Randomness' Arcane Recap 2024 (Part 2)

[Randomness]

Part 1

The first part of the 2024 Arcane Recap can be found here:

Randomness' Arcane Recap 2024 (Part 1)

Randomness’ Arcane Recap 2024 (Pt.1) Oh well we’re back again for the third year in a row. I love looking back and seeing how much of a mess the other recaps were, but here we go for another! This year was admittedly a bit disappointing for a while, as development was slow and bugs were many, however with the release of Empires and the events made by the trio of Astral, Galaga and Serena, things are looking up. The Full Release update is also looking great …

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Media

With the Media Team suddenly deciding to happen, we’re in for a treat in the media department this year. If I miss anything it’s because I got bored of RFAO/Twitter scouring and something wasn’t posted in Dev Updates.

Media: January

– No public media was posted in January –
Patreon Members got special access to:

• Sameria Preview
• New Armour Set Preview

Media: February

Sameria

Armour Sets

New Stats

Sea Border

Ship Storage

Injuries

Patreon Members got access to:

• More angles of Sameria
• Vet’s minecraft server (What do you mean that isn’t an AO leak?)

Media: March

Samerian Ice

New Islands

Sameria, Again

Shale Reef

Drakos Arch

The Nimbus Sea

Patreon Members got access to:

• Logo/Thumbnail Early Sneak
• A watermelon joke or two

Media: April

Eggciting

Patreon Members got access to:

• Egg Sneak Peak
• Port Mistral Sneak
• Weapon Skill Rework Sneak

May: Media

Disarming

https://x.com/i/status/1791952110663217290

Spirit Energy

Spirit Imbuement - Port Mistral Update

Patreon members got access to:

• Spirit Energy Leaks
• Eagle Patrimony Sneak
• Lazy Animation Pack Sneak
• New armour pics

Media: June

Subclans

Fighter Animation Pack

Fighter Animation Pack - Showcase

Patreon members got access to:

• More Subclan leaks
• New spell/technique/skill preview
• New armour set preview

Media: July

This month was pretty large in terms of content posted
Clan Building

(There was also a youtube video on Clan Building by Selectorch, but I won’t be putting that here)

Armour Sets

Clans

Abyssal Diving

Lost Diplomat/Envoy

New Skills
https://x.com/i/status/1814012260471148865

Spell Visuals (Higher Tiers)

Patreon members got access to:

• New magic icon sneak
• Redesigned Boss Drop sneak
• New item set leak
• Further Lost Diplomat/Envoy pictures
• New coward run animation
• Arm toggling feature
• Building tool sneaks
• Status update(s)

Media: August

Magic Visuals
https://x.com/i/status/1820884431042965857

Fire Magic Visuals Showcase

Makrinaos

Hecate Essence

https://x.com/i/status/1827481010138706383
Colossal Greatsword

https://x.com/i/status/1827843397534744611

Clan Building

Supercharging
https://x.com/i/status/1827043125363405195

Weather Visuals

Patreon members got access to:

• The Dead Halls sneak
• More Makrinaos pictures
• Defensive structures preview
• Table
• Explosion Magic visual change leak
• Vet’s minecraft server (Again)
• Bisexuality
• Evandar
• That new rig model
• Vanity items

Media: September

the 21st night of

Shieldguard

Evandar

Fort Castrum

Anton Shilo - Ancestor’s Battle is peak boss theme material
https://x.com/i/status/1837286921556402600

Empires Update Trailer
I can’t believe this is the only AO trailer we’ve gotten this year…

Arcane Odyssey Empires Update: Official Launch Trailer

Thank you Rico!

Patreon members got access to:

• More Shieldguard pictures
• New island pictures
• Fort Castrum pictures
• Low tier Keep pictures
• Gravity Magic sneak
• Verbal abuse from JTN
• Miniboss sneaks
• Empires Logo/Thumbnail
• General Valerii
• Scarecrow? I only know Scareraven(crest)

Media: October

Halloween Sneaks

Patreon members got access to:

• The Vents of Aeolus sneak
• Scarecrow? I only know Scareraven(crest)
• Swamp
• Vice Admiral Cape new cape sneak
• Spooky month leaks
• Event Feedback Opportunity
• New full release basic clothing designs
• Neat boat thing that I think you’ll like

Media: November

The Return of the WoM
https://x.com/i/status/1854990505680998450
https://x.com/i/status/1854990152831226144
https://x.com/i/status/1854989655739187297

Visual/Environment Improvements

https://x.com/i/status/1858230183238480097
https://x.com/i/status/1858230183238480097

The Sun Serai
i sun this serai

Patreon members got access to:

• New weather visuals
• New island sneaks
• JTN and Crimson having “fun” in the Titan Caverns
• The community ran Patreon Events server
• Techlevel (Okay fine you can have an image of this one)
  
  
• A few festive things
• Someone who really hates this yuletide thing
• The Sun Serai (With an… interesting thing not shown publicly)

Media: December

Tornado

bear

https://x.com/i/status/1868008056509866147

The Eastern Reaches

Patreon members got access to:

• Bearly anything
• potentially a mimdeer sighting
• Ivoris Castle sneak

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Community

The Randomness Awards

Welcome to this year’s Randomness awards, the most awards of all Arcane Odyssey.

