Ishar is an online text-adventure game set in a unique world of
fantasy and magic. Players do battle with fearsome foes (and sometimes each
other) to win great wealth and wrest rare prizes from the treasure hoards or
bloody corpses of their enemies.
The game is available at no cost by using our Java client, telnet, or any MUD client to connect to ishar.com port 23 or 9999.
Ishar has been open since May 1994 and has dozens of players connected during peak hours.
Some say that the world was formed from the body of the dying Ishar,
and that his bones became the mountains and his blood ran from his
chest til it collected as the sea. His flowing hair matted into the
fields we till and his skin mouldered and fell away as soil.
From his sinews and organs sprang the races of dwarves, elves, men, gnomes
and all manner of creatures and plants. And from his heart sprang the very
gods themselves.
-- Book of Thurvun, 1730
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