K2Network Announces Forgotten Frontiers Expansion for Knight Online

September 26, 2008

K2Network Announces Forgotten Frontiers
Expansion for Knight Online

K2Network has announced a new expansion for their
MMORPG, Knight Online. Additionally, they have released new story details that
offer some background to the expansion, which can be read below.

The History and Future:

You fight with courage, you fight with honor…
But why do you truly fight?

To understand our war, and why our Knights
battle, we must seek the knowledge of things forgotten by most. The roots of our
conflict go as deep as the very nature of the universe. The World was not always
as it is today.

It was conflict that begot the world of Carnac,
and so it is fitting that in conflict the world should forever live. Monsters
and beasts, nightmares of legend rose up and attacked, laying waste to all that
man had built. Those that survived the sundering of the six once great nations
of mankind retreated, and turning the fledgling city of El Morad into humanity’s
final stronghold. Though they prayed, there were two types of gods that heard
their prayers: those that were apathetic to their pleas, no longer worth the
effort it had taken to create them, or bloodthirsty gods who reveled in their
plight, actively seeking their destruction. It fell to men to and men alone to
rescue themselves from total eradication.

And they did. Lead by the courageous King Manes,
the Knights of El Morad struck out against the gods that would see them
destroyed and won mankind another chance at salvation. The cost, however, was
heavy. Many Knights fell. Those that returned, heroes at first, were cursed with
a strange sickness, their progeny thought to be tainted by the lingering blood
of the god they had defeated. Believed to be evil, these children were pursued
by the priests of El Morad, and the children of Knights became slaves in the
very city their fathers had saved. Eventually their numbers grew too great, and
they were cast out of man’s last city, forced to fend for themselves in the
wilds of a harsh world. These misbegotten children, branded “Tuareks,” different
in mind and body, formed their own nation, called Karus, and solemnly declared
war on mankind. Thus the forever war began.

It had always been thought that the nightmare
beasts that stalked the wilds were the doing of a great evil god. It stood to
reason that once it was defeated by the Knights of El Morad no more would come
to be, and that they could eventually be hunted to extinction, proving the land
safe once again. That did not, however, turn out to be the case. Even while the
old beasts were harried, new ones began to appear. Strange, sinister creatures
far more deadly than even the most experienced Knights had ever encountered.
Scholars in the nations of Karus and El Morad began to whisper of the
possibility of another god, more powerful than the one destroyed by King Manes
all those years ago. Rumors began to circulate that this god had been lying in
wait for some sinister purpose, and now his time had arrived. The discovery of
fossils and artifacts of unknown origin bolstered these claims, and skirmishes
broke out as each nation vied for access to them. The eternally warring nations
had yet another theater in which to battle.

The violent Krowaz fed off of conflict. His power
was so great that he need not manifest in order to exercise it. He was a force
of nature, and an undeniably strong one at that. Through him the conflict
between Karus and El Morad had reached a fever pitch, battles occurring daily,
home cities being sacked on a regular basis, and key strategic points changing
hands so often that none who remained could remember to whom they had originally
belonged. The hands of every young man and woman were stained by the blood of
vanquished enemies. This could have been enough, but the more death and war
there was, the more he craved it. Krowaz grew insatiable insatiable. For the
first time in the history of the world, he began to manifest, appearing to
leaders on either side, further fanning the flames of war. At his silent
scheming the flames of war were fanned, and with every soldier torn to ribbons
in combat he increased in power.

The world of Carnac had its Creator, and its
Goddess of Life, and its God of Change. Krowaz often wondered why none had ever
thought to question the absence of one god who should be obvious to all . . .
the God of Death.

Next week we discuss the New Weapons and Armor
that will be found in the Knight Online: Forgotten Frontiers Expansion.

This is part 1 of 4 weekly stories for the new
expansion leading up to the launch.