Randomness’ Topic of the Year

This year I’ve decided to grant the prize of Randomness’ Topic of the Year to @Mirage’s Abyss Sea!! This was a great topic which united a huge chunk of the community, congrats on the achievement!

Arcane Abyss Sea, the Atlantean Infection AU

[ATLANTEAN SURVIVAL GUIDE.] Survival Guide made by @justjip with illustrations by Natasha_Art on the Art Hub!! A Trello is in the works to compile all Abyss Sea content, including island and character statuses!: Abyss Sea Trello do you like the name lol, peak creativity I say Anyways welcome to the official page for my interpretation of Atlantean Invasion AU, now known as ABYSS SEA. [AS sign] Synopsis: The magic polluted qualities of the vast Dark Sea that surrounds the six …

Randomness’ Artwork of the Year

This was definitely a close one. We saw so many great pieces of art this year especially with the competition. For this one, I’ll give two congrats. One to all the contest finalists as they made some really good pieces, and the other one to all the participants in the anniversary collaboration!

Shoutouts to all these artists for participating

and both @Not_a_Knife @Gone_Rotten for coordinating it!

Arcane Odyssey's First Anniversary Collaboration!

[image] In celebration of one whole year of Arcane Odyssey, more than 40 artists from the community came together to create a tribute worthy of the War Seas. The journey has just begun, and there’s plenty more out there to see and discover, so hop on a brig and set forth with us to new lands! Happy Anniversary, Arcane Odyssey! Cheers to one year of memes and misadventures; let’s all look forward to what’s in store, next! Credits : First, ALL 48 ARTISTS, in no particular order. There’s a pin…

Randomness’ Writing of the Year

I’d say that I didn’t want to have two Abyss Sea awards this year but that would be a lie. Congrats @Crimsonpants , and here’s your (metaphorical) award for Abyss Sea: Conquest of Othrys.

ABYSS SEA - Conquest of Othrys [Forum Collab]

The door clicks behind you as it closes, the soft glow of a lamp illuminates a desk at the far end of the dark room. The moon barely peaks in through clouds, a soft rattling wind hissed by the windows. As you approach the desk you run your fingers along its weathered, well used top. You feel each stain, every chipped edge and scratch that time has etched into it. Among the mess, there is an old leather book, with no title, beckoning you to open it, and read from its weathered pages. Out of the …

bonus points for @Goopman for helping Crimson with Conquest, and @SpectreTheFox as I haven’t read The Forsaken Making yet (I’m sorry I’ll read it eventually, I’m sure it’ll be peak)

So Spirit Energy has Body Morphing now... [Novelette, Tragedy]

Yapping Happy Halloween! I know I’m posting this near its end (8 PM in my timezone), and where many people live it’s already over… But still, here’s a freaky story in the spirit of October. This is one for all the folks waiting for Oracle and more Spirit Weapons to get added As soon as I saw in the updated lore doc that spirit energy can be used for “permanent bodily alterations,” I KNEW I had to apply this to one of my OCs. I am a huge fan of biomancy, and had a lot of fun writ…

Randomness’ Event of the Year

Huh… I realise now that there’s not really been any forum ran events that I’ve participated in this year.
I’ve ran two major ones in fact yet I’ve been slacking on the participation.

But although I haven’t participated personally, I know a certain @Sykadelik has been really hard at work creating Woven Together, and I think it deserves the (Once again metaphorical) crown.

