Dark LegacyWelcome back!
Your characters and your account still exist. Recover them here, or come and visit us on Discord!
Find your character
Type a name. The ledger answers with its level, its kind and the year it was last played, and nothing else.
This lookup needs scripts. Without them, type the name at the game’s login and it will know you.
Find your old friends
The players who are still around talk on the Dark Legacy Discord, and it is the best place to look for the people you played with. Say hello, say who you were and when, and see who remembers.
News is posted there first, and the caretakers are there if you cannot get into your account.
Join the Discord 41 people are on it now.
Getting back in
The game asks for your account first, then its password. An account holds all your characters.
You know your password
Press Play now and give your account name and password. Your phone or browser can remember them for next time.
In a MUD client, connect to dark-legacy.com port 9898 and type your account name at the first prompt.
You forgot it
At the password prompt, type forgot. If the account has an e-mail address on file, the game sends a ten-character code to it. Type the code at the prompt within fifteen minutes and choose a new password, and you are in.
Neither works
If you no longer know the account name, or no code comes because the address on file is old or missing, a caretaker can help. Ask on the Discord that you need an account recovered, then tell a caretaker what you remember in a private message, never in a channel.
What changed since you left
By when you left. The lookup above tells you the year your character was last played.
If you left before 2017
15,796 characters were last played in these years.
Your characters and account are still there.
The first time an old character logs in, the game offers it an heirloom: a shawl, a sextant or an extradimensional portal. Most players take the shawl, because it keeps the encounters of the overworld away and cannot be had any other way.
How much is new depends on how long ago you left. The pets were remade in September 2008: they hatch from eggs now, and are raised, trained and bred. Plots for homes opened all over Alora that same month. A large overland world and New Tarsonis came in 2010, with new crafts, the first dungeons, the upgrade kits and the auction house. Nobody has to eat or drink to stay alive. Abilities are no longer drawn out of old gear: enchanting is done with baboos.
A character made before the race patch is asked at login whether to move to the new kins, ancestries and starsigns now or later. The game warns, and means it: once changed, it cannot be changed again.
If you left after 2017
2,713 characters were last played in these years.
Work on the game began again in July 2024. Bards got added, and a big rework remade the mines, which are now dug fresh with caves and veins and things buried in them, reworked the overland map and put encounters on it.
You can play in a browser now, on a computer or a phone, with nothing to install. It is still experimental. Discord is very active.
The ooc and newbie channels are relayed to the Discord and back, since March 2026. config -discord keeps your own lines in the game, and ignore discord and a name silences someone there. Tells, guild and clan talk are never relayed.
In 2026 we’ve fixed hundreds of bugs, exploits, and broken mechanics, and worked on making the game give newbies the information they need. The newest release is 2.9.0 (November 2026): forgot at the password prompt mails you a way back in, marriage joins families, and about 300 help files were rewritten. The same month, 2.6.0 made the first levels kinder, 2.7.1 closed more than a hundred crashes and exploits, and 2.8.2 mended old mechanics and brought Conquest back. Before that: bards were remade in April 2025, and a citadel no longer collapses for unpaid tax.
How to connect now
- In your browser, on a computer or a phone: Play now. Nothing to install.
- In a MUD client of your own:
dark-legacy.com, port9898. - With a screen reader: at the menu where you pick a character, type
sand press Enter for screen-reader mode.
Who is still around
551 characters have been played so far in 2026.
Guilds where someone has been seen in the last ninety days:
- Blackraven Dynasty 68 seen lately
- Lords of Rotkarf 41 seen lately
- Hawthorne Spirits 2 seen lately
- The Akatsuki 1 seen lately
- Sentinels of Wolf Spirit 1 seen lately
- Forgotten Empire 1 seen lately
- Order of the Mystics 1 seen lately
- Newbie Guild 1 seen lately
Signs of life
- In the game now
- 7 people
- On Discord now
- 41 people
- Accounts played in the last 30 days
- 52
- Last patch
- Patch notes 2.8.2: Fix broken mechanics, 14 November 2026
- Latest in the world
- A Dryad has arrived in Alora.
Taken . The game is at version 2.9.0.
The forum archive
The old forums ran from 2004 to 2013, and they are still there to read, as they were left.