A roleplaying realm where you hear the people standing near you — and nobody knows your name until you tell them.
Wrath of the Lich King, 3.3.5a. Proximity voice built into the world rather than bolted beside it.
Windows · about 17 GB · nothing to install
Three things, and everything else follows from them.
Stand next to someone and you hear them clearly. Walk away and they fade out. Past the range you are speaking at, nothing.
Choose how far your voice carries — 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 yards — so a whisper across a table and an address to a crowd are different acts.
It is positional, too — a voice comes from the side its owner is standing on, so a crowded room sounds like a crowded room.
Everyone reads as their race until they choose otherwise. A stranger is a human, a tauren, a gnome — not a name you have already read on a nameplate.
Right-click and introduce yourself when you mean to. Names are something you give, not something the interface hands out.
Strangers are known by a name of their own — the Hooded Orc, and the same one every time — so people can talk about someone they have never met. Introductions run one way, too: telling someone your name does not get you theirs.
Town notice boards take real bills — work offered, warnings posted, debts named. Anyone can read them and anyone can answer.
Violence is something you consent to. Flag yourself an outlaw when you are open to it, and live with what that invites.
Lawmen are appointed by name, wear their city's tabard, and carry a Writ of Accusation and a set of iron shackles. Being arrested is a scene someone plays with you, not a respawn timer.
There is no registration form. Your Discord account is your account.
Everything is in the one folder — the game, the launcher and the addons. Nothing needs installing.
Double-click Play Sanctuary.cmd to open the launcher.
Press Link Discord account and authorise in the browser window. Write down the password it shows you — it is shown once and can only be replaced, never recovered.
The launcher logs you in, installs the addons and connects your voice. Leave it running while you play — closing it hides it to the tray, because voice stops when it quits.