One of the most enjoyable aspects of role-playing games is the chance you get to define your character in a variety of ways. While everyone starts out more or less the same, hours of combat and adventure will shape who you are and determine what you can do. In the end you will have a character that simply feels like he or she is yours. Check it out!

The infamous dwelling of the Black Ring is buried deep beneath an ominous mountain that looms behind Kheshatta, city of magicians. This coven of the darkest sorcerers in all Stygia is led by the all-powerful Thoth-Amon, earth's mightiest practitioner of black magic. Within its torch lit halls foul sorcerers perform hellish conjuration's, vile experiments, and consort with fiends from the abyss.

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From what layer of Tartarus this monstrous angel of war was dragged is lost now, for the thing has slaughtered those responsible for conjuring it. Not only did it slay their mortal forms but it dragged out their eternal souls and ravenously ate them, feasting on them while tearing their victims bodies apart and grinding them to bloody pulp.

(more about Excorant the Golem Master and Yarekma the Soul Eater)

Funcom is proud to present the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures comic book! Created by the talented people over at Dark Horse Comics,
it tells a story that ties into the game perfectly. Several hundred thousand copies have been produced, mostly bundled with various gaming mags, and we have now put the entire 23 page PDF on our website for your reading pleasure!

(get the complete comic book here!) (PDF - 11.6MB)

Every month website MMORPG.com will interview one of the many talented people that work on Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures here at Funcom to create a developer profile, which is then posted on their website. This month, Quest Designer and Lore Master Elliot Kingdon is featured. MMORPG.com sat down with him to pick his brain about everything from his childhood to what he does at Funcom.

(read the developer profile)

Every month we try to bring you some selected press coverage from
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. If you find something you would like to tell us about, please drop us an email. This is some of the coverage over the last couple of weeks. The last few months have been riddled with gaming conventions, so by following these links you are sure to find some really juicy stuff!

29.10.07 — Jørgen Tharaldsen speaks on the Dark Templar class
29.10.07 — Jason Stone speaks to Überguilds Radio
26.10.07 — Mitra's Method on WarCry
17.10.07 — Age of Conan featured on GIGA TV (German)
17.10.07 — Erling Ellingsen presents the game in Tromsø (German)
16.10.07 — Age of Conan in USA Today
15.10.07 — All new Age of Conan screenshots
09.10.07 — German CGI video available (German)

More news on the Community Site!

Every week we give you an update on Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures by posting our special Friday Update on the community website. Here are some of the Friday updates we've published recently:

26.10.07 — Postcards from beta #1: Silly hats only
19.10.07 — The women of Hyboria
12.10.07 — Server and beta update
05.10.07 — Interview with Elliot Kingdon

More news on the Community Site!

Take a look at this month's screenshots. We've added four screenshots from the high level dungeon Black Ring Citadel. Stepping into this darkness holds greater dangers than just placing your feet in the wrong places. If you're not careful your feet will most likely be torn off by animated golem statues!

(check out the new screens)

This month we're featuring a video showing you the Black Ring Citadel. Tackling the dangers of this dungeon is a difficult challenge, one that should be faced in a raid group of twenty-four of your fellow adventurers. And it should only be attempted by those who have seen many, many seasons! And even then your chances may be slim.

(The video will be available only at Gamespy, JeuxVideoPC, Buffed.de, InsideGamer, Goha, Multiplayer and Juegaenred until next week when it will be posted on the community website)

This month we bring you wallpaper themed according to this newsletters' primary focus: the Black Ring Citadel. The wallpaper comes in four different sizes.

(check out the new wallpaper)

Each month we have decided to give a selection of prizes away. All you need to do is send us an email and hope for the best. Every month we pick out three people who will be sent a bunch of prizes such as inflatable Conan swords, the Age of Conan comic, games and even hardware.

These three people will also receive a place in the
Age of Conan beta test!

If you want to be one of the lucky three who gets Funcom kit delivered in the mail, you will need to send us an email and include your full name, address, and telephone number in order to be eligible. You must also keep the subject of the email "Age of Conan October Newsletter Sweepstakes". Those who enter and get picked out will have the opportunity to receive one or more prizes such as:

•  Concept Art print signed by the artist
•  Dreamfall: The Longest Journey PC game
•  Full-colored Age of Conan comic book

Send us an email by November 26th and you might get lucky!

No purchase necessary. Prizes are three (3) inflatable swords, three (3) comic books, three (3) copies of the Dreamfall PC game and one (1) Concept Art print signed by the artist. Odds of winning dependant on number of entries. Competition open to residents of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and U.S. (except Rhode Island and Puerto Rico). Drawing will be made by random draw in Oslo Norway one day after the entry deadline. Any applicable taxes or customs fees are responsibility of winner.
Entry to this competition is void where prohibited by local laws.

This month we take a closer look at Onlinewelten's Age of Conan community website. Besides having all the latest news about Age of Conan, there are also a lot of articles to be found that inform about the world and the background stories. The administrators of the community website can most of the time be found in the German Age of Conan IRC channel to discuss the latest gossip and news with the community.

http://aoc.onlinewelten.com/

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