The team behind Legends of Aria Eternal has shared a roadmap covering both its plans for launch and the features it wants in place first. There is no release date yet. The developers will only announce one once everything on the list is in.
How the launch will work
The plan comes in four steps:
- Get every feature on the roadmap into Legends of Aria Eternal.
- Announce the launch date.
- Lock features from that announcement until launch, leaving only polish and fixes.
- Open Verdant Sky.
The developers say Eternal is a passion project, with a volunteer team maintaining the official rules. Instead of a string of smaller teasers, they want to make one launch video that shows everything Eternal offers, so the community can watch it once and pass it around. That video comes after all the features are done.
Timing also plays a part. The team says it would rather wait until the excitement around World of Warcraft: Forever has calmed down, which suggests the date announcement won’t land right next to that release.
Planned features
The biggest item is a territory system for alliances. They will be able to claim large areas of land and build around their houses there, well beyond what a single house plot allows. A siege system lets rival alliances take that territory away.
To keep the stakes reasonable, a territory house counts as a second home. If your alliance loses its land, your main house stays yours. Sieges also get a physical side: anything with collision can be destroyed. If someone puts a fence in front of a capture point, adventurers can simply knock it down.
Other features on the list:
- Boats, along with new islands to explore out at sea.
- Custom housing, where players lay foundations, then raise walls and build their homes piece by piece.
- More dungeons.
- More long-term goals, including mounts, artifacts, rare decorations and new options for character progression.
Taken together, the roadmap points to a version of Legends of Aria Eternal centered on player-owned land and conflict over it, with destructible structures and naval exploration adding to the sandbox. Players will have to wait for the feature-complete milestone to hear when Verdant Sky actually opens.
