If the Orc capital was a fusion of iron and violence, and the Minotaur capital a land of sunlight and serenity, then the Undead capital, the Grand Necropolis, was a chilling blend of gloom and dread. Ryan had a particular respect for those who had been born there and managed to rise to higher levels—their mental resilience had to be extraordinary.
The Undead attracted players with a taste for the morbid, and there were plenty of them. They had always ranked among the three most popular races, and even after new factions were added in later updates, their numbers never faltered. True to its name, the Grand Necropolis lay beneath the earth. Above it stretched the Undead heartland, a vast surface map designed for level 10 to 20 adventurers, where quests unfolded in a perpetual twilight.
