The free port
Verrin
Banks, brokers and the only lawful market on the isle. Weapons stay sheathed inside the seawall — the wardens see to it.
A shard of the old world
The isle that keeps its own counsel
Kaellum is a living shard raised on the old bones of Ultima Online: a hand-shaped island of drowned keeps, salt marsh and lamplit towns, where the map is finite, the loot is real, and nothing you build is undone by a patch note.
Come as a smith, a necromancer of poor reputation, a highwayman on the Kingsroad. The world keeps no class for you and no quest marker either.
Shard status
Online
Souls afield
214
World age
3 years
Wipes to date
None
The setting
Four hundred years after the sea took the capital
The old kingdom of Kaellum sat on a plain that is now open water. What remains above the tide is an archipelago of its hinterland: three large islands, a scatter of holms, and the tops of towers that once held a court.
Nobody rules it. The surviving orders — the salt-wardens, the Ashfoot caravans, the guild of grave-lawyers at Verrin — hold what they can and sell the rest. Players fill in everything between: towns, roads, feuds, cartels, monasteries with strange ideas.
The world is authored, not generated. Every dungeon is placed by hand, every settlement has a reason to be where it is, and the ongoing story is written around what players actually do to each other.
Rules & conflict
Consequence, kept legible
Kaellum is a hybrid: the classic skill system and full-loot risk of the old shards, with the quality-of-life the last twenty years taught us. You are never punished for not knowing an undocumented rule.
Everything below is fixed policy. If it changes, it changes with a month's notice and a written reason.
No item shop
No stat wipes
No pay-to-win
Macros allowed, unattended not
| Skill system | Classic 700-point cap, 7 skills, no classes. Skill gain is faster below 70. |
| Loot on death | Full loot in the wilds and dungeons. Blessed newbie kit and one insured item. |
| PvP | Open outside guard zones. Murder counts stand for two weeks and are public. |
| Safe ground | Verrin, Little Holm and all player towns that pay the warden tithe. |
| Housing | Placeable on open ground, decays after 45 days idle. No plot limits per account. |
| Accounts | One free account, three characters. Donations buy cosmetics and nothing else. |
The gate is open
You need the original client, a small patch, and about ten minutes. There is no subscription and no queue.
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