Woven Together REMASTERED

One’s a curiosity. Two’s a conspiracy. Let’s hope I don’t get grounded this time. [el_logo] Credit to @Celeste for this logo Heck yeah, we’re returning to Wevaria for another run! In this game, you’re in the 5% of the population known as Weavers, who have enough Fabric, an energy in every Wevarian’s soul, to use it as strange magic powers called Weavings. You are a Weaver from one of the 24 Outer Provinces who is about to be collected by the Lexicon to go to the School of Weavers, a massive…

Randomness’ User of the Year

I think you’re all as mid as each other lol
jk you guys are great I can’t choose one

Shoutouts

Special thanks to these guys for making the community better. Not limited to the forums this time.
ThatOneGuy
Divanochi
sock
Flare
Banana
ImaLettuce
Midnight
Mortal
Goopman
Dubious
JTN
Tobi
Not_A_Knife
SpectreTheFox
Shellseawing
Maple
ThatAsianInTheCorner
Hat
Cryonical
Pyronical
Bio
Bluemin_Sword
A_Friendly_Bear
AwesomeOS
PinkButterflyGaming
WarmWater
Rayhan
Rayman
wymdrayal
tech and vet
headless
Tetragon
BNTarwan
Catean
UnitVector
Robo
GlitchingEclipse
Syk
Archen
ItsNotMe
TheOne
sanek
Dreamkeeper
Dudeman
Unlucky
Trli
HeyImFlower
Crimson, Crimson and rarely Crimson when they show up
Crystalys
Artanaris
Nuclearman7 & BBII
Ins
The_Legend
… optical
Codercat
NaCl
KT
Wifty
JJ5
Gravit(ester)y
Journeyman
jek
Perf, Waping, and their cats
Tapi and Sala
Tem
Tomi
Will
Tread
Those random ravencrest guys Cos and Jabare
Dreay
Misinput
boat
Yona
Our favourite event devs Serena, Galaga and Astral
hoover
pilles
that guy called user
Utlimate
Zormego
fartman
Lisqyx
ryansezrwar
Regina [Insanity 3 User]
IcedTea
Cyver
jobux
Alive
old men shade and rico

Polls

Best Month (For AO)?

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Best Month (Other)?

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

The Final Event

• Resolve the Old
• Create the New
• Attempt Both

Favourite Update?

• Nimbus Sea Pt. 1
• Port Mistral
• Empires
• Halloween/Auction

The Final Note

Hey.
Thanks guys for another great year!

This is the last (Randomness’) Arcane Recap.
If all goes to plan I’ll be busy next december with lots of exciting life stuff and then after that hopefully I have better things to do from there on out, so I won’t be doing an Arcane Recap for 2025.

If anyone wants to pick up the mantle next year go ahead.

Three years.
damn

So, what’s happening to me?
Now I’m tester you can never truly get rid of me but I will likely not be doing stuff like Forum Curses again… unless.
I’ll run Weeks of Discussion when I can, get feedback when I can, and I’m working (Slowly) on a big writing piece for some point.

I’ve always wanted to do some sort of ARG thing as well, but I also have concepts for a final chapter of Forum Curses not part of the Tavish saga. I can attempt both but it depends what people want.

If I did end up making an ARG I don’t know to what scale it’ll be (Or the goal or anything) so I might… need to confer a bit with some people before working on that (If I think that’s what I want to do).

Oh well.
See you lot.

What a year, cheers for the next one.

No way is the whole topic less than 2k characters above the topic limit…
Oh well no avoiding the split.

[Crimsonpants]

Oh holy hell someone remembers CoO haha. Thank you. I almost forgot I wrote that this year.

[Sykadelik]

@Randomness

Randomness’ Event of the Year

Huh… I realise now that there’s not really been any forum ran events that I’ve participated in this year.
I’ve ran two major ones in fact yet I’ve been slacking on the participation.

But although I haven’t participated personally, I know a certain @Sykadelik has been really hard at work creating Woven Together, and I think it deserves the (Once again metaphorical) crown.

THANK YOU MY LAD

[Bio]

What a year to be alive, though we were born too late to explore the oceans, or too early to explore the stars, we were right on time to bear witness to this odyssey. This arcane odyssey :3

[Randomness]

@Bio

This arcane odyssey :3

namedrop colon three

[fartman1314]

@Randomness

fartman

yay im included : )

[westloonlake]

I’m not because I’m here to actively make the forums worse!!!

Just kidding!!

[Mirage]

@Randomness

Randomness’ Topic of the Year

This year I’ve decided to grant the prize of Randomness’ Topic of the Year to @Mirage’s Abyss Sea!! This was a great topic which united a huge chunk of the community, congrats on the achievement!

Abyss Sea mention, I think I just shed a tear

I have to thank the community back for supporting this silly concept of mine and just going to the MOON with it; this has been the first time I felt like I actually part of a community and didn’t feel like an outsider looking in, and I’m SO proud of what everyone has created for the AU.

Although it has been dying out, and maybe the sun is beginning to peek out from the clouds again, I will NEVER forget the first half of last year and how it was largely made for me from the love and hype Abyss Sea received !! ALWAYS be proud of what you all have created, and I cannot wait to continue to provide creatively for this community.

On to the next project!

2/25/25

[Raimon]

Im trying to work up the motivation to write Winged Thunder again (i made the models tho)