The world around you changes depending on your decisions, and it's up to you to choose how to rule your kingdom. You can command armies and build cities in a Real Time Strategy mode, or stay in the First Person Shooter mode and explore the vast and immersive open world by yourself.

You are the rightful king of one of the five clans, and as king, your task is to bring your kingdom back to its former glory by building, expanding, fighting and exploring in the new world of Ellaria. Your task will not be easy, as the other clans has opened their own portals, and are searching for the same thing you are looking for - The Rift Stone. This stone is the source of all magic which is the base of any kingdom’s power. But as you go deeper into Ellaria, you'll find that the ancients have left much more powerful artifacts than you can imagine.

The word “rifts” refers to other worlds that exists beyond our world. Throughout Ellaria, you may find portals in ancient ruins, connecting you to other worlds filled with vast complexes of ruins, cities, artifacts and knowledge. It is unknown how many rifts exist, but it is known that many of them are best left undiscovered, as there are stories of rifts with dark forces, far more dangerous than what you ever faced.

Throughout Ellaria, there is evidence of an ancient and powerful empire that once spanned through several rifts and possessed both knowledge of technology and arcane magic. Though the ancients’ fate is unknown, their ruins and old cities are scattered throughout Ellaria, containing valuable information, artifacts, magic spells and sometimes even gates to other rifts. But beware, you may also find ancient guardians and other dangers in these forgotten places.

It's been a long road since the Early Access release in July, 2017, but the path of Legends of Ellaria towards full release is almost complete: Larkon Studios are working on the final steps of the game's development and announced that Legends of Ellaria will be released on Early Q3.

To celebrate the end of this journey, Larkon Studios is publishing a series of dev diaries to offer some insights into the studio, the game mechanics, and Ellaria's universe. Here's a summary of all the content published so far about the anticipated full release version of Legends of Ellaria. 

After explaining how Larkon Studios was born and introducing the team behind Legends of Ellaria, the second entry of the dev blog focused on the setting of the game Ellaria, a world located at a crossroad of a sort – a junction between worlds where you can hop across dimensions. Your character came to Ellaria after crossing a portal, fleeing along with your subjects from the conflict in your own homeworld. In Ellaria you found other races and factions, and you will have to carve a place in the world for your people in order to survive. 

In the third entry of the dev blog, Larkon Studios explores the unique blend of real-time strategy and first-person RPG that is core to the experience of Legends of Ellaria. The game operates in two levels: one as a hero, another as a king, which means that in some parts players will be controlling their character in their adventures; in the second, they will have to manage their own kingdom. Different factions fight to control Ellaria's world, so it will be extremely important to find a way to deal with them to carve a place in the world for your kingdom, either by keeping them under control through diplomacy or by defeating them in the battlefield -- a topic discussed in the fourth blog of this series. And today, a new blog was published explaining more details about quests and first-person exploration of the world, as well as more details about how Heroes will work. 

Key Features:

• Swap between world management, real-time strategy and first-person modes at any time
• Recruit, lead and command your armies
• Command your soldiers and heroes
• Construct cities building by building, in multiple regions
• Rule your kingdom's economy, upgrade your cities, armies and your own skills
• Interact with other kingdoms, expand your own kingdom by conquest or through diplomacy
• Control your character in the first person, including his / her skills and abilities
• Command heroes and agents to lead your army and expand your kingdom

Legends of Ellaria is in development for PC (Steam), scheduled for Q3 2020.