We hope all of you enjoyed the Fall Festival! Please make sure to open all of your event pumpkins and do all of your Pumpkin Sword and Pumpkin Armor enchanting before this maintenance period because these items will vanish when the event is over! Remember, only +8 or better swords and armor will stick around after the event.

During this time, we will be making some changes to the event. Please see this thread in the forums for more information about these changes.

All Lineage servers will be brought down at 5am CST / 6am EST / 11am GMT for server maintenance on Tuesday morning. The downtime is expected to last for 2 hours. There will be no changes made to the game at this time.

Gold pumpkins can contain Pumpkin Armor or a Pumpkin Sword among other nice prizes. These two items are very special! They both can be safely enchanted to +6. These items will vanish forever once the turkey lord and his minions have been vanquished so in order to safely keep them, you must get them enchanted to at least +8. Silver pumpkins can contain a Pumpkin Hat which can morph you into a scarecrow! This hat will also not stick around like the other pumpkin items but it can create pumpkin pie that will last! Bronze pumpkins will have several consumable prizes inside. Be sure to collect as many pumpkin seeds as you can since the fancier pumpkins will cost more seeds! In addition to seeds, the minions will have foods from the harvest that they stole from Pumpkin Village. These foods will be quite delicious indeed!

In addition to harvest foods and pumpkins, polymorphs will be unlocked for the duration of the event. The Fall Festival event will last from November 19th until December 3rd.

Have a Happy Fall Festival everyone!

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Stay tuned for more information on our upcoming Fall Festival! Mark your calendar folks, November 19th through December 1st is going to be a blast!

Have a Happy Halloween!

Please remember that you will need to completely uninstall Lineage before running the installer. See you in game!

All servers including PTS will be brought down on Wednesday, October 22nd for the release of Episode 6 and Episode U. The servers will be brought down at 1pm CDT / 6pm GMT and the estimated downtime is 5 hours.

In order to update your game client, during this time you will need to completely uninstall Lineage from your computer. Old game installs will no longer work starting tomorrow evening so please remove these.

Thank you!

We are welcoming a new member of our team as a part of these changes, Yong Taek Bae who will be leading the production team for Lineage. Yong Taek has been a valuable member of both NC Austin and NCsoft Seoul for seven years all together and we are very happy to have him on our Lineage team! The team is very excited about the opportunity to continue to work on Lineage and evolve the game from where it currently is. Our goals are not only to maintain the Lineage service, but heighten the experience and grow the game in the future in many ways. One of the first steps we are taking is moving forward with new content updates as you have seen, and we will continue to do so until we have closed the gap of time between Korean release and our own releases.

So how will all of this directly affect Lineage? We do plan to continue on with our current schedule and new content is still on track. We also have some exciting changes on the way such as the new forums and many more things planned in the future. Unfortunately as a result of these changes, Fracas will no longer be with us as a company and we do wish him the best with his future endeavors.

Feel free to ask questions here or you may email me at lyzira@ncsoft.com!

Thank you!

Lastavard Expands - Girtas, the ruler of the otherworld has been released into Aden! Through the power of an Evil Sorcerer ritual, Dantes unknowingly opened a portal to the otherworld allowing Girtas to partially escape. Countless souls of Lastavard's Dark Elves were lost in the ritual and it is up to you to save Aden now!

• 6 new maps added!
• Lastavard is divided into two large parts, the upper and lower areas. The lower part of Lastavard consists of the basement up to the third floor. The upper part includes the fourth floor and the Holy Land. Throughout the dungeon you will find Dantes, the eight Supreme Court Justices and more.
• Find ways to open up new passages on the fourth floor by defeating the justices and enemies that you encounter.
• New mops:
• Cursed Dark Elves are the soldiers of Lastavard that lost their souls when the commander of the otherworld appeared. They were reborn into soul-less monsters full of hatred.
• Supreme Court Justices are the elders on the first through the fourth floor. Each has their own strength and can unlock the many new passageways of Lastavard.
• Guardian Spirits summoned from the otherworld have appeared around the dungeon.
• Brand new boss - Girtas is the God of Death who was summoned in the ritual by Dantes. His power is amplified by devouring the souls of the Lastavard Dark Elves.
• New quests added!

Gludin Town Rebuilt - Once destroyed by war, the town is being reconstructed with a festival atmosphere. Merchants who once left the town have returned to re-open their stores!

• More housing added!
• Fishing:
• Fished items have a few different uses. Some items will act like potions when consumed whereas others may be materials or items used for other purposes. You can even catch items that you can wear!

• You will need bait and a fishing pole in order to fish. Fishing can only be done in the fishing pond! Find the young gentleman in Gludin if you wish to travel to the fishing pond.
• Cooking:
• There are many different level cook books that can be obtained from merchants and from monster drops.
• Food ingredient merchants can be found in Aden, Gludin, and Giran.
• Pet PVP matches:
• Now you can test your pet against your friends' pets to see which one is stronger!
• Prizes exist for the pets who win the matches but there are entry fees to participate.
• Pets must be level 5 or greater in order to participate. They cannot be controlled once they are in the ring, it is up to them!
• Haunted House:
• The Haunted House is a non combat maze where you must find the prize while carefully avoiding the traps throughout! If you're lucky, you may find a rare quest item in the house.

Desire Cavern - Yahee is the chief of 'Kahel's Puppets' whose hatred for the recent uprising in humans had been growing. Suspecting that there was a human spy in his midst, he sent Tarak to investigate the Temple of Shadows. Tarak and Yahee were correct and discovered that Lord Varlok had indeed sent a spy from "Pure Blood Stone" to infiltrate his temple! Vowing to put an end to the human contamination, Yahee led his Kahels out of the Temple of Shadows to plot their demise.

• Varlok has moved out of the Temple of Shadows.
• Varlok is the strongest creature in all of Desire Cavern. Although he is a single being, the wretched humans have created a second Varlok who is a symbol of fear and dread.
• Two faction lines to choose from: Yahee or Varlok
• New quest to get to Varlok - Commander of Elements

Ship Graveyard - A long, long time ago, pirates dominated the oceans and led sieges against trade ships that dared to pass through their waters. The remains of these battles drifted along in the ocean currents towards Pirates Island where they have accumulated in a cavern deep below the surface. In the deepest part of the island, a door to a new realm has opened up where there is a graveyard of ships. What kind of resentment and sorrow dwells here?

• Three levels of the Ship Graveyard:
• Surface - Debris of ships are scattered along the surface and show evidence that there were survivors of the battles that took place on the seas so long ago.
• Ship - There is a single ship floating on the surface of the sea that will lead you to the deep sea.
• Deep Sea - Many creatures dwell in the depths of the deep sea.
• Many new NPCs in Ship Graveyard:
• Chief Mermaid - Humans once became deformed into mermaids. The strongest of the mermaids became chiefs of their race.
• Great King Squid - This creature floats in the deep sea emitting a pale light like a ghost. He attacks invaders with his long tentacles.
• Drowned Souls - These sailors were the unfortunate victims of the attacks on the ocean. Doomed to roam the surface of the sea, they are filled with a deep-seated grudge and hatred towards all they encounter.

Other Changes on the way

• Heine Dungeon revamp.
• Elven Dungeon revamp including brand new mops.
• New teleporter NPCs.
• New Spirit Magic and Knight Skills.
• Knight Solid Carriage - This increases evasion against long distance attacks when a knight is using a shield.
• Knight Counter Barrier - When using a two handed sword, this ability evades an opponent's attack and counters it.
• Royals will have access to mounts enabling them to travel at faster speeds.