment - Armor:
Name: Novice Shirt Item level: 1 Equipment type: Light Armor, Shirt Effects: / Skills: / Description: A cloth shirt that exposes the upper arms and fits loosely. It is preferred for swift melee classes over robes, as they don’t get in the way.
Left Hand:
Name: Novice Longsword Item level: 1 Equipment type: Two-handed, Sword Effects: / Skills: / Description: A simple longsword wrought from iron. Its weight is poorly balanced, but the sword is heavy enough to deliver crushing blows.
Welcome to the help dialog for the Custom Mini-Profile Creator plugin!
Click on any of the tabs above to go through the plugin configuration process!
You can access this menu at any time by clicking on the icon in the bottom right bar (may not be applicable if you're on Forums.net), or you can disable the welcome window and/or the icon by going to Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator and changing the Show Help option.
This step is essential as it gives the plugin everything it needs on the page to get as much profile information as possible.
To make the profile variables work you'll need to add a new line to the very end of Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile and paste the code below on it. The code should be placed completely outside of the mini-profile, so if you're using the default mini-profile template this will be after the very last closing </div> tag. This needs to be done on every theme you have the plugin enabled on as the template is theme-specific.
If your mini-profile template is already customized and you've hit the variable limit for your template you're free to remove any lines from the code below if they contain information that you don't plan on using. For example, if you have no plans to ever add a user's IP to their mini-profile for staff reference you can remove <div class="mp-info ip">$[user.ip]</div> from the code and everything else will still work just fine.
Once you've added the HTML from the Layout Templates tab you're ready to move on to building your mini-profiles. If you want to get going and try some out now or you're not very adept at HTML, CSS, or Javascript, worry not! This plugin includes some examples for you to try out. You're free to skip to the Custom Profile Fields tab and read over this tab later when you're ready to build your own.
Here's a quick rundown of each of the components in Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator:
Name This is the name you'll be adding to your custom profile field dropdown once you've finished coding the mini-profile. Pretty self-explanatory. Make sure this name is unique from every other name you use for your mini-profiles or you'll end up overwriting the earlier ones in the list.
HTML This is the HTML that will go inside your mini-profile. You can use just about any HTML tag here so long as it's appropriate for where the mini-profile is showing on the page. Please refrain from using <style> or <script> tags here. You have the next two sections for that! Also, remember that mini-profiles can show multiple times on the same page, so you shouldn't add ID attributes to any of your elements here. Two elements on the same page cannot have the same ID per HTML standards.
CSS This is where you'll place what would normally go in your forum's style sheet or what would normally be between <style> tags. Try to code your mini-profile's HTML in a way that will allow you to target it specifically with your selectors. For example, you can surround all of the content in your HTML with a <div> element with a class and target that class and its child elements specifically with your CSS. That way you don't accidentally target every mini-profile on the page with CSS that was meant for the one you're building. One more thing: The forum theme's CSS still applies beforehand, so your mini-profile may look right in one theme but not in another. The best way to circumvent this is to define as many styles as you can to override the theme's CSS.
Javascript Anything that normally goes between <script> tags will go here. This one's a bit tricky since you'll obviously want to target the custom mini-profile specifically. Luckily there's an easy way to do that. In your statements you can use the $(this) variable to target the mini-profile if you're coding using jQuery. Otherwise, if you only plan on using standard Javascript you can target $(this)[0] instead.
Once you've finished building your mini-profiles it's finally time to add them to the Edit Profile page for use! To enable selection of custom mini-profiles you'll first need to add two specific custom profile fields in Members > Custom Profile Fields in your forum's admin area:
Mini-Profile Theme
Staff Mini-Profile Theme
Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles that are designed for member use. You can set the Who Can Edit option for this field to Staff With Power if you only want staff to be able to choose mini-profiles for users. Otherwise, if you want members to freely be able to choose their own mini-profiles you can choose Members and Staff With Power.
Staff Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles designed specifically for staff use. This field is completely optional.
Set the type for both of these fields as Drop Down Selection. Click on the (View/Edit) link to add mini-profile names to each of these fields.
If you've just installed this plugin you should have three different mini-profiles already installed by default: Example 1, Example 2, and Example 3. You can add these to your dropdowns to test them out and see the plugin in action.
If you're having trouble getting this plugin to work despite following the instructions in the previous tabs you may want to check that each of your themes meets the prerequisites below in Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile.
First, ensure that opening tag of your mini-profile template includes the $[miniprofile_class] variable in its class. On the default ProBoards theme it should look something like this:
<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
Next, make sure that the default {foreach} loop for custom fields is present inside your mini-profile. It doesn't need to be visible, so you're free to add it inside a hidden element if you don't plan on displaying it or if it would mess up the appearance of your own custom template.
Beyond that you can do whatever you like to the mini-profile template for the most part and it shouldn't negatively impact the plugin.
The following is a list of available variables for use in the HTML section of the mini-profile creator and their definitions. Adding any of these to a mini-profile will generate the content described in its definition in place of the variable so long as the information that variable outputs is visible to you.
To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use $[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.
For example, Mini-Profile Theme becomes $[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These will only work if you followed the steps in the Installation tab of this window on each of your themes. Any themes that do not include the template code specified there will not have these variables replaced in the mini-profile.
$[user]
User's display name link.
$[user.age]
User's age (if visible to you).
$[user.avatar]
User's current avatar.
$[user.badges]
User's list of badges.
$[user.birthday]
User's date of birth (if visible to you).
$[user.color]
Hex color of user's group. If user is not in a group this will return inherit.
$[user.custom_title]
User's custom title.
$[user.email]
User's email (if visible to you).
$[user.gender.image]
Image associated with the gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.gender.text]
Name of gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.group.name]
Name of user's current display group.
$[user.group.stars]
Star images associated with user's current display group.
$[user.id]
User's numerical ID.
$[user.instant_messenger]
User's list of instant messengers specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.invisible]
Returns 1 if a user is invisible. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.ip]
User's IP address (if visible to you).
$[user.is_online]
Returns Member is Online if user is currently online.
$[user.is_staff]
Returns 1 if a user is designated as staff. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.last_online]
Timestamp showing when user was last online.
$[user.likes]
Number of likes this user's posts have received.
$[user.location]
Location specified in user's profile.
$[user.name]
User's display name in plain text.
$[user.personal_text]
User's most recent status.
$[user.posts]
User's post count.
$[user.rank.name]
User's current posting rank.
$[user.rank.stars]
Star images associated with user's current posting rank.
$[user.registered_on]
Timestamp showing the date/time the user registered on the forum.
$[user.registered_on_short]
Condensed version of user's registration date.
$[user.social_network]
User's list of social networks specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.username]
Outputs the user's login username in plain text.
$[user.warning.bar]
User's warning bar (if it exists).
$[user.warning.level]
User's current warning level (if visible to you).
$[user.website]
Website specified in user's profile.
You can utilize the $(this) variable in the Javascript component to target the mini-profile <div> element. For example, if you wanted to add a class to the mini-profile you can use:
$(this).addClass('class-name-here');
Profile variables can also be used in the Javascript component in this plugin. In Javascript the value undefined is used to signify that a value doesn't exist for the variable you've specified. With this in mind you can use profile variables in Javascript conditional statements within the plugin similar to how they're used in the actual layout templates section of the admin area.
if(variable) will only run if the variable you specify has a value.
if(!variable) will only run if the variable you specify has no value.
Example 1 (variable has value):
if(user.group){
$(this).find('.group').show();
}
If the user has their group displayed in their profile the above Javascript would make the HTML below visible if you had it hidden with CSS.