A sky world in rings
Start on the safe outer ring and push inward. Each ring is harder, richer and more contested than the last.
A high-fantasy MMO · Early development
Oaths of War
Rings of floating islands circle a magical heart. Fight with skill, forge your own gear, and hold your keep, if you can. The world punishes those who stop fighting.
Early development. Oaths of War is still being built. Everything on this site, from the world and combat to features and names, is a work in progress and subject to change.
The oath
Six promises the game is built on
Skill-based melee
Heavy-armoured, directional combat for PvE and PvP. Where you swing, block and step decides the fight.
Crafting touches everything
Weapons, armour, potions, bandages, food and siege supplies. Crude gear takes minutes, not hours.
Grow by doing
Levels 0–50 across five rings. Your stats rise from what you actually do, with the biggest gains early.
Factions and guilds at war
Factions fight for strongholds, guilds fight for keeps, and nobody holds the map forever.
Monsters fit the ring
From overgrown rats on the outer isles to the deadliest dungeons at the heart of the world.
The world
Five rings around a magical heart
Magic grows stronger toward the centre. So do the monsters, the materials and the risk. Pick a ring to see what waits there.
Starter Isles
- Levels
- 0–10
- PvP
- None
- Crafting
- Tier 1
A great outer circle broken into many islands, each with a town full of NPCs and quest givers. Learn to gather and craft, explore in safety, and take your first faction quests.
Monsters: overgrown rats, large bats, wolves, goblins, boar and low-level raiders. Mounts: horses and boar.
Homestead Isles
- Levels
- 11–20
- PvP
- None
- Crafting
- Tier 2
Own a house and keep your own tier 2 crafting benches in it. Basic dungeons, with their own NPCs and quest givers, test you before the wars begin.
Monsters: armoured bandits, ogres, bears, large snakes and alligators. Mounts: buffalo and other stronger mounts.
Stronghold Isles
- Levels
- 21–30
- PvP
- Faction, partial loot
- Crafting
- Tier 3
Where PvP begins. Islands are grouped into sectors, and small groups of 5–15 fight to capture strongholds for their faction. Guards hunt anyone who murders too freely, so new fighters aren't simply farmed.
Sieges: tamed trolls hurl rocks like trebuchets; horned elephants batter the gates.
Keep Isles
- Levels
- 31–40
- PvP
- Open, full loot
- Crafting
- Tier 4
Guilds claim keeps, one per guild, and stage their push into the heart. Hold a keep too long without a challenge and the world itself comes for you.
Threats: rival guilds, AI war bands and monster overruns.
Heart Wilds
- Levels
- 41–50
- PvP
- Open, full loot
- Crafting
- Tier 5
Wilderness rich with the highest-tier materials, safe only at the entrances. Up to four great dungeons with traps, bosses and the hardest monsters in the game, plus developer and GM events.
At the very centre: an arena island for tournaments and events.
Airships
One gold carries you between islands. Small-group ships take at most five, so a few can escape a zerg that can't follow.
Safe docks
Arrive protected for a short time. Dock guards belong to no faction and cut down anyone who starts a fight on the landing.
Portals
The fast way from town to a stronghold or keep, paid for with a very rare resource. Worth it when a siege needs you now.
Combat
Steel decides it
Directional, skill-based melee in heavy armour, for monsters and players alike. Better gear helps, but the gains shrink after tier 3, so at the top it's your hands that win.
- Weapons that feel different: battle axes, short and long swords, spears, hammers, spiked maces, bows and crossbows, each with its own speed, damage, blocking and reach.
- Ranged that pokes: arrows bite through chain and leather, and blunted shots can knock a rider from the saddle.
- Battle magic, paladin-style: heals, debuffs and utility, cast by armoured fighters who sheathe their weapon to do it.
Choose your armour
PlateThe standard for war. Best against arrows.
ChainLighter, a touch more stamina, weaker to arrows.
LeatherLighter still, same small stamina edge.
RobesFor town, market and showing off. Not for battle.
Crafting
Forge it, lose it, forge it again
Hunt, gather and craft your own weapons and armour with little effort, so losing a fight never means losing a week. Less gear fear, more fighting.
- Crafters keep every army supplied: weapons, armour, potions, bandages, food and siege gear.
- Crafting skill grows with practice, fastest at the start.
- Better benches deeper in the world. The finest armour needs the magic of the heart.
Territory
The world fights back
In most hardcore PvP games, the biggest alliance locks up the map. In Oaths of War, a keep that nobody challenges becomes a target for the world itself.
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I
Take the keep
A guild storms a keep on the Keep Isles and claims it.
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II
Hold without a fight
If no rival tries to push them out within a few weeks, the island grows restless.
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III
The AI marches
AI war bands begin to assault the keep, or monsters overrun the island.
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IV
Catastrophe
An asteroid falls, destroying the keep and everyone on the island. The world's magic heals the island in a few days, and the fight begins again.
Explorers and hunters
Rings 1–2: new lands and monsters, safe from PvP.
New to PvP
Ring 3: faction warfare with partial loot, guards and faction police keeping it fair.
Hardcore PvP
Rings 4–5: open PvP with full loot. Bring what you're willing to lose.
Development
Tested by players
Oaths of War is made in Unreal Engine 5 by a small core team, with playtests every two to four weeks. The game is in early development: plans change as we build and test, and nothing here is final.
Milestone 1 · Reached 18 Oct 2026
The first battle
One island, some monsters, a little crafting, and about 20 players fighting each other in the combat and movement test.
Milestone 2 · In progress
Into the wilds
- Tighter hits, kicks and camera from playtest feedback
- A mini-boss fight, such as a troll
- Bandits, wolves and other PvE monsters
- Mounts
- Bows